Joyce Chopra Movies

It has been nine years since Bancroft's character shot Brown's son. She goes to the prison to vent her rage at him over what he did, and discovers...

A beautiful woman is found stranded in the desert with no recollection of who she is or how she got there, so a casino boss makes it his mission to...

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...

After giving birth, Joyce attempts to regain her position as a filmmaker while also caring for her new baby. The changes to both her and her...

Started as a class project in what was likely the first filmmaking course ever taught at Harvard, Marathon documents the running of the 1964 Boston...

A 1978 documentary short about a growing phenomenon of its time: women returning to work as they reach middle age.

The film's title is borrowed from a Dani fable that Gardner recounts in voice-over. The Dani people, whom Gardner identifies mysteriously as "a...

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...

A 1978 documentary about healthcare services in five locations in Nigeria.

The camera goes to live among a group of 12‐year‐old girls in a middle‐class New England neighborhood. It accompanies them to...

This documentary follows Martha Clarke's creative process for a year as she finds her own voice as a choreographer following her departure from...

During a stark winter weekend in upstate NY, siblings reconnect a year after their mother's death.

A 1973 short film about the noted educator and president of Radcliffe College.