Haskell Wexler

The Oscars

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category w...

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

A worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and the story of international cinema through the hist...

Battle in Seattle

Thousands of activists arrive in Seattle, Washington in masses to protest the WTO Ministerial Conference of 199...

Coming Home

In 1968 California, a Marine officer's wife falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a pa...

Hal

Hal Ashby's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar®-winning classics, including Harold and Ma...

Pablo

Pablo blends documentary and animation elements to tell the saga of "famous unknown" Pablo Ferro, a man with a...

Medium Cool

John Cassellis is the toughest TV news reporter around. After extensively reporting about violence and racial t...

Visions of Light

Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of photography),...

At Sundance

A group portrait of filmmakers attend the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring Matthew Harrison, Richard Link...

The Making of 'American Graffiti'

Documentary that features many interviews and other footage of the cast and crew for the film American Graffiti...

The Big Empty

A young woman consults multiple doctors for a persistent internal pain, eventually leading to the discovery of...

Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking

A look at the extraordinary achievements and contemporary legacy of Oscar Micheaux, a pioneer of the African-Am...

No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos

The artistry, triumph and lifelong friendship of the great cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond....

Who Needs Sleep?

A documentary that highlights the deadly combination of sleep deprivation and long days of work, focusing on th...

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

Rosy-Fingered Dawn is a film on Terrence Malick. It is about the making of BADLANDS, DAYS OF HEAVEN, THE THIN R...

Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond

A very special encounter between legendary American cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and young French director P...

The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo

Cinematographer John A. Alonzo was one of the driving creative forces in the resurgence of expressionistic Amer...

Tell Them Who You Are

The son of acclaimed cinematographer Haskell Wexler confronts his complex father by turning the camera on him....

George Lucas: Creating an Empire

A Biography of George Lucas.

Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River

A documentary feature that reveals the creative process of Chicago moviemakers. Using the city's famous river a...

Notfilm

NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, it...

Turning Up the Heat: Movie Making in the 60's

Documentary featuring interviews with director Norman Jewison and others providing an in-depth look at the prod...

Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool

Friends, family, co-stars and admirers of actor Steve McQueen talk about his life and his movie career.

Uncle Meat

This is a documentary about an unfinished movie. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention try to film the sci-f...

Them That Work

Documentary about the impact left by John Sayles’ 1987 film Matewan, about a shooting between company gun thugs...

A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall

Rebel Citizen

What began as a video master class evolved into a film about the political documentaries of Oscar-winning cinem...

Neil Young - Haskell Wexler - Teatro Session

In the video John Hanlon, producer/recording engineer says: "Neil just captures the moment, he gives it his all...

Underground

A documentary about the Weathermen, founded as a militant faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS...

The Moving Picture Co. 1914

In the early 1900s, Ellen, an aspiring actress, tries to find her lucky break in a studio where everything goes...

Women Behind the Camera

Reveals the courageous lives of pioneer camerawomen from Hollywood to Bollywood, from war zones to children’s l...

Something's Gonna Live

The Los Angeles Times Critics' Pick Something’s Gonna Live is an intimate portrait of life, death, friendship a...

Wondering About Things

Laymen as well as celebrities in the sciences and creative arts give their views and values regarding their cre...

Medium Cool Revisited

Haskell Wexler revisits the themes of his previous work "Medium Cool" on the occasion of the Occupy demonstrati...

Look Out Haskell, It’s Real!: The Making of Medium Cool

“Look out Haskell, it’s real!” details the production of Haskell Wexler‘s 1969 feature Medium Cool. It features...