⁞ Wirjo Hardjono’s List of Documentaries about Photography: a post worth reblogging ⁞

Photographer Wirjo Hardjono compiled an impressive list of documentaries about photography which, as far as I understand, is continuously updated.
The original post can be found here and below is a transcript of Wirjo’s extensive list which I already benefited from:

• 1948, The Photographer – Youtube
  

  Film about Edward Weston and the art of photography. – 27min (via TramStopDan)

• 1957, Ansel Adams, Photographer – Youtube
  

  Early film about Ansel Adams’s work, technique and gear – 20min

• 1958, Broadway by Light – Youtube – Short by William Klein
  

  (via henri-poincare)

• 1971, Ed van Elsken: De Verliefde Camera (The Infatuated Camera)
  

  Self portrait of Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken showing his work from around the world. – 45min (via Touringcar)

• 1972, Going Where I’ve Never Been The Photography of Diane Arbus – Youtube
  

  The work of photographer Diane Arbus as explained by her daughter, friends, critics, and in her own words. – 30min

• 1973, The Decisive Moment – Youtube
  

  Pictures and words by Henri Cartier-Bresson about that moment of visual pleasure. – 18min

• 1984, America and Lewis Hine
  

  Film about Lewis Hine, who through his work helped to expose grim working conditions in American factories and mines. – 60min (via jgcorrea)

• 1986, Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank – Youtube
  

  A film about the life and work of the influential photographer and filmmaker of the Beat Generation, Robert Frank. – 28min

• 1986, Karsh: The Searching Eye
  

  A film about the portrait photographer Yousef Karsh know for photographing the famous, powerful, and influential. 80min (via Chris Frear)

• 1989, Creativity with Bill Moyers: The Photographer’s Eye – Youtube Clip
  

  A film contrasting the working styles of Emmet Gowin and Garry Winogrand (via ApatheticAbsurdist)

• 1989, Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge – Youtube
  

  A film about Helmut Newton his photography and the woman he made iconic. – 90min

• 1989, Strand, Under the Dark Cloth – Youtube
  

  A film about the life of Paul Strand and his artistic path. – 80min

• 1989, W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult – Youtube
  

  A portait of the American photo journalist W. Eugene Smith best know for his WWII photographs – 90min (via magtig)

• 1991, Pictures From a Revolution
  

  In 1981, Susan Meiselas published “Nicaragua, June 1978 to July 1979,” 70 photographs she took documenting the Sandanista revolution. Ten years later, she returns looking for the people who appear in the photographs. – 93min (via Touringcar)

• 1992, Photographers of Australia – Dupain, Sievers, Moore
  

  Max Dupain, Wolfgang Sievers and David Moore are three of Australia’s most renowned photographers. This film brings to life their most memorable and poignant images. – 43min (via Touringcar)

• 1993, Looking Back at You
  

  Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado documents the lives of the working class around the world. – 60min (via Touringcar)

• 1993, Sebastião Salgado: Looking Back at You
  

  The work of photojournalist Sebastião Salgado and how he derives inspiration for his projects. – 59min (via Paul Conrad)

• 1993, The Real Weegee – Youtube
  

  A documentary on Weegee, the famous New York photographer and his photographs of New York street life in the 1940s and 50s and crime scenes. – 60min (via Touringcar)

• 1994, A Great Day In Harlem – Youtube
  

  Art Kane, coordinated a group photograph of all the top jazz musicians in NYC in the year 1958 for esquire magazine, creating one of the most famous photographs in music history. – 60min (Jonathan Levin)

• 1994, Blood Ties – The Life and Work of Sally Mann
  

  An intimate portrait of Sally Mann and the complex, enigmatic pictures she takes of her children. Filmmaker Cantor followed up this short with a full-length documentary about Mann in 2005. – 30min (via Touringcar)

• 1994, Nobody’s Here but Me: Cindy Sherman – Youtube
  

  A film showing Cindy Sherman at work in her studio while exploring the sources and themes of her photographs. – 60min (via Touringcar)

• 1994, Travels With My Camera – Dying for the Truth – Download
  

  In Croatia, photojournalist John Sweeney investigates the murder of colleague Paul Jenks. – 55min (via Touringcar)

