When they stop receiving their salaries after the economic collapse of a maritime company, 320 seamen in Grece embark o…
In September 2021, 1500 white-sided dolphins were slaughtered in Skálabotnur. This documentary navigates both waters to…
On April 29th, 1992, Latasha Harlins was killed in South Central Los Angeles. Her death ignited the LA riots, yet her …
In their own voice, the former miners of the uranium mines in a Gabonese village tell us how they were forgotten by the…
14-year-old girl Khatemeh has run away to a women's refuge and is seeking a divorce from her husband, a man twice her a…
This HBO documentary film explores the issue of domestic violence and its impact on survivors. The film follows the sto…
At the border between Italy and France, migrants hope to cross northwards with the help of the locals. In the meantime,…
Three women tell us how their enlistment in the Los AngelesPolice Department poses the challenge of completely changing…
According to statistics, 95% of all incarcerated people will come home. Director Tamara Perkins follows three men in th…
Filmed entirely remotely, this documentary that mixes dramatizations and expert testimonies sheds light on how to preve…
More than forty years after the tragedy, this documentary film rescues the events of the 1973 gay bar massacre in New O…
Trying to beat an algorithm he considers unfair, a young bike courier with more than 20,000 kilometers pedaled makes hi…
Stories of women of the past and present gravitate in a palace on the coast of Normandy, France, a sort of refuge where…
How to talk about sexual abuse? From where can a survivor tell about it without breaking into tears? This is a courageo…
After being deprived of an ancient totem more than a hundred years ago, an indigenous family of the Easter Island sets …
Directed and narrated by the mythical filmmaker Jorge Sanjinés, this documentary rescues the story of the anonymous Bol…
Through the different perspectives of two guerrilla fighters, this documentary delves into the ins and outs of the peac…
During Franco's regime in Spain, thousands of lesbians and gays were repressed and disappeared. This documentary is the…
The Yongsan tragedy in South Korea claimed five lives that could have been avoided. This documentary delves into the de…
In the aftermath of the health catastrophe created by the pandemic, a group of experts support the case of Dr. Domenico…
Educational, incisive, necessary. This ecological documentary puts the spotlight on the Forest Code, a legislation impl…
Isabel, a Brazilian woman, dreamed that someone strangled her three days before she was murdered. Years later, her son,…
In 2011, a young Chilean man, Manuel, was killed by a bullet fired by the security forces in a demonstration. This is t…
This Oscar-Nominated animation illustrates the dilemma of Bill Babbitt, who must make a decision when he realizes his b…
Mixing reality and fiction, we see the trial and the interpellation of those involved in the murder of a young Portugue…
After being notified that their jail sentence will begin in just a few days, three convicts wait and prepare for their …
With almost no budget to shoot, filmmaker Lee Salter conducts an in-depth investigation into the implications of the ph…
In the Philippines, an innocent man faces the death penalty in a controversial murder case that separated two families …
Since 1898 more than 2.000 people have been exonerated of a serious crime in the U.S. This documentary tells the story …
Today, more kids are going to adult prisons with longer sentences in the United States. This films poses a serious look…
With the premise that the legal system in the United States makes sustainability illegal, this film demonstrates how pe…
In just a few minutes, this short documentary shows us in a cold and punctual way how social violence in Chicago is ram…
This animated short film depicts the harsh reality for the prisioners inside Honeheck, a jail for women in former East …
Trapped in the structures of a destructive family, with no help from the outside world, a mother and a daughter embrace…
Through an observational exercise, this short film documents the only hour of freedom for prisoners in a Brazilian jail.
After a massacre perpetrated by Landowners in Corumbiara, a municipality in western Brazil, the indigenist and filmmake…
The documentary details the investigation carried out by journalist Edmundo Cruz, who cleared the mystery about the dis…
How a child who dreamed of becoming a doctor ends up being charged with murder? Adeyemi Michael starts a quest to find …
Walt Bogdanich is an American investigative journalist and three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. In 1988, while a…
A mother's emotional search for reconciliation with the Palestinian sniper who killed her son in the Israeli-occupied t…
In the late 70s, the Khmer Rouge regime killed around two million people in Cambodia suspected of being “internal enemi…
Best Documentary Films
