Documentary Film

Documentary Films

• Nanook of the North - Robert Flaherty (1922)
• Triumph of the Will - Leni Riefenstahl (1935)
  
• Night and Fog - Alain Resnais (1955) 
• Le Sourire (The Smile) - Serge Bourguignon (1960)
• Rabindranath Tagore - Satyajit Ray (1961)
• Vive le Tour - Louis Malle (1962)
• The House is Black (Khaneh Syah Ast) - Forough Farrokhzad (1962)
• Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie - Vilgot Sjöman (1963)
• Phantom India (L'Inde Fantôme) - Louis Malle (1969)
• Calcutta - Louis Malle (1969)
• Fata Morgana - Werner Herzog (1971)
• Humain, Trop Humain - Louis Malle (1974)
• The Lovers' Wind (Le Vent des Amoureux) - Albert Lamorisse (1978)
• God's Country - Louis Malle (1986)
• And the Pursuit of Happiness - Louis Malle (1986) 
• Close-Up (Nema-ye Nazdik) - Abbas Kiarostami (1990)
• Lessons of Darkness - Werner Herzog (1992)
• Journey to Enlightenment - Matthieu Ricard (1995)
• Little Dieter Needs to Fly - Werner Herzog (1998) 
• Yogis of Tibet - Jeffrey Pill (2002)
  
• Thoth - Sarah Kernochan (2002)
• Wheel of Time - Werner Herzog (2003) 
  
• And Along Came a Spider (Va Ankaboot Amad) - Maziar Bahari (2003)
• The Ister - David Barison and Daniel Ross (2004)
• Earthlings - Shaun Monson (2005)
• Amongst White Clouds - Edward A. Burger (2005), Hermits - He Shiping (2015), & Searching for Monks in China with Red Pine - Jack Estes (mid-1990s?) 
• Sufi Soul: The Mystic Music of Islam - Simon Broughton (2005)
• The Secret - Rhonda Byrne and Drew Heriot (2006)
• The City of Photographers - Sebastián Moreno (2006) 
• Taking Liberties - Chris Atkins (2007)
• SiCKO - Michael Moore (2007)
• Taxi to the Dark Side - Alex Gibney (2007)
• Encounters at the End of the World - Werner Herzog (2007)
• Unmistaken Child - Nati Baratz (2008)
• Head Wind (Baad-e-Daboor) - Mohammad Rasoulof (2008)
• Collapse - Chris Smith (2009)
• The Cove - Louie Psihoyos (2009)
• Afghan Star - Havana Marking (2009)
• Eating, 3rd Edition - Mike Anderson (2009)
• RiP: A Remix Manifesto - Brett Gaylor (2009)
• No One Knows About Persian Cats (Kasi az Gorbehaye Irani Khabar Nadareh) - Bahman Ghobadi (2009) 
• Nuclear Tipping Point - Ben Goddard (2010)
• Brilliant Moon: Glimpses of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche - Neten Chokling (2010)
• Happy People: A Year in the Taiga - Werner Herzog and Dmitry Vasyukov (2011)
• Forks Over Knives - Lee Fulkerson (2011)
• This Is Not a Film (In Film Nist) - Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb (2011) 
• Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds - Daniel Schmidt (2012)
• Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry - Alison Klayman (2012)  
• Loving the Silent Tears - Vincent Paterson (2012) 
• Sepideh - Reaching for the Stars - Berit Madsen (2013)  
• The Salt of the Earth - Wim Wenders and Juliano Salgado (2014) 
• United States of Secrets (Part One): The Program - Michael Kirk (2014)  
• United States of Secrets (Part Two): Privacy Lost - Martin Smith (2014)
• Citizenfour - Laura Poitras (2014) 
• Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret - Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn (2014)
  
• Awake: The Life of Yogananda - Paola di Florio and Lisa Leeman (2014)
• Terminal F/Chasing Edward Snowden - John Goetz and Poul-Erik Heilbuth (2015)  
• Taxi (Taxi Tehran) - Jafar Panahi (2015)
• Requiem for the American Dream - Peter Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, and Jared P. Scott (2015)
• Where to Invade Next -  Michael Moore (2015)
• Michael Moore in TrumpLand - Michael Moore (2016)
• Into the Inferno - Werner Herzog (2016)
• Saeed Mirza: The Leftist Sufi - Kireet Khurana and Padmakumar Narasimhamurthy (2016) 
• What the Health - Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn (2017)
  
• The Game Changers -  Louie Psihoyos (2018)  
• Planet of the Humans - Jeff Gibbs (2019) 
• Fantastic Fungi - Louie Schwartzberg (2019)
  
• For Sama - Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts (2019)