• 1995, Lee Miller: Through the Mirror
  

  A film about the post surrealist photographer, war correspondent and Vogue model Lee Miller – 60min (via Thomas Casey)

• 1995, Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell – Youtube
  

  George Hurrell photographs Hollywood. – 56min (via Chris Frear)

• 1996, Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light – Youtube
  

  This film about fashion and portrait photographer Richard Avedon takes you on a journey between commerce and art showing the power of the photographer. – 85min

• 1997, Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant Garde
  

  A film about American painter and artist Man Ray. – 60min (via Touringcar)

• 1998, Dying to Tell the Story
  

  Great documentary about Reuters photojournalist Dan Eldon and how his sister tries to find meaning in his death in Mogadishu. – 95min (via Paul Conrad)

• 1998, Fotoamator (Photographer)
  

  A film about the Lodz ghetto using still photographs that were shot by the chief accountant in the ghetto. Juxtaposed against an interview with the doctor who was assigned there. – 50min (via Touringcar)

• 1998, Freelance in a World at Risk – Youtube
  

  A film following Ron Haviv who has documented many of the post cold war hot spots, including the near civil war in Moscow, the Gulf War and the Balkans War.- 50min (via Touringcar)

• 1998, National Geographic: The Photographers
  

  Wonderful insight into the hard work that goes into National Geographic photography – 53min (via wiryanm)

• 1998, William Klein – In and Out of Fashion
  

  A kaleidoscopic montage mixes excerpts from Klein’s feature films and documentaries with imagery from his photographs, books, and paintings. Narrated by the man himself, it is a selective guided tour through Klein’s career, shedding light onto his modus operandi by focusing specifically on his relationship with fashion. – 88min (via Touringcar)

• 1999, Magnum Photos: The Changing of a Myth – Vimeo
  

  A film exploring the international photographic cooperative Magnum and it’s photographers moving with the times. – 60min

• 1999, Moments of Impact: Stories of Pulitzer Prize Photographs
  

  Sam Watterson interviews the photographers of six winning photographs as they detail in a first hand account of how they captured the image. – 70min (via Paul Conrad)

• 2000, Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks – Netflix/Youtube
  

  An intimate look at the life and career of Gordon Parks a true Renaissance man who has excelled as a photographer, novelist, journalist, poet, musician and filmmaker. – 80min (via ISO640)

• 2000, Naked States
  

  A film following Spencer Tunick and his tribulations creating mass nudes across America – 80min (via Sven)

• 2000, Shooting War (World War II Combat Cameramen)
  

  A documentary on WWII Combat Photographers in Europe and the Pacific theater of war. – 88min (via Touringcar)

• 2001, Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye – Youtube
  

  A film that examines the achievements and legacy of the influential artist Alfred Stieglitz – 80min

• 2001, Henri Cartier-Bresson: L’amour Tout Court (Just Plain Love) – Youtube
  

  A film looking at the works of photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson and painter Avigdor Arikha. – 70min

• 2001, Jazz Seen: The Life and Times of William Claxton
  

  A film about William Claxton who became the foremost photographer of the jazz seen in the 1960s – 80min (via Julie)

• 2001, Near Equal Daido Moriyama – Youtube
  

  A film about Japanese street photographer Daido Moriyama and his work. – 84min (via sweotol)

• 2001, War Photographer
  

  A film following legendary war photographer James Nachtwey trying to deal with the things on the other side of his lens. – 96min

• 2002, Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film – Youtube
  

  An American Experience documentary that explores the many sides of legendary photographer Ansel Adams. – 80min (via Touringcar)

• 2002, Dennis Hopper – The Decisive Moments
  

  A personal portrait of Dennis Hopper as an actor, director and artist, with uncompromising recollections of Dennis Hopper’s closest friends and fellow artists. – 80min (via Touringcar)

• 2002, Dreamlives – Vimeo
  

  A film following Australian photojournalists Narelle Autio and Street / Art photographer Trent Parke looking at their relationship, their photography and the passions behind it. – 25min (via Touringcar)

