The film reveals the horrors of the Vietnam war and contrasts it with quiet shots of everyday life in Vietnamese villages, and with candid interviews with enthusiastic American soldiers and pilots, who all seem to love their work.

Legendary Canadian filmmaker and direct cinema pioneer Allan King takes his camera where no one has ever taken it before to record with shocking and revealing intimacy the final days of five terminally ill patients in the Palliative Care Unit of the Toronto Grace Hospital.

A highly influential film that launched the cinéma vérité movement in France. The film is presented as an inquiry into the lives of a group of Parisians in the summer of 1960, when it was thought that the war in Algeria would end.

In this classic vérité-inspired portrait of Bob Dylan, D.A. Pennebaker follows the 24-year-old singer-songwriter and legend-in-the-making on a tour of England in 1965.

Salesman takes you inside the lives of four bible salesmen as they go door to door trying sell the holy word.

It’s the 1960 campaign for US president, and John F. Kennedy is running against Hubert Humphrey in the Wisconsin primary. Robert Drew and his team of cameramen (Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, Terry Filgate, and D.A. Pennebaker) gained unrestricted access to film the candidates for five days as they campaigned across the state.

D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hedegus return to American presidential politics with this penetrating, behind-the-scenes look at the Clinton campaign team in 1992.

An up-close and at times disturbing look at the Hauka, a possession cult among the Songhay tribe in Niger and Ghana.

Richard Leacock visits his friend, the German actress Helga Feddersen, a year before her death and unexpectedly films her last will.

A masterpiece of direct cinema observation. Richard Leacock and co-director Joyce Chopra travel to the small town of Aberdeen, South Dakota to record the reaction to the birth of quintuplets to a local family.

Warrendale is a penetrating look at seven weeks in the lives of 12 emotionally disturbed children at an experimental treatment center.

A lighthearted visit to both sides of the Atlantic as the Eurotunnel linking France and England was about to open.

Wrestling, an early example of cinéma vérité, takes a candid, up-close look at the world of professional wrestling in Montreal and the back-street gyms where would-be professionals practice their skills.

Zoo is a playful and poetic portrait of visitors to the Artis zoo in Amsterdam. Haanstra locates concealed cameras inside the animals’ cages and, with skillful editing, creates an ironic and humorous look at the human species from the animal point of view.