California Movies

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

Low-level narcotics offenders too often cycle in and out of jail, re-offending soon after they hit the streets. District Attorney Kamala D. Harris...

Released on the 10th of December, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Named after the Shoshonean word for "Earth", this is the third and final part of Benning's "California Trilogy" and his approach to the Californian...

In this surreal romance, two young lovers lose their sense of identity through the powerful, and manipulated, emotions of love.

Home movie collection of the Bohulano Family of Stockton, CA. Footage dates between the 1950s-1970s.

Wendy, a Chinese “parachute kid,” is struggling to adapt to her new American life.

Questions of race, identity and heritage are explored through the lives of young American women growing up as adoptees from China. These four...

The film details an entire live performance from Devo's 1996 reunion tour with Lollapalooza, opening for Metallica. The band performs a stripped down...

An erotic dancer turns up dead in a California resort recently inherited by a man & his family.

Over three consecutive nights, R&B and hip-hop's most celebrated stars appear in a concert staged on the infamous prison island of Alcatraz,...

A portal, a sorceress, a fictional device to portray existence as a moment encapsulated inside an instantaneous photograph to present fragmented...

This moving, family documentary goes behind the scenes at The Big Bear Alpine Zoo, which is only one of two high elevation, Alpine Zoos in the United...

In the weeks leading to Allie moving across the country, her best friend Jacob reckons with life without her in this intimate story of leaving and...

Through concerts and interviews, folk-progressive group Harmonium takes Quebec culture to California. This documentary full of colour and sound,...

Released on March 13th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

After three British women went missing from a motel in California, detectives are on the hunt for the cryptic killer but will they find him in time...

Beyond the sensationalized stories dominating the news, real people share their unfiltered experiences of life in San Francisco, a city far more...

Alexandra Jackonetti recounts the building of a children's playground of macrame in Bolinas, Calif., including her conception of the project and the...

A series of static shots of the buildings of the California Mission system, as they existed in 1907. Because many of the Mission buildings were in...