[3] Maghsoudlou has, in the words of Cinema Without Borders editor-in-chief Bijan Tehrani, "dedicated his life [to] recording valuable information about Iran’s contemporary art and culture.

The new film features interviews with prominent critics and friends from around the world and emphasizes the eternal truth in Mohasses's struggles with censorship.

Through copious interviews with the most prominent actresses of the pre-Revolutionary period (including Pouri Banayi, Susan Taslimi, Irene Zazians (a.k.a.

Iren) and Shohreh Aghdashloo) and an abundance of rare clips from their films, the documentary examines the role of women in Iranian cinema from both cultural and artistic standpoints.

Along with Iranian Cinema: Searching for the Roots, Maghsoudlou is also working on another long-term documentary project, The Life and Legacy of Mohammad Mossadegh.

[11][12] In 2009, Maghsoudlou published Grass: Untold Stories, a book detailing the lives and adventures of three unique Americans, Merian C. Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack (the creators of King Kong, among other films) and Marguerite Harrison, a journalist for the Baltimore Sun.

The book's initial narrative details what the three individuals did during and after World War I, including Cooper and Harrison's stints as prisoners in Russia, and then describes their joint 1924 trip to Iran, where they had vowed to follow one of the nation's nomadic tribes on their annual migration, eventually settling on the Bakhtiari.

In 2020, Maghsoudlou released When the Moon Was Not Behind the Clouds (IFVC Books), a collection of interviews with an assortment of Iranian women from across many artistic disciplines (painting, sculpture, literature, film, theater, ballet), including Iran Darroudi, Mansooreh Hosseini, Simin Behbahani, Mina Assadi, Shahla Riahi, Mahin Oskouei, Fakhri Khorvash and Khatereh Parvaneh.

2021 saw the publication of The Poetic Realism of Jean Renoir (Hekmat Kalameh, Tehran), a book on the life of the famed filmmaker that also includes analyses of his work.