Doug Block
Director, producer, writer and cinematographer, also actor
Doug Block is a documentary filmmaker. His credits as director include: 112 Weddings, The Kids Grow Up, 51 Birch Street, Home Page, The Heck With Hollywood! and The Children Next Door (short). Doc producing credits include: Silverlake Life, Jupiter's Wife, Paternal Instinct, A Walk Into The Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory, The Edge of Dreaming and Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles. Together they've played every imaginable festival, screened in theaters and been broadcast worldwide, and won a bunch of awards and accolades. He founded the community incarnation of The D-Word back in August of 1999 as an outgrowth of a personal blog, he kept up and running for three years during the making of his film Home Page. Today, twenty years later, through nothing more than word of mouth, The D-Word has over 18,000 members from 135 countries. To support his documentary habit he makes verite-style wedding videos. He also consults with other filmmakers on their documentaries and do personal coaching for doc filmmakers in need. In his spare time, he diddles around as co-host of The D-Word Community (which founded in 1999).
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Biography from IMDb.
- Director, producer, writer and cinematographer, also actor
- 6 on MovieCove · 14 credits in all
What are Doug Block's films like?
Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 5
Light 1 · Serious 2 · Dark 2
Grounded 4 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 0
Gentle 1 · Charged 3 · Intense 1
A split, not a type: Steady 2 · Shifting 3 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 3 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 0
Slow burn 4 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 0
Casual 0 · Engaged 4 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 1 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 2
Resolved 2 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet4
- Ambiguous1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Doug Block's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 4 of their 6 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (3).
Subscription and free streaming for Doug Block's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
14 credits, 6 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.
My Omaha (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Leitis in Waiting(2018)
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Unseen(2016)
Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films
112 Weddings (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
The Kids Grow Up(2009)
Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all films
Orgasm Inc.(2009)
Midcredits score: 39th percentile of all films
51 Birch Street(2005)
Midcredits score: 84th percentile of all films
Home Page (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)
A Perfect Candidate (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)
Jupiter's Wife(1995)
Midcredits score: 77th percentile of all films
Silverlake Life: The View from Here (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)
The Heck with Hollywood! (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1991)
Yoko Ono: Then and Now (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1984)
Career shape
A full career of 11 titles from 1984 to 2025.
Biggest box office
51 Birch Street (2005)
Highest rated
51 Birch Street (2005)
Most popular right now
Orgasm Inc. (2009)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it.
How do Doug Block's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 72nd percentile, the median of all 6; across their 5 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 70th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up2
- 50th to 74th3
- 25th to 49th1
Shape of the crowd
4 of their 6 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser4
- Mixed1
Reviewers score the atmosphere 68/100 and the pacing 54/100 in their films, across 4 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Doug Block work with?
People who share at least 2 of Doug Block's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; H. Scott Salinas shares the most, 2.
Composers
- H. Scott SalinasShared titles: The Kids Grow Up (2009), 51 Birch Street (2005)See all 2 shared titles with H. Scott Salinas
Producers
- Lisa HellerShared titles: The Kids Grow Up (2009), 51 Birch Street (2005)See all 2 shared titles with Lisa Heller
- Lori CheatleShared titles: The Kids Grow Up (2009), 51 Birch Street (2005)See all 2 shared titles with Lori Cheatle