Elmer Bernstein Movies

The story of the 1960 US Presidential election

Stella Farrell is a southern belle in 1860's Charleston, South Carolina who is determined to hang onto her aristocratic family's mansion following...

A Rough Sketch features a linear view of our universe from the human scale to the sea of galaxies, then directly down to the nucleus of a carbon...

2ⁿ is a story about the exponential growth of numbers raised to powers. Part of the Mathematica Peep Shows, one of five films made to accompany...

The life and work of the astronomer Nicolas Copernicus are shown by means of images of his writings and drawings and places he was associated with.

John Dillinger had a very public, whirlwind career until authorities took him off the streets for good.

The subject of problem solving begins with an explanation of what the Eameses called “the information machine, “a device for presenting...

A documentary about the making of "To Kill a Mockingbird."

Filmmaker Phillip Dye's documentary explores the many biblical adaptations Hollywood has produced throughout the years, including The Ten...

Documentary about the making of "Heavy Metal" (1981), produced for the DVD Special Edition.

An interesting look at the world of toy trains, shot from the perspective of the little world itself. Originally created for model train enthusiasts,...

A boy enters a pet shop intending to buy a dog with a hip problem. The shop owner tries to convince him not to but the boy has other ideas.

Charles and Ray produced this film for IBM’s pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. The Information Machine was the first...

Various kinds of tops are shown spinning.

This 1954 feminist version of "Robinson Crusoe" stars Amanda Blake as a woman shipwrecked on a jungle island. Also with George Nader and Rosalind...

This film reveals design proposals for the IBM pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair. It incorporates photography and animation to present the...

The short film uses a variety of familiar examples that have the feedback principle in common to present a broad view of the phenomena present in...

The Eames House and Studio is explored via a series of slides.

From hardware to software, the basics of then-current computing technology is explained.

Using live-action footage, animation, and still photography of a scale model, this film presents the Eames unique multimedia concept for making the...