Documentary Filmmaking Movies

Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips.

An aspiring documentarian and two conservationists who venture into the Outback to record the animals displaced by bushfires where they discover a...

An intimate chronicle of the shooting of Ran (1985), a film directed by the legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.

A unique look at the making of Stand by Me including interviews from Stephen King, Rob Reiner, Kiefer Sutherland, Richard Dreyfuss, Wil Wheaton,...

An ambitious filmmaker discovers the darkest parts of himself while making a documentary about a beautiful woman who humiliates men for money.

A documentary about the Ghibli Museum. It features Goro Miyazaki speaking with Isao Takahata about the "charm" of the museum and its various...

During the Vietnam War, the US bombed Laos more heavily than any other country had been bombed before. Today, the Lao people live among, and risk...

Expedition China invites you on location in some of the world's most intense, hard-to-reach environments with the filmmakers of Disneynature's...

The story was born from the pen of debutante Callie Khouri: Thelma, married to a macho man, and Louise, an independent waitress, go on a girls'...

What is the difference between a story and a good story? In this short documentary, ten of the greatest screenwriters in Brazil answer this and other...

Documentary from French TV channel Canal+ about Marion Cotillard's road to the Oscar for her performance as French singer Édith Piaf in the...

Pixar director Peter Sohn takes viewers on a humorous personal journey through the inspiration behind Disney and Pixar’s feature film...

Since its release in 1968, Planet of the Apes, the masterful film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starring Charlton Heston, and its subsequent...

Documentary about the making of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film "Straw Dogs."

Features interviews with the cast and crew of Re-Animator (1985), except for the late David Gale.

A bare-knuckled critique of corporate America told through the powerful true story of a toxic CEO who evolves from a profits-over-people,...

A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.

1976, Brian de Palma directs Carrie, the first novel by Stephen King. Since, more than 50 directors adapted the master of horror's books, in more...

To celebrate the release of a new movie for their 20th anniversary, this documentary offers some behind-the-scenes footages.

This documentary offers an honest look at our fraught, complex relationship to video games from the perspectives of gamers and their concerned...