San Francisco California Movies

  • 1902
    Bird's-Eye View of San Francisco, Cal., from a Balloon

    Bird's-Eye View of San Francisco, Cal., from a Balloon

    Bird's-Eye View of San Francisco, Cal., from a Balloon

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    Taken while ascending some 2,000 yards into the clouds, and represents a most diversified view of the city of San Francisco, the Golden Gate, Pacific...

    Bird's-Eye View of San Francisco, Cal., from a Balloon
  • 1994
    Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel

    Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel

    Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel

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    1994 at the Ambassador Hotel, 55 Mason Street in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, California. From 1978 to 1996, the hotel was managed by...

    Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel
  • 2014
    Fog: Fact or Fiction?

    Fog: Fact or Fiction?

    Fog: Fact or Fiction?

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    It is well known that San Francisco is a city shrouded in fog. In this short documentary, a local Theoretical Meteorologist uncovers the surprising...

    Fog: Fact or Fiction?
  • 1970
    Klaira's Story - Why Was I Here?

    Klaira's Story - Why Was I Here?

    Klaira's Story - Why Was I Here?

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    Klaira presents a surprising vision of assimilation and a loving depiction of San Francisco. She and her grandparents explore how the experience of...

    Klaira's Story - Why Was I Here?
  • 2000
    Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street

    Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street

    Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street

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    The film follows a simple structure, and shows the drug-related degradation of five youths (Jake, Tracey, Jessica, Alice, Oreo) during the course of...

    Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street
  • 1970
    Klaira's Story - Connection to the Past

    Klaira's Story - Connection to the Past

    Klaira's Story - Connection to the Past

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    Klaira presents a surprising vision of assimilation and a loving depiction of San Francisco. She and her grandparents explore how the experience of...

    Klaira's Story - Connection to the Past
  • 2002
    Cotton Candy

    Cotton Candy

    Cotton Candy

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    Gehr uses a mini-digital recorder to look back on the Machine Age in the form of San Francisco's soon-to-be-shuttered Musee Mecanique. For slightly...

    Cotton Candy
  • 2008
    Inertia

    Inertia

    Inertia

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    The bleak outskirts of San Francisco act as the backdrop for this view into a jaded generation. Floating through their mid-twenties, four strangers...

    Inertia
  • 1970
    Sunnyside

    Sunnyside

    Sunnyside

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    Ninety-year-old sound artist and comedian Henry “Sandy” Jacobs lives a quirky existence at the end of Sunnyside Drive, a steep and...

    Sunnyside
  • 1970
    Yelena's Story - Everything You Need to Know to Be a Jew

    Yelena's Story - Everything You Need to Know to Be a Jew

    Yelena's Story - Everything You Need to Know to Be a Jew

    01970HD

    This Ukrainian-Jewish teenager immigrated to San Francisco as a young child. Now on the brink of adulthood, she interviews her grandparents about...

    Yelena's Story - Everything You Need to Know to Be a Jew
  • 1979
    In the Red

    In the Red

    In the Red

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    A collage of live performance, intimate interviews, and cityscapes featuring San Francisco punk club Mabuhay Gardens. With Flipper's Will Shatter,...

    In the Red
  • 1995
    The Beach - San Francisco’s North Beach in the 50s

    The Beach - San Francisco’s North Beach in the 50s

    The Beach - San Francisco’s North Beach in the 50s

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    San Francisco's North Beach in the 50's - A mix of jazz, poetry and art - The Beach recreates the atmosphere that prevailed through first-hand...

    The Beach - San Francisco’s North Beach in the 50s
  • 2013
    American Vagabond

    American Vagabond

    American Vagabond

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    ​​American Vagabond is a documentary film about runaway queer youth living in the shadows of the promised city.

    American Vagabond
  • 2016
    Last Men Standing

    Last Men Standing

    Last Men Standing

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    “Last Men Standing,” the first feature-length documentary from The San Francisco Chronicle, Northern California’s largest newspaper...

    Last Men Standing
  • 1970
    Through Immigrants' Eyes

    Through Immigrants' Eyes

    Through Immigrants' Eyes

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    This Ukrainian-Jewish teenager immigrated to San Francisco as a young child. Now on the brink of adulthood, she interviews her grandparents about...

    Through Immigrants' Eyes
  • 1970
    Klaira's Story - Berezka

    Klaira's Story - Berezka

    Klaira's Story - Berezka

    01970HD

    Klaira presents a surprising vision of assimilation and a loving depiction of San Francisco. She and her grandparents explore how the experience of...

    Klaira's Story - Berezka
  • 1970
    To See One's Self

    To See One's Self

    To See One's Self

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    Born in Ozan, Arkansas in 1933, White traveled the world observing and documenting the Black experience from Nigeria to France to Chicago. He arrived...

    To See One's Self
  • 1970
    Street Games

    Street Games

    Street Games

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    Several days in the lives, and profiles of, the owners and players of the open air street chess tables in downtown San Francisco. An informative and...

    Street Games
  • 1995
    Premonition

    Premonition

    Premonition

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    The San Francisco Embarcadero Freeway comes to life in this elegy for modernity. The Freeway was deemed a triumph of engineering, a monument for...

    Premonition
  • 2003
    Straight Outta Hunter's Point

    Straight Outta Hunter's Point

    Straight Outta Hunter's Point

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    "Straight Outta Hunters Point", the award-winning Hip Hop documentary by Hunters Point filmmaker Kevin Epps is a stark cinematic portrait of a...

    Straight Outta Hunter's Point