Oscar for Best Documentary Feature [Nominated]
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- DirectorU.S. Army Signal CorpsStarsElisha Cook Jr.Walter SandePeter WhitneyTraining film for the U.S. Army men preparing for their initial entry into the war against the Nazis. Teaching the techniques of enemy identification, combat and hand to hand fighting.
- DirectorFrank CapraAnatole LitvakStarsAnthony VeillerIon AntonescuNikolay CherkasovDocumentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsJohn HustonWalter HustonMilton AshkinFilmmaker John Huston narrates this Oscar-nominated World War II-era film about life among the U.S. soldiers protecting Alaska's Aleutian Islands.
- DirectorOliver LundquistStarsWalter HustonThis short is the first official War Department Report by the Office of Strategic Services. Topics include: Gran Sasso aftermath; Japan's conquered territory; Germany's troops and provisions; US Military supply logistics; battle strategy.
- DirectorBernard VorhausStarsLouis AdlonRand BrooksFrederic BrunnA downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germans in this dramatic training film.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsReed HadleyArthur KennedyJack KlockDocumentary of the planning and delivery of the last great bomber attack on the city of Tokyo by the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II.
- DirectorWillard Van DykeMike, a medical student starts at Columbia and then moves into pediatrics at a teaching hospital run by Cornell. He learns how new methods help children live longer. After this he went to Johns Hopkins to work in public health in Baltimore.
- DirectorPaul RothaStarsRobert AdamsElizabeth CowellValentine DyallAn examination of the problems of world food distribution following World War II, outlining steps underway to deal with the problems.
- DirectorSidney MeyersStarsGary MerrillDonald ThompsonClarence CooperA documentary account of the rehabilitation at the Wiltwyck School of an emotionally disturbed Black boy who is unwanted, misunderstood, and inwardly tortured.
- DirectorCharles F. SchwepStarsWilliam CanfieldKenji is torn between the glowing promises of communism and ideals of his girlfriend Aki's Christian religion.
- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsSam LeveneArlene FrancisJoseph WisemanFilm produced by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union -- featuring several well-known Broadway actors -- recreates Triangle Fire of 1911 and compares working conditions of the 1910's with the 1950's.
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsFrank LovejoyDorothy HartPhilip CareyIn Pittsburgh, PA, an F.B.I. agent works to undermine the Communist party, but his brothers and his teenage son think he's a real Red.
- StarsMarilyn ErskineHoward KeelGeorge MurphySo called snake oil salesmen at carnivals are often used as the symbols of hoaxters. There are much more globally sinister hoaxters in the form of world leaders of totalitarian regimes, leaders such as Adolf Hitler, who promised of a bright new world in order to gather support. A longer term hoax than that of Naziism is Communism, the two which, despite being on a different political spectrum, are compared for their ideological similarities, including being anti-religion, being one party systems, advocating violence as a means to an end, and treating their general populace as slaves. Since the beginning of the Communist regime in the Soviet Union, their government has changed their "west friendliness" policy seven times, each time a measured change to reach their goal of global domination. Since that latest change, the end of WWII, steps taken by freedom striving nations, most specifically the United States, are told in combating that goal of Soviet Communist global rule, advancing the ideal of freedom at home and abroad, and preventing WWIII.
- DirectorNorman FosterStarsFrancis Kee TellerJohn MitchellMrs. Kee TellerA young Navajo Indian boy is caught up in the conflict of cultures when he rejects the white man's school. Told in semi-documentary style.
- DirectorGeorge LoweStarsMeredith EdwardsJohn HuntGeorge BandDocumentary that covers the famous and successful expedition of the Everest conquest by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, the first climbers to reach its peak.
- StarsLaurence OlivierQueen Elizabeth IIPrince PhilipA lavish documentary film of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation in 1953.
- DirectorMorten ParkerStarsJohn DrainieMichael BatesLloyd BochnerThe story of the founding, by Stratford-born journalist Tom Patterson, of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada, which opened in July of 1953 with a performance of "Richard III" starring Alec Guinness. Expanding in the years since to include many other great works of the theatre other than Shakespeare, it is now known simply as the Stratford Festival of Canada and is the largest classical repertory theatre in North America.
- DirectorJacques DupontGarcet, a young French officer just out of military school, joins the French Batallion of the United Nations Forces fighting in Korea. He is disappointed at first as he is assigned as liasion officer behind the lines. Later he is given a combat command. There, he has to win the loyality and frienship of his fellow officers and the men. Although all are volunteers, many are puzzled as to just what it is they are fighting for in this remote and desolate corner of the world: The cast of "Heartbreak Ridge" is composed of Officers and Enlisted men who fought with the French Batallion under the flag of the United Nations in Korea. Made under the sponsorship of the French Ministry of National Defense with the co-operation of the Officers, non-commissioned Officers and Enlisted men in the volunteer French Batallion.
