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.
Discovery Channel's DC Air Disaster: Final Minutes Revealed (airing Jan. 29, 2026) investigates the Jan. 29, 2025, midair collision between a PSA Airlines jet and an Army Black Hawk over the Potomac, revealing fatal, un-alerted, last-second failures. The special highlights critical, previously undisclosed NTSB, cockpit audio, and ATC insights
Pianist Ieva Dūdaitė, who rewrote Lithuanian history, presents a film of her Grand Piano Show tour concert. In the film, the pianist opens the doors to the arena and talks about what the audience did not see – behind the scenes, family support, challenges, audience reactions, and intense preparations with a team of 46 people. Launched in the winter of 2024, the Grand Piano Show tour combined classical, popular, and hip-hop music genres, dance and aerial acrobatics performances, and amazed audiences with a glowing piano. and attracted nearly 10,000 spectators in Vilnius, Kaunas, and Palanga, receiving the highest ratings from the audience. The Grand Piano Show concert film captures moments from all three tour performances, behind-the-scenes footage, and genuine emotions. In the film, I. Dūdaitė also talks openly about her childhood, family support, her musical mission, the intense preparation stage, challenges, and the impact of this tour on the younger generation.
In 1987, Mirapolis opened its doors in the Parisian suburbs with the ambition of becoming the great French theme park capable of rivaling Disney. Driven by a spectacular vision and an imagination inspired by national tales and legends, the project quickly turned into a nightmare. Through archival footage and firsthand testimonies, the documentary retraces the meteoric rise and dramatic fall of this outsized dream, which shut down just five years after its inauguration.
After years of right-wing assaults on higher education, attacks took a new form in 2023 and 2024 that has been described as the new McCarthyism. As students across the country organize protests against Israel's war on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around criticism of Israel-the "Palestine exception"-are shattered. This film features professors and students as they join calls for a ceasefire and divestment from companies that do business with Israel and face waves of crackdown from administrators, the media, the police and politicians. Scholars from diverse disciplines explain what is at stake in these protests and why so many young people identify with the Palestinian cause. The documentary unfolds as a story of college campuses as sites of both rebellion and repression, places where personal and collective histories converge in unexpected ways.

1067. Queens of Combat: Rome's Female Gladiators
Documentary History2026•55min
Director: Susannah Ward
What if women were hidden among the ranks of Ancient Rome’s fearsome gladiators? A group of experts searches for evidence to prove women once fought in the arena just like men. Combining history, archaeology, and forensic investigation, journey across Europe in a quest for answers. If a female gladiator's existence can be proven definitively, what can we learn about their lives?
When Siham passed away, Namir didn’t realize that she was gone forever. In a child’s mind, mothers are immortal… To keep her memory alive, Namir delves into his family history across Egypt and France. With the cinema of Youssef Chahine as his companion, a story of exile — and above all, of love — begins to unfold.








