documentary
326 works match
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
2012
David McCabe: A Year in the Life of Andy Warhol
2011
Photography: Rachel Sussman documents The Oldest Living Things In The World
2014
Pauline Magnenat captures the chilling locations where people went missing
2012
The Pedestrian Process: Why going behind the scenes of the creative process isn't all it's cracked up to be
2015
Engaging short film follows the day to day life of a London drug dealer
2015
Gem Fletcher and Ken Hermann shoot death-defying Indian tradition The Well of Death
2018
Gideon Mendel's photographs of flood victims are stunningly powerful
2012
Film: Will Robson-Scott turns his lens to Shoreditch legend John and his dog George
2014
Mahaneela on co-directing the documentary for Everything is Recorded
2018
Western Fronts is a nature documentary that collapses into itself
2019
Mesmerising photojournalism from cross-world collaborators Razon Collective
2012
Matt Houghton’s Earth to Cop is a bone-chilling found-footage film on the immediacy of climate change
2021
Myah Asha Jeffers documents “the regality, the beauty and the inner world of people of the diaspora”
2021
Eli Durst captures the strange and unified goings-on in an American church basement
2019
Juan Ortiz-Arenas takes a different approach to documenting lockdown in his series N17, Covid-19
2020
Rich-Joseph Facun documents the lives of a small community in Appalachia, a place he now calls home
2021
Photography: Dae Sung Lee photographs a beautiful but quickly disappearing island
2013
Director Jerry Rothwell on Ethiopia's very small town that's big on producing world-class runners
2012
Christian Rodriguez follows his cousin Leo immigrating from the Dominican Republic to the USA
2017
Cute documentary about three six-year-old girls who are incredible at skateboarding
2014
Camille Summers-Valli discusses her nomadic Navajo documentary
2015
Kin Coedel photographs tranquil moments of everyday life in Tibet
2023
Dan Bowhay photographs the “factual reality” of being a disabled passenger on public transport
2025
Photography: It's our pleasure to present an interview with legendary 1960s photographer, Jerry de Wilde
2013
Tyrone Lebon's spectacular, moving documentary about photographers
2014
Review of the Year 2016: filmmakers Becky and Joe
2016
Photographer Chris Hoare documents one street and the rapid changes it’s undergone
2019
Meet Imraan Christian, a photographer who's equal parts activist and artist
2020
Touching film about finding salvation in creativity, and Elgin Park
2015
Using documentary photography, Ross Mantle engages with the world – and questions it
2019
Guillaume Blot documents food and football across the country in L’Autre Tour de France
2020
"Unless you’ve put the graft in, you’ll be found out": the action-packed photography of Elaine Constantine
2018
Photographer Michael Turek documents the “absurdity, humour and grandeur” of Siberia
2020
Hannah Norton celebrates the humanity and spirit of the characters that shaped north London’s Community Cook Up
2025
Photography: Marco Kesseler documents fear and waiting in Ukraine
2014
Film: Vice's new travel series explores a little-known corner of Italy
2014
Kovi Konowiecki’s monochromatic photography is filled with “intuitive encounters”
2020
Ben Rivers' muzzy monochrome film Two Years at Sea is an elegiac beauty
2012
Alex De Mora documents the key characters of Mongolia’s booming hip-hop scene
2020
What A Wonderful World With David Attenborough
2011
George Butler in Africa
2009
Taschen’s monograph features Sebastião Salgado’s powerful photographs of the Kuwaiti oil fires
2016
Poster for the documentary 'Maurice & the Pharaoh' 2010. Photo Credit - Farouq
2024
Matt Houghton's latest film explores the wild combination of brutality and care in boxing
2018
Why the David Hockney documentary is the best film I’ve seen this year
2014
We look at a former Prix Pictet winner's greatest series
2012
Incredible unpublished Henri Cartier-Bresson shots appear in the latest Rouleur
2012
Joshua J Sneade’s work captures the changing times for Morocco’s nomadic tribes
2019
Fantastic set of films celebrate the music scenes in six American cities
2013
Frederike Helwig’s snapshot of Nicaragua from 2004 now published
2017
Neil Martinson presents “stories of work, love, hardships, joy and community” in Hackney
2020
John Radcliffe Studio photographs Italy's migrant crisis quietly and sincerely
2015
Inside the archives of the Ministry of Defence’s UFO desk
2017
The breakfast of champions: Constantine Costi’s latest film documents a world famous competition for porridge making
2025
Director Angela Stephenson documents Manila's defiance for creative freedom in the narco-state
2018
Nicolas Heller (aka New York Nico) on how he became ‘the unofficial talent scout of New York’
2025
David Gelb: Jiro Dreams of Sushi
2012
Photography: Rhiannon Adam's nostalgic polaroids of Margate
2013
