Cinematography: Tom Kaufman

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Tom Kaufman. 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

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742 votes

A Gray State

2017 · Documentary · 93 min. · United States

Direction Erik Nelson

Cast Barry Drones · Mason Hendricks · Danny August Mason · Chris Peck

Plot Christmas, 2014: filmmaker, veteran and charismatic up-and-coming voice of alt-right politics David Crowley and his family are killed in their suburban Minnesota home. Their shocking deaths quickly become a cause...

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108 votes

6.0

108 votes

Tesla: Master of Lightning

2000 · Documentary · 87 min. · United States

Direction Robert Uth

Cast Stacy Keach · Elisabeth Noone · Nikola Tesla

Plot Nikola Tesla invented or developed many of the electrical technologies which form the basis of modern life, including: alternating-current (AC) power transmission and electric motors; high-frequency (HF) communications, the basis...

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Raising the Hunley (TV)

2001 · Documentary · 45 min. · Australia

Direction Tim Kelly

Plot Plunge into Civil War intrigue and explore the truth about the ill-fated Confederate submarine.

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Desert One

2019 · Documentary · 107 min. · United States

War

Direction Barbara Kopple

Cast Jimmy Carter · Ted Koppel · Walter Mondale

Plot Using new archival sources and unprecedented access, master documentarian Barbara Kopple reveals the story behind one of the most daring rescues in modern US history: a secret mission to free...

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Gumbo Coalition

2022 · Documentary · 108 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Kopple

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Last Days of the Nazis (TV Miniseries)

2016 · Documentary · min. · United States

Direction Nicole Rittenmeyer

Plot A 6 part-series documentary based on the testimonies of millions of Nazi party members that were collected right after the war with focus on Rudolf Hoess, Albert Speer and Melita...

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American Standoff

2002 · Documentary · 95 min. · United States

Direction Kristi Jacobson

Plot The Teamster's Union goes on strike against Overnite Transportation, a nationwide freight company that has resisted unionization. The Union, however, faces its own internecine battles as factions inside the organization,...

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Rosenwald

2015 · Documentary · 100 min. · United States

Direction Aviva Kempner

Cast Peter Ascoli · Julian Bond · Stephanie Deutsch · Richard J. Powell

Plot Rosenwald, by Aviva Kempner, is a documentary about how Chicago philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, the son of an immigrant peddler who rose to head Sears, partnered with Booker T. Washington to...

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Eyes on the Prize (TV Series)

1987 · Documentary · 60 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hampton · Sheila Curran Bernard · James A. DeVinney · Madison D. Lacy

Cast Julian Bond

Plot This is a documentary series about the glory years of the American Civil Rights Movement, starting in 1952 with the murder of Emmit Till and the subsequent trial and ending...

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Nazi Scrapbooks from Hell: The Auschwitz Albums

2008 · Documentary · 48 min. · United States

Direction Erik Nelson

Plot In 1944, american reconnaissance planes switched on their cameras in preparation for a photo run of a factory in Poland. Barracks were visible, as well as parked, empty train cars....

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