D. A. Pennebaker Movies

A documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.

Norman Mailer and a panel of feminists — Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Diana Trilling — debate the issue of...

Keep On Rockin', aka Little Richard: Keep On Rockin' (USA video title) is a film of a 1969 Little Richard concert at the Sweet Toronto Peace...

A fascinating documentary focusing on backstage realities of art and business during the British synthesizer band's 1988 American tour.

A collection of rare outtakes and performances from Pennebaker's 1965 documentary Don't Look Back.

Alice Cooper and band’s first performance, organized by his friend Frank Zappa, at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival in 1969.

The film consists of continuous panning shots up a series of 367 human legs.

A cutman at the end of his career struggles to reclaim his true lifelong job.

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...

In 1960, Robert Drew founded his production company Drew Associates; joining him were a number of well-known or soon-to-be well-known documentary...

After the US forces Cuba out of the OAS, demonstrations erupt in Venezuela. In Cuba Castro addresses a rally of one million people.

Haunted by uncanny similarities between Nazi stage techniques and the showmanship employed by modern entertainers, a filmmaker investigates the...

Susan Starr is a talented young concert pianist preparing for the biggest competition of her life. She also happens to have a terrible cold that...

A pioneer in the world of rock-'n'-roll guitar, Chuck Berry has created a legacy that spans decades. Berry performs some of his greatest hits and...

Surrounded by his children, his wife Ethel, and Sammy Davis, Jr., RFK visits schoolchildren around the city, and is every bit the good patriarch and...

Norman Mailer’s first feature filmmaking effort stars the director and his two longtime collaborators Buzz Farbar and Mickey Knox as a trio of...

Informational film explaining the work of the New York Stock Exchange.

Twins Christopher and David gets into an untethered sailboat and inadvertently gets involved in a nearby sailboat race.

Using only the illumination of a cigarette lighter, D.A. Pennebaker captured Tiny Tim performing a number of traditional songs at Monterey's Hunt...

During the fertile early years of Drew Associates following the breakthrough of Primary, came this seldom-seen portrait of David Allen, a jazz...