Documentary Movies

From Sierra de las Minas to Esquipulas, explore Guatemala's cultural and geological wealth, including ancient Mayan cities and other natural wonders.

Documentary focusing on the film careers F.W. Murnau, Frank Borzage and William Fox and their impact on the history of cinema.

I made June when I didn’t have any inspiration to create a feature film. The documentary is about the rarely known stories in the social movement in J...

1990 TV adaptation of a 1979 biographical play by Ned Sherrin & Caryl Brahms, based on the life of conductor and impresario Sir Thomas Beecham. With T...

Never before has the extraordinary life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo been framed in relation to the full spectrum of the historical and cultural infl...

Half of all bird species undertake annual migrations, everything from heavy-bodied swans to delicate hummingbirds. Migration is one of the most remark...

Family Stories Untold is an animated documentary, in which seven different women’s stories about family are woven into one life-long piece. It begins...

From Swansea to Hornsey, this is the story of Trampolene. Forming ten years ago on the football pitches in Wales, this documentary demonstrates the pr...

A land of myriad climates and terrains, within whose boundaries lie some of the most complex and beautiful habitats on the planet. A continent whose l...

A series of photos and screenshots tell the story of how Samira Elagoz and Z Walsh, two transmasculine artists, fall madly in love with each other. We...

Director Tony Palmer exposes the harsh underbelly of the famed Miss World beauty contest, going beneath the glamour to reveal a hotbed of bullying, an...

An optimistic (and witty) discovery of what people are already doing, what we as a nation could be doing and what the world needs to do to prevent (or...

An intimate look into Demers family's experience raising children while dealing with the societal stigmas around disabilities and the consequences of...

Formerly lost film rediscovered in 1996, directed by William Friese-Greene.

On October 24, 1940, Philippe Pétain met Adolf Hitler in Montoire and led the French into collaboration with the Nazis. A black page in the history of...

This making of segment offers a lot of interview comments with the crew behind it, although does so in a rather rapid fashion. The most interesting el...

Lawrence Kasdan and his son Jonathan discuss life with the franchise, working together on the film Solo: A Star Wars Story, and Lawrence's love for th...

This documentary examines what historians know about the Bible's Old Testament account of the Plague of the Firstborn and about Egypt's Pharaoh, Rames...

In this witty monologue, Quentin Crisp advises and opines about personal style (with a few digressions).

Cold War Peacemaker is the amazing and unique story of the development of the B-36 very-long-long-range nuclear bomber. From its beginnings during WWI...