Documentary Movies

An animated satire on the question of self-image for African American women living in a society where beautiful hair is viewed as hair that blows in t...

Bert Haanstra paints a portrait of The Netherlands and the Dutch, in his own unparalleled manner. Partly with the aid of a hidden camera he observes p...

The life and work of New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat have been marked by a long quest for identity, by his Haitian and Puerto Rican family origin...

Originally intended as an advertising short, this film follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London to Edinburgh along the...

Heralded as one of the most influential musicians in the modern era, Sam Bush pioneered a new genre of music, inspired some of today's most successful...

It's been a long, tumultuous road for Antonette. Follow her journey from Surrey biker-dad to Downtown Eastside drug-addicted trans* sex worker. Get to...

In this documentary short, summer trippers line up for the famous local fried clams and whole families dig for the white mollusc in the tangy air of t...

French visual artist-director JR (co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary FACES PLACES with the legendary Agnès Varda) situates his latest soci...

Shot at high noon in New York’s financial district, Wallstreet is much like a vertical tickertape, charting the existence of typical office workers. T...

This documentary started as part of a photography project about the indigenous Ainu population in northern Japan, portraying people from tightly knit...

Ekelöf's Blick is a film about swedish poet and mystic Gunnar Ekelöf. The film is an attempt to visually articulate how Ekelöf saw things, a world ch...

Director Richard Parry's gripping, in-the-trenches documentary chronicles the experiences of freelance war photographer Robert King, from his early ye...

Four images on a tape by Breda Beban and Hrvoje Horvatić are four arbitrarily chosen samples of the physical world or four micro-geographies: the flui...

About the history of the contraceptive tool and reminds us of the importance of using a condom in combating sexually transmitted diseases.

Amazing, but true: Fort Lee, New Jersey (just across the George Washington Bridge from Manhattan),was once the epicenter of American film production....

Ahmad Jalali Farahani works as a journalist in Iran. On 27 December 2009, he sees an innocent man being killed on the street, but neither Ahmad or his...

One of the most respected names in national cinema, always remembered for his work as cinematographer in the classics of Cinema Novo, Mario Carneiro i...

A journey into the incredible life of Klaus Voormann. An inside view into the history of Rock'n'Roll. A story of friendship, art and music. Klaus Voor...

This 1950s' film looks at the measures to preserve water flow from the Rocky Mountains. With the steady falling of the water table, the exploitation o...

Indira, a Cuban immigrant, succeds to flee to United States, but her emigration has consequences inflicted to her family. In Sanata Claram in Cuba, sh...