California Movies

Feel the rush of the breathtakingly beautiful National Parks of California with one deep breath of the summer air.

Alexandra Jackonetti recounts the building of a children's playground of macrame in Bolinas, Calif., including her conception of the project and the...

The real story of "4:20 Somethings" living in California's semi-legalized marijuana culture.

In this surreal romance, two young lovers lose their sense of identity through the powerful, and manipulated, emotions of love.

One man, one camera, one goal...to capture the essence of adventure. An experimental, often abstract new type of filmmaking process creating color...

1967: Two of the world's best climbers, Yvon Chouinard and Royal Robbins, tackle the west face of Sentinel Rock, an iconic 2,100-meter granite peak...

In 2008 French filmmaker Julie Gali traveled to the US to film the election of Barack Obama. In spite of this victory for civil rights, it soon...

A core group of architects embraced the West Coast from Vancouver to LA with its particular geography and values and left behind a legacy of inspired...

In the weeks leading to Allie moving across the country, her best friend Jacob reckons with life without her in this intimate story of leaving and...

Questions of race, identity and heritage are explored through the lives of young American women growing up as adoptees from China. These four...

Based on the Helen Hunt Jackson novel of 1884 about a young woman of partial Native American descent, who experiences love and loss in 1800s...

Low-level narcotics offenders too often cycle in and out of jail, re-offending soon after they hit the streets. District Attorney Kamala D. Harris...

Over three consecutive nights, R&B and hip-hop's most celebrated stars appear in a concert staged on the infamous prison island of Alcatraz,...

Two thieves discover a professional and personal relationship when individual heist plans are thrown together by circumstance.

Named after the Shoshonean word for "Earth", this is the third and final part of Benning's "California Trilogy" and his approach to the Californian...

In Newport Bay, a small California coastal town, Summerween transforms summer into Halloween with parties, music, fairs, and horror movies. But when...

Through concerts and interviews, folk-progressive group Harmonium takes Quebec culture to California. This documentary full of colour and sound,...

A portal, a sorceress, a fictional device to portray existence as a moment encapsulated inside an instantaneous photograph to present fragmented...

Narrated by Queen Latifah, this documentary follows Elsie, a black Labrador mix, and her struggled to raise her puppies on the streets of Los Angeles.

An aspiring photojournalist takes a trip to Julian, CA to learn about the history of two wolf species and what caused their population decline...