Les Blank's poetic documentation of 1967's Los Angeles Easter Sunday Love-In.  Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2002.

13-year-old inventor Aidan has discovered that trees use a mathematical formula to gather sunlight in crowded forests. Now he wonders why we don't collect solar energy the same way.

The Town was a short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information in 1945. It presents an idealized vision of American life, shown in microcosm by Madison, Indiana. It was created primarily for exhibition abroad, to provide international audiences a more well-rounded view of America, and was therefore produced in more than 20 translations.  Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for a living.  Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

One of Les Blank's industrial films, which follows a Holly Farms "broiler" chicken from factory incubation to the county fair barbecue pit. A hilarious, disturbing and surreal look at a large-scale chicken farm producing 156 million chickens a year! Film includes lots of chicken songs and music recorded live in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.  Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Short film about the Manzanar Japanese American internment camp.  Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

Flooded McDonald's is a new film work in which a convincing life-size replica of the interior of a McDonald's burger bar, without any customers or staff present, gradually floods with water.

Albert and David Maysles (Gimme Shelter) directed this 53-minute documentary about movie tycoon Joseph E. Levine (1963).

A description and enactment of the discovery of gold by James Marshall, and the role played by John Sutter.  Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.