• 2002, Gursky World – Vimeo
  

  Ben Lewis takes us on a journey in to his obsession with the work of Andreas Gursky – 25min

• 2002, Obsessions – The Art of Bill Henson – Vimeo
  

  For the first time distinguished Australian photographic artist Bill Henson allows TV cameras into his life. Set within desolate landscapes, his work continues to polarize the art world. – 26min (via Touringcar)

• 2002, Portrait of a Photographer: David LaChapelle – Youtube
  

  A journey into the Surreal with fashion photographer David LaChapelle and his subjects. – 50min (via Touringcar)

• 2002, The Spectre of Hope
  

  A film based on the work of photographer Sebastiao Salgado. Who spent 6 years traveling to over 40 countries, taking pictures of globalization and its consequences – most notably, the mass migrations of populations around the world. – 52min (via Touringcar)

• 2002, The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams’ Appalachia
  

  The meaning of art itself comes into question in this documentary about Shelby Lee Adams’ controversial photos of families in Appalachia – 75min (via aRTLeSS_baSTaRD)

• 2003, Ansel Adams, American Experience – Youtube
  

  Written, directed and produced by Ric Burns and timed to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Ansel Adams’ birth. – 80min

• 2003, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye
  

  A wonderful, evocative biography of Henri Cartier-Bresson, considered the greatest photographer of the last century. – 72min

• 2003, Martin Parr – De Magie van het Moment – Youtube
  

  A Dutch documentary (mostly in English) that follows Martin Parr and captures the moment he makes some of his icon photographs. – 60min

• 2003, Milton Rogovin: The Forgotten Ones – Vimeo
  

  A celebration of the life’s work of 93-year-old photographer Milton Rogovin, who dedicated his life to photographing the residents of a depressed six-block area in his hometown of Buffalo, New York. – 12min (via ISO640)

• 2003, Naked World
  

  A follow-up to Naked States finds the celebrated and controversial artist Spencer Tunick at work on his most ambitious project: a one-year trek to all seven continents to shoot people in the nude–individually, in groups and against various man-made and natural backdrops. – 76min (via Touringcar)

• 2003, Rivers and Tides – Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time – Youtube
  

  Portrait of Andy Goldsworthy, an artist whose specialty is ephemeral sculptures made from elements of nature. – 90min

• 2003, Robert Capa, In Love and War
  

  A documentary about the life of famed war photographer Robert Capa – 90min (via Touringcar)

• 2003, Search for the Afghan Girl – Youtube
  

  Steve McCurry returns to Afghanistan in search of the girl that his photograph made them both famous. – 53min (via Touringcar)

• 2003, The Adventure of Photography: 150 Years of the Photographic Image – Youtube
  

  A history of photography – 260min

• 2003, The Colourful Mr Eggleston – Youtube
  

  Imagine shows the normally shy and elusive William Eggleston at work – taking photographs on the road, in and around his home town of Memphis

• 2003, The World According To Parr – Youtube
  

  A film looking at the life of Martin Parr a British photographer considered one of the most influential of his generation. – 45min

• 2004, Arakimentari – Youtube
  

  A look at the life and work of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki and his impact on Japanese culture. – 85min (via Bill Bartlett)

• 2004, Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids – Youtube
  

  Two documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city’s notorious red light district. – 85min (via magtig)

• 2004, The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club
  

  In 1994, South African photojournalist Kevin Carter received the Pulitzer Prize for his picture of a starving girl stalked by a vulture. Weeks later, he carried out a terrible, desperate act–an act that embodied the anguish of an entire nation. – 30min (via Touringcar)

• 2004, The LOMO Camera: Shoot From The Hip – Youtube
  

  A film about LOMO and the Lomography movement. – 60min (via Touringcar)

• 2004, The War in Iraq: Through Photographers’ Eyes – Online
  

  A group of elite conflict photographers have banded together under the photo agency, VII, in an effort to uncover the true meaning of the Iraq War. – 60min (via blewis)

• 2004, Thinking XXX
  

  Film about a book project by photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders for which he photographs 30 adult movie stars. – 60min

