List of documentary films

This is a list of documentary films, arranged in alphabetical order. The earliest documentary listed is Fred Ott's Sneeze (1894), which is also the first motion picture ever copyrighted in North America. The term documentary was first used in 1926 by filmmaker John Grierson as a term to describe films that document reality. For other lists, see Category:Documentary films by country and Category:Documentaries by topic.

0-9

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref
1 More Hit	2007	Shauna Garr	Shauna Garr, John A. Causey III and Landon Taylor	[1]
4	2007	Tim Slade	Joanna Buggy and Tim Slade	[2]
4 Little Girls	1997	Spike Lee	Spike Lee and Sam Pollard	[3]
500 Years Later
6th Marine Division on Okinawa, The	1945	N/A	United States Marine Corps	[4]
9/11: Press for Truth	2006	Ray Nowosielski	John Duffy	[5]
10 MPH	2007	Hunter Weeks	Hunter Weeks and Josh Caldwell	[6]
10 Questions for the Dalai Lama	2006	Rick Ray	Rick Ray and Sharon Ray	[7]
The 11th Hour, The	2007	Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen	Chuck Castleberry, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brian Gerber and Leila Conners Petersen	[8]
12th & Delaware	2010	Rachel Grady
16 Days in Afghanistan	2008	Anwar Hajher	Mithaq Kazimi	[9]
51 Birch Street	2005	Doug Block	Doug Block and Lori Cheatle	[10]
80 Blocks From Tiffany's	1983	Gary Weis	Gary Weis	[11]
102 Minutes that Changed America	2008	N/A	Nicole Rittenmeyer	[12]
911: In Plane Site	2006	William Lewis	Dave vonKleist and William Lewis	[13]

A

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref
ABC Africa	2001	Abbas Kiarostami
Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story	2006	Patty Kim and Chris Sheridan	Patty Kim and Chris Sheridan	[14]
About Baghdad	2004	Sinan Antoon, Bassam Haddad, Maya Mikdashi, Suzy Salamy and Adam Shapiro	Incounter Productions	[15]
A Brony Tale	2014	Brent Hodge	Brent Hodge & Lauren Bercovitch and Morgan Spurlock	Hodgee Films
A Very Heavy Agenda	2016	Robbie Martin (journalist)	Robbie Martin (journalist)
An Act of Conscience	1997	Robbie Leppzer	Turning Tide Productions	[16]
Adam Clayton Powell	1989	Richard Kilberg
Africa	2013	Katrina Bartlam	Hugh Pearson	[17]
Age of Stupid, The	2009	Franny Armstrong	Lizzie Gillett	[18]
Agee	1980	Ross Spears
Agronomist, The	2003	Jonathan Demme	Edwidge Danticat
Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer	1994	Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill	Riete Oord	[19][20]
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer	2003	Nick Broomfield	Jo Human
Air Force, Incorporated	2006	Enrique Piñeyro	Enrique Piñeyro	[21]
Alaska Wilderness Lake	1971	Alan Landsburg
Alfred and Jakobine	2014	Jonathan Howells and Tom Roberts		[22]
Alice: Ignorance Is Bliss
Aliens of the Deep	2005	James Cameron and Steven Quale	James Cameron and Andrew Wight	[23][24]
All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise	2006	Shari Cookson	Shari Cookson	[25]
All in This Tea	2007	Les Blank and Gina Leibrecht	Les Blank and Gina Leibrecht	[26]
Almost Sunrise	2016	Michael Collins	Marty Syjuco	[27]
Alone across Australia	2004	Ian Darling and Jon Muir	Ian Darling and Jon Muir	[28]
Amarillo by Morning	1997	Spike Jonze
America's Heart and Soul	2004	Louis Schwartzberg	Vincent Ueber	[29]
America: Freedom to Fascism	2006	Aaron Russo	Aaron Russo and Richard Whitley
American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan	2006	Jean-Daniel Lafond	Nathalie Barton
American Beer	2002	Paul Kermizian	Paul Kermizian	[30]
American Bellydancer	2005	Jonathan Brandeis	Jonathan Brandeis	[31]
American: The Bill Hicks Story	2009	Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas		[32]
American Dream	1990	Barbara Kopple	Arthur Cohn and Barbara Kopple	[33]
American Hardcore	2006	Paul Rachman	Steven Blush and Paul Rachman	[34]
American Harmony	2008	Aengus James	Aengus James and Colin King Miller	[35]
American Jobs	2004	Greg Spotts	Greg Spotts	[36]
American Movie	1999	Chris Smith	Sarah Price	[37]
American Pimp	1999	Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes	Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes and Kevin J. Messick	[38]
American Scary	2006	John E. Hudgens	Sandy Clark
American Zeitgeist	2006	Rob McGann	Rob McGann
American Ruling Class, The	2005	John Kirby	Libby Handros	[39]
Amy	2015	Asif Kapadia	James Gay Rees, George Pank and Paul Bell
Anderson Platoon, The	1967	Pierre Schoendoerffer
Andrew and Jeremy Get Married	2004	Don Boyd	Clare Boyd and Don Boyd
Animal World, The	1956	Irwin Allen	Irwin Allen	[40]
American Opera, An: The Greatest Pet Rescue Ever!	2007	Tom McPhee	Tom McPhee	[41]
Anne Frank Remembered	1995	Jon Blair	Jon Blair	[42]
Answering the Call: Ground Zero's Volunteers	2006	Lou Angeli	Bunny Dubin	[43]
Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman	1974	Judy Collins, Jill Godmilow
Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century: The Resurgence	2007	Andrew Goldberg	Andrew Goldberg
Anvil! The Story of Anvil	2008	Sacha Gervasi
Arakimentari	2004	Travis Klose	Jason Fried	[44]
Are the Kids Alright?	2003	Ellen Spiro	Karen Bernstein
Aristocrats, The	2005	Paul Provenza	Paul Provenza and Peter Adam Golden	[45]
Arlington West: The Film	2006	Peter Dudar and Sally Marr	Peter Dudar and Sally Marr	[46]
Art Is... The Permanent Revolution	2012	Manfred Kirchheimer	Manfred Kirchheimer	[47]
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got	1986	Brigitte Berman
At Night, They Dance	2011	Isabelle Lavigne and Stéphane Thibault
Atomic Ed and the Black Hole	2002	Ellen Spiro	Karen Bernstein	[48]
A Trip to Heaven	2014
A Trip to Hell	2013
Audience of One	2007	Michael Jacobs	Michael Jacobs, Zach Sanders, Matt Woods	[49]
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life	1997	Michael Paxton

