This program tells the story of a hustler and self-promoter, a man who had never designed or overseen the building of a suspension bridge. Joseph Strauss spent thirteen years wrangling with politicians, arguing over designs and fighting lawsuits from opponents before he was able to break ground. By completion, Strauss, his designers and his construction crews had built what has since been called one of the "Seven Wonders of the Modern World."
Completely topless. Completely uninhibited. The craze that began in San Francisco is now exploding a...
On June 13, 1978, the punk bands the Cramps and the Mutants played a free show for psychiatric patie...
Controversy erupts over a New-Deal-era mural of the namesake of San Francisco’s George Washington Hi...
A homeless musician finds meaning in his life when he starts a friendship with dozens of parrots.
The Bridge is a controversial documentary that shows people jumping to their death from the Golden G...
The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Franci...
Following the death of his wife, Ip Man travels to San Francisco to ease tensions between the local ...
On April 18th, 1906, San Francisco witnessed its most devastating natural disaster – an earthquake t...
This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew...
The Fall of the I-Hotel brings to life the battle for housing in San Francisco. The brutal eviction ...
A reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the...
In this rags to riches origin story, Lady Camden struggles to manage the demands of her freshly mint...
Monika Treut explores the worlds and thoughts of several female to male transgendered individuals. A...
A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the 1969 Na...
Legendary underground cartoonist Spain Rodriguez and his friends -- cartoonists Robert Crumb and Jay...
A film that uses literary, structural, autobiographical, and performance metaphors to construct a se...
The Rejected is a made-for-television documentary film about homosexuality, the first of its kind to...
When a young woman is shot by an undocumented immigrant on Pier 14 in San Francisco, the incident ig...
Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians ...