Richard Leacock Movies

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

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

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...

Film produced and directed by Ricky Leacock, Edward Pincus, and MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies documenting the Centerbeam kinetic sculpture...

The classical nude as video in four male/female duets

In January 1989 the first Message to Man International Film Festival took place in Leningrad. This film, made during the festival, is a record of its...

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

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

In 1963 the first known surviving set of American quintuplets were born to Mary Ann and Andrew Fischer, this film looks at some of the changes their...

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

This brief portrait follows 28-year-old campaign manager John Grenier as he maps out strategies for Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential run and...

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...

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...

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

The film is about Richard Leacock father’s banana plantation and was made with a little help from Polly Church and Noel Florence.

Documentary by Jan Sebening and Daniel Sponsel.

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...

Super 8 film. Observations of the Institute on Film, Video & Photography, Amherst, MA, summer 1975. Among the cast of characters, in order of...

A film by the Drew-Leacock team.

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...