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COM 321, Documentary Form in Film, Television, & Interactive Media 1/27/17 Documentarists and Documentary/Narrative Filmmakers Those listed are directors, unless otherwise noted.

Documentary/Narrative Filmmakers—Many have done both:

Name & Key Documentaries Key Narrative Works Nation

Allen, Woody Zelig, 1983 (mockumentary) , 1977 US Manhattan, 1979 Altman, Robert The James Dean Story, 1957 M*A*S*H, 1970 US The Player, 1992 Short Cuts, 1993 Anderson, Lindsay Thursday’s Children, 1954 (with Guy if. . . , 1968 Britain Brenton) O Lucky Man!, 1973 Anderson, Paul Junun, 2015 Boogie Nights, 1997 Thomas , 2007 The Master, 2012 Anger, Kenneth Kustom Kar Kommandos, 1963 Fireworks, 1947 US Scorpio Rising, 1964 Antonioni, Ragazze in bianco, 1949 L’Avventura, 1960 Michelangelo Chung Kuo – Cina, 1972 La Notte, 1961 Italy L'Eclisse, 1962 Apted, Michael The Up! series (1970‐2012 so far) Gorillas in the Mist, 1988 Britain Nell, 1994 The World is Not Enough, 1999 Berlinger, Joe Brother’s Keeper, 1992 Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, 2000 US The Paradise Lost Trilogy, 1996-2011 Facing the Wind, 2015 (all with Bruce Sinofsky) Berman, Shari The Young and the Dead, 2000 The Nanny Diaries, 2007 Springer & Pulcini, Hello, He Lied & Other Truths from Cinema Verite, 2011 Robert the Hollywood Trenches, 2002 Girl Most Likely, 2012 US American Splendor, 2003 (hybrid) Wanderlust, 2006 Blitz, Jeffrey Spellbound, 2002 Rocket Science, 2007 US Lucky, 2010 The Office, 2006-2013 (TV) Brakhage, Stan The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Dog Star Man, 1962 US Eyes, 1971 Mothlight, 1963 Broomfield, Nick Lily Tomlin, 1986 Ghosts, 2006 England Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Battle for Haditha, 2007 Serial Killer, 1992 Biggie and Tupac, 2002 Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer, 2003 Bunuel, Luis Las Hurdes (Land Without Bread), , 1928 (with Salvador 2 Spain/ 1933 (mockumentary?) Dali)

L’Age D’Or, 1930 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, 1972 Cameron, James Expedition Bismarck, 2002 Titanic, 1997 US Ghosts of the Abyss, 2003 Avatar, 2009 Capra, Frank Why We Fight series, 1942‐44 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, 1936 US Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1939 It’s a Wonderful Life, 1946 Chukrai, Grigori Pamyat, 1971 Ballad of a Soldier, 1959 Cooper, Merian C. Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life, 1925 The Four Feathers, 1929 US (with Ernest B. Schoedsack) King Kong, 1933 Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness, 1927 (with Ernest B. Schoedsack) Demme, Jonathan , 1984 , 1988 US The Agronomist, 2003 Silence of the Lambs, 1991 Jimmy Carter , 2007 Philadelphia, 1993 Enzo Avitabile Music Life, 2012 , 2008 Denis, Claire Jacques Rivette, the Watchman, 1990 Chocolat, 1988 France Beau Travail, 1999 35 Shots of Rum, 2008 Disney, Walt (Co.) , 1953 Bambi, 1942 US Swiss Family Robinson, 1960 Dovzhenko, The Fight for Our Soviet , Arsenal, 1938 Alexander 1943 Soviet Union Eisenstein, Sergei Que Viva Mexico!, 1932 The , 1925 Soviet Union Strike, 1925 Epstein, Rob , 1984 Howl, 2010 US Common Threads: Stories from the Lovelace, 2013 Quilt, 1989 The Celluloid Closet, 1995 Fassbinder, Rainer Theater in Trance, 1981 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, 1974 Werner Fox and His Friends, 1975 W. Germany Fellini, Federico Fellini: A Director’s Notebook, 1969 , 1960 Italy 8‐1/2, 1963 , 1974 Folman, Ari Waltz with Bashir, 2008 The Congress, 2013 Israel Ford, John The Battle of Midway, 1944 The Grapes of Wrath, 1940 US , 1956 Franju, Georges Blood of the Beasts, 1949 Eyes Without a Face, 1960 France Hotel of the Invalids, 1952 Spotlight on a Murderer, 1961 Godard, Jean‐Luc Operation Beton, 1955 Breathless, 1960 France Alphaville, 1965 Gordon, Seth : A Fistful of , 2010 US Quarters, 2007 , 2013 Freakonomics, 2010 Granik, Debra Stray Dog, 2014 Winter’s Bone, 2010 3 US

