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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.

For centuries, art has stylised violence against women - and called it beauty. Proserpina (or Persephone) frees herself from Pluto's grip and leads us through masterpieces from antiquity to the present day: from Roman sarcophagi to Bernini, from Artemisia Gentileschi to Marina Abramović. This journey through art history opens up new perspectives on the representation of sexual violence in art.


Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Harmony

612. Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Harmony

Documentary
6.9

20263h 44min

Director: Damiano Michieletto

The Opening Ceremony of Milano Cortina 2026 features blockbuster acts from international artists including five-time Grammy Award-winner Mariah Carey, Golden Globe winner Laura Pausini and famed Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, to the award-winning actor and producer Pierfrancesco Favino and The White Lotus’ Emmy-nominated star Sabrina Impacciatore.


Finding Harmony: A King's Vision

613. Finding Harmony: A King's Vision

Documentary
5.5

20261h 29min

Director: Nicolas Brown

In an unprecedented portrait of King Charles III, Finding Harmony: A King's Vision provides intimate insight into His Majesty's passionate quest to reunite humanity with nature. Academy Award-winner Kate Winslet narrates this journey through The King's Foundation's vital work.


Unseen Olympiad

614. Unseen Olympiad

Documentary
0.0

202655min

Director: Casey Shaw

Unseen Olympiad captures competing athletes from over 100 countries on the brink of greatness, telling a story of unification through the universal emotional journey of sport.


André Is an Idiot

615. André Is an Idiot

Documentary
0.0

20261h 27min

Director: Tony Benna

André, a brilliant idiot, is dying because he didn’t get a colonoscopy. His sobering diagnosis, complete irreverence, and insatiable curiosity, send him on an unexpected journey learning how to die happily and ridiculously without losing his sense of humor.


Lost for Words

616. Lost for Words

Documentary
0.0

20261h 33min

Director: Hannah Papacek Harper

The year's most beautiful natural experience on the big screen is also a poetic film about the power of language to re-enchant the world around us. Based on Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris' bestseller.


Through Your Eyes

617. Through Your Eyes

Documentary
0.0

20261h 31min

Director: Brigitte Poupart

In an effort to understand where she came from, Fabiola asked a question that became the central phrase of the film: what would my life have been like if I'd stayed in Haiti? Taking as her starting point her biological mother's precarious economic situation, she had no choice but to entrust her daughter to her care. Fabiola could have ended up restavek, or in a loving foster family, or on the streets abandoned to her fate, or adopted abroad.


The third episode of "For The Love Of" series, captures the innocence we once longed to outgrow. As children, we dreamed of adulthood as freedom, only to discover that the truest life was already alive in our childhood. A meditation on lost wonder, and the art we leave behind when we grow up.


Dear Lara

619. Dear Lara

Documentary
0.0

2026

Director: Lara St. John

Unveiling abuse in classical music's elite institutions — violinist Lara St. John fights for justice, exposing complicity and systemic misogyny.


Døden på vidda

620. Døden på vidda

Documentary Mystery
0.0

20261h 18min

Director: Bjørn-Owe Holmberg

What really happened on Finnmarksvidda on February 1, 1986? Sami political activist John-Reier Martinsen is hit and killed in a bizarre snowmobile accident that has haunted his family for decades. Was it something as rare as a political murder in Norway, or just a terrible accident? Join John-Reier's brother on a search for answers in this thrilling true crime documentary about Sami activism, inflamed political disagreement, grief and unanswered questions.