Louisiana’s Huey Long built his remarkable career as governor and U.S. Senator on a platform of social reform and justice, all the while employing graft and corruption to get what he wanted.

Huey Long was the first documentary I ever made that focused on one person's life to animate an entire film. History, as the great essayist Thomas Carlyle once said, is in essence really biography.

Huey Long became a major champion of the university. But his overinvolvement came with a price, and almost cost the school its accreditation. For more on Long’s relationship with LSU and the ...