- Michael Moore
Michael Francis Moore (born April 23 1954) is an Academy Award-winning American director and producer of "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Bowling for Columbine", two of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time. He is a vocal critic of globalization, large corporations, gun violence, the Iraq War, U.S. President George W. Bush and the American health care system. In 2005 Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people. - Ken Burns
Kenneth Lauren Burns (b. July 29, 1953) is an American director and producer of documentary films known for his style of making use of original prints and photographs. Among his most notable productions are the 1990 film, "The Civil War", the 1994 film, "Baseball", and the 2001 film, "JAZZ". - Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick was an influential and acclaimed American film director and producer considered among the greatest of the 20th Century. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and sometimes controversial films, including "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Paths of Glory", "A Clockwork Orange", and "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb". - Morgan Spurlock
Morgan V. Spurlock (born November 7, 1970) is an American independent documentary film director, TV producer, and screenwriter, known for the documentary film "Super Size Me", in which he attempted to demonstrate the negative health effects of McDonald's food by eating nothing but McDonalds three times a day, every day, for one month. Spurlock is also the executive producer and star of the reality television series "30 Days". - Wayne Barrett
Wayne Barrett is an investigative journalist and senior editor for the "Village Voice". He is also author of many books that take on politicians, especially Rudy Giuliani. He is also on the faculty of the Columbia Journalism School. His son is the short-story writer Mac Barrett. He is interviewed in Kevin Keating's documentary on Rudy Giuliani, "Giuliani Time". - Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa (born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, was a Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work. For over forty years, she ministered to the needs of the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying of Calcutta (Kolkata). As the Missionaries of Charity grew under Mother's leadership, they expanded their ministry to other countries. - Heidi Fleiss
Heidi Lynne Fleiss (born December 30 1965), known as the "Hollywood Madam", is a former American madam. She was convicted in connection with her prostitution ring with charges including pandering and tax evasion. Her ring had numerous famous and wealthy clients. She was sentenced to 37 months in prison for tax evasion, (pandering charges were dropped) but served just 21. Her father, Doctor Paul M. Fleiss is a famous Intactivist (one who opposes circumcision). - Leni Riefenstahl
Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German film director, dancer and actress, and widely noted for her aesthetics and advances in film technique. Her most famous film was "Triumph des Willens", a documentary of the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Nazi Party, which was used by the Third Reich as a powerful propaganda film. Because of Riefenstahl's social prominence in the Third Reich, including a personal acquaintance with Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, … - Chris Marker
Chris Marker is a French writer, photographer, film director, multimedia artist and documentary maker. He is best known for directing "La Jetée" (1962), "Sans Soleil" (1983) and "AK" (1985), a documentary about Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. - Nick Broomfield
Nicholas Broomfield (born 30 January 1948, in London) is an English documentary filmmaker. He studied Law at Cardiff, Wales, and Political Science at the University of Essex; subsequently, he studied film at the National Film and Television School. Broomfield films with a minimum of crew: just himself and one or two camera operators. Broomfield's minimal crew gives his documentaries a distinctive style; Broomfield himself is often in shot holding the sound boom. - Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Fierstein (born June 6 1952) is a Tony Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, playwright, and screenwriter. - Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis (born 1955) is a British television documentary maker who has during the course of his television career worked as a writer, producer, director and narrator. He currently works for BBC Current Affairs. He is noted for making programmes which express a clear (and sometimes controversial) opinion about their subject, and for narrating the programmes himself. After attending Sevenoaks School (a member of the 'art room' that produced influential musicians, … - Aj Schnack
AJ Schnack is an independent filmmaker. He directed "Kurt Cobain About a Son", which premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. His first feature film was a documentary about the Brooklyn-based band They Might Be Giants titled "Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)" - Frederick Wiseman
