D. A. Pennebaker Movies

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

The filmmakers accompany Alan Schneider, director of the American premieres of most of Beckett's plays, and producer Daniel Labeille to the home of...

Concert documentary of The National's performance at Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2010, interspersed with interview footage of the band.

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

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...

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

Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway...

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

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

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

In 1998, documentary filmmaker Robert Drew and his associates attend the Museum of Tolerance.

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

Description by D.A Pennebaker: "This movie is something of a mystery. Timothy Leary was getting married to a model named Nena Von Schlebrugge up in...

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 coach’s whole career depends upon winning this football game, the U.S. Air Force Academy against the University of Colorado. The film was an...

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

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

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...

In 1959, George Nelson designed an incredible trade fair to be sent to Russia, a kind of yard sale of things American. Everything from automatic...