An Army agent (Martin Sheen) goes upriver into the heart of Cambodia to kill a renegade colonel called Kurtz (Marlon Brando).

An Army agent (Martin Sheen) goes upriver into the heart of Cambodia to kill a renegade colonel called Kurtz (Marlon Brando).

A has-been boxer (Jon Voight) trains in Florida for a comeback and fights his ex-wife (Faye Dunaway) for custody of their son (Ricky Schroder).

A has-been boxer (Jon Voight) trains in Florida for a comeback and fights his ex-wife (Faye Dunaway) for custody of their son (Ricky Schroder).

A matinee idol turns to alcohol when his wife's acting career starts to take off and his own popularity begins to dwindle.

A matinee idol turns to alcohol when his wife's acting career starts to take off and his own popularity begins to dwindle.

A cattle rancher's daughter (Susan Hayward) turns Oklahoma wildcatter with a geologist (Robert Preston) and an Indian (Pedro Armendáriz) as partners.

A cattle rancher's daughter (Susan Hayward) turns Oklahoma wildcatter with a geologist (Robert Preston) and an Indian (Pedro Armendáriz) as partners.

A Barbary Coast gambler (Clark Gable) loves his new saloon singer (Jeanette MacDonald), then loses her in the 1906 earthquake panic.

A Barbary Coast gambler (Clark Gable) loves his new saloon singer (Jeanette MacDonald), then loses her in the 1906 earthquake panic.

An opera diva's (Kathryn Grayson) manager (David Niven) cultivates a singing bayou fisherman (Mario Lanza) suddenly in love.

An opera diva's (Kathryn Grayson) manager (David Niven) cultivates a singing bayou fisherman (Mario Lanza) suddenly in love.

An ambitious lawyer's (Paul Newman) claim to a prominent family name is open to the glare of a murder trial.

An ambitious lawyer's (Paul Newman) claim to a prominent family name is open to the glare of a murder trial.

A ballerina (Cyd Charisse) brings casino luck to a gambling rancher (Dan Dailey), until they fall in love.

A ballerina (Cyd Charisse) brings casino luck to a gambling rancher (Dan Dailey), until they fall in love.

A St. Louis lawyer's (Leon Ames) family (Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien) stays in town for the 1904 World's Fair.

A St. Louis lawyer's (Leon Ames) family (Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien) stays in town for the 1904 World's Fair.

An heiress (Bette Davis) with only months to live embarks on a social whirl, then marries her doctor (George Brent).

An heiress (Bette Davis) with only months to live embarks on a social whirl, then marries her doctor (George Brent).

A guilt-stricken playboy (Rock Hudson) becomes a physician to atone for his role in the death of a woman's (Jane Wyman) husband and the accident that led to her blindness.

A guilt-stricken playboy (Rock Hudson) becomes a physician to atone for his role in the death of a woman's (Jane Wyman) husband and the accident that led to her blindness.

Told she is dying, a young mother (Margaret Sullavan) hides it from her husband (Wendell Corey) and encourages his girlfriend (Viveca Lindfors).

Told she is dying, a young mother (Margaret Sullavan) hides it from her husband (Wendell Corey) and encourages his girlfriend (Viveca Lindfors).

An intern (Robert Mitchum) marries a nurse (Olivia de Havilland) who can pay the bills on his way up as a doctor.

An intern (Robert Mitchum) marries a nurse (Olivia de Havilland) who can pay the bills on his way up as a doctor.

Scandal erupts when a woman who cannot hear or speak is accused of gunning down the bully who supposedly raped her.

Scandal erupts when a woman who cannot hear or speak is accused of gunning down the bully who supposedly raped her.

Hit men board a train to kill a racketeer's widow (Marie Windsor) escorted by a Los Angeles detective (Charles McGraw).

Hit men board a train to kill a racketeer's widow (Marie Windsor) escorted by a Los Angeles detective (Charles McGraw).

A railroad agent faces treachery from an old friend as he struggles to ensure the completion of the Union Pacific.

