Richard Leacock Movies

During a two-day period before and after the University of Alabama integration crisis, the film uses five camera crews to follow President John F....

Cajun boy Alexander Napoleon Ulysses LaTour lives with his family and his beloved pet raccoon in the Louisiana bayou. When his father allows an oil...

A short film about Pete Seeger and the birth of banjo music throughout the Southern United States.

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...

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty, and seemingly the sole member of the family...

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

Bringing to life an American President who was widely respected by his countrymen and celebrated around the world. Composed from four break through...

An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution in the art of cinema. The documentary portrays the...

55-Minute BBC Arena documentary on the film actress Louise Brooks

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...

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

Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic five-day shoot in East Hampton, Norman Mailer and his cast and crew spontaneously unloaded onto film the...

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...

In the year 2000, Les Blank, along with co-filmmaker Gina Leibrecht, visited Richard Leacock (1921-2011) at his farm in Normandy, France and recorded...

Robert Flaherty is credited with being the father of the modern documentary after making "Nanook of the North" and classics such as "Man of Aran" and...

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

Jean-Luc Godard visits NYU in order to discuss his latest feature "La chinoise" with graduate students on filmmaking and politics.

A portrait of the two documentary filmmakers Jerzy Bossak and Richard Leacock.

A documentary on the KKK

Filmed amidst the Arensberg collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where 35 works by Marcel Duchamp are gathered, this 1956 NBC interview...