The Best Movies About Photography And Photographers
“What are the best movies about Photography And Photographers?” We looked at 272 of the top films, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 29 films, all appearing on 3 or more “Best Photography” movie lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 200+ movies, as well as the sources we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.
For more of the best photography media, be sure to check out our sister website, Book Scrolling, for several articles about the Best Photography books!
Happy Scrolling!
Top 29 Photography Movies
29 .) Ansel Adams – A Documentary Film (2002) directed by Ric Burns
Lists It Appears On:
- Expert Photography
- PataPixel
- Resource
The timeless photographs of Ansel Adams have made him one of the most recognized and admired names in art. This intimate look at the man and his work details his position as a staunch environmentalist and how his art reflected his strong worldview. David Ogden Stiers narrates this profile produced for the PBS series “American Experience,” which was directed by Emmy-winning documentarian Ric Burns.
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28 .) Baraka (1992) directed by Ron Fricke
Lists It Appears On:
- Better Photography
- Luminious Landscape
- Photography Concentrate
This is a paralyzingly beautiful documentary with a global vision: an odyssey through landscape and time, that is an attempt to capture the essence of life.
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27 .) Guest of Cindy Sherman (2008) directed by Tom Donahue
Lists It Appears On:
- Kike Calvo
- Resource
- The Art Of Creative Photography
Videographer Paul H-O must confront issues of ego and identity when he begins a relationship with the reclusive Cindy Sherman. With unprecedented access, the documentary places us in the company of the artist and offers a critique of the ever-inflated New York art market and the culture of celebrity. Written by Anonymous
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26 .) Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
Lists It Appears On:
- Expert Photography
- PataPixel
- Resource
An intimate look at the life and career of Gordon Parks a true Renaissance man who has excelled as a photographer, novelist, journalist, poet, musician and filmmaker.
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25 .) Manufactured Landscapes (2006) directed by Jennifer Baichwal
Lists It Appears On:
- Geometry & Silence
- PataPixel
- Photography Concentrate
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris.
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24 .) McCullin (2012) directed by Jacqui Morris
Lists It Appears On:
- FStop Lounge
- IMDB
- PataPixel
Biographical documentary of the war photographer Don McCullin, with sections on his upbringing, early work for the Observer and extensive war reporting for the Sunday Times until the purchase of the newspaper by Rupert Murdoch in the 1980s.
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23 .) Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light (1966)
Lists It Appears On:
- Expert Photography
- PataPixel
- Silk Photos
Richard Avedon was one of the great geniuses of 20th century photography, famous for his fashion photography done for the likes of Vogue, Versace, and Armani, and equally famous for his black and white portraits of American people, both famous and unknown.
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22 .) Salvador (1986) directed by Oliver Stone
Lists It Appears On:
- Better Photography
- Bird In Flight
- IMDB
A second rated journalist from the US tries his luck in El Salvador during the military dictatorship in the 1980s.
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21 .) The Mexican Suitcase (2011) directed by Trisha Ziff
Lists It Appears On:
- Light Stalking
- Resource
- The Art Of Creative Photography
Mexican Suitcase tells the story of the recovery of 4,500 negatives by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David ‘Chim’ Seymour taken during the Spanish Civil War found 70 years later in a closet in Mexico City. The film looks at the journey of these negatives from France to Mexico; their survival and looks at how Spain reflects today on its own history as well as those who escaped. Mexico was the only country to come to the rescue and support of the Spanish Republic and then honor and support the Republic in exile when the rest of the world turned its back. Mexican Suitcase looks at this unique story and these photos lost for seventy years.
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20 .) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) directed by Ben Stiller
Lists It Appears On:
- Light Stalking
- Movie Time Guru
- Resource
A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.
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19 .) Under Fire (1983) directed by Roger Spottiswoode
Lists It Appears On:
- F Stoppers
- IMDB
- Resource
Three U.S. journalists (Nick Nolte, Joanna Cassidy, Gene Hackman) get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
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18 .) Visual Acoustics: Modernism of Julius Shulman (2010)
Lists It Appears On:
- Geometry & Silence
- PataPixel
- Photography Concentrate
Visual Acoustics celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world’s greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman, who passed away this year, captured the work of nearly every modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Frank Gehry. His images epitomized the singular beauty of Southern California’s modernist movement and brought its iconic structures to the attention of the general public. This unique film is both a testament to the evolution of modern architecture and a joyful portrait of the magnetic, whip-smart gentleman who chronicled it with his unforgettable images.
