Documentary Filmmaking Movies

The relationship between a young director and her actress during the filming of her first short film.

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...

This film is part of a project that has listened to over 40,000 people on masculinity issues and has resulted in a documentary and a tool book based...

This cinematic portrait shows the Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl at work. The much-discussed ‘Seidl method’ is conveyed here vividly and...

A documentary filmed between 2016 - 2018 about the Boston DIY music scene, and part of the community that keeps it going.

Janet Sharrock has two children and Brent “Buddha” Barnes has three; the pair has a meet-cute at the local RSL, marry and unite their...

Alternating Philippines and Saudi Arabia as her home, the filmmaker uses personal home videos and present footage to tell the story of her family.

A mockumentary about three young student filmmakers as they make a movie about an alleged film director living obscurely in a Buenos Aires mental...

A fragmented collection of independent closed cinemas, in London during lockdown, captured on Super 8mm film.

Making of documentary from the Ultra HD Blu-ray edition of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer released on the movie's 30th anniversary.

A compilation of a filmmaker's discard footage, subtly narrating his point of view of the year 2020.

With the help of Steve Bannon and Cambridge Analytica, Trump was groomed to appeal to those who have lost faith in media and politics. Bannon has...

A haunting story of the FBI's dark hand in American life. In 2015, Khalil Abu-Rayyan was just a young Muslim man in Detroit, Michigan: to get by, he...

The summer of 1960 was a critical moment in the history of film, when the fly-on-the-wall documentary was born. The Camera that Changed the World...

Documentary about four urban teenage girls, and their opinions about religion, music and sex.

A meditation on memory around Iceland's famous Ring Road.

Homo Cinematographicus is a human species whose unit of measurement and point of reference is the cinema and its derivative, television. Filmed at...

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty, and seemingly the sole member of the family...

A documentary about 6 young filmmakers and their team as they embarked on a journey to create their own feature film, Follow the Dead, a story about...

An aspiring photojournalist takes a trip to Julian, CA to learn about the history of two wolf species and what caused their population decline...