List of directors and producers of documentaries

Asia

• Sidiki Bakaba
• Safi Faye
• Sorious Samura (Cry Freetown, Return to Freetown, Exodus, Living with Hunger, Living with Refugees)
• Tareque Masud (Bangladesh)
• Aryana Farshad (Iran)
• Ammar Aziz (Pakistan)
• Anu Malhotra (India)
• Sadaf Foroughi (Iran)
• Suma Josson
• Susumu Hani
• Kazuo Hara
• Fumio Kamei
• Toshio Matsumoto
• Tatsuya Mori
• Shinsuke Ogawa
• Anand Patwardhan (India)
• Artavazd Ashoti Peleshyan (Armenian)
• David Perlov
• Mohammad Bakri (Palestine)
• Avi Mograbi (Israeli Moroccan)
• Nissim Mossek (Israel)
• Makoto Satō
• Noriaki Tsuchimoto
• Mikhail Vartanov (Armenia) (Parajanov: The Last Spring )
• Wang Bing
• Ruby Yang
• Maheen Zia (Pakistan)
• Anwar Hajher
• Satyaprakash Upadhyay (India) (Bunkar - The Last of the Varanasi Weavers)
• Zahir Raihan (Bangladesh)

Australia

• Wayne Coles-Janess (In the Shadow of the Palms)
• George Gittoes (Soundtrack to War)
• John Pilger (Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia, Vietnam: the Last Battle, Stealing a Nation)

Europe

• Michael Apted (Seven Up!)
• Matthew Bauer (The Other Fellow)
• William Bemister
• Patrick Bokanowski
• António Campos
• Pedro Costa
• Adam Curtis (The Century of the Self, The Trap, The Power of Nightmares)
• Denis Delestrac (Pax Americana)
• Mike Dibb
• Vanessa Engle (Lefties)
• Harun Farocki
• Erik Gandini (Videocracy)
• James Gay-Rees (Senna, Amy, Ronaldo)
• Jo Gilbert (Great West End Theatres series)
• John Grierson
• Johannes Grenzfurthner
• Bert Haanstra
• Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man)
• Marcel Ichac (France, exploration and mountain films)
• Joris Ivens
• Asif Kapadia (Senna, Amy)
• Ross Kemp
• Sean Langan (Langan behind the Lines, Langan in Iraq, Travels of a Gringo)
• Claude Lanzmann (Shoah)
• Jørgen Leth (The Five Obstructions)
• Willy Lindwer (The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank)
• Sean McAllister, filmmaker (Liberace of Baghdad, The Minders)
• Chris Marker
• Arūnas Matelis (Before Flying Back to the Earth)
• James Miller (Death in Gaza)
• George Morrison (Mise Éire)
• Michel Noll
• Marcel Ophüls
• Jacques Perrin (Le Peuple Migrateur)
• Jos de Putter
• António Reis
• Alain Resnais (Night and Fog)
• Leni Riefenstahl
• Jean Rouch
• Michael Schindhelm (The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg)
• Tomasz Sekielski (Tell No One)
• Marc Sinden (Great West End Theatres series)
• Louis Theroux
• Virgilio Tosi
• Agnés Varda
• Dziga Vertov
• Lars von Trier (The Five Obstructions)
• Peter Watkins (The War Game, Punishment Park, Culloden (film), Edvard Munch (film))
• Leslie Woodhead (Children of Beslan, A Cry from the Grave, Godless in America)
• Thierry Zéno
• Lydia Zimmermann

Latin America

• Tomas Gutierrez Alea
• Santiago Álvarez
• Julia Bacha (Brazil)
• Fernando Birri
• Eduardo Montes-Bradley (Evita: The Documentary, Che: Rise and Fall, Waissman, Calzada, Samba on Your Feet)
• Patricio Guzman
• Miguel Littin
• Paul Leduc
• Fernando E. Solanas
• Salvador Espinosa Orozco (TEOKARI Compañero de Camino)

