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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.

Famous Last Words: Eric Dane

441. Famous Last Words: Eric Dane

Documentary
9.0

202650min

Director: Ivan Dudynsky

In this emotional interview, the late actor and ALS advocate Eric Dane shared his final message for the world — knowing it would not air until his death.


Booman III

442. Booman III

Documentary
0.0

202614min

Director: Alexandre Moors

Third and final documentary short using archival home videos and present-day family interviews created in advance of Ca$ino: the second studio album from Baby Keem (released Feb. 20, 2026).


Pukem Swa

443. Pukem Swa

Documentary
0.0

20261h 11min

Director: Samuel Moreno Alvarez

This film portrays the childhood of Pukem Swa (10), whose name means winter sun. He is a mysterious boy who lives on a remote mountain in the Colombian Andes, where he learns an extinct indigenous language that no one else speaks. As we walk with him through the mountains, we encounter the Chibcha language, which begins to come alive: revealing the sounds hidden within the stones painted by his ancestors.


Yachay Terra

444. Yachay Terra

Documentary
0.0

202630min

Director: David Alesina

Mariana and Xevi work the land from opposite ends of the world. Rooted in agroecology, their projects trace a quiet dialogue between territory, nature and family.


EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert

445. EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert

Music Documentary
8.6

20261h 38min

Director: Baz Luhrmann

Long-lost footage from Elvis Presely's legendary Las Vegas residency in the 1970s woven together with rare 16mm footage from Elvis on Tour, and 8mm from the Graceland archive, plus recordings of Elvis telling "his side of the story" rediscovered during Baz Luhrmann's research for his 2022 film, Elvis.


Green Line

446. Green Line

Documentary
6.0

20262h 30min

Director: Sylvie Ballyot

The film opens on a tale with animated figurines in miniature settings reconstructing Fida’s childhood during the war. It then shifts to a documentary style with a series of real confrontations between Fida and ex-militiamen manipulating the small figurines. The miniature material becomes a bridge between different subjective stories, infusing the collective history with individual details. The experience of this confrontational space turns out to be cathartic. The narrative moves around between realities and temporalities.


Eight Bridges

447. Eight Bridges

Documentary
0.0

20261h 22min

Director: James Benning

Shots of 8 bridges from the continental United States - the Golden Gate Bridge from Sausalito, California; the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge from Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico; the Edmund Pettus Bridge from Selma, Alabama; the Seven Mile Bridge from Little Duck Key, Florida; the George Washington Bridge from Fort Lee, New Jersey; the Dubuque-Wisconsin Bridge from Dubuque, Iowa; the High Bridge from Valley City, North Dakota; the Astoria-Megler Bridge from Astoria, Oregon.


Goodbye Sisters

448. Goodbye Sisters

Documentary
7.0

20261h 30min

Director: Alexander Murphy

The journey begins in vibrant, spiritual yet harsh Kathmandu and continues towards the majestic Himalayas. Twenty-one-year-old Jamuna accompanies her younger sister on what could be their last trip to the mountains.


Wood Street

449. Wood Street

Documentary
0.0

20261h 40min

Director: Caron Creighton

Two unhoused men turned community leaders— John and LaMonté —organize their neighbors in the face of displacement, addiction, and a failing social system.


Warnings to the Distant Future

450. Warnings to the Distant Future

Documentary
0.0

202619min

Director: Juliane Jaschnow

“How should those who come after us be warned of danger?” A film about the search for the German-German nuclear waste repository – between warning signs, feedback loops, flowing flocks of birds and the area between sign and object.