James Rutenbeck Movies

Jimmy Carter ran for president on a wave of post-Watergate disaffection with Washington politics. But inexperience, inflation, recession, and the...

On August 1, 1942, a 22-year-old Mexican American man was stabbed to death at a party. To white Los Angelenos, the murder was just more proof that...

In a hard-pressed former mill town, an Irish-American Catholic parish must come to terms with the Latino city that surrounds it.

Kafi Dixon dreams of starting a land cooperative for women of color who have experienced trauma and disenfranchisement in the city of Boston. By day...

Robert Rooy's documentary follows DJ Savarese ("Deej"), a nonspeaking autistic writer and poet. The film explores his difficult early life, his quest...

"Nixon's Reversal: An Attempt to End Poverty" is the bizarre story of Richard Nixon's brief flirtation with guaranteed income

The former coal town of Widen, West Virginia. Once a model of paternalistic domination, Widen had been sold to the Pittston Corporation in 1963....

A documentary on the function of pornographic film and art during and after the Mexican revolution.

Broadcast by Channel 4 Television as part of the "Dispatches" series this documentary includes interviews with members of the Sendero Luminoso, gives...