Documentary Movies

From a chance meeting to a tragic fallout, Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali's extraordinary bond cracks under the weight of distrust and shifting ideals.

Chased by the army, two Beduin smuggle Palestinian workers through the Negev desert. A portrait filmed over five years about men living on the edge in one the most fragile regions of the world.

Brooklyn, 1972. Shu'aib Raheem tried to steal guns for self-defense, starting the longest hostage siege in NYPD history. NYPD psychologist Harvey Schlossberg fought to reform police use of violence and save lives by using words, not

No Responders Left Behind follows 9/11 social activists Jon Stewart and John Feal as they take on the U.S. government to ensure Health and Compensation for thousands of ailing First Responders who are dying from toxins released at Gr

An examination of the most popular instrumentalist of all time, Kenny G, and why he is polarizing to so many.

Looks at the deadly Australian bushfires of 2019-2020, known as 'Black Summer'. An exploration of what happened as told from the perspective of victims of the fires, activists and scientists.

This unnervingly vivid dive into the 1971 uprising from Emmy® winning director Stanley Nelson sheds new light on the enduring violence and racism of the prison system and highlights the urgent, ongoing need for reform 50 years later.

Through the eyes of 7 children, the ancient Albanian code of blood vengeance is called into question.

A courageous autobiographical short documentary about living in fear under the military junta in Myanmar, and about making films, which has become virtually impossible since the country's military coup on February 1st, 2021.

The filmmaker tries to communicate with the sheep living where his parents are buried.

Made from images filmed by the Syrian artist Amel Alzakout after the boat on which she was fleeing Syria sank off the coast of Lesbos, Purple Sea reports on the moment in which the co-director and the other passengers are floating in

"The closing titles say THE TWO SIGHTS was "collected" on various islands of the Outer Hebrides from 2017-19, but what does the film gather? There are the images, captured on a 16mm camera, which survey all this ravishing landscape c

Constructing a solitary reality by imagining what life would be like after the passing of her parents, director Allison Chhorn's intricate docu-fiction chronicles her own process carrying on work in the family's titular 'plastic hous

Made without camera or film, Austrian artist Rainer Kohlberger's algorithm-based abstractions engulf the cinema space with their light rhythms and optical vibrations.

Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of online terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee compose letters addressed to each other, narrating

Several years ago I immigrated to Germany. Here, I live in a small old house, which urgently needs modernization; theoretically it protects me from wind, rain and cold.

The story is about a group of activists who started the movement for the Independence of Ukraine in Kamianets-Podilskyi in the late 1980s.

Saint Clair Cemin, Psyche is a documentary film following the celebrated Brazilian artist Saint Clair Cemin over the last five years. Directed by Svetlana Cemin the film represents an intimate portrait of the artist and a deep reflec

Follows former top officials and elite operatives inside the CIA as they share accounts of their efforts to stop Osama bin Laden and the catastrophic attack they knew was coming.

Counter to the socially stratified imagery regarding the AIDS epidemic in Brazil and the everyday serophobia directed at people living with HIV, the documentary film strives to remodel and appropriate these overly codified terms and

Explores the relationships between tradition and innovation, place and productivity, articulacy and artistry.

In an all-new Shock Docs special, The Curse of Lizzie Borden, paranormal investigator Dave Schrader assembles a team of paranormal experts to investigate whether a dark family curse led to the most infamous axe murders of all time. W

After 9/11, attention riveted on the capture of John Walker Lindh, known as "the American Taliban." Explore how America grapples with justice in the fog of war and how narratives are built and destroyed in the aftermath of battle.

Beneath the pyro, spandex, and heavy metal hair, awaits an intriguing and deeply personal story of underdog rock band Triumph who rose to world domination in the 80s then mysteriously disappeared at the height of their fame.

Documentary study of the polar bears who draw tourists to Churchill, Manitoba.

Lim Seonn-yeo, 68, has never left a deep mountain village in Samcheok, Gangwon Province. Her husband, the protector of the illiterate Seonn-yeo, passed away, leaving her a will to "learn to read and write." She says that she has live

At Deoksan elementary school under Mt. Woelaksan, there are 15 children who have been in the same class for 6 years. They don't sit quietly in class like other school kids. After school, they gather at a hidden secret spot by the riv

The village of Oshikamura in Nagano Prefecture with a beautiful view of the Minami Alps. On top of that deep mountain, Simon Piggott, 70, who moved from England 30 years ago, and his family live. As such, Oshikamura is a place that w

My body, my films, my non-binary gender identity. What is my place in this world?

How to Kill a Cloud is a documentary of a Finnish female scientist trying to create rain in the United Arab Emirates desert. Can ambition be measured in rain?

A Vietnamese couple living in Germany experiences only a virtual version of their motherland through chat clients and struggles with the restrictions and implications this means to their social life.

Life in Common follows a period in the life of the couple Poeta and Belinha, of Cape Verdean origin, who live in a community to be dismantled: Barruncho Neighborhood, in Odivelas. With all the uncertainties of the future, Poeta and B

Using the tapes, animation, and new on-camera interviews with people who knew him, the film explores the impact of Capote's explosive unfinished novel "Answered Prayers."

The film's attention is at the difficulty and years waiting for organ transplantation in Bulgaria.

The documentary follows the events behind the mysterious attack on presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro on 6 September, 2018, when Adélio Bispo stabbed the candidate during a rally in Minas Gerais. Did he acted alone as everyone bel

An ancient river tells us her story, conversing with inhabitants along her flow. Corseted by man, she is an artery not a barrier, taking the viewer on a 990 km journey through divided lands she seeks to understand. She is Sava (Mira

Chronological look at the conception, construction and destruction of the World Trade Center towers which was built as a symbol of American strength and ambition.

American 11, United 175, American 77, and United 93 tells the riveting and emotional human stories of those aboard each doomed jetliner.

Documentary collects accounts of 9/11, recorded in the months after the attacks, and present-day testimonials from the same eyewitnesses.

Yoo Kyung-geun, who lost her daughter Ye-eun in the Sewol Ferry Disaster, sits down at the podcast production studio. It is to meet with the bereaved families of numerous social disasters before and after the Sewol Ferry Disaster. Th

On 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. Andreas, Mark, and Sonya, as young people at the time, had to face the sudden unification head-on. After leaving Germany, they are currently living in Korea as a pianist, a film production ma

Jung-gu, the old original downtown of the city of Incheon, is the place where the first port was opened to foreign trades during the Japanese colonial period, and it is also the starting point of the construction of modern buildings,

Tragedy + Time + Comedy = Healing. From the immediate aftermath of 9/11 to today stand-up comedians, talk-show hosts, sketch performers, television animators and other entertainers have used often-controversial jokes to unite and hea