Movies

A short film about Pete Seeger and the birth of banjo music throughout the Southern United States.

This documentary follows composer and conductor Igor Stavinsky at his home in California, in London, and in Hamburg where he conducts an orchestra...

In 1998, documentary filmmaker Robert Drew and his associates attend the Museum of Tolerance.

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty, and seemingly the sole member of the family...

Lighter and livelier than the films Jean-Luc Godard had made in France, his U.S. collaboration with Direct Cinema documentarian D. A. Pennebaker was...

Film produced and directed by Ricky Leacock, Edward Pincus, and MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies documenting the Centerbeam kinetic sculpture...

An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution in the art of cinema. The documentary portrays the...

Documentary focusing on 25 year-old actress Jane Fonda as she and her director Andreas Voutsinas prepare a stage play called The Fun Couple for...

Short documentary on the life and work of photographer and filmmaker Morris Engel

A cinéma vérité documentary observing the Fischer family of Aberdeen, South Dakota, following the 1963 birth of the first...

Jean-Luc Godard visits NYU in order to discuss his latest feature "La chinoise" with graduate students on filmmaking and politics.

In the year 2000, Les Blank, along with co-filmmaker Gina Leibrecht, visited Richard Leacock (1921-2011) at his farm in Normandy, France and recorded...

Documentary look behind the scenes of La Caravelle, an acclaimed French restaurant in New York City.

Colleagues, friends and specialists pay tribute to the filmmaker Mario Ruspoli in a portrait that mixes encounters, archive images and film excerpts....

Follows a crusading lawyer as he embarks on a campaign to save an African-American man, Paul Crump, from the electric chair. Preserved by the...

Jazz vocalist Dave Lambert auditions a new group of singers at RCA Studios in 1964.

For some time I had been thinking about doing something with my Paris footage, of which I have many many hours. So [curator Danièle...

Robert Flaherty is credited with being the father of the modern documentary after making "Nanook of the North" and classics such as "Man of Aran" and...

The doc brings us back to a 1961 football game played in front of 40,000 people at the Orange Bowl. A high school football game, pitting Miami High...

55-Minute BBC Arena documentary on the film actress Louise Brooks