Documentalistas
by syl_alvarez | created - 03 Sep 2015 | updated - 13 Sep 2015 | PublicDirectores especializados en cine documental o que tienen obras relevantes de este género.
1. Les Blank
Cinematographer | Burden of Dreams
Born in 1935 in Tampa, Florida, Les Blank attended Tulane University in New Orleans, where he received a B.A. in English literature and an M.F.A. in theatre. In 1967, after two years in the Ph.D. film program at the University of Southern California, and five years of freelancing in Los Angeles, he...
2. Joe Berlinger
Producer | Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
Academy Award, eight-time Emmy nominated, and Peabody, DGA, and Sundance winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger has been a pioneering force in nonfiction filmmaking for over three decades. In a recent Bloomberg profile, Berlinger was described as a "true crime hit factory" for Netflix, whose work has "...
3. Errol Morris
Director | The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
His documentaries helped spur a rebirth of non-fiction film in the 80s & garnered wide critical success. But until 2003's "The Fog of War," Morris was shunned by the Academy Awards.
Morris' first two films won much acclaim (Gates of Heaven (1978) and Vernon, Florida (1981)). In the second movie, ...
4. Werner Herzog
Director | Fitzcarraldo
Director. Writer. Producer. Actor. Poet. He studied history, literature and theatre for some time, but didn't finish it and founded instead his own film production company in 1963. Later in his life, Herzog also staged several operas in Bayreuth, Germany, and at the Milan Scala in Italy. Herzog has...
5. Julien Temple
Director | Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan
Julien Temple was born on November 26, 1953 in London, England, UK. He is a director and writer, known for Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan (2020), Vigo (1998) and Earth Girls Are Easy (1988).
6. Robert J. Flaherty
Director | Louisiana Story
Robert J. Flaherty was born on February 16, 1884 in Iron Mountain, Michigan, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Louisiana Story (1948), Man of Aran (1934) and Elephant Boy (1937). He was married to Frances H. Flaherty. He died on July 23, 1951 in Brattleboro, Vermont, USA.
7. Dziga Vertov
Director | Chelovek s kino-apparatom
Dziga Vertov was born on January 2, 1896 in Bialystok, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire [now Podlaskie, Poland]. He was a director and writer, known for Man with a Movie Camera (1929), Three Songs About Lenin (1934) and The Sixth Part of the World (1926). He was married to Elizaveta Svilova. He ...
8. Esfir Shub
Editor | K.S.E. - Komsomol Shef Elektrifikatsii
Esfir Shub was born into a family of landowners. She studied literature in Moscow, but after Revolution she began to attend the classes at the Institute for Women's Higher Education and then got a job as a 'theater officer' at the State Commissariat of Education. In the theatre she worked in ...
9. Joshua Oppenheimer
Director | The Act of Killing
Joshua Oppenheimer was born on September 23, 1974 in Texas, USA. He is a director and producer, known for The Act of Killing (2012), The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1998) and The Look of Silence (2014).
10. John Grierson
Director | Drifters
John Grierson was born on April 26, 1898 in Kilmadock, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK. He was a producer and writer, known for Drifters (1929), Child's Play (1954) and Brandy for the Parson (1952). He was married to Margaret Grierson. He died on February 19, 1972 in Bath, Somerset, England, UK.
11. Pare Lorentz
Writer | The River
Pare Lorentz was born on December 11, 1905 in Clarksburg, West Virginia, USA. He was a writer and director, known for The River (1938), The Fight for Life (1940) and Nuremberg: The 60th Anniversary Director's Cut (2007). He died on March 4, 1992 in Armonk, New York, USA.
12. Basil Wright
Producer | Waters of Time
Producer/director Basil Wright was born in London, England, in 1907. He got into the film industry as one of the first members of pioneering documentary filmmaker John Grierson's Empire Marketing Board in 1931. In 1936 he directed, with Harry Watt, the well-received Night Mail (1936), and the next ...
13. Humphrey Jennings
Director | Fires Were Started
Humphrey Jennings, born in 1907, was a writer, set designer, painter, editor and, perhaps most famously, a director of ground-breaking documentary films for the renowned GPO film unit: Listen to Britain (1942), Fires Were Started (1943) and A Diary for Timothy (1945), films that changed the face of...
14. Harry Watt
Director | The Siege of Pinchgut
Scottish-born director Harry Watt began his career in the 1930s, and directed several documentaries during World War II, most notably Target for Tonight (1941). He went to Ealing Studios after the war, and the five films he made there were all shot in Africa or Australia. He turned to directing ...
15. Leni Riefenstahl
Producer | Das blaue Licht - Eine Berglegende aus den Dolomiten
Leni Riefenstahl's show-biz experience began with an experiment: she wanted to know what it felt like to dance on the stage. Success as a dancer gave way to film acting when she attracted the attention of film director Arnold Fanck, subsequently starring in some of his mountaineering pictures. With...
