Preserved Film Movies

A documentary record of the day-to-day existence of a pair of young married heroin addicts. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

This U.S. Navy documentary depicts the sea battle at Leyte Gulf during the Allied landings at Mindoro in the Phillipines during World War II. During t...

The animation referred to as Early Animations or Quacked Jokes is an anomaly among Beckett's films. It was probably not intended to be shown outside o...

Life in the Atom was never completed but the existing version was digitally restored in 2009. The film depicts an ever-changing world inhabited by a m...

Sausage City illustrates Beckett's additive cycle process. Constantly evolving rectangular shapes provide a foundation for an environment inhabited by...

Documentary short film demonstrating the war activities of the American Red Cross. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

Short experimental film by Hy Hirsh. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation i...

A Hy Hirsh film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2000.

Experimental film by Elwood Decker. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Experimental short by Elwood Decker. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

Experimental film by Curtis Opliger. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Short film by John Whitney. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.

Described as "a collection of 'windows' on a personal past" "Time's Wake (Once Removed)" incorporates material from an earlier version. On the earlier...

This film is hand-painted and is essentially about the interplay between hypnagogic vision and words, the effect of the one upon the other, the contes...

Diana Wilson’s mysteriously beautiful animated tableaux fluidly unfold before our eyes, a generous receptacle for the mournful, harrowing soundtrack,...

“When one likes something very much, or someone, it is hard to do anything but like it. I didn’t want to take anything away or add anything to this so...

“A conversation with a friend – Ahmed Akbar. A short interview-type film portrait with Akbar, a black filmmaker and former student of mine at Kent Sta...

Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.

Women Are Warriors is a 14-minute 1942 Canadian documentary film, made by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as part of the wartime Canada Carrie...

Experimental documentary using a train journey between New York City and Washington, D.C. as the framework for an exploration of American history. Pr...