- DirectorBjarne Henning-JensenStarsLars Henning-JensenHannibal MathiasenFrederikke FlyDrama documentary about the 10-year-old boy Mikisoq (Hannibal Mathiesen), who lives with his family in a remote settlement on the west coast of Greenland.
- DirectorLouis Clyde StoumenStarsRaymond MasseyEdward WestonArthur 'Weegee' FelligFollows history of camera and photography development from Da Vinci through Louis-Jacques Daguerre and Matthew Brady, to Margaret Bourke-White, Alfred Eisenstadt, Weegee and Edward Weston.
- DirectorLionel RogosinStarsRay SalyerGorman HendricksFrank MatthewsBy focusing on the lives of three down-and-out alcoholic transients, the film creates a wrenching portrait of the tragic hopelessness of life on "The Bowery" in New York City.
- DirectorCarlos VeloStarsLuis ProcunaConsuelo ProcunaÁngel ProcunaThe life of the famed Mexican bullfighter Luis Procuna, from his boyhood through his training and the triumphs that followed as Procuna rose to the peak of his profession.
- DirectorGeorge LoweAn Oscar-nominated account of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1958 recording the first crossing of Antarctica from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea.
- StarsGregory Peck
- DirectorLee R. BobkerStarsTrudy CalvinSusan DavisThis documentary short portrays the modern day psychiatric nursing in a woman's ward at a mental hospital. The goal of the nurse-patient relationship is to accept the patient as she is without judgment and without reproach.
- DirectorDavid L. WolperStarsEsther GoddardHolger N. ToftoyMike WallaceThe history of the beginning of man's reach for space travel. Some previously classified American and Russia footage is inter-spliced with Mike Wallace interviewing people about their first-hand experiences.
- A profile of artist Paul Gauguin.
- DirectorRomolo MarcelliniStarsLivio BerrutiAbebe BikilaRalph Boston142 minutes of the film speak of events and athletes that have characterized the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
- DirectorHugo NiebelingStarsHugo NiebelingA documentary on Brazil in times of social changes, using avant-garde visuals, editing and sounds.
- DirectorJacques ErtaudBernard GorkiAdaptation et Montage : Henri Lanoë
- DirectorMarshall FlaumStarsRichard BasehartA documentary--nominated for an Academy Award--about the American involvement in World War I.
- DirectorJean AurelA French documentary film about World War I.
- DirectorBert HaanstraStarsSimon CarmiggeltBert HaanstraPeter UstinovHow do the Dutch people live? Hidden cameras filmed the crowds on the beach, during carnival time, skating on the ice plains...
- DirectorPeter BaylisStarsGeorge BakerFaith BrookDavid HealyA biography of Winston Churchill, shown through re-creations and actual film footage and told by Orson Welles with voice-overs by the listed actors for the recreated scenes.
- DirectorMel StuartStarsRichard BasehartJohn BrewerRaymond BuckFrom more than eight million feet of newsreels, amateur footage, tape-recordings and more, David L. Wolper presents a priceless detailed account of the time and events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
- DirectorLaurence E. MascottStarsArthur KennedyHitler's last offensive in 1944 in the Ardennes, with which he desperately tried to stop the allies thereof, to reach Antwerp.
- DirectorGordon LangStarsAlec ClunesThe construction of the Forth Road Bridge in Scotland from the initial survey to the official opening.
- DirectorMarshall FlaumStarsRichard BasehartIn the second installment of the 13-part series from VeggieTales creator Phil Vischer, Volume 2: Let My People Go! [Exodus], finishes the book of Genesis with the stories of Abraham, Isaac, and Joseph, and then learn all about Moses and the Israelites' great escape from Egypt. Find out who wrote the Bible, and learn about big concepts like sin, salvation and redemption!
- DirectorFrédéric RossifStarsIrene WorthJohn GielgudSuzanne FlonTo Die in Madrid (French: Mourir à Madrid) is a 1963 French documentary film about the Spanish Civil War, directed by Frédéric Rossif. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
- DirectorAlfred R. KelmanStarsBrooks AtkinsonArthur MillerJosé QuinteroAmbitious documentary on Eugene O'Neill with facets of his extraordinary life and personality.
