Documentary Filmmaking Movies

Outtakes, commentary from Zefier's third film: Jo; or The Act of Riding a Bike.

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

The documentary traces the history and legacy of Poona Guest House, a place situated in the heart of Pune, and how early cinema gave rise to this...

A five-year visual ethnography of traditional yet practical orchestration of Semana Santa in a small town where religious woodcarving is the...

Between 1968 and 1970, J M Goodger, a lecturer at the University of Salford, made a film record of the living conditions in the slums of Ordsall,...

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...

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

More than two decades after the shooting at Columbine, an entire generation has grown up under the threat of gun violence. This film examines the...

2021 was a turning point for Belarus and 6 Belarusian students - as well as for the city of Łódź, Poland, in which they found...

An aspiring filmmaker interrogates her father, a seasoned director stuck in creative limbo, about his unfinished project - an investigative...

Hotel rooms are rarely the destination for pilgrimage. In one hotel room, an iconic picture was taken - the portrait of Theodor Herzl, the most...

In rocky Newfoundland, renowned French artist Jean Claude Roy gathers his paints and sets off to face the day. Whether it be freezing snow, violent...

A retrospective of documentary films by Donald Brittain offering a glimpse of the man and the restless energy that informed his work. Dedicated and...

Is there a connection between bible stories of contacts with the gods and the modern day UFO phenomenon?

A short film documenting street protests against the filming of William Friedkin's Cruising (1980)

A documentary about the production of the film project Dream State (2024). It covers interviews with cast and crew and gives a small peek behind the...

A short documentary film about the director's relationship with his deceased grandfather.

An Australian icon found on every supermarket shelf, and coating every game day pack of hot chips. But the story of the South Australian man who...