Chris Marker Movies

A documentary look at striking workers in a textile plant in Besançon, France, centering on interviews with workers about their motivations...

At the end of the 1950s, French documentarian François Reichenbach spent eighteen months traveling the United States, documenting its diverse...

Composed entirely of still photographs taken by Chris Marker across 26 countries, If I Had Four Dromedaries presents a dialogue between three voices...

One of the first filmed portraits of a jazz musician.

Made for the centenary of France’s trade union laws, Chris Marker’s 2084 imagines a future in which a computer looks back on the labor...

A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the rediscovery of his masterpiece Happiness, and Russia's...

Chris Marker’s portrait of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky documents the director at work on his final film, The Sacrifice, during the last...

After the Romanian Revolution reached its peak during the Christmas Holidays of 1989, Romania’s Communist patriarch and his wife Elena were...

In 1962 Joris Ivens was invited to Chile for teaching and filmmaking. Together with students he made …A Valparaíso, one of his most...

Artur London was arrested in 1951 in a Stalinist purge, imprisoned and tortured for two years and forced to confess in the Slansky Trial, one of the...

This half-hour documentary by Chris Marker explores Aleksandr Medvedkin’s 1930s “Cine-Train,” a mobile film studio equipped with...

A personal history of France, told through photos by French photographer Denise Bellon.

A documentary film about occupational diseases shot in 1957 at the Francolor factory in Oissel. It takes the form of a scientific investigation to...

Filmmaker William Klein documents the Paris student riots that occurred in May of 1968.

Chris Marker’s documentary portrays Israel twelve years after its founding, blending location and archival footage to explore its diverse...

Everyday life of fishermen on Brittany's Ile de Sein.

Chris Marker and François Reichenbach document the massive anti–Vietnam War protest held in Washington, D.C., on October 21, 1967, where...

A series of 43 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each...

This documentary chronicles an Yves Montand concert for Chilean refugees in France.