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Autobiographical documentary films

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2004 film directed by Morgan Spurlock

1999 film by Werner Herzog

The Beaches of Agnès

2008 film by Agnès Varda

2011 film directed by Kim Ki-duk

This Is Not a Film

2011 film by Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb

Minding the Gap

2018 documentary film directed by Bing Liu

1993 film by Derek Jarman

Stories We Tell

2012 film by Sarah Polley

Life Is But a Dream

2013 documentary film directed by Beyoncé

Notes Towards an African Orestes

1970 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini

2003 film by Jonathan Caouette

1983 film by Tonino Guerra, Andrei Tarkovsky

Italianamerican

Italianamerican is a 1974 American documentary film directed by Martin Scorsese and featuring his parents Catherine and Charles, who reflect on their experiences as the children of Italian immigrants to New York City.

Back to Babylon

2002 film by Abbas Fahdel

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu

2010 film by Andrei Ujică

2016 film by Johannes Grenzfurthner

JLG/JLG – Self-Portrait in December

2005 documentary film by Sabina Guzzanti

Porto of My Childhood

2001 film by Manoel de Oliveira

Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

2011 film by Fredrik Gertten

Sherman's March

1986 film by Ross McElwee

Jane by Charlotte

2021 film directed by Charlotte Gainsbourg

Portrait Werner Herzog

1986 film by Werner Herzog

A Complete History of My Sexual Failures

2008 film by Chris Waitt

A Tale of the Wind

1988 documentary directed by Joris Ivens

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

1972 film by Jonas Mekas

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

2000 film by Jonas Mekas

Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square

1998 short film

Of Time and the City

2008 film by Terence Davies

Cameraperson is a 2016 autobiographical collage documentary film. The film is an account by director Kirsten Johnson about her life and career as a cinematographer. It relies on footage shot by Johnson across the years in numerous different countries.