Haskell Wexler Movies

Using text from Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes and ancient Aztec and Mayan poetry, viewers are lead on a visual journey through this country's rich...

Paul Newman joins ordinary people in the US and the USSR in taking on the military-industrial complex and campaigning for nuclear-war prevention.

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

An IMAX documentary that follows the first flight of Space Shuttle Columbia, from launch preparations to its historic return to Earth.

The filmmakers spoke to ex-political prisoners who had been tortured by the military government who were at that point supported by the US government.

Bringing King to China is a father's "love letter" to his adult daughter, a young American woman struggling to bring Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream...

Haskell Wexler revisits the themes of his previous work "Medium Cool" on the occasion of the Occupy demonstrations in Chicago in 2012.

“Look out Haskell, it’s real!” details the production of Haskell Wexler‘s 1969 feature Medium Cool. It features interviews...

This short explores the early planning innovations and the subsequent mistakes that resulted in developing urban sprawl, suburbia, and gentrification...

What began as a video master class evolved into a film about the political documentaries of Oscar-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler. Comprised...