Movies: Documentary filmmaking

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Underground poker player Bobby Diamonds enters the spotlight in this hallucinatory, hilarious, and heartfelt documentary. Directed, Produced, and Edited by Robert Aaron Mitchell Executive Producer Sarah Dillard Mitchell Winner of Best Short Docume...

Jump Cut Jukebox is a highly stylized semi-fictional fly-on-the-wall documentary which was cobbled together from random bits of footage collected over a span of 10 months....

EXTREME BEACHCOMBING is an intimate portrait of retired plumber John Anderson and his 46-year obsession with collecting manmade objects that wash up on the obscure beaches of the Pacific Northwest. Narrated entirely by John himself, this poetic and p...

Boston’s subway is notorious for delays, but just how fast is it compared to the city’s own runners? In this unique race organized by Run Dirty Water, Boston's runners took on the challenge, racing across the city to see if they could beat the MBTA f...

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A documentary filmed between 2016 - 2018 about the Boston DIY music scene, and part of the community that keeps it going....

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I'm looking for answers in the past. Living in the present without thinking about it is letting time pass....

A landscape film about a golf course. Shot in the spring of 2025....

Filmmaker Jack Bramley spends a day with Jethro The Clown, filming him at one of his clown gigs to see what clowning looks like up close. They discuss what got Jethro into clowning, the reputation of clowns over the years, his advice to aspiring clow...

In rural Scotland, a flock of sheep is sheared to survive the summer while a shepherd finds protection during the winter thanks to the wool. Are the clouds above them simply witnessing the process or do they actually take part in it? Shot on Super 8...

Filmed at Avebury Stone Circle, West Kennett Barrow, Silbury Hill, and The Cove, Avebury Wiltshire UK. A world heritage site, the location is home to the largest stone circle complex in the UK, the film documents the site with a soundtrack of audio w...

Meet Marcus Tribe, a fifth-generation forester, one of Britain’s last woodsmen. He lives in his wooden yurt on a 6-acre woodland in Devon and has spent over 20 years preserving the land and living self-sufficiently. Now in his older years, as he witn...

Five years ago, Nick and Mark received permission to excavate an old pond on Wanstead Flats, the southernmost part of Epping Forest in Leytonstone, East London. This area has a rich history of activism, with past protests here credited for helping la...

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A mixed media mini-doc on the triumphs and pains of creating a first film. High expectations and unexpected losses can kill your darlings....

An upcoming documentary on the Arizona screamo band Journal....

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

In 1994, an earthquake hit Northridge. There was a lot of damage and the CSUN was also hit hard. This documentary shows what happened then through interviews with Professor Nate Thomas and Equipment Technician George Johnson. Nate Thomas shares his e...