Documentary Filmmaking Movies

Archives from Swarm's Involving Heritage 2024 tour with Piri Reis in five cities on the island of Java.

A self-funded, non-profit feature documentary exploring and celebrating Liverpool's contemporary independent music scene at the beginning of the 21st...

Chasing Tables explores the journey of Jordan Taylor, a Sioux Falls native whose rise in the culinary world is as complex as the dishes he creates. ...

Shot entirely from an apartment window during the first month of New York City’s “Shelter in Place” directive, this film is a...

An aspiring filmmaker interrogates her father, a seasoned director stuck in creative limbo, about his unfinished project - an investigative...

Three third-culture children suffer from a lack of belonging in their hometown after they return for college life. After completing their college...

A short film exploring the joy and importance of Morris dancing for a group of young people.

The Journey of Hayun, a Korean-American archer, and her family, as they strive to achieve mastery in archery.

Smithsonian Magazine once asked the rhetorical question, 'Can a weekly paper in rural New Mexico raise enough hell to keep its readers hungry for...

This documentary asks, what is happening to our homes? This is what’s going on all around this country while they’re trying to get...

The documentary traces the history and legacy of Poona Guest House, a place situated in the heart of Pune, and how early cinema gave rise to this...

On April 20 of 1988, six young people stormed the central Banamex branch in Los Mochis and held hostage the people inside the location. 30 years...

A documentary that follows one man who attempts to live on the street, while interviewing the homeless people of Southampton and recounting his own...

Award-winning documentary about kids who filmed Super 8 epics in the '70s, a time when dinosaurs, aliens, and killer sharks ruled the backyard!

On July 4th, 1946, the crowd in Kielce, Poland, slaughtered forty-two Jews and wounded many others. Forty years later, in 1987, Marcel...

Dimitris Pistiolas, a retired employee for the Greek Post Office, is the owner of the largest cinema museum in the world. In two tiny venues in...

System (2025) is a short documentary film exploring intergenerational connections to land and country. Interviews with Aunty Denise Morgan Bulled, a...

In 1970, Dennis Hopper shot 'The Last Movie' in Chinchero (Peru), an enigmatic Western about the possibility of an indigenous rebellion against a...

A collaborative video and activism project between long-time community filmmaker Rebecca Garrett and Sanctuary, a church community drop-in, evolves...

Telugu Film Director Vamsy, reminisces about his early days as an Assistant Director Working at "Seethakoka Chilaka" sets with his Mentor Bharathi...