Documentary Filmmaking Movies

Monte Hellman was born in 1932. By 1986 he made eight features, but had not directed for six years. I had made as many documentaries, but had not...

Confronted by retirement, a fourth generation fisherman grapples with the selling of the boat he built with his father.

A Jared Hess documentary

Get an exclusive look into Tom Segura's life on the road as he spent 2 years touring aggressively across the world. This documentary shows a...

1972. During the government of Salvador Allende 34 artists made works that were included in the construction of the UNCTAD III building, today GAM....

In 1990 Barry J. Gillis began shooting wicked world on 16mm film. Eddie Platt, took his video camera along to many of the locations, capturing...

This is a documentary about the Diesel Electric Preservation Group, a group of volunteers from the West Somerset

A documentary about the trials and tribulations of being a entrepreneur and film maker in Finland from the makers of Iron Sky franchise.

An experimental short film shot on Soviet Sveta 8mm film stock expired in 1984. It documents the 25th birthday of the filmmaker.

Shot entirely from an apartment window during the first month of New York City’s “Shelter in Place” directive, this film is a...

Filmmakers revisit Inukjuak, the Inuit village where Robert J. Flaherty filmed Nanook of the North in the early twentieth century, and examine the...

A short documentary about a local Drogheda barbershop owner, detailing his history, taste in music and the history of the shop all while having a...

Do ghosts exist? In this new documentary, a filmmaker travels to rumored haunted places interviewing psychics, scientists, and skeptics in search of...

A collaborative video and activism project between long-time community filmmaker Rebecca Garrett and Sanctuary, a church community drop-in, evolves...

A patient camera glides over the everyday objects: still lives on the wall, flowers in the vase, a swaying drop light. The sun enters the cosy home...

Different faces show us an Iran where tradition and modernity coexist and confront each other. Erfan Shafei invites us to discover a country through...

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...

Shot shortly before and after the 2024 presidential election, 15 different people answer one question, "What will the United States be like in 10...