North America

• Aryana Farshad (Mystic Iran, the Unseen World), ( Longing for the Soul, A Quest for Rumi-2019)
• Mitch Anderson
• Emile de Antonio
• Denys Arcand
• Timothy Asch (The Ax Fight)
• Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky (Brother's Keeper, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster)
• Les Blank (Burden of Dreams)
• Doug Block (51 Birch Street, Home Page)
• Michel Brault
• Sam Bozzo (Can You Hack It?)
• George Butler (Pumping Iron, In the Blood, Roving Mars, Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure, The Lord God Bird, Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry)
• Ken Burns (Baseball, Jazz, The Civil War)
• Ric Burns (New York: A Documentary Film)
• Jim Butterworth (Seoul Train)
• Steven Cantor (Step, Dancer, Between Me and My Mind, What Remains, Chasing Tyson)
• Lesley Chilcott (Waiting for 'Superman', An Inconvenient Truth, CodeGirl, A Small Section of the World)
• Jimmy Chin (Free Solo, Meru (film))
• Matthew Cooke (How to Make Money Selling Drugs)
• Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
• Patrick Creadon (Wordplay, I.O.U.S.A.)
• George Csicsery
• Khashyar Darvich (Dalai Lama Renaissance)
• Peter Davis (director) (Hearts and Minds (film))
• Kirby Dick (Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist, Twist of Faith, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Outrage)
• Paul Devlin (SlamNation, Power Trip)
• Chris Donahue (Be Good, Smile Pretty)
• Dinesh D'Souza (2016: Obama's America, America: Imagine the World Without Her)
• Ava DuVernay (13th (film))
• Lilibet Foster (Soul in the Hole, Speaking in Strings, Brotherhood: Life in the FDNY, Be Here Now (The Andy Whitfield Story))
• Robert J. Flaherty
• Su Friedrich (Hide and Seek)
• Liz Garbus (What Happened, Miss Simone?)
• Paul Gardner (writer)
• Robert Gardner (Dead Birds)
• Catherine Gund (A Touch of Greatness), (Born To Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity)
• Lauren Greenfield (Thin, kids+money)
• Gilles Groulx
• Monica Hampton (Slacker Uprising, Heavy Metal in Baghdad)
• Nathaniel Hansen
• Mark Jonathan Harris (The Long Way Home, Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport)
• Tigre Hill (The Shame of A City, Barrel of a Gun)
• John E. Hudgens (American Scary)
• Leslie Iwerks (The Pixar Story, Recycled Life)
• Steve James (Hoop Dreams)
• Kartemquin Films (Gordon Quinn, Jerry Blumenthal, Steve James, Peter Gilbert, et al.)
• Mary Rosanne Katzke
• Tim Kirkman (Dear Jesse)
• Vivian Kleiman
• Barbara Kopple (Harlan County, USA, American Dream, both Academy Award winners)
• Martin Kunert (Voices of Iraq)
• Richard Leacock
• Grace Lee (American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs)
• Logan Leistikow (The Comedy Garage)
• Brian Lindstrom (Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse)
• James Longley (Iraq in Fragments)
• Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September, Touching the Void)
• Eric Manes (Voices of Iraq)
• Ron Mann (Comic Book Confidential, Twist, Grass)
• John Marshall (The Hunters)
• Albert Maysles and David Maysles (Salesman, Grey Gardens, Gimme Shelter)
• Ross McElwee (Time Indefinite, Sherman's March)
• Freida Lee Mock (Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision, an Academy Award winner; Bird by Bird with Annie, a portrait of Anne Lamott)
• Eduardo Montes-Bradley (Evita, Che: Rise and Fall)
• Michael Moore (Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, The Big One, Sicko)
• Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, Vernon, Florida, Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, The Fog of War)
• John Mulholland (Cooper & Hemingway: The True Gen)
• Alanis Obomsawin
• Charles Olivier (Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals)
• Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence)
• D. A. Pennebaker (Dont Look Back, Monterey Pop)
• Pierre Perrault
• Phil Ranstrom (Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street)
• Frances Reid (Long Night's Journey Into Day)
• Velcrow Ripper (Scared Sacred)
• Steven Rosenbaum (7 Days in September)
• Alex Sangha (Canada) (My Name Was January, Emergence: Out of the Shadows)
• Jillian Schlesinger (Maidentrip: A Teen's Solo Voyage Around The World)
• Steven Sebring (Patti Smith: Dream of Life)
• Amy Serrano (The Sugar Babies)
• Christopher Seufert
• Jeff Chiba Stearns
• Ondi Timoner (We Live in Public, DIG!)
• Michael Wadleigh (Woodstock (film))
• Lucy Walker (Devil's Playground, Blindsight)
• Reid Williams (Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World, Cruel and Unusual: Transgender Women in Prison, Were the World Mine)
• Frederick Wiseman (High School, Titicut Follies)
• Ruby Yang (The Blood of Yingzhou District), (My Voice, My Life)
• Jessica Yu (Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien)