HOSPITAL shows the daily activities of a large urban hospital with the emphasis on the emergency ward and
outpatient clinics. The cases depicted illustrate how medical expertise, availability of resources,
organizational considerations, and the nature of communication among the staff and patients affect the
delivery of appropriate health care.

A cinema verité view of the day-to-day activities of policemen on the Kansas City, Missouri police force. The police are followed through a series of routine actions: locating a stolen purse, caring for a lost child, arresting a prostitute, and settling family problems.

Producer and director Frederick Wiseman takes his camera into a high school in 1968 and records events as they occur. Told without narration, the film essentially listens in on students, teachers and parents as they deal with issues of everyday life. Students are clearly meant to do as they are told without question - many of the teachers are autocratic in this respect - and the developing clash of cultures is evident in almost every scene. The role these young women are expected to play after high school is particularly archaic by today's standards.

怀斯曼第二部纪录片《高中》(1968)记录了费城东北高中的师生互动，通过将家长座谈、性教育演讲、课堂讨论和教务惩戒等独立场景反映现代教育机构的权力运作模式。以直接电影手法、尤其是大量的局部特写作为社会学检验方式，貌似无序的剪辑实则通过独立场景的并置达到叙事的递进，从而不断深入教育权力手段的弊端在空间和时间维度的影响。（小易甫字幕组）

Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.

1993 cinéma vérité documentary

This is a documentary about direct-cinema from its very beginnings (Nanook of the North) to the fake-direct-cinema of the Blair Witch Project. All the important direct-cinema filmmakers are portrayed and/or interviewed: Leacock, Wiseman, Maysles, Pennebaker, Reisz and others.

1982 film by Kevin Rafferty, Jayne Loader, Pierce Rafferty

2017 film by Agnès Varda

Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas.

Director Nikita Mikhalkov documents the history of Russia from 1980 to 1991 by annually asking his daughter Anna such questions as "What do you love the most?", "What scares you the most?", "What do you want above anything" and "What do you hate the most?"

1994 documentary film by Steve James

Explores the life and work of the psychoanalytic theorist and activist Frantz Fanon who was born in Martinique, educated in Paris and worked in Algeria. Examines Fanon's theories of identity and race, and traces his involvement in the anti-colonial struggle in Algeria and throughout the world.

在「赢才是一切」的社会，我们要如何面对失败?这部影集的主角是一群将失败的痛苦，转化为人类胜利的运动员。

2007 Documentary film directed by Werner Herzog

Shot under extreme conditions and inspired by Mayan creation theory, the film contemplates the illusion of reality and the possibility of capturing for the camera something which is not there. It is about the mirages of nature—and the nature of mirage.

1994年, Sokurov随俄军被分配到塔吉克斯坦和阿富汗交界处的边境军用岗进行实地拍摄。虽然1989年俄军从阿富汗战争中撤出，但仍然有隐蔽的敌人在边境尾 随。当不知名的武装部落偶尔与俄军发生小规模冲突时，Sokurov的拍摄记录了冲突的间歇,让人感到十分困扰。他有力地捕捉了俄军被孤立时的情景，部队 被折磨得无力的心情，以及严酷的环境。如诗般却又伴随着哀怨。此系列记录片被分为五集。

Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors.

After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.

Venice Film Festival
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1986 Won FIPRESCI Prize - Honorable Mention

2018 documentary film directed by Peter Jackson