California Movies

Anita Morell arrives by stagecoach in a small California town to find her father murdered and his property being stolen by two unscrupulous townsmen....

A rancher who has staked a claim during the California gold rush goes after the gang of murderous claim-jumpers who have stolen his claim and murdered...

A woman journeys to Spanish California to marry a Spanish officer, but on the way she meets and falls in love with an American adventurer who is part...

Americans come west to California in the hope of peaceful settlement. Roy and Gabby sing a duet: "We're Not Coming Out Tonight." Other songs include "...

Home movie collection of the Bohulano Family of Stockton, CA. Footage dates between the 1950s-1970s.

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

Nate Ryan returns home to Bundy Canyon to visit his dying father. With the help of Amal, a compulsively unfiltered hospice nurse, Nate opens old wound...

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...

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

Arizona youth enjoy sun, surf and music in Malibu, Calif.

When a prototype weapon is stolen from a government facility a software engineer unknowingly becomes involved when he receives the key disk needed for...

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...

In a contemporary reimagining of the American West, three young women - a snake hunter, a New York artist, and a rodeo queen - challenge the idea of w...

Zara Montalve, half Spanish and half America, returns to her native California in time to see her parents murdered for their hacienda and gold by Sher...

Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous b...

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...

Revolutionaries rise up against the Mexican government in California in 1841 is told through the story of doomed Mexican general Don Francisco Hernand...

Three young tourists buy a sunglass camera to record their trip to Los Angeles – and get mixed up in a drug deal gone wrong.

A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she...

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...