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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.

Ultras

61. Ultras

Documentary
Upcoming

20261h 29min

Director: Ragnhild Ekner

Ultras – the heart and soul of football stadiums around the globe. The supporters that will do anything for the team and yields that extra power into the game to help their team win. ULTRAS is not your regular sports film. Through epic images and a cinematic mosaic of football supporters and their societal contexts around the world, we portray a subculture that is widely known but yet mysterious and inaccessible for most of us.


HOMELESS

62. HOMELESS

Documentary
Upcoming

20261h 18min

Director: Valerio Zanoli

HOMELESS is a documentary that humanizes unhoused people and explores their backgrounds, dreams and struggles to find the way home. The film aims to raise awareness and funds to end homelessness, which is an ever more urgent global challenge: The United Nations Human Settlements Program estimates that 1.6 billion people live in inadequate housing, and the best available data suggests that more than 100 million people have no housing at all.


Mais Um Dia, Zona Norte

63. Mais Um Dia, Zona Norte

Documentary
Upcoming

2026

Director: Allan Ribeiro

Workers on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro are experiencing moments of transformation in their routines. An instant of dreams, fantasy and escape from reality as a counterpoint to the sameness of everyday life.


Sgt. Haane

64. Sgt. Haane

War Documentary Action
Upcoming

20261h 26min

Director: Tearepa Kahi

This documentary-drama film follows Lance Sgt. Haane Manahi DCM of B Company, 28th Māori Battalion, a soldier of extraordinary courage, whose actions proved pivotal in the 1943 battle for the fortified summit of Takrouna, Tunisia.


Sidosa

65. Sidosa

Documentary
Upcoming

20261h 10min

Director: Lluís Galter

In 'Sidosa', the director and actor Eduardo Casanova makes the most intimate and significant revelation of his life: he has HIV. There is no precedent in Spain for a public figure to disclose that he is living with HIV — a step that organizations and activists have been calling for for years to help end the social stigma still associated with the virus.


Nous l'orchestre de Paris

66. Nous l'orchestre de Paris

Documentary
Upcoming

20261h 30min

Director: Philippe Béziat

How can people play together as one? How can one contribute to something greater than oneself? How can a group cohabitate for decades without falling apart? And what role does the conductor really play? For the first time, cameras and microphones slip among the 80 musicians of the Orchestre de Paris, under the baton of their young prodigy conductor, Klaus Mäkelä. A total immersion to share their experiences, emotion and beauty, at the heart of music in the making.


Lainey Wilson: Keepin' Country Cool

67. Lainey Wilson: Keepin' Country Cool

Documentary Music
Upcoming

20261h 23min

Director: Amy Scott

Follows country music superstar Lainey Wilson as she redefines what it means to be a modern country star, exploring her personal journey and struggles while captivating fans on stage across the country.


A retired Olympic equestrian takes on a new dressage student at his idyllic farm in New Jersey. Over time, tensions mount between the two, leading to 911 calls, cryptic social media posts, and accusations of spying. The feud culminates in a shocking act of violence and a trial that rocked the prestigious and sophisticated world of dressage.


Nobody Here: The Story of Vaporwave

69. Nobody Here: The Story of Vaporwave

Music Documentary
Upcoming

2026

Director: Christian Britten

‘Nobody Here’ traces the story of Vaporwave and its evolution into the internet’s most aesthetic and celebrated micro-genre — from its origins in obscure online communities to its emergence in the mainstream consciousness.


David Attenborough tells the remarkable story of his first encounter with the baby gorilla Pablo, how that gorilla grew up to be a top Silverback and how Pablo's direct descendants are doing today.