Charles Guggenheim

5.9 MovieFor a class project, three college students decide to invent an unfounded rumor about the most popular girl on campus. But as the rumor spreads, it begins to spiral...

Gossip

2000

6.1 MovieCareer criminals and a local youth carefully plan and rehearse the robbery of a Missouri bank.

The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery

1959

6.8 MovieThis moving film tribute to a man who had hoped to win the presidency created a historic moment when it brought the Chicago Democratic National Convention to a...

Robert Kennedy Remembered

1968

7.3 MovieOn May 30, 1889 the South Fork Dam, which maintained a pleasure lake for wealthy Pittsburgh industrialists and their families, failed due to very heavy rains and poor...

The Johnstown Flood

1989

7.3 MovieA short history of civil rights movements in the US. Winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary, Short Subject

A Time for Justice

1994

7.5 MovieDocuments the evolution of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Arch from concept drawings, to fabrication of its stainless steel sections, to assembly and...

Monument to the Dream

1967

7.2 MovieThe film expresses the history of oppression, discrimination, violence and hate in America. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

The Shadow of Hate: A History of Intolerance in America

1995

6.3 Movie"A Place in the Land" is the story of George Perkins Marsh, Frederick Billings and Laurance S. Rockefeller, three seminal figures in the history of the conservation...

A Place in the Land

1998

6.5 MovieA City Decides chronicles the events that led to the integration of the St. Louis public schools in 1954. An Oscar-nominated short documentary from 1956.

A City Decides

1956

7.0 MovieChildren Without is a 1964 American short documentary film directed by Charles Guggenheim, about a young girl and her brother growing up in the housing projects of...

Children Without

1965

6.5 MovieHigh Schools is a 1984 American documentary film produced and directed by Charles Guggenheim. It is based on Ernest L. Boyer's book, High School, and was filmed on...

High Schools

1984

7.0 MovieAn award-winning documentary of the invasion of Normandy in World War II, using rare archival films and pictures from British, American, and German archives. The...

D-Day Remembered

1994

9.0 MovieDuring the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944, thousands of American GIs were captured by German forces. Berga: Soldiers of Another War, the final work in the...

Berga: Soldiers of Another War

2003

MovieSet in Brazil, this drama is based on a short story by Oscar Wilde about a fisherman who meets and falls in love with a mermaid, giving up his soul in the process.

The Fisherman and His Soul

1961

MovieA documentary about the design/construction of the National Gallery of Art's East Building in Washington, D.C.

A Place to Be

1979

MovieThe story of Ellis Island and the American immigration experience. This film is a tribute to the 18 million men, women and children who made the torturous journey...

Island of Hope, Island of Tears

1989

MovieSt. Louis’s annual report to taxpayers. The Big City visually illustrated how tax dollars were put to good use and was considered a “graphic, fluent and compact...

The Big City