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17 .) W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult (1989)
Lists It Appears On:
- Expert Photography
- PataPixel
- Silk Photos
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16 .) What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann (2008)
Lists It Appears On:
- Creative Live
- Geometry & Silence
- PataPixel
As one of the world’s preeminent photographers, Sally Mann creates artwork that challenges viewers’ values and moral attitudes. Described by Time magazine as “America’s greatest photographer,” she first came to international prominence in 1992 with Immediate Family, a series of complex and enigmatic pictures of her own children. In WHAT REMAINS, director Steven Cantor follows the creation of Mann’s same-named series – on the myriad aspects of death and decay. Never one to compromise, Mann reflects on her own personal feelings toward mortality as she continues to examine the boundaries of contemporary photography. At her family farm in Virginia, she is surrounded by her husband and now-grown
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15 .) Finding Vivian Maier (2013) directed by John Maloof
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- Light Stalking
- Silk Photos
- Taste Of Cinema
Vivian Maier’s photos were seemingly destined for obscurity, lost among the clutter of the countless objects she’d collected throughout her life. Instead these images have shaken the world of street photography and irrevocably changed the life of the man who brought them to the public eye. This film brings to life the interesting turns and travails of the improbable saga of John Maloof’s discovery of Vivian Maier, unravelling this mysterious tale through her documentary films, photographs, odd collections and personal accounts from the people that knew her. What started as a blog to show her work quickly became a viral sensation in the photography world. Photos destined for the trash heap now line gallery exhibitions, a forthcoming book and this documentary film.
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14 .) Frames from the Edge: Helmut Newton (2009)
Lists It Appears On:
- PataPixel
- Resource
- Silk Photos
- The Art Of Creative Photography
A camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond, big-breasted women are part of the iconography of twentieth-century erotic fantasy. He’s on the go from L.A., to Paris, to Monte-Carlo, to Berlin, where he was a youth until he escaped from the Nazis in 1936. We see him on shoots, interviewing models, and discussing his work.
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13 .) Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006) directed by Steven Shainberg
Lists It Appears On:
- Bird In Flight
- Kike Calvo
- Movie Time Guru
- The Art Of Creative Photography
In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a photographer employed by her wealthy parents. Respectable though her life is, she cannot help but feel uncomfortable in her privileged world. One night, a new neighbor catches Diane’s eye, and the enigmatic man inspires her to set forth on the path to discovering her own artistry.
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12 .) Proof (1991) directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse
Lists It Appears On:
- F Stoppers
- IMDB
- Resource
- Taste Of Cinema
The life of a blind photographer who is looked after by a housekeeper is disrupted by the arrival of an agreeable restaurant worker.
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11 .) The Bang Bang Club (2010) directed by Steven Silver
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- Light Stalking
- Movie Time Guru
- Silk Photos
In the early to mid ’90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers – Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva – bonded by their friendship and a sense of purpose, worked together to chronicle the violence and upheaval leading up to the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as president. Their work is risky and dangerous, potentially fatally so, as they thrust themselves into the middle of chaotic clashes between forces backed by the government (including Inkatha Zulu warriors) and those in support of Mandela’s African National Congress.
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10 .) City of God (2002) directed by Fernando Meirelles
Lists It Appears On:
- F Stoppers
- IMDB
- Movie Time Guru
- Resource
- Taste Of Cinema
Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by the point of view of the narrator, Buscapé. Buscapé was raised in a very violent environment. Despite the feeling that all odds were against him, he finds out that life can be seen with other eyes…
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9 .) Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye (2003) directed by Heinz Bütler
Lists It Appears On:
- Geometry & Silence
- Kike Calvo
- PataPixel
- Resource
- Taste Of Cinema
Heinz Bütler interviews Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) late in life. Cartier-Bresson pulls out photographs, comments briefly, and holds them up to Bütler’s camera. A few others share observations, including Isabelle Huppert, Arthur Miller, and Josef Koudelka. Cartier-Bresson talks about his travels, including Mexico in the 1930s, imprisonment during World War II, being with Gandhi moments before his assassination, and returning to sketching late in life. He shows us examples. He talks about becoming and being a photographer, about composition, and about some of his secrets to capture the moment.
