Documentary Filmmaking Movies

The director Andrés Kaiser combines hundreds of amateur films and photographs from the treasure trove of images belonging to his migrant...

A short film by Peter Greenaway. It depicts the painting The Wedding Feast at Cana by Paolo Veronese, through mixed media and shows different...

A series of indie filmmakers are documented over the course of a few months throughout the production of their passion projects, as they change...

Story of a director Stanley Donen, king of Hollywood musicals and man behind such classics as "Singin' in the Rain".

Filmed mostly on a Mini DV camera Gavin has thought of a quick way to become successful and be the master of the world but he has to wait for it all...

After his father’s death, Vicky, a young dancer, abandons his art and succumbs to alcohol, while his mother faces an impossible dilemma of...

Filmmakers stay at a haunted lodge and find themselves in over their heads when they encounter something otherworldly.

From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the...

Short documentary about true bugs and humans. Short film is also a compassion practice and small journey from human perspective to other playful ways...

A bold reveal of a rose tattoo opens this 1980 documentary on tattooing in New Zealand. The potted history includes visits to tattoo parlours on K'...

A fascinating hybrid of performance and video verité, The Continuing Story of Carel and Ferd introduces Carel and Ferd, a couple who allowed...

An introduction to the great film critic Raymond Durgnat's appreciation of the nature of cinema.

An aspiring documentarian and two conservationists who venture into the Outback to record the animals displaced by bushfires where they discover a...

EXODUS is an intimate, lyrical portrait of Trinity Copeland and Assia Serrano as they struggle to make sense of their lives post-release, exploring...

To celebrate the release of a new movie for their 20th anniversary, this documentary offers some behind-the-scenes footages.

A short portrait of Hungarian production designer József Romvári, made by his granddaughter. Included as a special bonus feature on...

"Double Quotes" delves into a filmmaker's journey of self-discovery as he navigates through the intricacies of India's Constitution, uncovering the...

A rock documentary, about the Mexican band Molotov, that focuses more in the political and musical context of Mexico rather than in the actual story...

Tattooing — "the world's oldest skin game" — is the subject of this iconic documentary. Writer/director Geoff Steven scored a major coup...

The origin story of America's first horror theme park and the thrilling journey of its founder. David Bertolino began as a salesman in a Boston joke...