Documentary Production Company

Scottsdale, AZ · Six continents · Since 2007

Ragtown Media is a documentary production company. We make films about real people doing real things, then we bring that same craft to brands, athletes, and cultural institutions who have something worth documenting.

The films change. The method doesn't.

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What a documentary production company actually does

Behind the scenes filming for Ragtown Media documentary production

A documentary production company is a film-first studio built around the work of capturing what actually happens. We don't write the story before we shoot it. We find the story while we shoot it.

That sounds simple until you compare it to what other video shops do. Commercial production companies sell rehearsed performances. Corporate video agencies sell talking heads and process diagrams. Social content shops sell short-form cuts. All legitimate work. None of it is documentary.

Documentary production is its own craft. It requires its own pre-production discipline (research, not just planning). Its own crew instincts (move fast, but watch and wait). Its own post-production logic (find the story in the footage, don't just polish what you already have). We've spent eighteen years building those muscles. Then we apply them to whatever project comes next.

The kinds of documentaries we make

Ragtown's documentary work covers four broad categories. Each one uses the same craft applied to a different intent.

Brand documentaries.

Long-form and short-form films built around what a company is actually doing, who its people are, and why customers should care. We call this docu-marketing. Read more about

branded documentary work →

Editorial and feature documentaries.

Independent films built around stories that matter on their own terms. Projects like Kurdish Factor (Middle East conflict and human rights), Great Soul Crossing (solo Antarctic expedition), and Hemp Nation (the modern American hemp industry).

Close-up of a person's hand holding an outgoing wave, with some wires and rocky surface visible nearby.

Action sports and adventure documentaries.

Real athletes in real environments doing things most cameras can't capture. Swatch Nines in Switzerland. Red Bull Rampage in Virgin, Utah. Record Breakers. Built for athlete access, shot with FPV drones, cinema cameras, and a crew that can ski, climb, and chase.

Live event and broadcast documentaries.

Concerts, auctions, sports, festivals shot multi-cam and edited to feel like a film, not a feed. Barrett-Jackson. MC Magic's thirty-year anniversary concert. Built for broadcast, built for replay. See our live event work →

Currently in production: Hemp Nation

A six-episode documentary on the environmental and industrial future of hemp, greenlit by the Angel Guild and shooting now.

Hemp Nation is the project that defines what we mean by full documentary at Ragtown. It's not a brand film. There's no client paying for awareness. The subject is the subject: the farmers, the builders, the regulators, and the people rebuilding an entire industry from the ground up. The film exists because the story exists.

Six episodes. Multi-state production. Field interviews. Real builds. Real fields. Real arguments about policy, soil, supply chains, and what happens to the next generation of the farm.

Watch the trailer

Hemp farmer interview from Hemp Nation documentary by Ragtown Media

Hemp grain detail from Hemp Nation documentary production

Recent work

We've produced documentary work for Red Bull, Barrett-Jackson, BBC, History Channel, the University of Arizona, Allegiant, Castrol, Ansell, Make-A-Wish, Swatch, and Mike Rowe's SkillsUSA campaign. We've shot on six continents. We've published thirty-four documentaries, captured ninety million plus views, and reached over fifty-five billion impressions through partner distribution. See the work →