• 2005, Leaving Home, Coming Home A Portrait of Robert Frank – Youtube
  

  An intimate portrait of Robert Frank – 50min

• 2005, What Remains
  

  A look at the creative process of celebrated photographer Sally Mann – 80min

• 2005, William Eggleston in the Real World
  

  Michael Almereyda tracks William Eggleston on trips to Kentucky, LA and NY, but gives particular attention to downtime in Memphis, Eggleston’s home base. – 86min

• 2006, Annie Leibovitz Life Through A Lens
  

  A film that traces the arc of Annie Leibovitz’s photographic life, her aspirations to artistry and the trajectory of her career. – 85min

• 2006, Manufactured Landscapes – Youtube
  

  Photographer Edward Burtynsky travels the world observing changes in landscapes due to industrial work and manufacturing. – 90min

• 2006, …More Than 1000 Words
  

  Documentation about the israeli news photographer Ziv Koren. – 78min (via phoyager)

• 2006, The Destiny of Clara B.
  

  Through archive footage, newsreels and authentic photos of the time, the film tells the story of an imaginary character: Clara B., photographer and reporter. A meditation on archives, memory and history during the twentieth century history. – 52min (via On Photography Film Festival)

• 2006, The Portraitist
  

  This is a story of a pre-war photographer, Wilhelm Brasse. Art of photography was his life passion. However all of this changed when he got imprisoned in Auschwitz. – 52min (via On Photography Film Festival)

• 2006, Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project
  

  Tierney Gearon photographs her family over the course of two years as she assembles her most daring and emotionally complex body of work to date: a series on her manic-depressive schizophrenic mother. – 70min (via David)

• 2006, ZOWNIR: Radical Man
  

  A portrait of Miron Zownir a former Mafia money collector, fisherman, drug dealer and one of the most censored photographers, filmmakers and crime novelists of our time. – 61min (via On Photography Film Festival)

• 2007, At Close Range With National Geographic
  

  A profile of National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore – 60min (via catfan111)

• 2007, Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
  

  A documentary on the relationship between curator Sam Wagstaff, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, and musician/poet Patti Smith. – 77min (via HappyHarpy)

• 2007, By the Ways – A journey With William Eggleston
  

  An examination of the life and art of color photography pioneer William Eggleston. – 87min (via Touringcar)

• 2007, Eloquent Nude: The Love and Legacy of Edward Weston & Charis Wilson
  

  A film about the relationship between photographer Edward Weston and his subject Charis Wilson. – 57min (via Bill Bartlett)

• 2007, Helmut by June
  

  June Browne Newton’s portrait of her husband Helmut Newton (via Ringo Speed)

• 2007, James Ravilious – A World in Pictures
  

  James Ravilious, son of the renowned water-colourist and engraver Eric Ravilious, dedicated his art to a small area of North Devon, where over a period of two decades he took more than 80,000 photographs. – 30min (via Touringcar)

• 2007, Michael Kenna’s Hokkaido – Online
  

  A portrait of landscape photographer Michael Kenna – 20min (via One808)

• 2007, Photo Souvenir
  

  In the 60s and 70s, Philippe Koudjina, who was born in Benin and now lives in Niamey, Niger, was a much loved and popular photographer. Today, the almost blind man sits daily in his wheel chair next to the main street and greets the people passing by, whom he photographed during the euphoric times of independence. – 54min (via On Photography Film Festival)

• 2007, Shadow of the House
  

  Filmed over seven years, resulting in an intimate portrait of photographer Abelardo Morell, revealing the mystery and method of his artistic process. – 74min (via razzertto)

• 2007, The Devil Came on Horseback
  

  A documentary that exposes the genocide raging in Darfur, Sudan as seen through the eyes of a former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steidle who returns home to make the story public. – 85min (via Touringcar)

• 2007, Worldstar
  

  Czech photographer Miroslav Tichý lived like a hermit for decades in a small surrounded just by a few friends. Now in his old age he has to face the fame. – 52min (via On Photography Film Festival)

• 2008, An Unlikely Weapon
  

  A film on the tribulations of Eddie Adams) famous for shooting the execution of the Vietcong guerrilla by General Nygoc Loan. – 85min (via tomchuk)

• 2008, Blood Trail: Shooting Robert King
  

  A film following Robert King in his fifteen years as a war photographer – 80min (via dlphoto)