Guest, Christopher Waiting for Guffman, 1996 The Big Picture, 1989 US (mockumentary) Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, 1993 Best in Show, 2000 (mockumentary) Guggenheim, Davis , 2006 Training Day, 2001 (executive producer) US Waiting for Superman, 2010 The Shield, 2003, and other TV series Herzog, Werner Little Dieter Needs to Fly, 1997 Aguirre, The Wrath of God, 1972 (W.) Germany , 1999 , 1979 , 2005 , 1982 of Forgotten Dreams, 2010 Into the Abyss, 2011 Hickenlooper, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Factory Girl, 2006 George Apocalypse, 1991 Casino Jack, 2010 US “Hick” Town, 2009 Hitchcock, Alfred Memory of the Camps, 1945 Rear Window, 1954 US (co‐writer, co‐editor; incomplete & Vertigo, 1958 unreleased until 1985 PBS Frontline) North by Northwest, 1959 Huston, John The Battle of San Pietro, 1944 The Maltese Falcon, 1941 US The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948 James, Steve , 1994 Prefontaine, 1997 (producer/director) , 2011 US Life Itself, 2014 Jarecki, Andrew , 2003 All Good Things, 2010 US The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, 2015 Kaye, Tony Lake of Fire, 2006 American History X, 1998 US Kieslowski, Krzysztof Workers, 1971 The Decalogue, 1989-90 Poland Talking Heads, 1980 Blue/White/Red Trilogy, 1993-4 Kopple, Barbara Harlan County U.S.A., 1976 Havoc, 2005 US , 1997 Homicide: Life on the Street, 1997‐1999 (TV Shut Up and Sing, 2006 series) Running from Crazy, 2013 Kubrick, Stanley Day of the Fight, 1951 Dr. Strangelove . . . , 1964 Britain 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968 Lee, Spike , 1997 Do The Right Thing, 1989 US When The Levees Broke: A Requiem Malcolm X, 1992 In Four Acts, 2006 Loach, Ken Save the Children Fund Film, 1971 Kes, 1969 England Which Side are You On?, 1985 The Wind That Shakes the Barley, 2006 The Spirit of ’45, 2013 Lumet, Sidney King: A Filmed Record…Montgomery 12 Angry Men, 1957 US to Memphis, 1970 Dog Day Afternoon, 1975 Network, 1976 Lumiere, Auguste & Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory, The Sprinkler Sprinkled, 1895 Louis 1895 Transformation by Hats, 1895 France Baby’s Breakfast, 1895 Fishing for Goldfish, 1895 Macdonald, Kevin The Making of an Englishman, 1995 The Last King of Scotland, 2006 Scotland (about his grandfather, Emeric State of Play, 2009 Pressburger) How I Live Now, 2013 4 , 2000

