California's Golden Beginning

The Beach Boys - California Surfin

Christopher Tree

This film, photographed and edited by Les Blank, produced and directed by Pieter Van Deusen, documents a spontaneously i...

The Towers

Documentary about the Watts Towers. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

At Berkeley

Direct cinema pioneer Frederick Wiseman takes an in-depth look at the preeminent American university during a fall semes...

Dry Wood

Featuring the stories and music of seminal Cajun musicians "Bois Sec" Ardoin and Canray Fontenot, Dry Wood is a short, v...

The Hunt for Transylvanian Gold

The mysterious appearance of massive golden bracelets in int'l antiquarian circles uncovers an inside story of the looti...

Primary

Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary i...

The Second Wave

Spring 2012 the Swedish band La Fleur Fatale embarked on a journey to and through California. During two weeks they play...

Exploratorium

An Oscar-nominated film with no narration showing the Exploratorium (The Palace of Arts and Science) in San Francisco. I...

Naked Yoga

Three young ladies perform yoga without clothes in the open air of Cyprus. Another does the same in a studio. These visu...

Thursday's Children

Won the Academy Award for the Best Documentary Short of 1954. The subject deals with the children at The Royal School fo...

Children Without

Children Without is a 1964 American short documentary film directed by Charles Guggenheim, about a young girl and her br...

Amargosa

The inspirational story of Marta Becket: 76-yr old singer, writer, dancer, painter, visionary, and her creation Amargosa...

1848

The film explains the French Revolution of 1848. Bernard Blier's narration is supported by pictures once drawn by contem...

Hoop Dreams

Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Ch...

Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs

The grail is not the gold, nor the books of ancient wisdom, but the 3,000 year old DNA of the mummies, which may lead to...

Harlan County U.S.A.

This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County,...

Hats Off to Hollywood

Picking up the story first presented in I Don’t Know (1970), Hats Off to Hollywood (1972) brazenly and brilliantly mixes...

Around the World in California

This FitzPatrick's Traveltalks series short takes the viewer to various sites around California that resemble the geogra...

Steel Town

Documentary examining the steel industry in Youngstown, Ohio during World War II. Focuses on steel production, including...