Is Down and Out in America or Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers preserved by the Academy Film Archive?
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Down and Out in America Down and Out in America is a 1986 Academy Award-winning documentary film that critiques Reaganomics by showing examples of poverty in the United States. It won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, tying with "".
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Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers is a 1980 documentary film about garlic directed by Les Blank. In 2004, the film was selected for preservation in the United States’ National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” The Academy Film Archive preserved "Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers" in 1999.
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Our America Our America is an award-winning film based on the book "Our America: Life And Death on the South Side of Chicago".
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Dont Look Back In 1998 the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In a 2014 "Sight & Sound" poll, film critics voted "Dont Look Back" the joint ninth best documentary film of all time.
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American Zombie American Zombie is a 2007 American mockumentary horror film directed by Grace Lee, written by Rebecca Sonnenshine and Lee, and starring Lee and John Solomon as documentary filmmakers who investigate a fictional subculture of real-life zombies living in Los Angeles.
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Mysterious Castles of Clay Mysterious Castles of Clay is a 1978 film about a termite colony; filmed in Kenya by film-makers Joan and Alan Root, and narrated by Orson Welles. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and received a Peabody Award.
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Mother Knows Best (film) Mother Knows Best is a 1928 American film directed by John G. Blystone, based on a novel by Edna Ferber, fictionalizing the life of vaudevillian Elsie Janis. The film was Fox's first real talkie, using the Movietone sound system which had been used for sound effects in "Sunrise", although it still contained silent sections. The sound sections were directed by actor Charles Judels. The film starred Madge Bellamy, with Louise Dresser as her domineering mother, Barry Norton, and Albert Gran.
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The Gifts The Gifts is a 1970 American short documentary film about water pollution in the United States, produced by Robert McBride for the Environmental Protection Administration. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
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Mamma Gógó Mamma Gógó is a 2010 Icelandic drama film directed by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson. The film was selected as the Icelandic entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.
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Down in 'Arkansaw' Down in 'Arkansaw' is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Nick Grinde and written by Dorrell McGowan and Stuart E. McGowan. The film stars Ralph Byrd, Leon Weaver, June Weaver, Frank Weaver, June Storey and Pinky Tomlin. The film was released on October 8, 1938, by Republic Pictures.
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Burning Down Tomorrow Burning Down Tomorrow is a 1990 American short documentary film produced by Kit Thomas and directed by Wendy Girard. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
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Gangway for Tomorrow Gangway for Tomorrow is a 1943 American anthology film produced and directed by the Austrian-American John H. Auer, and originally known by its working title, "An American Story". Steeped in the propaganda tones of early World War II features, the film is largely B-fare.
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American Experience (season 10) Season ten of the television program "American Experience" originally aired on the PBS network in the United States on October 5, 1997 and concluded on April 13, 1998. The season contained nine episodes and began with the first part of the film "Truman".
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19th Academy Awards The 19th Academy Awards continued a trend through the late-1940s of the Oscar voters honoring films about contemporary social issues. "The Best Years of Our Lives" concerns the lives of three returning veterans from three branches of military service as they adjust to life on the home front after World War II.
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The Lily and the Rose The Lily and the Rose; sometimes Lily of the Rose is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Paul Powell and starring Lillian Gish. Preserved at the Library of Congress.
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Jenny Is a Good Thing Jenny Is a Good Thing is a 1969 American short documentary film about children and poverty, directed by Joan Horvath. Produced by Project Head Start, it shows the importance of good nutrition for underprivileged nursery school children. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
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Tell Me a Riddle (film) Tell Me a Riddle is a 1980 American drama film directed by Lee Grant. The screenplay by Joyce Eliason and Alev Lytle is based on the 1961 O'Henry award novella from Tillie Olsen's collection of short stories of the same name. This is Grant's first film as director, and two more such films followed: "Down and Out in America" and "Staying Together".
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It's All True (film) It's All True is an unfinished Orson Welles feature film comprising three stories about Latin America. "My Friend Bonito" was supervised by Welles and directed by Norman Foster in Mexico in 1941. "Carnaval" (also known as "The Story of Samba") and "Jangadeiros" (also known as "Four Men on a Raft") were directed by Welles in Brazil in 1942. It was to have been Welles's third film for RKO Radio Pictures, after "Citizen Kane" (1941) and "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942). The project was a co-production of RKO and the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs that was later terminated by RKO.
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Best of Enemies (2015 film) Best of Enemies is a 2015 American documentary film co-directed by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville about the 1968 televised debates between intellectuals Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley, Jr., and their aftermath. The film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. It was acquired by Magnolia and Participant Media.
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A Few Notes on Our Food Problem A Few Notes on Our Food Problem is a 1968 American documentary film directed by . It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
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From the Sky Down From the Sky Down is a 2011 American documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about rock band U2 and the production of their 1991 album "Achtung Baby". The film documents the album's difficult recording period, the band members' relationships, and the group's creative process. Guggenheim, who was commissioned by U2 to create the film to commemorate the record's 20th anniversary, spent several months in 2011 developing the documentary. The band were filmed during a return visit to Hansa Studios in Berlin where parts of the album were recorded, and during rehearsals in Winnipeg for the Glastonbury Festival 2011. The film contains unreleased scenes from the group's 1988 motion picture "Rattle and Hum", along with archival footage and stills from the "Achtung Baby" recording sessions. Development of the album's emblematic song "One" is recounted through the replaying of old recording tapes.
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Wilmington 10 -- U.S.A. 10,000 Wilmington 10 - U.S.A. 10,000 is a 1979 documentary film directed by Haile Gerima.