Summary
From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world's best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre. Capturing Reality explores the complex creative process that goes into making non-fiction films. Deftly charting the documentarian's journey, it poses the question: can film capture reality?
Good for
- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 68GoodWatch 65
IMDb6.8
Running time
1 h 30 min
A typical length for documentaries, −6 min on the typical 96
typical 9690Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 93 countries
+83Released
2008
November 1, 2008
18 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- Canada
24 of 32
Errol MorrisSelf
Werner HerzogSelf
Jessica YuSelf
Albert MayslesSelf
Nick BroomfieldSelf
Laura PoitrasSelf
Kevin MacdonaldSelf
Patricio GuzmánSelf
Jennifer BaichwalSelf
Scott HicksSelf
Michel BraultSelf
Molly DineenSelf
Eduardo CoutinhoSelf
Jean-Xavier de LestradeSelf
Jennifer FoxSelf- MBManfred BeckerSelf
- PCPaul CowanSelf
Alanis ObomsawinSelf- DGDenis GheerbrantSelf
- SGSerge GiguèreSelf
Heddy HonigmannSelf
Sylvain L'EspéranceSelf
Kim LonginottoSelf- SNStan NeumannSelf
Directing · 1
- Pepita Ferrari Director, Writer, Researcher
Production · 7
- Michelle van Beusekom Researcher, Producer
- Diane Poitras Consulting Producer
- Gabriella Romano Researcher, Archival Footage Research
- Steve Hallé Production Coordinator
- Jerry McIntosh Consulting Producer
- Christiane Talbot Researcher
Camera · 1
- Marc Gadoury Director of Photography
Editing · 2
- Barbara Brown Editor
- Sylvia Mezei Archival Footage Research
Sound · 1
- Robert Marcel Lepage Original Music Composer
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