David Hoffman's Films

This is a clip from a episode from my television series, Making Sense of the Sixties. My thesis was that it was largely the experiences that kids had in the 1950s that created many of the social and some of the political e...

This is a portion of a documentary I made for television in 1968. The documentary was called Bridge Over Troubled Water and used Paul Simon's famous tune. It looked at some of the people having a hard time at that time. I ...

This is a clip from my 6 part television series, Making Sense Of The Sixties. It includes an extraordinary piece of the film where the great rocker Little Richard is demonstrating his skills to Hollywood--circa 1950s. You ...

To see the complete documentary visit https://www.createspace.com.... This is just a portion of my Emmy award-winning documentaries on great photojournalists.

Another in my series of made-in-a-day documentaries with a wonderfully unique and creative photographic artist-- Bryant Austin. Here is Bryant's website - http://www.studiocosmos.com . To see more of my work, please look a...

To tell this story, I created a style which is in a way, kind of like a home movie, but with an unfolding story similar to the best of my professional documentaries. The Foundation and Liquid Robotics have been using it ex...

This is a clip from my 6 part television series, Making Sense of the Sixties. It was a thrillI to spend time and interview Dennis Banks. Uniquely articulate. I am very proud of the work I did to create a series that helps...

This is a clip from my 6 part television series, Making Sense of the Sixties. I am very proud of the work I did to create a series that helps younger generations understand a bit better what happened back then. See more of...

This is a clip from my 6 part television series, Making Sense of the Sixties. I am very proud of the work I did to create a series that helps younger generations understand a bit better what happened back then. See more of...

This is a clip from my 6 part television series, Making Sense of the Sixties. I am very proud of the work I did to create a series that helps younger generations understand a bit better what happened back then. See more of...

This clip is from my 6 part television documentary, Making Sense of the Sixties. I grew up in Levittown Long Island New York -- suburbia. I made this series in part to present the experiences that I, and tens of millions o...

This short clip is from my 6 part television series, Making Sense Of The Sixties. I am proud of the series end of my attempt to make sense of the time when I grew up. Growing your hair longer was indeed a comment on you an...

Just a short comment from a documentary that I made many many years ago that involved an interview with the glorious creator of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry. I feel honored to have made films that gave me the chance to dial...

You can get this entire film at https://www.createspace.com.... I spent a year searching for this wonderful old footage and finding folks who were there to experience these events, now long gone. My resulting one-hour ...

You can get the entire film at https://www.createspace.com... . Make sure you watch enough to see the Gangnam Style dancer back in the 1950s. In the early 1990s, I went back to the Appalachians to tell the complete st...

I directed and shot this scene and the feature length documentary, Nashville Sound, way back in 1970. There I was on the stage with Dolly Parton singing alongside Porter Wagoner at one of her 1st Opry performances. An unbe...

You can get this entire film at https://www.createspace.com... . This clip from the documentary gives a sense of the wonderful history of mountain style clogged folk country dancing. It tells the story of the 1st Music...

To see the complete film, visit https://www.createspace.com... . I got the chance to make this documentary with these unique girls on a trip to London to teach double Dutch to English girls. The moment they entered a f...

To see the complete film visit https://www.createspace.com... . I was honored to make this documentary for airing on PBS many years ago with a group of Marines in North Norway 300 miles below the Arctic Circle. In all ...

Timmy Page was 14 years old when I made this commercial for Kodak in 1969. I had just won major American film festivals for a very low-budget documentary that I made on him. You can see part of this whole hilarious short s...

While I worked at General Magic back in 1992 as a vice president, I created videos to launch the company in NYC and produced a series of training and educational videos to increase target audience awareness. I found this i...

You can order a special edition of the full feature documentary at https://www.createspace.com... . The documentary tells a wonderful story about America during the time of Sputnik and what happened after. So many scie...

I made this commercial 25 years ago. At the time, it was a radically new style using real doctors etc. I'm sure the science is ancient today. To see more of my commercial work, use the search word commercials on my YouTube...

This is my mentor, Tony Schwartz, showing how he used shame to influence political and social campaigns, in his day using radio. Today, social media can be used the same way. To hear more from this media guru, search othe...

I made this back in 1980. The microprocessor was new and start up Mostek was purchased by United Technologies. I was making a TV commerical series to help brand UTC as a great technology company. Both Marc Porat and Bob Th...

