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James Benning

Director · 112 credits · 15 in highly-rated films

Best known for RR (2007)

Frequent collaborators: Bette Gordon

Directed movies (97 total, ranked by score)

  1. Ruhr

    2009 · ★ 6.6 (12 votes)

    Documentary

    31

  2. Fire & Rain

    2009 · ★ 10.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    32

  3. Pig Iron

    2010 · ★ 7.2 (5 votes)

    33

  4. 11 x 14

    1977 · ★ 7.1 (6 votes)

    Documentary

    34

  5. Sogobi

    2002 · ★ 6.8 (5 votes)

    Documentary

    35

  6. Deseret

    1995 · ★ 5.6 (17 votes)

    Documentary

    36

  7. glory

    2018 · ★ 8.0 (1 votes)

    History

    37

  8. Two Cabins

    2011 · ★ 7.0 (4 votes)

    38

  9. Michigan Avenue

    1974 · ★ 5.0 (3 votes)

    39

  10. One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later

    2005 · ★ 6.3 (10 votes)

    Documentary

    40

  11. Four Corners

    1997 · ★ 6.2 (4 votes)

    Documentary

    41

  12. HF

    2014 · ★ 4.0 (2 votes)

    42

  13. Faces

    2011

    43

  14. YouTube Trilogy: 4 Songs, History, Asian Girls

    2011 · ★ 5.7 (3 votes)

    Documentary

    44

  15. Maggie's Farm

    2020

    Documentary

    45

  16. Nightfall

    2012 · ★ 6.2 (9 votes)

    Documentary

    46

  17. 8½ x 11

    1974

    47

  18. From Bakersfield to Mojave

    2021

    Documentary

    48

  19. Utopia

    1998

    Documentary

    49

  20. Fall Equinox

    2016 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    50

  21. Spring Equinox

    2016 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    51

  22. Used Innocence

    1989 · ★ 5.8 (4 votes)

    Documentary

    52

  23. Measuring Change

    2016 · ★ 5.7 (3 votes)

    Documentary

    53

  24. Natural History

    2014 · ★ 5.4 (5 votes)

    Documentary

    54

  25. I-94

    1974 · ★ 5.4 (5 votes)

    55

  26. Readers

    2017 · ★ 4.5 (2 votes)

    56

  27. After Warhol

    2011 · ★ 5.0 (3 votes)

    57

  28. Twenty Cigarettes

    2011 · ★ 3.0 (7 votes)

    Documentary

    58

  29. Telemundo

    2018 · ★ 3.5 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    59

  30. The War

    2012 · ★ 2.3 (3 votes)

    60

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 29, 2026.