Documentary movies

Explore the life and legacy of notable Black scholar and civil rights pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois. From his birth, just five years after the Emancipation Proclamation; to his death, on the eve of the March on Washington in 1963, his legacy as an activist continues to resonate today.

In May 1980, students at Shinheung High in Jeonju rallied to end martial law. To shield them, the vice principal imposed school penalties, earning the label of a hypocrite. Students resisted with boycotts, and two years later, tensions flared into arson. After 42 years, a teacher and students seek reconciliation.

A musical journey through Tokyo's Jazz Cafes.

She is Kao Chu-Hua, a dazzling Latin singer of the 1950s–60s known as “Panana,” and daughter of White Terror victim Kao Yi-Sheng. After her father’s execution, she gave up her dream of studying medicine in the U.S. and turned to singing to support her family. Under authoritarian rule, she was blacklisted, surveilled, and coerced into hosting foreign guests for the regime. Newly declassified archives reveal the full extent of her exploitation. LA PALOMA follows her daughter, Shih Chao-Ling, as she confronts the silence and shame her mother endured. Through family interviews and historical research, the film pieces together one woman’s survival under political oppression—a story that echoes countless untold lives of women under authoritarian regimes.

In the Netherlands, the integration process for refugees is called a "Customer Journey." Refugees are seen as customers, guided through an endless chain of forms, rules, and institutions: a system designed for efficiency but experienced as a labyrinth. Customer Journey follows a large Syrian family seeking a home for the family and two sisters of Somali descent who are part of the LGBTQ community and dream of becoming actresses as they navigate this complex system. Around them, civil servants, volunteers, and social workers do their best to help, often in humorous and touching ways, yet hopes frequently collide with procedures. The film reveals a world where bureaucracy meets good intentions, where dreams are tested by rules, and after navigating it all, have the hopes that brought you here been realized?

As 2026 heralds the start of technopop group Perfume's 'cold sleep' hiatus, this documentary traces the first 25 years of their career, and is expected to go behind the scenes of their latest album, Nebula Romance, and their latest tours.

Ten years in the life of young cowboy Crowley as he comes of age in the vastness of Colorado. On his rocky path, he endures loss, separation, and shattered dreams.

Netflix announced on Tuesday morning that Marty, Life Is Short, a film billed as the definitive documentary on comedian Martin Short, will stream globally on May 12.

A playful and personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory, composed entirely of archival footage. It is a love letter to Beirut, spanning 70 years of film, TV, home videos, and photography, exploring the Lebanese collective psyche – marked by joy and intimacy, destruction and loss. Through the eyes of citizens, filmmakers and artists, the film reconstructs a fragmented history in a country without a national archive, celebrating creative expression as both resistance, renewal and a way to preserve memory.

Karoline is a filmmaker, the daughter of a domestic worker, and embarked on a journey across the country to investigate the relationship between the slave quarters and the maid's room.