B

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref
Back of Beyond, The	1954	John Heyer	John Heyer	[50]
Backstreet Boys: Show 'Em What You're Made Of	2015	Stephen Kijak	Mia Bays	[51]
Baghdad ER	2006	Jon Alpert	Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill	[52]
Bam 6.6	2007	Jahangir Golestan-Parast	Jahangir Golestan-Parast	[53]
Bangkok Girl	2005	Jordan Clark	Jordan Clark	[54]
Barefoot to Herat	2002	Majid Majidi	Majid Majidi and Fouad Nahas
Baseball†	1994	Ken Burns	Ken Burns and Lynn Novick	[55]
Battle for the Tiara	1998	Charley Lang and Eric Schiff	Charley Lang and Eric Schiff	[56]
Battle of San Pietro, The	1945	John Huston	John Huston (uncredited)
Beatles: The First U.S. Visit, The	1994	Kathy Dougherty, Albert Maysles and Susan Frömke (as Susan Froemke)	Susan Frömke (as Susan Froemke)
Beats of the Antonov	2014	Hajooj Kuka
Beautiful Losers	2007	Aaron Rose	Rich Lim, Jon Barlow, Chris Green and Noah Khoshbin	[57]
Becoming Bulletproof	2015	Michael Barnett	Theodore James	[58]
Before Stonewall, After Stonewall†	1984–1999	Greta Schiller and John Scagliotti	Greta Schiller, Robert Rosenberg, Janet Baus and Dan Hunt	[59][60]
Before the Music Dies	2006	Andrew Shapter	Joel Rasmussen
Before We Forget	2011	Jeremy Boo and Lee Xian Jie	Hachisu	[61][62]
Being Osama	2004	Mahmoud Kaabour and Tim Schwab	Diversus Productions	[63]
Bells from the Deep: Faith and Superstition in Russia	1993	Werner Herzog	Lucki Stipetić
Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery	2014	Arne Birkenstock
Best Boy	1979	Ira Wohl	Only Child Motion Pictures
Best Friend Forgotten	2004	Julie Lofton	RCD Entertainment	[64]
Betrayal - Nerakhoon, The	2008	Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath
Beyond Belief	2007	Beth Murphy	Beth Murph
Beyond Hatred	2005	Olivier Meyrou	Christophe Girard and Katharina Marx
Beyond the Call	2006	Adrian Belic	Adrian Belic
Beyond the Gates of Splendor	2004	Jim Hanon	Kevin McAfee
Beyond the Heights	2015	Jawad Sharif	Mirza Ali	[65]
Bicycle Dreams	2009	Stephen Auerbach		[66]
Big Brother and the Holding Co. With Janis Joplin: Nine Hundred Nights	2001	Michael Burlingame	Toby Byron	[67]
Big Dreamers	2007	Camille Hardman	Camille Hardman and John Fink
Biggie and Tupac	2002	Nick Broomfield	Nick Broomfield and Michele d'Acosta
The Big Melt	2013	Martin Wallace	Crossover and Lone Star
Big One, The	1998	Michael Moore	Kathleen Glynn
Bikes vs. Cars	2015	Fredrik Gertten	Margarete Jangård and Elin Kamlert
Birth of Saké, The	2015	Erik Shirai	Masako Tsumura	[68]
Bitter Jester	2003	Maija Di Giorgio	Kenneth Simmons
Black Chicks Talking	2001	Leah Purcell
Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler	1962	Louis Clyde Stoumen	Louis Clyde Stoumen
Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, The	2015	Stanley Nelson, Jr.	Laurens Grant and Stanley Nelson, Jr.
Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street	1999	Steven Okazaki	Steven Okazaki	[69]
Blackfish	2013	Gabriela Cowperthwaite	Gabriela Cowperthwaite	[70]
Black Generation, The	1976	Zbenek Suchy	Ivan Kral	[71][72]
Blood of Yingzhou District, The	2006	Ruby Yang	Thomas Lennon	[73]
Blue Vinyl	2002	Daniel B. Gold and Judith Helfand	Daniel B. Gold, Judith Helfand and Julia D. Parker	[74]
Body of War	2007	Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue	Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue	[75]
Bomb, The (PBS film)	2015	Rushmore DeNooyer	Lone Wolf Media
Bomb Harvest	2007	Kim Mordaunt	Sylvia Wilczynski
Border	2007	Chris Burgard	Jennifer Champagne
Born in the USSR: 21 Up	2005	Sergei Miroshnichenko	Jemma Jupp
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids	2004	Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman	Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman
Born Rich	2003	Jamie Johnson	Jamie Johnson, Dirk Wittenborn and Nick Kurzon	[76]
Bougainville – Our Island Our Fight	1998	Wayne Coles-Janess	Wayne Coles-Janess
Bowling for Columbine	2002	Michael Moore	Kathleen Glynn, Jim Czarnecki, Charles Bishop and Michael Donovan	[77]
Boy Named Sue, A	2000	Julie Wyman	N/A
Bra Boys: Blood is Thicker than Water	2007	Sunny Abberton	Sunny Abberton
Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror	2003	John Pilger	N/A
BRIC: The New World	2010	N/A	Jorge Lanata
Bridegroom: A Love Story, Unequaled	2013	Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
Bridge, The	2006	Eric Steel	Eric Steel
Brief History of Time, A	1991	Errol Morris	David Hickman
Bring on the Night	1985	Michael Apted	David Manson
Britney: For the Record	2008	Phil Griffin	Andrew Fried
Brooklyn Bridge	1981	Ken Burns	Ken Burns, Roger M. Sherman, Buddy Squires and Amy Stechler
Buena Vista Social Club	1999	Wim Wenders
Bugs Bunny: Superstar	1975	Larry Jackson	Larry Jackson	[78]
Bukowski	1973	Taylor Hackford
Burden of Dreams	1982	Les Blank
Buried Country	2003	Andy Nehl	Andy Nehl
Burma VJ	2008	Anders Østergaard
Bus 174	2002	Jose Padilha	Jose Padilha and Marcos Prado
Buy Bye Beauty	2001	Pål Hollender	Pål Hollender

C

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref
California Reich, The	1975	Walter F. Parkes	Walter F. Parkes	[79]
Call + Response	2008	Justin Dillon	Justin Dillon	[80]
Call Me Kuchu	2012	Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright	Jeffrey Blitz, Malika Zouhali-Worrall
Call Me Lucky	2015	Bobcat Goldthwait	Clinton Trucks and Charlie Fonville	[81]
Call of the Wild	2007	Ron Lamothe	Ron Lamothe	[82]
Calle 54	2000	Fernando Trueba		[83]
Cancer (PBS film)	2015	Barak Goodman	Ken Burns
Cane Toads: An Unnatural History	1988	Mark Lewis
Cannibal Tours	1988	Dennis O'Rourke
Capitalism: A Love Story	2009	Michael Moore	Michael Moore	[84]
Captain Mike Across America	2007	Michael Moore
Capturing the Friedmans	2003	Andrew Jarecki
Casino Jack and the United States of Money	2010	Alex Gibney	Mark Cuban
Castro Street	1966	Bruce Baillie	Bruce Baillie	[85]
Cats of Mirikitani, The	2006	Linda Hattendorf
Cave of Forgotten Dreams	2010	Werner Herzog
Celluloid Closet, The	1996	Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
Celsius 41.11	2004	Kevin Knoblock	Lionel Chetwynd
Chain Camera	2001	Kirby Dick
Chang	1927	Merian C. Cooper	Ernest B. Schoedsack, Jesse Lasky and Adolph Zukor	[86]
Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street	2007	Phil Ranstrom	Phil Ranstrom	[87]
Chernobyl Heart	2003	Maryann DeLeo
Chicken Ranch	1983	Nick Broomfield and Sandi Sissel	Nick Broomfield	[88]
Children of the Civil Rights	2015	Julia Clifford and Bob Ridgley		[89]
Chile: When Will It End?	1986	David Bradbury
China Blue	2005	Micha Peled
Christiania: 40 Years of Occupation	2014	Robert Lawson and Richard Jackman		[90]
Chronicle of a Summer	1960	Edgar Morin
Cinerama Adventure	2002	David Strohmaier	Randy Gitsch	[91]
City of Water	2007	Jasper Goldman
City, The	1939	Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke
Civil War, The	1990	Ken Burns
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer	2010	Alex Gibney
Climb, The	2007	Mark Johnston
Closer Walk, A	2003	Robert Bilheimer
Cocksucker Blues	1972	Robert Frank and Daniel Seymour	Marshall Chess	[92]
Comandante	2003	Oliver Stone
Comic Book Confidential	1988	Ron Mann
Congo River, Beyond Darkness	2005	Thierry Michel	Rosadel Varela and Hani Salama	[93]
Conquest of Everest, The	1953	George Lowe
Control Room	2004	Jehane Noujaim
Corporation, The	2003	Jennifer Abbott and Mark Achbar
Cosmic Voyage	1996	Bayley Silleck
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage	1980	Adrian Malone
Counting	2015	Jem Cohen		[94]
Courting Condi	2008	Sebastian Doggart
Cove, The	2009	Louie Psihoyos	Paula DuPre'Pesmen and Fisher Stevens	[95]
Crazy English	1999	Zhang Yuan
Crazy Love	2007	Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens	Dan Klores
Creators, The	2011	Laura Gamse and Jacques de Villiers	Thulani Nahum Deke	[96]
Cruel and Unusual	2006	Janet Baus, Dan Hunt and Reid Williams
Crumb	1994	Terry Zwigoff