- DirectorEugene BoykoStarsStanley JacksonPaul McCartneyLester B. PearsonMade in celebration of the Canadian centennial, this Oscar-nominated documentary offers aerial exploration of the country's vast and varied landscape, featuring impressive widescreen cinematography, amusingly irreverent commentary, and even a cameo by The Beatles.
- DirectorAlexander GrasshoffStarsBill DukesLouise DukesHenry FondaDocumentary film about the Duke family of Seattle, who had 18 children.
- DirectorHaroun TazieffStarsPierre VaneckAn account of Vulcanologist Haroun Tazieff's long "love story" with the formidable Nigarongo, a volcano situated in what was formerly Belgian Congo, from 1948 when Tazieff was the first man ever to climb it and to explore it until the mid sixties.
- DirectorMurray LernerStarsJoan BaezHorton BarkerFiddler BeersBlack and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival from 1963 to 1966. The headliners are Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan, who's acoustic and electric. Son House and Mike Bloomfield talk about the blues; John Hurt, Howlin' Wolf, and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee show their range. The Osborne Brothers perform bluegrass. Donovan, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Mimi and Richard Fariña, and others less well-known also perform. Several talk musical philosophy, and there's a running commentary about the nature and appeal of folk music.
- DirectorCarroll BallardStarsJohn CarterThe American farm and farmer at harvest time, beginning in Texas with the first cutting of winter wheat, and following the season north to the Canadian border.
- DirectorHarry BoothStarsDuke of WindsorDuchess of WindsorOrson WellesLife story of King Edward VIII from his birth until abdication in 1936. Talks of life in Victorian England, life in the Royal Navy, and travels as Prince of Wales. In-depth look into the abdication Crisis of 1936. Includes interviews with His Royal Highness The Duke of Windsor and The Duchess of Windsor. Also has many films of the former King from his early childhood through his short reign.
- DirectorBarbara ConnellBill JerseyStarsErnie ChambersRay CristensenBill YoungdahlDuring the civil rights movement, a Lutheran minister in Nebraska sets out to integrate his church.
- DirectorJames BlueMade for the United States Information Agency (USIA). Shot all over the globe.
- DirectorHarry ChapinStarsNorman RoseGeorges CarpentierJack DempseyDocumentary focusing on heavyweight boxing champions from 1882 to 1929.
- DirectorDavid H. SawyerStarsAlbert HonigSylvia HonigDan LiebermanTreatments take place in a residential farm setting in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, in which the residents live with farm families. In addition to catatonic patients, other residents are schizophrenic and also autistic.
- DirectorRobert K. SharpeA group of poor people in Raleigh County, West Virginia organize when strip mining is damaging their houses and community. They work to get the state legislature to pass some strong laws protecting citizens against coal mining interests.
- DirectorEmile de AntonioStarsHarry S. AshmoreDaniel BerriganJoseph ButtingerA documentary chronicling the background to, and history of, the Vietnam War.
- DirectorAlberto IsaacStarsEnrique LizaldeRoberto MoralesMexican former Olympic swimmer Alberto Isaac's record of Mexico 68 is a celebration not of national achievement, but of individual heroism. This thoughtful and comprehensive film bristles with offbeat moments and yields iconic images.
- DirectorIrwin RostenStarsJames CoburnNaturalists fight to save rapidly vanishing species of wolves.
- DirectorHarald ReinlStarsHeinz-Detlev BockKlaus KindlerChristian MarschallBased on Erich Von Daniken's book purporting to prove that throughout history aliens have visited earth.
- DirectorWilliam CaytonStarsBrock PetersKevin KennedyTommy BurnsA documentary on the first African-American boxer to ever become world heavyweight champion. Released on the same year as "The Great White Hope" and also Oscar nominated like that film, this project uses of stills, archive footage and his own words narrated by actor Brock Peters to present Johnson's life, trajectory and of course, 'the fight of the century' against James Jeffries.
- DirectorSidney LumetJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsHarry BelafonteRuby DeeBen GazzaraFollows Martin Luther King's life and decades-long civil rights activism.
- DirectorDavid H. VowellStarsRod McKuenThe imperiled relationship between man and nature.
- DirectorMarcel OphülsStarsHelmut TausendMarcel VerdierAlexis GraveAn in-depth exploration of the various reactions by the French people to the Vichy government's acceptance of the German invasion.
- DirectorBruce BrownStarsSteve McQueenDave AldanaMark BrelsfordDocumentary on motorcycle racing featuring stars of the sport, including film star Steve McQueen, a racer in his own right.