Frederick Wiseman (born 1 January 1930 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA) is an American documentary filmmaker. Born into a Jewish family, he came to documentary filmmaking after first being trained as a lawyer, a fact that has influenced his style and choice of subjects ever since. In 2003, Frederick Wiseman received the George Polk Career Award given annually by Long Island University to honor contributions to journalistic integrity and investigative reporting. - Pat Dollard
Patrick Dollard is an American documentary filmmaker. A native of New York City of Puerto Rican and Irish descent, in the 1990s he was a Hollywood talent agent, manager, and producer most known for guiding the career of Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh from his neophyte "Sex, Lies and Videotape" early days onward through the mega-successful mainstream, e.g. "Ocean's Twelve" and a multi-picture deal with Mark Cuban's HDNET cable channel. - John Schlesinger
John Richard Schlesinger CBE (February 16, 1926 - July 25, 2003) was an English film director. Born in London to a Jewish family, he went on to work in television as an actor after graduating from Balliol College, Oxford. One of his first movies, the documentary "Terminus" (1960), earned him a Venice Film Festival Gold Lion and a British Academy Award. He was also openly gay with his life partner of 30 years. - Al Gore
Former Vice President Al Gore is Vice Chairman of Metropolitan West Financial, LLC, and a member of the firm's executive leadership team. He serves as a Senior Advisor to Google, Inc. In March 2003, he was elected to the Board of Directors of Apple Computers, Inc. Mr. Gore is a Visiting Professor at two universities in Tennessee, Middle Tennessee State University and Fisk University, and at UCLA. - Jim Taylor
:"This article is about the American documentary film maker; Jim Taylor is also the name of a writer and a Football player" Jim Taylor is a documentary film maker from Minnesota. His films are often comical and politically movitated. He ran for President of the United States in 2000 and 2004. His 2000 run for President was documented in his film "Run Some Idiot". Jim Taylor often collaborates with Matt Ehling who is another documentary film maker from Minnesota. - Jehane Noujaim
Jehane Noujaim began her career as a photographer and filmmaker in Cairo, Egypt. She attended Harvard University and was awarded the Gardiner Fellowship. She then joined the MTV news and documentary division as a producer for the series Unfiltered. Noujaim left her producing job at MTV to produce and direct Startup.Com, which played as part of Sundance's documentary competition in 2001. - Terence Blanchard
Terrence Blanchard (b. March 13, 1962, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American Mainstream jazz musician and composer, though he performs in various jazz mediums. He has been one of the top trumpet players in jazz since the 1980s, and has worked with some of the legends of the genre. He rose to prominence through his association with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers from 1982-1986. - Rory Kennedy
Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy (born December 12, 1968) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and producer. She is the youngest of the eleven children of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy. Kennedy married Mark Bailey on August 2, 1999. They have three children: Georgia Elizabeth Kennedy-Bailey, born in September 2002; Bridget Katherine Kennedy-Bailey, born in July 2004; and Zachary Corkland Kennedy-Bailey born in July 16, 2007 at 9:47 am, … - Nan Goldin
Nan Goldin (born 1953) is a notable American fine-art and documentary photographer. - Bruce Brown
Bruce Brown (born December 1, 1937 in San Francisco, California) is an American documentary film director, known as an early pioneer of the surf film. He is the father of filmmaker Dana Brown. His surf films were "Slippery When Wet" (1958), "Surf Crazy" (1959), "Barefoot Adventure" (1960), "Surfing Hollow Days" (1961), "Waterlogged" (1962), and his most well known film, … - James Burke
James Burke (born 22 December 1936) is a British science historian, author and television producer best known for his documentary television series called "Connections", focusing on the history of science and technology leavened with a sense of humour. - Ellen Spiro
Ellen Spiro is an American documentary filmmaker. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Jerome Foundation Fellowship, The Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television’s Gracie Award for Outstanding Director and Outstanding Documentary, … - Michael Wood
Michael Wood (born Michael David Wood, July 23 1948 in Manchester) is a popular English historian and broadcaster, presenter of numerous television documentary series. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and at Oriel College, Oxford. His special interest was Anglo-Saxon history, and this was the field in which he first made his name, coming to the screen in "In Search of the Dark Ages", … - Penelope Spheeris
