The work of Michael Maglaras & Terri Templeton
Announcing our new film in production:
“Glorious Morning: A Revolution Revealed”
Coming January 2026
Experience original content that explores American art and culture and the lives of the people who create it.
We believe American art and our rich cultural heritage are something everyone should see for themselves. Through essays in film, we tell stories that expand our understanding of our profound and varied cultural heritage and its impact on our everyday lives.
The definitive film about America’s greatest thinker, who molded our imagination by first presenting us with a vision of what we might become as a nation through the freedom of thought.
“…an immense and beautiful film.” – TheCollector
“In Maglaras’s experienced hands, Kenneth Clark’s original treatment of art and its foundational relationship to human striving is dramatically updated with powerful images of a mid-century America in profound societal disarray.” – ARTES Magazine
“Mesmerizing and wondrous.” – Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
“A brilliant, creative combination of sounds and images… this film is a tour de force.” – ARTES Magazine
“Maglaras and Templeton’s work is comparable to that of the widely acclaimed Ken Burns.” – New Britain Herald
“A wonderful celebration of America, her people, and her possibilities.” – The Blue Paper
“An excellent analysis of an event that changed the art world.” – Library Journal
“An eye-opening film.” – Daily Press
“Magnificent.” – SiriusXM
“A beautiful introduction to Ward and his work…unforgettable.” – Journal of American History
“The work we see in John Marin: Let the Paint Be Paint! feels alive and fresh, and many viewers will discover Marin for the first time.” – Art New England
“Visible Silence: Marsden Hartley, Painter and Poet is a beautiful film.” – Georgia Museum of Art
“Elegiac and insightful.” – Naples Daily News
“Virtuoso filmmaking in a rare and beautiful hybrid…Cleophas and His Own holds the viewer spellbound from start to finish.” – National Gallery of Art
“Hypnotic…this haunting film illuminates Hartley’s life and work with a nearly Bergman-like gravitas.” – Sacramento Bee
“A penetrating performance of understated intensity. A passionately rendered ode.” – CityBeat
Connecticut-based independent filmmakers Michael Maglaras and Terri Templeton of 217 Films announce that their new film project will be a full-length documentary on the important
Filmmaker Michael Maglaras in a lively and informative conversation with James Marcus, who has written “Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph
Award-winning host, Patty Satalia, interviewed filmmaker Michael Maglaras on her WPSU PBS television series “Conversations from Penn State” about how he turned his passion for