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.

meppets

681. meppets

Documentary Comedy
0.0

20261h 11min

Director: Phoebe Link

who will i meep next? 12 months of puppet making condensed into a single film.


Cinematic Melancholy

682. Cinematic Melancholy

Documentary
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202610min

Director: Maša Božić

A film essay in which multiple female characters, drawn from different films, slowly overlap and connect through a shared state of melancholy.


Time as a Landscape

683. Time as a Landscape

Documentary
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20265min

Director: Maša Božić

Through microscopic landscapes of moss, a man reflects on time, life, and the boundary between human life and nature.


Us

684. Us

Documentary
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202628min

Director: Janek Murd

A story about two girls' basketballs teams - Estonian and Russian - merged and having to learn to play together


The Eternal Struggle

685. The Eternal Struggle

Documentary
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202628min

Director: Erik Tikan

Aleksandr, a defense officer and mission veteran from a Russian family, decides to leave the service after a successful 15-year career to provide a better life for his children. Having led dozens of men in a dangerous war, Aleksandr quickly discovers that ordinary life is harder for him than the battlefield. To become the best, he must start from scratch. Aleksandr tries his hand at private business several times, but all his ventures – various catering companies in Tapa and Tallinn, a flower shop and a sports club – fail. After several failures and introspection, Aleksandr finally finds a way to apply the valuable knowledge he gained on the battlefield to the civilian sector. He starts offering team and leadership training to Estonian companies, applying the skills and knowledge he gained from the war.


The Daily Photographer

686. The Daily Photographer

Documentary
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202628min

Director: Kullar Viimne

Entertaining portrait of Erlend Štaub - a self-made professional photographer working at the president's annual reception, theatrical premieres, and film festivals like Black Nights and Cannes, and talking about life and everything in it.


Lover, Liar, Predator

687. Lover, Liar, Predator

Documentary Crime
7.3

20261h 25min

Director: Marta Garcia Aliaga

This documentary about four women, victimised as teenagers by the same man, is an instant rebuttal to that most unsympathetic question: why don’t women just leave their abuser?


2m²

688. 2m²

Documentary
0.0

20261h 23min

Director: Volkan Üce

Tayfun, an undertaker for the Belgian-Turkish community, must help families decide where their loved ones should be buried.


Transcend

689. Transcend

Documentary
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202616min

Director: Althea J Eccles

This film follows the journey of three transgender artists and their processes of creation: of both their art and their gender identity.


Why Do I See You in Everything?

690. Why Do I See You in Everything?

Documentary
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20261h 10min

Director: Rand Abou Fakher

Lifelong Syrian friends Qusay and Nabil spend a day in their Berlin apartment, drifting through dreams, archival footage and present-day events to confront the shifting faces of political violence. Together, they hold on to love and care as the most radical acts of resistance.