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.

Jack Johnson: SURFILMUSIC

151. Jack Johnson: SURFILMUSIC

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20261h 15min

Director: Emmett Malloy

This intimate documentary traces Johnson's evolution from surfer to filmmaker to world-renowned musician. Rare archives and present-day reflections reveal how lived experience, friendship, & exploration shaped the sound & stories behind the music.


Amazing Live Sea Monkeys

152. Amazing Live Sea Monkeys

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20261h 40min

Director: Mark Becker

From her crumbling estate on the Potomac, Yolanda Signorelli battles to wrest control of her late husband Harold’s iconic toy Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys from the corporate men who stole them from her and from the stain of her husband’s dark legacy.


Black Zombie

153. Black Zombie

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20261h 30min

Director: Maya Annik Bedward

From the flickering screens of Hollywood horror, to the haunted cane fields of colonial Haiti, Black Zombie unearths the buried origins of the zombie, reclaiming it as a symbol of survival and spiritual resistance.


Capturing Bigfoot

154. Capturing Bigfoot

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20261h 42min

Director: Marq Evans

A reel of 16mm film locked away for over 50 years turns the Bigfoot debate on its head.


Cornbread Mafia

155. Cornbread Mafia

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20261h 23min

Director: Evan Mascagni

Cornbread Mafia is the true story of the rise and fall of Kentucky farmers who built the largest domestic marijuana syndicate in U.S. history. Part true crime, part cartoon, a whole lot of weed.


The Dads

156. The Dads

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20261h 12min

Director: Luchina Fisher

As anti-trans legislation and hostility escalate in the United States, a group of dads, building a nascent movement to support their trans and gender expansive kids, are forced to make an impossible choice: stay and fight or flee the country.


Drift

157. Drift

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20261h 44min

Director: Deon Taylor

Isaac “Drift” Wright, a self-taught photographer and Army veteran haunted by trauma, finds healing through breathtaking, illegal climbs of the world’s tallest structures. But his pursuit of art sparks a high-stakes battle with law enforcement in this intimate portrait of risk, resilience, and freedom in modern America.


I Got Bombed at Harvey's

158. I Got Bombed at Harvey's

Documentary
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20261h 33min

Director: Amy Bandlien Storkel

1,000 pounds of dynamite. $3 million in cash. One casino at the edge of disaster.


One Another

159. One Another

Documentary
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20261h 35min

Director: Amber Love

As three of the filmmaker's loved ones confront the possible end of close friendships, One Another follows their life changes, heartaches, and attempts to reconnect as they find a way forward.


Serling

160. Serling

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20261h 38min

Director: Jonah Tulis

The definitive and authorized documentary on Rod Serling, the creator of the iconic Twilight Zone.