These Amazing Shadows (2011)

Directed by

Kurt Norton, Paul Mariano

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 28m

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 71 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary explores the National Film Registry and its mission to preserve culturally significant American movies. It shows how the registry selects films that represent the diversity of the country's cinematic history.

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What happens

These Amazing Shadows is a 2011 documentary film which tells the history and importance of the National Film Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and indeed the American experience itself. The documentary was directed by Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton and was an official selection of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in the Documentary Premieres category. These Amazing Shadows is distributed under the Independent Film Channel (IFC) brand, Sundance Selects, and was broadcast on the American television PBS series, Independent Lens, on December 29, 2011. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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