D. A. Pennebaker

In the early 1960s Pennebaker helped build a portable sync-sound camera, and used it to stay close to famous people for days at a time. Don't Look Back follows Bob Dylan, aged 23, on three weeks in England, from airport to hotel room to concert hall. The War Room sits with James Carville and George Stephanopoulos inside the 1992 Clinton campaign. From the late 1970s he made his films with his wife, Chris Hegedus.

Signature

• Direct cinema: no narration and no staged interviews.
• Musicians on tour and on stage (Monterey Pop, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars).
• Politics behind the scenes (The War Room, Town Bloody Hall).
• Co-directed with Chris Hegedus.