Cinematography: Jon Shenk

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Jon Shenk. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Crip Camp

2020 · Documentary · 107 min. · United States

Direction James Lebrecht · Nicole Newnham

Plot A look at the lives of those who attended a summer camp for disabled teenagers held just down the road from Woodstock, in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

7.0

742 votes

7.0

742 votes

Eames: The Architect & The Painter

2011 · Documentary · 83 min. · United States

Direction Jason Cohn · Bill Jersey

Cast James Franco

Plot The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames were America's most influential and important industrial designers. Admired for their creations and fascinating as individuals, they have risen to iconic status...

6.8

85 votes

6.8

85 votes

The Rape of Europa

2006 · Documentary · 117 min. · United States

Direction Richard Berge · Bonni Cohen · Nicole Newnham

Plot The story of Nazi Germany's plundering of Europe's great works of art during World War II and Allied efforts to minimize the damage.

6.8

27 votes

6.8

27 votes

The Island President

2011 · Documentary · 101 min. · United States

Direction Jon Shenk

Plot The Island President tells the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced–the literal survival of...

6.8

34 votes

6.8

34 votes

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

2017 · Documentary · 100 min. · United States

Direction Bonni Cohen · Jon Shenk

Cast Al Gore

Plot A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the heart of conscience and popular culture comes the follow-up that shows just how close we are to a real...

6.1

332 votes

6.1

332 votes

Lead Me Home

2021 · Documentary · 39 min. · United States

Direction Pedro Kos · Jon Shenk

Plot Poignant stories of homelessness on the West Coast of the US frame this cinematic portrait of a surging humanitarian crisis.

6.0

405 votes

6.0

405 votes

The Battle of amfAR

2013 · Documentary · 40 min. · United States

Direction Rob Epstein · Jeffrey Friedman

Cast Mathilde Krim · Elizabeth Taylor

Plot When AIDS struck in the early 1980s, a scientist and a movie star did not have to respond - but they did. Dr. Mathilde Krim and Elizabeth Taylor joined forces...

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Smile Pinki

2008 · Documentary · 39 min. · United States

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Ruth: Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words

2019 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States

Direction Freida Lee Mock

Cast Irin Carmon · Erwin Chemerinsky · Jennifer Carroll Foy · M.E. Freeman

Plot How does some one with three strikes against her, rise to the highest court in the land, the U. S. Supreme Court?

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How Man Tamed the Wild (TV)

2010 · Documentary · 50 min. · United States

Direction Anna Fitch

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