One P.M.
1968 documentary film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Richard Leacock
One P.M. (alternately said to stand for One Pennebaker Movie or One Parallel Movie) is a 1972 film by American documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker, who had collaborated with French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard on the unfinished film project One A.M. and had shared duties as cinematographer with Richard Leacock. Godard filmed One A.M. (One American Movie) in America in 1968.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1968 documentary film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Richard Leacock. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6458502. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1972 and 1968.
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