This indie documentary delves into the daily lives of Gary Marinoff and Alan Shain, two quirky cult comedians from New …
This independent film is a biopic of Indian filmmaking legend Satyajit Ray and the making of his multi-award-winning de…
At 92, having lived so long is a joy for Shirley Affleck, and even more pleasurable is being able to recount her journe…
This documentary takes us to Guangzhou, China, where three enterprising African women try to make their way in business…
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…
When her parents are assigned to China, seven-year-old Rebeka embarks on an unforgettable journey to Guangzhou. This is…
Will little Rebeka go down the slide? We'll find out in this fleeting but beautiful short film shot on black and white …
Despite its prosaic appearance, this will be the only documentary that will tell you, in great detail, about the life o…
Prolific musician Petra Nachtmanova embarks on a journey from Berlin, through the Caucasus and Turkey, to Iran, in sear…
With their tenacity and total commitment on the rugby field, the players of The Sydney Convicts prove that it is possib…
Some people compare it to the industrial revolution or the renaissance, but how revolutionary is the rise of the realm …
In her sixties, Gwendolyn, a three-time weightlifting world champion, prepares for her next tournament while battling c…
With open doors to their intimate lives and precious childhood memories, this documentary follows Jack and Yaya, two ol…
Filmmaker Joel Allen Schroeder embarks on a personal journey to discuss America's most famous comic strip, Calvin and H…
Based on the poem The Fallen Oak, by poet Giovanni Pascoli, this experimental short film reflects on the relationship b…
A trip to a big city means for Lee and Jia to leave behind the old red house where they have lived for the last few yea…
This iconic video essay owned by the British Film Institute delves into the evolution of the representation of LGBTI ch…
Jane Elliott manages to build up a realistic microcosmos of society with her famous experiment about racism. What start…
Each night in Silicon Valley, the Line 22 transforms from a public city bus into an unofficial shelter for the homeless…
Inspired by Skateistan, Afghanistan's first skateboarding school, this emotional feature-length documentary is a journe…
Blood, punches, jumps and screams. These are the kind of things we will see when the fighters face each other in the in…
This episode of UN In Action highlights women's contribution to world peace through the testimony of two women who are …
This episode of UN In Action focuses on a major current environmental issue: how to reduce the troubling carbon emissio…
With the texture of videotapes from the early 1990s, a Turkish filmmaker in exile makes a personal essay on the consequ…
As nostalgic as it may seem, there are thousands of Lego collectors in the world who make stop-motion home movies with …
After being defeated in World War II, Adolf Hitler fled to Argentina, where he died in 1962. Did he not? This docudrama…
Fifteen years after living as an exchange student in Arizona, filmmaker Fernanda Pessoa returns to the United States to…
Film footage from the era is interwoven with interviews with music lovers to make a portrait of Maxine Sullivan, the ti…
When a conversation begins in the basement of the house of a man isolated from society, his darkest secrets come to lig…
A privileged individual receives a permit to make a copy of a famous Monet painting in a lonely museum. But is he reall…
Featuring icons such as Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, Anna Mae Winburn and Pauline Brady, this short film portrays the women …
Just after 9/11, filmmaker Greta Schiller documents the daily life of Isabela, a witty New York girl growing up amidst …
Jammings recorded on home videos, old photographs and music with the texture of vinyl records. Yes, this is the exquisi…
With the motto "Keep It Small, Keep It Simple", a movement of small independent pubs is swarming in the UK to try to ke…
This documentary premiered at Locarno follows a series of female characters from Naples, all linked in some way to the …
Since the day Ethan Bialick heard the rocket alert while visiting Tel Aviv, his life was changed forever. This animated…
Much has been said about the golden years between the wars in Paris, a place par excellence for artists and bohemians o…
The intrepid Ben Jacoby, known worldwide for his escapades on stilts, decides to challenge himself to achieve the Guinn…
Artist, professor, visionary. László Moholy-Nagy revolutionized the way art was created at the Bauhaus school in Weimar…
The voices of Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave narrate the lives of siblings Erika and Klaus Mann. Both gay, they ma…
During Franco's regime in Spain, thousands of lesbians and gays were repressed and disappeared. This documentary is the…
With his usual sharpness and critical sense, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck makes a revisionist essay about the interne…
The 1969 Stonewall riots in New York marked a milestone in the beginning of the LGBTQ movement in the United States. Th…
After going blind while grieving the loss of her two children, a seventy-eight year old woman decides to overcome the s…
With exclusive access inside Carnegie Hall, filmmaker Josef Astor documents the struggle to save its historic art studi…
Two ordinary family men take on a challenge seemingly out of their reach: to go across the island of Tasmania for two w…
Through the experience of a young activist living with HIV, this episode of UN In Action shows us the efforts to preven…
"Holodomor" is a term that refers to the Great Famine that occurred in Ukraine in the early 1930s. American Writer Kath…
Best Documentary Films
