Richard Leacock Movies

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

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

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

A 1960 cinéma vérité documentary on anti-American sentiment in Latin America, combining observational footage from Caracas and...

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

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...

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

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

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....

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

A film by the Drew-Leacock team.

A short documentary in which twins Christopher and David describe how an unplanned sailing trip led them into the midst of a boat race. Told largely...

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty, and seemingly the sole member of the family...

Follows a crusading lawyer as he embarks on a campaign to save an African-American man, Paul Crump, from the electric chair. Preserved by the...

A portrait of the two documentary filmmakers Jerzy Bossak and Richard Leacock.

A documentary on the KKK

Filmed amidst the Arensberg collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where 35 works by Marcel Duchamp are gathered, this 1956 NBC interview...

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...

This documentary examines one family's desperate search for faith and religious meaning in Muncie, Indiana.