La biblioteca, specializzata in cinema documentario e tecniche audiovisive, raccoglie attualmente circa 3.000 libri e periodici  in inglese, francese, italiano, spagnolo, tedesco, portoghese, e altre lingue.
La videoteca comprende più di 3.000 film, prevalentemente in formato DVD, che percorrono la storia del cinema documentario. È presente inoltre un piccolo fondo di film amatoriali e documentari in pellicola, dotato di tutte le attrezzature per la proiezione nei differenti formati.
Tutti i materiali sono catalogati mediante un database e sono in costante crescita attraverso acquisizioni e donazioni.
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Nuove acquisizioni (maggio-giugno 2013):

Sei film del regista americano Ross McElwee in DVD: Sherman’s March, Time Indefinite, Six O’Clock News, Bright Leaves, Backyard, Charleen, e due volumi sulla sua opera: Landscapes of the Self: The Cinema of Ross McElwee e Three documentary filmmakers – Errol Morris, Ross McElwee, Jean Rouch.

Quattordici film del regista inglese Nick Broomfield in DVD: Who cares, Proud to be British, Behind the rent strike, Juvenile Liaison, Juvenile Liaison II, Tattoed tears, Driving me crazy, Monster in a box, Chicken Ranch, Fetishes, Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam, Soldier Girls, The leader, his driver and the driver’s wife, Tracking down Maggie e il volume Nick Broomfield, Documenting Icons.

Tre film del regista cileno Patricio Guzmán in DVD: La batalla de Chile, Salvador Allende, Chile: la memoria obstinada, e i volumi El Cine De Patricio Guzmán, di Jorge Ruffinelli; Chile: el cine contra el fascismo, di Patricio Guzman e Pedro Sempere.

E inoltre:

Caminar sobre hielo y fuego. Los documentales de Werner Herzog, ed. A. Weinrichter, Ocho y Medio, Madrid 2007;
Piedra, papel y tijera. El collage en el cine documental, ed. Sonia Lopez Garcia, Laura Gomez Vaquero, Ocho y Medio, Madrid, 2009;
Georges Franju, Une Esthétique De La Déstabilisation, Gérard Leblanc, Paris, Maison de la Villette, 1992;
Ciné-Actualités. Histoire De La Presse Filmée, 1895-1980, Marcel Huret, Paris, Henry Veyrier, 1984;
Mystère Marker – Pasajes en la obra de Chris Marker, ed. M. Luisa Ortega, A. Weinrichter, Madrid, T&B, 2006;
Film and Reform. John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement, Ian Aitken, London, Routledge, 1990;
The world of Robert Flaherty, Richard Griffith, London, Victor Gollancz, 1953;
Documentary Television in Canada: From National Public Service to Global Marketplace, David Hogarth, Montréal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002;
One Man’s Documentary: A Memoir Of The Early Years Of The National film Board, Graham McInness, Winnipeg, University of Manitoba Press, 2004;
The Documentary Film Movement. An Anthology, ed. Ian Aitken, Edinburgh University Press, 1998;
Non-fiction Film Theory and Criticism, ed. Richard Meran Barsam, New York, Dutton & Co. 1976;
See It Now Confronts McCarthyism: Television Documentary and the Politics of Representation, Thomas Rosteck, Tuscaloosa, The University of Alabama Press, 1994;
Western Civilization: A Critical Guide to Documentary Films, Neil M. Heyman, Greenwood Press, Westport, 1996;
Documentary Superstars: How Today’s Filmmakers Are Reinventing the Form, Marsha McCreadie, Allworth Press, New York, 2008;
Voyages of Discovery. The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman, Barry Keith Grant, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1992;
Documentary Explorations: 15 Interviews With Film-Makers, G. Roy Levin, Doubleday and Company, Garden City, 1971;
I Lumière. L’invenzione del cinema, Bernard Chardère, Guy and Marjorie Borgé, Marsilio, Venezia, 1986;
Filmguide to Triumph of the Will, Richard Meran Barsam, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1975;
Моё кино (Moe Kino), Artavazd Pelechian, Sovetakan Grogh, Erevan, 1988;
Documentary – The Margins of Reality, Paul Ward, Wallflower, London, 2005;
Pour un nouvel art politique. De l’art contemporaine au documentaire, Dominique Basqué, Flammarion, Paris, 2009;
La saga: Cinéastes, de notre temps. Une histoire du cinéma en 100 films. Entretien avec André S. Labarthe par Thierry Lounas. Notes de travail. Documents inédits, André S. Labarthe, Capricci, 2011;
L’autoportrait en cinéma, Marie-Françoise Grange, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, 2008;
Le court métrage documentaire français de 1945 à 1968. Créations et créateurs, ed. Dominique Bluher, Philippe Pilard, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, 2009;
L’insurrection médiatique. Médias, histoire et documentaire dans le cinéma de Peter Watkins, ed. Sebastien Denis, Jean-Pierre Bertin-Maghit, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, Pessac, 2010;
Filmer le travail – Films et travail. Cinéma et sciences sociales, ed. Corine Eyraud, Guy Lambert, Publications de l’Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, 2009;
Trajets à travers le cinéma de Robert Kramer, ed. Vincent Vatrican, Cédric Venail, Institut de l’image – Aix-en-Provence / Pôle Méditerraneen d’Éducation Cinématographique, 2001;
Des mouvants indices du monde (Documentaire, trace, aléas…), ed. Jean-Luc Lioult, Publications de l’Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, 2008;
Diretores Brasileiros. Eduardo Coutinho, cinema do encontro, ed. Claudia Mesquita, Leandro Saraiva, Banco do Brasil, s.d.