Around the World in California

Blissful scenes of tourists arriving by boat and then sea bathing on a beach in the Venetian lagoon.

Bruce Brown's The Endless Summer is one of the first and most influential surf movies of all time. The film documents American surfers Mike Hynson...

A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan,...

Riding Giants is story about big wave surfers who have become heroes and legends in their sport. Directed by the skateboard guru Stacy Peralta.

One man, one camera, one goal...to capture the essence of adventure. An experimental, often abstract new type of filmmaking process creating color...

An essay film that interweaves meditations on travels with stories of journeys in China across a century: A student expedition into the heart of...

Explorations in 21st Century American Architecture Series: Ray Kappe has long been a cult figure in the architectural scene in and around Los...

Early film of a crowded street scene in an unidentified Indian city.

​On November 8, 2018, a spark flew in the Sierra Nevada foothills, igniting the most destructive wildfire in California history and decimating...

This documentary visits the towns and villages of the Alsace region of France at Christmastime. See the charmingly decorated storybook towns and...

Exploring the rise and fall of the groundbreaking animated series ​Ren & Stimpy​ and its controversial creator, John Kricfalusi, through...

The film is a cinematic interpretation of the travel book “Armenia” by Russian poet Andrei Bely.