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Browse 13 movies from The American Film Institute
A look at one hundred years of romance in American cinema.
Jun 2002
Follows the 51st AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony honoring Eddie Murphy for his five-decade career in film, television and stand-up comedy.
May 2026
The top 100 songs of the past 100 years chosen by the American Film Institute are presented by host-actor John Travolta.
Jun 2004
1968: Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, and Bobby Hutton are among the recent dead. In Nigeria, the Civil War is entering its second year with no end in sight. In San Francisco, the adventures of Gabriel, a young Nigerian reflects tribal, personal, and racial frictions during the tumultuous sixties. Truth is stranger than fiction in Bushman, a rare sort of film portrait, part document, part imagined – poetic in its approach to real events.
Oct 1971
Documentary about the Chzech director, Milos Forman.
Aug 2000
13-year-old Toby Fisher has to learn to face his fear of earthquakes when scientists discover a new fault line running through his neighborhood.
Mar 2007
A parable about a family of cows which poses the problem of resistance to truth, the risks of individuality versus the pressure to conform, and the tensions between generations. Based on the short story of the same title by James Agee. Originally on 16mm.
Jan 1976
65 shots making up a cryptically alluded-to narrative: a lesbian couple's Midwest travels, a hitchhiking young man's journeys, the story of a man who may be having an affair.
Mar 1977
Abstract short film approaching birth
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During an improvised trip to the California mountains, a self-conscious French girl studying in the US finds herself lost and, desperate for a sense of belonging, decides to act on her growing obsession towards her charismatic new friend.
Sep 2022
A documentary by husband and wife filmmakers, Mario Balibrera and Dana Evans, of the art colonies of Taos, New Mexico in the early part of the 20th century.
Leaving his ancestral home, Mantas confronts his childhood trauma in an attempt to cope with his own mortality.
Directed by Sara Petty.
Jan 1987