Screenplay: Ross McElwee
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Ross McElwee. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Time Indefinite
1993 · Documentary · 114 min. · United States
Direction Ross McElwee
Plot Forty year old documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee has a penchant for filming everything around him. Following the announcement of his impending marriage to his film-making partner Marilyn Levine - marriage...
7.5
58 votes
7.5
58 votes
Sherman's March
1986 · Documentary · 157 min. · United States
Direction Ross McElwee
Plot Ross McElwee sets out to make a documentary about the lingering effects of General Sherman's march of destruction through the South during the Civil War, but is continually sidetracked by...
7.3
161 votes
7.3
161 votes
Six O'Clock News
1996 · Documentary · 103 min. · United States
Direction Ross McElwee
Cast Ross McElwee · Charleen Swansea · Salvador Pena · Yung Su An
Plot Catastrophe, disaster, tragedy: if it bleeds, it leads. In an attempt to go beyond the stock figures of the evening news—victims of earthquake, disease, and murder—McElwee travels from town to...
7.1
28 votes
7.1
28 votes
Bright Leaves
2003 · Documentary · 107 min. · United States
Direction Ross McElwee
Plot North Carolina produces more tobacco than any other state in America. Bright Leaves describes a journey taken across the social, economic, and psychological tobacco terrain of North Carolina by a...
6.9
68 votes
6.9
68 votes
Photographic Memory
2011 · Documentary · 87 min. · United States
Direction Ross McElwee
Plot Photographic Memory is a 2011 documentary film by independent filmmaker Ross McElwee about a voyage back to the roots of his involvement with the camera. Photographic Memory premiered at the...
6.6
102 votes
6.6
102 votes
Backyard
1984 · Documentary · 40 min. · United States
Direction Ross McElwee
Cast Ross McElwee · Ann McElwee · Melvin Stafford · Lucille Stafford
Plot McElwee depicts a microcosm of southern society: his brother, an aspiring medical student; his father, a surgeon; and the African Americans with whom they come into contact; the family cook,...
6.6
26 votes
6.6
26 votes
Charleen or How Long Has This Been Going On?
1977 · Documentary · 60 min. · United States
Direction Ross McElwee
Cast Charleen Swansea · John W. Love Jr.
Plot The "wise and flamboyant" Charleen Swansea, McElwee's friend and former high school teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina, is a born raconteur who can charm equally a classroom full of wary...
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Something to Do with the Wall
1991 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States
Direction Marilyn Levine · Ross McElwee
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Space Coast
1979 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States
Direction Michel Negroponte · Ross McElwee
Cast 'Papa' John Murphy · Mary Bubb · Willie Womack · Martin Caidin
Plot Michel Negroponte and McElwee follow three residents of Cape Canaveral, Florida, several years after the phasing out of Apollo moon missions.
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