Philip Glass Movies

This luminous, visionary opera tells the story of how Mahatma Gandhi developed the philosophy of satyagraha, nonviolent active resistance, as a...

A documentary exploring how Albanians, including many Muslims, helped and sheltered Jewish refugees during WWII at their own risk, and trying to help...

Using stories of items recovered or offered after 9/11 and other tragedies, this film explores the human impulse to create community and reestablish...

In "Hands Scraping" we see two male pairs of hands, those of Serra and Phil Glass, sweeping up steel filings strewn on the wooden floor with their...

In this documentary, artist-filmmaker Nicholas Hondrogen asks people to describe memorable moments of their lives. Some, such as Norman Lear and...

The film is based on the cycle of graphic works of the famous Lithuanian artist Stasys Krasauskas "Birth of a Woman" and is dedicated to the memory...

The last days of the American icon Walt Disney form a powerful and poignant subject for Philip Glass's latest opera, which was filmed at its first...

A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway about Phillip Glass that is a recording of a performance of the...

A short film directed by Paul Schrader following the story of a painting from Schrader's collection.

Letters from a distance documents a communication exercise thought out by healthcare workers from a public hospital in Mexico City to help with the...

This film tells the fascinating story of one of the most critically acclaimed careers in independent documentary film making in recent cinema...

An audiovisual work by Philip Glass and Peter Greenaway.

Hal Willner's Harry Smith Project concerts in London, New York and Los Angeles celebrated the eccentric collector genius and his influential...

A documentary about the production of Godfrey Reggio's "Once Within a Time".

We look back at more than half a century of mysterious artistic creation while trying to crack a unique artistic code. Why are people moved to tears...

Invited to the Philharmonie de Paris, the virtuoso Yuja Wang performs a programme of Maurice Ravel's two piano concertos, conducted by Klaus...

A documentary about the American postmodern dancer and choreographer Lucinda Childs. For Dance, a choreography from '79 set to the music of Philip...

Trans-Action tells the story of an extraordinary woman. Anna Grodzka who in 2011 became the first transgender person in the Polish government, and...

Nancy Graves statement, 1971: "Izy Boukir contains footage filmed in the Sahara during eighteen days. I wanted to extend sequences [from earlier...

Christian Frei's documentary traces the tragic tale of the giant Buddhas of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley, which stood as monumental landmarks for...