Documentary Films

Saul's dad took him to work with him on a hot Summer day in 1950. What could go wrong? More than 60 years later, in thi…

In 1811, two bodies were found shot in Lake Wannsee, near Berlin. The German poet Kleist and a woman. What is known abo…

When Daniel Ortega returns to power in Nicaragua in 2006, a group of Americans see the lands they bought in the past th…

An exploration into the family past pushes a young Argentinean on a revealing journey in which he discovers that his gr…

This independent documentary is an educational effort to make visible the life and work of the great poet Walt Whitman …

More than five decades later, two actors make a dramatized reading of the letters that the poets Anja Plaschg and Laure…

Using film footage from different periods, this essay on family memory and documentation compiles films sent as postcar…

This is the last film of Andreas Voigt's "Leipzig Series". The filmmaker shows how the lives of a group of Germans have…

The world knows who Mandela was for South Africa, but we don't know about F.W. de Klerk, the president that ushered in …

Using black and white film footage of the time, filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa reconstructs the siege of the Nazi army in Le…

This documentary rescues part of the vast propaganda footage that the Soviets shot in Africa to document their humanita…

Through testimonies and archive footage, this film tells the story of people from Borgo who escaped fascist Italy in se…