Movies: Bay area

  • 2019
    Leo Patrick McArdle: Veterans Helping Veterans

    Leo Patrick McArdle: Veterans Helping Veterans (2019)

    Leo Patrick McArdle: Veterans Helping Veterans

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    A veteran creates support systems that help other veterans and their families....

    Leo Patrick McArdle: Veterans Helping Veterans
  • 2011
    Last Fast Ride: The Life, Love and Death of a Punk Goddess

    Last Fast Ride: The Life, Love and Death of a Punk Goddess (2011)

    Last Fast Ride: The Life, Love and Death of a Punk Goddess

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    Henry Rollins narrates Lilly Scourtis Ayers' no-holds-barred profile of volatile Bay Area punk legend Marian Anderson, whose hypnotic beauty, devil-may-care rebellion and shocking sexual exploits onstage launched her to infamy before tragically dying...

    Last Fast Ride: The Life, Love and Death of a Punk Goddess
  • 2009
    Aoki

    Aoki (2009)

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    A film documenting the life of Richard Aoki, a Japanese-American activist and founding member of the Black Panther Party....

    Aoki
  • 2023
    A Double Life

    A Double Life (2023)

    A Double Life

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    The grim news made international headlines: On August 21, 1971, prison authorities discovered a gun on famed Soledad Brother author, activist and San Quentin inmate George Jackson. A shootout ensued, killing Jackson, two other inmates and three guard...

    A Double Life
  • 2019
    Murder in the Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story

    Murder in the Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story (2019)

    Murder in the Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story

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    Murder In The Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story. In the early 1980’s, a small group of dedicated Bay Area headbangers shunned the hard rock of MTV and Hollywood hairspray bands in favor of a more dangerous brand of metal that b...

    Murder in the Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story
  • 2020
    The Last Mambo

    The Last Mambo (2020)

    The Last Mambo

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    San Francisco Bay Area salsa and Latin jazz performers and audiences struggle to maintain culture, creativity and community in the face of powerful socioeconomic and demographic changes. This fascinating history of the Bay Area Latin music scene expl...

    The Last Mambo
  • 2024
    Daly City

    Daly City (2024)

    Daly City

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    An Indonesian boy and his mother bring Chinese takeout to a church potluck and pretend it’s a traditional family dish. The boy's quiet observations lead him to question his parents' behavior as they strive to find a sense of belonging in a new countr...

    Daly City
  • 1980
    Cattaro Mutiny

    Cattaro Mutiny (1980)

    Cattaro Mutiny

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    In February of 1918, in Boka Kotorska, the greatest uprising of Austrian sailors broke out. Forty warships, with 6.000 sailors, rebelled against the Austrian Monarchy. The uprising was bloodily crushed after two days, and it's leaders shot....

    Cattaro Mutiny
  • 1980
    Mudflat

    Mudflat (1980)

    Mudflat

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    Years ago, artists would walk around the muck at the edge of the San Francisco Bay in Emeryville, and build loads of sculptures out there on the flats, created from driftwood and found objects that drivers would enjoy as they motored south on the old...

    Mudflat
  • 2015
    Druid Heights

    Druid Heights (2015)

    Druid Heights

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    Druid Heights is a short documentary film by Marcy Mendelson about a wild & wooly place. California’s hidden bohemia. Where sex, drugs and philosophy thrived among the eucalyptus just a few miles north of the Golden Gate....

    Druid Heights
  • 2004
    Shellmound

    Shellmound (2004)

    Shellmound

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    “Shellmound” is the story of how one location was transformed from a sacred center of pre-historic cultures to a commercial mecca for modern people. What began as a Native American burial ground three thousand years ago, was transformed first into an...

    Shellmound
  • 1969
    To See One's Self

    To See One's Self (1969)

    To See One's Self

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    Born in Ozan, Arkansas in 1933, White traveled the world observing and documenting the Black experience from Nigeria to France to Chicago. He arrived in the Bay Area in 1958, and opened the first Black owned art gallery in San Francisco....

    To See One's Self
  • 1971
    The Zodiac Killer

    The Zodiac Killer (1971)

    The Zodiac Killer

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    The San Francisco area is beset by a series of seemingly random murders without motive or pattern. The police are taunted by phone calls and letters. Could the maniac be the violent truck driver, or the seemingly mild-mannered mailman, or even a cop?...

    The Zodiac Killer
  • 2014
    Fog: Fact or Fiction?

    Fog: Fact or Fiction? (2014)

    Fog: Fact or Fiction?

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    It is well known that San Francisco is a city shrouded in fog. In this short documentary, a local Theoretical Meteorologist uncovers the surprising hidden truth behind San Francisco's notorious, world-famous fog. Or does he?...

    Fog: Fact or Fiction?
  • 2021
    What You’ll Remember

    What You’ll Remember (2021)

    What You’ll Remember

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    Homelessness in the United States takes many forms. For Elizabeth Herrera, David Lima and their four children, housing instability has meant moving between unsafe apartments, motels, relatives’ couches, shelters, the streets and their car. After 15 y...

    What You’ll Remember
  • 2021
    Tell Them We Were Here

    Tell Them We Were Here (2021)

    Tell Them We Were Here

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    Tell Them We Were Here is an inspirational feature-length documentary about eight artists who show us why art is vital to a healthy society and reminds us that we are stronger together....

    Tell Them We Were Here
  • 2022
    Town Destroyer

    Town Destroyer (2022)

    Town Destroyer

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    Controversy erupts over a New-Deal-era mural of the namesake of San Francisco’s George Washington High School. The thirteen-panel artwork "The Life of Washington" by Victor Arnautoff offers a view of the Founding Father both celebratory and critical,...

    Town Destroyer
  • 2025
    Fish, Prawn, Crab

    Fish, Prawn, Crab (2025)

    Fish, Prawn, Crab

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    A gritty crime drama set in Oakland about a Vietnamese brother trying to throw a Tết (Lunar New Year) celebration for his little sister. But when life gets in the way, he turns a traditional dice game, Bầu Cua, into a street hustle and builds an unde...

    Fish, Prawn, Crab
  • 2007
    Thizz Nation Presents - The Block Report

    Thizz Nation Presents - The Block Report (2007)

    Thizz Nation Presents - The Block Report

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    Thizz Nation takes you on a journey with some of Thizz & the San Francisco Bay Area's hottest rap stars. Take a visit to the real streets of The Crest, Fillmore, Pittsburg, East Palo Alto, Lakeview, North Richmond, Mission District, Sacramento, Thizz...

    Thizz Nation Presents - The Block Report
  • 1969
    Fil-Am

    Fil-Am (1969)

    Fil-Am

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    In 2003, a 16-year-old Filipino kid from the inner city is forced to leave his old life behind and acclimate to the terrifying new world of Santa Barbara, California....

    Fil-Am