Penelope Spheeris (born December 2, 1945) is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. Spheeris was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to a Greek immigrant father who owned the "Magic Empire Shows" (Majick Empire). She spent her first seven years traveling around the American South and American Midwest with her father's carnival. She majored in film at UCLA in the Westwood area of Los Angeles, California. - Barrie Zwicker
Barrie Wallace Zwicker (born 1934) is an award-winning Canadian alternative media journalist, documentary producer, and left-wing political activist. He is most famous for his documentary work, which has dealt primarily with 9/11 conspiracy theories. - Mark Williams
Mark Williams (born 1959) is an English actor, comedian, scriptwriter and presenter. He is known as one of the stars of the popular BBC sketch show, "The Fast Show" as well as for the role of Arthur Weasley in the "Harry Potter" films. - Steve Bell
Steve Bell was a news correspondent for ABC News from 1967-1986. He served for more than a decade as the anchor for the news segments of "Good Morning America," and for ABC's "World News This Morning." During his time at ABC News, Bell spent time reporting from Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Bell has interviewed many Presidents. He was parioded in a Saturday Night Live segment. Bell is good friends with Ted Koppel, who he spent time with living in China during the Vietnam War. - Jem Cohen
Jem A. Cohen (born 1962, Kabul, Afghanistan) is a New York City-based filmmaker known for his observational portraits of urban landscapes, blending of media formats (16mm, Super 8, video) and collaborations with music artists. He was born in Afghanistan where his father was working for the U.S. Agency for Information and Development. Cohen's longer works include his feature film, "CHAIN", (Berlin Film Festival premiere, 2004), and the experimental documentary, … - Lauren Greenfield
Lauren Greenfield is an American documentary photographer, photojournalist, and documentary filmmaker. She has published three books of her work, and has been featured in a variety of magazines. Her photographs generally deal with issues relating to youth culture, gender identity, body image, eating disorder, and the influence of popular culture on how we live. In April 2005, American Photo Magazine named her, as a member of the VII Photo Agency, … - Brad Will
Bradley Roland Will (1970-2006) was a U.S. anarchist, documentary filmmaker and a journalist with Indymedia New York City. He was shot and killed on October 27, 2006 during the teachers' strike in the Mexican city of Oaxaca. - Dieter Dengler
Dieter Dengler (May 22, 1938 - February 7, 2001) was a United States Navy pilot during the Vietnam War. He was the sole survivor of an escape attempt from a Pathet Lao prison camp in Laos. - Edward Steichen
Edward Steichen was an American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator, born in Bivange, Luxembourg. His family moved to the United States in 1881 and he became a naturalized citizen in 1900. Having established himself as a fine art painter in the beginning of the 20th century, Steichen assumed the pictorialist approach in photography and proved himself a master of it. In 1905, … - Jennifer Abbott
Jennifer Abbott (born c. 1965) is a Canadian director, cinematographer and editor, best known as a documentary maker. Her first feature documentary, "A Cow at My Table" (1998), explores contemporary Western attitudes to livestock and meat production. More recently, she served as co-director and editor of the widely acclaimed documentary, "The Corporation" (2003), which critically examines large corporations in the modern world. - Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Hughes Galeano (born September 3, 1940) is an Uruguayan journalist whose books have been translated into many languages. His works transcend orthodox genres, combining documentary, fiction, journalism, political analysis, and history. The author himself has denied that he is a historian: "I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America above all and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia." - Ondi Timoner
Ondi Timoner is an American film director, producer, and cinematographer. She was born in Miami, Florida, USA. In 1994, she graduated from Yale University, where she majored in American Studies and Theater Studies. She subsequently founded her company, Interloper Films in the same year. She is perhaps best known for her 2004 documentary, "DiG!", which chronicles seven years of the lives of two neo-psychedelic bands, The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. - Mr. Untouchable
Mr. Untouchable is an English language documentary film for HDNet Films, directed by Marc Levin and produced by Mary-Jane Robinson. The film is about the rise and fall of Nicky Barnes, a young black kid from the streets of Harlem who went from being a teen-age heroin junkie to the most powerful black drug kingpin in New York City history. With first-hand testimony from Nicky Barnes himself, Mr. - Dana Brown
Dana Brown (born December 11, 1959 in Dana Point, California) is an American surfer, filmmaker, and oldest son of filmmaker Bruce Brown. His films include "The Endless Summer Revisited" (2000) which is made up of unused footage from "The Endless Summer" (1964) and "The Endless Summer II" (1994), as well as some original interviews with the stars of those films.
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