Best Documentaries by Director
2756
257
1937
unknown
Herbert Morrison
Short / Documentary / History
USA
English
2756
257
1910
unknown
James J. Jeffries, Jack Johnson
Documentary / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2756
257
1939
unknown
Marian Anderson
Music / Documentary
USA
English
2756
257
1944
unknown
Martha Graham
Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
2756
257
1906
unknown
Documentary / Short / History
USA
English (Silent)
2756
257
1946
unknown
Gloria Blondell
Animation / Short / Documentary / Family
USA
English
2807
283
1993
unknown
Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson, The Boswell Sisters
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2807
283
1961
unknown
Walt Disney, Annette Funicello, Ed Wynn, Ray Bolger
Documentary / Family
USA
English
2807
283
1934
unknown
Cab Calloway, Louis Prima, Jimmy Dorsey, Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Desi Arnaz
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2807
283
2008
unknown
Carmen Miranda
Documentary / Biography / Musical
USA
English
2807
283
2007
unknown
Leonard Maltin, Mickey Rooney, Rose Marie, Rudy Behlmer, Scott Eyman
Documentary
USA
English
2807
283
1973
unknown
Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Marlon Brando, Orson Welles, Groucho Marx
Documentary / Biography / Comedy
USA
English
2807
283
1959
unknown
Walt Disney, Pat O'Brien
Documentary / Family
USA
English
2807
283
2005
unknown
Thomas A. Edison, Charles Musser
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2807
283
1956
unknown
Elvis Presley, Ed Sullivan, John Byner, Carol Burnett, Priscilla Presley
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2807
283
2008
unknown
Fats Waller, Maurice Waller, Eddie Barefield, Marshall Royal, Sammy Price
Documentary / Biography / Music
USA
English
2807
283
1922
unknown
Ramon Novarro, Jack Warner, Max Linder, Vola Vale
Documentary / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
283
1917
unknown
Pedro León
Documentary / Short / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2807
283
1938
unknown
Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli
Short / Documentary / Biography / Music
UK
English
2807
283
2008
unknown
Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Roland Kirk, Lionel Hampton
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2807
283
2007
unknown
Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Wes Montgomery, John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon
Music / Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2807
283
1959
unknown
Walt Disney, Art Linkletter, Annette Funicello, Ricky Nelson, Fred MacMurray
Documentary / Family
USA
English
2807
283
2007
unknown
Maurice Jarre, Christian Lauliac
Documentary / Music
USA
French
2807
283
1998
unknown
Noel Coward, Richard Attenborough, Judy Campbell, John Gielgud, John Mills
Documentary / Biography
UK
English
2807
283
2009
unknown
Fanny Brice, The Boswell Sisters, Jimmy Durante, Bessie Smith, Woody Guthrie
Documentary / History
USA
English
2807
283
1944
unknown
Leon Errol, Martha O'Driscoll, Lois Collier, Milburn Stone
Short / War / Documentary / History
USA
English
2807
283
2005
unknown
Kander & Ebb, Alan J. Lerner, E.Y. 'Yip' Harburg, Sheldon Harnick, Burton Lan
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2807
283
2006
unknown
Svend Asmussen, Christian Jensen, Svend Haugberg, Kjeld Bonfils, Helge Jacobsen
Documentary / Biography / Music
unknown
English
2807
283
1993
unknown
Jimmie Rodgers, Whistler's Jug Band, Jack Johnson's Jazz Band, Ted Weems, Otto Gray
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2809
285
1930
unknown
Richard E. Byrd, Clair D. Alexander, Bernt Balchen, George H. Black
Documentary / Adventure / Biography / History
USA
English
2543
170
1996
Hugo Van Lawick
John Gielgud
Documentary / Family
USA / Netherlands
English
896
19
2000
Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda, François Wertheimer, Bodan Litnanski
Documentary / Biography
France
French
2730
244
2008
Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier, Vincent Fournier
