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.
Portrait of an anonymous overdose hotline where people call before using, and volunteers stay on the line, racing against time, forging collective hope amid addiction.
As a Jewish American filmmaker studies her past in Berlin, she grapples with the reality of her trauma being weaponized to inflict violence on Palestinians.
Across America, UPS workers come together to demand better working conditions as they go about criss-crossing the world, delivering packages and connecting lives.
Edoardo Iaschi (known as Eddie Brock) is an Italian indie singer born and raised in Rome. When his song “Non è mica te” unexpectedly goes viral on TikTok, Edo is thrust into the spotlight and forced to confront the realities of adulthood, fame, and a world far bigger than he ever imagined…
When the Governor of Florida transforms a beloved public honors college in a political coup, students and professors confront a new reality: their campus is ground zero in a growing nation-wide assault on academic freedom.
A filmmaker looks to their grandfather, a forester inside academia and the U.S. Forest Service, asking how one life resists, survives, and protects community within institutions that reject you.
It begins at the margins of power: a few teenagers protest outside parliament, cardboard signs in hand and an unyielding determination in their eyes. From there, Helena Molin’s long-term portrait unfolds—of a generation forced early on to confront the ruthlessness of politics. Their fight for the climate and for justice runs parallel to a life that should be about friendship, play, and future dreams, but is repeatedly interrupted by the failures of the adult world. The result is an intimate and powerful depiction of what happens when moral responsibility is placed in the hands of those still searching for their place in the world.
In this contemplative coming of age portrait, Yosef, a spirited athlete, is becoming more aware of his family history, after being displaced from their Iraqi homeland.
Welcome to Båtsfjord, one of the northernmost fishing villages of the world, where cod is more important than God. In Cod We Trust is a mosaic puzzle, where people are knit together by fish, the town and nature. With an observational camera and closely heard dialogue, you will feel like you are there, candidly watching them, as they reveal how history and circumstances shape us and our perception of home. Båtsfjord might be the most remote and coldest place on earth, but here you will find the warmest people with the most outstanding humour.
A cinematic farewell to the "Vilma" cinema in Thessaloniki, which closed in December 2024 as the last traditional erotic cinema in Greece. At the same time, a salute to the legendary "Laikon" and "Star", temples of the genre in the two largest cities of Greece. Famous and anonymous people participate in this final farewell.