Haskell Wexler Movies

A documentary about the Weathermen, founded as a militant faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), who fought to overthrow the U.S....

Resentful after an ugly divorce from her unfaithful husband, Judith McGuire moves to Los Angeles. Adrift and detached, she spends her days and nights...

Venturing into some of the roughest slums of St. Louis, Jesuit priest Rev. Charles Dismas Clark dedicates himself to helping young ex-convicts who...

The first officer in the United States Army to refuse deployment to Iraq on moral grounds, and attempts to clarify the issues that prompted Lt....

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

Journalist Kevin McKiernan's powerful film takes a close look at the Kurds, compelling and controversial subjects whose identities seem to shift...

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.

Documentary about the atomic testing done in the desert of Nevada, the health risks it posed to closely involved military personnel, and the lack of...

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

The adventures of a young boy who runs away from an orphanage on a search to find his father.

Documentary about the Jamaican presidential campaign of Michael Manley

“Look out Haskell, it’s real!” details the production of Haskell Wexler‘s 1969 feature Medium Cool. It features interviews...

This interview was conducted shortly after the late President Dr. Salvador Allende won the Chilean elections of 1970. Dr. Salvador Allende was the...

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...

An IMAX documentary that follows the first flight of Space Shuttle Columbia, from launch preparations to its historic return to Earth.

Using text from Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes and ancient Aztec and Mayan poetry, viewers are lead on a visual journey through this country's rich...

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

The struggle for civil rights has been one of the most important issues of American life for the last fifty years. In August of 1963, groups from all...

Paul Newman joins ordinary people in the US and the USSR in taking on the military-industrial complex and campaigning for nuclear-war prevention.

Laymen as well as celebrities in the sciences and creative arts give their views and values regarding their creative efforts and technological...