Irving Lerner Movies

A psychopathic young beachcomber pretends to befriend a mother and two daughters living at their summer home.

The invention and use of a jeep are described, from the viewpoint of one of the vehicles.

A short film about Pete Seeger and the birth of banjo music throughout the Southern United States.

A documentary about the girls of the Mustang Ranch, a legal brothel in Nevada.

A stark documentary film about the economic and educational crises the mountain people of rural Appalachia faced at the tail end of the Dust Bowl...

Inner city squalor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the subject of this documentary, which focuses on a child returning from school to his home, a...

Three women come to Hollywood to break into the movies.

Documentary profiling an Appalachian farming family struggling to scrape out a living. Link­ing education and economic development, The Children...

In 1936 and 1937 Harry Dunham shot "several hundred feet of film," being the first cameraman to penetrate into the Shensi region and obtain footage...

Muscle Beach was shown in competition at Cannes in 1949 and won a prize at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1951. The short became a cult...