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Documentaries about films, filmmaking and filmmakers

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  • Tales from the Script (2009)

    1. Tales from the Script

    20091h 45mNot Rated
    7.1 (1.6K)
    War stories and life lessons from the industry's top writers.
    DirectorPeter HansonStarsAllison AndersJane AndersonDoug Atchison
  • Sven Nykvist in Ljuset håller mig sällskap (2000)

    2. Ljuset håller mig sällskap

    20001h 18mNot Rated
    7.0 (385)
    Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator. A journey to the place of birth, Moheda, constitutes the hub of the film and during the journey friends and memories emerge.
    DirectorCarl-Gustav NykvistStarsSven NykvistErland JosephsonSusan Sarandon
  • The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)

    3. The Story of Film: An Odyssey

    201115 epsNot RatedTV Mini Series
    8.4 (5K)
    A comprehensive history of the medium and art of motion pictures.
    StarsMark CousinsJuan Diego BottoAleksandr Sokurov
  • Woody Allen: A Documentary (2011)

    4. American Masters

    Episode: 

    Woody Allen: A Documentary

    (2011)
    1985– 3h 12mNot RatedTV Episode
    7.7 (5.3K)
    A documentary on Woody Allen that trails him on his movie sets and follows him back to Brooklyn as he visits his childhood haunts.
    DirectorRobert B. WeideStarsWoody AllenLetty AronsonMarshall Brickman
  • Great Directors (2009)

    5. Great Directors

    20091h 30mNot Rated49Metascore
    6.4 (520)
    Ten of the greatest filmmakers in the world passionately discuss their craft in Angela Ismailos' hugely entertaining documentary GREAT DIRECTORS.
    DirectorAngela IsmailosStarsDavid LynchCatherine BreillatBernardo Bertolucci
  • Edge of Outside (2006)

    6. Edge of Outside

    20061h 5mTV-14
    7.1 (125)
    An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino. Interview footage and film clips are blended together to form a chronological approach to the subject matter. Profiles of important figures within the independent film industry include John Cassavetes, Stanley Kubrick, John Sayles, Woody Allen, Roger Corman, Samuel Fuller, Martin Scorsese, Orson Welles, Arthur Penn, Spike Lee, Peter Bogdanovich, Sam Peckinpah, Nicholas Ray, and Henry Jaglom. The documentary compiles new and stock interviews with important filmmakers including Cassavetes, Corman, Bogdanovich, Fuller, Scorsese, Welles, Penn, Sayles, Ray, Peckinpah, Lee, and Jaglom. The program also covers important movements in the history of independent cinema such as the Italian neorealism and the French New Wave. The documentary makes it clear in the emphasis that an independent film is not simply a low-budget film, but instead, accurately defines the genre by the filmmaker's ability to convey an individual vision through their creative approach, with limited interference from a higher authority, whether or not working within a studio system.
    DirectorShannon DavisStarsPeter BiskindRobert TownsendEdward Burns
  • Eraserhead Stories (2001)

    7. Eraserhead Stories

    20011h 25mVideo
    7.1 (651)
    The enduring hope that humanity may or may not persevere. A tale of love and abandonment.
    DirectorDavid LynchStarsCatherine E. CoulsonDavid LynchJack Nance
  • Quay (2015)

    8. Quay

    20158mNot RatedShort
    6.4 (1.8K)
    This short documentary film reveals the inner workings of the Brothers' studio.
    DirectorChristopher NolanStarsStephen QuayTimothy Quay
  • Martin Scorsese in A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995)

    9. Century of Cinema

    Episode: 

    A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

    (1995)
    1995–19983h 45mTV Episode
    8.5 (5.2K)
    Martin Scorsese describes his initial and growing obsession with films from the 1940s and 50s as the art form developed and grew with clips from classics and cult classics.
    DirectorsMartin ScorseseMichael Henry WilsonStarsMartin ScorseseAllison AndersKathryn Bigelow
  • My Voyage to Italy (1999)

    10. My Voyage to Italy

    19994h 6mPG-1390Metascore
    8.2 (3.6K)
    World-renowned director Martin Scorsese narrates this journey through his favorites in Italian cinema.
    DirectorMartin ScorseseStarMartin Scorsese
  • Stanley Kubrick in Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)

    11. Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

    20012h 22mNot Rated
    8.0 (12K)
    The career and life of Stanley Kubrick is explored through pictures, clips from his films, his old home movies, comments from his colleagues and a narration by Tom Cruise.
    DirectorJan HarlanStarsKatharina KubrickMalcolm McDowellStanley Kubrick
  • François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - The Wild Child (1996)

    12. François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - The Wild Child

    199639mTV Movie
    7.5 (56)
    StarsFrançois TruffautPhilip FrenchDon Allen
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Werner Herzog in Chambre 666 (1982)

