1953
Pennebaker’s first movie; a 1954 New York subway ride scored with Duke Ellington’s eponymous song.
1954
Pennebaker’s first cinéma vérité film with daughter Stacy at the Central Park merry-go-round.
1959
A 1959 color film of the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, site of the famous Nixon-Khrushchev “kitchen debates”, and a rare look at daily life in Moscow.
1960
Artist Jean Tinguely deconstructs his famous kinetic sculpture in the garden of The Museum of Modern Art.
1960
Ricky Leacock and Joyce Chopra’s 1965 cinéma vérité portrait of a teenage girl’s first jazz dance audition in a Greenwich Village studio.
1963
How the birth of the Fischer quints affected their hometown, Aberdeen, South Dakota, and above all, Mrs. Fischer.
1964
Counter culture guru, Timothy Leary, marries a beautiful Baroness-model (Uma Thurman’s mother).
1964
Dave Lambert, of Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross, with his newly formed quintet auditioning for RCA in 1964.
1964
Follows young Republican campaign manager, John Grenier as he plots the 1964 presidential primaries for candidate Barry Goldwater.
1964
The Robert F. Kennedy, his family, and Sammy Davis Jr. celebrate Christmas 1964 with New York City school children.
1965
The composer discusses creativity and his work. A film by Richard Leacock.
1967
Cinema verite portrait of Bob Dylan on tour in England in 1965 with Joan Baez, Alan Price, and Bob Neuwirth.
1968
Police chiefs at their 1968 convention in Waikiki, discuss Black Panthers, the Chicago Democratic Convention, and the latest weaponry.
1968
George Plimpton attends the 1968 annual spring pet show, emceed by Art Buchwald, at the Robert F. Kennedy estate in Virginia.
1968
Summer of Love, the first Pop Music Festival featuring Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who, Otis Redding, the Mamas and Papas and others.
1969
John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band at the 1969 Toronto Rock n Roll Revival Festival.
1970
The 1970 debutante-queen of Apollo, an exclusive New Orleans Mardi Gras ball, on her big night.
1970
“Company” documents the grueling 1969 recording session for the Stephen Sondheim musical. Features Elaine Stritch’s show-stopping “Ladies Who Lunch.”
1970
Alice Cooper and band’s first performance, organized by Frank Zappa, at the 1969 Toronto Rock and Roll Revival.
1971
Norman Mailer and Germaine Greer’s legendary 1971 Women’s Lib debate at Town Hall theater in NYC.
1971
1 PM, or One Parallel Movie, was shot by Leacock and Pennebaker in 1969 during Jean-Luc Godard’s never completed One American Movie (1 AM).
1972
John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival in 1969.
1973
London 1973, Bowie’s last performance as Ziggy Stardust.
1978
A three-part PBS special, this political soap opera follows combatants on all sides during the fierce legislative battle over President Carter’s energy policy.
1980
Renowned composer Elliott Carter rehearses and conducts his acclaimed masterpiece “The Double Concerto” performed by Ursula Oppens.
1981
DeLorean and team move from boardroom to assembly line creating his stainless steel gull-wing-door sports car in Northern Ireland.
1983
A historic 1971 performance of Samuel Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape” directed by Alan Schneider and starring Jack MacGowran.
1983
Brooklyn Academy of Music’s three-day festival celebrating the roots of Black Dance.
1985
Hendrix’s complete 1969 Monterey Pop Festival performance introduced by archival footage of his debut in the U.K. with his new band The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
1986
Otis Redding’s complete, electrifying performance at the historic Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.
1987
A musical portrait of singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega at home, rehearsing in New York, and on tour in England.
1989
On the road with the pioneer synth/pop band in 1988 followed by a bus load of fans as they perform across America en route to their final 101 concert at the Rose Bowl in California.
1990
A 1969 musical portrait of Jerry Lee Lewis, the most electrifying and talented artist in Rock and Roll history.
1991
The entire original performance of Little Richard at Toronto’s Rock and Roll Revival in 1969.
1991
Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding company recording “Cheap Thrills” and performing at Martin Luther King’s memorial and the Monterey Pop Festival.
1992
Brandford Marsalis on tour with Jeff Tain Watts and Bob Hurst, in the recording studio, teaching, and jamming with Sting and the Grateful Dead.
1993
James Carville and George Stephanopoulos and the War Room team during the 1992 presidential election campaign.
1996
A feature-length documentary following Marius Muller-Westernhagen as he tours for his 1994 platinum album, “Affentheater.
1997
A musical portrait of Victoria Williams singing her 1987 debut album “Happy Come Home” in Los Angeles and her hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana.
1998
Portrait of beloved choreography teacher Bessie Schonberg teaching at Juilliard, Dance Theater Workshop and Jacob’s Pillow.
1998
A backstage view of TV legend Carol Burnett’s return to Broadway in the 1995 farce “Moon Over Buffalo” written by Ken Ludwig.
2001
Startup.com follows the adventures of schoolmates Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman, creators of govWorks.com, during the boom and crash of the first dot com mania.
2001
Emmylou Harris, Ralph Stanley, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch and others from the Coen Brother’s film “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” perform in Nashville in 2000.
2002
A Celebration of Soul Music with Sam Moore, Rufus Thomas, Wilson Pickett, Isaac Hayes, and more.
2004
Broadway legend Elaine Stritch, on stage and off, remembers her life in the theater in her Tony winning show.
2006
Franken transforms from political satirist to political pundit on Air America Radio.
2008
James Carville, George Stephanopoulos, Mary Matalin, and others from the Perot and McCain campaigns reflect on the 1992 Presidential election and how campaigns have changed.
2009
16 chefs. 3 days. 1 chance. It’s not a dream; it’s an obsession. The 2007 Meilleurs Ouvriers de France.
2016
Unlocking the Cage follows animal rights lawyer Steven Wise in his unprecedented challenge to break down the legal wall that separates animals from humans.