Where do you go if you want to watch rare archive films such as a 1916 documentary about life on a German submarine or John Ford's 53-minute Western Bucking Broadway from the following year? Until now ...
Those who want to know who wrote Cooley High or where Shaft In Africa was filmed, can now do so through the Black Film Archive, an online database of Black films. “I have always leaned on Black cinema ...
If you saw the most recent incarnation of “Candyman” from director Nia DaCosta — all of it shot in Chicago, some of which takes place amid the remaining Cabrini row houses — you might be compelled to ...
When the process began to bring a massive trove of vintage educational films to Johns Hopkins, film program director Adam Rodgers took to exploring the collection online. He hoped to spark a memory ...
A still from Mou Tun-Fei's 1970 film "The End of the Track." (Courtesy Harvard Film Archive) The Harvard Film Archive has been closed to the public since March of 2020. In keeping with the ...
Huge questions loom about the status of an archive of thousands of films that dates back to 1927. During the Taliban’s rule of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, women and girls were shut out of public ...
Roland Sejko’s doc “A State Film,” culled from a vast archive of official footage made under the regime of Albanian strongman ...
Though they go by different names, almost every major streaming service has some type of “Black film” collection, often promoted during the month of February or, during 2020’s Black Lives Matter ...
When Maya Cade founded her meticulously curated database of Black films from 1915 to 1979, she addressed a community need with love. In 2020, shortly after the murder of George Floyd and the wave of ...
From birthday parties to family holidays and picnics to parades, scenes from everyday life on the South Side of Chicago are featured in a new UChicago film preservation project that aims to reflect ...
Birthed from a Twitter thread, which was itself birthed from the much-ness of being Black during a pandemic and another round of Black Rights protests, writer Maya Cade’s Black Film Archive is now ...
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