Richard Leacock Movies

The documentary traces Eddie Sachs (one of the most popular drivers in the history of the Indianapolis 500) in a behind-the-scenes look at the race...

A 38-year journey that the director began in 1972 as a young filmmaker and, shooting off and throughout many years, the director filmed many and...

Short documentary on the life and work of photographer and filmmaker Morris Engel

The doc brings us back to a 1961 football game played in front of 40,000 people at the Orange Bowl. A high school football game, pitting Miami High...

Jazz vocalist Dave Lambert auditions a new group of singers at RCA Studios in 1964.

Leacock and Pennebaker filmed choreographer Merce Cunningham’s dance “RainForest” as part of the 1968 Buffalo Arts Festival’s...

A portrait of the two documentary filmmakers Jerzy Bossak and Richard Leacock.

Documentary look behind the scenes of La Caravelle, an acclaimed French restaurant in New York City.

Vérité documentarian Richard Leacock’s LULU IN BERLIN features one of the few long interviews ever done with actor Louise Brooks....

A film focusing on a day in the life of two identical twin girls, one of whom is blind and mentally handicapped

The first candid film made on a foreign chief of state, three weeks in the life of Jawaharlal Nehru.

Filmed at the October 1968 meeting in Hawaii of several hundred police chiefs of the International Association of Chiefs of Police as they watch...

A harrowing portrait of the struggle for school desegregation in New Orleans against the violent protests of white parents.

The classical nude as video in four male/female duets

A film by the Drew-Leacock team.

This documentary examines one family's desperate search for faith and religious meaning in Muncie, Indiana.

In 1970 I went to New Orleans with Noel Parmentel to shoot fragments of the “The Moviegoer.” While we were down there my daughter Elspeth...

In the hands of another director, the inner-workings of a magnet laboratory could have caused a whole classroom to fall asleep of boredom. No so when...

Inspired by both new love and Gulliver's Travels, Les Oeufs à la Coque (aka Richard Leacock's Soft-Boiled Eggs), is a ravishingly beautiful,...

Robert Flaherty is credited with being the father of the modern documentary after making "Nanook of the North" and classics such as "Man of Aran" and...