The name may not be familiar, but his work likely is. Albert Maysles (along with his brother David) was the man behind the iconic Stones documentary Gimme Shelter.

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Maysles once said “remember, as a documentarian you are an observer, an author but not a director, a discoverer, not a controller.” He brought this philosophy to the classic documentary Gimme Shelter, which chronicled the Rolling Stones tour of 1969 right up to the murder of Meredith Hunter, an 18-year-old concert goer who was killed by the Hell’s Angels security crew at Altamont.

Maysles was also famous for the 1968 documentary Salesman – the first feature-film documentary – about four traveling bible salesmen in Florida, and Grey Gardens in 1975 about a reclusive mother and daughter who live in a run-down mansion in New York.