D

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref
Daddy Don't Go	2015	Emily Abt	Emily Abt	[97]
Daddy of Rock 'N' Roll, The	2003	Daniel Bitton
Dalai Lama Renaissance	2007	Khashyar Darvich
Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World	2003	John Scagliotti
Darius Goes West	2007	Logan Smalley
Darwin's Nightmare	2004	Hubert Sauper
Dave Chappelle's Block Party	2006	Michel Gondry
Day of the Fight	1951	Stanley Kubrick
Day the Universe Changed, The	1985	James Burke
Dead On: The Life and Cinema of George A. Romero	2008	Rusty Nails
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father	2008	Kurt Kuenne	Kurt Kuenne
Death Faces	1988	Countess Victoria Bloodhart and Steve White
Death for Five Voices	1995	Werner Herzog	Lucki Stipetic
Decline of Western Civilization, The, Part II: The Metal Years, Part III†	1981–1998	Penelope Spheeris
Destination Hitchcock: The Making of North by Northwest	2000	Peter Fitzgerald
Devil and Daniel Johnston, The	2006	Jeff Feuerzeig
Devil Came on Horseback, The	2007	Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg
Diana's Hair Ego	1991	Ellen Spiro	Ellen Spiro	[98]
Diary for Timothy, A	1945	Humphrey Jennings
Diplomat, The	2015	David Holbrooke	Stacey Reiss
Divine Trash	1998	Steve Yeager
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing	2006	Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck
Do I Sound Gay?	2014	David Thorpe
Dog Days of Winter	2014	Brian Gilmore		[99]
Dont Look Back	1967	D.A. Pennebaker
Down and Out in America	1986	Lee Grant
Down from the Mountain	2000	Nick Doob, Chris Hegedus, D. A. Pennebaker	Bob Neuwirth
Drew: The Man Behind The Poster	2013	Erik Sharkey	Greg Boas, Rick Law, Charles Ricciardi, and Erik Sharkey
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon	2015	Douglas Tirola	Susan Bedusa and Douglas Tirola
Dust to Dust: The Health Effects of 9/11	2006	Heidi Dehncke Fisher

E

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref
Eames: The Architect and the Painter	2011	Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey	Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey
Earthlings	2005	Shaun Monson
Echoes from a Somber Empire	1990	Werner Herzog
Eclipse of Reason	1987	Bernard Nathanson	Bernard Nathanson and Adelle Roban Nathanson
Elephant in the Living Room, The	2010	Michael Webber
Emperor's Naked Army Marches On, The	1987	Kazuo Hara	Sachiko Kobayashi	[100]
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio	1992	Ken Burns
Encounters at the End of the World	2008	Werner Herzog
End of America, The	2008	Anne Sundberg and Ricki Stern
End of Suburbia, The	2004	Gregory Greene
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room	2005	Alex Gibney
Everything's Cool	2007	Daniel B. Gold and Judith Helfand
Expedition: Bismarck	2002	James Cameron and Gary Johnstone
Exploratorium	1974	Jon Boorstin	Jon Boorstin	[101]
Expo: Magic of the White City	2005	Mark Bussler
Exposing Homelessness	2006	Kerri Gawryn	Kerri Gawryn	[102]
Eyes and Ears Of God – Video surveillance of Sudan	2012	Tomo Križnar

F

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref
Faces of Death, II, III, IV, V, VI†	1978–1996	Conan Le Cilaire, John Alan Schwartz, Susumu Saegusa and Andrew Theopolis	John Alan Schwartz	[103][104][105][106][107][108]
Facing Sudan	2007	Bruce David Janu
For Which We Stand	2014	Sean Robinson
Facing the Music	2001	Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson
Fagbug	2009	Erin Davies
Fahrenheit 9/11	2004	Michael Moore
FahrenHYPE 9/11	2004	Alan Peterson
Fairytale of Kathmandu	2007	Neasa Ní Chianáin
Fambul Tok	2011	Sara Terry	Sara Terry, Rory Kennedy and Libby Hoffman	[109]
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control	1997	Errol Morris
Favela Rising	2006	Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary
Fear of a Black Republican	2011	Kevin Williams
Fearless Freaks, The	2005	Bradley Beesley
Feiyu Show	2014	Sun Hong		[110]
Festival Express	2003	Bob Smeaton
Fig Trees	2009	John Greyson	John Greyson
Fight for the Planet	2009	Colin Carter
Fighting Norway	1943	Sydney Newman	National Film Board of Canada	[111]
Film Unfinished, A	2010	Yael Hersonski	Itai Ken-Tor, Philippa Kowarsky, Noemi Schory
Final Score	2007	Soraya Nagasuwan
Finders Keepers	2015	Bryan Carberry and Clay Tweel		[112]
Finding Kraftland	2006	Richard Kraft and Adam Shell
First Contact	1983	Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson
Fires Were Started	1943	Humphrey Jennings	Ian Dalrymple	[113]
The Five Obstructions	2003	Lars von Trier, Jørgen Leth	Peter Aalbæk Jensen, Vibeke Windeløv
Flames Of War, The Fight Has Just Begun	2014		Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Flow: For Love of Water	2008	Irena Salina	Steven Starr
Flying Padre	1951	Stanley Kubrick
Fog of War, The: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara	2003	Errol Morris
Food, Inc.	2008	Robert Kenner
Football Under Cover	2008	David Assmann and Ayat Najafi
For All Mankind	1989	Al Reinert
For Grace	2015	Kevin Pang and Mark Helenowski	Kevin Pang and Mark Helenowski	[114]
For the Bible Tells Me So	2007	Daniel G Karslake
Forbidden Fruit	2000	Sue Maluwa-Bruce
Forbidden Lie$	2007	Anna Broinowski
Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives	1992	Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman
Freakonomics	2010	Heidi Ewing, Alex Gibney, Seth Gordon, Rachel Grady, Eugene Jarecki, Morgan Spurlock
Fred Ott's Sneeze	1894	William K.L. Dickson	William K.L. Dickson	[115]
Frederick Douglass and the White Negro
Frida, en trotjänarinna	1999	Marianne Gillgren
Front Line	1981	David Bradbury
FUCK	2005	Steve Anderson	Steve Anderson	[116]
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon, A	2001	Bart Sibrel
Future of Food, The	2004	Deborah Koons

G

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref
Game Face (documentary)	2015	Michiel Thomas	Mark Schoen
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers	1980	Les Blank	Les Blank	[117]
Gasland	2010	Josh Fox	David Roma
Gate of Heavenly Peace, The	1995	Richard Gordon and Carma Hinton
Gates of Heaven	1978	Errol Morris
Gay Sex in the 70s	2005	Joseph Lovett	Joseph Lovett	[118]
Gaza Strip	2002	James Longley
Genghis Blues	1999	Roko Belic
Gente di Roma	2003	Ettore Scola
Ghosts of the Abyss	2003	James Cameron
Gimme Shelter	1970	Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin	Porter Bibb and Ronald Schneider	[119]
Girl 27	2007	David Stenn
Giuliani Time	2006	Kevin Keating
Give Us Our Skeletons	1999	Paul-Anders Simma
Glamour & The Squalor, The	2015	Marq Evans		[120]
Go Further	2003	Ron Mann
God of War – Game Directors Live	2010
God of War: Unearthing the Legend	2010
God On My Side	2006	Anita Jacoby	Jon Casimir and Anita Jacoby	[121][122]
God's Angry Man	1980	Werner Herzog
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson	2008	Alex Gibney
Good Hair	2009	Jeff Stilson	Chris Rock Productions, HBO Films
Grand Canyon	1958	James Algar
Great Old Amusement Parks	1999	Rick Sebak	WQED Pittsburgh	[123]
Great West End Theatres	2011	Marc Sinden	Jo Gilbert & Marc Sinden	[124]
Greatest Silence, The: Rape in the Congo	2008	Lisa F. Jackson
Greetings from Out Here	1993	Ellen Spiro
Grey Gardens	1976	Albert and David Maysles
Grizzly Man	2005	Werner Herzog
Gunner Palace	2005	Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein
Gunnin' for That No. 1 Spot	2008	Adam Yauch

