Films & Other Videos
Films with: Wexler, Haskell
- America, America
- This film is a loose adaptation of the real-life story of Elia Kazan's uncle who grew up as part of the Greek minority in Turkey. He travels to Constantinople to escape persecution, but dreams of living in America.
- DVD 10005
- Bringing King to China
- Bringing King to China is the bittersweet story of a young American woman struggling to bring Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream of nonviolence to China and then back to the United States. Her life is thrown into turmoil when she thinks her father, a journalist covering the war in Iraq, has been killed by a suicide bomber.
- DVD 10129
- Loved one
- A bemused would-be poet gets entangled with an unctuous cemetery entrepreneur, a mom-obsessed mortician and other bizarre characters.
- DVD 5739
- Matewan
- A labor leader seeking to organize the workers of a company town sets off a powderkeg of racial hostility, corruption and betrayal in this tale of the bitter clash between unionist miners and the tyrannical coal company owners in West Virginia in the 1920's.
- DVD 1239
- Medium cool
- Set in 1968 in Chicago at the time of the Democratic National Convention, this is the story of a TV cameraman and his involvement with the realities of hate and hypocrisy he finds in his filming.
- DVD 2179
- Sense of wonder two interviews with Rachel Carson.
- A documentary style film, which depicts Rachel Carson in the final year of her life. Struggling with cancer and in the wake of the uproar after the publication of her book Silent spring, she recounts with both humor and anger the attacks by the chemical industry, the government, and the press as she focuses her limited energy to get her message to Congress and the American people.
- DVD 6667
- Tell them who you are
- Mark Wexler uses a blend of biography and autobiography centers on his relationship with his father, legendary cinematographer and filmmaker Haskell Wexler. Film includes interviews with George Lucas, Julia Roberts, Jane Fonda, Ron Howard and more.
- DVD 3836
- Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Martha and George are a bitter aging couple who, with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.
- DVD 594