Studios often destroyed prints to reclaim silver from the reels or simply tossed them aside once profits dried up. By the time preservation efforts began in earnest, it was too late for most. Nearly ...

Much like that one funny TikTok you can’t find again — even after scrolling to the deepest depths of your saved tab — there’s ...

Image Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer & Fox Film Corporation. A movie is considered “lost” if the original negative or a complete copy does not exist in any known archive or private collection. Estimates ...

Oscar Micheaux is considered the first prominent Black filmmaker in the United States. According to the National Park Service, between 1919 and 1948, Micheaux independently wrote, directed and ...

“The Heart of Lincoln,” a 1922 movie directed by the pioneering filmmaker Francis Ford, was found at a stock-footage library on Long Island. By Derrick Bryson Taylor No intern task is too small. Not ...

With COVID lockdowns now five years in the rear view, indie distributors have teamed up to deliver theatrical screenings for 2020 and 2021 releases that had their big-screen runs impeded or nixed by ...

"We may have lost our funding, but unlike Congress, we have not lost our way," writes ITVS boss Carrie Lozano as she assesses a less vibrant documentary landscape without the $9 million her ...