Andy Warhol

Born: 1928-08-06

Born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading artist of the 1960s Pop art movements. He ventured into a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing, and controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics. Warhol died on February 22, 1987, in New York City.


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Tootsie

as Himself (uncredited)
Released: 1982-12-17

When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego – Dorothy...

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Detroit Rock City

as Self - at Studio 54 (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1999-08-13

In 1978, a Kiss concert was an epoch-making event. For the three teen fans in Detroit Rock City...

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Andre the Giant

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2018-04-10

An ambitious and wide-ranging documentary exploring Andre’s upbringing in France, his celebrated...

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The Velvet Underground

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 2021-10-15

Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story....

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Studio 54

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2018-06-15

Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s hedonism - a place that not only redefined the nightclub, but...

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Mickey: The Story of a Mouse

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2022-03-19

Mickey Mouse is one of the most enduring symbols in our history. Those three simple circles take...

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Take Your Pills

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2018-03-09

In a hypercompetitive world, drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders and others a...

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Public Speaking

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2010-11-22

A feature-length documentary starring Fran Lebowitz, a writer known for her unique take on...

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Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2019-09-29

Legendary and controversial attorney Roy Cohn was a power broker in the rough and tumble world...

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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2010-01-25

A thoughtful portrait of a renowned artist, this documentary shines the spotlight on New York...

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As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

as Self
Released: 2021-10-05

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American...

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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

as Self
Released: 2013-11-23

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

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WWE: Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology

as Andy Warhol
Released: 2006-10-17

The best and most memorable matches from Hulk Hogan's career.

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David Bowie: Five Years

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2013-05-25

Featuring a wealth of previously unseen archive, this film looks at how Bowie continually...

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The Queen

as Self - Jury Member
Released: 1968-06-17

In 1967, New York City is host to the Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant. This documentary...

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Cocksucker Blues

as Self
Released: 1972-07-26

This fly-on-the-wall documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their 1972 North American Tour,...

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Empire

as Self (uncredited)
Released: 1965-03-06

A single static wide shot of the Empire State Building from early evening until nearly 3 am the...

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David Bowie & The Story of Ziggy Stardust

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2012-06-22

BBC documentary telling the story of how David Bowie arrived at one of the most iconic creations...

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Mondo Hollywoodland

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2021-08-03

Homage to the cult classic “Mondo Hollywood”, a groovy mushrooms dealer and a man from the 5th...

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The Universe of Keith Haring

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2008-04-01

A portrait of New York artist Keith Haring. The film looks to Haring as an artistic role model...

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William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2010-11-05

A riveting and emotional journey into the world of writer William S. Burroughs, a man considered...

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Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2023-03-24

The quixotic journey of Nam June Paik, one of the most famous Asian artists of the 20th century,...

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L'Amour Fou

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 2010-09-22

This documentary examines the life and work of the late fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent,...

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Tintin and I

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2004-01-16

Why do the comic-strip Adventures of Tintin, about an intrepid boy reporter, continue to...

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Andy Warhol

as Self
Released: 1987-06-09

The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the...

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End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2003-01-19

A years-in-the-making documentary on the legendary punk band the Ramones. Through a mixture of...

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Identikit

as English Lord
Released: 1974-05-20

Lise, a mentally disturbed spinster, experiences a series of bizarre encounters while in Rome as...

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Lions Love

as Self (uncredited)
Released: 1969-10-12

Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie...

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Danny Says

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2015-03-18

DANNY SAYS is a documentary unveiling the amazing journey of Danny Fields. Fields has played a...

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Beautiful Darling

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2010-04-02

James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known...

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Halston

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2019-06-07

From Iowa to Studio 54, this investigation into the rags-to-riches story of America’s first...

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Imagine

as Self (uncredited)
Released: 1972-12-23

A surreal, half-fiction, half real life footage of a day in the life of John lennon and Yoko...

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Normal Love

as uncredited
Released: 1963-01-01

The feature length Normal Love is Jack Smith’s follow up to his now legendary film Flaming...

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The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'

as Self
Released: 1980-01-01

Ernie Anderson narrates this look at the making of Richard Donner's blockbuster 1978 film....

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Uncle Howard

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2017-03-10

When Howard Brookner lost his life to AIDS in 1989, the 35-year-old director had completed two...

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The Velvet Underground and Nico: A Symphony of Sound

as Himself
Released: 1966-02-08

The film depicts a rehearsal of The Velvet Underground including Nico, and is essentially one...

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Cocaine Cowboys

as Self
Released: 1979-10-05

A rock band is on the brink of super-stardom. Until now they've juggled their music career with...

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Tally Brown, New York

as uncredited
Released: 1979-05-04

Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von...

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Warhol

as Self
Released: 1973-03-27

David Bailey, self-taught photographer and one of the prime architects of the Swinging Sixties,...

