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The Reflective Screen: The Documentary as Film Memoir

Intimate documentaries that address issues with the filmmaker's personal life, including their childhood, family, and close friends.

Related lists:
Love, Factually: Documentaries for the Heart
These American Lives: Docs for Fans of Public Radio Stories
Real to Reel: Movie Dramatizations of Documentaries
All of my lists:
List Index

  • Between Brothers
  • The Gas Station Attendant
  • Palimpsest: The Story of a Name
  • Remake
  • The Secrets We Bury
  • Third Act
  • My Dad's Tapes
  • Resynator
  • A Photographic Memory
  • Filling in the Blanks
  • My Father’s Prison
  • That Day, on the River
  • Joonam
  • Everybody's Oma
  • The Super 8 Years
  • Sam Now
  • Relative
  • No Place Like Home
  • Anonymous Sister
  • Nuclear Family
  • Beba
  • Charm Circle
  • All About My Sisters
  • The Death of My Two Fathers
  • Love & Stuff
  • Mamá
  • A Farewell to Memory
  • 80.000 Schnitzel
  • An Elegy to Forgetting
  • All Together
  • After Norma
  • Walchensee Forever
  • Film About a Father Who
  • Dick Johnson Is Dead
  • My First and Last Film
  • Becoming Black
  • What Can You Do About It?
  • Home Videos
  • All in My Family
  • Our Time Machine
  • Rewind
  • Passing Time
  • One Child Nation
  • The Disappearance of My Mother
  • To Kid or Not to Kid
  • I Go Gaga, My Dear
  • Evelyn
  • Chasing Portraits
  • Origin Story
  • My Heart Belongs to Daddy
  • The Night We Fell
  • The Best Thing You Can Do with Your Life
  • Garden of Life
  • My Mother's Letters
  • Acta Non Verba
  • Abu
  • Thank You for Coming
  • Plot 35
  • 32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide
  • Fatherless
  • The Language of Silence
  • Unbroken Glass
  • Adriana's Pact
  • Unrest
  • Daan's Inheritance
  • Familiar Circles
  • My Life as a Film
  • Crespo (La continuidad de la memoria)
  • Bezness as Usual
  • Look at Us Now, Mother!
  • Good Luck Soup
  • Reflections
  • Cameraperson
  • A Family Affair
  • Reunification
  • Nosotras/Ellas
  • On Football
  • No Home Movie
  • The Silences
  • The Closer We Get
  • From This Day Forward
  • A Woman Like Me
  • The Wolf's Lair
  • Sam Klemke's Time Machine
  • Ida's Diary
  • Tito's Glasses
  • 32 and 4
  • Little White Lie
  • If Mama Ain't Happy, Nobody's Happy
  • Cloudy Times
  • One Cut, One Life
  • My Own Man
  • Happily Ever After
  • Closure
  • Bà nội
  • Remembrance
  • i hate myself :)
  • First Comes Love
  • The Genius of Marian
  • 16 Photographs at Ohrdruf