Filmed in Moscow and Odessa, The Man with the Movie Camera exemplifies the montage of aesthetic of the Soviet vanguard of the 1920’s. It belongs…

Errol Morris calls himself a “director-detective,” and The Thin Blue Line uses interviews and official court records to examine the murder of a Dallas police…

A masterpiece of neorealist Italian filmmaking, Shoeshine is a haunting story of young boys trying to survive in post-war Italy. Inevitably, they become involved with…

Generally recognized as the film which introduced the cinema-verité style of documentary filmmaking, Primary is politics at its most exposed—the Democratic Party campaign during the…

Leni Reifenstahl was commissioned by Adolf Hitler to film the Nazi Nuremberg Party Rally in 1934. Using 30 cameras and many assistants, the result was…

Martin Scorsese’s first documentary film is a touching, funny portrait of his beloved late parents, Catherine and Charles, in cinema-verité style. Beginning with a demonstration…

Richard Lester directed the first film of The Beatles as a day in the group’s life; a highly imaginative, wild and funny inside look at…

Strike is Sergei Eisenstein’s first feature, which premiered in 1925 to mixed reactions. It was followed later that year with the acclaimed Potemkin. In this…

Man of Aran exemplifies Flaherty’s career-long efforts to develop a highly personal approach to the documentary, establishing dramatic structure based on a selected “family.” Working…