Complete Filmography
The Bikeriders
2024
Book
After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals. As the club transforms into a dangerou...
SNCC
2020
Director
Danny Lyon's SNCC (2020), brings together hundreds of never-before-seen black-and-white photographs made by Lyon during the years that he was employed...
Childhood
2018
Director
The prequel to Lyon’s Born to Film and Two Fathers, his two previous “family” films, this film covers the years 1942-56. Shot entirely on 8mm by Lyon’...
Wanderer
2018
Director
A follow-up to the “New Mexico trilogy” – Lyon revisiting some of the subjects of his past work, in particular the family of Willie Jaramillo, who fir...
Return to Leesburg Stockade
2018
Director
In the summer of 1963 15,000 African Americans are arrested across the South. Many of the protesters are high school students. In southwest Georgia fi...
Julian and John January 8, 2013
2013
Director
A conversation with Julian Bond and Congressman John Lewis January 8th and 9th, 2013
Nothing
2012
Director
As more and more Americans become robots, Lyon searches for the soul of Amerika, and finds this....
Shadowman
2010
Director
Danny Lyon takes an existential look at himself, the nature of his work and the vast emptiness of his home, the American South West.
Murderers
2006
Director
Filmed and recorded by Danny Lyon, and edited by Anne Barliant, Murderers tells the story of five murderers in three different states.
Two Fathers
2005
Director
The child star of BORN TO FILM, Raphael, is now a twenty-seven year old who returns to his fathers farm to plant corn and “experience fatherhood”. In...
Media Man
1994
Director
“Danny and Nancy Lyon’s ‘Media Man’ is a documentary in search of the truth. . . totally honest and very funny.” - Phillip Brockman, Curator of Media ...
Willie
1985
Director
Willie is a realistic film made in Bernalillo, home of Willie Jaramillo and filmmakers Danny and Nancy Weiss Lyon. Defiantly individual and implaccabl...
Born to Film
1982
Director
A family album from the visionary photojournalist Danny Lyon traces three generations of image-makers.
Dear Mark
1981
Director
A Comedy in which the artist's voice has been replaced by Gene Autry's. Lyon's homage to his friend, sculptor Mark di Suvero. From footage shot in 196...
El otro lado
1978
Director
Deep in Mexico two brothers sit in a plaza discussing a broken fuel pump. In a few days they will leave for work. With their father and some friends t...
Little Boy
1977
Director
Named for the atomic bomb built in New Mexico and dropped on Hiroshima, this is Lyon’s portrait of late-70s New Mexico – a look beneath the Sunbelt.
The Abandoned Children
1975
Director
Shot in 1974 by Danny Lyon and a single audio person, in twenty days in Santa Marta Colombia. The film shows the daily rhythms of a gang of boys who l...
El Mojado
1974
Director
El Mojado focuses on an undocumented worker from rural Chihuahua whom Lyon came to regard as “a genius.” Every spring Lyon would meet him near the bor...
Llanito
1971
Director
Llanito is the first of Lyon’s trio of films shot in and around Bernalillo, New Mexico, and it is also the screen debut of Willie Jaramillo. The twelv...
Soc. Sci. 127
1969
Director
A "comedy in a Houston tattoo parlour during the Vietnam war"-- In reality, a vérité-style documentary centered around Bill Sanders's 'painless' tatto...