• 2008, Dolce Vita Africana
  

  A documentary portrait of the African photographer Malick Sidibe, and a journey through Malian history inspired by his iconic images. – 60min (via Touringcar)

• 2008, In Harm’s Way – War Photographers – Youtube
  

  Episode about war photographers from the ‘In Harm’s Way’ series following photographers Zoriah Miller and Alissa Everett in Gaza – 30min (via skangerland)

• 2008, The Lost Pictures of Eugene Smith – Youtube
  

  In 1950 the American photo-journalist W. Eugene Smith came to Britain to cover the general election for Life Magazine, but his photographs were never published. Welsh writer and broadcast Professor Dai Smith goes in search of these lost pictures and discovers how the magazine’s opposition to Attlee’s radical Labour government caused them to suppress Smith’s work. – 40min (via Touringcar)

• 2008, Visual Acoustics The Modernism of Julius Shulman
  

  Celebrating the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world’s greatest architectural photographer. – 83min

• 2008, William Eggleston – Photographer
  

  A film that documents how William Eggleston came to develop his technique of art photography. It shows the first black-and-white photographs made at the beginning of his career. – 26min (via Touringcar)

• 2009, Erwin Olaf, on Beauty and Fall – Vimeo
  

  A film following Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf creating a intimate portrait of his life, worries and growing fame. – 55min

• 2009, Japan in Colour: The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn
  

  A film about Albert Kahn’s photographs taken during his three visits (1908, 1912, 1926) to Japan. – 52min (via wiryanm

• 2009, Karsh Is History
  

  A portrait of legendary photographer Yousuf Karsh through which a breathtaking illustrated commentary on photography is woven from the perspective of today. – 50min (via Chris Frear)

• 2009, My Asian Heart
  

  Philip Blenkinsop documents conflict, war, life and death in all its forms throughout Asia. – 70min (via Touringcar)

• 2009, Line of Beauty and Grace (Die Schönheit in uns)
  

  A tale about photography and art, family and life, dealing with the history of man and woman, life and art. Many art historians consider Jock Sturges (1947), to be one of the most important fine art photographers of our times. – 90min (via Touringcar)

• 2009, Paparazzi – Next Generation – Youtube
  

  Documentary about the new breed of paparazzi photographer swarming around London’s celebrity circuit. – 60min (via Touringcar)

• 2009, People Love Photos
  

  A film about photography and family life, sexuality and love. It looks at different human role models, whether in sexual relationships or in family life. – 91min (via Touringcar)

• 2009, Photographer from Riga
  

  Inta Ruka is one of the premier photographers in Latvia. She portraits people in their own environments, and the pictures have an intense feeling of presence, and are often magically beautiful. – 58min (via On Photography Film Festival)

• 2009, Salt
  

  Australian landscape photographer Murray Fredericks spends five weeks in isolation on the salt flats of Lake Eyre, alone with his thoughts and photography. – 30min (viathreedaysatsea)

• 2009, Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn
  

  His famous subjects tell the story of director and portrait photographer Anton Corbijn. – 80min

• 2009, The Cambodian Room – Situations with Antoine D’Agata
  

  Antoine D’Agata in Phom Penh (Cambodia) where his artistic trail seems to reach an utmost point. This film catches the hidden part of his art making; his choice of living at edges and living sex as extreme vitalism. – 56min (via Andreas Dyrdal)

• 2010, Bill Cunningham New York
  

  A wonderful profile of the noted and extraordinarily cheerful veteran New York City fashion photographer Bill Cunningham. – 84min

• 2010, David Bailey – Four Beats to the Bar and No Cheating – Youtube
  

  Documentary about fashion photographer, filmmaker, painter and sculptor David Bailey. – 90min (via Touringcar)

• 2010, Een Film over Straatfotografie – Clip
  

  A film about Dutch street photography, shot by our own Touringcar. – 30min

• 2010, Fragile
  

  A film about photography in the Post Soviet Era in St. Petersburg. It looks at the bitter elegancy of this town, it’s citizen and the tender and graceful models of Evgeny Mokhorev. – 81min (via On Photography Film Festival)

