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A Fool's World

1964

A Fool's World

1964
2.7
Documentary showing perverse and aberrant behavior from around the globe, including such things as sex slavery, dwarf love, Asian brothels and lesbians.
Hollywood Without Make-Up

1963

Hollywood Without Make-Up

1963
5.9
A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.
The Lovely Month of May

1963

The Lovely Month of May

1963
8
Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally egalitarian ideals of self-betterment, prosperity, tolerance, economic opportunity, and freedom.
David Susskind Archive: Interview With Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

1963

David Susskind Archive: Interview With Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

1963
The historic interview that stopped JFK in his tracks...
Hollywood: The Great Stars

1963

Hollywood: The Great Stars

1963
Host Henry Fonda follows the creation of the star system with Mary Pickford in the Silent Era through its demise in the early Sixties.
Hollywood: The Fabulous Era

1962

Hollywood: The Fabulous Era

1962
Henry Fonda reminisces about the stars and pictures of the glory days of Tinseltown.
Hollywood: The Golden Years

1961

Hollywood: The Golden Years

1961
Host Gene Kelly takes a nostalgic look at silent films from their earliest beginnings to the introduction of sound with "The Jazz Singer."
Last Clear Chance

1959

Last Clear Chance

1959
2.6
On the day young Alan receives his driver's license, Officer Hal Jackson visits the Dixon farm to sternly lecture the family on the dangers of carelessness at railroad crossings.
The Golden Age of Comedy

1957

The Golden Age of Comedy

1957
6.9
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.
The James Dean Story

1957

The James Dean Story

1957
5.3
Released two years after James Dean's death, this documentary chronicles his short life and career via black-and-white still photographs, interviews with the aunt and uncle who raised him, his paternal grandparents, a New York City cabdriver friend, the owner of his favorite Los Angeles restaurant, outtakes from East of Eden, footage of the opening night of Giant, and Dean's ironic PSA for safe driving.
Project XX: The Jazz Age

1956

Project XX: The Jazz Age

1956
The period between the end of World War I and the crash of 1929 is known as the Jazz Age in America, a time of high-energy nightclubs, wild Prohibition evasion and an "America first" attitude. Narrated by Fred Allen.
All the World's Memory

1956

All the World's Memory

1956
7
Toute la mémoire du monde is a documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material, as both a monument of cultural memory and as a monstrous, alien being.
Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers

1956

Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers

1956
5.8
Interviews and documentary footage combine with the fictional story of an air-force pilot who encounters aliens.
Jazz Ball

1956

Jazz Ball

1956
7
A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s.
The History of Flight: We Saw It Happen

1953

The History of Flight: We Saw It Happen

1953
This documentary, chronicles the first 50 years of flight, from the Wright Brothers first flight in 1903 to 1953. It includes interviews with an original mechanic who worked in their bicycle shop and a wide range of other pioneers such as Frank Long, Igor Sikorsky, Glen Martin, Alan Lockheed, Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, LeRoy Grumman, Robert Gross Connie and Wellwood Beel.
Guernica

1951

Guernica

1951
5.9
Alain Resnais & Robert Hessen use the famous Picasso mural "Guernica" in combination with newspaper headlines in an anti-war cry against the Spanish Civil War. Narration by Jacques Pruvost highlights the Guernica atrocity of April 1937, followed by a poem by Paul Eluard read by María Casares to a discordant score by Guy Bernard.
Un homme est mort

1951

Un homme est mort

1951
Film about the death of the worker Édouard Mazé, killed in Brest by the mobile guards, during the demonstrations and strikes of 1951.
Kon-Tiki

1950

Kon-Tiki

1950
7.5
"Kon-Tiki" was the name of a wooden raft used by six Scandinavian scientists, led by Thor Heyerdahl, to make a 101-day journey from South America to the Polynesian Islands. The purpose of the expedition was to prove Heyerdal's theory that the Polynesian Islands were populated from the east- specifically Peru- rather than from the west (Asia) as had been the theory for hundreds of years. Heyerdahl made a study of the winds and tides in the Pacific, and by simulating conditions as closely as possible to those he theorized the Peruvians encountered, set out on the voyage.
Our Living Declaration of Independence

1950

Our Living Declaration of Independence

1950
Freedom, rights, obligations, the pursuit of happiness -- meanings of these terms are explored as this film develops its theme that the Declaration of Independence is not a dead historical document, but a vital force and guide to living today.
Submarine Warfare

1946

Submarine Warfare

1946
6
In this documentary we get a glimpse into the world of submarines and have access to rare archive footage. From the first attempts during the American Civil War to WW2 and the nuclear subs of today, the history of the submarine has been fraught with difficulties.