Willard Van Dyke Movies

An artistic short on the floral beauty of Puerto Rico set to folk music.

A short film about Pete Seeger and the birth of banjo music throughout the Southern United States.

“Unhappy with the limited structure of league newsreels, Nykino, a splinter filmmaking collective, produced a MARCH OF TIME-type series under...

1948 ARC Identifier 46998 / Local Identifier 306.131. FEATURES THE PERSONALITY, PHILOSOPHY, TECHNIQUES AND ARTISTRY OF EDWARD WESTON, AS SHOWN...

After Caroline Cram finds herself in an analyst's office, she starts groping for the truth about her hopelessness, fears, loneliness and anxieties. A...

This short Depression-era documentary describes the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States and laments the environmental...

Annual report to stockholders highlighting General Mills’s accomplishments of the past year.

Short subject commissioned by the National Youth Association to show their efforts at providing job training for unemployed poor youth.

A commercial for the Works Progress Administration. We see hands close up: working, playing, praying, whittling, and strumming. Hands use saws and...

Film sponsored by Western Electric (AT&T's equipment manufacturing division), the builder of the United States Air Force's White Alice Communications...

Marriage training film dramatizing a partnership too fraught with conflicts to survive. Produced as part of a post-World War II initiative to make...

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

A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay...

A school teacher/wheat farmer is solicited by several oil companies for the rights to drill on his family's farm. After accepting an offer, he...

The notable non-theatrical film distributor Thomas Brandon produced Tall Tales, a 1941 celebration of the American folk song featuring Josh White,...

Documentary profiling an Appalachian farming family struggling to scrape out a living. Link­ing education and economic development, The Children...

A documentary examining the effects of industrial automation on a small American town.

The blacklisted American documentarian Willard Van Dyke filmed this tale about tobacco workers in the heart of the Puerto Rican countryside. Heeding...

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.