H

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref
Hacking Democracy	2006	Simon Ardizzone and Russell Michaels
Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World	2015	Charles Wilkinson	Tina Schliessler, Charles Wilkinson, Kevin Eastwood, and Murray Battle
Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll	1987	Taylor Hackford
Hands on a Hard Body: The Documentary	1997	S.R. Bindler
Harlan County, USA	1976	Barbara Kopple
Hearts and Minds	1974	Peter Davis
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse	1991	Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper
Have You Seen Andy?	2001	Melanie Perkins
Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam	1996	Nick Broomfield
Heima	2007	Dean DeBlois
Here Is Always Somewhere Else	2006	Rene Daalder
High School	1968	Frederick Wiseman
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes	2006	Byron Hurt
Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Featured Films	2007	Arthur Dong
Home	2009	Yann Arthus-Bertrand	Denis Carot and Luc Besson
Home of the Brave	2004	Paola di Florio
Hoop Dreams	1994	Steve James	Steve James, Frederick Marx and Peter Gilbert	[125]
Hope In Heaven	2006	Meredith Ralston
Honour Me	2008	Alex Tweddle
Hot Girls Wanted	2015	Jill Bauer and Ronna Gradus	Rashida Jones, Jill Bauer, Ronna Gradus and Brittany Huckabee
How to Change the World	2015	Jerry Rothwell	Al Morrow and Bous de Jong
Huey Long	1986	Ken Burns

I

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref
ID–WITHOUTCOLORS	2013	Riccardo Valsecchi	Migrationsrat Berlin-Brandenburg	[126]
Imagine: John Lennon	1988	Andrew Solt	George Martin	[127]
Importance of Being Icelandic, The	1998	Jon Einarsson Gustafsson and Marc Stephenson
In Bad Taste	2000	Steve Yeager
In the Basement	2014	Ulrich Seidl		[128]
In Search of the Second Amendment	2006	David T. Hardy
In the Realm of the Hackers	2002	Kevin Anderson
In the Land of the Head Hunters	1914	Edward S. Curtis	Edward S. Curtis	[129]
In the Shadow of the Moon	2006	David Sington	Dr. Duncan Copp	[130]
Incident at Oglala	1992	Michael Apted	Arthur Chobanian	[131]
Innocence	2005	Areeya Chumsai and Nisa Kongsri
Inconvenient Truth, An	2006	Davis Guggenheim
Indian School	2007	Colin Cameron
Inside Deep Throat	2005	Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato
Inside Job	2010	Charles H. Ferguson
Invisible Children	2003	Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey, and Laren Poole
I.O.U.S.A.	2008	Patrick Creadon	Christine O'Malley
Iran (is not the problem)	2008	Aaron Newman
Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers	2006	Robert Greenwald
Iraq in Fragments	2007	James Longley
It Might Get Loud	2009	Davis Guggenheim	Jimmy Page
Italy in a Day	2014	Gabriele Salvatores		[132]

J

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref
Julian Bond: Reflections from the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement	2012	Eduardo Montes-Bradley	Heritage Film Project
Jackass: The Movie, Number Two, 3D†	2002 - 2010	Jeff Tremaine
Jeff Lowe's Metanoia	2014	Jim Aikman	Connie Self	[133]
Jesus Camp	2006	Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing
Jabe Babe - A Heightened Life	2005	Janet Merewether
Jackass: The Movie, Number Two, 3D†	2002 - 2010	Jeff Tremaine
Jesus Camp	2006	Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing
Jihad for Love, A	2007	Parvez Sharma	Sandi DuBowski and Parvez Sharma	[134]
Judge and the General, The	2008	Elizabeth Farnsworthe and Patricio Lanfranco Leverton
Junket Whore	1998	Debbie Melnyk
Just, Melvin: Just Evil	2000	James Ronald Whitney
Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the 70's Generation	1999	Catherine Annau

K

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref
Kid Stays in the Picture, The	2002	Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen	Brett Morgan and Nanette Burstein	[135][136]
Killer's Paradise	2007	Giselle Portenier	Giselle Portenier	[137]
The King – Jari Litmanen	2012	Arto Koskinen	Mika Kaurismäki
King of Kong, The: A Fistful of Quarters	2007	Seth Gordon	Ed Cunningham	[138][139]
King Gimp	1999	William Whiteford	William Whiteford	[140]
Know Your Mushrooms	2008	Ron Mann	Ron Mann	[141]
Kokoda Front Line	1942	Ken G. Hall and Damien Parer
Kon-Tiki	1950	Thor Heyerdahl	Olle Nordemar	[142]
Korla	2014	John Turner		[143]
Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance	1983	Godfrey Reggio
Kurt and Courtney	1998	Nick Broomfield
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck	2015	Brett Morgen	Danielle Renfrew Behrens and Brett Morgen

L

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref
Lake of Fire	2006	Tony Kaye
LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton	2001	Deborah Dickson, Susan Frömke and Albert Maysles
Land of Silence and Darkness	1971	Werner Herzog	Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
Last Days of Left Eye, The	2007	Lauren Lazin
Last Party, The	1993	Mark Benjamin and Marc Levin
Last Season, The	2014	Sara Dosa	Josh Penn	[144]
Leading to War	2008	Barry J. Hershey
Lennon or McCartney	2014	Matt Schichter		[145][146]
Leonard Knight: A Man & His Mountain	2015	Andrew Blake Doyle	Andrew Blake Doyle, Andy Dugan, Whitney Hill, Rick Law, Timothy McClellan, Jeremy Palmer, Candy Trumble and Scott Trumble	[147][148][149]
Let It Be	1970	Michael Lindsay-Hogg	Neil Aspinall, the Beatles
Let's Get Lost	1988	Bruce Weber
Licensed to Kill	1997	Arthur Dong
Life After People	2008	David de Vries
Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, The	1998	Aviva Kempner
Life in the Death of Joe Meek, A	2008	Howard S. Berger and Susan Stahmann
Sir David Attenboroughs' Life... Life on Earth, The Living Planet, The Trials of Life, Life in the Freezer, The Private Life of Plants, The Life of Birds, The Life of Mammals, Life in the Undergrowth, Life in Cold Blood†	1979–2008	David Attenborough, Ian Calvert, Richard Matthews and Alastair Fothergill	Alastair Fothergill, Richard Brock, Christopher Parsons and John Sparks	[150][151][152]
Listen to Britain	1942	Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister
Little Dieter Needs to Fly	1997	Werner Herzog	Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
Little Man	2005	Nicole Conn
Living in A Perfect World	2006	Diego D'Innocenzo, Marco Leopardi and Roberta Cortella
Living Desert, The	1953	James Algar
London Can Take It!	1940	Harry Watt
Loot	2008	Darius Marder	Misha Collins, Dan Campbell, Zebidiah Millett
Looking for Richard	1996	Al Pacino	Al Pacino and William Teitler	[153]
Loose Change	2007	Dylan Avery	Korey Rowe and Matthew Brown	[154]
Lord of the Universe	1974	Michael Shamberg
Los Lonely Boys: Cottonfields and Crossroads	2006	Hector Galán
Lost in La Mancha	2002	Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe
Louisiana Story	1948	Robert J. Flaherty
Love The Beast	2009	Eric Bana

