List of feature films described as non-narrative

The distinction between non-narrative film and "narrative films" can be rather vague and is open for interpretation. Few filmmakers would define their works as non-narrative. The following list contains films which have been described as "non-narrative" by independent sources.

List

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Feature films need to verify on the list with a running time of 60 minutes.

Title	Year	Country	Director(s)	Cinematographer(s)	Music	Runtime	Ref(s)
13 Lakes	2004		James Benning		—	133 mins	[1][2]
23rd Psalm Branch	1967		Stan Brakhage		—	78 mins	[3]
L'Age d'Or	1930		Luis Buñuel	Albert Duverger	Luis Buñuel, Georges van Parys	63 mins	[3]
Ashes and Snow	2005		Gregory Colbert		Gregory Colbert	63 mins	[4]
Atlantis	1991	/	Luc Besson		Éric Serra	78 mins	[5]
Baraka	1992		Ron Fricke		Michael Stearns	97 mins	[6]
Bestiaire	2012	/	Denis Côté	Vincent Biron	—	72 mins	[7]
Blue	1993	/	Derek Jarman		Simon Fisher-Turner	79 mins	[8]
Bodysong	2003		Simon Pummell		Jonny Greenwood	78 mins	[9]
The Clock	2010		Christian Marclay		—	24 hours	[8]
Decasia	2002		Bill Morrison		Michael Gordon	67 mins	[3]
Diva Dolorosa	1999		Peter Delpeut		Loek Dikker	70 mins	[3]
Dogora: Ouvrons les yeux	2004		Patrice Leconte	Jean-Marie Dreujou	Étienne Perruchon	80 mins	[10]
Earth from Above	2004		Renaud Delourme	Laurent Fleutot, Daniel Marchetti	Armand Amar	67 mins
Empire	1965		Andy Warhol, John Palmer	Jonas Mekas	—	485 mins
The Falls	1980		Peter Greenaway	Mike Coles, John Rosenberg	Michael Nyman	240 mins	[8]
Field Niggas	2015		Khalik Allah		—	60 mins	[11]
Film Socialisme	2010	/	Jean-Luc Godard	Fabrice Aragno, Paul Grivas	—	102 mins	[8]
Hitler: A Film from Germany	1977	//	Hans-Jürgen Syberberg	Dietrich Lohmann	—	442 mins	[8]
Koyaanisqatsi	1982		Godfrey Reggio	Ron Fricke	Philip Glass	86 mins	[12][13]
Laya Project	2007		Harold Monfils	Yuk Hoy Cheong, Agung Dewantoro	Yotam Agam, Patrick Sabag	67 mins	[14]
Leviathan	2012	//	Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel		—	87 mins	[15]
Lines	2016		Vassilis Mazomenos	George Papandrikopoulos	Dna	88 mins	[16]
Man with a Movie Camera	1929		Dziga Vertov	Mikhail Kaufman, Gleb Troyanski	—	68 mins	[17][18]
Microcosmos	1996	//	Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou	Thierry Machado	Bruno Coulais	80 mins
Mirror	1975		Andrei Tarkovsky	Georgi Rerberg	Eduard Artemyev	108 mins	[8]
Naqoyqatsi	2002		Godfrey Reggio	Russell Lee Fine	Philip Glass	89 mins	[13]
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence	2011	////	Roy Andersson	István Borbás, Gergely Pálos	Stock music from various sources	101 mins	[19]
Powaqqatsi	1988		Godfrey Reggio	Graham Berry, Leonidas Zourdoumis	Philip Glass	99 mins	[12][13]
Ruhr	2009		James Benning		—	121 mins	[20]
Samsara	2011		Ron Fricke		Marcello de Francisci, Lisa Gerrard, Michael Stearns	102 mins	[21]
Silence Above the Clouds	2009		Pavol Barabáš		Maok Martin Tesak	65 mins
Sixty Spanish Cigarettes	2015		Mark John Ostrowski		Gabriel Prada	—	[22]
Sophie's Place	1986		Larry Jordan		—	90 mins	[3]
Sweetgrass	2009	//	Lucien Castaing-Taylor		—	101 mins	[23]
El Valley Centro	2000		James Benning		—	90 mins	[24]
Visitors	2013		Godfrey Reggio	Graham Berry, Trish Govoni, Tom Lowe	Philip Glass	87 mins	[25]
¡Vivan las Antipodas!	2011	///	Victor Kossakovsky		Alexander Popov	108 mins	[26]
Walden	1969		Jonas Mekas		—	177 mins	[8]
Winged Migration	2001	/////	Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats	Various	Bruno Coulais	97 mins	[27]
Zorns Lemma	1970		Hollis Frampton		—	60 mins	[8]

See also

• Category:Films without speech
• Nonlinear narrative
  • List of nonlinear narrative films
• Slow cinema
• Structural film
• Surrealist cinema