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Tim's Vermeer (2013)

Summary: Inventor Tim Jenison seeks to understand the painting techniques used by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer.

Release Date: January 17, 2014

Genres: Documentary, History

Director: Teller

Writers: Penn Jillette

, Teller

Runtime: 1 h 20 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: High Delft Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,671,377

International: $ 15,540

8.8 - Douban
34503 votes

Finding Vivian Maier (2013)

Summary: A documentary on the late Vivian Maier, a nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs earned her a posthumous reputation as one of the most accomplished street photographers.

Release Date: April 17, 2014

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Mystery

Directors: John Maloof

, Charlie Siskel

Writers: John Maloof

, Charlie Siskel

Runtime: 1 h 23 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Ravine Pictures

Distributor: Sundance Selects

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,514,782

International: $ 871,174

8.8 - Douban
10938 votes

Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (2012)

Summary: A documentary that follows the Serbian performance artist as she prepares for a retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Release Date: July 05, 2012

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Directors: Matthew Akers

, Jeff Dupre

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Show of Force, AVRO Close Up, Dakota Group

Distributor: HBO Documentary Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 86,637

International: $ 70,058

8.8 - Douban
1576 votes

Le joli mai (1963)

Summary: Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's LE JOLI MAI (The Lovely Month of May) is a portrait of Paris and Parisians during May 1962, the first springtime of peace after the ceasefire with Algeria and the first time in 23 years that France...

Release Date: May 01, 1963

Genre: Documentary

Directors: Chris Marker

, Pierre Lhomme

Writers: Chris Marker

, Catherine Winter

Runtime: 2 h 45 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Sofracima

Distributor: Pathé Contemporary Films, Icarus Films

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 55,038

8.7 - Douban
821 votes

Waste Land (2010)

Summary: On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro is Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill, where men and women sift through garbage for a living. Artist Vik Muniz produces portraits of the workers and learns about their lives.

Release Date: January 21, 2011

Genre: Documentary

Directors: Lucy Walker

, Karen Harley

, João Jardim

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Almega Projects, O2 Filmes

Distributor: Arthouse Films

Countries: Brazil, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,500,000

Domestic: $ 187,716

International: $ 103,591

8.6 - Douban
7160 votes

Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)

Summary: Following the style of some of the world's most prolific street artists, an amateur filmmaker makes a foray into the art world.

Release Date: May 14, 2010

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Documentary

Director: Banksy

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paranoid Pictures, Publikro London

Distributor: Producers Distribution Agency (PDA), Sea Movies, FilmBuff, Oscilloscope

Countries: United Kingdom, France

Language: English

Domestic: $ 3,291,250

International: $ 2,117,928

8.6 - Douban
4915 votes

Helvetica (2007)

Summary: A documentary about typography, graphic design, and global visual culture.

Release Date: September 12, 2007

Genre: Documentary

Director: Gary Hustwit

Runtime: 1 h 20 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Veer, Swiss Dots

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

8.6 - Douban
1500 votes

Visions of Light (1992)

Summary: Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography, illustrating their points with clips from 100 films, from The Birth of a Nation (1915) to Do the Right Thing (1989).

Release Date: February 24, 1993

Genres: Documentary, History

Directors: Arnold Glassman

, Todd McCarthy

, Stuart Samuels

Writer: Todd McCarthy

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

Production: American Film Institute (AFI), NHK

Distributor: Kino International, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Image Entertainment

Countries: Japan, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 799,856

8.5 - Douban
4799 votes

Cutie and the Boxer (2013)

Summary: This candid New York love story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko. Anxious to shed her role as her overbearing husband's assistant, Noriko finds an identity of her own.

Release Date: August 01, 2013

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Director: Zach Heinzerling

Writer: Zach Heinzerling

Runtime: 1 h 22 min

MPAA: R

Production: Little Magic Films, Cine Mosaic, Ex Lion Tamer

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 200,036

8.3 - Douban
1633 votes

National Gallery (2014)

Summary: A documentary that goes inside one of the great museums of the world: The National Gallery in London.

Release Date: October 08, 2014

Genre: Documentary

Director: Frederick Wiseman

Writer: Frederick Wiseman

Runtime: 3 h 00 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Idéale Audience, Gallery Film

Distributor: Zipporah Films

Countries: France, United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 253,941

International: $ 101,030

8.3 - Douban
1154 votes

Ivory Tower (2014)

Summary: A documentary that questions the cost -- and value -- of higher education in the United States.

Release Date: May 04, 2015

Genres: Family, Documentary, History

Director: Andrew Rossi

Writer: Andrew Rossi

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Participant

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 106,771

8.3 - Douban
987 votes

Crumb (1994)

Summary: An intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and his traumatized family.

