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.
Lyse Doucet speaks to Hind Kabawat, Syria's minister for social affairs and labour and the only female minister in the transitional government.
Three of the youngest Turpin siblings tell their stories of the past and how they experienced abuse a second time in the foster care system.
A behind-the-scenes documentary uncovering the real history of Birmingham’s Peaky Blinders, separating fact from fiction in the hit TV series and exploring the creative vision behind its unique style.
“Bridge” follows César Rojas, an artisanal fisherman from the Peruvian coast, as he reveals his daily routine, his spiritual relationship with the sea, and the resilience of a craft that endures despite modernization. Through observation, voice-over, and his own testimony, the documentary builds an intimate portrait in which the sea becomes a mirror of humanity.
In winter, inside a shipyard, discipline and precision shape the daily routine of a skipper. Ambrogio Beccaria prepares his boat alongside his team, overseeing technical details and final adjustments. Beneath this surface of competence, traces of a past season, a defeat, and an accident quietly persist. As the days grow shorter and the nights longer, the atmosphere shifts. Concrete labor gives way to a more intimate, nocturnal dimension. Through fragments of memory, archival materials, and abstract imagery, the film drifts between wakefulness and dream, exploring the fragile boundary between control and vulnerability.
Endless images, flowing in and out, set to a collection of looped sounds. Shot and heard on a family trip.
Through their favorite photographs, five people share emotional stories from their lives. Adressing themes such as love, family and grief, they also reflect on the power that pictures have not only to capture moments, but, specially, to preserve memory.
This short essay film tells a personal story about pet cats and reflects on the act of filmmaking.
Guy's rolling up his sleeves as he explores how to make your home cheaper to heat. Using all his engineering experience, can Guy make energy bills a thing of the past?. He will start by looking at insulation and banishing those drafts with the aid of an air tester. Nothing is left to chance with triple-glazing, solar panels, battery storage and even the unfairly maligned 'Heat Source Pumps'.
By day, Bohdana lives an ordinary student life: metro rides, classes, music in her headphones. By night, she is thrown back to Ukraine — into memories of family, constant danger, and the echo of sirens.