Documentary Filmmaking Movies

Sugaring time marks the end of the Quebec winter, and the traditions associated with this highlight of the year are centered around the sugar shack....

This is Black is a conversation with and for the black community. We aim to dismantle the stereotypes and get rid of the stigmas by telling a few...

Set in the semi-arid village near the Haryana-Rajasthan border, Gangu and his family of agricultural bonded labours are not given access to water for...

In this short documentary film, the activation of grandma's memory is explored by revisiting old pictures of her loved ones.

When Mariana connects the Military Dictatorship's violent legacy as the structure behind Brazilian families, she embarks on an introspective journey...

Spending a whirlwind afternoon with Ayo Mama, Jandrice, and Victor for their Coney Island photo shoot. Filmed on Super 8 mm.

A haunting story of the FBI's dark hand in American life. In 2015, Khalil Abu-Rayyan was just a young Muslim man in Detroit, Michigan: to get by, he...

A documentary film about a 70-year-old man who has never in his life had his photo taken. So, one day, he asks a young man to take a picture of him...

This doc investigates the odd occurrences that have happened for decades at a creek in Texas, which was an Ancient Native American burial ground.

A retired bricklayer wants his grandson, who lives hundreds of miles away, to stay with him. Will he convince the young man despite the lack of...

Many years ago, a group of friends started a journey. This documentary looks back at unique hobby that forged an unbreakable brotherhood.

In September 2014 Zinacantepec Mexico City hosted the World Basque Pelota Championships . Gold at a world title is the maximum that can suck a woman...

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

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

ONLY NOISE is a documentary that tries to rescue from oblivion a tale with Les Renards as protagonists, one of the many bands from the 60s that was a...

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

This film shot by Michael Pilz between 1964 and 2005 is a meditative documentary in which personal images can be read as the director's way to...

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