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Film: Documentary American Masters: Rivera in America (1988)

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Nelson Rockefeller destroyed his Man at the Crossroads for being sympathic toward Lenin; the Soviet Union expelled him after he proved to be anti-Soviet; and he and wife Frida Kahlo are oft-remembered for going at it like rabid cats and dogs, but Mexican artist Diego Rivera's frescoes (think Che Guevara schooled in Giotto) and murals (picture Thomas Hart Benton on a Day of the Dead bender) remain some of the most poignant and iconic the 20th century ever produced. Director Rick Tejada-Flores' masterful documentary covers Rivera during the Depression, as he muraled his way through San Francisco, Detroit, and New York.

– John Hood

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