• 2010, Hockney On Photography and other matters
  

  David Hockney invites viewers on a journey of discovery that traces the evolution of his photographic work. – 52min (via Touringcar)

• 2010, Marwencol
  

  After a vicious attacks leaves him brain-damaged and broke, Mark Hogancamp seeks recovery in “Marwencol”, a 1/6th scale World War II-era town he creates in his backyard. – 80min

• 2010, Moonbug
  

  Bitten by the ‘Moonbug’, photographer Steve Pyke set out on a journey across America in his search to meet and photograph the Apollo space pioneers. With our own jDubbyah. – 83min

• 2010, Smash His Camera
  

  A film centering on the life and work of Ron Galella that examines the nature and effect of paparazzi. – 87min

• 2010, South Africa in Pictures – Vimeo
  

  Fashion and portrait photographer Rankin) visits South Africa and meets conflict photographers from the Bang Bang Club, documentary photographer David Goldblatt and photojournalist Alf Kumalo. – 60min(via skangerland)

• 2010, Teenage Paparazzo
  

  Adrian Grenier, follows 14-year-old paparazzo Austin Visschedyk in an attempt to understand the relationship between the worlds of the paparazzi and the celebrity. – 95min

• 2010, The Man Who Shot The 60s – Youtube
  

  A film about famed 60s fashion photographer Brain Duffy who abruptly gave up photography in 1979 returning to the craft a year before his death. – 60min

• 2010, The Pirelli Calendar Saga
  

  A documentary that explores how the Pirelli Calendar has grown to mythical proportions and reveals the secrets behind its production. (via ken_tankerous)

• 2010, The President’s Photographer – PBS
  

  A film takes a look at the history of the white house photographers and follows Obama’s chief photographer, Pete Souza capturing historic moments and the day to day. – 55min (via ageowns)

• 2010, The Weird Adventures of Eadweard Muybridge
  

  A film taking a look at the life of pioneer photographer, forefather of cinema, showman and murderer Eadweard Muybridge. – 60min

• 2010, The Woodmans – Netflix
  

  The story of a family that suffers a tragedy, but perseveres and finds redemption through each other and their work. – 82min (via Spectreacle)

• 2010, Waste Land
  

  We follow photographer Vik Muniz in his creation of a new project portraying trash pickers with their help, using trash as a medium. – 100min (via SpudOfDoom)

• 2010, While Everyone Else Sleeps – Online
  

  The story of Şevket Şahintaş an extraordinary Turkish taxi driver who takes stunning photographs of homeless people without any training, while he works at nights. His only purpose is to create a public awareness for helping those people in need. – 61min (via On Photography Film Festival)

• 2011, America in Pictures- The Story of Life Magazine – Vimeo
  

  A film on ‘Life’ the iconic weekly magazine that specialized in extraordinarily vivid photojournalism during – the 40s, 50s and 60s. Whose photographers pioneered new forms of photojournalism, living with and photographing their subjects for weeks, enabling them to capture compelling yet ordinary aspects of American life too. – 60min

• 2011, Artists and Alchemists
  

  A film that explores the resurgence of 19th century chemical photography, by following ten renowned photographers creating daguerreotypes, ferrotypes and wet plate collodion photographs. – 80min

• 2011, Bert Stern: Original Madman
  

  A film about the iconic Bert Stern who changed how we saw advertising, Hollywood and fashion with his photography. – 90min (via thankuoy)

• 2011, Last Days of the Arctic
  

  Ragnar ‘RAX’ Axelsson photographs hunters in northern Greenland and Canada and documents the influence of climate change on their life’s. – 90min (via Nijn)

• 2011, Rock ‘N’ Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen
  

  Bob Gruen, has captured half a century of music through the eye of his lens and opens his archives for this film. – 100min (via anselben)

• 2011, Sam Abell – The Life of a Photograph – Youtube
  

  Veteran National Geographic photographer wiki Sam Abell offers a look inside the heart and mind of a master photographer. – 45min

• 2011, Shooting the Hollywood Stars – Vimeo
  

  Portrait photographer Rankin tries to recreate some classic Hollywood portraits. – 60min (via skangerland)

