California Movies

Struggling to find the truth behind her son's mysterious death, an estranged mother must confront her own hidden guilt.

Romance with a lovely senorita convinces a contractor to abandon his plans to take over a Mexican housing district.

An Iron Curtain defector who has been living for years as a California winegrower learns that Soviet agents are stalking him.

A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans.

Based on the Helen Hunt Jackson novel of 1884 about a young woman of partial Native American descent, who experiences love and loss in 1800s...

Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.

Explore the 1928 collapse of the St. Francis Dam, the second deadliest disaster in California history. A colossal engineering and human failure, the...

One man, one camera, one goal...to capture the essence of adventure. An experimental, often abstract new type of filmmaking process creating color...

The daughter of a lumber man disguises herself and gets hired as the secretary of her father's rival.

A wordless portrait of sculptor Jessica Jackson Hutchins shows us the artist in the process of transforming clay into uncanny forms.

Archaeology students uncover a prehistoric manster… part man, part monster, and all bad attitude with a cheap costume. This film was completed...

During the Civil War, three American soldiers are sent, disguised as civilians, to California to gather evidence that Southern agents there are...

One man decides to wage war against a gang of teenage punks besieging an affluent California community. Based on a true incident.

Explorations in 21st Century American Architecture Series: Ray Kappe has long been a cult figure in the architectural scene in and around Los...

This FitzPatrick's Traveltalks series short takes the viewer to various sites around California that resemble the geography, architecture, and...

At Arcata, California, testing technology for landing planes in fog. Also: a high-tech barber shop in Westwood Village, California; manufacture of...

The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.

Palm Springs, a small desert oasis 100 miles East of Los Angeles was Sinatra's true home for 50 years. During his brief yet turbulent marriage to Ava...

Troubled teenager Scott aspires to be a professional drag race car driver. Scott makes several faltering attempts to break into the world of drag...

Documentary where rich social history frames a spirited debate on the development of water infrastructure throughout the USA.