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8 .) One Hour Photo (2002) directed by Mark Romanek
Lists It Appears On:
- Creative Live
- F Stoppers
- IMDB
- Movie Time Guru
- Resource
Sy “the photo guy” Parrish has lovingly developed photos for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as the Yorkins’ lives become fuller, Sy’s only seems lonelier, until he eventually believes he’s part of their family. When “Uncle” Sy’s picture-perfect fantasy collides with an ugly dose of reality, what happens next “has the spine-tingling elements of the best psychological thrillers!”
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7 .) Born into Brothels (2004) directed by Zana Briski
Lists It Appears On:
- Better Photography
- Creative Live
- F Stoppers
- PataPixel
- Photography Concentrate
- Resource
The academy award winning documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta. Director Zana Briski went to photograph the prostitutes when she met and became friends with their children. Briski began giving photography lessons to the children and became aware that their photography might be a way for them to lead better lives.
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6 .) Pecker (1998) directed by John Waters
Lists It Appears On:
- Better Photography
- Bird In Flight
- Creative Live
- F Stoppers
- IMDB
- Resource
A Baltimore sandwich shop employee becomes an overnight sensation when photographs he’s taken of his weird family become the latest rage in the art world. The young man is called “Pecker” because he pecks at his food like a bird.
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5 .) Rear Window (1954) directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Lists It Appears On:
- Better Photography
- Creative Live
- F Stoppers
- IMDB
- Resource
- Taste Of Cinema
Professional photographer L.B. “Jeff” Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. He begins to suspect that a man across the courtyard may have murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his high society fashion-consultant girlfriend Lisa Freemont and his visiting nurse Stella to investigate.
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4 .) William Eggleston: In The Real World (2005) directed by Michael Almereyda
Lists It Appears On:
- Creative Live
- Geometry & Silence
- Illusion 2
- Movie Time Guru
- PataPixel
- Photography Concentrate
- Resource
Documentary about William Eggleston, a famous modern American photographer.
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3 .) Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens (2007) directed by Barbara Leibovitz
Lists It Appears On:
- Creative Live
- Geometry & Silence
- Illusion 2
- PataPixel
- Photography Concentrate
- Resource
- Silk Photos
- The Art Of Creative Photography
This documentary takes an in-depth look at the influential career of iconic photographer Annie Leibovitz, from her earliest artistic efforts to her storied tenure at Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair magazines and beyond. Intimately filmed by Annie’s sister Barbara Leibovitz, the program features interviews with the artist as she works at home, along with telling insights from many of the celebrities she has photographed, such as Mick Jagger.
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2 .) War Photographer (2001) directed by Christian Frei
Lists It Appears On:
- Geometry & Silence
- Movie Time Guru
- PataPixel
- Photography Concentrate
- Resource
- Silk Photos
- Taste Of Cinema
- The Art Of Creative Photography
Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever.
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1 .) Blow-up (1966) directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
Lists It Appears On:
- Better Photography
- Bird In Flight
- Creative Live
- F Stoppers
- Illusion 2
- IMDB
- Light Stalking
- Movie Time Guru
- Resource
- Silk Photos
- Taste Of Cinema
- The Art Of Creative Photography
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he accidentally captures on film the commission of a murder. The fact that he has photographed a murder does not occur to him until he studies and then blows up his negatives, uncovering details, blowing up smaller and smaller elements, and finally putting the puzzle together.