• 2012, Anton Corbijn Inside Out – Youtube
  

  An intimate portrait of Anton Corbijn as he travels the world as a photographer, film maker and video artist. A unique and revelatory look at the drama and conflict inherent in the man himself. – 85min

• 2012, Deadline Every Second
  

  An accurate and revealing film about the news business following 12 of the world’s top Associated Press photographers on assignment. – 58min (via jerrylazar)

• 2012, Chasing Ice
  

  Follow National Geographic photographer James Balog across the Arctic as he deploys time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers. – 75min

• 2012, Gregory Crewdson Brief Encounters
  

  A documentary shot over a decade with unprecedented access to photographer Gregory Crewdson that bares the artist’s process creating and shooting his elaborate scenes. – 80min

• 2012, In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter
  

  A film that follows Saul Leiter the pioneer of color photography, as he deals with the triple burden of clearing an apartment full of memories, becoming world famous in his 80s and fending off a pesky filmmaker. – 75min (via xryl)

• 2012, Journal de France
  

  This film examines the extended oeuvre and working process of Raymond Depardon through his very own eyes, as well as through those of his long-time companion and sound engineer, Claudine Nougaret. – 100min

• 2012, McCullin
  

  A film that shows how Don McCullin created some of the latter twentieth-century’s most iconic images of man’s inhumanity to man. – 90min (via jippiejee)

• 2012, No Worries – Martin Parr – Youtube
  

  Short documentary of Martin Parr on photo assignment in Australia. – 15min

• 2012, The Many Lives of William Klein – Youtube
  

  William Klein has lived many lives. One of the world’s most influential photographers, he pioneered the art of street photography and created some of the most iconic fashion images of the 20th century. – 60min

• 2013, Everybody Street
  

  Everybody Street illuminates the lives and work of New York’s iconic street photographers and the incomparable city that has inspired them for decades.

• 2013, Eye on the Sixties: The Iconic Photography of Rowland Scherman
  

  An intimate portrait of photographer Rowland Scherman, and the process of photojournalism. It is a valuable ‘insider’ piece of American History, documenting one man’s recording of one of America’s most transformational eras. – 89min (via MacManCapeCod)

• 2013, Vivian Maier Who Took Nanny’s Pictures – Youtube
  

  The incredible story of the mysterious nanny Vivian Maier who died in 2009 leaving behind a secret hoard – thousands of stunning photographs, never seen in her lifetime. – 70min

• 2013, Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
  

  A film that follows Tim Hetherington across the world’s battlefield. – 80min

Documentary Series

• 1983, BBC’s Master Photographers (via magtig)
• 1988, Contacts, Vol. 1 The Great Tradition of Photojournalism
• 1992, Contacts, Vol. 2 The Renewal of Contemporary Photography
• 1997, Decisive Moments – The Photographs That Made History
• 1999, American Photography: A Century of Images
  

  (via Ronald Blumer)

• 2001, Contacts, Vol. 3 Conceptual Photography
• 2007, Edwardians in Colour: The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn
  

  (via gregdowning)

• 2007, The Genius Of Photography
• 2012, Capture with Mark Seliger (RSRV)
• 2012, Picture Perfect (Vice)
• 2012, Witness (HBO)

Cinematographic Films/Documentaries

• 1962, La Jetée
• 1971, Fata Morgana
• 1982, Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance
• 1983, Sans Soleil
• 1985, Chronos
• 1988, Powwaqatsi: Life in Transformation
• 1992, Baraka
• 1992, Lessons of Darkness
• 1996, Microcosmos
• 2000, Dark Days – Youtube
• 2002, Naqoyqatsi Life as War
• 2005, Our Daily Bread
• 2011, Dark Side of the Lens – Vimeo
  

  (via bleasy)

• 2011, Samsara
• 2012, STREET

Films By Photographers

• 1959, Jazz on a Summer’s Day – Docu by Bert Stern
• 1966, Who Are You, Polly Maggoo – Film by William Klein
• 1993, Don Van Vliet: ‘Some Yo-Yo Stuff’ – Vimeo – Docu by Anton Corbijn
• 1999, Think of England – Youtube – Docu by Martin Parr
• 2005, Stranded in Canton – Online – Docu by William J. Eggleston
• 2007, Control – Film by Anton Corbijn
• 2010, Despair – Online – Film by Alex Prager
• 2010, Restrepo – Docu by Tim Hetherington
• 2010, The American – Film by Anton Corbijn
• 2010, The Forgotten Space – Docu by Allan Sekula
  