Impressive new app documents 17 years of site-specific installation art in Texas
2012
"You have to hear this": Brian Shimkovitz tells us the story of Awesome Tapes From Africa
2018
Jack Latham uses photography to explore stories untold
2018
Will Robson-Scott's new film profiles quirky NYC photographer Ricky Powell
2012
Kemi Anna Adeeko and Safeen James offer up a “real and authentic” view of the Black experience
2022
Lydia Garnett tells stories about characters of all kinds, “especially fearless, fuck you types”
2021
“Most of the photographs I take are bad”: Martin Parr brings the good stuff to a stunning new retrospective
2016
José Castrellón documents the workers smuggling fuel from Venezuela into Colombia
2019
The Gatekeepers is Alex Ingram's intimate record of the UK's most isolated islands
2018
Sam Bush tells us what it's like to photograph riots
2014
Thomas Prior and Jake Michaels shoot horse racing in their own inimitable way
2015
Meet the filmmaker bringing intersectional feminism to South Africa: Jabu Nadia Newman
2017
The community fighting the invisible threat of toxic coal ash, captured by Will Warasila
2023
Photographer Lewis Khan on spending 18 months in the NHS
2017
Mustafah Abdulaziz’s 15-year photography project depicts the global water crisis
2017
Photography: Cait Oppermann shoots the world's largest sex convention (some NSFW)
2014
Molly Matalon is making her majestic photo diaries with “a crappy little point-and-shoot from 2004”
2024
Jamie Hawkesworth takes us on a photographic journey around The British Isles
2021
Film: Inspiring trailer for New York street photography doc Everybody Street
2013
Forget pancakes, Lauren Maccabee photographs Ashbourne’s annual Shrovetide Football “free-for-all”
2024
Photographer Karolina Gembara on her solemn yet beautiful seven-year journey in Delhi
2019
Lynn Hershman Leeson: !Women Art Revolution
2011
Photographer Chris Maggio palpably documents America’s current “emotional climate"
2017
Photography: Jackie Nickerson's photos of workers' environments
2014
Film: Here's a beautiful short by Miles Langley about the swimmers of London Fields Lido
2014
Photographer Mark Hartman on travelling to Coney Island every day to make his Islands series
2017
Photography: Osma Harvilahti turns his camera on Kenya with extraordinary results
2013
Extraordinary short film introduces the world to London's Muslim drag queens
2015
Bootsy Holler’s photobook is a tribute to the golden era of indie rock (flying bassists and attitude included)
2026
Caleb Stein spent four years photographing the small town of Poughkeepsie
2019
A hilarious send-up of documentary conventions in Phil: A Tribute to a Man
2015
Natasha Sharapova on shooting the last two inhabitants of a rural village in Georgia
2018
Poignant images of life on the Lion Farm estate by Robert Clayton
2016
What do a Christian, a Muslim and a Millwall FC fan all have in common?
2020
Addressing migration on the island of Lesbos, Something is happening puts the refugee experience into focus
2021
This striking short documentary uses voicemails to celebrate Michael Brown’s 28th birthday
2024
Forget Hollywood, Stefanie Tam’s books showcase the real Los Angeles
2019
A rare photographic insight into the everyday lives of the people of North Korea
2016
Luca Sage's Street Fight photographs are at once violent and beautiful
2012
Art: Freddy Dewe Mathews explores the bizarre history of a remote island
2013
Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records documents the origins of Jamaican and British youth culture
2018
Brown Brit traces the life of an Indian mother through an assemblage of VHS tapes
2024
Deividas Buivydas documents Boston, Lincolnshire, a town known as “the face of Brexit"
2017
Jenny Schweitzer's latest documentary explores gender, competition, and chess
2018
Rosa Fisher’s animated documentary tells of her father’s experience at boarding school
2020
Julia Autz documents Transnistria, a country steeped in Soviet nostalgia
2016
Market stalls, car boots and dogs; Timi Akindele-Ajani documents the familiar scenes of east London
2022
Photographer Enda Bowe documents the inhabitants of one east London housing estate
2019
Captain Beany is a short about Barry Kirk, the 64-year-old who’s dedicated his life to baked beans
2019
The homeless Dirty Kids of America and their "rainbow party" explored in new film
2015
Documenting places and roasting people where necessary: meet photographer Sean Bradley
2020
Photography: The fascinating secret lives of harvest mice as captured by Klein/Hubert
2014
Teranga documents an Afrobeats migrant-run nightclub in Naples offering a safe space for the city’s asylum seekers
2020
Jessica Chou on capturing the subtle moments within contemporary American culture
2021
Video: Teaser for Chris Cunningham's Warpaint documentary
2013
Photojournalist George Etheredge on the influence of visual documentation and reportage
2018
Marcus Journey follows the 18-year-old Mormon elders tasked with converting people
