Richard Leacock Movies

Colleagues, friends and specialists pay tribute to the filmmaker Mario Ruspoli in a portrait that mixes encounters, archive images and film excerpts....

This brief portrait follows 28-year-old campaign manager John Grenier as he maps out strategies for Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential run and...

An educational physics film utilizing a fascinating set consisting of a rotating table and furniture occupying surprisingly unpredictable spots...

Super 8 film. Observations of the Institute on Film, Video & Photography, Amherst, MA, summer 1975. Among the cast of characters, in order of...

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

Five Japanese carpenters came to Boston that summer to reconstruct a Kyoto silkweaver's 150 year old townhouse that had been packed in crates and...

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...

Jazz vocalist Dave Lambert auditions a new group of singers at RCA Studios in 1964.

The documentary traces Eddie Sachs (one of the most popular drivers in the history of the Indianapolis 500) in a behind-the-scenes look at the race...

Vérité documentarian Richard Leacock’s LULU IN BERLIN features one of the few long interviews ever done with actor Louise Brooks....

Documentary look behind the scenes of La Caravelle, an acclaimed French restaurant in New York City.

A film by the Drew-Leacock team.

Film produced and directed by Ricky Leacock, Edward Pincus, and MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies documenting the Centerbeam kinetic sculpture...

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

After the US forces Cuba out of the OAS, demonstrations erupt in Venezuela. In Cuba Castro addresses a rally of one million people.

The doc brings us back to a 1961 football game played in front of 40,000 people at the Orange Bowl. A high school football game, pitting Miami High...

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...

Filmed on his father's plantation, Leacock’s sophisticated use of pans and tilts described the process of planting, harvesting, and shipping...

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

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...