Topic: Movie Documentary

Direction Mark Cousins

Cast Aleksandr Sokúrov · Norman Lloyd · Lars von Trier · Paul Schrader

Plot 'The Story of Film: An Odyssey' is a documentary film about the history of film, presented on television in 15 one-hour chapters with a total length of 900 minutes. It...

Direction Tony Zhou

Plot Every Frame a Painting is dedicated to the analysis of film form.

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Jean-Luc Godard · Jean-Pierre Gos · Alain Cuny · Juliette Binoche

Plot TV Series (1988-1998). Cinematic visionary and provocateur Jean-Luc Godard offers a typically challenging look at his favorite creative medium in the wake of the 20th Century in this ambitious blend...

Direction Thom Andersen

Plot A documentary on how Los Angeles has been used and depicted in the movies.

Direction Charles de Lauzirika

Cast Ridley Scott · Hampton Fancher · Michael Deeley · Syd Mead

Plot The definitive three-and-a-half hour documentary about the troubled creation and enduring legacy of the science fiction classic "Blade Runner," culled from 80 interviews and hours of never-before-seen outtakes and lost...

Direction Toshiro Uratani

Cast Hayao Miyazaki · Melinda Froelich · Steve Alpert · Todd Olsson

Direction Jacques Meny

Cast Madeleine Malthête-Méliès · Philippe Duval

Direction Thierry Fremaux

Cast Thierry Fremaux · Auguste Lumière · Louis Lumière · Martin Scorsese

Plot A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Manoel de Oliveira · Maria Isabel de Oliveira · Diogo Dória · Teresa Madruga

Plot A docu-drama that follows Manoel de Oliveira's life during the times of dictatorship in Portugal.

Direction Chris Marker

Cast Andrei Tarkovsky · Margarita Terekhova

Plot A documentary made prior to the death of filmmaker Andrei Arsenevitch (Tarkovsky) and showing him working on his final film, this record was made at Arsenevitch's request to stand as...

Direction Pedro Costa · Thierry Lounas

Cast Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Direction Chris Marker

Plot This documentary tells the story of film director Aleksandr Medvedkin, throughout his life a sincere believer in communism, whose films were repeatedly banned in the Soviet Union. Modern Russian film...

Direction Stuart Richardson

Cast Bryan Cranston · Vince Gilligan · Dean Norris · Michael Bowen

Direction Delphine Seyrig

Cast Jenny Agutter · Juliet Berto · Ellen Burstyn · Candy Clark

Plot Famous actresses talk about their role in the movie industry, and the demand to "be beautiful and shut up".

Direction Martin Scorsese · Michael Henry Wilson

Cast Martin Scorsese · Frank Capra · John Cassavetes · Philippe Collin

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,...

Direction Lawrence Kasdan

Cast George Lucas · Steven Spielberg · James Cameron · John Dykstra

Plot 6 Episodes. Showcasing the people of Industrial Light and Magic, the special effects division of Lucasfilm, this series takes us back in time as they create the effects for some...

Direction Luis Ospina

Cast Andrés Caicedo · Carlos Mayolo · Luis Ospina · Patricia Restrepo

Direction Kevin Brownlow · David Gill

Cast James Mason · Viola Dana · Byron Haskin · Colleen Moore

Plot The definitive documentary about the American silent film industry.

Direction Frank Pavich

Cast Alejandro Jodorowsky · Nicolas Winding Refn · H.R. Giger · Richard Stanley

Plot In 1975, Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky, whose films EL TOPO and THE HOLY MOUNTAIN launched and ultimately defined the midnight movie phenomenon, began work on his most ambitious project yet....