Direct Cinema Movies

In this wildly entertaining vision of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Bob Dylan is surrounded by teen fans, gets into heated philosop...

Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate....

A detailed chronicle of the famous 1969 tour of the United States by the British rock band The Rolling Stones, which culminated with the disastrous an...

Featuring performances by popular artists of the 1960s, this concert film highlights the music of the 1967 California festival. Although not all music...

This documentary from Albert and David Maysles follows the bitter rivalry of four door-to-door salesmen working for the Mid-American Bible Company: Pa...

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the Clinton for President campaign, focusing on the adventures of spin doctors James Carville and George Stephan...

A stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and document...

Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to use...

Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally...

During a two-day period before and after the University of Alabama integration crisis, the film uses five camera crews to follow President John F. Ken...

After their hunger strike in Berlin's government district, 5 climate activists reunite. While Lina has joined the "Last Generation," her comrades prep...

Sean Dunne's observational documentary of a 2016 Donald Trump Rally.

Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside Northeast High School as a fly on the wall to observe the teachers and how they interact with...

Four intimate friends who dream to make a film. Plot The film traces the journey of four friends as they strive to give life to their dream cinema....

La Revuelta accounts for the tension experienced by those who, as of October 2019, came out to express their social discontent. The work has as its m...

For five years, Stephen McCoy documented street life in Boston. This is what he captured.

A documentary about direct-cinema from its very beginnings (Nanook of the North) to the fake-direct-cinema of the Blair Witch Project. All the importa...

Simon is a street retailer, his shop a corner on the lower east side in New York, his stock bootleg cassette tapes, the ambience provided via boombox....

With noise-canceling headphones, they communicate with an inaudible counterpart. Decoupled, they move around the room and meet their surroundings. Int...

Jakob returns to his white whale in an attempt to rectify his past failures, ultimately realizing the powerful depths of what human beings are capable...