Documentary Filmmaking Movies

An aspiring photojournalist takes a trip to Julian, CA to learn about the history of two wolf species and what caused their population decline...

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

Filming for this picture took place in Russia over the course of a quarter of a century: in 2000, 2010 and 2022. The film is preceded by an epigraph:...

System (2025) is a short documentary film exploring intergenerational connections to land and country. Interviews with Aunty Denise Morgan Bulled, a...

This short documentary follows historian Kate Taylor as she recounts John Wilkes Booth's final attempt to escape across the Potomac River.

In October 2012, two young filmmakers discovered a journal that documents a series of Bigfoot sightings across the US. The detailed entries provide...

Award-winning documentary about kids who filmed Super 8 epics in the '70s, a time when dinosaurs, aliens, and killer sharks ruled the backyard!

Anuj Malhotra and Chandan Sen's “Mayadweep” chronicles the diverse set of circumstances that resulted in the institution of the iconic...

Roadliners is a film about inspiration and craft, and the uncelebrated typographers of the road. With filmmakers Pretend Lovers we documented a day...

Jump Cut Jukebox is a highly stylized semi-fictional fly-on-the-wall documentary which was cobbled together from random bits of footage collected...

Portrait documentary of four different road cycle racing teams and what how much fun it is to be part of the cyclist movement.

In 1970, Dennis Hopper shot 'The Last Movie' in Chinchero (Peru), an enigmatic Western about the possibility of an indigenous rebellion against a...

Intimate story about the rising career of Gabriela Adam, only with her determination and the support of an institutional educational network, where...

A lonely drone pilot sets off to capture the perfect composition.

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

Gilubong ang Akon Pusod sa Dagat explores the relevance of the sea and its relationship and impact on those who use it as a source of livelihood....

Religious imagery in Curado I, a small neighbourhood in the northeast of Brazil.

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