Richard Leacock Movies

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...

Vérité documentarian Richard Leacock’s LULU IN BERLIN features one of the few long interviews ever done with actor Louise Brooks....

Few films wield the awesome spiritual power of Jazz Dance, on which Leacock was one of two cameramen charting the slow, smoldering build of a...

This documentary follows composer and conductor Igor Stavinsky at his home in California, in London, and in Hamburg where he conducts an orchestra...

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

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

In January 1989 the first Message to Man International Film Festival took place in Leningrad. This film, made during the festival, is a record of its...

This brief portrait follows 28-year-old campaign manager John Grenier as he maps out strategies for Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential run and...

Integration Report 1, Madeline Anderson's trailblazing debut, was the first known documentary by an African American female director. With tenacity,...

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

The first candid film made on a foreign chief of state, three weeks in the life of Jawaharlal Nehru.

A harrowing portrait of the struggle for school desegregation in New Orleans against the violent protests of white parents.

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

A pioneer in the world of rock-'n'-roll guitar, Chuck Berry has created a legacy that spans decades. Berry performs some of his greatest hits and...

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...

The doc brings us back to a 1961 football game played in front of 40,000 people at the Orange Bowl. A high school football game, pitting Miami High...

A documentary on the KKK

Documentary by Jan Sebening and Daniel Sponsel.

In 1970 I went to New Orleans with Noel Parmentel to shoot fragments of the “The Moviegoer.” While we were down there my daughter Elspeth...

In 1963 the first known surviving set of American quintuplets were born to Mary Ann and Andrew Fischer, this film looks at some of the changes their...