A Brief History of , 2000 Touching the Void, 2003 Life In a Day, 2011 (hybrid?) Marley, 2012 Malle, Louis , 1968 Pretty Baby, 1978 France ... And the Pursuit of Happiness, 1986 , 1981 Marker, Chris Letters from Siberia, 1957 La Jetee, 1962 France The Lovely Month of May, 1963 A Grin Without a Cat, 1977 , 1983 A.K. (Akira Kurosawa), 1985 Marsh, James , 2008 The King, 2005 Project Nim, 2011 The Theory of Everything, 2014 Miller, Bennett The Cruise, 1998 Capote, 2005 Moneyball, 2011 Foxcatcher, 2014 Morris, Errol , 1978 The Dark Wind, 1991 US The Thin Blue Line, 1989 Holland, Michigan, announced 2015 The Fog of , 2003 Tabloid, 2010 , 2013 Murnau, F. W. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, 1931 Nosferatu, 1922 Germany Sunrise, 1927 Nair, Mira India Cabaret, 1985 Monsoon Wedding, 2001 India/US Amelia, 2009 Panahi, Jafar The Wounded Heads, 1988 , 1995 , 2012 Offside, 2006 Pasolini, Pier Paolo Love Meetings, 1965 The Decameron, 1971 Italy Notes for an African Orestes, 1970 Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom, 1975 Polley, Sarah , 2012 Away From Her, 2006 US Ray, Satyajit Rabindranath Tagore, 1953 The Apu Trilogy, 1959 India Resnais, Alain Night and Fog, 1955 Hiroshima, Mon Amour, 1959 France Last Year in Marienbad, 1961 Richardson, Tony Momma Don’t Allow, 1956 (with Tom Jones, 1963 Britain Karel Reisz) The Loved One, 1965 Riefenstahl, Leni Triumph of the Will, 1935 The Blue Light, 1932 Germany Olympia, 1938 Ruttmann, Walter : Symphony of a Metropolis, Opus I, 1921 Germany 1927 Opus II, 1923 Schlondorff, Volker Billy Wilder Speaks, 1992 Young Torless, 1966 Germany The Songbook, 1992 The Tin Drum, 1979 Scorsese, Martin Woodstock, 1970 (editor) , 1976 US The Last Waltz, 1978 , 1980 Shine a Light, 2008 , 1990 Sembene, Ousmane The Sonhrai Empire, 1963 Black Girl, 1966 Senegal L’Afrique aux Olympiades, 1973 Spheeris, Penelope The Decline of Western Civilization Wayne’s World, 1992 US Part II: The Metal Years, 1988 5 Stevens, George That Justice be Done, 1945 A Place in the Sun, 1951

US The Nazi Plan, 1945 Shane, 1953 Giant, 1956 Syberberg, The Confessions of Winifred Wagner, Hitler: A Film From Germany, 1977 Hans‐Jurgen 1975 Parsifal, 1982 (W.) Germany Syberberg Films Brecht, 1993 Tarr, Bela City Life, 1990 Damnation, 1988 Hungary The Turin Horse, 2011 Varda, Agnes , 1991 Cleo from 5 to 7, 1962 France , 2000 Vagabond, 1985 The Beaches of Agnes, 2009 Verhoeven, Michael The Second Execution of Romell The White Rose, 1982 (W.) Germany Broom, 2012 , 1990 Vigo, Jean Apropos de Nice, 1930 Zero for Conduct, 1933 France L’Atalante, 1934 Warhol, Andy Sleep, 1963 Empire, 1964 Batman Dracula, 1964 US The Velvet Underground and Nico, Vinyl, 1965 1966 Chelsea Girls, 1966 Watkins, Peter The Battle of Culloden, 1964 , 1965 Britain (reenactment) , 1971 (“pseudo‐doc”) The Media Project, 1991 Welles, Orson F for Fake, 1975 , 1941 US The Magnificent Ambersons, 1942 Touch of Evil, 1958 Wenders, Wim Buena Vista Social Club, 1999 Paris, Texas, 1984 (W.) Germany The Soul of a Man, 2003 Wings of Desire, 1988 Wilder, Billy Death Mills, 1945 Sunset Boulevard, 1950 US Some Like it Hot, 1959 The Apartment, 1960 Winterbottom, The Road to Guantanamo, 2006 Jude, 1996 Michael The Shock Doctrine, 2009 : A Cock and Bull Story, Britain 2006 The Killer Inside Me, 2010 Wyler, William Memphis Belle, 1944 The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946 Ben‐Hur, US 1956 Zwigoff, Terry Crumb, 1994 Ghost World, 2001 US Bad Santa, 2003

Important Documentarists who Have Specialized Exclusively in Documentaries:

Name & Nation Key Documentaries

Attenborough, David (writer) Life on Earth (series), 1979 Britain Island of the Vampire Birds, 2000 Planet Earth (series), 2006 Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life, 2009 Blank, Les Eats His , 1980 US , 1982 6 In Heaven there is No Beer?, 1984

