Documentary Bucket List

Document travel experiences through video

Tell stories through documentary photo series

Fricke's 42-minute IMAX debut: time-lapse from the Egyptian desert to Manhattan, scored by Michael Stearns, with no dialogue and no narration at all.

Life as war, assembled almost entirely from digitally processed stock footage, with Yo-Yo Ma on cello over the Glass score.

Reggio and Glass leave the industrial world for Brazil, Nepal and India; it opens on the Serra Pelada gold mine.

A diver visits the same octopus every day for a year in a South African kelp forest.

A cyclist tries doping and stumbles into the Russian state programme; his source flees to LA.

Fricke's sequel across twenty-five countries; the Balinese dance and the chicken factory.

Two South Africans hunt for Rodriguez, a Detroit singer they think is dead.

No words, Philip Glass and time-lapse cities; life out of balance.

Twenty-four countries in 70mm with no narration; the film that made travel look sacred.

A volunteer coach and a high-school football team in North Memphis that had never won a play-off game.

A Chinese glass company reopens a shut GM plant in Ohio, and neither side understands the other.

The 2008 financial crisis explained by the people who caused it, narrated by Matt Damon.

The backing singers behind Bowie, the Stones and Ray Charles, and why the front of the stage never happened.

A Russian primary-school teacher films his own classroom as the war turns it into a recruiting office.

A Palestinian activist and an Israeli journalist film the demolition of Masafer Yatta over five years.

Australian newsreel from the Kokoda Track in New Guinea, shot by Damien Parer, who was killed two years later.

A Canadian crew traces what happened to a nineteen-year-old who disappeared driving through Colorado.

The Munich Olympics hostage crisis of 1972, minute by minute, including the interview with the surviving gunman.

Jacques d’Amboise teaches a thousand New York schoolchildren to dance, and films what it does to them.

The poet at eighty-eight, teaching and reciting, in the last year of his life.

A French expedition crosses New Guinea on foot in 1959 and films the first contact along the way.

Ali against Foreman in Kinshasa, 1974, with the Zaire 74 festival playing beside the fight.

The first Disney True-Life Adventure feature: the Sonoran desert, and a scorpion square dance nobody has forgiven.

The people who knew her and hid her, including Miep Gies, filmed while they were still alive to speak.

A fictional entomologist argues that insects will inherit the earth, over real macro photography that makes the case.