Documentary Movies

The filmed depiction of a program where convicts tell troubled kids about the horrors of prison life. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

Gathered together for one night, the legendary names of Reggae and more meet at Fort Charles, Jamaica for a musical event that would reverberate aroun...

A Documentary that looks at both the origins of modern Roller Derby and charts the rise of two Australian Derby teams.

A documentary portrait of legendary Perfect Ten gymnast Nadia Comaneci after becoming an icon in the 1976 Olympics, during her Romanian period, and he...

Pete Buttigieg, the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana runs for President of the United States. With extraordinary access to the candidate, his husband Chas...

Birds of Passage presents a lyrical journey through the everyday lives of two young Uruguayan songwriters. Ernesto and Yisela have moved to the capita...

A documentary about the life and music of Justin Pearson. An enigmatic underground musician and owner of Three One G records.

A landscape video that shows footage of the locations used for filming but without commentary or anything to help provide information as to why the l...

In this documentary by Coline Serreau, known for her feature film Why Not?, a selection of Frenchwomen in characteristically no-win situations discuss...

Roberto Clemente is an in-depth look at an exceptional baseball player and committed humanitarian who challenged racial discrimination to become baseb...

A Bryan Hynes documentary following the story of Ultra Runner Lucy Bartholomew as she runs the the 231km Larapinta Trail in the Northern Territory Aus...

Nineteen brides, scattered over four continents, run off on their wedding day. Reality and fiction merge when random people from different cultures co...

In 2005 Lady Ly directed a documentary focusing on the riots that took place in Clichy-Montfermeil. He interviewed a few protagonists and witnesses, u...

A fly-on-the-wall documentary about the recording of the music score by Sonic Youth.

Makulatura [which means both scrap paper and pulp fiction in Russian] is a duo of poets Evgeniy Alyokhin and Konstantin Speransky, who have been perfo...

When Gordon Gund went blind in 1970 at age 30 due to retinitis pigmentosa, he resolved to find a cure for the disease and created the Foundation Fight...

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on 22 March 1895, it is often referred to as the firs...

These last Mayan cities are the most fascinating documentary objects, as much for their architecture and the unique and grandiose settings in which th...

A documentary film that explores the early Boston Hardcore music scene from the years 1981 through 1984. This film delves into the social and communal...

Prominent film critic Tony Rayns has long been a supporter of Korean cinema. This film illustrates Rayns’ affection for Korean cinema through intervie...