In the context of films devoted destiny and activity human of art and culture a special place dedicated phenomenon Mihai Eminescu. In view of author of this studio are the 17 nonfiction films that have addressed this topic and being launched by documentary filmmakers on both sides of the Prut. First to develop a typology of this cycle of films, distributing them in biographical films, movies monographs, films essays and film education. Especially the author stops at the first movies Eminescu, Veronica, Creanga, dedicated to great poet and accomplished in 1914 by director Octav Minar. Perform an analysis of the most representative films of this cycle, emphasizing their artistic features, and the importance of the valence of cognitive mechanisms of artistic and aesthetic understanding and interpretation of material Eminescu. Also elucidate some moments of opposition, difficulties and shortcomings of this poetic material of the top time in the process of moving her to another language - the cinema.