The personal lives and legacies of industry icons like Lucille Ball or Marlon Brando. Visions of Light (1992), The Cutting Edge (2004)

: "Activist filmmaking" has moved into the mainstream. Documentaries are increasingly designed as tools for legislative change, with recent successes like the Sin by Silence Bills

Federal criminal sentences for the core conspirators included:

In this genre, you are often competing with the very subject you are documenting. Your film must be as entertaining as the movies, music, or games it covers.

Documentaries about filmmaking and the film industry (updated 01.2020)

The godfather of the genre. Shot by Eleanor Coppola, this documentary follows Francis Ford Coppola into the jungles of the Philippines as he tries to make Apocalypse War while a hurricane destroys his sets, Martin Sheen has a heart attack, and the budget balloons out of control. It remains the benchmark for how destructive the act of creation can be.