Cinematography: Shana Hagan
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Shana Hagan. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991 · Documentary · 96 min. · United States
Direction Fax Bahr · George Hickenlooper · Eleanor Coppola
Cast Francis Ford Coppola · John Milius · Martin Sheen · Sam Bottoms
Plot The magic and madness of making "Apocalypse Now". "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse" is a documentary that chronicles how Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" was plagued by extraordinary script,...
7.7
4K votes
7.7
4K votes
63 Up - The Up Series (TV)
2019 · Documentary · 133 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Apted
Cast Lynn Johnson · Nicholas Hitchon · Tony Walker · Charles Furneaux
Plot Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during...
7.3
21 votes
7.3
21 votes
Watergate (TV Miniseries)
2018 · Documentary · 240 min. · United States
Direction Charles Ferguson
Cast Douglas Hodge
Plot This four-hour montage of TV excerpts, interviews with contemporaries and re-enactments of tape recordings from the Oval Office creates an almost Shakespearean web of intrigue, lies and betrayal, conducted for,...
7.1
42 votes
7.1
42 votes
Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued
2014 · Documentary · 106 min. · United States
Direction Sam Jones
Cast T-Bone Burnett · Elvis Costello · Rhiannon Giddens · Taylor Goldsmith
Plot A documentary that goes behind the scenes with some of today's most talented songwriters as they make new music based on long-lost, newly discovered lyrics from Bob Dylan's legendary Basement...
7.0
57 votes
7.0
57 votes
Somebody Somewhere (TV Series)
2022 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Hannah Bos · Paul Thureen · Rob Cohen · Jay Duplass
Cast Bridget Everett · Mike Hagerty · Jeff Hiller · Danny McCarthy
Plot TV Series (2022-). 7 Episodes. Set in Manhattan, Kansas, the series follows Sam as she deals with a midlife crisis after the death of her sister. Sam is a true...
6.9
1K votes
6.9
1K votes
Ugly Delicious (TV Series)
2018 · Documentary · 50 min. · United States
Direction Eddie Schmidt · Morgan Neville · Jason Zeldes · Laura Gabbert
Cast David Chang
Plot Chef David Chang travels around the world tasting food from different cultures.
6.8
241 votes
6.8
241 votes
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
2006 · Documentary · 97 min. · United States
Direction Kirby Dick
Plot Frustrated by the manner in which the Motion Picture Association Of America (MPAA) rates films, a documentarist hires a private detective to expose the members of an unaccountable panel of...
6.7
804 votes
6.7
804 votes
Generation Wealth
2018 · Documentary · 106 min. · United States
Direction Lauren Greenfield
Cast Florian Homm · Jaqueline Siegel
Plot A documentary that investigates the pathologies that have created the richest society the world has ever seen. For the past 25 years photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield (The Queen of...
6.4
295 votes
6.4
295 votes
Return to Space
2022 · Documentary · 128 min. · United States
Direction Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi · Jimmy Chin
Cast Elon Musk
Plot Elon Musk and SpaceX engineers embark on a historic mission to return NASA astronauts to the International Space Station and revolutionize space travel.
6.3
297 votes
6.3
297 votes
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
2022 · Documentary · 105 min. · United States
Direction Nina Menkes
Cast Catherine Hardwicke · Kathleen Antonia · Rosanna Arquette · Maria Giese
Plot Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women, with over 80 movie...
6.0
125 votes
6.0
125 votes
Maria Bamford: Old Baby (TV)
2017 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Jessica Yu
Cast Maria Bamford · Rhea Butcher · Melinda Hill · Martin Yu
Plot A Netflix Original. Maria Bamford performs a rapid-fire, playful stand-up set for crowds at park benches, bowling alleys and LA theaters.
5.9
44 votes
5.9
44 votes
Walk Run Cha-Cha (S)
2019 · Documentary · 20 min. · United States
Direction Laura Nix
Cast Chipaul Cao · Millie Cao · Maksym Kapitanchuk · Elena Krifuks
Plot Paul and Millie Cao lost their youth to the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Forty years later, they have become successful professionals in Southern California-and are rediscovering themselves on the...
5.2
77 votes
5.2
77 votes
Tyrus
2015 · Documentary · 73 min. · United States
Direction Pamela Tom
Cast Tyrus Wong · Don Hahn · Sonia Mak · Kim Wong
Plot TYRUS is a feature-length documentary film that tells the story of Chinese American artist Tyrus Wong, and how he overcame poverty and racism to become a celebrated modernist painter, Hollywood...
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March of the Living
2010 · Documentary · 81 min. · United States
Direction Jessica Sanders
Cast Elika Rezvani
Plot A look at a silent march from Auschwitz to Birkenhau held in remembrance of the Holocaust.
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The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
2008 · Documentary · 30 min. · Australia
Direction Kim Aubry
Cast Walter Murch · George Lucas · Francis Ford Coppola · Peter Bart
Plot On the 35th anniversary of the release of the landmark film "The Godfather," (March 15, 1972) we look back at the time and place of the film's conception and shooting....
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Misconception
2014 · Documentary · 93 min. · United States
Direction Jessica Yu
Plot Most of us perceive that world population is still growing at an alarming rate, with declining births in the developed world being offset by growing populations in the developing world....
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After Innocence
2005 · Documentary · 95 min. · United States
Direction Jessica Sanders
Plot AFTER INNOCENCE tells the dramatic and compelling story of the exonerated - innocent men wrongfully imprisoned for decades and then released after DNA evidence proved their innocence. The film focuses...
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Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien
1996 · Documentary · 35 min. · United States
Direction Jessica Yu
Cast Mark O'Brien · Elizabeth Duvall · Ian Berzon
Plot Portrait of writer Mark O'Brien, who contracted polio as a child and spent much of his life in an iron lung.
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The Living Museum
1998 · Documentary · 78 min. · United States
Direction Jessica Yu
Plot Visits the oft-scrutinized intersection of art and madness and discovers not a snake-pit of anguished scrawlings but instead a prodigious creative milieu where fine art succeeds at a very high...
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