Richard Leacock Movies

Twins Christopher and David gets into an untethered sailboat and inadvertently gets involved in a nearby sailboat race.

The classical nude as video in four male/female duets

In January 1989 the first Message to Man International Film Festival took place in Leningrad. This film, made during the festival, is a record of its...

Film produced and directed by Ricky Leacock, Edward Pincus, and MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies documenting the Centerbeam kinetic sculpture...

Robert Flaherty is credited with being the father of the modern documentary after making "Nanook of the North" and classics such as "Man of Aran" and...

A 38-year journey that the director began in 1972 as a young filmmaker and, shooting off and throughout many years, the director filmed many and...

In the hands of another director, the inner-workings of a magnet laboratory could have caused a whole classroom to fall asleep of boredom. No so when...

Toby is a heartwarming and entertaining portrait of one of the last travelling variety shows in the United States. Every summer, Toby, the troupe's...

Filmed at the October 1968 meeting in Hawaii of several hundred police chiefs of the International Association of Chiefs of Police as they watch...

A film focusing on a day in the life of two identical twin girls, one of whom is blind and mentally handicapped

In 1970 I went to New Orleans with Noel Parmentel to shoot fragments of the “The Moviegoer.” While we were down there my daughter Elspeth...

This brief portrait follows 28-year-old campaign manager John Grenier as he maps out strategies for Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential run and...

The film is about Richard Leacock father’s banana plantation and was made with a little help from Polly Church and Noel Florence.

The first candid film made on a foreign chief of state, three weeks in the life of Jawaharlal Nehru.

Short documentary on the life and work of photographer and filmmaker Morris Engel

A harrowing portrait of the struggle for school desegregation in New Orleans against the violent protests of white parents.

Documentary look behind the scenes of La Caravelle, an acclaimed French restaurant in New York City.

A film by the Drew-Leacock team.

A portrait of the two documentary filmmakers Jerzy Bossak and Richard Leacock.

Inspired by both new love and Gulliver's Travels, Les Oeufs à la Coque (aka Richard Leacock's Soft-Boiled Eggs), is a ravishingly beautiful,...