2016
Photographer Lukas Korschan got on the wrong boat, but made a great series out of it
2018
Photographer Monica Alcazar-Duarte documents the sleepy town of Mars in The New Colonists
2018
Film: Carlos Jimenez gets us up close and personal with the V&A's largest sculptural works
2014
“We’re here”: More Than Other makes a statement about the UK’s hidden Latinx community
2020
In her latest series photographer Catherine Hyland documents Bedouin life in Jordan
2019
Fumi Nagaska on how her work treads the line between fine art and documentary photography
2025
I am Martin Parr: A heartfelt portrait of a British icon
2025
We speak to Ruvan Wijesooriya about his documentation of a Kabul school
2015
Rennie Ellis' amazing photographs of Australia’s infamous and famous
2014
Street Photography Now Project
2010
Palestine Underground shines a light on the West Bank’s underground music scene
2018
Film: 12 O'Clock Boys gives a glimpse into Baltimore's notorious urban dirt-bike gang
2013
Conor Beary photographs "swan census" (and Martin Parr, on the sly)
2015
Photography: Nigel Shafran photographs unseen corners of the V&A for their Annual Review
2013
Capturing moments and creating narratives, Don Brodie’s documentary works are here to spark conversation
2020
Alain Schroeder takes us behind the scenes of the Haenyeo, an over 60s group of female divers
2021
Shoot Shoot Shoot: 50 years of the London Film-Makers Co-op
2016
Through considered natural light and delicate colours, Farhan Hussain tells his subjects’ authentic stories
2021
Film: Gorgeous short film documents a four generation printing company
2014
Jessica Lehrman's photographic document of social revolution, Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street
2016
Magnus Holmes’ series Roommates examines the strength of a unique platonic relationship
2020
British youth culture captured perfectly in new mag Collection of Documentaries
2015
New film captures the enduring excellence of Marina Abramović
2012
In Search Of Bill Callahan: Hanly Banks tells us how she made a film about one of music's shyest stars
2015
The three T’s of magic storytelling, with Timi Akindele-Ajani
2023
“To Leeds people – and far beyond – this is home”: Revisiting Peter Mitchell’s Early Sunday Morning
2020
A thought-provoking project focussing on 48 hours with Ron Jeremy
2014
Bronia Stewart captures life and partying on the fringes of the Towie set
2015
Divina enters into the life, rituals and magnetic beauty of legendary travesti Marcinha do Corintho
2022
“Documenting the past for the future”: Emanuel Hahn on his new photobook Koreatown Dreaming
2022
Athena Skates is a sun-drenched documentary that follows a group of young female roller skaters
2020
Uncertain: a spellbinding documentary conflicting epic scenery and societal devastation in Texas
2017
Louisa Rechenbach’s sensitive documentary They follows a family raising their child with a “gender open” approach
2022
Great story, great documentary short, Battle of the Drumlines from Show Love founder Peter Crosby
2012
Paul Hiller’s bittersweet photographs document the ultimate form of escapism
2019
Photography: Corey Arnold makes the world's most dangerous job look like quite a lot of fun actually
2014
Photographer Harley Weir documents the domestic spaces of Calais' migrant camps
2016
Jeremy Snell cinematically documents life on Ghana’s Lake Volta
2020
Exclusive: Tomas Leach explains the effort behind his new documentary about New York street photographer Saul Leiter
2012
In his new long-form series, Stephen Kelly documents the decline of Burmese cinema
2020
Pablo Di Prima and Ruth Ossai's film Ogbomgbom is an ode to West African "Kings"
2017
Daniel Frost takes us on a cinematic adventure to Greenland
2017
An extraordinarily poignant film about Alzheimer's disease by Eliot Rausch
2013
Maggie Shannon documents four LA midwives as they deal with the influx of births during the pandemic
2021
“You have to live for now”: In Freefall, Aria Shahrokhshahi follows a 62-year-old skydiver as she prepares for her next jump
2025
Alma Har'el: Bombay Beach
2012
Hugh Kinsella Cunningham documents those at the heart of the Ebola crisis in DRC
2019
Why a 53-year-old travel brand is going back to guerrilla print: Lonely Planet on its pocket-sized zine, Artifact
2026
Dress Code’s heartwarming film about Ruben Pardo - the oldest elevator operator in Los Angeles
2016
Vier kinderen in het atelier van Aat Veldhoen
1972
A former prison inmate finds salvation in art in Huck’s beautiful new film
2015
Matilde Viegas’ sun-soaked photo series captures the cacophony of Portuguese markets
2026
Stephen Shames documents the gritty reality of life in the Bronx
2015
Picolé is a short film highlighting the realities of hope and loss for young people living in favelas
2020
A typically wry, yet touching film by Martin Parr about Teddy Gray's Sweet Factory
2013
Terri Timely’s documentary about a woman who makes super-realistic baby dolls
