Category
page 1Documentary films about films
behind-the-scenes film
In filmmaking, behind-the-scenes (BTS), also known as the making-of, the set, or on the set, is a documentary film that features the production of a film or television program. This is often referred to as the EPK (electronic press kit) video, due to its main usage as a promotional tool, either concurrent with theatrical release or as a bonus feature for the film's DVD or Blu-ray release.

5 Broken Cameras
2011 documentary film directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi

The Five Obstructions
2003 film by Lars von Trier, Jørgen Leth

Inside Deep Throat
2005 documentary film

That's Entertainment!
1974 film by Jack Haley, Jr.

American Movie
1999 film directed by Chris Smith

That's Entertainment, Part II
1976 film by Gene Kelly

A Film Unfinished
2010 film by Yael Hersonski

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
2006 documentary directed by Sophie Fiennes

Room 237
2012 American documentary film directed by Rodney Ascher
Notes Towards an African Orestes
1970 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Voyage in Time
1983 film by Tonino Guerra, Andrei Tarkovsky

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991 film directed by Fax Bar, George Hickenlooper and Eleanor Coppola

These Amazing Shadows
2011 documentary film

The Eye of Vichy
1993 film by Claude Chabrol

Talking About Trees
2019 film directed by Suhaib Gasmelbari

I Am Your Father
2015 film directed by Marcos Cabotá and Toni Bestard

The Sweatbox
2002 film by Trudie Styler

The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
2012 British documentary film directed by Sophie Fiennes

10 on Ten
2004 film by Abbas Kiarostami

Jim & Andy
2017 documentary film directed by Chris Smith

The Making of Fanny and Alexander
1986 documentary film by Ingmar Bergman

The Young Girls Turn 25
1993 film by Agnès Varda

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
2009 film by Serge Bromberg

Burden of Dreams
1982 film directed by Les Blank

Prisoner of Paradise
2002 documentary film directed by Malcolm Clarke

In Search of Darkness
2019 film directed by David A. Weiner

The Battle Over Citizen Kane
1996 film by Michael Epstein, Thomas Lennon

Best Worst Movie
2009 film by Michael Stephenson

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010 documentary film directed by Daniel Farrands and Andrew Kasch

The Captains
2011 film by William Shatner

78/52
78/52 is a 2017 American documentary film written and directed by Alexandre O. Philippe. Its an analysis of the shower scene in the 1960 horror film Psycho. 78/52 received positive reviews from critics.

That's Dancing!
1985 film by Jack Haley, Jr.

Terror in the Aisles
1984 film by Andrew J. Kuehn

Dawson City: Frozen Time
2016 film by Bill Morrison

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
2018 documentary film directed by Morgan Neville

That's Entertainment! III
1994 film

Innisfree
1990 film

My Armenian Phantoms
2025 documentary film directed by Tamara Stepanyan

The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
1988 film by Frank Zappa