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The 200+ Additional Best Movies About Photographers
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| 30 | 1,000 Times Good Night (2013) |
FStop Lounge
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| 31 | Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye (1999) | PataPixel | |
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Expert Photography
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| 32 | Amélie (2001) |
Creative Live
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| 33 | Ansel Adams: American Experience | Kike Calvo | |
| PataPixel | |||
| 34 | Anton Corbijn Inside Out | Illusion 2 | |
| PataPixel | |||
| 35 | Barry Lyndon (1975) |
Luminious Landscape
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| 36 | Bill Cunningham New York (2010) | PataPixel | |
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Taste Of Cinema
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| 37 | Chasing Ice (2012) | PataPixel | |
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FStop Lounge
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| 38 | Closer (2004) | F Stoppers | |
| Resource | |||
| 39 | Days of Heaven (1978) | Kike Calvo | |
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Luminious Landscape
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| 40 | Dreams (1955) | IMDB | |
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Luminious Landscape
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| 41 | Everlasting Moments (2008) |
Bird In Flight
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| IMDB | |||
| 42 | Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters (2012) | PataPixel | |
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Movie Time Guru
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| 43 | High Art (1998) | F Stoppers | |
| Resource | |||
| 44 |
Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank (2005)
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PataPixel | |
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Expert Photography
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| 45 | Life |
Photography Concentrate
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| 46 |
Magnum Photos -The Changing of a Myth (1999)
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Silk Photos | |
| PataPixel | |||
| 47 |
National Geographic – Search for the Afghan Girl
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Resource | |
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Expert Photography
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| 48 |
National Geographic’s The Photographers [1996]
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PataPixel | |
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Geometry & Silence
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| 49 | No Worries: Martin Parr | PataPixel | |
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Expert Photography
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| 50 | Palermo Shooting (2008) |
Bird In Flight
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| 51 |
Rivers and Tides – Andy Goldsworthy Documentary (2003)
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PataPixel | |
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Expert Photography
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| 52 | Strand: Under the Dark Cloth | PataPixel | |
| Resource | |||
| 53 | The Adventure Of Photography | PataPixel | |
| Resource | |||
| 54 | The Colourful Mr Eggleston |
Expert Photography
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| 55 | The Genius of Photography [2007] | Resource | |
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Geometry & Silence
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| 56 | The Killing Fields (1984) | IMDB | |
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Taste Of Cinema
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| 57 | The Many Lives of William Klein (2012) | PataPixel | |
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Expert Photography
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| 58 | The President’s Photographer | PataPixel | |
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Photography Concentrate
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| 59 | The Public Eye (1992) |
Bird In Flight
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| 60 | The Salt Of The earth (2015) | Sebastiao Salgado | IMDB |
| Silk Photos | |||
| 61 | Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project | PataPixel | |
| Resource | |||
| (Films Appear On 1 Lists Each) | |||
| 62 | …More Than 1000 Words | PataPixel | |
| 63 | A Great Day In Harlem | PataPixel | |
| 64 | A Passage to India (1984) | 121 Clicks | |
| 65 | A River Runs Through It | Kike Calvo | |
| 66 | A Very Long Engagement (2004) | 121 Clicks | |
| 67 |
Aaron Siskind: An Alternate Photographic Reality
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Resource | |
| 68 | Abstract: The Art of Design |
FStop Lounge
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| 69 | Amadeus (1984) | 121 Clicks | |
| 70 | America and Lewis Hine | PataPixel | |
| 71 |
America in Pictures- The Story of Life Magazine
