California Movies

While California is going bankrupt, one business is booming. "How Weed Won the West" is the story of the growing medical cannabis / marijuana industry...

George Carlin's first ever comedy special, filmed live at the University of Southern California. Here, he talks about monopoly, flying on planes, rand...

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 Californi...

Bored socialite Florence Pancho Barnes decides to learn to fly.

Wealthy, reckless Californian Julie Merriday, accompanied by her boyfriend Harry Lindsay, an attorney, narrowly avoids crashing into a motorcycle driv...

Six rough and tumble motor cyclists meet at the side of an empty highway to plan their adventurous excursion cycling to Los Angeles. The burly bunch a...

A look at the "mod" culture of the, visiting the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, going from discotheques to dirt bike competitions, surfing, karate, g...

The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick Fora...

In this youthful drama, Tom, a 14- year-old who's parents have just divorced, is abruptly uprooted from his wealthy Chicago home and sent to the stran...

A very stressed young woman is dismayed to find herself behaving like her own mother, with whom she has an extremely combative relationship.

For decades, Barbara Dane lent her stellar singing voice to social-justice movements in the Bay Area and beyond, garnering an impressive FBI file alon...

A short film about the life and death of California's most famous post-apocalyptic hell-hole, the Salton Sea.

Rick and Reni came to California in search of a new lease on life. Unfortunately, all they found was each other... In a last ditch effort to save thei...

A suburban teen stars a pirate radio station in the back of his van and becomes a cult hero.

A Latina working in Los Angeles as a messenger is randomly discovered and fashioned into a pop music star.

Questions of race, identity and heritage are explored through the lives of young American women growing up as adoptees from China. These four distinct...

Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.

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

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

Documentary on water usage, money, politics, the transformation of nature, and the growth of the American west, shown on PBS as a four-part miniseries...