Direction: Albert Maysles

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 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 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 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.

Direction Albert Maysles · David Maysles

Cast The Beatles · John Lennon · Paul McCartney · George Harrison

Plot A documentary following the Fab Four for five days in 1964. A humorous and freewheeling account of their first trip to America.

Direction Albert Maysles · David Maysles · Charlotte Zwerin

Cast Christo · Jeanne-Claude

Plot An engrossing document of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's efforts to build a 24 1/2-mile-long, 18-foot-high fence of white fabric across the hills of northern California. The artists' struggle with local ranchers,...

Direction Bob Eisenhardt · Susan Frömke · Albert Maysles

Plot Documentary showing the return to his native Russia of Mstislav Rostropovitch, includes extensive performance footage and coverage of political and personal matters for the cellist.

Direction Deborah Dickson · Susan Frömke · Albert Maysles · David Maysles

Cast Seiji Ozawa

Plot A portrait of Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A beguiling, thoughtful, self-effacing man, Seiji Ozawa speaks with great passion and precision about being caught between Eastern...

Direction Albert Maysles · Kristen Nutile

Plot Sally Gross: The Pleasure of Stillness is an intimate documentary portrait about the life and work of the critically acclaimed New York-based dancer and choreographer, Sally Gross, who has been...

Direction Albert Maysles · David Maysles · Charlotte Zwerin

Plot Christo is world-renowned artist who specializes in doing the impossible: stringing a quarter-mile orange curtain across a Colorado valley, constructing a 24-mile fence of white nylon in California and, in...

Direction Albert Maysles

Direction Albert Maysles · David Maysles

Cast Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale · Edith Bouvier Beale · Albert Maysles · David Maysles

Plot Utilizing hours of unseen archival footage, The Beales is a new take on the women of Grey Gardens.