  (via sweotol)

• 2011, Teddy Gray’s Sweet Factory – YouTube – Docu by Martin Parr

Photography Related

• 1972, Ways of Seeing (Art Appreciation)
  

  (via HappyHarpy)

• 1992, Visions of Light – The Art of Cinematography (Cinematography)
• 2000, Killing Us Softly 3 Advertisings Image of Women (Advertising Industry)
• 2001, Stanley Kubrick – A Life In Pictures (Film Industry)
• 2003, Los Angeles Plays Itself (Film Industry)
• 2004, Light Fantastic – Youtube (Light)
  

  (via ekdre)

• 2008, This American Life – “Going Down in History” – Youtube (The Subject)
  

  Segment: Picture Day – 9min

• 2009, The September Issue (Fashion Industry)
• 2010, Armadillo (War Journalism)
  

  Danish soldiers accompanied by documentary filmmaker Janus Metz – 105min (via Serge Van Cauwenbergh)

• 2010, How to Make a Book with Steidl (Photo Books)
  

  (via CaptainGrandpa)

• 2011, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel (Fashion Industry)
• 2011, Page One: Inside the New York Times (News Industry)
• 2011, Under Fire: Journalists in Combat (War Journalism)
  

  (via Erecktus)

• 2011, The Story of Film: An Odyssey – Netflix (Film History)
  

  (via cruzweb)

• 2012, Side by Side (Film Industry)
  

  (via ALesserHero)

Bonus

• Bring Your Own Doc: A conversation with director Jeff Malmberg about Marwencol – Youtube – 60min
• David Alan Harvey in Rio De Janeiro – Vimeo – 3min
• Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography 2012 – Youtube – 30min
• Henri Cartier-Bresson Interviewed by Charlie Rose – Youtube – 60min
• Inside Media: The President’s Photographer – Youtube – 55min
• Jackanory Films presents a Jim Marshall show and tell – Vimeo
  

  Great talk by rock Photographer Jim Marshall – 60min (via jasoncampbellphoto)

• James Nares – STREET – Lecture – Vimeo – 55min
• Joel Meyerowitz 1981 Street Photography Program – Youtube – 60min
• Kodak Lecture Series: Chris Buck – Online
  

  Lecture by celebrity portrait photographer Chris Buck – 105min (via jasoncampbellphoto)

• Lecture by Jacob Holdt – Vimeo
  

  Jacob Holdt talks about ‘American Pictures’ – 60min (via jasoncampbellphoto)

• Lecture by Saul Leiter – Online
  

  Saul Leiter – 25min (via jasoncampbellphoto)

• Magnum Photos – Earthlings by Richard Kalvar – Youtube – 7min
• Magnum Photos – Personal Best by Elliott Erwitt – Youtube – 10min
• ‪Mark Feeney: “Four Photographers on Three Wheels: William Eggleston’s Tricycle and Before”‬ – Youtube – 45min
• Peter Fraser 2011 talk on his work and workshop assignment – Vimeo – 100min
• Robbie Cooper: Immersion @ CU Photography – Vimeo – 55min
• Sarah Moon is a Master of Photography (from Contacts) – Youtube – 10min
• The Sartorialist (Scott Schuman) – Vimeo – 7min
• Vivian Maier, a three part series by wttwchicago – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 – 30min (via jmco)

Other

• 2006, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (via missampersand)
• 2010, The Bang Bang Club (via ISO640)
• IMDb List: Top 25 Movies about Photographers
• Fstoppers: Top 10 Photography Movies
• International Center for Photography Lecture Series
  

  Dozens of photo lectures by many different kinds of photographers. (via jasoncampbellphoto)

• AMERICAN SUBURB X / ASX
  

  The ASX.tv section has an enormous amount of photography related video content. (via sweotol)