List of directors and producers of documentaries

Africa

• Safi Faye
• Sorious Samura, (Cry Freetown, Return to Freetown, Exodus, Living with Hunger, Living with Refugees)
• Yassine El idrissi
• Sidiki Bakaba

Asia

• Sadaf Foroughi (Iran)
• Suma Josson
• Susumu Hani
• Kazuo Hara
• Fumio Kamei
• Mithaq Kazimi
• Toshio Matsumoto
• Tatsuya Mori
• Shinsuke Ogawa
• Anand Patwardhan
• Artavazd Ashoti Peleshyan
• David Perlov (Israel)
• Makoto Satō
• Noriaki Tsuchimoto
• Mikhail Vartanov Parajanov: The Last Spring (film) (Armenia)
• Wang Bing
• Ruby Yang
• Maheen Zia (Pakistan)
• Anwar Hajher
• Jolly P Joy (India)

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)
• Matt Norman
• Griffith Moore (Australia)

Europe

• Adam Curtis (The Century of the Self), (The Trap), (The Power of Nightmares)
• Michael Apted (Seven Up!)
• William Bemister
• António Campos
• Pedro Costa
• Ricardo Costa
• Erik Gandini (Videocracy)
• Jo Gilbert (Great West End Theatres series)
• John Grierson
• Bert Haanstra
• Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man)
• Marcel Ichac (France, exploration and mountain films)
• Joris Ivens
• Sean Langan (Langan behind the Lines, Langan in Iraq, Travels of a Gringo)
• Claude Lanzmann (Shoah)
• Joe Lister (A Band For Britain)
• 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
• António Reis
• Alain Resnais, (Night and Fog)
• Leni Riefenstahl
• Jean Rouch
• Marc Sinden (Great West End Theatres series)
• Virgilio Tosi
• Dziga Vertov
• Leslie Woodhead (Children of Beslan, A Cry from the Grave, Godless in America)
• Willy Lindwer (The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank)

Latin America

• Tomas Gutierrez Alea
• Santiago Álvarez
• Julia Bacha
• 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

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?)
• 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)
• Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
• Patrick Creadon (Wordplay, I.O.U.S.A.)
• Khashyar Darvich (Dalai Lama Renaissance)
• 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)
• Robert J. Flaherty
• Eduardo Montes-Bradley (Evita, Che: Rise and Fall)
• Su Friedrich (Hide and Seek)
• Robert Gardner (Dead Birds)
• Lauren Greenfield (Thin (film), kids+money)
• 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)
• John E. Hudgens (American Scary))
• Steve James (Hoop Dreams)
• Kartemquin Films (Gordon Quinn, Jerry Blumenthal, Steve James, Peter Gilbert, et al.)
• Mithaq Kazimi (16 Days in Afghanistan)
• Tim Kirkman (Dear Jesse)
• Barbara Kopple (Harlan County, USA, American Dream, both Academy Award winners)
• Martin Kunert (Voices of Iraq)
• Richard Leacock
• 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)
• 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)
• Alanis Obomsawin
• D. A. Pennebaker (Dont Look Back, Monterey Pop)
• Pierre Perrault
• Frances Reid (Long Night's Journey Into Day)
• Velcrow Ripper (Scared Sacred)
• Steven Rosenbaum (7 Days in September)
• Steven Sebring (Patti Smith: Dream of Life)
• Christopher Seufert
• 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 (Citizen Hong Kong [1], China 21 [2])
• Jessica Yu (Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien)
• Jeff Chiba Stearns