M

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref
Madonna: Truth or Dare	1991	Alek Keshishian	Jim Clawson, Steve Golin, Lisa Hollingshead, Madonna, Daniel Radford, Jay Roewe and Sigurjón Sighvatsson	[155]
Mad Hot Ballroom	2005	Marilyn Agrelo	Marilyn Agrelo and Amy Sewell	[156]
Maidentrip	2014	Jillian Schlesinger
Making North America	2015	Peter Oxley; Gwyn Williams	Peter Oxley	[157]
Mala Mala	2014	Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles	Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles
Malcolm X: Make It Plain	1994	Orlando Bagwell	Orlando Bagwell	[158]
Man Called Brian, A	2005	Mahmoud Shoolizadeh	Neda Armian	[159]
Man from Plains	2007	Jonathan Demme
Man of Aran	1934	Robert J. Flaherty
Man on Wire	2008	James Marsh	Simon Chinn	[160]
Man Who Skied Down Everest, The	1975	Bruce Nyznik and Lawrence Schiller
Man with a Movie Camera	1929	Dziga Vertov
Mandela	1996	Angus Gibson, Jo Menell	Jonathan Demme
Manifestations of Shiva	1980	Malcolm Leigh
Manson	1973	Robert Hendrickson
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media	1992	Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick
March of the Penguins	2005	Luc Jacquet	Yves Darondeau, Christophe Lioud and Emmanuel Priou	[161]
Marjoe	1972	Howard Smith, Sarah Kernochan
Mark of the Maker, The	1991	David McGowan
Mark Twain	2001	Ken Burns	Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan	[162]
Marlene	1984	Maximilian Schell
Married in America	2002	Michael Apted
Marx Reloaded	2011	Jason Barker	Medea Film	[163]
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision	1994	Freida Lee Mock	Terry Sanders
Meeting Resistance	2007	Molly Bingham and Steve Connors	Daniel J.Chalfen	[164]
Meet the Patels	2015	Geeta V. Patel and Ravi V. Patel	Janet Eckholm and Geralyn Dreyfous
Memory of Justice, The	1976	Marcel Ophüls
The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress	1944	William Wyler	William Wyler	[165]
Meru	2007	Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi	Shannon Ethridge, Chin, and Vasarhelyi
Messenger, The	2015	Su Rynard	Joanne Jackson, Sally Black, Diane Woods, and Martin de la Fouchardiere
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey	2005	Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen and Jessica Joy Wise	Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen and Sam Feldman	[166]
Metal Evolution†	2011	Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen	Banger Films
Michael Jackson's This Is It	2009	Kenny Ortega
Michael Moore Hates America	2004	Michael Wilson
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream	2005	Stuart Samuels
Million Calorie March: The Movie	2008	Gary Marino
Mimi and Dona	2015	Sophie Sartain		[167]
Moana	1926	Robert J. Flaherty
Mojados: Through the Night	2004	Tommy Davis	Tommy Davis	[168]
Monster Camp	2007	Cullen Hoback
Morning Sun	2003	Carma Hinton, Geremie Barmé and Richard Gordon
Mosuo Sisters, The	2012	Marlo Poras
Motherland
Mouth of the Wolf, The	2009	Pietro Marcello
Mr. Big	2007	Tiffany Burns
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.	1999	Errol Morris
Murder of Fred Hampton, The	1971	Howard Alk
Murder on a Sunday Morning	2001	Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
Murderball	2005	Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro	Jeff Mandel	[169]
Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann	1992	Joshua Waletzky
My Architect	2003	Nathaniel Kahn
My Best Fiend	1999	Werner Herzog	Lucki Stipetic
My Flesh and Blood	2003	Jonathan Karsh
My Generation	2000	Barbara Kopple
My Kid Could Paint That	2007	Amir Bar-Lev
Mysterious Castles of Clay	1978	Alan Root, Joan Root
Mystery of Matter, The (PBS film)	2014	Stephen Lyons, Muffie Meyer	Stephen Lyons	[170]

N

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref
Nanking	2007	Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman	Bill Guttentag, Michael Jacobsand and Ted Leonsis	[171]
Nanook of the North: A Story Of Life and Love In the Actual Arctic	1922	Robert J. Flaherty	Robert J. Flaherty	[172]
National Bird	2016	Sonia Kennebeck	Ines Hofmann Kanna, Sonia Kennebeck, Wim Wenders, Errol Morris
Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night	2005	Sonali Gulati	Sonali Gulati	[173]
Naushad Ali	1975	Vishwanath Ayengar	Doordarshan Bombay Television Center	[174]
Nefarious: Merchant of Souls	2011	Benjamin Nolot	Benjamin Nolot	[175]
Neil Young: Heart of Gold	2006	Jonathan Demme	Ilona Herzberg
Neil Young Trunk Show	2009	Jonathan Demme
Nema Aviona Za Zagreb	2012	Louis van Gasteren	Louis van Gasteren, Joke Meerman, and Ilja Lammers
Nerdcore Rising	2008	Negin Farsad	Negin Farsad, Kimmy Gatewood and Andrew Mendelson	[176]
Nicaragua Was Our Home	1986	Lee Shapiro	Lee Shapiro	[177]
Night and Fog	1955	Alain Resnais
Night Mail	1936	Harry Watt	Harry Watt and Basil Wright	[178]
Nitrate Kisses	1992	Barbara Hammer	Barbara Hammer	[179]
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan	2005	Martin Scorsese	Spitfire Pictures, Grey Water Park Productions, Thirteen/WNET and New York and Sikelia Productions	[180]
No End in Sight	2007	Charles Ferguson	Jennie Amias, Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs and Jessie Vogelson	[181]
No Impact Man	2009	Laura Gabbert, Justin Schein
No Place Like Home	2006	Courtney Fathom Sell	Courtney Fathom Sell	[182]
Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography	1981	Bonnie Sherr Klein	Dorothy Todd Hénaut	[183]
Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037	2007	Ben Niles	Ben Niles	[184]
N.Y.H.C.	1999	Frank Pavich	Frank Pavich and Stephen Scarlata	[185]

O

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref
Occupation: Dreamland	2005	Ian Olds and Garrett Scott	Selina Lewis Davidson, Nancy Roth and Garrett Scott	[186]
Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States†	2012	Oliver Stone	Oliver Stone, Tara Tremaine, and Rob Wilson	[187]
Olympia	1938	Leni Riefenstahl	Leni Riefenstahl	[188]
ONE: The Movie	2005	Ward Powers	Diane Powers and Ward Powers	[189]
One Big Hapa Family	2010	Jeff Chiba Stearns	Jeff Chiba Stearns	[190]
One Minute to Nine	2007	Tommy Davis	Jaime Davila	[191]
One Percent, The	2006	Jamie Johnson	Jamie Johnson and Nick Kurzon	[192]
One Six Right: The Romance of Flying	2005	Brian J. Terwilliger	Brian J. Terwilliger	[193]
One Small Step: The Story of the Space Chimps	2003	David Cassidy and Kristin Davy	David Cassidy and Kristin Davy	[194]
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience	2007	Richard Robbins	Richard Robbins	[195]
Original Kings of Comedy, The	2000	Spike Lee	David Gale, Walter Latham and Spike Lee	[196]
Orion: The Man Who Would Be King	2015	Jeanie Finlay	Jeanie Finlay and Dewi Gregory	[197]
Otaku Unite!	2004	Eric Bresler	Movies of My Dreams	[198]
Other Side of AIDS, The	2004	Robin Scovill	Robin Scovill and Eric E. Paulson	[199]
Out of Place	2009	Scott Ditzenberger and Darrin McDonald		[200]
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism	2004	Robert Greenwald	Robert Greenwald	[201]

