Movies: Haskell Wexler

  • 2007
    Women Behind the Camera

    Women Behind the Camera (2007)

    Women Behind the Camera

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    Reveals the courageous lives of pioneer camerawomen from Hollywood to Bollywood, from war zones to children’s laughter, in a way that has never been seen before. Based on a book by Alexis Krasilovsky, the film tells the stories of camerawomen survivi...

    Women Behind the Camera
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1961
    The Fisherman and His Soul

    The Fisherman and His Soul (1961)

    The Fisherman and His Soul

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    Set in Brazil, this drama is based on a short story by Oscar Wilde about a fisherman who meets and falls in love with a mermaid, giving up his soul in the process....

    The Fisherman and His Soul
  • 1976
    Underground

    Underground (1976)

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    Underground is a 1976 documentary film about the Weathermen, founded as a militant faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), who fought to overthrow the U.S. government during the 1960s and 1970s. The film consists of interviews with me...

    Underground
  • 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
  • 1998
    I'm Still Here... Damn It!

    I'm Still Here... Damn It! (1998)

    I'm Still Here... Damn It!

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    Pregnant legendary controversial comedian Sandra Bernhard performs her Off-Broadway show that combines stand up, storytelling and musical performance. She also talks about the female musicians who paved the way for female artists today....

    I'm Still Here... Damn It!
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1963
    Grand Central Market

    Grand Central Market (1963)

    Grand Central Market

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    This film portrays activity in Grand Central Market in Los Angeles, California. Highlighted are vendors that represent the melting pot that is America, selling their wares to people of all ages and all walks of life. The film was directed by William ...

    Grand Central Market
  • 2019
    From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A Reporter's Journey

    From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A Reporter's Journey (2019)

    From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A Reporter's Journey

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    A rookie NPR reporter on his first assignment, covering the armed occupation of Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1973, is treated as the enemy and ultimately arrested by the FBI for defying a government news blackout to embed with militant Indians....

    From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A Reporter's Journey
  • 1978
    The CIA Case Officer: John

    The CIA Case Officer: John "Bob" Stockwell (1978)

    The CIA Case Officer: John "Bob" Stockwell

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    Documentary portrait of former CIA official John Stockwell, who resigned after becoming disillusioned with the organization's activities....

    The CIA Case Officer: John
  • 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
  • 1971
    Brazil: A Report on Torture

    Brazil: A Report on Torture (1971)

    Brazil: A Report on Torture

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    The filmmakers spoke to ex-political prisoners who had been tortured by the military government who were at that point supported by the US government....

    Brazil: A Report on Torture