Cinema Verite Movies

The deeply socially engaged documentary filmmaker Frans Buyens had long dreamed of making the transition to fiction filmmaking. The experimental...

A cinema verite study of the world of the blue-collar worker and the economic and psychological bind in which he is caught.

Musician, octogenarian and transgender activist Beverly Glenn-Copeland and his wife navigate the implications of the former’s dementia...

An intimate study of Dunquin, County Kerry, Ireland, the westernmost village in Europe and one of the last Gaelic-speaking communities. Isolated from...

A documentary portrait of the backstage efforts to stage the play Moon Over Buffalo on Broadway.

A chronicle of the lives and testimonies of men living on New York’s Bowery. One of the earliest documentary style "street tapes" created with...

For five years, Stephen McCoy documented street life in Boston. This is what he captured.

Columbus, Ohio born filmmaker Renton Hinderer explores his hometown through the eyes of its residents, weaving together dozens of stories to reveal...

After connecting with the shy Madeline, a jazz trumpeter embarks on a quest for a more gregarious paramour, but through a series of twists and turns...

A day in the life of a train station.

During a two-day period before and after the University of Alabama integration crisis, the film uses five camera crews to follow President John F....

Five boys and five girls ages 13 to 19 live on a farm for ten weeks, to be filmed, and to see what might emerge for each of them personally.

Young, inexperienced members of the Dutch Boarder Patrol undergo an intensive training on escorting refused asylum seekers to their homeland.

A camera crew travels through Thailand asking villagers to invent the next chapter of an ever-growing story.

Iva is a girl who receives a small digital video camera for her fourteenth birthday. Delighted by her new toy, the girl immediately starts taping...

Eldest son Lance, of the Loud family profiled on PBS in 1973, became the first openly gay man on television and a gay icon for his generation. When...

Sitting Idle (2021) is a meandering, meditative visual poem that follows the life of a nameless character over the course of a year - as he traverses...

Saucedo explores the emotional journey of boxing champion Alex Saucedo who suffers a career ending brain injury, forcing him to redefine his...

Chronicles the events that lead to Charlie Charlison's untimely death employing a cinéma vérité approach.