California Movies

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

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

Tractor Harvesters at work in the San Joaquin Valley. A visit to Hopi House at the Grand Canyon.

PURSUING BEAUTY: The Architecture of Bernard Maybeck tells the story of a 19th century romantic who used 20th century materials to create buildings...

While California is going bankrupt, one business is booming. "How Weed Won the West" is the story of the growing medical cannabis / marijuana...

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...

An aspiring photojournalist takes a trip to Julian, CA to learn about the history of two wolf species and what caused their population decline...

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

Late 1970s television documentary on the people of Marin County, California, one of the wealthiest counties in the United States. The documentary...

A documentary short telling the story of Ezekiel Wheeler, a car enthusiast working to grow the first "car culture sanctuary" in Downtown Los Angeles....

Southern California’s Coachella Valley, including the communities of Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Desert Hot Springs, boasts hundreds of...

Shows the agriculture, trade and infrastructure of California's Central Valley, all made possible by irrigation.

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,...

This FitzPatrick's Traveltalks series short takes the viewer to various sites around California that resemble the geography, architecture, and...

A short film about the life and death of California's most famous post-apocalyptic hell-hole, the Salton Sea.

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

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...

"I made this film when I went to the San Francisco Art Institute, after graduating from Smith a semester early. It was my reaction to California....

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...