Documentary Filmmaking Movies

When looking for a gift for his kid, Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) is introduced to the world of Grimdark. In that moment he starts down a journey...

From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the...

A poignant, sometimes sad, sometimes painful, sometimes humorous, often absurd story of a multiple journey: the journey of loss as the...

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

Composed of numerous archives and film clips, this documentary is the story of a transgressive actor, a pirate who came to crack America's too...

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

Harley Russell, 73, lives only on the tips he receives at his wacky store at Erick (Oklahoma) with his Mediocre Music Maker show. Ángel...

In the year of 2022, a late teenager and their friends film moments they would prefer not to forget: their long season.

Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin becomes acting president...

Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local...

An in-depth, sad, and beautiful documentary about the stop motion and VFX artist Phil Tippett, a man who changed the landscape of visual effects in...

Claire Hunter, a true crime documentary filmmaker investigating a cold case, discovers that her film has been hijacked by a demonic serial killer,...

The whole world knows him. Burlesque comedy genius, popular actor, author, director, producer, composer, choreographer, Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)...

An ambitious filmmaker discovers the darkest parts of himself while making a documentary about a beautiful woman who humiliates men for money.

Discovered in 1990, the clandestine grave at the Dom Bosco cemetery in Perus is a symbol of the violence and repression of the 1964 military...

A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.

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...

A documentary reflecting on women in film and the entertainment industry through the ages led and hosted by some of its most beloved female icons.

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