Haskell Wexler Movies

  • 2009
    In the Name of Democracy

    In the Name of Democracy

    In the Name of Democracy

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    The first officer in the United States Army to refuse deployment to Iraq on moral grounds, and attempts to clarify the issues that prompted Lt....

    In the Name of Democracy
  • 2011
    Bringing King to China

    Bringing King to China

    Bringing King to China

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    Bringing King to China is a father's "love letter" to his adult daughter, a young American woman struggling to bring Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream...

    Bringing King to China
  • 1971
    Conversation with Allende

    Conversation with Allende

    Conversation with Allende

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    This interview was conducted shortly after the late President Dr. Salvador Allende won the Chilean elections of 1970. Dr. Salvador Allende was the...

    Conversation with Allende
  • 2019
    From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A Reporter's Journey

    From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A Reporter's Journey

    From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A Reporter's Journey

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    A rookie NPR reporter on his first assignment, covering the armed occupation of Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1973, is treated as the enemy and...

    From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A Reporter's Journey
  • 2000
    Bus Rider's Union

    Bus Rider's Union

    Bus Rider's Union

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    A 1998 editorial in Time magazine made the claim that the city of Los Angeles "might just have the most inept public-transport system on the planet...

    Bus Rider's Union
  • 1953
    The Living City

    The Living City

    The Living City

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    This short explores the early planning innovations and the subsequent mistakes that resulted in developing urban sprawl, suburbia, and gentrification...

    The Living City
  • 2000
    Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But the Mountains

    Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But the Mountains

    Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But the Mountains

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    Journalist Kevin McKiernan's powerful film takes a close look at the Kurds, compelling and controversial subjects whose identities seem to shift...

    Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But the Mountains
  • 2013
    Medium Cool Revisited

    Medium Cool Revisited

    Medium Cool Revisited

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    Haskell Wexler revisits the themes of his previous work "Medium Cool" on the occasion of the Occupy demonstrations in Chicago in 2012.

    Medium Cool Revisited