- DirectorLennart EhrenborgThor HeyerdahlStarsNorman BakerRoscoe Lee BrowneAbdullah DilbrineDocumentary of the Ra expedition organized by Thor Heyerdahl, which crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a papyrus boat in 1969 and 1970.
- DirectorBert HaanstraStarsBert HaanstraAnton KoolhaasStephen MurrayDocumentary that explores the differences and similarities between human behavior and that of animals.
- DirectorArnold PerlStarsJames Earl JonesOssie DavisJohn AliJames Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.
- DirectorRobert HendricksonLaurence MerrickStarsBobby BeausoleilMary BrunnerVincent BugliosiDocumentary on Charles Manson and his family. Has a number of insightful interviews with many family members most notably Squeaky and Sandy (Blue and Red). There is also a history of Manson from his birth to the family formation to the Tate/La Bianca murders. Plenty of footage of the family playing at Spahn Ranch.
- DirectorEdouard de LaurotEckehard MunckThe Silent Revolution is a 1972 German documentary film about molecular biology. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
- DirectorJohn D. GoodellStarsJames LawlessOscar-nominated documentary follows two doctors as they travel around the world studying how children learn in various cultures.
- DirectorAlexander GrasshoffStarsLeslie NielsenShows students of the Colorado Outward Bound School as they confront themselves and some of nature's greatest challenges. Features their climb of Santa Rosa Peak in the Peruvian Andes.
- DirectorFranz BaakeJost von MorrDepicts the air raid on Berlin, Dec 31, 1944. Adolf Hitler claimed over the radio that the National Socialist state would rebuild the city in a few years. Followed by pictures of the destroyed almost deleted Berlin.
- DirectorHerbert KlineEdmund PenneyStarsRicardo MontalbanJose Clemente OrozcoDiego RiveraNarrated by Ricardo Montalbán, this documentary examines the history of Mexican murals and their artists. Among the works examined are those by José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros.
- DirectorJudy CollinsJill GodmilowStarsAntonia BricoJudy CollinsA special deluxe edition of the 1974 Oscar nominated documentary film about the first female conductor to conduct major orchestras in the US and Europe, Antonia Brico!
- DirectorHerbert KlineStarsOrson WellesGeorges BraqueAlexander CalderFootage of great modern artists in their studios creating and commenting on their work, with narration and commentary by Orson Welles.
- DirectorDavid BergmanJacques EhrlichHaim GouriHistorical documentary made up of footage and stills shot by the Nazis. A compilation of testimony from witnesses who appeared at the Eichmann trial provides a telling narrative.
- DirectorEugene S. JonesThis informative program looks at the conflicts that arise when a black man replaces a white chief warden in Uganda.
- DirectorKeith CritchlowWalter F. ParkesStarsAllen VincentKen McAllisterPaul RaymondA documentary about the Nazi party in America.
- DirectorGlen PearcyStarsLuis ValdezA great documentary about the United Farm Workers Movement and their non-violent struggle against police brutality in 1973.
- DirectorIrwin RostenStarsE.G. Marshall"Journey" inside the human body, using advanced technology of microscopic photography and sound, including scenes of heat radiation, color x-rays and camera exploration of a living human heart.
- DirectorShirley MacLaineClaudia WeillStarsShirley MacLaineDocumentary on mainland Chinese life.
- DirectorDavid HelpernStarsWalter BernsteinAlvah BessieLester ColeThe documentary analyzes a dark period in Hollywood's history due to the Red Scare of the 1940's and 1950's, when actors, writers and directors were persecuted and investigated by the House of Un-American Activities Committee after being considered suspects of committing Anti-American acts by preaching the Communism in their films and television shows.
- DirectorMichael FirthStarsJeff CampbellBlair TrenholmeRon HajakTwo guys on adventure in New Zealand.
- DirectorAnthony HowarthStarsJames MasonShusha GuppyAnthony HowarthThere are two hundred miles of raging rivers and dangerous mountains to cross. There are no towns, no roads, no bridges. There is no turning back. The Bakhtiari migration is one of the most hazardous tests of human endurance known to mankind. Every year, 500,000 men, women and children - along with one million animals - struggle for eight grueling weeks to scale the massive Zagros Mountains in Iran - a range which is as high as the Alps and as broad as Switzerland - to reach their summer pastures. The film's astonishing widescreen photography and brilliantly recorded soundtrack take the viewer out onto the dangerous precipices of the Zardeh Kuh mountain and into the icy waters of the Cholbar River.