A railroad agent faces treachery from an old friend as he struggles to ensure the completion of the Union Pacific.

A trainee train dispatcher (Václav Neckár) becomes a lover and a hero in World War II Czechoslovakia.

A trainee train dispatcher (Václav Neckár) becomes a lover and a hero in World War II Czechoslovakia.

A railroad boss (Burt Lancaster) helps the Resistance stop a Nazi colonel (Paul Scofield) from smuggling French art.

A railroad boss (Burt Lancaster) helps the Resistance stop a Nazi colonel (Paul Scofield) from smuggling French art.

An English banker's boring existence is shattered by the globe-trotting adventure he shares with his eccentric aunt.

An English banker's boring existence is shattered by the globe-trotting adventure he shares with his eccentric aunt.

A married British woman (Celia Johnson) and a doctor (Trevor Howard) meet first at a train station, then fall in love but decide to part.

A married British woman (Celia Johnson) and a doctor (Trevor Howard) meet first at a train station, then fall in love but decide to part.

To evade gangsters, two men (Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon) don skirts and makeup and join an all-girl band with a sizzling singer (Marilyn Monroe).

To evade gangsters, two men (Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon) don skirts and makeup and join an all-girl band with a sizzling singer (Marilyn Monroe).

Tennessee Williams' Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) moves in with her sister, Stella (Kim Hunter), and brutish brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando).

Tennessee Williams' Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) moves in with her sister, Stella (Kim Hunter), and brutish brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando).

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wages a historic -- but dangerous -- battle to secure voting rights for all, culminating in an epic march in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wages a historic -- but dangerous -- battle to secure voting rights for all, culminating in an epic march in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery.

A widowed lawyer (Gregory Peck) with two bright children (Mary Badham, Phillip Alford) defends a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman in 1930s Alabama.

A widowed lawyer (Gregory Peck) with two bright children (Mary Badham, Phillip Alford) defends a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman in 1930s Alabama.

A New Orleans belle (Bette Davis) uses another man (George Brent) to make her fiance (Henry Fonda) jealous.

A New Orleans belle (Bette Davis) uses another man (George Brent) to make her fiance (Henry Fonda) jealous.

A teenager stands up to his father, a gung-ho peacetime Marine pilot who runs his family like boot camp.

A teenager stands up to his father, a gung-ho peacetime Marine pilot who runs his family like boot camp.

A fisherman (Wallace Beery) loves an innkeeper (Marie Dressler) who loves a girl (Dorothy Jordan) like a daughter.

A fisherman (Wallace Beery) loves an innkeeper (Marie Dressler) who loves a girl (Dorothy Jordan) like a daughter.

The ghosts of socialite Marion (Constance Bennett) and her dog, Skippy, help Cosmo Topper (Roland Young) with his wife (Billie Burke) on the Riviera.

The ghosts of socialite Marion (Constance Bennett) and her dog, Skippy, help Cosmo Topper (Roland Young) with his wife (Billie Burke) on the Riviera.

A Greek sponge diver (Robert Wagner) in Florida loves the daughter (Terry Moore) of a rival family of Key West sponge hookers.

A Greek sponge diver (Robert Wagner) in Florida loves the daughter (Terry Moore) of a rival family of Key West sponge hookers.

A Japanese entomologist (Eiji Okada) is imprisoned with a woman (Kyôko Kishida) at the bottom of a sandpit.

A Japanese entomologist (Eiji Okada) is imprisoned with a woman (Kyôko Kishida) at the bottom of a sandpit.

A Harvard doctor's (Bruce Bennett) study of a female skeleton leads a Boston police detective (Ricardo Montalban) to a killer.

A Harvard doctor's (Bruce Bennett) study of a female skeleton leads a Boston police detective (Ricardo Montalban) to a killer.

A teen (Gary Grimes) falls in love with a lonely young woman (Jennifer O'Neill) and hopes to take the place of her husband who is away at war.

