Through a patient observation, this film takes us into the underworld of Bolivian miners, specifically the ancestral Ce…
A house. A filmmaker. One man and one woman. In this Criterion Collection classic, filmmaker Allan King documents the c…
"Ebram" was an Iranian guitarist and composer who, after dying in suspicious circumstances, became a myth and an inspir…
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-…
After living in the shadows of his old discovery, an art collector tries to find the next great artist, a Taiwanese pai…
In this documentary, Cristóbal Jodorowski takes us into the world of psycoshamanism, a new current of healing that mixe…
Featuring star motorcyclists - like Steve Mcqueen himself - this Oscar-nominated vintage documentary immerses us in the…
Woochul is just one face among the 600,000 soldiers in the South Korean army. This documentary follows this young man d…
For decades, Uzzi Ornan has been an activist against religious coercion in Israel. In the autumn of his life, he still …
This rare documentary piece is a propaganda film with which the Pentagon trained its security personnel against the thr…
Linked to a lesser or greater extent with religious organizations, in this documentary people from the LGBTI+ community…
In a remote rural Portuguese village, a man wanders through the mist. His house, the crops, the animals, and the pine f…
Filmed in 1981, this all time classic documentary follows the evolution of four American women during a demanding milit…
A filmmaker travels to a familiar city with her film camera on a mission to immortalize her parents' home in an image, …
In response to the assassination of a black women's rights activist in Brazil, a group of women massively turn out for …
Multi-media artist Kelvin Kyung Kun Park looks back to the “heroic age” of heavy industry in 1960s South Korea and the …
Following a dream that revealed to him an indigenous massacre ordered by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, a Native American spi…
In this beautiful film essay, award-winning filmmaker Thomas Imbach films the landscape outside his studio window for s…
This beautiful documentary takes us close to Lanny Gordin, a prolific guitarist who worked with great musicians such as…
Funny and absurd, yet profoundly realistic. This documentary follows a group of Middle Eastern immigrants as they try t…
The Ainu are the indigenous people of Japan. The director, Naomi Mizoguchi, spent a decade creating this film about the…
Set in the majestic mountains of Taiwan, this documentary relies on extensive archival and testimonial material to tell…
How dominated are we by computers and big data? This observational documentary dissects the day-to-day life of a financ…
After 12 years in power, a controversial mayor of a Greek town will do the impossible to get enough votes for his candi…
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 …
To discover the truth behind the mysterious objects her uncle brought back from the Far East during her childhood, film…
This is a making-of film like you've never seen another. The documentary follows the making of a film about the rise an…
In just fifteen minutes, this documentary dissects the American male stereotype through the art of Aaron Ray, a drag pe…
Inside a car driving through the streets of Tehran, a recurring motif in Iranian cinema, three female passengers tell t…
In the vicinity of Europe's largest military base, nature and its creatures prevail among men preparing for war.
Vertiginous, unpredictable, withering. These are the ways in which multi-award-winning filmmaker Thomas Imbach films th…
With an important use of the subtitle as a form of expression, this experimental short film is a dissertation on the so…
A Mexican director. A white American actor. What can happen in this fifteen-minute conversation about race and privileg…
When he arrives at a rehabilitation center for birds, Antonin, a man suffering from persistent fatigue, begins to see l…
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 …
A theater group composed of peasant women from rural Turkey embarks on a journey to a remote town in the mountains of t…
After several years in Europe, Violeta returns to her native Brazil to renew vows in her religion. But the years do not…
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 short film is the endearing portrait of Roed Roza, a South American migrant in Milan, Italy. Stripped of his land …
This experimental film mixes contemplative observations of the interior of Silicon Valley homes with actorly reflection…
Skateboarding in a socialist country has its virtues. This must-see documentary for fans of the sport retraces the orig…
It took five athletes a lifetime to complete the Oceans Seven, the swim challenge that consists of crossing the seven g…
Today is the marriage of Babi, a Brazilian trans woman. This short film documents a ceremony that symbolizes an achieve…
What is it like to be a female tattoo artist in a male-dominated art? In this documentary, world-famous tattoo artist D…
Best Documentary Films