2016
“I had the chance to open the doors a little”: Stephan Gladieu photographs the people of North Korea
2021
Kelsi Phụng and Fabien Corre on their heartbreaking coming out film
2019
Photographing the migrant crisis with a focus on people, not sensationalism
2016
Iain McKell looks back on his photographs of Weymouth’s seafront in 1976
2019
3 minutes 35 seconds of unadulterated satisfaction: The Making of the Leica M9-P
2012
Photographer Sophie Green on spontaneity, process and her latest series about traveller culture
2015
A “space for people to be angry and sad”: Gold and Ashes shines a light on the human stories at the heart of Grenfell
2021
Adu Lalouschek discusses his new BBC docu-series on diversifying the world of outdoor sports
2021
Photography: Isabella Rozendaal's ongoing project on worldwide methods of hunting
2013
The Reel History of Britain
2011
Jenny Schweitzer Bell’s documentary explores the “magic” world of youth chess
2020
El Cartel Cubano: how Cuba’s revolution-era political posters transformed film poster design forever
2023
Here 2014: We present the UK's hippest documentary photographer Ewen Spencer
2014
A photographic history of America by National Geographic
2016
Sofia Negri’s animated documentary The Skatebook incorporates live action and sketchbook scenes
2024
The New York Times: The 6th Floor Blog
2011
David Brandon Geeting’s Neighbourhood Stroll sees the photographer Instagram posting on mass
2017
Peter Mitchell’s photographs of Leeds from 1979 published for the first time
2017
Film: Linda Brownlee films a husband talking about his dance-loving wife!
2013
Sory Sanlé: the photographer that time forgot
2017
Through candid film and honest photography, Juliet Klottrup documents the rural youth of northern Britain
2021
“A gift and a strong social conscience”: Ella Murtha on her mother’s astoundingly truthful photography
2017
Catherine Hyland records the complex environment of a Chilean lithium mine
2018
Rinchen Ato’s photographs of Tibet are her attempt at decolonising the region
2020
Vincent Girardot’s photo diary documents an alpine tour of fish, factories and firs
2015
Ignacio's Mostly Latin Lunch, a wonderful foodie film from legendary voyeur The Selby
2012
Thomas Pratt photographs the effects of religion, natural disaster and globalisation on an island community
2019
Huck’s film tracks down the husband and wife who make London’s iconic blue plaques
2015
Coal warehouses, a crane and five curious characters: The making of Double Take
2019
Library of Congress: Origins of American Animation
2011
It’s what she would have wanted: Good Mourning documents the Queen’s passing
2024
Amy Lombard captures the life and times of a cult convenience store
2016
The less glamorous, but no less fun side of living history groups (NOT LARP!)
2015
Photographer McNair Evans captures strangers on 15-day train journeys
2015
Warhammer, fantasy and famously awful lighting: capturing the generous spirit of a tabletop gaming expo
2022
Film: An in-depth look into Richard Mosse's infrared filming technique for "The Enclave"
2013
Roxy Rezvany on her new film Wifi Rider and the art of Palestinian diaspora in Jordan
2021
Hale County This Morning, This Evening: RaMell Ross' timely examination of race and representation
2019
Chris Nunn immerses himself in the turbulent regions of Ukraine
2014
Photographer Brandon Thibodeaux’s eight-year long portrait of Mississippi
2017
Film: Extraordinary story of a young stroke victim's fight for recovery
2013
Review of the Year 2016: photographer Martin Parr
2016
Guannan Li captures Korean shamans, disappearing coastlines and artist’s utopias in her nomadic photography
2019
The War in Pictures Art.IWMPST15685
2014
For the Love of Grass: Joel Barney’s tender portrait of football’s unsung heroes
2024
Baker and Alex Simpson’s film on the legacy of modernist architect Wells Coates
2016
Alice Bibette depicts what it’s like for an LGBTQ+ person under the Taliban regime
2022
Photography: Daniel Ali's honest images show a very different side of Karachi
2013
Challenging documentary norms, Nolwenn Le Flanchec and Marie Godt artfully capture the German island of Langeoog
2021
Capturing an honest moment instead of the “perfect image”, Wendy Huynh tells the stories of ESEA women
2021
Hope The Ship - John Dominis
1960
Photographer Olivier Degorce's new book lets you snoop in strangers' fridges
2018
Film: Jungles in Paris elegantly document Jamaica's incredible swimming horses
2014
Photographs document the life of a hoarder with smiles and sadness
2014
Jenny Lewis’ new book lenses local Hackney residents aged zero to 100
2021
New Logo and Identity for Spotify Dok by Snask
2021
Brian Griffin's haunting new photography book documents paths that led to the Holocaust
2015
Nishant Shukla’s meditative series documents the hermits who live in the Himalayas
2019
Mollie Mills’ enrapturing short film about a Johannesburg ballerina
2014