Documentary / Biography
France
French
2633
194
2003
various
Andrea Arnold, Stephen Daldry, Mike Leigh, Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott
Short / Documentary / Comedy / Drama
UK
English
2807
283
1952
various
Lous Costello, Bud Abbott
Comedy / Documentary
USA
English
2807
283
2015
various
Paul Howard, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Shemp Howard, Joe DeRita
Comedy / Documentary / Biography
USA
English
NR
-
2010
Dmitry Vasyukov, Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog
Documentary
Germany
English
2756
257
1913
George Veditz
George Veditz
Documentary / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2740
249
1948
Nicole Védrès
Claude Dauphin, Monty Woolley
Documentary / History
France
French
2554
173
1956
Carlos Velo
Luis Procuna, Consuelo Procuna, Ángel Procuna
Documentary / Drama
Mexico
Spanish
2807
283
2007
Peter Ventrella
Peter Bogdanovich, Bruce Dern
Documentary / Short / Biography
USA
English
81
1
1929
Dziga Vertov
Documentary / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2689
223
1926
Dziga Vertov
Documentary / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2689
223
1934
Dziga Vertov
V.I. Lenin, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Joseph Stalin, Dolores Ibárruri
Documentary / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
2807
283
2012
Jesse Vile
Jason Becker, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Ehren Becker, Gary Becker, Pat Becker
Documentary / Biography / Music
UK / USA
English
2807
283
2012
Stephen Vittoria
Mumia Abu-Jamal, Cornel West, Alice Walker, Dick Gregory, Angela Davis, Amy Goodman
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2816
290
2017
Tom Volf
Fanny Ardant, Joyce DiDonato, Maria Callas, Aristotle Onassis, Vittorio De Sica
Documentary / Biography / Music
France
English
2807
283
1946
Gunther von Fritsch
Charles Reineke, Ben Hall, Ralph Montgomery, Gil Perkins, Jason Robards Sr.
Short / Drama / Documentary
USA
English
2807
283
2017
Lisa Immordino Vreeland
Cecil Beaton, Rupert Everett, Julie Andrews, Truman Capote, David Hockney
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
469
4
1970
Michael Wadleigh
Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Roger Daltrey
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2539
169
2010
Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardim
Vik Muniz, Fabio Ghivelder, Sebastiao Carlos Dos Santos
Documentary / Biography
Brazil / UK
Portuguese
2814
288
2007
Stephen Walker
Bob Cilman, Stan Goldman, Jeanne Hatch, Patricia Linderme, Steve Martin
Documentary / Drama / Music / Biography
UK
English
2756
257
1929
Aloha Wanderwell
Aloha Wanderwell, Walter Wanderwell
Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
2660
206
2002
Bing Wang
Documentary / Biography
China / Netherlands
Mandarin
2860
310
1995
Tong Wang
Tao shu, Lu zhi, Shi jun, Zhang Shi
Drama / Documentary
Taiwan
Mandarin
2810
286
2018
Tim Wardle
Edward Galland, David Kellman, Robert Shafran
Documentary / Biography / Drama / Mystery
UK
English
1198
28
1965
Peter Watkins
Michael Aspel, Peter Graham
Drama / Sci-Fi / War / Documentary
UK
English
2563
175
1936
Harry Watt, Basil Wright
John Grierson, Stuart Legg
Short / Documentary
UK
English
2792
274
2000
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Experimental / Documentary / Biography
Thailand
Thai
2807
283
2011
Robert B. Weide
Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Diane Keaton, Letty Aronson, Scarlett Johansson
Documentary / Biography / History / Music / Romance
USA
English
2807
283
2015
Eric Weinrib
Roseanne Barr, Michael Moore, Rosie O'Donnell, Sandra Bernhard, Tom Smothers
Documentary / Biography / Comedy
USA
English
2801
280
1990
Ellen Weissbrod
Quincy Jones, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2671
213
2017
Ai Weiwei
Israa Abboud, Hiba Abed, Rami Abu Sondos, Asmaa Al-Bahiyya, Eman Al-Masina
Documentary
Germany
English
1620
44
1974
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Joseph Cotten
Documentary / Experimental / Biography
France / Iran / West Germany
English
