Willard Van Dyke Movies

A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay...

This short Depression-era documentary describes the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States and laments the environmental...

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

Documentary examining the steel industry in Youngstown, Ohio during World War II. Focuses on steel production, including the smelting process,...

A short film about Pete Seeger and the birth of banjo music throughout the Southern United States.

Various juvenile delinquents have encounters with the local police.

A documentary examining the effects of industrial automation on a small American town.

"This unfinished civil rights-era film details how segregation affects the daily lives of African Americans, and includes portions of interviews with...

Documentary profiling an Appalachian farming family struggling to scrape out a living. Link­ing education and economic development, The Children...

Marriage training film dramatizing a partnership too fraught with conflicts to survive. Produced as part of a post-World War II initiative to make...

The blacklisted American documentarian Willard Van Dyke filmed this tale about tobacco workers in the heart of the Puerto Rican countryside. Heeding...

Nominated for an Academy Award, this live-action short film playfully chronicles the construction of the Tishman Building at 666 Fifth Avenue in New...

Short subject commissioned by the National Youth Association to show their efforts at providing job training for unemployed poor youth.

“Unhappy with the limited structure of league newsreels, Nykino, a splinter filmmaking collective, produced a MARCH OF TIME-type series under...

Film sponsored by Western Electric (AT&T's equipment manufacturing division), the builder of the United States Air Force's White Alice Communications...

The notable non-theatrical film distributor Thomas Brandon produced Tall Tales, a 1941 celebration of the American folk song featuring Josh White,...

Annual report to stockholders highlighting General Mills’s accomplishments of the past year.

A documentary/recruitment film originally intended for showings outside the United States to promote careers in public health and American methods in...

Internationalist film exploring the economic and political importance of Latin America to the United States. A document of the “Good Neighbor...