D. A. Pennebaker Movies

Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to...

"This film follows one week in the life of a jazz trumpeter and heroin addict named David Allen, who is living in a communal drug rehabilitation...

Story of the last flight of TWA pilot Harold Blackburn and his retirement at age 60 after 40 years.

The title Dal polo all'equatore was first used by the pioneering documentary maker, Luca Comerio, for a compilation film of 1925; it was used again...

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

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...

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

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...

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

Takes place over the course of one feverish night in a Manhattan police precinct and neighboring bar.

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

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

Jean-Luc Godard visits NYU in order to discuss his latest feature "La chinoise" with graduate students on filmmaking and politics.

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

Colleagues, friends and specialists pay tribute to the filmmaker Mario Ruspoli in a portrait that mixes encounters, archive images and film excerpts....

Lighter and livelier than the films Jean-Luc Godard had made in France, his U.S. collaboration with Direct Cinema documentarian D. A. Pennebaker was...

Nominated for an Academy Award, this live-action short film playfully chronicles the construction of the Tishman Building at 666 Fifth Avenue in New...

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

On the evening of April 30, 1971, a standing room only audience of local literati and feminists packed New York City’s Town Hall to watch...