2792
274
1978
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Robert Coote, Hilton Edwards
Documentary
West Germany
English
1804
55
1999
Wim Wenders
Lázaro Villa, Manuel 'Puntillita' Licea, Alberto 'Virgilio' Valdés
Documentary / Music / Biography
Germany / USA / UK / France / Cuba
English
2377
128
2011
Wim Wenders
Pina Bausch, Regina Advento, Malou Airaudo, Ruth Amarante, Jorge Puerta Armenta
Documentary / Music / Biography
Germany / France / UK
German
2687
221
2004
Mark Wexler
Peter Bart, Verna Bloom, Billy Crystal, Michael Douglas, Jane Fonda, Milos Forman
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2852
305
1995
Krzysztof Wierzbicki
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Documentary / Biography
Denmark / Poland
Polish
2696
228
2016
Roger Ross Williams
Jonathan Freeman, Gilbert Gottfried, Owen Suskind, Ron Suskind
Documentary / Animation / Family / Biography
France / USA
English
2807
283
2019
Dan Wingate
Kaye Ballard, Carol Burnett, Joy Behar, Carol Channing, Doris Day
Biography / Documentary
USA
English
2801
280
2009
Joe Winston
Angel Dillard, Brittany Barden, Donn Teske
Documentary
USA
English
2756
257
1970
Frederick Wiseman
Eugene Friedman M.D., Stanley Friedman M.D., Robert Schwartz M.D.
Documentary
USA
English
1202
29
1979
Ira Wohl
Zero Mostel, Christine O'Connor, Frances Reiss, Philip Wohl
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2807
283
2009
Bruno Wollheim
David Hockney
Documentary / Biography
UK
English
2807
283
2014
Chuck Workman
Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2794
276
2023
Sam Wrench
Taylor Swift, Mike Meadows, Max Bernstein, Paul Sidoti, Amos Heller
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2756
257
1944
William Wyler
Robert Morgan, Vince Evans, Captain James A. Verinis
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2840
301
1993
Andrew Young, Susan Todd, Michael Roemer, Robert M. Young
Documentary / Biography / Crime
USA
English
2756
257
1931
Anthony Young
John J. Bradley, Emile Gauvreau
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2546
171
1961
Robert Youngson
Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harry Houdini
Adventure / Comedy / Documentary / Family
USA
English
2546
171
1957
Robert Youngson
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Will Rogers, Carole Lombard, Jean Harlow, Ben Turpin
Comedy / Documentary / History / Family
USA
English
2546
171
1963
Robert Youngson
Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Douglas Fairbanks
Comedy / Documentary / Family
USA
English (Silent Scenes)
2546
171
1960
Robert Youngson
Charles Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase
Comedy / Documentary / History / Family
USA
English
2737
248
1963
Abraham Zapruder
John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, John Connally
Documentary / Short / History / Crime
USA
English
2807
283
2012
Leslie Zemeckis
Violet Hilton, Daisy Hilton, Nancy Allen, Blake Boyd, Tim Stack, Lea Thompson
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2801
280
2008
Marina Zenovich
Roman Polanski, Samantha Geimer, Douglas Dalton, Roger Gunson, Mia Farrow
Documentary / Biography / Crime
USA / UK
English
2807
283
2004
Yaron Zilberman
Judith Haspel, Trude Hirschler, Anni Lampl, Hanni Lux, Ann Marie Pisker
Documentary / History / Sports / Biography
France / Israel / USA
English
925
21
2014
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Aleksey Serebryakov, Roman Madyanov
Drama / Documentary
Russia
Russian
2807
283
2013
Alan Zweig
Aaron Berg, Rodney Dangerfield, Gilbert Gottfried, Howie Mandel, Marc Maron
Documentary / Comedy / Religion
Canada
English
2591
184
1988
Charlotte Zwerin
Jimmy Cleveland, Harry Colomby, John Coltrane, Ray Copeland
Documentary / Biography / Music
USA
English
518
7
1994
Terry Zwigoff
Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky, Charles Crumb, Maxon Crumb, Robert Hughes
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2801
280
1986
Terry Zwigoff
Howard Armstrong, Ted Bogan, Cab Calloway, Les Blank, Alan Governar
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
