Richard Leacock Movies

A documentary on the KKK

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

A film by the Drew-Leacock team.

The classical nude as video in four male/female duets

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

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

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,...