Haskell Wexler Movies

The struggle for civil rights has been one of the most important issues of American life for the last fifty years. In August of 1963, groups from all...

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

Pregnant legendary controversial comedian Sandra Bernhard performs her Off-Broadway show that combines stand up, storytelling and musical...

Bringing King to China is a father's "love letter" to his adult daughter, a young American woman struggling to bring Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream...

This documentary chronicles half a century of hostile U.S.-Cuba relations. The film highlights decades of assassinations and sabotage at first backed...

The maiden voyage of Columbia, the first space shuttle, is recounted with footage shot on the ground and in space.

This film documents the journey of actress Jane Fonda and her husband – future California state senator Tom Hayden – through North and...

Traveling through villages along the Nicaraguan-Honduran border, the filmmakers document the impact of the covert war against Nicaragua's Sandinista...

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

A rookie NPR reporter on his first assignment, covering the armed occupation of Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1973, is treated as the enemy and...

A 1998 editorial in Time magazine made the claim that the city of Los Angeles "might just have the most inept public-transport system on the planet...

In the video John Hanlon, producer/recording engineer says: "Neil just captures the moment, he gives it his all, he goes for the throat. If he is not...

T Is for Tumbleweed is a 1958 English-language short film directed by Louis Clyde Stoumen, starring Anne Lockhart. It features some tumbleweed that...

A unique story of a small urban community of Native Hawaiians and the women who championed for their rights to their land against all odds.

Biography based on Rachel Carson's book, "The Silent Spring."

This short explores the early planning innovations and the subsequent mistakes that resulted in developing urban sprawl, suburbia, and gentrification...

Documentary portrait of former CIA official John Stockwell, who resigned after becoming disillusioned with the organization's activities.

The first officer in the United States Army to refuse deployment to Iraq on moral grounds, and attempts to clarify the issues that prompted Lt....

Set design has been one of the most overlooked jobs in film, receiving little critical attention until recently. In this Oscar-nominated documentary...

Paul Newman joins ordinary people in the US and the USSR in taking on the military-industrial complex and campaigning for nuclear-war prevention.