Documentary Filmmaking Movies

Four thrill seekers making a short film about an abandoned backwoods property in Gateway, Minnesota, unleash an evil legend that should have been...

Forty years after the release of Claude Lanzmann’s monumental film Shoah, Guillaume Ribot reveals the director’s relentless pursuit to...

2006: Evo Morales, first indigenous President is elected in Bolivia after the 2003 dramatic events following the fall of the President Sanchez de...

Lights, camera... chickens! Go behind the scenes with the Aardman team and director Sam Fell during the making of this finely crafted stop-motion...

World-renowned director Martin Scorsese narrates this journey through his favorites in Italian cinema.

Shot over the course of 30 days at sea, filmmaker Alizé Jireh documents the group’s voyage across the North Atlantic—from moments...

Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips.

WORDS FROM HOME is a poetic documentary that explores the kinds of affection and identity in the portuguese language spoken in Brazil. Through...

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...

In an industry that is becoming increasingly competitive, what drives indie filmmakers to keep creating their art, even when there is no promise of...

Rare documents and details of the film's story. From its initial option to its critical reception and legacy. Director David Weisman, who also...

A TV documentary crew arrive on a remote island in the Philippines to film a survival special. Their back-to-the-wild adventure proves to be more...

More than two decades after the shooting at Columbine, an entire generation has grown up under the threat of gun violence. This film examines the...

A journey through the Brazilian Amazon, guided by the eyes of Renato, a Carioca turned Amazorioca. A reflection on identity, the legacy of an...

The past drags itself into the present day, taking us back to the era of the Dominican Republic's greatest dictator, while we explore the traces of...

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems...

In the final decades of the 20th century, the Philippines was a country where low-budget exploitation-film producers were free to make nearly any...

The film begins as a documentary about an author known for autofiction. By incorporating multiple making-of layers, it blends the process of making...

A documentary pieced together from behind the scenes videos and interviews to tell the story of Will Lock as he undertakes the challenge of making...

Documentary from French TV channel Canal+ about Marion Cotillard's road to the Oscar for her performance as French singer Édith Piaf in the...