1. Nadar, le premier des photographes (Nadar, le premier des photographes)
A documentary about the French photographer Nadar aka Gaspard-Félix Tournachon
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
2. The Faces We Lost
A documentary about how Rwandans use personal and family photographs to remember and commemorate the loved ones they lost in the 1994 genocide.
3. Portraits and Dreams
Revisit photographs created by Kentucky school children in the 1970s and the place where their photos were made. Photographer and artist Wendy Ewald, who guided the students in making their visionary photographs, returns to Kentucky and learns how the lives and visions of her former students have changed.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
4. A Morte de Narciso (A Morte de Narciso)
Documentary about the work of photographer Alair Gomes, one of the first artists to introduce male nudity in Brazilian photography.
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
5. Down the Rabbit Hole
James Roddie is a caver, climber and a professional photographer. He’s also a 30-year-old man with an eating disorder. After the death of his father, James deals with it the best way he knows how – heading underground with his camera. Delving into his story, James candidly explores why caving, adventure, and mental health are so intricately tied together.
6. The Photographer's Wife (Die Frau des Fotografen)
Gerti Gerbert was photographed by her husband Eugen over a period spanning more than forty years. Besides the obligatory family photographs, from their wedding day until his death Eugen took countless pictures of Gerti: in her underwear, in homemade summer frocks, or completely naked; on the beach, in the woods, in the car, or on the floor at home. Using the Gerberts’ picture archive, interviews with Gerti, and Eugen’s notes, the film looks at what remains of life and love at the end.
7. That Click
A man at the cutting edge of fashion, photojournalism and portraiture, photographer to the stars Douglas Kirkland has portrayed over sixty years of pop culture. This fascinating feature takes a closer look into the career of one of the most important photographers of the last century. His subjects, who are some of the biggest stars of Hollywood and the fashion world, provide testimonials.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
8. Notarangelo the Soul Hunter (Notarangelo ladro di anime)
David Griecos documentary showcases the underappreciated photography of Domenico Notarangelo, and through it, tells the story of Matera, it's people and it's history.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
9. Saved From The Waters (Saved From The Waters)
A biographical documentary about Moisés Avendaño, artist, athlete, sportsman, adventurer, and doctor from Veracruz, Mexico. Seen from his golden years, until his imminent encounter with Parkinson's disease, in the present.
10. Fotografens hemlighet (Fotografens hemlighet)
Portrait of photographer Bengt Åke Kimbré where he narrates his own life story accompanied by his photographs.
11. Joana Biarnés, una entre tots (Joana Biarnés, una entre tots)
(Joana Biarnés, una entre tots)
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
12. All the Memory in the World
Memories, mirrors, madness and Memento collide in this experimental video essay focusing on the photographs and photographers in thousands of narrative films. All the Memory in the World is a stream-of-consciousness meditation on cinema, photography, identity, memory and dreams narrated by an insomniac who obsesses over images.
13. Ara crema (Ara crema)
(Ara crema)
14. Lucy Worsley's Royal Photo Album
Lucy Worsley tells the story of the royal photograph, showing how the royal family worked with generations of photographers to create images that reinvented the British monarchy.
It has an average vote of 8.5 on TMDB.
15. Asgard
In subarctic Norway in a storm the sun projects shadows of clouds on a mountain forest.
16. Quicker'n a Wink
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, Dr. Harold E. Edgerton demonstrates stroboscopic photography, which he helped develop. This process allows us to see in slow motion what happens during events that occur too fast to be seen by the naked eye. Examples shown here include a bullet in flight as it shatters a light bulb, the moment of impact when a kicker kicks a football, and the motion of a hummingbird's wings as it hovers.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
17. Standard Operating Procedure
Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.
It has an average vote of 6.842 on TMDB.
18. Naked Ambition: Bunny Yeager
Bunny Yeager, once heralded as the world's prettiest photographer, had a huge influence in 20th-century pop culture though few people know her name. Whether by popularizing the bikini, helping discover Bettie Page, shaping the image of Playboy or inventing the selfie, Bunny was a trailblazer whose work bucked against conservative 1950s America and helped pave the way for the feminist movement and the sexual revolution. Yet the very changes she helped usher in would soon render her a forgotten relic...till now.
19. 1870/71 Fotografien eines vergessenen Krieges (1870/71 Fotografien eines vergessenen Krieges)
(1870/71 Fotografien eines vergessenen Krieges)
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
20. MMXIII
An experimental self-portrait, MMXIII explores phenomenological subtlety, intersections of construct and verité, and the ways in which technology, landscape, and beauty coalesce.
