Documentary movies released in 1980
- Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
- AC/DC: Let There Be Rock
- Rockshow
Original title: Paul McCartney & Wings - Rockshow - Let There Be Light
- Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
- D.O.A.
- Divine Madness
- Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
- Muhammad and Larry
- SP FX: Special Effects - The Empire Strikes Back
- Lightning Over Water
- Heartland Reggae
- Document of the Dead
- Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder
Original title: Portrait d'un homme 'à 60% parfait': Billy Wilder - Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise
- The Comeback
- The Making of Superman: The Movie
- No Nukes
- Paradise Not Yet Lost, or Oona's Third Year
- On Company Business
- Act of God
- Talking Heads
Original title: Gadajace glowy - Skateboard Madness
- Demon Lover Diary
- The Metaphor
- The Solar Film
- A Strange Harvest
- Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists
- The Alternative Miss World
- This Is America Part 2
- Blue Suede Shoes
- Olympic Spirit
- On Location with: FAME
- Women in Rock
- Toyah
- The Land Where the Blues Began
- Van Morrison in Ireland
- The Fantastic Funnies
- Invasion
- Fear on Film: Inside 'the Fog'
Original title: Fear on Film: Inside 'The Fog' - But Then She's Betty Carter
- Die Generalprobe
- Jackie McLean on Mars
- Godard 1980
- America Screams
- Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere
- Canada Vignettes: Canada's Snowbirds
- Fantastic
- Days of Fury
- The Wedding Camels
- Railway Station
Original title: Dworzec - Memories of Duke
- Novas Perspectivas
- Centenary Express
- Chance, History, Art...
- Challenger: An Industrial Romance
- The Kingdom of Nek Chand
- L.A.X.
- Portrait: Gerald Squires of Newfoundland
- The Chola Heritage
- ABBA: Words and Music
- UFO Syndrome
- That Dangerous Summer
- Vodka Cola
- Konst är dyrbarare än korv
- Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush
- George Segal
- Mudra-Afrique
- No Japs at My Funeral
- Laila
- Dadi's Family
- Catastrophe: No Safe Place
- The Trial of Lady Chatterley
- Animal Olympians
- A Wives' Tale
Original title: Une histoire de femmes - Rollermania!
- El museo del Prado
- The Great American Hobo
- Tell Me
Original title: Dis-moi - Effacement
- Le Deal mexicain
- The Mystery of the Morro Castle
- Japan Inc: Lessons for North America?
- Stepping Out
- Sanitrárovci
- Partners in Prosperity
- The Risk of Living
Original title: Le risque de vivre - Waiting for Harry
- Bastion Point: Day 507
- The Trials of Alger Hiss
- Ghosts of Cape Horn
- Exopragmatiko
- Behind the Scenes: The Making of Ceddo
Original title: L'envers du décor - Whispers
- Joe Albany... a Jazz Life
- Right Out of History: The Making of Judy Chicago's Dinner Party
- North China Factory
- Nose and Tina
- The Good People of Portugal
Original title: Bom Povo Português - Survival Run
- The Candidate
Original title: Der Kandidat - Fist of Fear, Touch of Death
- Lancalot Freely
- Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
- Canada Vignettes: June in Povungnituk - Quebec Arctic
- We Are the Guinea Pigs
- Rocío
- My Name Is Anna Magnani
Original title: Io sono Anna Magnani - Sceny narciarskie z Franzem Klammerem
- A Tribute to Dr. Shock
- Don't Mess with Bill
- Brighton Beach
- The Search
Original title: Jostoju - Flamengo Paixão
- Co Hoedeman, Animator
- Microphone's Test
Original title: Próba mikrofonu - Arrival
- Hypnosis and Beyond
- House
Original title: Bayit - September Wheat
Original title: Septemberweizen - A Step Away
- Plogoff: Des pierres contre des fusils
- Auditions
- Public Telephone
Original title: Téléphone public - Land Without Trees, or the Mouchouânipi
Original title: Le pays de la terre sans arbre ou Le mouchouânipi - Numax presenta...
- Deutschland Privat 1 - Eine Anthologie des Volksfilms
- Alfonso Sánchez
- Een tip van de sluier
- Gens d'Abitibi
- Fangio: Una vita a 300 all'ora
- Anmut sparet nicht noch Mühe
- Panni sporchi
- The Constructor
Original title: Graditelj - O Homem do Morcego
- Layer of Destruction
Original title: To stroma tis katastrofis - The Special Effects of Karel Zeman
Original title: Karel Zeman detem - Historias prohibidas de Pulgarcito
- Vivre est une solution
- Talentprobe
- Vinicius de Moraes, Um Rapaz de Família
- Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
- Certas Palavras com Chico Buarque
- Vagabond's Band
Original title: Vagabunden Karawane - Les bottes sauvages
- When the Fog Lifts
Original title: Cuando la niebla levante - Kampuchea - Sterben und Auferstehen
- La marche gaie
- Konst
- Le canot à Renald à Thomas
- Karpov igrayet s Karpovym
- Canto Libre - den fria sången
- Pol Bru
- Fênix
- Fliege, roter Schmetterling
- Umi to otsukisama tachi
- Shaira
- The Illness and Recovery of Buda Brakus
Original title: Bolest i ozdravljenje Bude Brakusa - Ritorno a casa
- Música Para Sempre
- Pouskin and Pouschin
Original title: Pushkin i Pushchin - Variace na téma Gustava Mahlera
- Algo sobre Jaime Sabines
- Appunti su 'La città delle donne'
- Louis Nevelson - My Life as a Collage
Original title: Louise Nevelson - Ma vie comme un collage - Der Bund Deutscher Mädel
- Comme si c'était hier
- A Documentary
Original title: Ena dokymanter - Le dos au mur
- Aides Athinai, i prin polis
- Where Are You Going Basile?
Original title: Où Vas-Tu Basile? - Working Day
Original title: Vsední den - De la tourbe et du restant
- Todomundo
- O Sonho Não Acabou
- Kutsumus
- Jean Daskalidès
- Ciezko samemu...
- Ragazzi di stadio
- Le regard des autres
- Edisoni disko
- Ikuska 8
- Plusieurs tombent en amour
- Ikuska 4
- The Evening Before the Next Day
Original title: Kvällen före dagen efter - Kogda ischezayut baryery
- Nachforschungen über die Edelweißpiraten
- Kortnergeschichten
- Steck lieber mal was ein
- La guerra necesaria
- Was soll'n wir denn machen ohne den Tod
- Buenos Aires, la tercera fundación
- Children Drawing Rainbows
Original title: Niji o kakeru kodomo-tachi - Filmen om Anton Nilson. Till arbetarklassens barn
- Cinemafia
- La vie en deux
- Skolko lits u diskoteki
- Haus und Hof
- Jari
- Sista varningen!
