Albert Maysles

The Empire Builder is America’s busiest long-distance train route, running from Chicago to Seattle. Throughout these corridors sit runaways, ...

IRIS pairs legendary 87-year-old documentarian Albert Maysles with Iris Apfel, the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven who ...

Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas is an award-winning series of 30 three-minute stories about innovators—people who are reshaping the world ...

“The Love We Make”, a film directed by Albert Maysles (“Gimme Shelter”) and Bradley Kaplan, follows Paul McCartney as he ...

In October of 1980 Muhammad Ali was preparing to fight for an unprecedented fourth heavyweight title against his friend and former sparring ...

Canadian singer Rufus Wainwright performs live on August 27, 2007 at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in support of his studio album, ...

Assembled by some of the nation’s top documentary filmmakers, this centerpiece film in HBO’s ‘Addiction’ campaign ...

Mother and daughter – Big Edie and Little Edie Beale – live with six cats in a crumbling house in East Hampton. Little Edie, in her ...

During production on the film “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou”, documentary filmmakers followed the cast and crew of a film which ...

TV documentary about American film director Wes Anderson.

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

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

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

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

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

The Beatles First US Visit uniquely chronicles the inside story of the two remarkable weeks when Beatlemania first ignited America. The ...

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

Documentary about conceptual artist Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude’s attempt to “wrap” the Pont-Neuf in Paris.

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

The Maysles’ third film about the artists sees them trying to get three projects off the ground: wrapping the Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge ...

This intimate portrait of the legendary conductor Seiji Ozawa focuses on the Japanese master and teacher’s career, his advocacy of modern ...

Through the poetic lens of visionary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles, Muhammad and Larry explores the unique and poignant relationship ...