Ross McElwee

This documentary is a subjective, autobiographical meditation on the allure of cigarettes and their troubling legacy for the state of North Carolina. (First Run Features)

Ross McElwee sets out to make a documentary about the lingering effects of General Sherman's march of destruction through the South (imdb)

Time Indefinite is an autobiographical 1993 documentary film directed by Ross McElwee and exploring themes of grief, mortality, and the convenient disconnection of watching life through a camera lens. (Wikipedia)

Documentarian Ross McElwee introduces us to his home, his family, and his milieu.

A portrait by documentarian Ross McElwee of his friend, teacher Charleen Swansea.

Having decided to adopt a Paraguayan infant girl named Mariah, McElwee, his wife, Marilyn, and their 5-year-old son, Adrian, hie off to South America. (Variety)

Michel Negroponte and McElwee follow three residents of Cape Canaveral, Florida, several years after the phasing out of Apollo moon missions: a salty newspaper reporter who has witnessed 1,600 consecutive launches; an out-of-work maintenance man who now leads a motorcycle gang; and the owner of a small construction company who sidelines as the clown-host of a local kids television show. (rossmcelwee.com)

In 1987, the infamous Berlin Wall is still standing and serves as the face of oppression for many in West Berlin; Ross McElwee and his wife Marilyn Levine visit the wall and meet many colorful characters. Three years later, the wall comes down and the two filmmakers return to the scene of their original footage to film a new, happier ending.

Distressed over his teenaged son's addiction to the Internet and fearful that the developing boy has grown detached from the real world, documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee takes a journey back into his own adolescence by returning to St. Quay-Portrieux in Brittany, France, which he visited as a teen, and attempting to track down the photographer who gave him his first job, and the girl who once stole his heart. (allmovie.com)

After enduring fourteen months of imprisonment and torture by the Shah's regime, Iranian engineering student Kazem Ala flees to Houston, where he marries an American woman and resumes his studies. But Ala remains a man without a country: during the hostage crisis, his impassioned criticisms of American foreign policy and the repressive Ayatollah government alienate him from both his adopted and native lands. (rossmcelwee.com)