Willard Van Dyke Movies

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay...

This short Depression-era documentary describes the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States and laments the environmental...

A documentary examining the effects of industrial automation on a small American town.

“Unhappy with the limited structure of league newsreels, Nykino, a splinter filmmaking collective, produced a MARCH OF TIME-type series under...

A short film about Pete Seeger and the birth of banjo music throughout the Southern United States.

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

The blacklisted American documentarian Willard Van Dyke filmed this tale about tobacco workers in the heart of the Puerto Rican countryside. Heeding...

Documentary examining the steel industry in Youngstown, Ohio during World War II. Focuses on steel production, including the smelting process,...

Various juvenile delinquents have encounters with the local police.

Documentary profiling an Appalachian farming family struggling to scrape out a living. Link­ing education and economic development, The Children...

The notable non-theatrical film distributor Thomas Brandon produced Tall Tales, a 1941 celebration of the American folk song featuring Josh White,...

"This unfinished civil rights-era film details how segregation affects the daily lives of African Americans, and includes portions of interviews with...

Short subject commissioned by the National Youth Association to show their efforts at providing job training for unemployed poor youth.

Film sponsored by Western Electric (AT&T's equipment manufacturing division), the builder of the United States Air Force's White Alice Communications...

1948 ARC Identifier 46998 / Local Identifier 306.131. FEATURES THE PERSONALITY, PHILOSOPHY, TECHNIQUES AND ARTISTRY OF EDWARD WESTON, AS SHOWN...

Internationalist film exploring the economic and political importance of Latin America to the United States. A document of the “Good Neighbor...

Annual report to stockholders highlighting General Mills’s accomplishments of the past year.

An artistic short on the floral beauty of Puerto Rico set to folk music.