In a village divided, a dedicated caretaker seeks to rejuvenate an abandoned Catholic seminary, once a vibrant center o…
Narrated by Malcolm McDowell, this documentary sheds light on one of the most tumultuous times in Chile’s history and t…
Former Yugoslav territories, 1980s - 1990s. Time of abrupt political changes and war. Behind all this there was a sound…
Defying an ancient rule, a young woman enlists in a Napoleonic guard that re-enacts historical scenes where only men ca…
Because of his small stature, no one gave a dime for Calvin Murphy's NBA career. This is the narrated story of how this…
Behind stars like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, a pianist, a drummer and a guitarist formed a trio that left their mar…
At 85 years old, Lucy tells us with passion and eloquence how as an transgender person she managed to navigate the most…
This documentary takes us into the reality of Libya after the revolution that overthrew Gaddafi, through the life and w…
Made by Academy Award-nominated director Dana Adam Shapiro, this intrepid film tells the story of the Dallas Cowboys Ch…
In the fast-paced style of those TV documentaries we all love, this film is a gripping expedition to the Chernobyl Excl…
The second part of the Accentus Music trilogy aims to make visible the brilliant young Russian composers of the early 2…
Inspired by the writings of Finnish diplomat G. J. Ramstedt, this documentary is a journey to Japan and Mongolia to ref…
Egyptian director Amr Bayoumi revisits his country's tumultuous contemporary past through his own family traces as the …
This first installment of the Accentus Music trilogy explains how music and the great composers were forever changed by…
Sixty years after being buried by Nazis in Poland, a Roma woman rises from her grave to tell us about the racism her pe…
This animated short film illustrates the adventure of Lino, an Italian partisan and his companions in their attempt to …
Funny, musical, lighthearted. This historical documentary tells the incredible story of how a small port town in Spain …
We've all heard of Mount Everest, but we don't know who were the first two men to reach its summit. This vintage Oscar-…
Set in the majestic mountains of Taiwan, this documentary relies on extensive archival and testimonial material to tell…
Through a letter written to the ghost of his grandfather, filmmaker Kelvin Kyung Kun Park makes this experimental film …
Multi-media artist Kelvin Kyung Kun Park looks back to the “heroic age” of heavy industry in 1960s South Korea and the …
Vaclav Havel is the father of modern democracy in the post-Soviet Czech Republic. This biographical documentary offers …
Skateboarding in a socialist country has its virtues. This must-see documentary for fans of the sport retraces the orig…
Through incisive research and the participation of protagonists and experts, this documentary dissects the 1971 partiti…
From the rudimentary effects of the last century to the sophistication of the digital age, this film traces the history…
More than forty years after the tragedy, this documentary film rescues the events of the 1973 gay bar massacre in New O…
In World War II, a psychiatric asylum in France not only had to deal with the Nazi invasion. Its staff also pioneered …
Filmed over two years in southern Argentina, this documentary makes visible the indigenous people who rediscover their …
The daughter of an Iranian dissident killed by the Islamic Revolution delves into her family's memories, mixing the pol…
This fascinating documentary retraces the contemporary history of language creation for cultural products such as the G…
What would it be like to live underwater for an extended period of time? This iconic US Navy institutional film is a th…
Through her father's daily life in Mansourah, Algeria, filmmaker Dorothée-Myriam Kellou unearths the wound of a painful…
Ready for a trip to the heart of the blues? This 16mm gem features legends such as B.B. King, Rufus Thomas and Evelyn Y…
Despite its prosaic appearance, this will be the only documentary that will tell you, in great detail, about the life o…
With the Bolivian people as the collective protagonist, this mythical film documents the popular resistance to the dict…
This iconic video essay owned by the British Film Institute delves into the evolution of the representation of LGBTI ch…
Directed and narrated by the mythical filmmaker Jorge Sanjinés, this documentary rescues the story of the anonymous Bol…
After being defeated in World War II, Adolf Hitler fled to Argentina, where he died in 1962. Did he not? This docudrama…
Film footage from the era is interwoven with interviews with music lovers to make a portrait of Maxine Sullivan, the ti…
Featuring icons such as Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, Anna Mae Winburn and Pauline Brady, this short film portrays the women …
After the fall of the Berlin wall, in this documentary the incisive filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck takes a look at the history…
Much has been said about the golden years between the wars in Paris, a place par excellence for artists and bohemians o…
Artist, professor, visionary. László Moholy-Nagy revolutionized the way art was created at the Bauhaus school in Weimar…
During Franco's regime in Spain, thousands of lesbians and gays were repressed and disappeared. This documentary is the…
The 1969 Stonewall riots in New York marked a milestone in the beginning of the LGBTQ movement in the United States. Th…
The Yongsan tragedy in South Korea claimed five lives that could have been avoided. This documentary delves into the de…
With exclusive access inside Carnegie Hall, filmmaker Josef Astor documents the struggle to save its historic art studi…
Twenty years after World War II, Norway is once again living in fear after a series of terrorist attacks. It is 1965 an…
Best Documentary Films
