Jean Rouch

Jean Rouch

male, deceased (2004)
Jean Rouch (31 May 1917 - 18 February 2004) was a French filmmaker and anthropologist. He began his long association with African subjects in 1941...
D. A. Pennebaker

D. A. Pennebaker

male, 84 years old
Donn Alan "D. A." Pennebaker is an American documentary filmmaker and one of the pioneers of Direct Cinema/Cinéma vérité. Performing arts (es...
Robert Drew

Robert Drew

male, 85 years old
Robert Lincoln Drew (born February 15, 1924) in Toledo, Ohio) is an American writer and director. His first movie was "Primary" (1960), a...
Roman Kroitor

Roman Kroitor

male
Roman Kroitor is a Canadian filmmaker and co-inventor of IMAX. He was born Yorkton,Saskatchewan, and later studied philosophy and psychology at the...
Bruce Sinofsky

Bruce Sinofsky

male, 53 years old
Bruce Sinofsky (born March 31, 1956, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an Award-winning documentary film director, who began his career at Maysles...
Neill Blomkamp

Neill Blomkamp

male
Neill Blomkamp is a South African born, Vancouver, BC-based director of short films and advertisements. Blomkamp employs a documentary-style,...

Jon Alpert

male
Jon Alpert is an American journalist and documentary filmmaker, known for his use of a cinéma vérité approach in his films. A native of Port Che...
Roman Karmen

Roman Karmen

male, deceased (1978)
Roman Lazarevich Karmen was a Soviet General, a war camera-man and film director and one of the most influential figures in documentary film...
Barbara Loden

Barbara Loden

female, deceased (1980)
Barbara Loden (b. July 8 1932, Marion, North Carolina - d. September 5 1980, New York City) was a notable film and stage actress and film director....
Mark Jonathan Harris

Mark Jonathan Harris

male
Mark Jonathan Harris is an American documentary filmmaker probably best known for his films "Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the...