# 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)
* Max Hechtman (Stories of Strength and Hope: Preventing Youth Suicide)
* 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)