Willy Ronis, autoportrait d'un photographe

Shutter Shooter

Etienne-Jules Marey, a French inventor who turned a gun into a camera. A hand-drawn hunter whose weapon, instead of firing ammunition, shoots photogra

2023

Lee Miller: A Crazy Way of Seeing

Documentary charting the fascinating life and work of Lee Miller, a model for Vogue in 1920s New York who became the only female photojournalist to co

2001

Harry Benson: Shoot First

What we know today about many famous musicians, politicians, and actresses is due to the famous work of photographer Harry Benson. He captured vibrant

2016

Satyajit Ray Negatives - My Life with Manikda

Calcutta, 1950: Satyajit Ray directs his first film and, by opening his eyes on his country's realities, breaks every convention of Indian cinema. Dur

2006

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.

2008

Looking for the Wild

Have you ever wanted to take a year traveling the globe? 10-year-old Unai and his family do just that on an extraordinary mission to photograph an end

2016

Vision Portraits

Filmmaker Rodney Evans embarks on a scientific and artistic journey, questioning how his loss of vision might impact his creative future. Through illu

2019

Portrait of Imogen

Photographer Imogen Cunningham presents her own work in this Academy Award-nominated documentary.

1988

Dans le vent

Short subject on how fashion is created-- not by the great couturiers, but on the street.

1963

Luisita Photo Studio

The celebrities who visited Luisita Escarria's photo studio in Buenos Aires for decades are countless. Sol, a young photographer, discovers there more

2019

Meeting Sebastião Salgado

Part activist and part globe trekking photographer, Sebastião Salgado is most famous for recording the migration of people and culture around the worl

2013

2 or 3 Things I Know About Him

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the Third Re

2005

Water Trix

In this Pete Smith Specialty, cameraman Charles T. Trego films water skiing champion Preston Petersen, as he and two unnamed female skiers perform var

1949

Our Vanishing Americana: A South Carolina Portrait

Photographer Mike Lassiter journeys across South Carolina capturing the stories of historic, often family-run businesses that line main streets from t

2022

El mar se mueve en una espiral

Photographic and sound story, through the encounter of characters with their stories of a time without end.

2018

Me and My Penis

Men talk openly about their penis, the physical realities of sex, masturbation and erections, and how it feels to be a man. They also tell stories of

2020

Hijos de la luz

Family problems, if not resolved, repeat themselves. This leads Misha, a young photographer, to question his own family's history only to understand t

The Past is Always New, the Future is Always Nostalgic: Photographer Daido Moriyama

This documentary follows the legendary Japanese photographer as he continues to find new ways of seeing the visual assault of Tokyo’s streets and remi

2019

From Hell to Hollywood

In this biographical portrait, Nick Ut, the Associated Press photographer finally tells his own story.

2021

Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell

The life and career of legendary Hollywood glamour portrait photographer George Hurrell is profiled by his contemporaries including other photographer

1995