Cinematography: Albert Maysles

Direction Chris Hegedus · D.A. Pennebaker

Cast Jimi Hendrix

Plot Produced from out-takes of Pennebaker’s Monterey Pop, Jimi Plays Monterey is not so much a trip down memory lane as a rocketship ride to the ‘60’s. June 1967. The Summer...

Direction Leon Gast

Cast Muhammad Ali · George Foreman · Don King · James Brown

Plot In 1974, boxers Muhammad Ali and George Foreman came to the still-emerging and politically unstable African nation of Zaire for what Ali called the "Rumble in the Jungle," a highly...

Direction Ellen Hovde · Albert Maysles · David Maysles · Muffie Meyer

Plot Grey Gardens is a 1975 documentary film by the direction/cinematography/editing team of Albert and David Maysles, Susan Froemke, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer. The film depicts the everyday lives of...

Direction Albert Maysles · David Maysles · Charlotte Zwerin

Plot Four relentless door-to-door salesmen deal with constant rejection, homesickness and inevitable burnout as they go across the country selling very expensive bibles to low-income Catholic families.

Direction Oliver Stone

Cast Hugo Chávez · Oliver Stone · Raul Castro · Evo Morales

Plot A documentary focused on Venezuela's President, Hugo Chavez.

Direction Robert Drew

Cast Robert Drew · Hubert H. Humphrey · John F. Kennedy · Jacqueline Kennedy

Plot Cinema verite feature that follows presidential hopefuls John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey during the 1960 Wisconsin primary.

Direction Éric Rohmer · Claude Chabrol · Jean-Luc Godard · Jean Douchet

Cast Jean-Pierre Andréani · Stéphane Audran · Nadine Ballot · Claude Chabrol

Plot This collection features six major French New Wave directors working at the top of their collective game to create a beautiful record of Paris in the ’60s. Each filmmaker took...

Direction Bradley Kaplan · Albert Maysles

Cast Muhammad Ali · Larry Holmes

Plot A look at the October 1980 Muhammad Ali-Larry Holmes fight and its impact on both fighters, featuring fresh interviews with participants and previously unseen lead-up footage from both fighters' camps.

Direction Albert Maysles

Cast Iris Apfel

Plot IRIS pairs the 87-year-old Maysles with Iris Apfel, the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven who has had an outsized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades. More...

Direction Albert Maysles · David Maysles · Charlotte Zwerin

Cast Marlon Brando · Rex Morgan · Mary Frann · Lee Murray

Plot Meet Marlon Brando is a delightful, unusually candid portrait of the world-famous movie star: A tongue-in-cheek confrontation with the press. While television journalists interview him about his most recent film,...

Direction Göran Olsson

Cast Paul Morrissey · Peter Beard · William Vanden Heuvel

Plot A prequel to “Grey Gardens” chronicling the summer when the two Edies’ cousin Lee Radziwill arrived with the Maysles brothers.

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Joanna Shimkus · Philippe Hiquilly · Serge Davri

Plot A Canadian woman with two working class boyfriends writes letters to them, breaking off with one of them while professing her love for the other, but fears that she mixed...

Direction Henry Corra · Albert Maysles · Grahame Weinbren

Cast Christo · Jeanne-Claude

Plot A documentary about artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s 1991 grand-scale environmental art project in Japan and California.

Direction Bob Eisenhardt · Susan Frömke · Albert Maysles

Direction Albert Maysles · David Maysles · Charlotte Zwerin

Cast Truman Capote

Plot At his Long Island beach house, and on the occasion of the publication of his masterful nonfiction novel In Cold Blood, reporter Karen Dennison interviews celebrated writer Truman Capote, who...

Direction Antonio Ferrera · Albert Maysles · David Maysles · Matthew Prinzing

Cast Michael Bloomberg · Christo · Rudy Giuliani · Jeanne-Claude

Plot A documentary on New York City's biggest public art project ever, an installation called "The Gates," by Christo and Jeanne Claude.

Direction Deborah Dickson · Susan Frömke · Albert Maysles

Plot For as long as she can remember, LaLee Wallace's family has picked cotton. It's the main reason why they continue to live in poverty, but as this great-grandmother and her...

Direction Robert Drew

Direction Albert Maysles · Lynn True · Nelson Walker III · David Usui

Plot A documentary about travel on the Empire Builder train.

Direction Albert Maysles · David Maysles

Cast Orson Welles

Plot Orson Welles pitches a film about the world of matadors, bullfights, and their spectators to potential investors.