Albert Maysles Movies

Twelve filmmakers, six from Turkey and six from the United States, come together to take part in this omnibus film. Some approaches literal, others...

Esther Robinson's portrait of her uncle Danny Williams, Warhol's onetime lover, collaborator and filmmaker in his own right, offers a exploration of...

An intensely personal exploration of an explosive issue -- abortion in America. Wrenching first-person narratives from seven decades of women, each...

Born to Fly pushes the boundaries between action and art, daring us to join choreographer Elizabeth Streb and her dancers in pursuit of human flight.

Documentary showing the return to his native Russia of Mstislav Rostropovitch, includes extensive performance footage and coverage of political and...

From the darkness of Hitler's Europe to the mountains of the Catskills, Four Seasons Lodge follows a community of Holocaust survivors who come...

Jessye Norman Sings Carmen is a gripping vérité study of the famous dramatic soprano’s approach to mastering Bizet’s...

The Newsweek critic, Jack Kroll, interviews Albert and David Maysles about their new film, Salesman (1968).

Albert Maysles' visual diary of the faces and places encountered along a cross country motorscooter ride through the Soviet Union in the late 1950s.

A portrait of the late documentarian David Maysles by his daughter, Celia.

A documentary about artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 1991 grand-scale environmental art project in Japan and California.

Accent on the Offbeat is a cinema vérité film about the creation and premiere of the ballet Jazz (Six Syncopated Movements), composed...

ILONA, UPSTAIRS is a portrait of an artist; a glimpse at a butterfly who wants no association with her life as a caterpillar. In this mixed format...

Our medical system is geared toward healing patients. But what if there's no cure available? This moving, intimate documentary uses three cases to...

A documentary about the making of the film "The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit"

This heartbreaking documentary depicts the extreme poverty of an African-American family and their Mississippi Delta school district. LaLee's Kin...

The life of the world’s top model Jean Shrimpton and her svengali photographer David Bailey.

This acclaimed documentary traces the building of the Getty Center—one of the most ambitious cultural undertakings of the twentieth century....

The Maysles profile a poor white Georgian family struggling to survive with the realities of thirteen children.

A 1968 documentary made under the aegis of the United States Office of Economic Opportunity, chronicling the early stages of the 114th Street...