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- Emile de Antonio
- Denys Arcand
- Timothy Asch, (The Ax Fight)
- Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky (Brother's Keeper, The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, Some Kind of Monster)
- Michel Brault
- Sam Bozzo (Can You Hack It?)
- Ken Burns (Baseball, Jazz, The Civil War)
- Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
- Robert J. Flaherty
- Elise K. Fortunato (Telegram, Last Dingo in Paris)
- Sue Friedrich, Hide and Seek
- Robert Gardner, (Dead Birds)
- Gilles Groulx
- Mark Jonathan Harris, (The Long Way Home, Stories of the Kindertransport)
- Steve James (Hoop Dreams)
Kartemquin Films (Gordon Quinn, Jerry Blumenthal, Steve James, Peter Gilbert, et al.)
- Barbara Kopple (Harlan County, USA, American Dream, both Academy Award winners)
- Richard Leacock
- Allie Light, Dialogues with Madwomen
- Kevin Macdonald, (One Day in September, Touching the Void)
- M. T. Manelski, Running in High Heels
- Ron Mann (Comic Book Confidential, Twist, Grass)
- Albert Maysles and David Maysles (Salesman, Grey Gardens, Gimme Shelter)
- Ross McElwee, (Time Indefinite, Sherman's March)
- Freida Lee Mock, (" A Strong Clear Vision" an Academy Award Winner), ("Bird by Bird with Annie" a portrait of Anne Lamott)
- John Marshall, (The Hunters)
- Michael Moore (Roger and Me, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, The Big One)
- Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, Vernon, Florida, Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, The Fog of War)
- Alanis Obomsawin
- D. A. Pennebaker (Dont Look Back, Monterey Pop)
- Pierre Perrault
- Steven Rosenbaum (7 Days in September)
- Christopher Seufert
- Martin Smith ("Hunting bin Laden", "Truth, War and Consequences")
- Frederick Wiseman (High School, Titicut Follies)
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