- DirectorDonald BrittainJohn KramerStarsMarjorie BonnerDonald BrittainJohn BuchanA documentary on the life of the alcoholic writer Malcolm Lowry, interspersed with readings of Lowry's work by Richard Burton. Lowry was born and educated in England. He moved to Mexico in 1936, where he lived near the volcano Popocatepetl, on an allowance from his father. There, between drunken bouts, he started writing his one important novel, "Under the Volcano" that takes place on the Mexican day of the dead. He takes eight years to finish it, writing most of it while living in a shack in British Colombia, Canada.
- DirectorRobert DornhelmEarle MackStarsGrace KellyAngelina ArmeiskayaMichaela CernaA documentary on the Kirov School of Ballet in Russia, narrated by Princess Grace of Monaco.
- DirectorTony IanzeloTorben SchiolerThe makings of the Royal Brothers Circus.
- DirectorHarry RaskyStarsJean GasconJames MasonJoseph Wiseman
- DirectorJim KleinMiles MogulescuJulia ReichertStarsKate HyndmanStella NowickiSylvia WoodsThree women union organizers of the early Depression era discuss and reminisce their actions of the time and the current state of the labor movement. Accompanied by a lot of vintage folk music.
- DirectorAlan RootStarsOrson WellesPunctuating the skyline of the African plains with their distinctive silhouettes, giant termite mounds support an abundance of life, and not all of it invertebrate. The Oscar-nominated Mysterious Castles of Clay provides a dramatic and enthralling insight into the diverse ecosystem these towering monoliths help sustain.
- DirectorJean-Pierre DutilleuxLuiz Carlos SaldanhaStarsMarlon BrandoClive KellyJacques PerrinAn examination of issues surrounding the survival of the indigenous tribes of north central Brazil.
- DirectorAlbert LamorisseStarsManouchehr AnvarA tour of Iran filmed from a helicopter.
- DirectorLorraine GrayFrom December 1936 to February 1937 members of the United Auto Workers organized a sit-down strike inside the General Motors Fisher Body 1 and 2 plants in Flint, Michigan. They ultimately won recognition of their union and improved wages and conditions. "With Babies and Banners" tells the story of the Women's Emergency Brigade, composed of female GM workers and the wives of men involved in the sit-down strike, which not only provided support services (like running the union kitchens that provided food to the strikers occupying the plants) but did picket duty themselves. It intercuts footage from 1937 with interviews with the same women 40 years later, still active in union politics and still pressuring the UAW to acknowledge women as equals.
- DirectorDavid VassarA group of young artists, mechanics and environmental activists successfully built the largest electrical generating windmill in the world.
- DirectorPaul CowanStarsMichael KaneFilbert BayiGeoff CapesA documentary about the XI Commonwealth Games, held in Canada in 1978.
- DirectorTom PriestleySteve SingerStarsBrit HumeThe Killing Ground examines toxic waste, its effects on public health, and failures by government agencies and chemical companies to keep it contained.
- DirectorBarry Alexander BrownGlenn SilberStarsKarleton ArmstrongBetty BoardmanAllen GinsbergInterviews with people involved with and leading the Madison, Wisconsin area resistance to the Vietnam war.
- DirectorRoss SpearsStarsJames AgeeMia AgeeMae BurroughsAgee is the only film biography of a major American writer to be nominated for and Academy Award. Ever.
- DirectorJon ElseStarsHans BetheHolm BursomHaakon ChevalierScientists and witnesses involved in the creation and testing of the first ever atomic bomb reflect on the Manhattan project and its fascinating leader, J. Robert Oppenheimer, who upon completion of his wonderful and horrible invention became a powerful spokesperson against the nuclear arms race.
- DirectorDavid BradburyStarsRichard OxenburghNeil DavisA profile of Tasmanian-born combat cameraman Neil Davis, particularly his time in South Vietnam and Cambodia in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- DirectorDieter HildebrandtStarsAlexander ScourbyHolger HagenHelga Mayer-MaynardWith a great archive footage coming from 16 countries, this Oscar nominated documentary briefly presents some of the most important facts about the Nazist persecution against Jews in Europe, starting with Hitler's rise to the power.
- DirectorJim BurroughsStarsJim BurroughsThe film chronicles the Mariel boatlift in 1980 and follows a year in the life of Cuban refugees.
- DirectorKen BurnsStarsPaul RoeblingJulie HarrisArthur MillerThis documentary chronicles the world-famous Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. The difficult construction process is described in interesting detail; later parts of the film interview current notables who describe the effects that the Brooklyn Bridge has had upon New York society and beyond.