P

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref
Panama Deception, The	1992	Barbara Trent	Joanne Doroshow, David Kasper, Nico Panigutti and Barbara Trent	[202]
Paperback Dreams	2008	Alex Beckstead	Alex Beckstead	[203]
Paper Clips	2004	Elliot Berlin and Joe Fab	The Johnson Group	[204]
Paper Tigers	2015	James Redford		[205]
Patti Smith: Dream of Life	2008	Steven Sebring	Margaret Smilow and Scott Vogel	[206]
Paul Taylor: Creative Domain	2015	Kate Geis	Kate Geis	[207]
Peace Officer	2015	Scott Christopherson and Brad Barber	Scott Christopherson, Brad Barber, and Dave Lawrence
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict	2015	Lisa Immordino Vreeland	Dan Braun, David Koh, Stanley F. Buchthal, and Lisa Immordino Vreeland
Persona Non Grata	2003	Oliver Stone
Place Between, A - The Story of an Adoption	2007	Curtis Kaltenbaugh	Joe MacDonald	[208]
Place Called Chiapas, A	1998	Nettie Wild	Betsy Carson, Kirk Tougas and Nettie Wild	[209]
Place in Time, A	2007	Angelina Jolie	Sam Connelly, Holly Goline	[210]
Place to Live, A	1941	Irving Lerner	N/A	[211]
Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea	2004	Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer	Chris Metzler	[212]
Plow That Broke the Plains, The	1936	Pare Lorentz	Resettlement Administration	[213]
Poetry in Motion	1982	Ron Mann	Ron Mann	[214]
Point of Order	1964	Emile de Antonio	Emile de Antonio and Dan Talbot	[215]
Pola Negri: Life is a Dream in Cinema	2006	Mariusz Kotowski	Bright Shining City Productions	[216]
Pond Hockey	2008	Tommy Haines	Tommy Haines, Andrew Sherburne, JT Haines and Nick Deutsch	[217]
Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy	2001	Scott J. Gill	Kirt Eftekhar	[218]
Portrait of Gina	1958	Orson Welles	ABC TV
Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation	1988	Godfrey Reggio	Mel Lawrence, Godfrey Reggio and Lawrence Taub	[219]
Pray for Japan	2012	Stu Levy	Toru Kajio, Ray Klein, Stu Levy, and Kazunori Noguchi
Pray the Devil Back to Hell	2008	Gini Reticker	Abigail E. Disney	[220]
Predictions of Fire	1996	Michael Benson	Michael Benson and Milan Blazin	[221]
Pride Divide	1997	Paris Poirier	Paris Poirier and Karen Kiss	[222]
Primary	1960	Robert Drew	Robert Drew	[223]
Prince Among Slaves
Prodigal Sons	2008	Kimberly Reed	Kimberly Reed	[224]
Project Grizzly	1996	Peter Lynch	Michael Allder	[225]
Prophet's Prey	2015	Amy J. Berg	Katherine LeBlond and Sam Brower
Protected: The Truth About Palm Island	1975	Carolyn Strachan	Alessandro Cavadini	[226]
Pumping Iron	1977	George Butler	Jerome Gary	[227]
Pumping Iron II: The Women	1985	George Butler	George Butler	[228]
Punk's Not Dead	2007	Susan Dynner	Susan Dynner and Todd Traina	[229]
The Punk Singer	2013	Sini Anderson	Sini Anderson and Tamra Davis	[230]

Q

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref
Quantum Hoops	2007	Rick Greenwald	Rick Greenwald	[231][232]
Queens of Comedy, The	2001	Steve Purcell	Walter Latham	[233]
Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment	1992	Ken Musen	Ken Musen	[234]
Quinceañera, La	2007	Adam Taub	Adam Taub

R

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref
Racing Extinction	2015	Louie Psihoyos	Fisher Stevens and Olivia Ahnemann
Radiant City	2006	Gary Burns and Jim Brown	Bonnie Thompson and Shirley Vercruysse
Race to Nowhere	2009	Vicki Abeles and Jessica Congdon	Vicki Abeles
Raise the Roof	2015	Yari and Cary Wolinsky	Cary Wolinsky	[235]
Rape of Europa, The	2007	Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen and Nicole Newnham	Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen and Nicole Newnham
Rats & Bullies: The Dawn-Marie Wesley Story	2004	Ray Buffer and Roberta McMillan	Ray Buffer and Roberta McMillan
Raw Opium	2011	Peter Findlay	Robert Lang
Reagan	2011	Eugene Jarecki
Real Dirt on Farmer John, The	2005	Taggart Siegel	Taggart Siegel and Teri Lang	[236]
Red State	2006	Michael Shea	Matthew F. Leonetti Jr., Lisa Lettunich and Michael Shea
Recovered: Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum and Back	2008	Michele Jaquis and Dr. Doreen Granpeesheh	Dr. Doreen Granpeesheh
Red String, The	2004	Elizabeth Pearson	Elizabeth Pearson
Reflektor Tapes, The	2015	Kahlil Joseph
Refusenik	2008	Laura Bialis	Laura Bialis and Stephanie Howard
Religulous	2008	Larry Charles	Bill Maher, Jonah Smith and Palmer West
Rembrandt's J'Accuse	2008	Peter Greenaway	Bruno Felix, Femke Wolting
Remembering Arthur	2006	Martin Lavut	Dennis Mohr
Restrepo	2010	Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger	Sebastian Junger, Tim Hetherington
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles	2011	Jon Foy	Jon Foy and Colin Smith
Reverend Billy & The Church of Stop Shopping	2002	Dietmar Post and Lucia Palacios	Dietmar Post and Lucia Palacios
Richard Hammond Meets Evel Knievel	2007	Nigel Simpkiss	Ben Devlin
Rien que les heures	1926	Alberto Cavalcanti	Alberto Cavalcanti	[237][238]
Ring of Fire	1991	George Casey	George Casey and Paul Novros
Rita Dove: An American Poet	2013	Eduardo Montes-Bradley	Heritage Film Project
River, The	1938	Pare Lorentz	Farm Security Administration
Roam Sweet Home	1996	Ellen Spiro	Ellen Spiro
Rock 'n' Roll Junkie	1994	Jan Eilander, Eugene Van Den Bosch, Ton Van Der Lee, Frenk Van Der Sterre	Ton Van Der Lee
Roger & Me	1989	Michael Moore	Michael Moore	[239]
Rolling Papers	2015	Mitch Dickman		[240]
Roosevelts, The (PBS film)	2014	Ken Burns	Ken Burns
Root of All Evil?, The	2006	Russell Barnes	Alan Clements
Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember	1990	Terry Sanders	Freida Lee Mock and Terry Sanders
Rosenwald	2015	Aviva Kempner
Round Eyes in the Middle Kingdom	1995	Ronald Levaco	Ronald Levaco	[241]
Run Free: The True Story of Caballo Blanco	2015	Sterling Noren		[242]

