Movies: Haskell Wexler

  • 1995
    The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas

    The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas (1995)

    The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas

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    "Just before dawn on New Year's Day 1994, armed Mayan Indians declared war on the government. They immediately seized eight towns in Chiapas and set in motion events that ripped away a facade of prosperity and stability to reveal 'the other Mexico'. ...

    The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas
  • 2011
    Bringing King to China

    Bringing King to China (2011)

    Bringing King to China

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    Bringing King to China is a father's "love letter" to his adult daughter, a young American woman struggling to bring Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream of nonviolence to China, and then back to the United States....

    Bringing King to China
  • 2008
    A Sense of Wonder

    A Sense of Wonder (2008)

    A Sense of Wonder

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    Biography based on Rachel Carson's book, "The Silent Spring."...

    A Sense of Wonder
  • 1987
    Uncle Meat

    Uncle Meat (1987)

    Uncle Meat

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    This is a documentary about an unfinished movie. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention try to film the sci-fi epic "Uncle Meat."...

    Uncle Meat
  • 2000
    Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But the Mountains

    Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But the Mountains (2000)

    Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But the Mountains

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    Journalist Kevin McKiernan's powerful film takes a close look at the Kurds, compelling and controversial subjects whose identities seem to shift depending on the loyalties of those viewing them. To some, they are heroes fighting to rebuild war-torn I...

    Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But the Mountains
  • 2000
    Bus Rider's Union

    Bus Rider's Union (2000)

    Bus Rider's Union

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    A 1998 editorial in Time magazine made the claim that the city of Los Angeles "might just have the most inept public-transport system on the planet earth. . . . The neglected bus system, which still handles 91% of all transit riders,is now roughly as...

    Bus Rider's Union
  • 2007
    From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks

    From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks (2007)

    From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks

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    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 one-thousand longshore workers. Bridges was an immigrant working stiff who loved Karl Marx and Jack Lo...

    From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks
  • 1974
    Introduction to the Enemy

    Introduction to the Enemy (1974)

    Introduction to the Enemy

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    This film documents the journey of actress Jane Fonda and her husband – future California state senator Tom Hayden – through North and South Viet Nam in 1974. They travel from villages to towns talking with ordinary Vietnamese about their lives and t...

    Introduction to the Enemy
  • 2013
    Medium Cool Revisited

    Medium Cool Revisited (2013)

    Medium Cool Revisited

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    Haskell Wexler revisits the themes of his previous work "Medium Cool" on the occasion of the Occupy demonstrations in Chicago in 2012....

    Medium Cool Revisited
  • 1976
    Land of My Birth

    Land of My Birth (1976)

    Land of My Birth

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    Documentary about the Jamaican presidential campaign of Michael Manley...

    Land of My Birth
  • 1971
    Wondering About Things

    Wondering About Things (1971)

    Wondering About Things

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    Laymen as well as celebrities in the sciences and creative arts give their views and values regarding their creative efforts and technological society. Their answers add up to the view that science is an indispensable part of mankind's hope for the f...

    Wondering About Things
  • 2015
    Neil Young - Haskell Wexler - Teatro Session

    Neil Young - Haskell Wexler - Teatro Session (2015)

    Neil Young - Haskell Wexler - Teatro Session

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    In the video John Hanlon, producer/recording engineer says: "Neil just captures the moment, he gives it his all, he goes for the throat. If he is not feeling it, he ain't gonna pick up the guitar. If he's feeling music, then he is recording, he's pla...

    Neil Young - Haskell Wexler - Teatro Session
  • 1972
    The Trial of the Catonsville Nine

    The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1972)

    The Trial of the Catonsville Nine

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    On May 17, 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, nine men and women entered a Selective Service office outside Baltimore. They removed military draft records, took them outside, and set them afire with napalm....

    The Trial of the Catonsville Nine
  • 2010
    Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up

    Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up (2010)

    Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up

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    This documentary chronicles half a century of hostile U.S.-Cuba relations. The film highlights decades of assassinations and sabotage at first backed by Washington, then ignored by the very government that launched a "war against terrorism."...

    Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up
  • 1958
    T Is for Tumbleweed

    T Is for Tumbleweed (1958)

    T Is for Tumbleweed

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    T Is for Tumbleweed is a 1958 English-language short film directed by Louis Clyde Stoumen, starring Anne Lockhart. It features some tumbleweed that moves through a small town in the desert and interacts with people and animals. Preserved by the Acad...

    T Is for Tumbleweed
  • 2008
    Turning Up the Heat: Movie Making in the 60's

    Turning Up the Heat: Movie Making in the 60's (2008)

    Turning Up the Heat: Movie Making in the 60's

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    Documentary featuring interviews with director Norman Jewison and others providing an in-depth look at the production of the 1967 film IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT....

    Turning Up the Heat: Movie Making in the 60's
  • 2015
    Rebel Citizen

    Rebel Citizen (2015)

    Rebel Citizen

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    What began as a video master class evolved into a film about the political documentaries of Oscar-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler. Comprised of footage from his films as well as interviews, the film is an intimate portrait of the genius behind...

    Rebel Citizen
  • 1983
    Target Nicaragua: Inside a Covert War

    Target Nicaragua: Inside a Covert War (1983)

    Target Nicaragua: Inside a Covert War

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    Traveling through villages along the Nicaraguan-Honduran border, the filmmakers document the impact of the covert war against Nicaragua's Sandinista government, featuring interviews with mercenaries, soldiers, spies and civilian victims....

    Target Nicaragua: Inside a Covert War
  • 1971
    Conversation with Allende

    Conversation with Allende (1971)

    Conversation with Allende

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    This interview was conducted shortly after the late President Dr. Salvador Allende won the Chilean elections of 1970. Dr. Salvador Allende was the first democratically elected socialist president in Latin America. Three years later, Allende was kille...

    Conversation with Allende
  • 1992
    Papakolea: A Story of Hawaiian Land

    Papakolea: A Story of Hawaiian Land (1992)

    Papakolea: A Story of Hawaiian Land

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    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....

    Papakolea: A Story of Hawaiian Land