American Film Foundation Movie Trailers

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner Trailer (2006)

15 January 2006

Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock explores the life and work of playwright Tony Kushner. Starting in 2001, when Kushner was mounting the production of his play Homebody/Kabul and running through 2004, as he worked on John Kerry's presidential campaign, got married to Mark Harris, worked with Maurice Sendak, and opened the Broadway musical Caroline, or Change.

Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record Trailer (1987)

01 January 1987

A documentary describing the devastating deterioration of intellectual documents such as pamphlets, photographs, films, drawings, and maps.

RUTH - Justice Ginsburg in her own Words Trailer (2019)

22 June 2019

How does some one with three strikes against her, rise to the highest court in the land, the U. S. Supreme Court?

Sing! Trailer (2001)

01 January 2001

Sing! is a 2001 American short documentary film about the Los Angeles Children's Chorus, directed by Freida Lee Mock.

Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper Trailer (1995)

01 January 1995

Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper is a 1995 short documentary film about Herbert Zipper.

To Live or Let Die Trailer (1982)

01 January 1982

To Live or Let Die is a 1982 American short documentary film directed by Terry Sanders, about the neonatal I.

Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me Trailer (1988)

11 July 1988

Called "the first lady of the silent screen," Lillian Gish was the archetypal silent film heroine — the delicate damsel in distress, stranded on a swift-moving ice floe, cowering before a sadistic brute.

Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision Trailer (1995)

10 November 1995

A film about the work of the artist most famous for her monuments such as the Vietnam Memorial Wall and the Civil Rights Fountain Memorial.

Anita Trailer (2013)

25 March 2013

The story of young, brilliant African-American Anita Hill who accuses the Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of unwanted sexual advances during explosive Senate Hearings in 1991 and ignites a political firestorm about sexual harassment, race, power and politics that resonates today.

The Trouble I've Seen Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

A shot-on-video look at three impoverished Black communities in rural Georgia in 1976 - America's bicentennial, interspersing photos with footage and voices of those in their communities.