Archive Footage Movies

Over 32 years of archives, patterns emerge and stare back. Will they shape the films I'm trying to make – or haunt their edges?

The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.

An essay film critiquing post-war France's urban developments – Pialat states that modernity and suburban convenience have limited Parisian...

A documentary chronicling the history and final days of the Crayola House, a legendary DIY punk venue in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Through archival...

Franco-American film pioneer Maurice Tourneur is a forgotten name in cinema history. This film traces the incredible journey of this crucial...

Dr. Lorenc selects excerpts from older Czech films for a symposium on laughter.

A reflection about memory, the digital world and the files that we generate daily through the audiovisual gallery of a mobile phone

After seven years in prison, a female student in Tehran is hanged for murder. She had acted in self-defence against a rapist. For a pardon, she would...

“As I child, I always had music in my head. I thought everybody did,” the legendary conductor Sir Simon Rattle recalls. His charming and...

This short begins at Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam). The electricity generated here by the Colorado River is sent to Hollywood, where movie studios...

Actress Glenn Close can transform herself into different roles like a chameleon. Behind this versatility lies an artist who had to get over a lot in...

The story of how sound was paired with images in early years of cinema; offering an in-depth look at the people behind-the-scenes and the...

Born in 1932, Keiko Kishi has been one of the first Japanese actresses known worldwide. Her decision to move to France and to marry director Yves...

The Black Book, drafted during World War II, gathers numerous unique historical testimonies, in an effort to document Nazi abuses against Jews in the...

Marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Features previously unseen footage captured by Reuters journalists during...

A film made of archives mostly unknown, on the last day of the Second World War in Europe and on the events which preceded it. This film also shows...

In 1993 while living in suburban Atlanta and working as an exterminator, a young and alienated Ricardo López began his all-consuming fixation...