Home›Landmark Works›Group›Biographical and Profile DocumentariesGroupBiographical and Profile DocumentariesThis group collects the Documentary and Nonfiction Film subcategory's members centered on the life, career or personality of one named individual or a small profiled group, outside a specifically musical career (filed under this subcategory's own Music Documentaries group instead): artists and writers (Crumb, F for Fake, Leonora and Gabriel, Robert Frost, The Titan: Story of Michelangelo, Pretty Dirty), public figures (RBG, The Eleanor Roosevelt Story, The Times of Harvey Milk, Albert Schweitzer, Helen Keller in Her Story, Won't You Be My Neighbor?), and other profile subjects including internet celebrities (Butterflies) and a filmmaking production chronicle centered on its director (Hearts of Darkness).FactsBiographical and Profile DocumentariesSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1922 1Biographical and Profile DocumentariesFilter Results21 entriesCollectionAllBiographical and Profile Documentaries (21)CreatorAllAlbert Maysles (1)Amanda Benchley (1)Banksy (1)Betsy West (1)David Gelb (1)David Maysles (1)Eleanor Coppola (1)Errol Morris (1)Ester Brymová (1)Fred Rogers (1)George Hickenlooper (1)James Marsh (1)Jennifer Ash Rudick (1)Julie Cohen (1)Laura Poitras (1)Nancy Hamilton (1)Orson Welles (1)Richard Kaplan (1)Richard Lyford (1)Rob Epstein (1)Shirley Clarke (1)Steve James (1)Terry Zwigoff (1)MediumAllFilm (20)CountryAllFrance, Iran, West Germany (1)United Kingdom (2)United States (9)Release YearAll1950 (1)1954 (1)1957 (1)1963 (1)1965 (1)1973 (1)1975 (1)1978 (1)1984 (1)1991 (1)1994 (1)2008 (1)2009 (1)2010 (1)2011 (1)2014 (1)2018 (2)2022 (1)2025 (1)Original LanguageAllEnglish (14)French (1)German (1)Japanese (1)AwardAllAcademy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film (6)Golden Lion (1)Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature (1)National Board of Review Award for Best Film (1)Peabody Awards (1)Sundance Festival Favorite Runner Up (1)Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary (1)Sundance Special Jury Prize Documentary (1)Sundance World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary (1)Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 21Albert SchweitzerBiographical and Profile DocumentariesAll the Beauty and the BloodshedBiographical and Profile DocumentariesButterflies (2009 film)Biographical and Profile DocumentariesCrumb (film)Biographical and Profile DocumentariesExit Through the Gift ShopBiographical and Profile DocumentariesF for FakeBiographical and Profile DocumentariesGates of HeavenBiographical and Profile DocumentariesGrey GardensBiographical and Profile DocumentariesHearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's ApocalypseBiographical and Profile DocumentariesHelen Keller in Her StoryBiographical and Profile DocumentariesJiro Dreams of SushiBiographical and Profile DocumentariesLeonora and Gabriel: An InstantBiographical and Profile DocumentariesLife Itself (2014 film)Biographical and Profile DocumentariesMan on WireBiographical and Profile DocumentariesPretty Dirty: The Life and Times of Marilyn MinterBiographical and Profile DocumentariesRBGBiographical and Profile DocumentariesRobert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the WorldBiographical and Profile DocumentariesThe Eleanor Roosevelt StoryBiographical and Profile DocumentariesThe Times of Harvey MilkBiographical and Profile DocumentariesThe Titan: Story of MichelangeloBiographical and Profile DocumentariesWon't You Be My Neighbor?Biographical and Profile DocumentariesSources1. WikipediaWikimedia FoundationWikipedia: Nanook of the North, lead sectionQuote, Wikipedia: Nanook of the North, lead sectionNanook of the North is a 1922 American silent film that combines elements of documentary and docudrama/docufiction, at a time when the concept of separating films into documentary and drama did not yet exist.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.