Italian documentary films

2016 film by Gianfranco Rosi

2014 documentary film by Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado

1966 film by Franco E. Prosperi and Gualtiero Jacopetti

Intervista (Italian for Interview) is a 1987 Italian film directed by Federico Fellini, who co-wrote the screenplay with Gianfranco Angelucci from a story by Fellini.

1962 film by Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco E. Prosperi

2013 film by Gianfranco Rosi

2001 documentary film by Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud and Michel Debats,

1991 film by Luc Besson

1964 film by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Vincenzo Cerami

2018 documentary film directed by Wim Wenders

1975 film by Mario Morra, Antonio Climati

1963 documentary film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovannino Guareschi

1968 film by Luigi Scattini

1954 Italian film by E. Gras, G. Moser, L. Bonzi

1983 film by Tonino Guerra, Andrei Tarkovsky

1958 film by Roberto Rossellini

2014 anthology film by 13 different directors

1970 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini

1999 film by Martin Scorsese

2020 film by Gianfranco Rosi

1969 film by Federico Fellini

1963 film

1953 film by Gian Gaspare Napolitano

1972 film by Michelangelo Antonioni

2011 film by Sigfrido Ranucci and Maurizio Torrealta

Anbessa, is a 2019 documentary directed by Mo Scarpelli that premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film tells a coming-of-age narrative around ten-year-old Asalif, displaced from his farmland near Addis Ababa due to condominium construction. As the city evolves, the film captures Asalif's imaginative resistance, where he transforms into a lion ("anbessa" in Amharic) to combat external threats and navigate a changing world. Anbessa explores the clash between tradition and modernity, prompting viewers to reflect on the true costs of progress. The film received critical acclaim

1978 film by Joe D'Amato

2013 film by Ettore Scola

Resan (Swedish for The Journey) is a 1987 documentary film by Peter Watkins, made between the years 1983 and 1985 on several continents, and structured around the theme of nuclear weapons, military spending and poverty. Ordinary people are asked about their awareness of these issues.

2004 documentary film by Claude Nuridsany

2025 documentary film directed by Gianfranco Rosi

2009 film by Abel Ferrara

1964 film by Tinto Brass

1958 film by Alessandro Blasetti

2016 film by Massimo D'Anolfi, Martina Parenti

2021 film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore

2009 Italian documentary film

2005 documentary film by Sabina Guzzanti

1997 film by Anna Maria Tatò

2020 film directed by Abel Ferrara

2020 film directed by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw

1985 film by Michele Soavi

2016 film by Federica Di Giacomo

2018 film by Stefano Savona

2010 film by Sabina Guzzanti

1965 film by Pier Paolo Pasolini

2025 film by Franco Maresco

1973 film by Claude Lanzmann

2013 film

1972 film

2010 film by Andrea Segre

1961 film by Romolo Marcellini

2019 film directed by Franco Maresco

1983 film by Mario Morra, Antonio Climati

1982 film by Franco Piavoli

1999 film directed by Carlo Lizzani