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PataPixel | |
| 72 |
American Masters – Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye
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Resource | |
| 73 |
American Masters – Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light
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Resource | |
| 74 |
An American Journey: In Robert Frank’s Footsteps
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Resource | |
| 75 | An Unlikely Weapon | PataPixel | |
| 76 | Anna (II) (2015) | IMDB | |
| 77 | Antichrist | Kike Calvo | |
| 78 | Arakimentari (Bill Bartlett) | PataPixel | |
| 79 | Art & Copy |
Photography Concentrate
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| 80 | Artists and Alchemists | PataPixel | |
| 81 | At Close Range With National Geographic | PataPixel | |
| 82 | Babies |
Photography Concentrate
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| 83 | BBC LOMO Documentary |
Expert Photography
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| 84 | Beasts of the Southern Wild | Illusion 1 | |
| 85 | Beautiful Losers |
Photography Concentrate
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| 86 | Berenice Abbott: A View of the 20th Century | Resource | |
| 87 | Bert Stern: Original Madman | PataPixel | |
| 88 |
Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories (2015)
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IMDB | |
| 89 | Black Hawk Down (2001) | 121 Clicks | |
| 90 |
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
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PataPixel | |
| 91 | Blood Trail: Shooting Robert King | PataPixel | |
| 92 | Boat People (1982) | IMDB | |
| 93 | Braveheart (1995) | 121 Clicks | |
| 94 | Bridges of Madison Сounty |
Bird In Flight
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| 95 | Calendar (1993) | IMDB | |
| 96 | Carmen (1983) | Kike Calvo | |
| 97 | Carol (2015) | IMDB | |
| 98 |
Cindy Sherman – Nobody’s Here But Me (1994)
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Expert Photography
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| 99 | Circle of Deceit (1981) | IMDB | |
| 100 |
Contacts, Vol. 3: Conceptual Photography (2001)
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Geometry & Silence
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| 101 |
Creativity with Bill Moyers: The Photographer’s Eye
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PataPixel | |
| 102 | Dark Side of the Lens |
Photography Concentrate
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| 103 | David Alan Harvey in Rio De Janeiro |
Photography Concentrate
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| 104 | Deadline Every Second | PataPixel | |
| 105 | Delirious (2006) | IMDB | |
| 106 | Distant (2002) | IMDB | |
| 107 | Don’t Look Back (2009) | IMDB | |
| 108 | Dreamgirls: The photography of Guy Bourdin | PataPixel | |
| 109 | DUFFY: The Man Who Shot the Sixties |
Expert Photography
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| 110 | Dying to Tell the Story | PataPixel | |
| 111 | Eadweard (2015) | IMDB | |
| 112 | Edward Weston: The Photographer (1948) |
Expert Photography
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| 113 |
Eloquent Nude: The Love and Legacy of Edward Weston & Charis Wilson
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PataPixel | |
| 114 | Erwin Olaf | PataPixel | |
| 115 | Everybody Street | PataPixel | |
| 116 | Exit Through The Giftshop |
Photography Concentrate
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| 117 |
Eye on the Sixties: The Iconic Photography of Rowland Scherman
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PataPixel | |
| 118 | Fiddler on the Roof (1971) | 121 Clicks | |
| 119 | Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank | PataPixel | |
| 120 | Flags of our Fathers (2006) | IMDB | |
| 121 | For Lovers Only (2011) | IMDB | |
| 122 | Fotograf (2015) | IMDB | |
| 123 | Frame by Frame (2015) | IMDB | |
| 124 | Frida (2002) | 121 Clicks | |
| 125 | Funny Face (1957) |
Taste Of Cinema
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| 126 | Girlfriends (1978) | IMDB | |
| 127 |
Going Where I’ve Never Been The Photography of Diane Arbus
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PataPixel | |
| 128 | Guinevere (1999) | IMDB | |
| 129 | Gursky World | PataPixel | |
| 130 | Hand Held (2010) |
Movie Time Guru
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| 131 | Hard to Be a God | Illusion 1 | |
| 132 | Harrison’s Flowers (2000) | Resource | |
| 133 | Harry Benson: Shoot First (2016) |
FStop Lounge
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| 134 | Heavenly Forest (2006) | IMDB | |
| 135 | Helmut by June | PataPixel | |
| 136 | Helvetica |
Photography Concentrate
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| 137 |
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: “Pen, Brush & Camera” (1998)
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Expert Photography
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| 138 |
Henri Cartier-Bresson: L’amour Tout Court (Just Plain Love)
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PataPixel | |
| 139 | Hugo | Illusion 1 | |
| 140 | Human Planet |
Photography Concentrate
