The best Ingmar Bergman’s documentary movies
Today we present the best Ingmar Bergman’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Ingmar Bergman’s movies.
Liv & Ingmar
7.3/10
The 42 year long relationship between legendary actress Liv Ullmann and master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.
The Making of Fanny and Alexander
7.6/10
The Making of Fanny and Alexander is a fascinating look at the creation of a masterpiece. Directed by Ingmar Bergman himself, this feature-length documentary chronicles the methods of one of cinema’s true luminaries as he labors to realize his crowning production.
Bergman: A Year in a Life
7.4/10
A focuses on 1957, one of the most prolific years for the Swedish director. During the year he shot two films, opened two of his most celebrated films (The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries), and produced four plays and a TV movie while juggling with a complicated private life.
Searching for Ingmar Bergman
6.7/10
A meaningful account of the personal and professional life of the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) that explores his film legacy, with interviews with his closest collaborators and a new generation of filmmakers.
Ingmar Bergman
7/10
On-set documentary on the making of Ingmar Bergman's The Touch.
Fårö Document 1979
6.7/10
In 1969 he made, with Sven Nykvist as cinematographer, The Fårö Document, a film that ended with a rather pessimist view of the island’s future. One of the scenes in the film is of a school-bus and its young passengers. To these and to the realities ten years later Bergman returns in the long documentary Fårö Document 1979.
Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie
7.7/10
The year is 1961 and Ingmar Bergman is making a movie. While planted on the scene as apprentice to Bergman, Vilgot Sjöman (director, I Am Curious–Yellow, 1967), suggests to Swedish Television that they take the opportunity to record with the acclaimed director. In August, Sjöman and the television crew begin to capture what would become a comprehensive five-part documentary on the making of Winter Light, offering views of script development, set construction and lighting, rehearsals and editing, as well as intimate conversations with Bergman and members of his cast and crew. Footage from the film’s Swedish premiere delivers immediate audience reactions and the critics’ reviews the following day.
Filmmakers in Action
7/10
What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in different countries? (Sequel to “Filmmakers vs. Tycoons.”)
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
6.9/10
Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most of his films upon his own reflections, dreams, life events and fantasies, who did not convey any special message for humanity but regarded cinema simply as entertainment. Is there an answer to everything? Can it possibly be? If yes, then life can no longer be so curious, so dynamic, so creative...
...But Film Is My Mistress
6.9/10
Guided by Liv Ullmann and with commentaries from a number of prominent filmmakers for whom Bergman is and remains an important influence - such as Woody Allen, Olivier Assayas, Bernardo Bertolucci, Arnaud Desplechin, John Sayles, Martin Scorsese and Lars von Trier, the film provides a vivid portrait of the artist who in each new project found a challenge for himself and for the people he worked with - both actors and colleagues behind the camera.
Fårö Document
6.7/10
Bergman’s documentary is a time machine, bringing us back to the small island of Fårö in the late sixties. A unique document with the islanders in the main roles and Ingmar Bergman as the reporter. Fårö Document is a political excursion through rural Sweden and one of his least well-known films.
An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman
Produced in 1968 for New York's WNET public television station and filmed by Gunnar Fischer, host Lewis Freedman visits director Ingmar Bergman during the production of SHAME. They discuss some of Bergman's major works leading up to SHAME as well as the just-released HOUR OF THE WOLF.
Bergman Island
The desolate and mysterious island of Fårö, Baltic Sea, 2004. The Swedish master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) reviews his personal and artistic life, a journey through more than sixty years devoted to motion pictures, theater plays and television programs. An intimate and fascinating portrait of one of the greatest geniuses of cinema. (An edited version of the “Bergman och filmen,” “Bergman och teatern,” and “Bergman och Fårö” trilogy.)
Karin's Face
6.5/10
A film based on the pictures from Ingmar Bergman's personal photo album, especially the pictures of his mother Karin.
Daniel
Short film with footage Bergman shot of his infant son and later included in the Swedish omnibus film "Stimulantia" (1967).
The Making of Autumn Sonata
7/10
On-set documentary of the making of Ingmar Bergman's 1977 film Autumn Sonata starring Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullman, examining every aspect of the production. Unusual for this kind of documentary, there is no post-production commentary or interviews.
Bergmans Hushållerska
Anita Haglöf was Ingmar Bergman's housekeeper for eight years, in his home at Karlaplan in Stockholm and at Fårö. She constantly accused him of harassment in her diary, but didn't quit the job.
17 Short Stories
In 2017, ournalist and filmmaker Marie Nyreröd created this series of topical short films using outtakes from footage she had recorded with director Ingmar Bergman for her 2006 feature documentary BERGMAN ISLAND.
Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern
7.5/10
The first of two documentaries about Ingmar Bergman produced to mark his 70th birthday. Includes behind the scenes "home movies" from Bergman's personal archive, interviews with Bergman recorded over his 40 years in the film industry and passages from his autobiography read by Max von Sydow and Bergman himself.
The Search for Sanity
7/10
A short documentary about Hour of the Wolf.
