California Movies

Arabella Martinez, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2005 Community Leadership Awards (The San Francisco Foundation Award), was recognized for...

Activist James Richards is an icon of the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood. For 80 years, he has fought steadfastly to provide his community with...

Footage of the eruption of Mt. Lassen in Northern California. Mt. Lassen erupted from 1914-1917, the last volcano in the Cascades to erupt prior to...

Tells the story of the fierce battle of survival waged by plant life, animals and human beings on the desert. Shows where the desert areas of the...

A short film by Robert Kirste about the Angels Flight Railway in Bunker Hill.

Puente de la Costa Sur, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2004 Community Leadership Awards (John R. May Award) - for its creative, grassroots...

Designing with Nature provides a vivid account of a pivotal chapter in the architectural history of Northern California. Set in the late 19th and...

A silent documentary about the Long Beach earthquake of March 10, 1933, which had a magnitude of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings...

In Newport Bay, a small California coastal town, Summerween transforms summer into Halloween with parties, music, fairs, and horror movies. But when...

The San Francisco Foundation presents 2013 Community Leadership Awardee, Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC), with The San Francisco Foundation...

Based in the Western Addition neighborhood in San Francisco, CommunityGrows teaches cooking and gardening in local elementary schools and after...

Undercover for nearly 2 years, award winning director and musician, Adam Ross is finally going public with his latest film. CASH CROP is a feature...

They say that a certain wind from California makes people irritable. Halfway between documentary and experimental film, Santa Ana explores the...

California on Fire is a video and sound artwork by southern Californian artist Jeff Frost. It uses the catastrophic effects of climate change as a...

This is the mockumentary describing the rise of infamous candy bootlegger Sweet-E (Eddie)

Shows the agriculture, trade and infrastructure of California's Central Valley, all made possible by irrigation.