Primary
Nov. 08, 1960Primary
Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary ...
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White Wilderness
Aug. 12, 1958
We Are the Lambeth Boys
Mar. 18, 1959We Are the Lambeth Boys
Seminal piece of documentary filmmaking by New Wave director Karel Reisz following the daily activities of members of the Lambeth Youth club in ...
Letter from Siberia
May. 16, 1957Letter from Siberia
A faceless traveller takes a journey through the barren reaches of a Siberia caught between tradition and modernity, imparting his philosophical ...
City of Gold
May. 02, 1957City of Gold
This classic short film depicts the Klondike gold rush at its peak, when would-be prospectors struggled through harsh conditions to reach the ...
Mayday
Sep. 03, 2003Mayday
Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on ...
A Queen Is Crowned
Jun. 02, 1953A Queen Is Crowned
A lavish documentary film of Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation in 1953.
The Conquest of Everest
Dec. 09, 1953The Conquest of Everest
A documentary of the first successful expedition to the summit of Mount Everest. New Zealand’s Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay ...
Cease Fire!
Nov. 24, 1953Cease Fire!
A sometimes uncomfortable marriage between fact and fiction, this film is part documentary and part drama, mixing actual war footage with ...
Nature’s Half Acre
Jul. 28, 1951Nature’s Half Acre
The strange and wonderful world that lies beneath our feet, under leaf, log and rock, peopled by millions of weird and fascinating creatures. ...
Flying Padre
Mar. 23, 1951Flying Padre
Two days in the life of priest Father Fred Stadtmuller whose New Mexico parish is so large he can only spread goodness and light among his flock ...
Day of the Fight
Apr. 26, 1951Day of the Fight
‘Day of the Fight’ shows Irish-American middleweight boxer Walter Cartier during the height of his career, on the day of a fight with ...
Blood of the Beasts
Jan. 01, 1949Blood of the Beasts
An early example of ultra-realism, this movie contrasts the quiet, bucolic life in the outskirts of Paris with the harsh, gory conditions inside ...
Dateline NBC
Mar. 31, 1992Dateline NBC
Dateline NBC, or simply Dateline, is a weekly American television newsmagazine series. It was previously the network’s flagship ...
Let There Be Light
Dec. 16, 1946Let There Be Light
The final entry in a trilogy of films produced for the U.S. government by John Huston. Some returning combat veterans suffer scars that are more ...
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
Jan. 01, 194624 Hours in the Life of a Clown
The movie follows the clock round as music hall clown Beby takes off his make up, goes home for a meal, looks at photos and goes to bed to rise, ...
The Volunteer
Jan. 10, 1944
The Battle of San Pietro
May. 03, 1945The Battle of San Pietro
This documentary movie is about the battle of San Pietro, a small village in Italy. Over 1,100 US soldiers were killed while trying to take this ...
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
Nov. 13, 1943Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
The fifth film of Frank Capra’s Why We Fight propaganda film series, revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union ...
The Memphis Belle
Apr. 13, 1944The Memphis Belle
This WW2 documentary centers on the crew of the American B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle as it prepares to execute a strategic bombing raid on ...
Olympia: Part Two – Festival of Beauty
Jun. 02, 1938Olympia: Part Two – Festival of Beauty
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefenstahl created a celebration of the human ...
Olympia: Part One – Festival of the Nations
Apr. 21, 1938Olympia: Part One – Festival of the Nations
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefenstahl created a celebration of the human ...
Making Fashion
Jan. 01, 1938
Night Mail
Jan. 13, 1936Night Mail
This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the ...
Day of Freedom
Dec. 30, 1935Day of Freedom
Filming of the performance show the Deutsche Wehrmacht (German Army) made during the Reichsparteitag of the NSDAP in Nurnberg 1935. Showing the ...
Man of Aran
May. 06, 1934Man of Aran
A documentary on the life of the people of the Aran Islands, who were believed to contain the essence of the ancient Irish life, represented by a ...
Man with a Movie Camera
May. 12, 1929Man with a Movie Camera
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.
The Eleventh Year
May. 14, 1928The Eleventh Year
The film is dedicated to the achievements of the Ukrainian SSR for the eleventh anniversary of the October Revolution.
Moana
Jan. 07, 1926Moana
Robert J. Flaherty’s South Seas follow-up to Nanook of the North is a Gauguin idyll moved by „pride of beauty… pride of ...
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
Jan. 09, 1894Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
A man (Thomas Edison’s assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the second ...