Haskell Wexler Movies

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other...

A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.

The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war with Canada.

A look at the extraordinary achievements and contemporary legacy of Oscar Micheaux, a pioneer of the African-American film industry.

The first officer in the United States Army to refuse deployment to Iraq on moral grounds, and attempts to clarify the issues that prompted Lt....

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny...

Documentary that features many interviews and other footage of the cast and crew for the film American Graffiti (1973)

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

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work...

In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

Cinematographer John A. Alonzo was one of the driving creative forces in the resurgence of expressionistic American movies of the late 1960s and...

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled...

A group portrait of filmmakers attend the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring Matthew Harrison, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Todd Haynes, Greg...

Young businessman Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job....

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

A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is...

This documentary chronicles half a century of hostile U.S.-Cuba relations. The film highlights decades of assassinations and sabotage at first backed...

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe...

A documentary that highlights the deadly combination of sleep deprivation and long days of work, focusing on the American film industry.