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Documentary movies

Fascinating real-life stories, historical accounts, and educational deep dives that reveal the truth about our world.

Subgenres include: True Crime Documentary, Biographical Documentary, Social & Political Documentary.

Welcome to Set

1031. Welcome to Set

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202615min

Director: Cyan Bae

Reenacting laboratory data collection processes, Welcome to Set invites you behind the scenes of machine learning, where data becomes drama. This experimental documentary explores how emotion, suspicion, and politics intertwine within the algorithmic practices of security.


Statues Also Die?

1032. Statues Also Die?

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202612min

Director: Thais Fernandes

The weight of history becomes light in the hands of children. A group of kids become an interviewing team in a Budapest park, a graveyard of enormous old communist statues.


Two twin brothers from a small town off the coast of Ireland try to change the world through healthy eating and living.


Remember When, Alden?

1034. Remember When, Alden?

Documentary History Family War Adventure
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202655min

Director: Campbell Jones

A history of the town of Alden, New York, as told by various historical figures.


Currently Spinning

1035. Currently Spinning

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20266min

Director: Lucas Reinke

A look into the world of a record shop


Beyond the Silk Road

1036. Beyond the Silk Road

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20261h 19min

Director: Sean McDonnell

Actor Dominic West travels to Kyrgyzstan to spend time with members of a mountain community, getting involved in their day-to-day lives and cultural practices.


"A Good Man"

1037. "A Good Man"

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202614min

Director: Kjettil Gerritsen

An exploration of masculinity through a close-knit martial arts community built on brotherhood and faith. The film invites you to step onto the mat, and ask yourself: what is your place in society?


How I Started A Film Festival

1038. How I Started A Film Festival

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202613min

Director: Nico Cariati

With the hope of creating a platform for young, emerging filmmakers to showcase their films, Nico Cariati starts a film festival on his own, but realizes he may be in for more than he bargained for.


La beauté d'une histoire commune.

1039. La beauté d'une histoire commune.

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20263min

Director: Eden Lee Collet

Eden, dancer and composer, embodies a journey through movement, tracing the rises and falls of human history. Above a screen projecting fragments of collective stories, his body expresses a vision of beauty, fragile, fleeting, and everywhere beneath our feet.


Dominik Hašek: Always the Goalie

1040. Dominik Hašek: Always the Goalie

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20261h 36min

Director: Michelle Girardi Zumwalt

Dominik Hašek, Olympic gold medalist and two-time Stanley Cup-winning goaltender, looks back on his life growing up in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia. His longest-tenured NHL team, the Buffalo Sabres, walk Hašek through his past to see how his love of hockey and the political and cultural influences of growing up in Pardubice molded him into one of the greatest goalies the sport has ever seen.