Lists of directors and producers of documentaries

[edit] Africa

• Safi Faye
• Sorious Samura, (Cry Freetown, Return to Freetown, Exodus, Living with Hunger, Living with Refugees)

[edit] Asia

• Mikhail Vartanov Parajanov: The Last Spring (film) (Armenia)
• S.N. Padhaan
• Rajeev Tripathi
• Suma Josson
• Anand Patwardhan
• Artavazd Ashoti Peleshyan
• Susumu Hani
• David Perlov (Israel)
• Shinsuke Ogawa
• Jyunichi Ushiyama
• Mithaq Kazimi
• Maheen Zia (Pakistan)
• Iqbal Malhotra
• Noriaki Tsuchimoto
• Kazuo Hara
• Mubasher Lucman
• Ruby Yang
• Wang Bing
• Sadaf Foroughi (Iran)
• Rajendra Joshi(India) (Producer -Director-Writer)
• Saed Abu Hmud (Palestine) (Director-Producer)
• Barkat Ram Mehra(India)

[edit] Australia

• Wayne Coles-Janess (In the Shadow of the Palms)
• George Gittoes (Soundtrack to War)
• Nicholas Hansen (RASH)
• (Mubasher Lucman) (Ameer Ul Momineen) On Talibaan
• John Pilger (Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia, Vietnam: the Last Battle, Stealing a Nation)
• Matt Norman

[edit] Europe

• Michael Apted (Seven Up!)
• Patrice Barrat "(Algeria(s)", "Why Did You See of Sarajevo", "Pacification in Algeria")
• William Bemister
• Hartmut Bitomsky
• Jerzy Bossak
• Nick Broomfield (Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer Biggie & Tupac, Kurt & Courtney, Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam)
• António Campos
• Pedro Costa
• Ricardo Costa
• John Grierson
• Bert Haanstra
• Thomas Heise
• Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man)
• Heddy Honigman
• Marcel Ichac (France, exploration and mountain films)
• Joris Ivens
• Sean Langan (Behind the Lines, Langan in Iraq, Travels of a Gringo)
• Claude Lanzmann (Shoah)
• Fabrizio Lazzaretti
• Sean McAllister, filmmaker (Liberace of Baghdad, The Minders)
• Chris Marker
• Arūnas Matelis (Before Flying Back to the Earth)
• James Miller (filmmaker) (Death in Gaza)
• George Morrison (Mise Éire)
• Marcel Ophüls
• Jacques Perrin (Le Peuple Migrateur)
• Jos de Putter
• Sarah Jane Barnes
• António Reis
• Alain Resnais, (Night and Fog)
• Leni Riefenstahl
• Jean Rouch
• Virgilio Tosi
• Dziga Vertov
• Klaus Wildenhahn
• Leslie Woodhead (Children of Beslan, A Cry from the Grave, Godless in America)
• Willy Lindwer (The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank)
• David Roxendal
• Kresevljakovic brothers - Nihad & Sead (Do You Remember Sarajevo)

[edit] Latin America

• Tomas Gutierrez Alea
• Santiago Alvarez
• João Batista de Andrade
• Fernando Birri
• Sergio Bravo
• Pachi Bustos
• Patricio Guzman
• Leon Hirszman
• Miguel Littin
• Carolina Moraes Liu
• Paul Leduc
• Antonio Leiva*
• Jorge Leiva
• Carmen Luz Parot
• Marta Rodríguez
• Fernando E. Solanas
• Gerardo Vallejo
• Juan M. Pinera
• Stephen James Hyde

[edit] North America

• 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)
• Doug Block, (51 Birch Street, Home Page)
• Michel Brault
• Sam Bozzo (Can You Hack It?)
• Ken Burns (Baseball, Jazz, The Civil War)
• Jim Butterworth (Seoul Train)
• Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
• Khashyar Darvich (Dalai Lama Renaissance)
• Paul Devlin (SlamNation, Power Trip)
• Mithaq Kazimi (16 Days in Afghanistan)
• Chris Donahue (Be Good, Smile Pretty)
• Jon Else (Cadillac Desert, The Day After Trinity, Sing Faster, The Times of Harvey Milk)
• Robert J. Flaherty
• Elise K. Fortunato (Telegram, Last Dingo in Paris)
• Su Friedrich, Hide and Seek
• Robert Gardner, (Dead Birds)
• Gilles Groulx
• 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)
• Deborah Hoffmann (Long Night's Journey Into Day)
• Steve James (Hoop Dreams)
• Kartemquin Films (Gordon Quinn, Jerry Blumenthal, Steve James, Peter Gilbert, et al.)
• Tim Kirkman (Dear Jesse)
• Barbara Kopple (Harlan County, USA, American Dream, both Academy Award winners)
• Martin Kunert, Voices of Iraq
• Richard Leacock
• Allie Light, Dialogues with Madwomen
• James Longley, Iraq in Fragments
• Kevin Macdonald, (One Day in September, Touching the Void)
• M. T. Manelski, Running in High Heels
• Eric Manes, Voices of Iraq
• Ron Mann (Comic Book Confidential, Twist, Grass)
• 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)
• John Marshall, (The Hunters)
• Michael Moore (Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, The Big One, Sicko)
• Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line (documentary) , Vernon, Florida, Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, The Fog of War)
• Megan Mylan (Lost Boys of Sudan)
• Spencer Nakasako (AKA Don Bonus, Refugee)
• Justin Nathanson (BIN YAH: There's No Place Like Home)
• Alanis Obomsawin
• D. A. Pennebaker (Dont Look Back, Monterey Pop)
• Pierre Perrault
• Frances Reid (Long Night's Journey Into Day)
• Steven Rosenbaum (7 Days in September)
• Christopher Seufert
• Martin Smith (Hunting bin Laden, Truth, War and Consequences)
• Steven W. Solana
• Lucy Walker (Devil's Playground, Blindsight
• Frederick Wiseman (High School, Titicut Follies)
• Ruby Yang (Citizen Hong Kong [1], China 21 [2])
• Jessica Yu (Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien)