Documentary Movies

The documentary story of Madonna’s struggling days in New York with her first band “Breakfast Club,” leading up to her first solo record deal.

On January 29, 2017, a lone gunman entered a mosque in Quebec City, took the lives of six people, injured 19 others and left an entire community in complete shock…

This documentary takes audiences into the heart of Africa’s Congo Basin to meet the men and women trying to save the forest elephant from extinction.

A documentary about Harry Birrell, an amateur film-maker who documented his life extensively on film. The documentary focuses specifically on the films he shot, and diary entries he wrote during…

An exposé on the public health impact of factory farming across the United States, told through the eyes of residents in five rural communities. When pushed to their limit, these…

Sean and Adrian, a Two-Spirit couple, are determined to rewrite the rules of Native American culture through their participation in the “Sweetheart Dance.” This celebratory contest is held at powwows…

VESTIGE is a revealing of human crave and interconnection amid the fraught race against time of another collapsing species – the rhinoceros. In the embattled provinces surrounding Kruger National Park,…

Every February, four dozen athletes are invited to Alaska to undertake a journey which will challenge their bodies and minds, their wills to succeed, and their wills to live. The…

In 1999 Wales faced England in the final ever Five Nations clash at Wembley. It was an historic and unforgettable game that paved the way for a new era of…

A bold, feminist film about how the vagina has shaped our view of the world and the shame around female sexuality. Women from 19 to 77 years old talk about…

Thomas looks for love in all the wrong places and struggles to find someone who will commit. Will he learn to love himself by opening night? Thomas Banks searches on…

An exclusive look at the hard but rewarding life of The World’s Strongest Man & WWE Hall of Famer Mark Henry.

In Iceland, volcanoes line up like pearls on a string. In the mountains and valleys the ground boils. It smokes, hisses and bubbles. Although rising from the sea as a…

The extraordinary story of General Qassem Suleimani with first-hand accounts of his secret deals and shifting alliances across Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.

The uncensored story of the infamous New Jersey based horror and custom video company W.A.V.E. Productions, who allows its fans to script and finance custom features tailored specifically to satiate…

In his first-ever stand-up special, Ken Jeong shares hilarious stories from his Hollywood career — and reveals how “The Hangover” saved his life.

In the aftermath of a tragic fire in a Romanian club, burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life threatening. A team of investigative journalists move…

In 1973, five men and six women drifted across the Atlantic on a raft as part of a scientific experiment exploring the origins of violence and sexual attraction. Nobody expected…

The story of Pro Football Hall of Famer Nick Buoniconti, whose resume encompasses turns as a linebacker, lawyer, sports agent, broadcaster, executive and philanthropist.

Ella Fitzgerald was a 15-year-old street kid when she won a talent contest in 1934 at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. Within months she was a star. Over the next…

Marc Hauser is a visionary. Or is he mad? A record-holding skydiver, Hauser has a grand ambition: to become the first man to jump into a hurricane force jet stream…

Asalif and his mother defy Ethiopia’s omnipresent modern housing development culture, by continuing to live a life characterised by proximity to nature and rootedness in community. The boy counters the…

A feature length documentary exploring violence and social change through the stories of ex-fighters from the Lebanese Civil War.

The wastelands and crowded streets of an African country are traversed by a woman bearing a wooden cross on her back. She is followed by sellers, beggars and passersby, outraged…

A look at one of Chicago’s more troubled South Side neighborhoods from the point of view of two young boxers and their families.

Since 2015, the Landless Workers Movement has been occupying an indebted sugarcane factory’s land to press for its redistribution through land reform. Grandma, P.C. and their encamped fellows struggle to…

Sven Marquardt might be the most famous bouncer worldwide. But beside standing in front of the legendary techno club Berghain in Berlin, he is also a well-known and skilled photographer….

The Perseus Survivor documents the story of British Navy stoker John Capes, the lone survivor of a sunken submarine who hid from enemy forces for 18 months before his rescue….

Two journalists traverse the Grand Canyon by foot, hoping this 750-mile walk will help them better understand one of America’s most revered landscapes and the threats poised to alter it…

Coming 50 years after the release of Space Oddity, the 90-minute film explores the Bowie before Ziggy Stardust, following the period from 1966 when he changed his name from David…

Paralympic Games, Sydney 2000. The Spanish basketball team wins the gold medal. A great lie in the History of sports. Raymond Torres was the captain of that team.

Tells the story of mushroom pickers who, in the summer and autumn months head, to the southern Carpathians of Romania to begin their search. Far from being a leisure activity,…

BAREFOOT is a portrait of Mark Baumer, a writer and activist who walked barefoot for over 100 days to protest climate change. In a voice The New Yorker praised as…

When Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School drama teacher Melody Herzfeld heard the fire alarm on Feb. 14, 2018, she was with her students in rehearsals for their annual children’s musical….

“The Zulus are coming,” Dark Sevier, a local DJ for public radio in Butte, Montana, announces to listeners one evening in May, 2017. By this point, everyone in the small…

Delving into a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and finally embraced them, this is the untold history of black Americans in Hollywood through their…

Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18, 1961. Swedish economist and diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the UN, dies mysteriously in a plane crash. Decades later, Danish journalist and…

Pablo Picasso is one of the greatest artists of all time – and right up until his death in 1973 he was the most prolific of artists. Many films have…

A documentary about the little-known Josiah Henson, the escaped slave who inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”

The tortured life of Paul Morphy (1850s New Orleans chess prodigy) is examined.