Movies

For a class project, three college students decide to invent an unfounded rumor about the most popular girl on campus. But as the rumor spreads, it...

Career criminals and a local youth carefully plan and rehearse the robbery of a Missouri bank.

Set in Brazil, this drama is based on a short story by Oscar Wilde about a fisherman who meets and falls in love with a mermaid, giving up his soul...

The film expresses the history of oppression, discrimination, violence and hate in America. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best...

This documentary provides an example of a piece of legislation being enacted by the U.S. Congress by describing how HR 6161 - a bill amending the...

On May 30, 1889 the South Fork Dam, which maintained a pleasure lake for wealthy Pittsburgh industrialists and their families, failed due to very...

A City Decides chronicles the events that led to the integration of the St. Louis public schools in 1954. An Oscar-nominated short documentary from...

The story of Ellis Island and the American immigration experience. This film is a tribute to the 18 million men, women and children who made the...

Documents the evolution of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Arch from concept drawings, to fabrication of its stainless steel sections, to...

An award-winning documentary of the invasion of Normandy in World War II, using rare archival films and pictures from British, American, and German...

The Arkansas school integration crisis and the changes wrought in subsequent years. This film profiles the lives of the nine African-American...

"A Place in the Land" is the story of George Perkins Marsh, Frederick Billings and Laurance S. Rockefeller, three seminal figures in the history of...

This moving film tribute to a man who had hoped to win the presidency created a historic moment when it brought the Chicago Democratic National...

Children Without is a 1964 American short documentary film directed by Charles Guggenheim, about a young girl and her brother growing up in the...

This film highlights the East Building's architectural conception and construction, beginning with the challenge initially faced by architect I. M....

St. Louis’s annual report to taxpayers. The Big City visually illustrated how tax dollars were put to good use and was considered a...

A short history of civil rights movements in the US. Winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary, Short Subject

High Schools is a 1984 American documentary film produced and directed by Charles Guggenheim. It is based on Ernest L. Boyer's book, High School, and...

A documentary about the design/construction of the National Gallery of Art's East Building in Washington, D.C.

During the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944, thousands of American GIs were captured by German forces. Berga: Soldiers of Another War, the...