I found a copy of this in my archives. I made it back in 1979 with the great mime Tony Montanaro as part of a series for United Technologies (UTC). My job was to create a series that made America aware of United Technologi...

To get a high quality DVD of this, go to https://www.createspace.com... . I used to live in the wonderful town of Rockport Maine and for their 100th anniversary, I created this video. It tells a fascinating story with ...

I made this Clio award winning TV commercial many years ago as part of a series in support of the hearing impaired. The style was unique at the time and the series received many national awards. As a result of the public r...

I made this Clio award winning television commercial many years ago. At the time AT&T was THE phone company and was honoring its operators. Though old, I am proud of the style and the emotion it presented to its audiences ...

I made this Clio award winning TV commercial many years ago recording the story of David Gordon Wilson. it was part of a TV series that I created for MOBIL called Imagination and it connected the imagination of great indiv...

This 1980 national news report tells the story of MaineLine Greeting Cards, a company I founded with Perri Ardman & Joyce Boaz. The company boomed for several years creating cards made "for women by women." Then Hallmark i...

I made this movie to sell and "new technology" that AT&T was developing. It seems like ancient history now. At the time when I created this animation, the style was totally new. To see more of my work, please visit www.the...

My man-on-the-street team and I have been doing these videos at cities throughout the West using my new GoPro extremely lightweight handheld technologies. Verizon has been using these videos in stores throughout the countr...

My daughter videotaped me introducing Broadway musicals to my children before they attended their first show. I thought it might be of value to parents taking the children to a musical either on Broadway or anywhere in Ame...

There are several dozen clips on my YouTube channel demonstrating various versions of my rig in use. I have used it to shoot TV commercials, television programs, corporate video, home video, legacy video, and just for the ...

A movie for children of all ages. Entrepreneur Jay Walker is one of the most extraordinary storytellers I know. I got the chance to have Jay take my sons on a tour of his private library. I made this video with the hope th...

I made this video because I believe that Dr. Katherine Reid has uncovered a major problem almost all of us are having no matter what our diet-- the MSG problem -- and may have come upon a "cure" for many children sufferin...

To see my fire recovery movie, visit http://www.youtube.com/watc... . Like the folks that Chris Anderson describes in his new book, MAKERS, I am hopeful that this video will encourage artists of all stripes fr...

To find out how and why I made this home video clip of my family touring NYC, watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=uptn76­M8iDQ . This clip shows just a small piece of my newest family video -- a trip to show our kids our New York...

To find out how and why I made this home video clip of my family on the streets of NYC watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=uptn76­M8iDQ . This clip shows just a small piece of my newest family video -- a trip to show our kids our...

To find out how and why I made this home video clip of my family on the streets of NYC watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=uptn76­M8iDQ . This clip shows just a small piece of my newest family video -- a trip to show our kids our...

To find out how and why I made this home video clip of my family in NYC watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=uptn76­M8iDQ . This clip shows just a small piece of my newest family video -- a trip to show our kids our New York City ...

To find out how and why I made this home video clip watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=uptn76­M8iDQ . This clip shows just a small piece of my newest family video about our family trip for our kids to discover our New York City ...

If you have watched any of the clips that demonstrate my experiment, this video tells you more about what I am doing and why. I am but by the fact that all of these still photographs and videos taken by people--millions a ...

To find out how you can make home video clips like this watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=uptn76­M8iDQ . This clip shows just a small piece of my newest family video about our family trip to New York City for our kids to discov...

So we're having breakfast in New York City while making our home video called "The Hoffmans Discover Their Roots." This is a clip from that movie. To find out how you can make home video clips like this watch www.youtube.c...

This clip shows our visit with 94-year-old Joe Franklin, the 1st radio and television talk show host. To find out how you can make home video clips like this watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=uptn76­M8iDQ . The clip is part of ...

I produced the one-hour PBS television documentary, How Hitler LOST The War. The clips I placed on YouTube have provoked almost a million views and so many comments. I decided to put up a longer portion of the film. To see...

Storytime Legal Productions brought me in to collaborate on the edit of interviews with a family who felt they had been unfairly treated by their insurance company. Regulations allow for videos like this one to be presente...