Always for Pleasure

Take Me to the River is a film about the soul of American music. The film follows the recording of a new album featuring legends from Stax records...

A portrait of North Kolkata (Calcutta), this film searches the streets for the ebb and flow of humanity and reflects the changing landscape of a city...

Two young women, frustrated by war rationing, have a dream illustrating the likely results on prices in America should the measure were prematurely...

German cultural documentary about the development of Jazz in New Orleans. Contains interviews with several musicians.

Mixing narrative and documentary, the film retells a 16 year old girl's experience of a date rape.

Short documentary extolling the virtues and necessity for women to participate in America's preparation for war, showing women working in scientific,...

Lord Lytton takes up the post of Governor of Bengal.

This film reveals through flashbacks how a 13-year-old boy and his family attempt to deal with the child's fatal affliction with leukemia. Preserved...

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

This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The costume designer must design clothing that is correct...

Short film about the Manzanar Japanese American internment camp. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

Funk legend Sly Stone disappeared from the limelight for more than 20 years. Musicians and the media tried to find the recluse but failed. In 2005...