Haskell Wexler Movies

Traveling through villages along the Nicaraguan-Honduran border, the filmmakers document the impact of the covert war against Nicaragua's Sandinista...

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

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...

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

This film documents the journey of actress Jane Fonda and her husband – future California state senator Tom Hayden – through North and...

Marshal Kirk Reed is escorting five female prisoners---killers all--- from one part of Texas to another part of Texas where a new prison has been...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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

Documentary about the Jamaican presidential campaign of Michael Manley

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 about the impact left by John Sayles’ 1987 film Matewan, about a shooting between company gun thugs and union organizers in...

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.

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