Documentary Filmmaking Movies

Filmmaker Tobias Hermansen, known for Dreamscape and Mentally Unavailable, has battled depression for years, facing moments of darkness that shaped...

An upcoming documentary on the Arizona screamo band Journal.

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

A Paul Joyce documentary with Peter Bogdanovich

In 1996, Women's Educational Media released their groundbreaking documentary Its Elementary-Talking About Gay Issues in School. It's Still Elementary...

A look into the life of a couple and the house they raised their family in.

This is as slick a piece of campaign film as ever came out of Hollywood -- barring, of course, the anti-Upton Sinclair stuff turned out as newsreels...

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

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

In 1916, twenty-year-old Marion Wong wrote and directed The Curse of Quon Gwon, the earliest example of an Asian American film. What initially...

The first gay pride march took place in New York City on June 28, 1970

Smithsonian Magazine once asked the rhetorical question, 'Can a weekly paper in rural New Mexico raise enough hell to keep its readers hungry for...

"Everything In Between" follows a group of filmmakers that are passionate about their work. An intimate portrait of film making and the deep trust...

Material filmed during and after the battle of Amman, in September 1970. The images document the rubble after the bombings, showing displaced people...

An abstract documentary, in three parts, about the gradual process of an Ayahuasca ritual performed by the Shawãdawa "enchanted macaw"...

This documentary film traces the struggle of Indian auto workers of the Maruti Suzuki factory in Manesar, near Delhi, in forming a union....

Instructional videos on how to survive an active shooter send a paranoid man into a self-fulfilling spiral.

Björn Lindqvist is the world's best town planner. He isn't changing the world, he's just trying to improve it.