D. A. Pennebaker Movies

Friends since high school, 20-somethings Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman have an idea: a Web site for people to conduct business with municipal...

A documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.

Informational film explaining the work of the New York Stock Exchange.

Keep On Rockin', aka Little Richard: Keep On Rockin' (USA video title) is a film of a 1969 Little Richard concert at the Sweet Toronto Peace...

Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to...

Haunted by uncanny similarities between Nazi stage techniques and the showmanship employed by modern entertainers, a filmmaker investigates the...

Jazz vocalist Dave Lambert auditions a new group of singers at RCA Studios in 1964.

Takes place over the course of one feverish night in a Manhattan police precinct and neighboring bar.

The title Dal polo all'equatore was first used by the pioneering documentary maker, Luca Comerio, for a compilation film of 1925; it was used again...

Story of the last flight of TWA pilot Harold Blackburn and his retirement at age 60 after 40 years.

This special presentation offers all the remaining footage from Jimi Hendrix's incendiary appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. Hendrix...

In 1998, documentary filmmaker Robert Drew and his associates attend the Museum of Tolerance.

A cutman at the end of his career struggles to reclaim his true lifelong job.

Colleagues, friends and specialists pay tribute to the filmmaker Mario Ruspoli in a portrait that mixes encounters, archive images and film excerpts....

Lighter and livelier than the films Jean-Luc Godard had made in France, his U.S. collaboration with Direct Cinema documentarian D. A. Pennebaker was...

Short documentary on the life and work of photographer and filmmaker Morris Engel

Documentary focusing on 25 year-old actress Jane Fonda as she and her director Andreas Voutsinas prepare a stage play called The Fun Couple for...

A direct-cinema portrait of Indianapolis 500 driver Eddie Sachs, filmed before, during, and after the 1960 race as he competes from pole position....

Interviews and footage document the life and work of dancer Bessie Schonberg.