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) (' )
• Wang Bing
• Ruby Yang
• Maheen Zia (Pakistan)
• Anwar Hajher
• Satyaprakash Upadhyay (India) ()
• Zahir Raihan (Bangladesh)

• 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, ', ')
• Gilles Blais
• 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, ')
• Ken Burns (Baseball, Jazz, The Civil War)
• Ric Burns (')
• 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 (', Twist of Faith, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Outrage)
• Paul Devlin (SlamNation, Power Trip)
• Chris Donahue (Be Good, Smile Pretty)
• Dinesh D'Souza (', ')
• Ava DuVernay (13th (film))
• Lilibet Foster (Soul in the Hole, Speaking in Strings, ', 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), (')
• Lauren Greenfield (Thin, kids+money)
• Gilles Groulx
• Monica Hampton (Slacker Uprising, Heavy Metal in Baghdad)
• Nathaniel Hansen
• Mark Jonathan Harris (The Long Way Home, ')
• 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 (')
• Logan Leistikow (The Comedy Garage)
• Avi Lewis
• Brian Lindstrom (')
• 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 (', 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 (')
• Alanis Obomsawin
• Charles Olivier (')
• Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence)
• D. A. Pennebaker (Dont Look Back, Monterey Pop)
• Pierre Perrault
• Phil Ranstrom (')
• 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 (')
• 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 (', ', Were the World Mine)
• Frederick Wiseman (High School, Titicut Follies)
• Ruby Yang (The Blood of Yingzhou District), (My Voice, My Life)
• Jessica Yu (')