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Poem Posters

as Self
Released: 1967-05-19

... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil...

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Jonas in the Desert

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1994-01-01

Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world...

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Birth of a Nation

as Self
Released: 1997-08-06

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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Carol Doda Topless at the Condor

as Self (Archive Footage)
Released: 2024-03-22

On a fateful San Francisco night in the early 60s, Condor nightclub performer Carol Doda was...

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Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1990-07-18

Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks...

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The Velvet Underground: Psychiatrist's Convention, NYC, 1966

as uncredited
Released: 1966-01-14

The Velvet Underground's first public appearance, filmed in Super 8 at a Psychiatrist's...

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Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film

as Himself
Released: 2006-09-01

Ric Burns unearths rarely seen footage and offers keen observations on the life and artistic...

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Model

as Self
Released: 1981-09-16

MODEL shows male and female models at work on TV commercials, fashion shows, magazine covers,...

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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1986-02-22

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community...

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The Cool School

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2008-03-07

How LA Learned to Love Modern Art. A lesson in how a few renegade artists built an art scene...

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It Came from Kuchar

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2009-09-22

It Came from Kuchar is the definitive, feature documentary about the legendary, underground...

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In the Fabulous Underground

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2012-07-31

A documentary about Anton Perich, brilliant Croatian artist, naturalized New Yorker. He worked...

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Andy Warhol and His Clan

as Himself
Released: 1970-01-31

The film explores the personality of Andy Warhol, through his work in painting and film and...

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TV Party

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2005-08-03

From 1978 to 1982, Glenn O'Brien hosted a New York city public access cable TV show called TV...

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Underground New York

as Self
Released: 1968-01-01

A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a...

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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

as uncredited
Released: 1985-01-01

Nan Goldin's slide show “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” converted, mixed and screened as a...

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John Cale: An Exploration of His Life & Music

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1998-12-18

Follows John Cale, a Welsh musician and producer, who founded the legendary 60s and 70s NY rock...

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Painters Painting

as uncredited
Released: 1973-03-19

Painters Painting: The New York Art Scene 1940-1970 is a 1972 documentary directed by Emile de...

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The Cars: Heartbeat City

as uncredited
Released: 1984-09-01

The Cars were on the cutting edge when it came to music videos. And this Heartbeat City video...

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Andy Warhol, Fluorescent

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2016-12-31

A documentary on the legendary creator and victim of pop art. Warhol, revolutionary and...

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Donald Duck's 50th Birthday

as Self
Released: 1984-11-13

Donald is shown in both animated and costumed form, interacting with emcee Dick Van Dyke and...

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Happy Birthday to John

as Self
Released: 1997-10-09

On October 9th, 1972 an exhibition of John Lennon/Yoko Ono's art, designed by the Master of the...

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Underground and Emigrants

as Self
Released: 1976-10-25

In this film, outspokenly homosexual filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has documented his encounters...

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Andy Warhol Eating a Hamburger

as Himself
Released: 1982-03-26

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Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread

as Himself
Released: 1987-03-18

Penn Jillette and Teller are called upon to display their unique brand of humor to save...

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Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks

as Self
Released: 1964-01-01

This compilation of Gerard Malanga's short films consists of a collection of extremely rare...

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Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections

as Self
Released: 1990-06-01

This intimate portrait of Andy Warhol pulls together a unique library of material shot by New...

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Curious: The Velvet Underground in Europe

as Self (archived footage)
Released: 1993-12-01

Spotlights the Velvet Underground's 1993 reunion tour of Europe, interspersing footage of the...

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Basquiat: Rage to Riches

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2017-10-07

This film tells Jean-Michel's story through exclusive interviews with his two sisters Lisane and...

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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2007-04-11

In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker...

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The New Cinema

as Self
Released: 1968-01-01

Between the French La Nouvelle Vague and the Italian Neorealismo, Europe had been undergoing a...

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The Shock of the New

as Self
Released: 1980-09-21

A definitive eight part series on the rise and fall of the modern art movement presented by...

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66 Scenes from America

as Self (uncredited)
Released: 1982-03-27

As a visual narrative it is reminiscent of a pile of postcards from a journey, which indeed is...

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That Summer

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2017-09-01

Albert and David Maysles' classic GREY GARDENS immortalized the estate of Edith and Little Edie...

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End of the Art World

as Himself
Released: 1971-06-01

This is the debut documentary made by Alexis Krasilovsky, author of "Women Behind The Camera"...

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Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2016-04-14

Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet (Isabelle Colin Dufresne) and Lower East Side Icon Taylor Mead...

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This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1999-10-12

Unpredictably, as most of my life’s key events have been, for a period of several years of late...

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Andy Warhol

as Himself
Released: 1965-09-10

Andy Warhol is a lyrical exploration of Warhol's creative process by filmmaker, painter, and...

