Documentary Movies

A decade since his last campaign, 89-year-old former senator and 2008 presidential candidate Mike Gravel comes out of retirement when a group of teenagers convinces him to run for president one last time.

Fed up with predatory economic institutions and drastic wealth disparity after the 2008 financial crisis, community-led movements are ready to take aim at archaic economic systems that are beneficial for a few and predatory to many.

Former members of the 1970s Centrepoint commune tell their stories, in this intimate and astonishing insight into New Zealand's most infamous cult.

A box of family photos unseen for decades awakens lost memories as they are viewed for the first time on camera.

Nosema is a story of death in the guise of rebirth, a couple before their disappearance last summer. Hürmüz and Simuni Diril had to rebuild their homes for the eighth time as it was bombed and burned down in the middle of an armed co

It will focus on a specific period, from the birth of Black Wall Street to its downfall over the course of two bloody days, and finally the fallout and reconstruction.

The retrospective of the portrayal of professional boxing in the movies. Like professional boxing, this experimental documentary features 12 part-rounds exploring the history of boxing in cinematography from silent films to modern ti

Unable to make her own decisions, Britney Spears' life has been out of her hands since a dramatic series of events put her in a strict conservatorship in 2008. With the #FreeBritney movement skyrocketing into the international spotli

Dennis and Ibra live in Palermo without knowing how long they can stay there. When Ibra disappears, Dennis sets off to look for his friend in the town under the gaze of the patron saints.

What is it really like to be the only open queer in the whole school? In the documentary Hello World (Hei Verden), we follow the lives of Runa (12), Viktor (12), Dina (13) and Joachim (14) through the three years they go to lower sec

A documentary celebrating the Black cultural renaissance that existed in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, OK, and investigates the 100-year-old race massacre that left an indelible, though hidden stain on American history.

After being estranged from his family for his homosexuality, we observe a young Arab man over four seasons and from far away as he navigates his solitude - all the while attempting to reconnect with his mother.

Czech director travels to Poland to find God in the most Christian country in Europe.

A personal dive into the world's most impersonal substance: plastics. Amid the lock-down, a bereaved mother unfolds a surprising journey within and across oceans to understand the contemporary landscape of single-use synthetics. From

The solar system is shaking, a girl sheds a tear, and a monster is drinking blood. Childhood drawings and stories assemble the filmmaker's personal diary. Phone calls with her grandmother raise questions about hereditary melancholy.

Designated a terrorist by the United States, the powerful Syrian militant Abu Mohammad al-Jolani now seeks a new relationship with the west.

Documentary examining how Margaret Thatcher defeated Britain's coal miners in the 1984 miners' strike and in doing so changed the face of Britain forever.

The Ainu people are an indigenous people of Japan who primarily live in Hokkaido. During the Meiji era, the Japanese government colonized the Ainu people, banning the language, cultural practices, and taking their land. There are now

The Ushiku immigration center near Tokyo mainly holds people seeking refuge in Japan. Using a hidden camera, award-winning filmmaker Thomas Ash interviewed inmates there from late 2019. His film publicly accuses Japan's uncompromisin

A gay man confronts the ghosts of his past and explores hidden longings, unrequited love and tormenting feelings of guilt.

What we don't see is the face of the most important figure in the film, Stefan S., who is serving a life sentence in a Brandenburg jail.

After hiding in the mountains for a century, a Miao Christian choir is discovered by an official and becomes a national sensation. Two young Miaos must reconcile their faith, identity and love with the real world of China.

Montage film in which Lanna organizes her archived memories in the form of Super-8 images, captured in the 1970s.

After three decades of hiding his feminine impulses, renowned Spanish dancer Manuel Liñán comes out to challenge convention by pursuing his love of performing flamenco - dressed as a woman - in a conservative society with rigid cultu

Winy Maas, co-founder of MVRDV architects, always has 100 projects going at once. Documentary filmmaker Jan Louter followed him for two years to make "Under Tomorrow's Sky", a candid and open-hearted look at the highs and lows of the

A lively and timely portrait of María Luisa Bemberg, one of Argentina's most outstanding, unique and independent-minded masters of cinema.

Three Indigenous youth come of age on the fringes of the Navajo Nation. 'Scenes from the Glittering World' is a meditation on adolescence, trauma and the power of connecting with a homeland.

Discussion with Amos Gitaï on his series House (1980), A House in Jerusalem (1998) and News from Home/News from House (2005), plus his cycle of works investigating and remembering the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.

22-year-old Qiong digs into her family's dramas and traumas, exploring the complexity of politics, gender, sex, birth control and social political power over women's bodies.

Émilie Serri was born in Canada. She had only visited Syria, her father's country, a few times prior to the start of the civil war. Following her grandmother's death, a desire grew within her to form a stronger connection to this cou

The 2019 Hong Kong protests resonate throughout this critical visual essay on that metropolis, combining fiction, historical sources with contemporary conflict.

The contrast between the lives of those who live in this Swiss town year round and the powerful elite who gather there once a year for a conference.

Monatik burst into the Ukrainian show business swiftly, triumphantly and as if out of nowhere, immediately starting to make music in quality comparable to European and American samples. The documentary project will tell about the art

During 1944-1946 more than 480,000 Ukrainians had been forced to leave the territory of modern northeastern Poland - Kholmshchyna, Nadsiannia, Pidliashshia, and Lemkivshchyna. The eyewitness tells the story of deportation and recalls

From pregnancy to album preparations, Lebanese singer and "Queen of the Stage" Myriam Fares documents her experiences with her family while in lockdown.

This is the story of Hungary's wild waters.

Fleeing religious persecution, resilient Jewish immigrants arrive in Toronto and begin building affordable, quality housing in a growing metropolis. Toronto-voted one of the top 5 most livable cities in the world and renowned for its

From plain white walls to bombastically crafted backdrops, adult chat rooms are portals to people's phantasy worlds. Focusing on the moments when performers are off-screen, a meticulous concatenation of ghostly spaces takes us on an

Philosopher Zhuang Zi once dreamt he was a butterfly. This pleasant daydream tells this old story from a new perspective. Modern butterflies apparently dream in VR. Nature, technology and spirituality seamlessly meld when a monk and

Two artists explore the wilderness of southern New Zealand in search of art and adventure.

Dr. Nof Atamna-Ismaeel - the first Muslim Arab to win Israel's MasterChef - is on a quest to make social change through food. And so, she founded the A-sham Arabic Food Festival, where pairs of Arab and Jewish chefs collaborate on ex

Wolves are back. They bring along both fear and hope. Do they still have place in our nature?

Golden Flask captures the daily prosaic routine of the impoverished. We believe it is necessary for the 'normal' society (already entangled within modern technology and absorbed in capitalist nature) to see and remember that there ar

Ballerina Boys celebrates the all-male dance company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, whose male ballerinas have for 45 years taken great risks to practice their dazzling version of ballet parody. While the film celebrates the