Seeing Them Through
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Thursday's Children (1954)
Won the Academy Award for the Best Documentary Short of 1954. The subject deals with the children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent....
3rd Ave. El (1955)
Impressionistic picture of the Third Avenue Elevated Railway in Manhattan, New York City, before it was demolished. Preserved by the Academy Film...
The True Story of the Civil War (1956)
Documentary short about the American Civil War. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.
The Chair (1963)
Follows a crusading lawyer as he embarks on a campaign to save an African-American man, Paul Crump, from the electric chair. Preserved by the...
I Don't Know (1971)
A truly major work, I Don’t Know observes the relationship between a lesbian and a transgender person who prefers to be identified somewhere in...
The Wormwood Star (1956)
A portrait of artist, actress, poet and occultist Marjorie Cameron, it shows images of her paintings and recitations of her poems. Preserved by the...
The Battle of Midway (1942)
The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox...
The Olympics in Mexico (1969)
Documentary about the XIX Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures...
The Extraordinary Adventures of a Quart of Milk (1951)
Documentary short subject preserved by the Academy Film Archive, from the Marshall Plan Collection, in 2003.
World Without Sun (1964)
Fascinating underwater documentary filmed with hand-held cameras by frogmen and mostly filmed in deep-water seas from within a special designed...
Scared Straight! (1978)
The filmed depiction of a program where convicts tell troubled kids about the horrors of prison life. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.
Report from the Front (1944)
Documentary short preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.