Documentary Movies

Looks at the glamour, red carpets, movies, craziness, stunts, deals, parties and personalities that have been part of the Cannes Film Festival over ei...

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.),promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo...

Documentary movie about testing of the largest nuclear weapon in history, the Tsar Bomba. Declassified and made available to the public in 2020.

Samurai swords have served as lethal weapons and as revered objects in Japan. But a sword's true beauty can be only revealed by the polishers who brin...

Experts try to restore Katsushika Hokusai's lost masterpiece.

When an academic unearths a forgotten history, residents of the small township of Pukekohe, including kaumātua who have never told their personal stor...

Documentary about German comedian Loriot alias Vicco von Bülow, who would have been 100 years old in 2023.

This retrospective documentary looks back on the making of director John Boorman's 1981 movie, Excalibur. Self-described as the toughest film he ever...

A priestess in “Serafisk Sang”, virginal in “Pastorale”, botanic in “Sommertanz” and finally a witch in “Hexentanz”, Mary Wigman is a woman-flower, go...

A Japanese TV documentary, NHK Tokushu Tezuka Osamu: Sosaku no Himitsu (Secrets of Creation.),was originally released as a book-mounted DVD, with coo...

The film covers the last stretch of the career of Javier Herrán, a firefighter stationed in Urioste (Bizkaia). As he approaches retirement, you will g...

The shooting of a beloved Cleveland firefighter leads detectives to uncover a shocking plot for money gone very wrong.

In a small attic in the middle of the woods somewhere in Dalarna, Sussie lives in her very own doll house. Like Alice in Wonderland, who falls into a...

Hosted by Julianna Margulies, this special brings together the stories of four Jewish Holocaust survivors and the reflections of present-day teens lea...

Chernobyl 1986. A nuclear reactor exploded, spewing out massive quantities of radiation into the atmosphere. Within days, the pollution had spread acr...

This documentary looks at the factors that led to the 2008 financial crisis and the efforts made by then Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Federal Res...

Documentary film about early years of Russian cinema: its first directors, cameramen, producers and actors. Includes rare fragments of pre-revolutiona...

A quiet meditation on the mundanity of life.