Doug Block

Documentary Director, Producer, Cameraman

Over the past two decades, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Doug Block has supported his career with a side business of videotaping weddings. Long curious about how their marriages have turned out, he tracks down and interviews some of the more memorable of his 112 wedding couples - with funny, insightful and deeply moving results.

112 Weddings

Told through the eyes of children, this hard-hitting film takes us on a family’s journey to overcome years of experiencing childhood domestic violence and one horrific incident that shattered their world.

After a ten-year marriage plagued by waves of mounting brutality, all in front of their four children, Brad Waldroup’s outbursts culminated one indelible night in 2006 when he attacked his wife, Penny, with a gun and machete and murdered her best friend.

THE CHILDREN NEXT DOOR opens five-and-a-half years later as Penny and her children continue to struggle with the impact that shaped their lives. Within three short months, we witness an astonishing turn of events.

The Children Next Door

Strangeness is afoot. Most people don't notice the hundreds of cryptic tiled messages about resurrecting the dead that have been appearing in city streets over the past three decades. But Justin Duerr does. 
For years, finding an answer to this long-standing urban mystery has been his obsession. He has been collecting clues that the tiler has embedded in the streets of major cities across the U.S. and South America. But as Justin starts piecing together key events of the past he finds a story that is more surreal than he imagined, and one that hits disturbingly close to home.

Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles

Betty & Henri begins with veteran filmmaker Doug Block's latest documentary 112 Weddings having just premiered on HBO. The film is about his decades-long side career as a wedding videographer, and HBO's vast marketing machine has been heavily promoting him as "The Love Expert,” somewhat ironic given his 30-year marriage isn't exactly in the best of places. At 62, Doug is at a life crossroads, feeling out of sorts and wondering what the future holds for him. In this state of questioning and spiritual malaise, he and his wife Marjorie travel to Paris for a brief anniversary celebration. 

Setting out for a walk one morning, a passionate love letter falls from the pages of their used travel book with only first names revealed: Betty and Henri. Doug is a fairly skeptical person, but several astonishing coincidences involved in both the letter’s content and the timing of its discovery leads him to believe it was “meant" for him to find, and he drops everything to track down the mystery couple. Playing amateur detective fills him with renewed purpose, and he meets a wide array of fascinating characters and leading experts in their fields. But Doug comes to understand there's far more to his search than simply finding Betty and Henri, that underneath he's really looking to find himself. And, in the process, the so-called Love Expert may just rediscover the true meaning of love.

Doug Block

Documentary Director, Producer, Cameraman

The Children Next Door

112 Weddings

Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the ...

Betty & Henri (in production)