This film essay by Adam Kossoff mixes images from The Paris Exposition of 1937 with literary excerpts from works by Wal…
This film follows Arvo Pärt, the most acclaimed contemporary composer, in the staging of one of his compositions in col…
This multi-award-winning documentary premiered at the Venice Film Festival looks at four men in various parts of the wo…
Through a collage of images taken by tourists in exotic territories, this documentary questions the "tourist eye" as a …
This gripping investigative documentary attempts to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of a prisoner of war durin…
Immersed in the heart of the wild, filmmaker Roman Droux and bear researcher David Bittner show us what life is like fo…
This is a jazz documentary like no other. Preserved by the Library of Congress, this vintage film documents the unforge…
A house. A filmmaker. One man and one woman. In this Criterion Collection classic, filmmaker Allan King documents the c…
Having escaped from Africa to Europe after being harshly harassed for her homosexuality, Pepsi tells us what it has bee…
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-…
Featuring star motorcyclists - like Steve Mcqueen himself - this Oscar-nominated vintage documentary immerses us in the…
This rare documentary piece is a propaganda film with which the Pentagon trained its security personnel against the thr…
Filmed in 1981, this all time classic documentary follows the evolution of four American women during a demanding milit…
Following a dream that revealed to him an indigenous massacre ordered by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, a Native American spi…
After leaving behind a war-torn Belgrade, three Serbian artists navigate a new life in New York. This is their story of…
Through a letter written to the ghost of his grandfather, filmmaker Kelvin Kyung Kun Park makes this experimental film …
In just fifteen minutes, this documentary dissects the American male stereotype through the art of Aaron Ray, a drag pe…
A Mexican director. A white American actor. What can happen in this fifteen-minute conversation about race and privileg…
Didn't know flying motorcycles existed? This adventure documentary follows two intrepid microlight aircrafts riders as …
Vaclav Havel is the father of modern democracy in the post-Soviet Czech Republic. This biographical documentary offers …
Trapped at sea when the Covid-19 pandemic breaks out all over the world, a small crew of people aboard a sailboat must …
Inspired by the best-selling book "The Gift", this documentary follows characters from three continents to weave an end…
This experimental film mixes contemplative observations of the interior of Silicon Valley homes with actorly reflection…
It took five athletes a lifetime to complete the Oceans Seven, the swim challenge that consists of crossing the seven g…
What is it like to be a female tattoo artist in a male-dominated art? In this documentary, world-famous tattoo artist D…
Poetic, contemplative and testimonial, this documentary gathers the impressions of hundreds of Central African men, wom…
Funny, technological, and happily nostalgic, this documentary is the gateway to the world of video game collectors in t…
How to make another living being happy? And how to do it if that other living being is a turtle? These questions are an…
Through incisive research and the participation of protagonists and experts, this documentary dissects the 1971 partiti…
After a long time of being separated from her brother, interned in a select Catholic order in an isolated monastery, fi…
To dig into her family tree, a Kenyan woman in exile embarks on a journey to three countries to construct the figure of…
With a global perspective, this educational documentary sheds light on the evolution of one of the most revolutionary e…
Mark Inglis reached the summit of Everest with both legs amputated in 2006. But his achievement was tarnished by allege…
When a film crew arrives in Ghana to shoot a film about supposed child witchcraft, the ethical dilemmas of the filmmake…
After being a sexually abused child, Dave Ohlmuller embarks on an adventure to bike from Chicago to New Jersey to raise…
How much pain can you accumulate until you can't take it anymore? This light-hearted documentary follows an acting teac…
While the decline in drinking water supplies threatens existence of life on planet Earth, already in Cape Town, South A…
An Artist, a Musician, and a Dreamer leave their comfortable life in Great Britain to create a home in the picturesque …
Although apartheid ended more than twenty years ago, young people in South Africa are still fighting to eliminate discr…
From the rudimentary effects of the last century to the sophistication of the digital age, this film traces the history…
When a series of violent incidents begin to occur among the students of a prestigious medical school in India, filmmake…
More than forty years after the tragedy, this documentary film rescues the events of the 1973 gay bar massacre in New O…
In the decadent town of Gonzalez, Texas, no cultural event attracts more attention than the traditional cattle auction.…
In just a few minutes, this short film from reveals the polluting mechanism behind the extraction of gold, the precious…
A collector embarks on a road trip to complete the world's largest collection of nintendo video games.
This short film takes us to the majestic plains of Badlands National Park, USA, to tell the story of a rodeo horse rais…
From cyberbullying, to screen addiction and mental health, this is a must-see documentary for any parent who wants to l…
An old sailor faces physical and mental decline in his 80s. When a sailor can't go on anymore, he sets out for his fina…
Best Documentary Films
