Richard Leacock Movies

  • 1983
    Community of Praise

    Community of Praise

    Community of Praise

    01983HD

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

    Community of Praise
  • 1968
    Chiefs

    Chiefs

    Chiefs

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    Filmed at the October 1968 meeting in Hawaii of several hundred police chiefs of the International Association of Chiefs of Police as they watch...

    Chiefs
  • 1999
    Flora Natapoff - An American Painter

    Flora Natapoff - An American Painter

    Flora Natapoff - An American Painter

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    Flora Natapoff, known for her large collages of urban and industrial motifs, due to MS begins to work on a smaller scale that is no less powerful....

    Flora Natapoff - An American Painter
  • 1968
    French Lunch

    French Lunch

    French Lunch

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    Documentary look behind the scenes of La Caravelle, an acclaimed French restaurant in New York City.

    French Lunch
  • 2012
    Ricky on Leacock

    Ricky on Leacock

    Ricky on Leacock

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    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...

    Ricky on Leacock
  • 1975
    Solstice and Solyanka

    Solstice and Solyanka

    Solstice and Solyanka

    01975HD

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

    Solstice and Solyanka
  • 1965
    Elizabeth and Mary

    Elizabeth and Mary

    Elizabeth and Mary

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

    Elizabeth and Mary
  • 1961
    On the Pole: Eddie Sachs

    On the Pole: Eddie Sachs

    On the Pole: Eddie Sachs

    01961HD

    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...

    On the Pole: Eddie Sachs
  • 1965
    Ku Klux Klan—The Invisible Empire

    Ku Klux Klan—The Invisible Empire

    Ku Klux Klan—The Invisible Empire

    01965HD

    A documentary on the KKK

    Ku Klux Klan—The Invisible Empire
  • 1984
    Lulu in Berlin

    Lulu in Berlin

    Lulu in Berlin

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    Vérité documentarian Richard Leacock’s LULU IN BERLIN features one of the few long interviews ever done with actor Louise Brooks....

    Lulu in Berlin
  • 1957
    American Football

    American Football

    American Football

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    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...

    American Football
  • 1962
    Kenya: Land of the White Ghost

    Kenya: Land of the White Ghost

    Kenya: Land of the White Ghost

    01962HD

    A film by the Drew-Leacock team.

    Kenya: Land of the White Ghost
  • 1960
    Christopher and Me

    Christopher and Me

    Christopher and Me

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

    Christopher and Me
  • 1956
    A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp

    A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp

    A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp

    01956HD

    Filmed amidst the Arensberg collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where 35 works by Marcel Duchamp are gathered, this 1956 NBC interview...

    A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp
  • 1961
    The Children Were Watching

    The Children Were Watching

    The Children Were Watching

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    A harrowing portrait of the struggle for school desegregation in New Orleans against the violent protests of white parents.

    The Children Were Watching
  • 1991
    Les oeufs à la coque de Richard Leacock

    Les oeufs à la coque de Richard Leacock

    Les oeufs à la coque de Richard Leacock

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    Inspired by both new love and Gulliver's Travels, Les Oeufs à la Coque (aka Richard Leacock's Soft-Boiled Eggs), is a ravishingly beautiful,...

    Les oeufs à la coque de Richard Leacock
  • 1977
    Centerbeam

    Centerbeam

    Centerbeam

    01977HD

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

    Centerbeam
  • 1970
    Queen of Apollo

    Queen of Apollo

    Queen of Apollo

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    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...

    Queen of Apollo
  • 1962
    Nehru

    Nehru

    Nehru

    01962HD

    The first candid film made on a foreign chief of state, three weeks in the life of Jawaharlal Nehru.

    Nehru
  • 1954
    Toby and the Tall Corn

    Toby and the Tall Corn

    Toby and the Tall Corn

    01954HD

    Toby is a heartwarming and entertaining portrait of one of the last travelling variety shows in the United States. Every summer, Toby, the troupe's...

    Toby and the Tall Corn