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A Night with Lou Reed

as Himself (uncredited)
Released: 1983-09-27

A Lou Reed concert at the Bottom Line in New York City, 1983. Tracklist: Sweet Jane, I'm Waiting...

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Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol

as uncredited
Released: 1976-01-01

In 1969 Michel Auder began a series of video diaries that chronicled the art scene in downtown...

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Nelson Sullivan

as uncredited
Released: 1989-07-03

Nelson Sullivan, a videographer in Manhattan circa 1983 to 1989, documented a large chunk of the...

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Blank Generation

as Self
Released: 1980-10-02

Nada, a beautiful French journalist on assignment in New York, records the life and work of an...

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Persistence of Vision

as Himself
Released: 1984-01-01

A short documentary profile of the Anthology Film Archives, shot on the eve of the move to the...

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Who Gets to Call It Art?

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2006-02-01

Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler reflects on the 1960s pop art scene in New York.

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American Art in the 1960s

as Himself
Released: 1972-01-01

During this critical decade in American life, artists built on the styles of the 1950s. An...

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I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance

as Self
Released: 2017-09-01

In his latest film, Mekas shares what he describes as “a valentine to Yoko Ono,” done in his...

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The Illiac Passion

as Poseidon
Released: 1967-12-30

Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of...

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Walt Disney: One Man's Dream

as Self
Released: 1981-12-12

Various entertainers and artists look at how Walt Disney influenced these areas through his work...

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Roy Lichtenstein

as Self
Released: 1975-01-01

In conversation with Roy Lichtenstein, critic Lawrence Alloway places Pop Art on a continuum of...

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Horse

as uncredited
Released: 1965-08-28

Warhol plunked a horse named Mighty Byrd in the middle of the Factory for this dark, homoerotic...

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Edie: Girl on Fire

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2010-01-01

Model, film star, muse, socialite, icon. Edie Sedgwick was the very first "it" girl of the Andy...

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Joan of Arc

as uncredited
Released: 1967-01-10

The story of Joan of Arc as applied to the present revolution in arts and more. The Gothic is...

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Full Circle: Before They Were Famous

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2010-12-03

An astonishing journey of the images taken by William John Kennedy in the early 60's of Robert...

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Superartist

as Himself
Released: 1967-01-01

Documentarians Juan Drago and Bruce Torbet follow a surprisingly relaxed and open Andy Warhol,...

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The Feature

as uncredited
Released: 2008-11-28

The Feature does not reconcile fact and fiction; instead, it blurs the definitions seemingly...

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Con Artist

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2010-11-12

A docu-comedy feature film about a once-famous millionaire "business artist" forced to confront...

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Andy Warhol - The American Dream

as uncredited
Released: 2023-09-14

Andy Warhol's answer to the question of where he comes from is well known: "From nowhere". His...

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Vies et morts d'Andy Warhol

as uncredited
Released: 2005-11-25

Icon of pop art, Andy Warhol has marked the 20th century. This film pays tribute to him with the...

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Andy Warhol

as Self
Released: 1972-01-02

With a rambling, unstructured style that echoes Andy Warhol’s own approach to filmmaking, this...

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Andy Makes a Movie

as Himself
Released: 1967-02-22

This pop movie about Warhol includes appearances by Henry Geldzahler, Edie Sedgwick and The...

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Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of

as uncredited
Released: 1964-02-18

Shot during Warhol's cross-county trip to Los Angeles during his second exhibition at the Ferus...

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Grimace

as uncredited
Released: 1967-01-01

Produced over several years between 1962 and 1967, Grimaces shows the faces of over a hundred...

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Andy Warhol's America

as Self (Archive Footage)
Released: 2022-01-06

A pioneering artist and cultural icon. His work is a history of 20th-century America. A country...

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Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1989-01-01

Documentary on Andy Warhol's cinema of the sixties, made for Channel 4 in association with The...

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Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes - Episode 1

as Himself
Released: 1985-01-01

Episode one of Warhol's MTV talk show featuring interviews with artists, including Robin Leach,...

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Match Girl

as uncredited
Released: 1966-04-28

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The South Bank Show: Velvet Underground

as archive footage
Released: 1986-04-25

Season 9 episode 23 of The South Bank Show, highlighing the velvet underground

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The Merv Griffin Show

as Self
First aired: 1962-10-01

The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran...

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The Andy Warhol Diaries

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 2022-03-09

After he's shot in 1968, Andy Warhol begins documenting his life and feelings. Those diaries,...

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70 Years of Youth Revolt

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 2020-11-21

A look back at the social movements, revolts and youth subcultures from the post-war period to...

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Le Siècle des icônes

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 2022-12-27

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Karl Lagerfeld : Révélation

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 2024-01-11

Karl Lagerfeld was an enigmatic figure who spent his life reinventing himself. He ruled the...

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