List of directors and producers of documentaries
Asia
- Sidiki Bakaba
- Safi Faye
- Sorious Samura
- Tareque Masud
- Aryana Farshad
- Ammar Aziz
- Anu Malhotra
- Sadaf Foroughi
- Suma Josson
- Susumu Hani
- Kazuo Hara
- Fumio Kamei
- Toshio Matsumoto
- Tatsuya Mori
- Shinsuke Ogawa
- Anand Patwardhan
- Artavazd Ashoti Peleshyan
- David Perlov
- Mohammad Bakri
- Avi Mograbi
- Nissim Mossek
- Makoto Satō
- Noriaki Tsuchimoto
- Mikhail Vartanov
- Wang Bing
- Ruby Yang
- Maheen Zia
- Anwar Hajher
- Satyaprakash Upadhyay
- Zahir Raihan
Australia
Europe
- Michael Apted
- Matthew Bauer
- William Bemister
- Patrick Bokanowski
- António Campos
- Pedro Costa
- Adam Curtis
- Denis Delestrac
- Mike Dibb
- Vanessa Engle
- Harun Farocki
- Erik Gandini
- James Gay-Rees
- Jo Gilbert
- John Grierson
- Johannes Grenzfurthner
- Bert Haanstra
- Werner Herzog
- Marcel Ichac
- Joris Ivens
- Asif Kapadia
- Ross Kemp
- Sean Langan
- Claude Lanzmann
- Jørgen Leth
- Willy Lindwer
- Sean McAllister, filmmaker
- Chris Marker
- Arūnas Matelis
- James Miller
- George Morrison
- Michel Noll
- Marcel Ophüls
- Jacques Perrin
- Jos de Putter
- António Reis
- Alain Resnais
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Jean Rouch
- Michael Schindhelm
- Tomasz Sekielski
- Marc Sinden
- Louis Theroux
- Virgilio Tosi
- Agnés Varda
- Dziga Vertov
- Lars von Trier
- Peter Watkins
- Leslie Woodhead
- Thierry Zéno
- Lydia Zimmermann
Latin America
- Tomas Gutierrez Alea
- Santiago Álvarez
- Julia Bacha
- Fernando Birri
- Eduardo Montes-Bradley
- Patricio Guzman
- Miguel Littin
- Paul Leduc
- Fernando E. Solanas
- Salvador Espinosa Orozco
North America
- Aryana Farshad,
- Emile de Antonio
- Denys Arcand
- Timothy Asch
- Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
- Gilles Blais
- Les Blank
- Doug Block
- Michel Brault
- Sam Bozzo
- George Butler
- Ken Burns
- Ric Burns
- Jim Butterworth
- Steven Cantor
- Chris Cashman
- Lesley Chilcott
- Jimmy Chin
- Matthew Cooke
- Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
- Patrick Creadon
- George Csicsery
- Khashyar Darvich
- Peter Davis (director)
- Kirby Dick
- Paul Devlin
- Chris Donahue
- Dinesh D'Souza
- Ava DuVernay
- Lilibet Foster
- Robert J. Flaherty
- Su Friedrich
- Liz Garbus
- Paul Gardner (writer)
- Robert Gardner
- Catherine Gund,
- Lauren Greenfield
- Gilles Groulx
- Monica Hampton
- Nathaniel Hansen
- Mark Jonathan Harris
- Tigre Hill
- John E. Hudgens
- Leslie Iwerks
- Steve James
- Kartemquin Films
- Myles Kane
- Mary Rosanne Katzke
- Tim Kirkman
- Vivian Kleiman
- Barbara Kopple
- Josh Koury
- Martin Kunert
- Richard Leacock
- Grace Lee
- Logan Leistikow
- Avi Lewis
- Brian Lindstrom
- James Longley
- Kevin Macdonald
- Eric Manes
- Ron Mann
- John Marshall
- Albert Maysles and David Maysles
- Ross McElwee
- Freida Lee Mock
- Eduardo Montes-Bradley
- Michael Moore
- Errol Morris
- John Mulholland
- Alanis Obomsawin
- Charles Olivier
- Joshua Oppenheimer
- D. A. Pennebaker
- Pierre Perrault
- Phil Ranstrom
- Frances Reid
- Velcrow Ripper
- Steven Rosenbaum
- Alex Sangha
- Jillian Schlesinger
- Steven Sebring
- Amy Serrano
- Christopher Seufert
- Jeff Chiba Stearns
- Ondi Timoner
- Michael Wadleigh
- Lucy Walker
- Reid Williams
- Frederick Wiseman
- Ruby Yang,
- Jessica Yu