This article discusses the contributions of the woman film directors in the context of the Latin-American production. The starting point is based on an inequality position regarding the achievements of men and their preeminence in a sector which belongs to a social frame characterized by a structural machismo. A qualitative methodology is used through the film analysis of a sample composed by 100 relevant works of the Latin-American documentary genre. The films draw a path that begins with the seminal contributions in the New Latin-American Cinema and concludes nowadays. Over the last few years documentary in Lat-in America has been undergoing a consolidation process once that it has reached its maturity in the land-scape of creation, with more possibilities than it has ever had in Film History.