Preserved Film Movies

  • 1950
    Night and the City

    Night and the City

    Night and the City

    7.4541950HD

    Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes...

    Night and the City
  • 1954
    Human Desire

    Human Desire

    Human Desire

    6.71954HD

    A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker's wife and murder. Preserved by...

    Human Desire
  • 1928
    The Circus

    The Circus

    The Circus

    81928HD

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

    The Circus
  • 1963
    The Big City

    The Big City

    The Big City

    7.81963HD

    Life at home changes when a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson. Preserved by the Academy...

    The Big City
  • 1927
    Wings

    Wings

    Wings

    7.21927HD

    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...

    Wings
  • 1967
    Spider Baby

    Spider Baby

    Spider Baby

    6.91967HD

    In a dilapidated rural mansion, the last generation of the degenerate, inbred Merrye family lives with the inherited curse of a disease that causes...

    Spider Baby
  • 1994
    Hoop Dreams

    Hoop Dreams

    Hoop Dreams

    7.61994HD

    Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High...

    Hoop Dreams
  • 1960
    Primary

    Primary

    Primary

    6.41960HD

    Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to...

    Primary
  • 1965
    Lord Jim

    Lord Jim

    Lord Jim

    6.81965HD

    After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...

    Lord Jim
  • 1960
    Wild River

    Wild River

    Wild River

    7.311960HD

    A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. He encounters opposition from the...

    Wild River
  • 1979
    The Elephant God

    The Elephant God

    The Elephant God

    7.11979HD

    Set in the holy city of Benares, this is the second film about the detective Feluda, who goes on a holiday with his cousin, Topshe, and his friend,...

    The Elephant God
  • 1952
    Scandal Sheet

    Scandal Sheet

    Scandal Sheet

    71952HD

    A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.

    Scandal Sheet
  • 1983
    El Norte

    El Norte

    El Norte

    7.21983HD

    Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the...

    El Norte
  • 1953
    The Big Heat

    The Big Heat

    The Big Heat

    7.61953HD

    After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a...

    The Big Heat
  • 1949
    The Reckless Moment

    The Reckless Moment

    The Reckless Moment

    6.81949HD

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

    The Reckless Moment
  • 1955
    The Man with the Golden Arm

    The Man with the Golden Arm

    The Man with the Golden Arm

    7.11955HD

    A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2005.

    The Man with the Golden Arm
  • 1964
    Charulata

    Charulata

    Charulata

    7.61964HD

    In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband, Bhupati. Realizing that his...

    Charulata
  • 1933
    Cavalcade

    Cavalcade

    Cavalcade

    5.51933HD

    A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst...

    Cavalcade
  • 1940
    The Return of Frank James

    The Return of Frank James

    The Return of Frank James

    6.251940HD

    Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

    The Return of Frank James
  • 1977
    Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?

    Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?

    Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?

    5.91977HD

    Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? is a 1977 documentary film about Dorothy and Bob DeBolt, an American couple who adopted 14...

    Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?