As a documentarian he directed and wrote such films as Storm of Strangers, The Stairs, and The Savage Eye (1959), which won the BAFTA Flaherty Documentary Award.
Reviewing its debut at the 1959 Edinburgh Film Festival, the art critic David Sylvester called its imagery "sharp, intense, spectacular, and imaginative".
Private Eye | eye | Walter Savage Landor | Savage Islands | Michael Savage | London Eye | Adam Savage | John Savage | human eye | Savage, Maryland | Japanese White-eye | Dan Savage | Birds Eye | Third Eye Blind | private eye | John Savage (actor) | Eye of the Dolphin | Brass Eye | The Savage Nation | Savage | Rapid eye movement sleep | Public Eye | Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Michael Savage (commentator) | Eye of Agamotto | Eye Manor | Eye | Randy Savage | Queer Eye | My Little Eye |
For several years in the 1950s, Lerner, Strick, Ben Maddow, and Sidney Meyers worked part-time on the experimental documentary The Savage Eye (1959).
He had worked with Joseph Strick on The Savage Eye, and Strick co-produced two documentary films directed and written by Couffer, including Ring of Bright Water (1969) and The Darwin Adventure (1972).