The late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, his family, and Sammy Davis Jr. celebrate Christmas 1964 with New York City school children. MORE >
One Parallel Movie, shot during the making Jean Luc Godard's never completed One American Movie (1AM). MORE >
When Al Franken receives a message from God that he should take on the political right, he hangs up his Stuart Smalley wig and picks up his flaming sword of justice to go after the Bush administration and the media wonks who do its bidding. MORE >
he first performance of Alice Cooper and band, organized by his friend Frank Zappa, at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival in 1969. MORE >
Cinema verite portrait of a teenage girl's first jazz dance audition in a Greenwich Village studio. With Larry Rivers, Al Leslie, and Louise Lassier. MORE >
Pennebaker's very first cinema verite film with daughter Stacy at the Central Park merry-go-round. MORE >
Bessie tells us her own incredible story intercut with her teaching at Julliard, Dance Theater Workshop, and Jacob's Pillow. MORE >
Produced for Sony Music, this film captures Branford Marsalis on the road in a wide variety of settings. MORE >
In the Spring of 1960, my friend Jean Tinguely set up a huge "self-constructing/self-destructing machine" in the back yard of The Museum of Modern Art, also known as the Sculpture Court. MORE >
On the trail with Republican campaign manager John Grenier. MORE >
Police chiefs and their wives, in Waikiki at their 1968 convention, discuss the Black Panthers, the Chicago Democratic Convention and the latest weaponry. MORE >
A snapshot of Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company performing at the Generation Club at a memorial for Martin Luther King, recording their first major album, "Cheap Thrills" and at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival performing their legendary "Ball MORE >
A documentary recounting a grueling 18 1/2 hour recording session for the Stephen Sondheim musical. Features Elaine Stritch's show-stopping "Ladies Who Lunch." MORE >
Brooklyn Academy of Music's three day festival celebrating the roots of Black Dance with performances by Alvin Ailey, Garth Fagan, Eleo Pomare, Chuck Davis, Charles Moore, Momma Lou Parks' famous Lindy dancers, and the legendary tapper, Chuck Green. MORE >
Pennebaker's first movie; a New York subway ride to a score by Duke Ellington. MORE >
Shot 1979-81, an inside view of DeLorean and his team as they take his vision of a stainless steel gull-wing-door car from the board room to the assembly line in Belfast, Northern Ireland MORE >
On the road with the pioneer synth/pop band Depeche Mode. Depeche Mode 101 is a story of music in the 80s, as it weaves together the adventures of the band and a bus full of fans as they travel across the country to the band's final concert in California at the Rose Bowl. MORE >
More than a view of an extraordinary concert tour, Don't Look Back is an intimate portrait of one of the most influential songwriters of our times. MORE >
When the time came for the Coen Brothers to find the music for their Southern period piece comedy, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, they asked record producer T Bone Burnett to lend a hand. This film captures the first live performance in Nashville. MORE >
This feature-length documentary paints a delightfully candid portrait of Broadway legend Elaine Stritch, both on stage and off. MORE >
The film is a unique record not only of a concert performance, but an informative look at the collaboration between musicians and a renowned composer. MORE >
A documentary trilogy, produced for PBS, following the 18-month struggle in Congress over President Carter's energy policy. MORE >
How the birth of the Fischer quints affected their hometown, Aberdeen, South Dakota, and above all, Mrs. Fischer. MORE >
George Plimpton attends the 1968 annual spring pet show, emceed by Art Buchwald, at the Robert F. Kennedy estate in Virginia. MORE >
A musical portrait of Jerry Lee Lewis, the most electrifying and talented artist in Rock and Roll History. MORE >
This film showcases Hendrix's complete Monterey Pop Festival performance with archival footage of his debut in the U.K.with his new band The Jimi Hendrix Experience. MORE >
In 1971, Alan Schneider directed an historic video taped performance of Samuel Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape", starring Jack MacGowran. The play dramatized an old man's struggle to repossess his youth by searching through reels of audiotape. MORE >
Dave Lambert, of Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross, with his newly formed quintet auditioning for RCA in 1964, shortly before his untimely death.
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The entire original performance of Little Richard at Toronto's Rock and Roll Revival in 1969. MORE >
The Monterey Pop Festival ran for three days in June 1967. For most of the five shows, the arena was jammed to bursting with perhaps as many as 10,000 people. MORE >
An inside peek at a Broadway show with Carol Burnett. MORE >
A Celebration of Soul with Sam Moore, Rufus Thomas, Wilson Pickett, Isaac Hayes, and more. MORE >
Impressions of Moscow and its citizens under the Krushchev regime, centered around the opening of the 1959 American Exhibition. MORE >
The 1970 debutante-queen of Apollo, an exclusive New Orleans Mardi Gras ball, on her big night. MORE >
Merce Cunningham Ballet. Music by John Cage. Set Design by Andy Warhol. MORE >
15 years after making The War Room, Chris Hegedus and D A Pennebaker's 1993 Academy Award® -nominated documentary following Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign, the filmmakers reunite with James Carville, George Stephanopoulos, Mary Matalin, Paul Begala, Bob Boorstin, Dee Dee Myers, and others to reflect on the changes in American politics and political campaigns over the last 16 years, and to look back on the election that launched them all into the national political spotlight. MORE >
Billie Whitelaw in Alan Schneider's production of a Samuel Beckett play. MORE >
Otis Redding's complete, electrifying performance at the historic Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. MORE >
An intimate, behind-the-scenes view of the recent dot com mania, Startup.com follows the adventures of childhood friends, Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman as they create govWorks.com, an award winning website that lets citizens interact with their local governments. MORE >
The composer discusses creativity and his work. A film by Richard Leacock. MORE >
John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival in 1967. MORE >
Norman Mailer and Germaine Greer's legendary 1971 Women's Lib debate. MORE >
Jean-Luc Godard on filmmaking and politics. Filmed April 4th, 1968. MORE >
A rare film by Jean-Luc Godard about the 1968 student uprising in France. MORE >
A half hour musical portrait of singer/songwriter Suzanne Vega at home and rehearsing in New York and on tour in England. MORE >
A journey with Victoria Williams from Los Angeles to her hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana, weaving a musical portrait of the musician and providing a vivid and unforgettable picture of growing up in the South. MORE >
The War Room was the name for Bill Clinton's campaign center in Little Rock, Ark. Though the press wasn't usually permitted inside this small warren of chaos, we managed to secure partial access and shot nearly 35 hours of footage there. MORE >
Timothy Leary, the apostle of counter culture, marries a beautiful Baroness-model (Uma Thurman's mother). Monte Rock III styles the bride's hair and sings the title song. Attending are the Hitchcocks, European Royalty, and jazz-legend Charles Mingus. MORE >
Bowie's last performance as Ziggy Stardust. MORE >