List of directors and producers of documentaries

Asia

 * Sidiki Bakaba
 * Safi Faye
 * Sorious Samura (Cry Freetown, Return to Freetown, Exodus, Living with Hunger, Living with Refugees)
 * Tareque Masud (Bangladesh)
 * Aryana Farshad (Iran)
 * Ammar Aziz (Pakistan)
 * Anu Malhotra (India)
 * Sadaf Foroughi (Iran)
 * Suma Josson
 * Susumu Hani
 * Kazuo Hara
 * Fumio Kamei
 * Toshio Matsumoto
 * Tatsuya Mori
 * Shinsuke Ogawa
 * Anand Patwardhan (India)
 * Artavazd Ashoti Peleshyan (Armenian)
 * David Perlov
 * Mohammad Bakri (Palestine)
 * Avi Mograbi (Israeli Moroccan)
 * Nissim Mossek (Israel)
 * Makoto Satō
 * Noriaki Tsuchimoto
 * Mikhail Vartanov (Armenia) (Parajanov: The Last Spring )
 * Wang Bing
 * Ruby Yang
 * Maheen Zia (Pakistan)
 * Anwar Hajher
 * Satyaprakash Upadhyay (India) (Bunkar - The Last of the Varanasi Weavers)
 * Zahir Raihan (Bangladesh)

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)

Europe

 * Michael Apted (Seven Up!)
 * Matthew Bauer (The Other Fellow)
 * William Bemister
 * Patrick Bokanowski
 * António Campos
 * Pedro Costa
 * Adam Curtis (The Century of the Self, The Trap, The Power of Nightmares)
 * Denis Delestrac (Pax Americana)
 * Mike Dibb
 * Vanessa Engle (Lefties)
 * Harun Farocki
 * Erik Gandini (Videocracy)
 * James Gay-Rees (Senna, Amy, Ronaldo)
 * Jo Gilbert (Great West End Theatres series)
 * John Grierson
 * Johannes Grenzfurthner
 * Bert Haanstra
 * Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man)
 * Marcel Ichac (France, exploration and mountain films)
 * Joris Ivens
 * Asif Kapadia (Senna, Amy)
 * Ross Kemp
 * Sean Langan (Langan behind the Lines, Langan in Iraq, Travels of a Gringo)
 * Claude Lanzmann (Shoah)
 * Jørgen Leth (The Five Obstructions)
 * Willy Lindwer (The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank)
 * Sean McAllister, filmmaker (Liberace of Baghdad, The Minders)
 * Chris Marker
 * Arūnas Matelis (Before Flying Back to the Earth)
 * James Miller (Death in Gaza)
 * George Morrison (Mise Éire)
 * Michel Noll
 * Marcel Ophüls
 * Jacques Perrin (Le Peuple Migrateur)
 * Jos de Putter
 * António Reis
 * Alain Resnais (Night and Fog)
 * Leni Riefenstahl
 * Jean Rouch
 * Michael Schindhelm (The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg)
 * Tomasz Sekielski (Tell No One)
 * Marc Sinden (Great West End Theatres series)
 * Louis Theroux
 * Virgilio Tosi
 * Agnés Varda
 * Dziga Vertov
 * Lars von Trier (The Five Obstructions)
 * Peter Watkins (The War Game, Punishment Park, Culloden (film), Edvard Munch (film))
 * Leslie Woodhead (Children of Beslan, A Cry from the Grave, Godless in America)
 * Thierry Zéno
 * Lydia Zimmermann

Latin America

 * Tomas Gutierrez Alea
 * Santiago Álvarez
 * Julia Bacha (Brazil)
 * 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
 * Salvador Espinosa Orozco (TEOKARI Compañero de Camino)

North America

 * Aryana Farshad (Mystic Iran, the Unseen World), ( Longing for the Soul, A Quest for Rumi-2019)
 * 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)
 * Les Blank (Burden of Dreams)
 * 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)
 * Steven Cantor (Step, Dancer, Between Me and My Mind, What Remains, Chasing Tyson)
 * Lesley Chilcott (Waiting for 'Superman', An Inconvenient Truth, CodeGirl, A Small Section of the World)
 * Jimmy Chin (Free Solo, Meru (film))
 * Matthew Cooke (How to Make Money Selling Drugs)
 * Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
 * Patrick Creadon (Wordplay, I.O.U.S.A.)
 * George Csicsery
 * Khashyar Darvich (Dalai Lama Renaissance)
 * Peter Davis (director) (Hearts and Minds (film))
 * 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)
 * Dinesh D'Souza (2016: Obama's America, America: Imagine the World Without Her)
 * Ava DuVernay (13th (film))
 * Lilibet Foster (Soul in the Hole, Speaking in Strings, Brotherhood: Life in the FDNY, Be Here Now (The Andy Whitfield Story))
 * Robert J. Flaherty
 * Su Friedrich (Hide and Seek)
 * Liz Garbus (What Happened, Miss Simone?)
 * Paul Gardner (writer)
 * Robert Gardner (Dead Birds)
 * Catherine Gund (A Touch of Greatness), (Born To Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity)
 * Lauren Greenfield (Thin, kids+money)
 * Gilles Groulx
 * Monica Hampton (Slacker Uprising, Heavy Metal in Baghdad)
 * Nathaniel Hansen
 * 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)
 * Leslie Iwerks (The Pixar Story, Recycled Life)
 * Steve James (Hoop Dreams)
 * Kartemquin Films (Gordon Quinn, Jerry Blumenthal, Steve James, Peter Gilbert, et al.)
 * Mary Rosanne Katzke
 * Tim Kirkman (Dear Jesse)
 * Vivian Kleiman
 * Barbara Kopple (Harlan County, USA, American Dream, both Academy Award winners)
 * Martin Kunert (Voices of Iraq)
 * Richard Leacock
 * Grace Lee (American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs)
 * Logan Leistikow (The Comedy Garage)
 * Brian Lindstrom (Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse)
 * 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)
 * John Marshall (The Hunters)
 * 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)
 * Eduardo Montes-Bradley (Evita, Che: Rise and Fall)
 * Michael Moore (Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, The Big One, Sicko)
 * Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, Vernon, Florida, Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, The Fog of War)
 * John Mulholland (Cooper & Hemingway: The True Gen)
 * Alanis Obomsawin
 * Charles Olivier (Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals)
 * Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence)
 * D. A. Pennebaker (Dont Look Back, Monterey Pop)
 * Pierre Perrault
 * Phil Ranstrom (Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street)
 * Frances Reid (Long Night's Journey Into Day)
 * Velcrow Ripper (Scared Sacred)
 * Steven Rosenbaum (7 Days in September)
 * Alex Sangha (Canada) (My Name Was January, Emergence: Out of the Shadows)
 * Jillian Schlesinger (Maidentrip: A Teen's Solo Voyage Around The World)
 * Steven Sebring (Patti Smith: Dream of Life)
 * Amy Serrano (The Sugar Babies)
 * Christopher Seufert
 * Jeff Chiba Stearns
 * Ondi Timoner (We Live in Public, DIG!)
 * Michael Wadleigh (Woodstock (film))
 * 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 (The Blood of Yingzhou District), (My Voice, My Life)
 * Jessica Yu (Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien)