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)
• 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)
• Chris Cashman ( Club Frontera , San Diego's Gay Bar History )
• Lesley Chilcott ( Waiting for 'Superman' , An Inconvenient Truth , CodeGirl , Watson , Arnold )
• 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.)
• Myles Kane ( Voyuer )
• Mary Rosanne Katzke
• Tim Kirkman ( Dear Jesse )
• Vivian Kleiman
• Barbara Kopple ( Harlan County, USA , American Dream , both Academy Award winners)
• Josh Koury ( Standing by Yourself , Voyeur )
• 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 )