S

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref
Samba On Your Feet	2006	Eduardo Montes-Bradley	Heritage Film Project
S&Man	2006	J.T. Petty	Jason Kliot, Lawrence Mattis and Joana Vicente
Sacred Planet	2004	Jon Long	Jon Long and Karen Fernandez Long	[243]
Sacro GRA	2013	Gianfranco Rosi		[244]
Saimaa Gesture, The	1981	Aki and Mika Kaurismäki	Aki and Mika Kaurismäki
Saigon, U.S.A.	2004	Lindsey Jang and Robert C. Winn	Lindsey Jang and Robert C. Winn	[245]
Salesman	1969	Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin	Albert Maysles and David Maysles
Satanis: The Devil's Mass	1970	Ray Laurent	Ray Laurent
Saved, The	1998	Paul Cohen, Oeke Hoogendijk	Eddy Wijngaarde
Scared Straight!	1978	Arnold Shapiro	Arnold Shapiro
Scenes of a Crime	2012	Blue Hadaegh	Grover Babcock
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy	2001	Daniel Anker and Barak Goodman	Daniel Anker and Barak Goodman
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man	2006	Stephen Kijak
Seafarers, The	1953	Stanley Kubrick	Lester Cooper
Seal Island	1948	James Algar	The Walt Disney Company	[246]
Sea Monsters
Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure
Second Skin	2008	Juan Carlos Pineiro-Escoriaza	Peter Schieffelin Brauer and Victor M. Piñeiro III
Seine Meets Paris, The	1957	Joris Ivens	Jacques Prévert
Sembene!	2015	Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman
Seoul Train	2005	Jim Butterworth, Aaron Lubarsky and Lisa Sleeth	Jim Butterworth and Lisa Sleeth
September Issue, The	2009	R.J. Cutler	Sadia Shepard
Sex Slaves	2005	Ric Esther Bienstock	Ric Esther Bienstock, Felix Golubev and Simcha Jacobovici
Seymour: An Introduction	2014	Ethan Hawke
The Shakers	1974	Tom Davenport	Tom Davenport and Frank DeCola
Shame of a City, The	2006	Tigre Hill	Tigre Hill and Omar Williams
Shape of the Moon	2004	Leonard Retel Helmrich	Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich for Scarabeefilms
Shark is Still Working, The	2006	Erik Hollander	James Gelet, Jake Gove, Erik Hollander and Michael Roddy
Sharkwater	2007	Rob Stewart	Rob Stewart
Shikashika	2008	Stephen James Hyde	Stephen James Hyde
Shoah	1985	Claude Lanzmann	Historia Films, Les Films Aleph and Ministère de la Culture de la Republique Française
Shore Things	1996	Rick Sebak	Rick Sebak
Sicko	2007	Michael Moore	Michael Moore and Meghan O'Hara	[247]
Silent Historian, The	2011	Simonka de Jong	Jan de Ruiter, Niek Koppen, Anja Cloosterman for Selfmade Films
Silent Scream, The	1984	Bernard Nathanson	National Right to Life Committee
Silent World, The	1956	Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle	FSJYC Production
Sinister Saga of Making "The Stunt Man", The	2001	Richard Rush	Richard Rush and Bart Pierce
Sketches of Frank Gehry	2005	Sydney Pollack	Ultan Guilfoyle
Skinheads USA: Soldiers of the Race War	1993	Shari Cookson	Shari Cookson
SlamNation	1998	Paul Devlin	Tom Poole and Michael Shaw
Slasher: an IFC Original	2004	John Landis	Chris Kobin, Stephen Cantor and Daniel Laikind
Sluizer Speaks	2014	Dennis Alink	Joop van Wijk, Dennis Alink
Smashing Machine, The: The Life and Times of Extreme Fighter Mark Kerr	2002	John Hyams	John Greenhalgh
So Goes the Nation	2006	Adam Del Deo and James D. Stern	Adam Del Deo and James D. Stern
Soldier Girls	1981	Nick Broomfield	Nick Broomfield
Song of Ceylon	1934	Basil Wright	John Grierson
Sorrow and the Pity, The	1971	Marcel Ophuls	André Harris and Alain de Sedouy
Sotsgorod: Cities for Utopia	1996	Anna Abrahams	René Goossens, René Scholten
South of the Border	2009	Oliver Stone
South Of The Border With Disney	1942	Norman Ferguson	Walt Disney Company, under the auspices of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
Speaking in Strings	1999	Paola di Florio	Paola di Florio and Lilibet Foster	[248]
Spellbound	2002	Jeffrey Blitz	Jeffrey Blitz and Sean Welch
Spencer Halpin's Moral Kombat	2007	Spencer Halpin	Spencer Halpin and Ramy Katrib
Square, The	1994	Zhang Yuan	Zhang Yuan
Standard Operating Procedure	2008	Errol Morris	Julie Ahlberg
Standing in the Shadows of Motown	2002	Paul Justman	Paul Justman, Sandford Passman and Allan Slutsky	[249]
State of Fear: The Truth about Terrorism	2005	Pamela Yates	Skylight Pictures
Staten Island Catapult	2005	Gregorio Smith	Gregorio Smith
States of Grace	2014	Helen Cohen and Mark Lipman		[250]
Station to Station	2014	Doug Aitken	Chris Totushek and Alex Waite	[251]
Stations of the Elevated	1981	Manfred Kirchheimer	Manfred Kirchheimer
Station 58	2008	Azfar Rizvi	Azfar Rizvi
Statue of Liberty, The	1985	Ken Burns	Ken Burns and Buddy Squires
Stevie	2002	Steve James	Steve James
Still Kicking: Six Artistic Women of Project Arts & Longevity	2006	Greg Young	Golden Bear Casting
Still We Believe: The Boston Red Sox Movie	2004	Paul Doyle Jr.	Daniel Carey, Peter Frechette, Michael Meyer and Bob Potter
Stolen Honor	2004	Carlton Sherwood	Carlton Sherwood
Story of Healing, A	1997	Donna Dewey	Donna Dewey and Carol Pasternak
Story of Stuff, The
Stray Dog	2014	Debra Granik	Anne Rosellini and Victoria Stewart	[252]
Streetwise	1984	Martin Bell	Cheryl McCall
Summer in the Cage, A	2007	Ben Selkow	Ben Selkow	[253]
Sundown: The Future of Children and Drugs	1991	Shane Salerno	Shane Salerno
Super High Me	2007	Michael Blieden	Alex Campbell
Super Size Me	2004	Morgan Spurlock	Morgan Spurlock	[254]
Superjews	2013	Nirit Peled	Tamara Vuurhuis, Valérie Schuit
Sur le traces de Tintin	2010
Surplus	2003	Erik Gandini	Erik Gandini
Sweet Crude	2008	Sandy Cioffi	Sandy Cioffi and Laurie Hicks

T

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref
Tab Hunter Confidential	2015	Jeffrey Schwarz	Allan Glaser, Neil Koenigsberg, and Jeffrey Schwarz	[255]
Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan	2006	Manfred Kirchheimer	Manfred Kirchheimer	[256]
Takin Place	2015	Cyrus Dowlatshahi		[257]
Tar Creek	2009	Matt Myers	Tanya Beer	[258]
Target for Tonight	1941	Harry Watt	Crown Film Unit	[259]
Tarnation	2003	Jonathan Caouette	Stephen Winter	[260]
Taste of China	2015	Huang Yinghao, Zhang Wei, Wang Bing and Jin Ying		[261]
Taxi to the Dark Side	2007	Alex Gibney	Alex Gibney, Susannah Shipman and Eva Orner	[262]
Teague: Design & Beauty	2014	Jason Morris	Jason Morris	[263]
Ten-Year Lunch, The	1987	Aviva Slesin
Tender Fictions	1996	Barbara Hammer
(t)error	2015	Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe	Eugene Jarecki
That's Dancing!	1985	Jack Haley Jr.	Jack Haley Jr. and David Niven Jr.
There Is No Authority But Yourself	2006	Alexander Oey	Bruno Felix, Femke Wolting
Thin	2006	Lauren Greenfield	R.J. Cutler, Lauren Greenfield, Amanda Micheli and Ted Skillman	[264]
Thin Blue Line, The	1988	Errol Morris	Mark Lipson
Thinking XXX	2004	Timothy Greenfield-Sanders	Timothy Greenfield-Sanders	[265]
This Changes Everything	2015	Avi Lewis	Joslyn Barnes and Avi Lewis
This Divided State	2005	Steven Greenstreet	Phil Gordon, Steven Greenstreet and Kristi Haycock
This Film Is Not Yet Rated	2006	Kirby Dick	Eddie Schmidt
This Is Elvis	1982	Malcolm Leo and Andrew Salt	Malcolm Leo and Andrew Salt
Thorn in the Heart, The	2009	Michel Gondry	Georges Bermann
Through a Blue Lens	1999	Veronica Alice Mannix	Gillian Darling-Kovanic and Graydon McCrea for the National Film Board of Canada
Tillman Story, The	2010	Amir Bar-Lev
Time Bombs	2008	Guylaine Maroist and Éric Ruel	Guylaine Maroist and Éric Ruel
Times of Harvey Milk, The	1984	Rob Epstein	Richard Schmiechen and Rob Epstein
Tintin and I	2003
Titan, The: Story of Michelangelo	1950	Robert J. Flaherty, Richard Lyford, Curt Oertel	Ralph Alswang
Titanic: The Complete Story	1994	Edith Beckler and Melissa Peltier	A&E Television Networks
Titicut Follies	1967	Frederick Wiseman	Frederick Wiseman
To Shoot an Elephant	2009	Alberto Arce, Mohammad Rujailahk
Touching the Void	2003	Kevin Macdonald	John Smithson
Traceroute (film)	2016	Johannes Grenzfurthner	Johannes Grenzfurthner
Train Life	2006	Calixto Flores	Calixto Flores
Transparent	2005	Jules Rosskam	Jules Rosskam
Tree That Remembers, The	2002	Masoud Raouf	Mark Goodwin and Eric Lemoyne
Trembling Before G-d	2001	Sandi Simcha DuBowski	Sandi Simcha DuBowski and Marc Smolowitz
Trials of Henry Kissinger, The	2002	Eugene Jarecki	Alex Gibney and Eugene Jarecki
Trinidad	2008	Jay Hodges, PJ Raval	Matt Dentler
Triumph of the Will	1935	Leni Riefenstahl	Leni Riefenstahl
Troop 1500	2005	Ellen Spiro	Karen Bernstein
Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern	1995	Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher	Rick Groleau and Jeanne Jordan
True Glory, The	1945	Garson Kanin and Carol Reed	Office of War Information and Ministry of Information	[266]
The Truth According to Wikipedia	2008	IJsbrand van Veelen (director), Marijntje Denters, Martijn Kieft (segment directors)	Judith van den Berg
Tulip Time: The Rise and Fall of the Trio Lescano	2008	Tonino Boniotti, Marco De Stefanis	Sherman De Jesus, Cécile van Eijk
Tupac: Assassination	2007	Richard Bond	Frank Alexander and Richard Bond
Tupac: Resurrection	2003	Lauren Lazin	Karolyn Ali, Preston L. Holmes and Lauren Lazin
Tunisian Victory	1944	Frank Capra, Hugh Stewart and John Huston	British Service Units and U.S. Army Signal Corps
Twist of Faith	2005	Kirby Dick	Eddie Schmidt	[267]
Tyson	2008	James Toback	Damon Bingham, James Toback, Mike Tyson and Harlan Werner
The Hacker Wars	2014	Vivien Lesnik Weisman	Vivien Lesnik Weisman, Rico Hernandez, Joe Fionda

U

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref
U2 3D	2007	Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington	Jon Shapiro, Peter Shapiro, John Modell and Catherine Owens
U2: Rattle and Hum	1988	Phil Joanou	Michael Hamlyn
Über Goober: A Film about Gamers	2004	Steve Metze	Steve Metze
Umbrella	2007	Du Haibin	Ben Tsiang, Du Haibin and Hsu Hsiao-Ming
Unbranded	2015	Phillip Baribeau	Dennis Aig, Phillip Baribeau, and Ben Masters	[268]
Unchained Memories
Uncovered: The War on Iraq	2004	Robert Greenwald	Philippe Diaz, Robert Greenwald, Kathryn McArdle and Devin Smith
Undefeated	2011	Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin	Rich Middlemas, Daniel Lindsay and Seth Gordon	[269]
Unfinished Symphony: Democracy and Dissent	2001	Bestor Cram and Mike Majoros	Bestor Cram
Unmistaken Child	2008	Nati Baratz
The Up Series†	1964–2005	Michael Apted	Granada Television, Tim Hewat, Michael Apted, Margaret Bottomley and Claire Lewis	[270][271][272][273][274][275][276][277]

V

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref
V-Day: Until the Violence Stops	2003	Abby Epstein	Vincent Farrell
Vanishing of the Bees	2009	George Langworthy and Maryam Henein
Vanishing Prairie, The	1954	James Algar	Ben Sharpsteen	[278]
Vernon, Florida	1981	Errol Morris	Errol Morris
Very Semi-Serious	2015	Leah Wolchok	Leah Wolchok and Davina Pardo	[279]
Victory Through Air Power	1943	Perce Pearce	Walt Disney
Voices of Bam	2006	People of Iraq (Martin Kunert uncredited)	Eric Manes
Voices of Iraq	2004	People of Iraq (Martin Kunert uncredited)	Eric Manes
Volcanic Sprint	2007	Steve Dorst	Dan Evans and Steve Dorst
Voyage that Shook the World, The	2009	Steve Murray	Ben Suter, Carl Wieland	[280]

W

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref
White: A Season in the Life of John Borden Evans	2014	Eduardo Montes-Bradley	Heritage Film Project
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price	2005	Robert Greenwald	Jim Gilliam
Walking with...: Dinosaurs, Beasts, Caveman, Monsters†	1999–2005	Nigel Paterson and Andrew Wilks	Chloe Leland, Tim Haines and Jasper James
Walt Disney	2015	Sarah Colt	Sarah Colt
Wanda the Wonderful	2014	Carolyn Macartney	Carolyn Macartney	[281]
War/Dance	2007	Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine	Albie Hecht
War at Home, The	1979	Glenn Silber	Barry Alexander Brown and Glenn Silber
War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death	2007	Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp	Loretta Alper
Warrendale	1967	Allan King	Allan King
Waste Land	2010	Lucy Walker, João Jardim and Karen Harley
We Come as Friends	2014	Hubert Sauper
We Were So Beloved	1985	Manfred Kirchheimer	Manfred Kirchheimer
Welcome to Durham, USA	2007	Christopher Martin	Teddy Jacobs
Welcome to Leith	2015	Michael Beach Nichols and Christopher K. Walker
Welcome to Macintosh	2008	Robert Baca and Josh Rizzo	Baca Productions
Welcome to Nollywood	2007	Jamie Meltzer	Michael Cayce Lindner
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe	1980	Les Blank
What Remains of Us	2004	Hugo Latulippe and François Prévost	Yves Bisaillon and François Prévost
What Would Jesus Buy?	2007	Rob VanAlkemade	Peter Hutchison, Stacey Offman and Morgan Spurlock
Wheel of Time	2003	Werner Herzog	Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
When I Came Home	2006	Dan Lohaus	Lohaus Films
When Brummies Met Sindhis	2008	Azfar Rizvi	Azfar Rizvi
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts	2006	Spike Lee	Spike Lee and Samuel D. Pollard
When We Were Kings	1996	Leon Gast	David Sonenberg, Leon Gast and Taylor Hackford	[282]
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?	2008	Arturo Perez Jr.	Arturo Perez Jr., Joel Sadler and Billy Troy
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?	2008	Morgan Spurlock	Non Linear Films
White Diamond, The	2004	Werner Herzog	Marco Polo Film AG
Untitled Whitney Houston Documentary	2017	Kevin Macdonald	Altitude Film Distribution	[283]
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki	2007	Steven Okazaki	Steven Okazaki
Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?	1977	John Korty	John Korty
Who Killed the Electric Car?	2006	Chris Paine	Jessie Deeter
Why Wal-Mart Works; and Why That Drives Some People C-R-A-Z-Y	2005	Ron Galloway	Ron Galloway
Why We Fight	2005	Eugene Jarecki	Susannah Shipman
Wiener Takes All: A Dogumentary	2007	Shane MacDougall	Marion Law and Shane MacDougall
Wild Man Blues	1998	Barbara Kopple	Jean Doumanian
Winding Stream, The	2014	Beth Harrington	Beth Harrington, Amy Harrington, and Nancy Harrington	[284]
Winter Soldier	1972	the Winterfilm Collective	Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the Winterfilm Collective
Without the King	2007	Michael Skolnik	Michael Skolnik
Winged Migration	2001	Jacques Perrin	Christophe Barratier and Jacques Perrin
Woodstock	1970	Michael Wadleigh	Bob Maurice
Wordplay	2006	Patrick Creadon	Christine O'Malley
World Before Her, The	2012	Nisha Pahuja	Ed Barreveld, Nisha Pahuja, Mike Chamberlain, Andy Cohen, Cornelia Principe
World's Best Prom, The	2006	Ari Vena and Chris Talbott	Ian Rosenberg and Chris Talbott
World of Charlie Company, The	1970	John Laurence	Russ Bensley	[285]
World Without US, The	2008	Mitch Anderson and Jason J. Tomaric	Jason J. Tomaric
Wrath of Gods	2007	Jon Gustafsson	Jon Einarsson Gustafsson and Karolina Lewicka
Woubi Chéri	1998	Laurent Bocahut and Philip Brooks	Philip Brooks and Laurent Bocahut	[286]

X

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref

Y

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref
Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica, A	1992	Adam Dubin	Juliana Roberts	[287]
Year at Danger	2007	Steve Metze and Don Swaynos	Steve Metze
Young, Jewish, and Left	2006	Michael Konnie Chameides and Irit Reinheimer	Michael Konnie Chameides and Irit Reinheimer
Your Mommy Kills Animals	2007	Curt Johnson	Indie Genius Productions
Youth in Crisis	1943	N/A	Louis De Rochemont

Z

† = Series

Title	Year	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Ref
Zeitgeist: the Movie, Addendum, Moving Forward†	2007–2011	Peter Joseph	Peter Joseph	[288][289][290]
Zielen Van Napels	2005	Vincent Monnikendam	Sherman De Jesus and Cécile van Eijk	[291]
Zoo	2007	Robinson Devore	Peggy Case and Alexis Ferris	[292]

See also

• List of actors
• List of directors
• List of documentary films about agriculture
• List of documentary films about the environment
• List of film production companies
• List of movies

References