A teen (Gary Grimes) falls in love with a lonely young woman (Jennifer O'Neill) and hopes to take the place of her husband who is away at war.

A free-spirited artist (Elizabeth Taylor), who lives near California's Big Sur, meets the administrator (Richard Burton) of the parochial school that her young son attends and lures the cleric away from his wife (Eva Marie Saint).

A free-spirited artist (Elizabeth Taylor), who lives near California's Big Sur, meets the administrator (Richard Burton) of the parochial school that her young son attends and lures the cleric away from his wife (Eva Marie Saint).

An inspired Iowa farmer builds a baseball field, then sees "Shoeless" Joe Jackson's ghost and other marvels.

An inspired Iowa farmer builds a baseball field, then sees "Shoeless" Joe Jackson's ghost and other marvels.

A literary baseball groupie (Susan Sarandon) romances a pitcher (Tim Robbins) and a catcher (Kevin Costner) on a minor-league North Carolina team.

A literary baseball groupie (Susan Sarandon) romances a pitcher (Tim Robbins) and a catcher (Kevin Costner) on a minor-league North Carolina team.

A top major-league pitcher (Michael Moriarty) devotes himself to a simple-minded catcher (Robert De Niro) dying of Hodgkin's disease.

A top major-league pitcher (Michael Moriarty) devotes himself to a simple-minded catcher (Robert De Niro) dying of Hodgkin's disease.

Lou Gehrig (Gary Cooper) leads the New York baseball team for years and then, slowly dying, retires with a stadium farewell.

Lou Gehrig (Gary Cooper) leads the New York baseball team for years and then, slowly dying, retires with a stadium farewell.

Inspired by his wife (June Allyson) and son, Chicago White Soxer Monty Stratton (James Stewart) pitches with an artificial leg.

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Doctor Hugo Hackenbush (Groucho Marx), Tony (Chico Marx), and Stuffy (Harpo Marx) upset a sanitorium, orchestra pit, water carnival and steeplechase.

A newsman (Clark Gable) rides a bus and shares a cabin with a tycoon's (Walter Connolly) runaway daughter (Claudette Colbert).

A New York comedian (Woody Allen) recalls his lost love, a kooky singer (Diane Keaton) with a style all her own.

An adman (Rock Hudson) and an adwoman (Doris Day) fight over a dummy account and wind up in bed together.

A Broadway producer (Zero Mostel) and his accountant (Gene Wilder) back a sure-fire flop: "Springtime for Hitler.".

A TV cameraman hurt while covering a football game is told by his brother-in-law how to get a big insurance settlement.

The Oscar-winning tale of a temperamental actor who becomes a sensation while posing as a woman on a hit TV soap opera.

Socialite Irene Bullock needs a forgotten man to win a scavenger hunt and finds Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. She hires him as a butler, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister Cornelia, who seeks to get Godfrey fired.

A snooty socialite (Katharine Hepburn) fights with her ex-husband (Cary Grant) and flirts with a reporter (James Stewart).

A hapless French tourist attempts to make the most of his disastrous vacation as he causes havoc at a seaside resort hotel.

A middle-aged pop-music composer (Dudley Moore) follows a nubile woman (Bo Derek) on her honeymoon to Puerto Vallarta.

Gary Cooper, Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Joan Crawford and a waitress (Doris Day) join two comedians (Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson) making a movie.

A Hollywood child-star has-been (Bette Davis) torments her famous sister (Joan Crawford), now in a wheelchair.

A silent-film star (Gene Kelly) loves a chorus girl (Debbie Reynolds) who dubs his squeaky-voiced co-star in a 1927 Hollywood talkie.

A Hollywood star (James Mason) drinks away his career, as his singer wife (Judy Garland) becomes famous.

Hack screenwriter Joe Gillis moves in with Hollywood has-been Norma Desmond and her devoted chauffeur, Max Von Mayerling.

Flashbacks at a funeral reveal how a Madrid nightclub dancer was propelled to instant stardom and eventual misfortune.

