California Movies

One filmmaker's exploration of natural light in California and its influence on people's lives.

A family deals with loss of a family member while reflecting on moments of happiness

An aerial journey through California's coastline.

1973 was a turbulent time. The world was overcome with war and social change. Yet on Mountain Drive, deep in the hills of Santa Barbara, California-...

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

A man embarks on a treasure hunt to find a new beginning.

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

The daughter of a lumber man disguises herself and gets hired as the secretary of her father's rival.

Feel the rush of the breathtakingly beautiful National Parks of California with one deep breath of the summer air.

They say that a certain wind from California makes people irritable. Halfway between documentary and experimental film, Santa Ana explores the...

A description and enactment of the discovery of gold by James Marshall, and the role played by John Sutter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

Footage of Devil's Gate Dam insterspersed with text occultist text by Jack Parsons, co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who some believe...

Wendell is trying to make peace with his earthly deterioration in the face of late-stage cancer. His son Josh is fighting it, fleeing it, denying it....

"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....

This Traveltalk series short follows the route laid out by the famous chain of 21 Spanish missions, begun in 1769 and extending northward for over...

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.

The connection between these three short films is initially indicated by their sound and music: In all three films, Lee Anne Schmitt does without...

Isolated in Mexican South Baja California desert, exciting and fragile, rancher´s life is showed by amazing as unknown characters.

Spring 2012 the Swedish band La Fleur Fatale embarked on a journey to and through California. During two weeks they played with legendary psych...