Documentary Filmmaking Movies

In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collect filmed and recorded evidence of the horrors...

In one of those wonderful coincidences of history, lumière, the French word for “light,” was also the last name of brothers...

Three documentary makers, are heading home from Burning Man in their RV and decide to pull off into the desert to camp for the night. Things get...

Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital...

An amateur filmmaker, struggling to turn his passion into a career, returns with friends to Loveland, Ohio, the location of his first, notorious...

Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault...

Filmmakers Ibrahim, Suliman, Eltayeb and Manar, close friends for many years, left their motherland in the sixties and seventies to study film abroad...

In 1997 New York City, filmmaker Erik bonds with closeted lawyer Paul after a one-night fling. As their relationship evolves through dysfunctional...

The story of Nisar Ahmed Khan, told through his children and the people he served, a spiritual guide whose followers still visit his tomb on his...

A woman whose husband has recently died of dementia claims his spirit is haunting her house. When her estranged son Chris learns that Mary believes...

By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to...

When neighbors John and Levi witness supernatural events in their LA apartment building, they realize documenting the paranormal could inject some...

BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen...

Working on a documentary about infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro, a TV crew filming at his old home come under attack from the ghost of the painter's...

In the summer of 1975, the young director Steven Spielberg set new standards for cinema worldwide with an oversized shark bite, a plastic shark fin...

The Kabin Studio on the north side of Cork gives teenagers the mic and the confidence to use it. Writing and performing infectious Irish-language...

Learn the incredible behind-the-scenes story of how the original Star Wars movie was brought to the big screen in this fascinating documentary...

In the depths of the Louisiana swamps, Shelby lives an extraordinary life of adventure and survival. This documentary unveils his mysterious world of...

Emerging from the depths of the film industry, the Mad Max saga became an instant cult classic after the release of the first film in 1979. These...