Documentary films and film-makers, online documentaries, festivals, organizations, awards and festivals
A guide to websites
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American Film Foundation:
an award-winning not-for-profit documentary production foundation.
Awards
Grierson Awards
The Grierson Awards recognize and celebrate documentaries from Britain and abroad that have made a significant contribution to the genre and that demonstrate quality, integrity, creativity, originality and overall excellence.
Academy Award winners for documentary.
Wikipedia list of documentary film awards.
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Bright Lights Film Journal
Reviews and articles on documentary films.
British documentaries
BBC Archive
Take a trip through the BBC’s collective past with the archives and discover themed collections of radio and TV programmes, documents and photographs.
BBC Archives, Rare Clips & Video Archives
BBC Motion Gallery
Britfilms British Film Catalogue
Documentaries
British documentaries.
The British Film Institute searchable database of collections.
British Pathe newsreel archives.
Doc House
DocHouse was formed to support and promote documentary in the UK. DocHouse aims to increase participation and develop new audiences for documentaries in the cinema, on television and emerging media.
Scottish Documentary Institute
SDI is an internationally recognized documentary research centre at The Edinburgh College of Art.
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Doc Films, University of Chicago
Documentaries, by name; databases, directories
Documentaries.
Search by name at The Internet Movie Database (IMDB.
Documentaries, by country.
Wikipedia
Documentary and Ethnographic Film:
A Bibliography of Books and Articles in the UC Berkeley Libraries
Documentary Classics
UC Berkeley Media Resources Center
Docuseek
A search site for independent documentary videos.
Documentary Archive
A resource for documentary film enthusiasts.
Documentary film makers
Documentary film directors
Wikipedia
Documentary Films
Watch documentaries online for free.
Documentary film news and reviews.
Documentary and Ethnographic Film:
A Bibliography of Books and Articles in the UC Berkeley Libraries
The Documentary Filmmakers Group,
the UK’s largest documentary organization.
Docurama,
a video label devoted to documentary film.
Documentary Films Net
News, reviews, and filmmaker resources.
The Docus
The online documentary reference. The Docus provides a database from official sources, daily updates and “documentaries of the day” in the social networks.
Docuseek
A search site for independent documentary videos.
Documentary Archive
A resource for documentary film enthusiasts.
European documentary film
East Silver
A Central and Eastern European documentary film website.
European documentary film making.
Documentary in Europe.
European Documentary Network
European Documentary Network covers all areas of the genre from all over the world: reviews of new films, reports from festivals, interviews with filmmakers, technical developments, industry issues, aesthetic and ethical issues.
Filmarchives-online.eu
Web portal of European film archives
War footage
War documentaries and newsreels from ‘World War Footage’
Chronos History, YouTube Channel
Chronos History distributes high-quality historical film material covering the period from 1900 until the threshold to the digital era.
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Festivals
Documentary Film Festival Listings
An extensive listings of film festivals from DocumentaryFilms.net.
Aldeburgh Documentary Festival (UK)
A leading public-facing celebration of the documentary film.
Chicago International Documentary Festival
Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival
DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham, U.K.
Hot Docs
North America’s largest documentary festival.
The London International Documentary Festival – LIDF
New York International Documentary Festival
Open City Docs Fest, London
The festival award categories include Grand Jury Award, Best Emerging Director, Best UK Documentary, Best Short Film and Best MyStreet Film.If you have made a documentary feature or short, from anywhere in the world, submit your film here.
Philadelphia Documentary and Fiction Festival
Sheffield International Documentary Festival
Folklore. An online archive of folklore documentaries.
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
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International Documentary Association
ildocumentario.it
The Italian documentary website.
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Online documentaries
Media Rights: Media that Matters
Doc-Film-Net
Watch Documentary Films Online
Top Documentary Films
A list of viewable documentaries, catalogued by subject.
Reviews and news
Documentary Films.Net
News, reviews, and filmmaker resources.
International Documentary Association
Wikipedia entry on documentary film.