    13. Chambre 666

    198245mTV Movie
    6.6 (1.8K)
    During the '35th Cannes International Film Festival' (14th-26th May 1982), German director Wim Wenders asked a sample of 15 other international film directors to get, each one at a time, into the same hotel room to answer in solitude the same question about the future of cinema, while they were filmed with a 16mm camera and recorded with a Nagra sound recorder. In social sciences the goal of standardization is that each person is exposed to the same question experience, and that the recording setting of answers is the same, too, so that any differences in the answers can be correctly interpreted as reflecting differences between persons rather than differences in the process that produced the answer. The wide sampling frame in "Room 666" included European 'auteurs' and Hollywood directors, narrative and experimental filmmakers, male and female professional film directors that presented their films or were simply present at the 35th Cannes Festival in May 1982. The directors came from France, Italy, Brazil, Lebanon, Germany, Turkey, the Philippines and the USA. This unique documentary shows the complete footage (or selected parts) of the 15 answers that resulted from this 'standardized survey interviews'. The historical value of "Room 666" has increased over time: The 5 directors Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Yilmaz Güney, Maroun Bagdadi, Robert Kramer and Michelangelo Antonioni have died since then in this order. Fassbinder died only a few weeks later on June 10th 1982 and gave his last 'interview' in "Room 666".
    DirectorWim WendersStarsWim WendersMichelangelo AntonioniMaroun Bagdadi
  • Andrey Tarkovsky in Nostalghia (1984)

    14. Andrey Tarkovsky in Nostalghia

    19841h 37m
    7.6 (96)
    An intimate and poetic scene-by-scene look into the filming of Tarkovsky's masterpiece, 'Nostalghia'.
    DirectorDonatella Baglivo
  • Voyage in Time (1983)

    15. Voyage in Time

    19831h 2mTV Movie
    7.2 (2.2K)
    Acclaimed Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky and his screenwriter Tonino Guerra travel all over Italy to scout locations for the film Nostalghia.
    DirectorsTonino GuerraAndrei TarkovskyStarsTonino GuerraLora JabloskinaAndrei Tarkovsky
  • Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining' (2013)

    16. Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining'

    201355m
    7.0 (86)
    DirectorHoward BerryStarsPaul WelshHoward BerryG.D. Jayalakshmi
  • Stanley Kubrick in Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick (2007)

    17. Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick

    200720mVideo
    7.1 (353)
    He is considered by many the greatest film director the medium has ever known. Yet in a 45-year career, Stanley Kubrick's films number only a dozen. That he strove for perfection is well established. What is less known is that he lavished years of energy on several films that never saw the flickering light of the silver screen. Through interviews and abundant archival materials, this documentary examines these "lost" films in depth to discover what drew Kubrick to these projects, the work he did to prepare them for production, and why they ultimately were abandoned.
    DirectorGary LevaStarsMalcolm McDowellJack NicholsonSydney Pollack
  • Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' (2000)

    18. Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'

    200046mVideo
    7.3 (414)
    Documentary on the making of Kubrick's classic film.
    DirectorDavid NaylorStarsJames B. HarrisAlexander WalkerLee Minoff
  • Kubrick Remembered (2014)

    19. Kubrick Remembered

    20141h 24m
    7.4 (391)
    Kubrick Remembered is one of the supplementary bonus documentaries included in Stanley Kubrick: The Masterpiece Collection. This box set of eight Kubrick classics has films, from the 1962 Lolita to his final film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999). In addition to the eight discs (films), there are two more discs, making this a ten-disc set. It does include the previously-released supplements on each film, plus it features two new-to-disc documentaries and one new feature length film, along with a 78-page book of stills, storyboards, production art, script pages, and other production paraphernalia from the featured films. Part of this collection is the aforementioned bonus documentary, which is with the feature-length documentary Kubrick Remembered. Kubrick's widow opened up the Kubrick archives for this documentary, allowing all of us a closer glimpse into his methods.
    DirectorGary KhammarStarsChristiane KubrickLeon VitaliAnthony Frewin
  • Blue Velvet Revisited (2016)

    20. Blue Velvet Revisited

    20161h 26m
    7.0 (202)
    30 years after the shooting of 'Blue Velvet', the classic film of David Lynch, the German filmmaker Peter Braatz revisits his original Super-8 material and numerous photographies, filmed 30 years ago on the set in Wilmington, USA.
    DirectorPeter BraatzStarsLaura DernBrad DourifJeff Goodwin
  • Mulholland Drive: Making of (2004)

    21. Mulholland Drive: Making of

    200424mVideo
    7.3 (345)
    A behind-the-scenes look for David Lynch's surrealist neo-noir film Mulholland Dr. (2001).
    DirectorDavid DessitesStarsLaura HarringDavid LynchJustin Theroux
  • Lynch (2007)

    22. Lynch

    20071h 24mNot Rated67Metascore
    6.7 (974)
    Captures David Lynch at work, offering rare glimpses into the legendary filmmaker's artistic journey while bringing his surreal vision "Inland Empire" to life.
    DirectorJason S.StarsJay AasengJeremy AlterDavid Lynch
  • Stanley Kubrick's Boxes (2008)

    23. Stanley Kubrick's Boxes

    200848mTV Movie
    7.5 (1.4K)
    Jon Ronson is asked by the widow of Stanley Kubrick to investigate the contents of about a thousand boxes left by Kubrick, shown to contain materials reflecting the work Kubrick did after the release of Barry Lyndon (1975) in 1975.
    DirectorJon RonsonStarsJon RonsonAnthony FrewinJan Harlan
  • Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek in Making 'Badlands' (2013)

    24. Making 'Badlands'

    201341mVideo
    7.4 (30)
    An overview of the making of Badlands (1973)
    StarsMartin SheenSissy SpacekJack Fisk
  • Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003)

    25. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

    20031h 59mTV-14
    7.5 (3.2K)
    A look at 1970s Hollywood when it was known as New Hollywood, and the director was the star of the movie.
    DirectorKenneth BowserStarsMartin ScorseseDennis HopperPeter Bogdanovich

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