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.

Jason's Box

191. Jason's Box

Documentary
Upcoming

20261h 29min

Director: Michael Strassburger

What happens when an experienced climate scientist becomes an activist? In Greenland, scientist Jason Box and his local colleagues are launching a radical project to raise global awareness.


Jenny – A Story on Lydmor

192. Jenny – A Story on Lydmor

Documentary Music
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20261h 27min

Director: Sebastian Cordes

An intimate portrait of an uncompromising feminist artist and musician, depicting both her fierce creative drive and the personal costs of using her own life as raw material.


Everybody to Kenmure Street

193. Everybody to Kenmure Street

Documentary
Upcoming

20261h 38min

Director: Felipe Bustos Sierra

In May 2021, a UK Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Pollokshields, Scotland’s most diverse neighbourhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbours.


Once We Were Punks

194. Once We Were Punks

Documentary Music
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20261h 34min

Director: Frank Shouldice

In 1980s Bailieboro, Co Cavan, four schoolmates form a punk band and set their sights on world domination. The big breakthrough never comes, so careers, adulthood, and emigration intervene. But when they reunite at a funeral 25 years later, they pick up where they left off.


Adam's Apple

195. Adam's Apple

Documentary
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20261h 37min

Director: Amy K. Jenkins

An intimate, collaborative documentary told through the dual perspectives of Adam, a transgender teen, and his mother, visual artist Amy Jenkins, that offers an authentic and tender counterpoint to the hostility facing trans youth today. Adam’s journey balances the milestones of gender transition with the rhythms of adolescence. As Adam asserts his identity and steps out into the world, his parents grapple with the challenges of raising a teen while learning to let go. Through a visually poetic approach, the film transforms a deeply personal archive, collected over two decades, into a powerful, joyful testament to the beauty and difficulty of reckoning with profound change.


Daughters of the Forest

196. Daughters of the Forest

Documentary
Upcoming

20261h 35min

Director: Otilia Portillo Padua

Deep in Mexico’s mushroom-rich forests, two women from indigenous communities have become mycologists. This immersive sci-fi documentary follows their unusual, fungi-driven paths as they seek to reconcile the past and present while reimagining the future for themselves and the changing world they inhabit.


Winter Lights

197. Winter Lights

Documentary
Upcoming

20263min

Director: Bartek Łucjan

Experimental short movie shot during Christmas and New Year's Eve.


A masked vigilante in Seattle gains fame fighting crime with his superhero team, until police expose his identity. Years later, during civil unrest, he returns despite controversy over his true motives and character.


Playtime

199. Playtime

Documentary
Upcoming

20261h 23min

Director: Lúcia Murat

Brazil from the perspective of school pupils aged 14 to 19. Combining a documentary with a fictional approach, Hora do recreio addresses topics including violence, racism and drug dealing.


I Want Her Dead

200. I Want Her Dead

Drama Documentary
Upcoming

20261h 27min

Director: Gianluca Matarrese

An unhappy family in a remote village in Calabria: Luisa is at war with the world since day one. She is juggling odd jobs, her love for her children and granddaughter, and her feuding with her mother, brother, and sister-in-law. While the two women exchange insults and call in the cops, three elderly aunts, a tragicomic chorus, try in vain to keep the peace.