“Desert Utopia: Mid-century Architecture in Palm Springs” is a feature-length documentary on the mid-twentieth-century architecture in and around Palm Springs, CA:

The 80-minute documentary is an in-depth look at the creative postwar era architecture and some of the famed architects (John Lautner, Richard Neutra, R. M. Schindler, et al) and prolific regional architects (William F. Cody, Albert Frey, Donald Wexler, E. Stewart Williams, William Krisel, et al) whose homes and buildings today make up the largest concentration of important mid-century modern architecture in the United States.

I came across their website by accident while browsing Google Images for pictures of Richard Neutra’s Kauffman house. There’s not a lot of information on where to see or get the documentary on dvd (I think it was shown on American television somewhere in 2006), but the website has a small gallery of famous mid-century American homes:

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