As an Oscar nominee (Stephen Boyd) for best actor sits in the theater, his life as a Hollywood heel unfolds.

A ruthless producer (Kirk Douglas) uses and discards Hollywood hopefuls as stepping stones to the top of the Tinseltown heap.

An overnight starlet (Natalie Wood) marries a homosexual actor (Robert Redford) and goes downhill in 1930s Hollywood.

About 65 real-life movie stars fringe the satire of a Hollywood studio executive (Tim Robbins) who gets away with murder.

A Hollywood screenwriter (Dick Powell) has custody of a wild teenage girl (Debbie Reynolds) who is more fun than his girlfriend (Anne Francis).

Tour of Lake Metro; film clips featuring June Allyson and Peter Lawford.

The death of her mother drives a bitter blonde (Joan Blondell) to a life of crime that ends with prison.

An eccentric ballplayer known for his unorthodox pitching style finds major-league trouble with a girl and gangsters.

A wrestling promoter (Humphrey Bogart) pits his big Greek (Nat Pendleton) against an Ozarkian, with an amazon (Louise Fazenda) as the prize.

A salesman pulls out all the stops in a last-ditch effort to sell his latest tractor to an old-fashioned lumberman.

A chorus girl (Joan Blondell), producer (Dick Powell) and dancer (Ruby Keeler) put on a Broadway show. Choreographed by Busby Berkeley.

Two newlyweds who met in a dance contest have a hard time keeping in step with the demands of matrimony.

Two stranded chorus-girls (Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell) earn money to make it back to New York by entertaining sailors.

An aviator (Pat O'Brien) ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.

A U.S. doctor (Randolph Scott), his wife (Ellen Drew) and a colleague (Ruth Warrick) form a triangle amid guerrillas in World War II China.

A desperate would-be comic (Robert De Niro) hounds a late-night talk-show host (Jerry Lewis) for a break.

Goofy professor Kelp's potion turns him into Buddy Love, a lounge singer at ease with a coed and a crowd.

A mute bellboy (Jerry Lewis) working at the luxurious Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach constantly causes problems with his clumsy mistakes.

A cartoonist (Dean Martin) turns his babbling roommate's (Jerry Lewis) bizarre dreams into a hit comic strip read by spies.

When former business partners Dean and Jerry enlist in the Army, they have different ambitions. Martin wants to see action. Klutzy Lewis wants to stay out of combat. They both have to deal with stern Army personnel while preparing for a variety show.

Two women make a date with the same man for the next night.

A New York policeman (George Murphy) approves of his daughter's (Judy Garland) suitor; her grandfather (Charles Winninger) does not.

An Irish horsecar driver's daughter (June Haver) meets New York showman Tony Pastor (Gordon MacRae) and goes into vaudeville.

Tyrone Power introduces a trio of tales of Ireland: "Majesty of the Law," "A Minute's Wait," "1921.".

An aging New England politician struggles to maintain his position as mayor in a hard-fought and questionable campaign.

A medical professor (James Cagney) recruits a U.S. student (Don Murray) for the Irish Republican Army in 1921 Dublin.

Based on the early life of Irish playwright and notorious socialist Sean O'Casey. Following O'Casey through the sordid underbelly of Dublin where he gets his first taste of the social injustices that would later inspire his work.

An Irishman (Fred Astaire) and his daughter (Petula Clark) steal a leprechaun's (Tommy Steele) pot of gold.

A woman (Barbara Stanwyck) feels that her sacrifices for her son (Hardie Albright) are wasted when he becomes a bond salesman instead of an architect.

A New York socialite (Ruth Chatterton) keeps in touch with her cheating husband, frustrating an admirer in Paris.

A private eye (George Brent) follows a millionaire's wife (Kay Francis) to Havana, where they fall in love.

An adman (George Brent) almost leaves his wife (Ann Dvorak) for a copywriter (Bette Davis) who boosts his business.