Release Date: April 28, 1995

Genres: Comedy, Documentary, Biography

Director: Terry Zwigoff

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: R

Production: Superior Pictures

Distributor: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 3,041,083

8.2 - Douban
1413 votes

The Lost Leonardo (2021)

Summary: The mystery surrounding the Salvator Mundi, the first painting by Leonardo da Vinci to be discovered for more than a century, which has now seemingly gone missing.

Release Date: August 13, 2021

Genre: Documentary

Director: Andreas Koefoed

Writers: Andreas Dalsgaard

, Andreas Koefoed

, Mark Monroe

, Duska Zagorac

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Elk Film, Pumpernickel Films, Alba Collis, Diamond Docs, Hot Docs Partners, Mantaray Film, Mitten Media, Nika Media, Nordisk Film & TV-Fond, Sky, Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI), TDog

Countries: Denmark, France

Language: English

Domestic: $ 445,740

International: $ 154,448

8.2 - Douban
451 votes

Gerhard Richter Painting (2011)

Summary: A documentary on the German artist that includes glimpses at his studio, which has not been seen in decades.

Release Date: September 08, 2011

Genre: Documentary

Director: Corinna Belz

Writer: Corinna Belz

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Zero One Film, Terz Film, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

Country: Germany

Language: English

Domestic: $ 242,646

International: $ 474,899

8.2 - Douban
369 votes

Beautiful Losers (2008)

Summary: This documentary follows the lives and careers of a collective group of Do-it-yourself artists and designers who inadvertently affected the art world.

Release Date: August 02, 2008

Genres: Music, Documentary

Directors: Aaron Rose

, Joshua Leonard

Writer: Arty Nelson

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Sidetrack Films, Blacklake Productions, Perception Media

Distributor: Arthouse Films, Oscilloscope

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 56,386

International: $ 7,678

8.1 - Douban
2848 votes

The Painter and the Thief (2020)

Summary: An artist befriends the thief who stole her paintings. She becomes his closest ally when he is severely hurt in a car crash and needs full time care, even if her paintings are not found. But then the tables turn.

Release Date: May 22, 2020

Genre: Documentary

Director: Benjamin Ree

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

Production: Medieoperatørene, VGTV, Tremolo Productions

Distributor: Neon

Countries: Norway, United States

Language: Norwegian (Bokmal)

Movie budget: $ 5,993,000

8.1 - Douban
1951 votes

Kusama: Infinity (2018)

Summary: Artist Yayoi Kusama and experts discuss her life and work, from her modest beginnings in Japan to becoming an internationally renowned artist.

Release Date: September 07, 2018

Genre: Documentary

Director: Heather Lenz

Writers: Keita Ideno

, Heather Lenz

Runtime: 1 h 16 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Goodmovies Entertainment, Lenz Filmz, Octopus Originals, From The Heart Productions, Parco Co. Ltd., Submarine Entertainment, Tokyo Lee Productions

Distributor: Magnolia Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 360,931

International: $ 392,589

7.9 - Douban
200 votes

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (2015)

Summary: A portrait of a patron of the arts extraordinaire who transformed a modest fortune and impeccable taste into one of the premiere collections of twentieth century art.

Release Date: December 11, 2015

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Director: Lisa Immordino Vreeland

Writers: Bernadine Colish

, Lisa Immordino Vreeland

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Dakota Group, Fischio Films, Submarine Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,100,000

Domestic: $ 498,428

International: $ 298,372

7.8 - Douban
207 votes

Art and Craft (2014)

Summary: When one of the most prolific art forgers in US history is finally exposed, he must confront the legacy of his 30-year con.

Release Date: March 18, 2015

Genre: Documentary

Directors: Sam Cullman

, Jennifer Grausman

, Mark Becker

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Motto Pictures, Non Sequitur Productions, Yellow Cake Films

Distributor: Topic, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 235,037

7.7 - Douban
1071 votes

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)

Summary: Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France and captures the oldest known pictorial creations of humanity.

Release Date: August 31, 2011

Genres: Documentary, History

Director: Werner Herzog

Writers: Werner Herzog

, Judith Thurman

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: G

Production: Creative Differences, History Films, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Creative Differences, ARTE, Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, More4

Distributor: Sundance Selects, IFC Films

Countries: Canada, United States, France, Germany, United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 5,304,920

International: $ 2,878,427

Tim's Vermeer (2013)

Finding Vivian Maier (2013)

Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (2012)

Le joli mai (1963)

Waste Land (2010)

Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)

Helvetica (2007)

Visions of Light (1992)

Cutie and the Boxer (2013)

National Gallery (2014)

Ivory Tower (2014)

Crumb (1994)

The Lost Leonardo (2021)

Gerhard Richter Painting (2011)

Beautiful Losers (2008)

The Painter and the Thief (2020)

Kusama: Infinity (2018)

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (2015)

Art and Craft (2014)

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)

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