16. D.A. Pennebaker
Director | Dont Look Back
D.A. Pennebaker was born on July 15, 1925 in Evanston, Illinois, USA. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Don't Look Back (1967), The War Room (1993) and Unlocking the Cage (2016). He was married to Chris Hegedus, Kate Taylor and Sylvia Bell. He died on August 1, 2019 in Sag Harbor, ...
17. Richard Leacock
Cinematographer | Omnibus
Richard Leacock was born on July 18, 1921 in London, England, UK. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Omnibus (1952), Canary Island Bananas (1935) and 1 P.M. (1971). He was married to Eleanor Burke and Valérie Lalonde. He died on March 23, 2011 in Paris, France.
18. Robert Drew
Producer | Storm Signal
Robert Drew was born on February 15, 1924 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Storm Signal (1966), The Bell Telephone Hour (1959) and The Chair (1963). He was married to Anne Gilbert and First Wife. He died on July 30, 2014 in Sharon, Connecticut, USA.
19. David Maysles
Director | Grey Gardens
David Maysles was born on January 10, 1931 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Grey Gardens (1975), Gimme Shelter (1970) and Salesman (1969). He died on January 3, 1987 in New York City, New York, USA.
20. Albert Maysles
Cinematographer | Grey Gardens
Albert Maysles was born on November 26, 1926 in Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Grey Gardens (1975), Salesman (1969) and Gimme Shelter (1970). He was married to Gillian Walker. He died on March 5, 2015 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, ...
21. Pedro Valiente
Director | You Are Mythical
Award winning filmmaker Pedro Valiente has directed films and visual theater. His work is connected with creative writing and visual art. He has received two awards in Berlinale and an Emmy nomination; near sixty honors including screenings in 100+ film festivals (Sundance, SXSW); TV (PBS, BBC, TVE...
22. Jean Rouch
Director | Moi, un noir
Jean Rouch was born on May 31, 1917 in Paris, France. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Moi, un noir (1958), Madame L'Eau (1993) and Six in Paris (1965). He was married to Joselyne Lamothe. He died on February 18, 2004 in Birni N'Konni, Niger.
23. Chris Marker
Writer | 12 Monkeys
Chris Marker was born on July 29, 1921 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was a writer and director, known for 12 Monkeys (1995), Sans Soleil (1983) and Third Side of the Coin (1960). He died on July 29, 2012 in Paris, France.
24. Edgar Morin
Director | Chronique d'un été (Paris 1960)
Edgar Morin was born on July 8, 1921 in Paris, France. He is a writer and producer, known for Chronicle of a Summer (1961), The Hour of Truth (1965) and Lest We Forget (1991).
25. Michael Moore
Director | Bowling for Columbine
Michael Francis Moore was born in Flint, Michigan on April 23, 1954, and was raised in its Davison suburb. He is the son of Helen Veronica (Wall), a secretary, and Francis Richard Moore, who worked on an auto assembly line. He has Irish, as well as English and Scottish, ancestry.
Moore studied ...
26. Octavio Cortázar
Director | El brigadista
Octavio Cortázar was born on January 19, 1935 in Havana, Cuba. He was a director and writer, known for The Teacher (1978), Guardafronteras (1981) and For the First Time (1967). He died on February 27, 2008 in Madrid, Spain.
27. Trinh T. Minh-ha
Director | What About China?
Trinh T. Minh-ha was born in 1952 in Hanoi, Vietnam. She is a director and writer, known for What About China? (2022), Shoot for the Contents (1991) and Night Passage (2004).
28. Wim Wenders
Director | Der Himmel über Berlin
Wim Wenders is an Oscar-nominated German filmmaker who was born Ernst Wilhelm Wenders on August 14, 1945 in Düsseldorf, which then was located in the British Occupation Zone of what became the Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Germany, known colloquially as West Germany until ...
29. Jean-Luc Godard
Director | Bande à part
Jean-Luc Godard was born in Paris on December 3, 1930, the second of four children in a bourgeois Franco-Swiss family. His father was a doctor who owned a private clinic, and his mother came from a preeminent family of Swiss bankers. During World War II Godard became a naturalized citizen of ...
30. Martin Scorsese
Producer | Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Charles Scorsese was born on November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York City, to Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa) and Charles Scorsese, who both worked in Manhattan's garment district, and whose families both came from Palermo, Sicily. He was raised in the neighborhood of Little Italy, which later ...
31. Frederick Wiseman
Director | National Gallery
Born in 1930, Wiseman is a Cambridge, Massachusetts resident and member of the Massachusetts Bar Association who turned to filmmaking in 1967, after years as an instructor and/or researcher at Boston University, Brandeis University, and Harvard. In 1970 he founded Zipporah Films, Inc., which ...
32. Barbara Kopple
Producer | Harlan County U.S.A.
Barbara Kopple was born on July 30, 1946 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a producer and director, known for Harlan County U.S.A. (1976), American Dream (1990) and Shut Up & Sing (2006).
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