Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "archival-recording"

1. All the Memory in the World (1956)

21 min | Documentary, Short

This documentary explores the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, its priceless treasures, and how humanity remembers itself.

Director: Alain Resnais | Star: Jacques Dumesnil

Votes: 1,582

2. Shulie (1998)

37 min | Short, Biography, Drama

A shot-by-shot reenactment of an unreleased 1967 documentary portrait of SAIC student Shulamith Firestone, who, a few years later, would become a central figure in the rise of radical feminism.

Director: Elisabeth Subrin | Stars: Kim Soss, Elisabeth Subrin

Votes: 52

3. Thud Pilots (2018)

90 min | Documentary

An edge-of-your-seat documentary that exposes the Vietnam Air War where an elite band of brothers known as Thud Pilots fought and died receiving neither the country's support nor glory.

Director: Mark Vizcarra | Stars: Larry Poole, John R. Casper, Robert L. Cooper, Dennis W. Jarvi

Votes: 245

4. Il ritorno del cigno (2014 TV Movie)

Documentary, Biography, History

A documentary on the life of the great composer Gioachino Rossini.

Director: Ettore Florio | Stars: Bruno Praticò, Alessandro Gimelli, Angela Pascucci, Paola Antonucci

5. Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies (2008)

Not Rated | 102 min | Documentary, Biography

A chronicle of the life and career of silent film star Mary Pickford.

Director: Nicholas Eliopoulos | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Walt Disney, Amelia Earhart, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Votes: 223

6. Itinéraire de Jean Bricard (2008)

40 min | Documentary, Short

The film is a commemoration of the lost livelihood of the earth, the lost lives of the War and to the work of two of the cinema's greatest artists.

Directors: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | Star: Jean Bricard

Votes: 78

7. An Age of Heroes: The History of the 30AU (2011 Video)

15 min | Documentary, Short, History

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Director: Vernon Kay | Stars: Sean Bean, John Dagleish, Danny Dyer, Tony Hood

8. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man (1996)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The Lone Gunmen reveal the (possibly fake) secret history of the Smoking Man to Mulder with focus on three episodes from his life - the assassination of JFK, his attempts at becoming a novelist and one of his UFO cover ups.

Director: James Wong | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, William B. Davis, Morgan Weisser

Votes: 5,651

9. Prohibition (2011)
Episode: A Nation of Hypocrites (2011)

TV-PG | 105 min | Documentary, History

With gangsters terrorizing the public and profiting from the sale of alcohol, many citizens believed Prohibition was unsuccessful, which led to its repeal.

Directors: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Pete Hamill, Jonathan Eig, Michael Lerner

Votes: 173

10. Timeshift (2002–2017)
Episode: Missing Believed Wiped (2003)

40 min | Documentary

The history of the British Broadcasting Corporation's once prevalent, but short-sighted, policy of wholesale disposal of recorded television content, and the efforts to mitigate that loss.

Director: Jo Haywood | Stars: Veronika Hyks, Terry Jones, John Ellis, Dick Fiddy