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 ...

Many questions pushed Maya Cade to create the Black Film Archive website, a new, curated streaming guide of Black cinema spanning 1915 through 1979: What films belong here? How can I present it in a ...

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 ...

In “Archive,” an isolated scientist methodically pursues an artificial-intelligence ideal, developing a sequence of human-android beings and recycling their various parts until the ultimate prototype ...

James Mason as Humbert Humbert in director Stanley Kubrick's 1962 film "Lolita." (Courtesy Harvard Film Archive) “How did they ever make a movie of ‘Lolita’?” the advertisements asked. It was 1962, ...

The independent filmmaking community is up in arms over the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ recent decision to gut its archive and library, with some calling the cutbacks “a huge step ...

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 ...

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 ...

How a Twitter feed about often forgotten classics of Black film — from silent pictures to the age of blaxploitation — became a virtual vault dedicated to the preservation of a rich cinematic legacy.

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 ...

Today we are celebrating the 2018 UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage by trying to answer this question: Why would archives invest in new copies of films that have already been copied to a ...