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.
Lesson from Our Garden tells the story of Mélanie and Lucie, a queer couple seeking to become parents. Through their obstacles, this film is both a story of love and resilience and highlights a journey that is often invisible: that of a lesbian, cis, and trans couple on a fertility path.
The Vastavirta-Klubi has been operating in Pispala, Tampere, for over 20 years. To an outsider, the club may seem like a regular, raunchy rock club, but for some reason it has a cult reputation both in Finland and abroad, and the club has received, among other things, the Tampere Cultural Achievement of the Year award. The documentary explores why this is the case and follows the club's activities over a year.
A 20-year film project following a father and son takes a dramatic turn when the Norwegian director faces his own life-altering crisis.
A documentary following a team of English cyclists as they recreate the 1955 Tour de France route while one of their own lives with a rare medical condition.
Matter of Britain is an ethnographic fantasy which documents an English country village’s performance of the Holy Grail myth. In that myth, King Arthur’s knights quest for the Holy Grail in order to heal their wasted land. The performance took place over 12 months from 2023 to 2024 in multiple locations across the parish of Mayfield, East Sussex. Over 300 members of the community took part as questing knights, angelic choirs, guiding anchorites and tempting devils. The work was supported by an Arts Council England Project Grant, the Lund Trust, High Weald AONB, East Sussex Arts Partnership, the University of Reading and the Museum of English Rural Life.
He thought his Norwegian father was a journalist. In reality, he was a CIA spy who fired AK-47s in the Kuwaiti desert and infiltrated cocaine laboratories in Colombia. It is time to face the truth, and it's stranger than fiction.
It's the scandal that has shocked Americans and rocked the Trump administration. A legal and political saga that has shattered fundamental beliefs that all are equal in the eyes of the law. What do the Epstein Files reveal?
Where do I go from here is a performance arthouse-style film exploring the nostalgia of the concept of home in terms of home as a feeling rather than the architectural structure. Inspired by multiple factors resonating the concept of home, including diaspora, belonging and longing, the artist questions the idea of home through and through, along with the constant search for the idea of "home".
The earthquake that struck Friuli in 1976 is still vivid in the collective imagination, for how it served as an example in the subsequent reconstructions. A necessary story to prepare us for the environmental upheavals that lie in wait.
From a teenager’s suburban bedroom to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley, this is a story of a heartbroken father’s quest to uncover the truth behind his daughter's death and his fightback against how the most powerful corporations of the modern age operate.