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Want to watch a non-fiction film about photography? Here’s a list of documentaries (and some other stuff) concerning photography that I’ve collected over the years.

Documentaries

• 1957, Ansel Adams, Photographer
• 1972, Going Where I've Never Been The Photography of Diane Arbus – YouTube
• 1973, Henri Cartier-Bresson – The Decisive Moment
• 1986, Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank – YouTube
• 1989, Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge
• 1989, Strand, Under the Dark Cloth
• 1996, Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light
• 1999, Magnum Photos: The Changing of a Myth
• 2001, Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye
• 2001, Henri Cartier-Bresson – Just Plain Love – YouTube
• 2001, Near Equal Daido Moriyama – YouTube
• 2001, War Photographer
• 2002, Ben Lewis – Gursky World – Vimeo
• 2003, Ansel Adams, American Experience
• 2003, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye
• 2003, Martin Parr – De Magie van het Moment – YouTube
• 2003, Rivers and Tides – Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time
• 2003, The Adventure Of Photography – YouTube
• 2003, The Colourful Mr Eggleston – YouTube
• 2003, The World According To Martin Parr – YouTube
• 2004, Thinking XXX
• 2005, Leaving Home, Coming Home A Portrait of Robert Frank
• 2005, What Remains – Sally Mann
• 2005, William Eggleston in the Real World
• 2006, Annie Leibovitz Life Through A Lens
• 2006, Manufactured Landscapes
• 2007, Michael Kenna's Hokkaido – Stream
• 2008, Visual Acoustics The Modernism of Julius Schulman
• 2009, Erwin Olaf, on Beauty and Fall – Vimeo
• 2009, Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn
• 2010, Bill Cunningham New York
• 2010, Marwencol
• 2010, Smash His Camera
• 2010, Teenage Paparazzo
• 2010, The President's Photographer – PBS
• 2010, The Weird Adventures of Eadweard Muybridge
• 2011, America in Pictures- The Story of Life Magazine – Vimeo
• 2011, Sam Abell – The Life of a Photograph – YouTube
• 2012, Anton Corbijn Inside Out – YouTube
• 2012, Gregory Crewdson Brief Encounters
• 2012, McCullin
• 2012, No Worries – Martin Parr – YouTube
• 2012, The Many Lives of William Klein – YouTube
• 2013, Vivian Maier Who Took Nanny's Pictures – YouTube
• 2013, Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington

Series

• 1988, Contacts, Vol. 1 The Great Tradition of Photojournalism
• 1992, Contacts, Vol. 2 The Renewal of Contemporary Photography
• 1997, Decisive Moments – The Photographs That Made History
• 2001, Contacts, Vol. 3 Conceptual Photography
• 2007, The Genius Of Photography
• 2012, Capture with Mark Seliger (RSRV)
• 2012, Picture Perfect (Vice)
• 2012, Witness (HBO)

Related

• 1992, Visions of Light – The Art of Cinematography (Cinematography)
• 1999, Think of England – YouTube (by Martin Parr)
• 2000, Killing Us Softly 3 Advertisings Image of Women (Advertising Industry)
• 2003, Los Angeles Plays Itself (Film Industry)
• 2009, The September Issue (Fashion Industry)
• 2010, Restrepo (by Tim Hetherington)
• 2010, The Forgotten Space (by Allan Sekula)
• 2011, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel (Fashion Industry)
• 2011, The Story of Film: An Odyssey – Netflix (Film History)

Bonus

• Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography 2012 – YouTube
• Henri Cartier-Bresson Interviewed by Charlie Rose – YouTube
• James Nares – STREET – Lecture – Vimeo
• Joel Meyerowitz 1981 Street Photography Program – YouTube
• Magnum Photos – Earthlings by Richard Kalvar – YouTube
• Magnum Photos – Personal Best by Elliott Erwitt – YouTube
• ‪Mark Feeney: "Four Photographers on Three Wheels: William Eggleston's Tricycle and Before"‬ – YouTube
• Peter Fraser 2011 talk on his work and workshop assignment – Vimeo
• Sarah Moon is a Master of Photography (from Contacts) – YouTube

Feel free to suggest any films we’ve left off the list in the comments below.

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About the author: Wirjo Hardjono is a photography enthusiast who enjoys finding and watching films about photography. This article originally appeared here.

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