Documentary Filmmaking Movies

A first-time director convinces his best friend to sell his house in order to fund their debut feature film. Everything goes really well. A...

La Galère des Étoiles follows the making of Les Aventures du Nexus VI, directed by the Fensch Toast collective. From the creators'...

Set in the sparsely populated lobster fishing villages of southern Nova Scotia, Plains is a cinema vérité approach to documenting the...

Pro wrestler Julia rules the ring, while her younger sister Nina watches anxiously from the sidelines. Determined to make Julia feel truly seen, Nina...

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

Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dances. For this performance, her costume has a pair of wings attached to her back, to suggest...

Siskiyou County, California has the most reported Bigfoot sightings in the world. In August of 2009, a documentary filmmaker went to investigate...

Documentary about Japanese film director Shohei Imamura.

Senegalese documentary about the country's most famous film-maker - Ousmane Sembène. The groundbreaking director explains his philosophy,...

Dorothy Johnson was a Western writer ahead of her time. Women saved men, heroes died unwept and unsung, whites lived with Indians and benefited from...

Debra Hill's documentary tells the story of her multifaceted life and of inspiring filmmakers around the world, and her legacy as a creative...

French documentary on the Spaghetti Western genre, with numerous interviews.

The raft man Manuel Jacaré was swallowed by the sea when Orson Welles was filming It's All True in 1942. The fact evokes memories of the...

When Sarah accidentally proposes to her girlfriend in Provincetown, the mixup turns their loving relationship into a minefield of marital exploration.

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

A documentary film about the Slovenian filmmaker Boštjan Hladnik.

An intimate chronicle of the shooting of Ran (1985), a film directed by the legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.

The peaks, the valleys, and all the moments in between. Being a father is an extraordinary privilege that transforms your perspective on the world....