Documentary Movies

Houston, Texas. As a hurricane looms, Alexandra, Will and Nate fight to survive in a city that seems to devour people as well as dreams. In this atmos...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries / Rebuilding of the destroyed Siberian village of Taseevo / Rai...

What drives men and women to risk their own lives to save those of others? Fuoco Sacro tells the story of the Vigili del Fuoco, the Italian fire depar...

Fascinating species bursting with color Gentle, meditative ocean water bubble away as exotic fish swim to the soft sounds of piano and strings. In th...

A close look at the Austrian far-left Friedrichshof Commune which was set up in 1972 by artist Otto Muehl. It was dissolved in 1990 when Muehl was con...

A first-person account of a kid named Sidney in a town that helped him become who he is today: Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia.

Eight miles inland of Miami’s beaches, Liberty City residents fight to save their community from climate gentrification: their land, sitting on a ridg...

Follow filmmaker Don Meers on a paranormal road trip across the sunburnt landscapes of the Australian outback in hopes of solving one of Australia’s g...

In northern Scandinavia, a seemingly never-ending border conflict is going on between the indigenous Sami people and the Norwegian and Swedish authori...

Lettre d’un cinéaste à sa fille is a playful, free and personal film in the form of a letter, a film interwoven with a thousand stories knit together...

Mathieu Amalric’s film with John Zorn began as a European TV commission that was quickly abandoned in favor of something more intimate: an ongoing dia...

This journey into the inside of the Earth is fascinating, alarming but also beautiful. Only a tiny fraction of Earth is accessible to humans so scient...

Dr Helen Czerski delves into the Horizon archive to chart the transformation of a little-known theory into one of the greatest scientific undertakings...

In 1973 a horror movie titled The Legend of Boggy Creek was released. Focusing on a series of bizarre events that took place around the town of Fouke,...

The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey is a 1978 American short documentary film directed by Jerry Aronson. Filmed over eight years, this chroni...

This short traces the cooperation between nations that resulted in the development of atomic weapons, and how they were used to end World War II. It a...

In the heart of the Ariege Pyrenees, Patrick Chêne, a farmer and osteopath, cares for humans and animals with his hands and diphonic song. The vibrati...

Through their fieldwork, scientists bring to life a lost and unknown chapter of ancient Egypt, and write the next of the greatest adventures in the hi...

A documentary in which seven Italian intellectuals survey the political history of their country from its imperial adventure in Ethiopia in 1937 to th...

After beginning in Vienna, the Danube riverbank forests extend to the gates of Bratislava, linking the two capitals like a green ribbon, forming a uni...