Richard Leacock Movies

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

A cinéma vérité documentary observing the Fischer family of Aberdeen, South Dakota, following the 1963 birth of the first...

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...

Colleagues, friends and specialists pay tribute to the filmmaker Mario Ruspoli in a portrait that mixes encounters, archive images and film excerpts....

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

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

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

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

A documentary on the KKK

For some time I had been thinking about doing something with my Paris footage, of which I have many many hours. So [curator Danièle...

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...

Film produced and directed by Ricky Leacock, Edward Pincus, and MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies documenting the Centerbeam kinetic sculpture...

A film by the Drew-Leacock team.

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

A film focusing on a day in the life of two identical twin girls, one of whom is blind and mentally handicapped

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