Irving Lerner Movies

A stark documentary film about the economic and educational crises the mountain people of rural Appalachia faced at the tail end of the Dust Bowl...

This film was cobbled together from Japanese newsreels and propaganda films, to boost home-front morale, filmed during World War Two.

At a skid row mission, a cleric opines as men wait to eat. After his sermon, he brings out a pie and cuts it into small slices. The two men at the...

The story of Charles Darwin's journey on The Beagle.

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

Commissioned by the U.S. Office of War Information, this short film features conductor Arturo Toscanini leading the NBC Symphony Orchestra, tenor Jan...

The invention and use of a jeep are described, from the viewpoint of one of the vehicles.

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

Raw footage received from photographer Harry Dunham revealed never before seen images of Mao Tse-Tung and the Eighth Route Army, inspiring Frontier...

The least typical, least known, and most controversial of director Flaherty's films depicts a vast and vague territory across the southern and...