Irving Lerner Movies

A young man tries to escape the South Side of 1920s Chicago.

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

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...

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

Three women come to Hollywood to break into the movies.

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...

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...