Richard Leacock Movies
- 1968
Monterey Pop
Monterey Pop7.31968HD
Featuring performances by popular artists of the 1960s, this concert film highlights the music of the 1967 California festival. Although not all...
- 1960
Primary
Primary6.31960HD
Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to...
- 1948
Louisiana Story
Louisiana Story6.51948HD
The idyllic life of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon is disrupted when the tranquility of the bayou is broken by an oil well drilling near his...
- 1971
1 P.M.
1 P.M.5.81971HD
Lighter and livelier than the films Jean-Luc Godard had made in France, his U.S. collaboration with Direct Cinema documentarian D. A. Pennebaker was...
- 1970
Original Cast Album: Company
Original Cast Album: Company7.31970HD
In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist,...
- 2014
How To Smell A Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock at his Farm in Normandy
How To Smell A Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock at his Farm in Normandy52014HD
In the year 2000, Les Blank, along with co-filmmaker Gina Leibrecht, visited Richard Leacock (1921-2011) at his farm in Normandy, France and recorded...
- 2008
A President to Remember: In the Company of John F. Kennedy
A President to Remember: In the Company of John F. Kennedy102008HD
Bringing to life an American President who was widely respected by his countrymen and celebrated around the world. Composed from four break through...
- 1971
Maidstone
Maidstone4.21971HD
Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic five-day shoot in East Hampton, Norman Mailer and his cast and crew spontaneously unloaded onto film the...
- 1963
A Happy Mother's Day
A Happy Mother's Day5.51963HD
In 1963 the first known surviving set of American quintuplets were born to Mary Ann and Andrew Fischer, this film looks at some of the changes their...
- 1987
Jimi Plays Monterey
Jimi Plays Monterey7.21987HD
It's no exaggeration to say this might be the most intense and groundbreaking 45-minute performance in the history of rock. Jimi Hendrix's debut...
- 1992
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave21992HD
An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution in the art of cinema. The documentary portrays the...
- 1956
A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp
A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp01956HD
Filmed amidst the Arensberg collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where 35 works by Marcel Duchamp are gathered, this 1956 NBC interview...
- 1965
Ku Klux Klan—The Invisible Empire
Ku Klux Klan—The Invisible Empire01965HD
A documentary on the KKK
- 2002
Monterey Pop: The Outtake Performances
Monterey Pop: The Outtake Performances02002HD
Additional musical performances from the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival in California, shot for the film Monterey Pop (1968) and released on the...
- 1962
Jane
Jane6.51962HD
Documentary focusing on 25 year-old actress Jane Fonda as she and her director Andreas Voutsinas prepare a stage play called The Fun Couple for...
- 1984
Lulu in Berlin
Lulu in Berlin71984HD
Vérité documentarian Richard Leacock’s LULU IN BERLIN features one of the few long interviews ever done with actor Louise Brooks....
- 1963
The Chair
The Chair61963HD
Follows a crusading lawyer as he embarks on a campaign to save an African-American man, Paul Crump, from the electric chair. Preserved by the...
- 1947
To Hear Your Banjo Play
To Hear Your Banjo Play4.51947HD
A short film about Pete Seeger and the birth of banjo music throughout the Southern United States.
- 1987
Shake! Otis at Monterey
Shake! Otis at Monterey71987HD
Renowned documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker captures Otis Redding in his ascendancy, singing at the historic Monterey International Pop Festival...
- 1961
Adventures on the New Frontier
Adventures on the New Frontier5.51961HD
A look at the daily business of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, with a focus on some of the political issues he faces six weeks into his term. ...