A doctor (Herbert Marshall) takes his wife (Greta Garbo) with him to fight cholera in China after catching her with another guy (George Brent).

A man (Colin Clive) with a broken back dies after his wife (Josephine Hutchinson) has an affair with his brother (George Brent).

A nightclub singer (Barbara Stanwyck) on the run becomes a Midwestern farmer's (George Brent) mail-order bride.

A girl (Ruth Chatterton) with a baby has bad luck with the men (George Brent, Frank McHugh) in her medicine show.

An aspiring singer (Loretta Young) from Kansas works for a sleazy producer and loves a married man (David Manners) in New York.

An out-of-work husband (Norman Foster) resents his wife (Loretta Young) being the breadwinner in the family.

The wife (Ruth Chatterton) of a Wall Street loser (George Brent) eyes an Australian sheep rancher (Paul Cavanagh) in Bermuda.

Many people with a means and a motive confuse a murder investigation.

A girl (Jean Muir) too old for boarding school steals one of her vain actress mother's (Verree Teasdale) admirers (George Brent).

A foreman working on the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge refuses to pay a racheteer protection money.

The shaken survivor (George Brent) of a family plane crash falls in love with his buddy's (Warren William) girlfriend (Kay Francis).

A Broadway producer (Warner Baxter) sends in the understudy (Ruby Keeler) when his show's star (Bebe Daniels) twists her ankle.

An auto-company president (Ruth Chatterton) finds her right-hand man (George Brent) by process of elimination.

An out-of-town working girl (Barbara Stanwyck) rises in a New York bank by using her power over men.

An English girl's dream of racing her horse in the Grand National thunders to reality with the help of a former jockey.

Dobie (Bobby Van) goes to college, dates Pansy (Debbie Reynolds), horses around, blows up the chemistry lab.

Texas madam Miss Mona (Dolly Parton) and her sheriff boyfriend (Burt Reynolds) try to save her Chicken Ranch from a TV muckraker (Dom DeLuise).

A professor (Don Ameche) and his wife (Rosalind Russell) move to New York and confuse a publisher's romance with his assistant (Kay Francis).

A fugitive adventurer (Anthony Perkins) in Venezuela falls in love with a bird-girl child of nature (Audrey Hepburn) feared by natives.

A sailor (Jack Oakie) and his buddy need a singer's (Ann Sheridan) allure to win a gunnery-contest bet in Honolulu.

A convict (Richard Barthelmess) gains radio fame and the governor's attention with his newly discovered singing talent.

The producer is broke, the box office has been robbed, and the coat-room girl (Sally O'Neil) bumps the star (Betty Compson) of the show.

A jazz quartet befriends a poor violinist (Betty Compson), and she puts them in the money as their manager.

During World War I, the paths of an officer in the English secret service and a German spy converge in Gibraltar.

A rich man (Gilbert Emery) hires a woman (Betty Compson) to rescue his son (John Darrow) from a gold digger.

Injustice decides the fate of two bank workers (Conrad Nagel, Robert Ames) in love with a Swedish girl (Betty Compson).

A Russian captain (Ivan Lebedeff) frequents drawing rooms of World War I Bucharest to find a female spy.

A teenager (Mary Ainslee) rivals her mother (Betty Compson) for a rumba-cafe gigolo (Willy Castello).

A socialite's (Grace Kelly) ex-husband (Bing Crosby) and a magazine writer (Frank Sinatra) show up for her wedding and cause havoc.

Filmmaker George T. Nierenberg surveys gospel music, featuring "Mother" Willie Mae Ford Smith and "Professor" Thomas A. Dorsey.

An American (Ethan Hawke) and a Frenchwoman (Julie Delpy) meet on a train and spend a romantic day and night in Vienna.

A man begins drinking after he is swindled out of his mill. After his daughter is killed by a blow to the head during a bar fight, he is reborn and runs for mayor.

Archivists, curators, technicians, and filmmakers from around the world explain what film preservation is and why it is needed.