Haskell Wexler Filmes

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other...

A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.

A documentary feature that reveals the creative process of Chicago moviemakers. Using the city's famous river as a location, directors are placed in...

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

The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war with Canada.

The adventures of a young boy who runs away from an orphanage on a search to find his father.

Documentary about the Jamaican presidential campaign of Michael Manley

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

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.

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny...

Cinematographer John A. Alonzo was one of the driving creative forces in the resurgence of expressionistic American movies of the late 1960s and...

Marvel at the all-star musical cast of Jackson Browne, Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Sarah Lee Guthrie, many other musicians as well as an audience of...

Documentary that features many interviews and other footage of the cast and crew for the film American Graffiti (1973)

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....

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work...

What began as a video master class evolved into a film about the political documentaries of Oscar-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler. Comprised...

The Big Empty is a 2005 short film starring Selma Blair about a woman with an unusual condition that baffles scientists and laymen alike. It was...

A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is...

Laymen as well as celebrities in the sciences and creative arts give their views and values regarding their creative efforts and technological...

Young businessman Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job....