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| 141 |
I’d Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips (2011)
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IMDB | |
| 142 | In Harm’s Way | PataPixel | |
| 143 |
In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter
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PataPixel | |
| 144 | In The Real World |
The Art Of Creative Photography
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| 145 | Inception (2010) | 121 Clicks | |
| 146 | Iruvar (1997) | 121 Clicks | |
| 147 |
Japan in Colour: The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn
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PataPixel | |
| 148 |
Jazz Seen: The Life and Times of William Claxton
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PataPixel | |
| 149 | Kannathil Muthamittal (2002) | 121 Clicks | |
| 150 | Karsh Is History | PataPixel | |
| 151 | Karsh: The Searching Eye | PataPixel | |
| 152 | Kiss of the Damned | Illusion 1 | |
| 153 | La Jetée |
Better Photography
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| 154 | La Prisonnière (1968) | IMDB | |
| 155 | Last Days of the Arctic | PataPixel | |
| 156 | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | 121 Clicks | |
| 157 | Le Sel de la Terre |
Light Stalking
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| 158 | Lee Miller: Through the Mirror | PataPixel | |
| 159 |
Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell
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PataPixel | |
| 160 | Leviathan | Illusion 1 | |
| 161 | Lies I Told My Little Sister (2014) | IMDB | |
| 162 | Louder Than Bombs (2015) | IMDB | |
| 163 | Macbeth | Illusion 1 | |
| 164 | Margaret Bourke-White (1989 TV Movie) | IMDB | |
| 165 | Martin Parr | PataPixel | |
| 166 | Marwencol | PataPixel | |
| 167 | Masters of Photography – André Kertesz | Resource | |
| 168 | Maya Darpan |
Better Photography
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| 169 | Memento |
Creative Live
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| 170 | Michael Kenna’s Hokkaido | PataPixel | |
| 171 | Midnight in Paris | Illusion 1 | |
| 172 | Milton Rogovin: The Forgotten Ones | PataPixel | |
| 173 |
Moments of Impact: Stories of Pulitzer Prize Photographs
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PataPixel | |
| 174 | Moonbug | PataPixel | |
| 175 | Moving Art |
FStop Lounge
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| 176 | My Straight Son (2012) | IMDB | |
| 177 | Naked States | PataPixel | |
| 178 |
National Geographic Live! : The Life of a Photographer
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Expert Photography
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| 179 | Near Equal Daido Moriyama | PataPixel | |
| 180 | Objectified |
Photography Concentrate
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| 181 | Of Freaks And Men |
Bird In Flight
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| 182 | Oldboy | Kike Calvo | |
| 183 | Out of Africa (1985) | 121 Clicks | |
| 184 | Oz: The Great and Powerful | Illusion 1 | |
| 185 | Paparazzi Documentary – Next Generation |
Expert Photography
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| 186 | Pather Panchali |
Better Photography
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| 187 |
Peter Beard: Scrapbooks From Africa & Beyond
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Resource | |
| 188 | Photographing Fairies (1997) | IMDB | |
| 189 | Picture Day |
Photography Concentrate
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| 190 | Pictures from a Revolution | Resource | |
| 191 | Planet Earth |
Photography Concentrate
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| 192 | Pretty Baby (1978) | IMDB | |
| 193 | Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970) | IMDB | |
| 194 | Raging Bull | Kike Calvo | |
| 195 | Raise the Red Lantern (1991) |
Luminious Landscape
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| 196 | Rashomon (1950) | 121 Clicks | |
| 197 | Refugee (2016) |
FStop Lounge
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| 198 | Rezerwat (2007) | IMDB | |
| 199 | Robert Capa In Love and War | PataPixel | |
| 200 |
Rock ‘N’ Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen
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| 201 | Salt | PataPixel | |
| 202 | Sam Abell | PataPixel | |
| 203 | Sartorialist |
Photography Concentrate
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| 204 | Saving Private Ryan (1998) | 121 Clicks | |
| 205 | Schindler’s List (1993) | 121 Clicks | |
| 206 | Sebastião Salgado: Looking Back at You | PataPixel | |
| 207 | Shadow of the House | PataPixel | |
| 208 | Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn | PataPixel | |
| 209 | Shadows from Light | PataPixel | |
| 210 | Ship of Theseus (2012) | IMDB | |
| 211 | Shooting Robert King | Resource | |
| 212 | Shooting the Hollywood Stars | PataPixel | |
| 213 | Shutter (II) (2004) | IMDB | |
| 214 | Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang (2016) |
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| 215 | Smash His Camera | PataPixel | |
| 216 | South Africa in Pictures | PataPixel | |
| 217 | Sway (2006) | IMDB | |
| 218 | Tabu | Illusion 1 | |
