Direct Cinema Movies

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...

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

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

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

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....

After the death of her adoptive father, a young filmmaker delves into his video archives only to realize that she never filmed him—except once,...

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

Employing methods of direct cinema–observation, limited stylization, and non-intervention–this stark look into the State Prison for the...

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

A lonely man falls in love with his ChatGPT companion, challenging the boundaries of love and what it means to be human.

Feature-length documentary as part of Pierre Perrault's Abitibian Cycle. The filmmaker questions the past and present of Abitibi and draws up, face...

"This documentary depicts a canoe being built in the traditional manner. Cesar Newashish, a 67-year-old Attikamek of the Manawan Reserve North of...

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

A first look at Strobus / Banksiana: a musical and visual work supported by two important protagonists of the Quebec forest: the white pine and the...

January 13th, 2024; Suffolk County's punk, grunge, and emo scenes are showcased through the more than a hundred attendees at Caveversary; an annual...

A fifteen-year-old boy wants to buy a gun from an adult racketeer named Priest, in order to become president of the gang to which he belongs, and to...

What really happens inside the walls of an American high school? Famed documentarian Frederick Wiseman answers that question in this peek inside...

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....

A family-oriented man is caught off-guard when his number is misused by a bunch of gangsters. He then tries to find a way out this trouble,...