Documentary Films Quiz
Try out this Documentary Films quiz to test your knowledge. Documentary Films trivia highlights the films, filmmakers, and true stories that have defined nonfiction cinema across different eras and styles.
15 questions
~3 min to finish
Easy to hard difficulty
440 pts max score
Question 1 · Easy · 10 pts
Which documentary won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2005?
Question 2 · Easy · 10 pts
March of the Penguins won which Academy Award category in 2006?
Question 3 · Medium · 20 pts
Gimme Shelter builds toward which notorious concert from the Rolling Stones' 1969 U.S. tour?
Question 4 · Medium · 20 pts
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is fueled by a high-score feud in what arcade game?
Question 5 · Medium · 20 pts
Who directed Waiting for Guffman?
Question 6 · Medium · 20 pts
Which mockumentary pedals straight into cycling and doping?
Question 7 · Medium · 20 pts
Who directed the mockumentary Mascots?
Question 8 · Hard · 40 pts
Who directed Man with a Movie Camera?
Question 9 · Hard · 40 pts
Name one of the Maysles brothers credited as a director of Grey Gardens.?
Question 10 · Hard · 40 pts
The Thin Blue Line revolves around which man?
Question 11 · Hard · 40 pts
Who co-directed Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills alongside Bruce Sinofsky?
Question 12 · Hard · 40 pts
Which filmmaker directed Shoah?
Question 13 · Hard · 40 pts
The Act of Killing was directed by whom?
Question 14 · Hard · 40 pts
Crumb profiles which cartoonist?
Question 15 · Hard · 40 pts
Who is the subject of Grizzly Man?