Haskell Wexler Movies

NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical...

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 the story of one of the most extraordinary men in history, who ignited the American Revolution, defined the French and championed the use of...

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...

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

Interviews with five former American soldiers who were present at the March 16, 1968 attack on the village of My Lai during the Vietnam War; they...

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.

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

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...

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

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.

This documentary chronicles half a century of hostile U.S.-Cuba relations. The film highlights decades of assassinations and sabotage at first backed...

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

T Is for Tumbleweed is a 1958 English-language short film directed by Louis Clyde Stoumen, starring Anne Lockhart. It features some tumbleweed that...

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

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

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...

Documentary about the Jamaican presidential campaign of Michael Manley

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...