| 219 | Tales by Light |
FStop Lounge
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| 220 | Teenage Paparazzo | PataPixel | |
| 221 | Terra (2015) |
FStop Lounge
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| 222 | That Most Important Thing: Love (1975) | IMDB | |
| 223 | The Art of the Steal |
Photography Concentrate
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| 224 | The Bridges of Madison County (1995) | IMDB | |
| 225 | The Cambodian Room | PataPixel | |
| 226 | The Conformist |
Luminious Landscape
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| 227 | The Decisive Moment | PataPixel | |
| 228 | The Eloquent Eye |
The Art Of Creative Photography
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| 229 | The English Patient (1996) | 121 Clicks | |
| 230 | The Fall (2006) | 121 Clicks | |
| 231 | The Green Mile (1999) | 121 Clicks | |
| 232 | The Impassioned Eye |
The Art Of Creative Photography
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| 233 | The Last Emperor (1987) |
Luminious Landscape
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| 234 | The Last Patrol (2014) |
FStop Lounge
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| 235 | The Lost Pictures of Eugene Smith |
Expert Photography
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| 236 | The Man Who Shot The 60s | PataPixel | |
| 237 | The Midnight Meat Train (2008) | IMDB | |
| 238 | The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) | 121 Clicks | |
| 239 | The Painted Veil (2006) | 121 Clicks | |
| 240 | The Passion of Martin (1991) | IMDB | |
| 241 | The Passion of the Christ (2004) | 121 Clicks | |
| 242 | The Photographer | PataPixel | |
| 243 |
The Photographers Series: Debbie Fleming Caffery
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| 244 | The Pirelli Calendar Saga | PataPixel | |
| 245 | The Real Weegee – 1 Hr Documentary |
Expert Photography
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| 246 | The September Issue |
Photography Concentrate
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| 247 | The Serpent (2006) | IMDB | |
| 248 | The Story of the Weeping Camel |
Photography Concentrate
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| 249 | The Third Man (1949) |
Luminious Landscape
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| 250 | The Three Colors Trilogy | 121 Clicks | |
| 251 | The Town That Dreaded Sundown | Illusion 1 | |
| 252 |
The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams’ Appalachia
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| 253 | The War in Iraq: Through Photographers’ Eyes | PataPixel | |
| 254 | The Weird Adventures of Eadweard Muybridge | PataPixel | |
| 255 | The Woodmans | PataPixel | |
| 256 | The World According To Martin Parr | PataPixel | |
| 257 | The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) | IMDB | |
| 258 | Thinking XXX | PataPixel | |
| 259 | Through the Lens | PataPixel | |
| 260 | Time to Leave (2005) | IMDB | |
| 261 | Titanic (1997) | 121 Clicks | |
| 262 | Toward the Margin of Life | Resource | |
| 263 | Traces of a Diary (2011) | IMDB | |
| 264 | Trainspotting |
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| 265 | Triage (2009) | IMDB | |
| 266 | Visions of Light (1992) |
Luminious Landscape
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| 267 | Vivian Maier Who Took Nanny’s Pictures | PataPixel | |
| 268 | Waste Land | PataPixel | |
| 269 | We’ll Take Manhattan |
Bird In Flight
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Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
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| 271 | Winged Migration (2001) |
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| 272 | Zenne Dancer (2012) | IMDB | |
21 Best Photography Film Sources/Lists
| Source | Article |
| 121 Clicks | 25 Movies Every Photographer / Cinematographer Must Watch |
| Better Photography | Top 10 Movies Every Photographer Must Watch |
| Bird In Flight | 10 Must Watch Films About Photography |
| Creative Live | Photography On Film: The 10 Best Movies About Photography |
| Expert Photography | 20 Fantastic Photography Documentaries On YouTube |
| F Stoppers | List: Top Ten Best Movies about Photography |
| FStop Lounge | Top Must-Watch Netflix Shows & Movies for Photographers |
| Geometry & Silence | 10 Best Documentary Movies About Photography & Photographers |
| Illusion 1 | 10 BEAUTIFUL MOVIES FOR PHOTOGRAPHY FANS |
| Illusion 2 | GREAT MOVIES ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHERS |
| IMDB | Top 55 Movies about Photographers |
| Kike Calvo | Top Ten Movies Every Photographer Must See |
| Light Stalking | Great Movies About Photography |
| Luminious Landscape | Ten Movies Every Photographer Should See |
| Movie Time Guru | 10 Movies Every Photographer Should Watch |
| PataPixel | The Big Fat List of Documentaries About Photography |
| Photography Concentrate | The Ultimate Documentary List for Photographers |
| Resource | 40 MOVIES ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY EVERY PHOTOGRAPHER SHOULD WATCH |
| Silk Photos | 10 Photography Movies Every Photographer Should Watch |
| Taste Of Cinema | 10 Movies About Photography Every Photographer Should Watch |
| The Art Of Creative Photography | The 10 Best Photography Movies |
