Documentary Filmmaking Movies

A documentary by Justin Arment that explores the 1991 rename of Michigan city 'East Detroit' to 'Eastpointe', and the racially motivated reasonings...

A short portrait of Hungarian production designer József Romvári, made by his granddaughter. Included as a special bonus feature on...

Before Cinema Novo revolutionized the Brazilian cinematic scenery, a young craftsman and Bahian filmmaker had already paved the way for the beginning...

As the filmmaker pursues a creative career, she goes looking for others in similar positions to explore what her decision entails. Mixing...

A movie director attemps to film the way he writes a screenplay.

Set in the sparsely populated lobster fishing villages of southern Nova Scotia, Plains is a cinema vérité approach to documenting the...

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...

A self-funded, non-profit feature documentary exploring and celebrating Liverpool's contemporary independent music scene at the beginning of the 21st...

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

In the absence of any physical connection, this short explores alternative forms of contact among neighbors by making use of an old 16mm camera, a...

This film takes us on an emotional journey from sacred ground above Byron Bay to Antarctica, Indonesia to Pakistan, and is sure to light a fire under...

Under the tutelage of anthropologist Franz Boas (her former Columbia professor) and Harlem Renaissance arts patron Charlotte Osgood Mason, Zora Neale...

This hilarious, behind-the-scenes adventure shows the unforgettable, year-long production that Trevor Hawkins and his skeleton-crew of endearing...

A bold reveal of a rose tattoo opens this 1980 documentary on tattooing in New Zealand. The potted history includes visits to tattoo parlours on K'...

Stefan has been building his own road-legal racing car for 12 years. Every Friday after work, he drives to his parents' house in Brandenburg to...

A portrait of life in Islamorada, Florida, its unique residents, and the unprecedented changes that have begun taking place.

An introduction to the great film critic Raymond Durgnat's appreciation of the nature of cinema.

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