THE WHOLE SHEBANG

In his first one hundred days in office, in a effort to stem the effects of the Great Depression, President Roosevelt created many new federal...

January, 1947. The public receives the news of Al Capone's death with indifference, although twenty years earlier he had ruled Chicago's crime...

A documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the world today. The modern political power...

Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautionary legacy of the Great Depression. The filmmakers...

Jacobs’s hypnotic “3-D” adaptation of New York 1911, a long-forgotten Swedish documentary restored by MoMA in 2017, is...

Every American who has listened to the radio knows Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." The music of the folk singer/songwriter has been recorded by...

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

An Eternalism film.

As the unemployed Frank is sinking into depression, his son's naive but optimistic twist on the situation could be Frank's way out.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.