Light Traps

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces...

Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.

Albert and David Maysles (Gimme Shelter) directed this 53-minute documentary about movie tycoon Joseph E. Levine (1963). Preserved by the Academy...

A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.

‘A beautiful, mysterious yet satisfying optical illusion…celebrates the early passing of a steam on the Thames. Using freeze-frame...

A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for a living. Preserved by...

A Los Angeles detective and his Japanese partner woo an artist while solving a stripper's murder.

"Taken between September 1970 and May 1971, with the unmoving camera apparently bolted to the window ledge, this film, a ten-minute eternity,...

After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.

Les Blank's poetic documentation of 1967's Los Angeles Easter Sunday Love-In. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2002.

An animated parody of television commercials and the television audience. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.