Cinematography: Richard Leacock

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 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 Robert J. Flaherty

Cast Joseph Boudreaux · Lionel Le Blanc · Frank Hardy · E. Bienvenu

Plot A young Cajun boy named Alexander Napolean Ulysses Latour spends his time on a Louisiana bayou. There he plays, fishes and hunts, worrying only about the alligators which infest its...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard · D.A. Pennebaker

Cast Marty Balin · Amiri Baraka · Carol Bellamy · Eldridge Cleaver

Direction Norman Mailer

Cast Norman Mailer · Rip Torn

Direction Richard Leacock · Rolf Liebermann

Cast Igor Stravinsky

Plot This documentary follows composer and conductor Igor Stavinsky at his home in California, in London, and in Hamburg where he conducts an orchestra rehearsal. Includes conversations with a variety of...

Direction Shirley Clarke · Wheaton Galentine · Richard Leacock · D.A. Pennebaker

Plot Consists of a series of short films commissioned for the American Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World Fair, some credited solely to Clarke, some to famed documentarian D.A. Pennebaker with...

Direction Robert Drew

Direction Richard Leacock · Marisa Silver

Plot Faith is examined in the lives of a family. Their fundamentalist beliefs shape their encounters with the emergencies and the ordinary problems of daily life.

Direction Richard Leacock

Cast Christopher Richmond · David Richmond-Peck

Plot Twins Christopher and David gets into an untethered sailboat and inadvertently gets involved in a nearby sailboat race.

Direction Irving Lerner · Willard Van Dyke

Cast Pete Seeger · Woody Guthrie · Baldwin Hawes · Sonny Terry

Plot Presents the origin of the banjo, the development of southern folk music and its influence upon Americans. Pete Seeger plays his banjo and narrates the story.

Direction Robert Drew

Plot 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 Academy Film Archive in partnership with...

Direction Irving Jacoby

Cast Frances Sternhagen · Augusta French · Allen Nourse · M. Ralph Kaufman

Plot This film depicts the life of a family whose relationships are strained to breaking point.

Direction Richard Leacock

Cast Helga Feddersen · Richard Leacock

Plot Years after the great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner introduced Richard Leacock to Helga Feddersen, the German comic actress and theatrical impresario, he and Valerie Lalonde visited her home in Hamburg while...

Direction Robert Drew

Cast John F. Kennedy · Jacqueline Kennedy

Plot A documentary combining rare personal footage and well-known archive footage of President John F. Kennedy.

Direction Madeline Anderson

Cast Robert Graham Brown · Martin Luther King · Bayard Rustin · Andrew Young

Plot Integration Report 1, Madeline Anderson’s trailblazing debut, was the first known documentary by an African American female director. With tenacity, empathy and skill, Anderson assembles a vital record of desegregation...

Direction D.A. Pennebaker

Cast John Cunningham · Barbara Barrie · Charles Braswell · Susan Browning

Plot Stephen Sondheim's musical "Company" opened on Broadway in the Spring of 1970, and tradition dictates that the cast recording is done on the first Sunday after opening night. D.A. Pennebaker,...