Documentary film

Documentary film is a broad category of cinematic expression united by the intent to remain factual or non-fictional.

Lists of producers of documentaries

Africa

• Safi Faye
• Sorious Samura, (Cry Freetown, Return to Freetown, Exodus, Living with Hunger, Living with Refugees)

Asia

• Suma Josson
• Anand Patwardhan.
• Artavazd Ashoti Peleshyan

Australia

• George Gittoes (Soundtrack to War)
• Nicholas Hansen (RASH (film))

Europe

• Michael Apted (Seven Up!)
• Hartmut Bitomsky
• Jerzy Bossak
• Nick Broomfield ( Biggie & Tupac, Kurt & Courtney, )
• John Grierson
• Thomas Heise
• Joris Ivens
• Claude Lanzmann (Shoah)
• Chris Marker
• Marcel Ophüls
• Jean Rouch
• Jacques Perrin (Le Peuple Migrateur)
• Alain Resnais, (Night and Fog)
• Leni Riefenstahl
• Dziga Vertov
• Klaus Wildenhahn
• Willy Lindwer (The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank)

Latin America

• Tomas Gutierrez Alea
• Santiago Alvarez
• João Batista de Andrade
• Fernando Birri
• Sergio Bravo
• Patricio Guzman
• Leon Hirszman
• Miguel Littin
• Paul Leduc
• Marta Rodríguez
• Fernando E. Solanas
• Gerardo Vallejo

North America

• Emile de Antonio
• Denys Arcand
• Timothy Asch, (The Ax Fight)
• Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky (Brother's Keeper, ', ')
• Michel Brault
• Ken Burns (Baseball, Jazz, The Civil War)
• Steve Rosenbaum (7 Days in September)
• Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
• Robert J. Flaherty
• Sue Friedrich, Hide and Seek
• Robert Gardner, (Dead Birds)
• Gilles Groulx
• Mark Jonathan Harris, (The Long Way Home, ')
• Steve James (Hoop Dreams)

Kartemquin Films (Gordon Quinn, Jerry Blumenthal, Steve James, Peter Gilbert, et al.)

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• Barbara Kopple (Harlan County, USA, American Dream, both Academy Award winners)
• Richard Leacock
• Allie Light, Dialogues with Madwomen
• Kevin Macdonald, (One Day in September, Touching the Void)
• Ron Mann (Comic Book Confidential, Twist, Grass)
• Albert Maysles and David Maysles (Salesman, Grey Gardens, Gimme Shelter)
• Ross McElwee, (Time Indefinite, Sherman's March)
• Freida Lee Mock, ("" an Academy Award Winner), ("Bird by Bird with Annie" a portrait of Anne Lamott)
• John Marshall, (The Hunters)
• Michael Moore (Roger and Me, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, The Big One)
• Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, Vernon, Florida, Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, The Fog of War)
• Alanis Obomsawin
• D. A. Pennebaker (Don't Look Back, Monterey Pop)
• Pierre Perrault
• Video Activist Network
• Frederick Wiseman (High School, Titicut Follies)