The National Endowment for the Humanities Movie Trailers

A Few Things I Know About Miami Trailer (1986)

01 January 1986

This film consists of five segments which interweave archival footage with interviews to highlight aspects of Miami's history.

Storming Caesars Palace Trailer (2022)

03 August 2022

This inspiring documentary chronicles the extraordinary life of Ruby Duncan, an activist who fights the welfare system and becomes a White House advisor.

Heartland Trailer (1981)

23 August 1981

Widowed Elinor Randall and her young daughter Jerrine arrive in a barren stretch of Wyoming in 1910 after Elinor's application for work as a housekeeper is accepted by Clyde Stewart, a rancher.

The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation of the Jewish population into the ghetto, and the subsequent horrors are vividly chronicled via newsreels and photographs.

Uranium Derby Trailer (2017)

01 January 2017

A filmmaker discovers her hometown was secretly involved in the Manhattan Project. Her investigation into this history triggers a chain reaction of encounters through which it becomes clear that the topic of nuclear waste has been more successfully buried than the waste itself.

The Loving Story Trailer (2011)

15 April 2011

This documentary film tells the dramatic story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple living in Virginia in the 1950s, and their landmark Supreme Court Case, Loving v.

Sorceress Trailer (1987)

23 September 1987

Dominican friar Etienne de Bourbon visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics for the Inquisition.

Cortile Cascino Trailer (1962)

02 January 1962

This long-suppressed and controversial documentary was produced in 1961 for network television but never broadcast.

The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War Trailer (1984)

28 March 1984

This documentary examines the experiences of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, using interviews with survivors more than 50 years later.