Movies: Haskell Wexler

A rookie NPR reporter on his first assignment, covering the armed occupation of Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1973, is treated as the enemy and ultimately arrested by the FBI for defying a government news blackout to embed with militant Indians....

Paul Newman joins ordinary people in the US and the USSR in taking on the military-industrial complex and campaigning for nuclear-war prevention....

Documentary about the Jamaican presidential campaign of Michael Manley...

This interview was conducted shortly after the late President Dr. Salvador Allende won the Chilean elections of 1970. Dr. Salvador Allende was the first democratically elected socialist president in Latin America. Three years later, Allende was kille...

Journalist Kevin McKiernan's powerful film takes a close look at the Kurds, compelling and controversial subjects whose identities seem to shift depending on the loyalties of those viewing them. To some, they are heroes fighting to rebuild war-torn I...

The filmmakers spoke to ex-political prisoners who had been tortured by the military government who were at that point supported by the US government....

Documentary portrait of former CIA official John Stockwell, who resigned after becoming disillusioned with the organization's activities....

Oscar-winning filmmaker Haskell Wexler returns to his hometown of Chicago to document the Occupy Movement's demonstrations against the 2012 NATO Summit....