Documentaries about Film & Filmmakers

Documentaries on film and the people who make them.

Twenty Years Later 1984
No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad 2013
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 2000
The Wire Odyssey 2007
The Imagineering Story 2019
Hollywood 1980
The Story of Film: An Odyssey 2011

★★★★★
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The Beaches of Agnès 2008
Man with a Movie Camera 1929
Won't You Be My Neighbor? 2018

★★★½
Sans Soleil 1983
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies 1995

★★★★★
Visible: Out On Television 2020
Disclosure 2020
Love, Antosha 2019
Histoire(s) du cinéma 1988
American Movie 1999
News from Home 1976
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991

★★★★½
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Dangerous Days: Making 'Blade Runner' 2007
Los Angeles Plays Itself 2003
The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling 2018
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy 2010
Burden of Dreams 1982
The Beast Within: Making 'Alien' 2003
The Arrested Development Documentary Project 2013
I've Been Twelve Forever 2004
Five Came Back 2017

★★★★½
My Voyage to Italy 1999
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror 2019

★★★★½
Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th 2013
Varda by Agnès 2019
Sense8: Creating the World 2018
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy 2004
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness 2013
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema 2018
Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto 2014
Louis Lumière 1968
Superior Firepower : Making 'Aliens' 2003
How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook? 2011
Lumière! 2016
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One 1968
Jodorowsky's Dune 2013
The Celluloid Closet 1995
Daguerréotypes 1976
Listen to Me Marlon 2015
We Stand Alone Together 2001
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow 1987
Larisa 1980
Making 'Taxi Driver' 1999
The Director and the Jedi 2018
Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey 2014
The Making of 'Kill Bill: Vol. 2' 2004
My Best Fiend 1999
The Thing: Terror Takes Shape 1998
Snowball Effect: The Story of Clerks 2004
The Beginning: Making 'Episode I' 2001
Life Itself 2014
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures 2001
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die 2019
That Moment: Magnolia Diary 2000
The Making of My Own Private Idaho 2005
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind 2018

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Eli Roth's History of Horror 2018
A History of Horror 2010
This Is Not a Film 2011
This Changes Everything 2018
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché 2018
The Making of Jaws 1995
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy 2013
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist 1998
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' 2003
Not Quite Hollywood 2008
The Movies 2019
The Making of 'Amadeus' 2002
Making The Shining 1980
Spike Lee Teaches Independent Filmmaking 2018
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema 2006
Far from Vietnam 1967
MGM: When the Lion Roars 1992
In Search of Darkness: A Journey Into Iconic '80s Horror 2019
Video Nasties: Draconian Days 2014
Waking Sleeping Beauty 2009
Katharine Hepburn: All About Me 1993
RKO Production 601: The Making of 'Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World' 2005
Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy 2003
Celluloid Man 2012
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story 2015
Dykes, Camera, Action! 2018
Persistence of Vision 2012
Scream Greats, Vol.1: Tom Savini, Master of Horror Effects 1986
Tokyo-Ga 1985
Making a Murder 2020
An Evening with Kevin Smith 2002
To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story 2017
Batman & Bill 2017
The Making of 'Jurassic Park' 1995
Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer 2019
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession 2004
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making A Clockwork Orange 2007