Gap‐Toothed Women, 1987 Bossak, Jerzy Majdanek, 1944 Poland Warsaw 56, 1956 Requiem for 500,000, 1963 Brownlow, Kevin The Charm of Dynamite: Abel Gance, 1965 Britain Unknown Chaplin, 1982 DW Griffith: Father of Film, 1993 The Tramp and the Dictator, 2002 Burns, Ken The Civil War (series), 1990 US Baseball (series), 1994‐2010 Cousteau, Jacques‐Yves , 1956 France , 1964 Davis, Peter The Selling of the Pentagon, 1971 US Hearts and Minds, 1974 de Antonio, Emile Point of Order, 1964 US Rush to Judgment, 1967 Painters Painting, 1973 Drew, Robert Primary, 1960 US Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, 1963 Ferguson, Charles , 2007 US Inside Job, 2010 Flaherty, Robert , 1922 US Moana, 1926 , 1934 Fricke, Ron Baraka, 1992 US Funt, Allen Candid Camera, 1948‐2004 US Gibney, Alex Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, 2005 US , 2007 Grierson, John Drifters, 1929 Britain/Canada Song of Ceylon, 1934 (producer; directed by Basil Wright) First Commissioner of the National Film Board of Canada, 1939 Haanstra, Bert Glass, 1958 The Zoo, 1962 Hammid, Alexander The Forgotten Village, 1941 US Toscanini: Hymn of the Nations, 1945 To Be Alive! 1964 Hegedus, Chris , 1993 Al Franken: God Spoke, 2006 Hurwitz, Leo Native Land, 1942 US Ivens, Joris Rain, 1929 The Netherlands originally, but The Spanish Earth, 1937 worked all over the world 17th Parallel: Vietnam in War, 1968 Iwasaki, Akira (producer) The Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, c. 1946 Japan A Japanese Tragedy, 1946 Jennings, Humphrey London Can Take It!, 1940 Britain Listen to Britain, 1942 Karmen, Roman Judgment of the Nations, 1946 7 Soviet Union

Lanzmann, Claude Shoah, 1985 France Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943,4 p.m., 2001 Leacock, Richard Kenya: Land of the White Ghost, 1960 US Republicans: The New Breed, 1964 Also cinematographer on Primary, 1960, Monterey Pop, 1968, and others Livingston, Jennie Paris is Burning, 1990 US Hotheads, 1993 Lorentz, Pare The Plow that Broke the Plains, 1936 US The River, 1938 Makavejev, Dusan WR: Mysteries of the Organism, 1971 (former) Yugoslavia Maysles, Albert & David Salesman, 1968 US Gimme Shelter, 1970 , 1976 McElwee, Ross , 1980 US Sherman’s March, 1986 Mitchell, Denis Morning in the Streets, 1959 Britain , 1961 Moore, Michael Roger and Me, 1989 US , 2002 Fahrenheit 911, 2004 , 2007 Murrow, Edward R. (producer, Harvest of Shame, 1960 host) US Ophuls, Marcel , 1969 US Painleve, Jean The Seahorse, 1934 France Le Vampire, 1945 Pennebaker, D. A. , 1967 US Monterey Pop, 1968 The War Room, 1993 Rafferty, Kevin , 1982 US Who Wants to Be President?, 2000 Reggio, Godfrey , 1982 US , 1988 , 2002 Riggs, Marlon Tongues Untied, 1989 US Color Adjustment, 1992 Rotha, Paul The World is Rich, 1947 Britain Cradle of Genius, 1961 Rouch, Jean The Mad Masters, 1955 France/Niger Babatu, 1976 Rubbo, Michael Sad Song of Yellow Skin, 1972 US Waiting for Fidel, 1973 Sagan, Carl Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, 1980 US Shub, Esfir The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty, 1927 Soviet Union 8 Spurlock, Morgan (producer, Super Size Me, 2004 writer, director, host) The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, 2011 US Stoney, George O. All My Babies, 1953 US Storck, Henri Misfortunes of War, 1963 Belgium Permeke, 1985 Sucksdorff, Arne Symphony of a City, 1948 Sweden The Great Adventure, 1953 Thorndike, Andrew & Annelie Lenin, 1970 East Germany All My Life, 1971 Tsuchimoto, Noriaki An Engineer’s Assistant, 1963 Japan Pre‐Partisan, 1969 Vertov, Dziga , 1929 Soviet Union , 1934 Wiseman, Frederick Titicut Follies, 1967 US High School, 1968 Boxing Gym, 2010 National Gallery, 2014 Wright, Basil Song of Ceylon, 1934 Britain A Place for Gold, 1960