Documentary Movies
XTC: This Is Pop (2017)
A journey into the world of one of Britain’s best-loved and most influential bands of modern times, XTC. Through a mixture of animation, archive and specially-shot sequences, the film explores…
Adriana’s Pact (2017)
Lissette’s favorite aunt Adriana, who lives in Australia, is arrested in 2007 while visiting her family in Chile and accused of having worked for dictator Pinochet’s notorious secret police, the…
On Yoga: The Architecture of Peace (2017)
Based on Michael O’Neill’s book of the same name, this documentary tells the story of the ten years the author spent photographing yoga’s great masters. Created as a deep extension…
Spielberg (2017)
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.
Beyond: An African Surf Documentary (2017)
Africa, Europe – Europe and Africa: Surfers live differently on each continent and Africa marks a special place – as surfing is in many places at its very beginnings. ‘Beyond…
Voyeur (2017)
Legendary journalist Gay Talese unmasks a motel owner who spied on his guests for decades. But his bombshell story soon becomes a scandal of its own.
The Universe Is Out There: Josh and Benny Safdie (2017)
Get to know the siblings whose films have captured the skittering pulse of New York’s city streets. An original documentary featuring footage from the making of their new thriller, Good…
Human Flow (2017)
More than 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war, the greatest displacement since World War II. Filmmaker Ai…
Life After Flash (2017)
A look at the roller coaster life of Sam J. Jones since his role as Flash Gordon, his struggles and successes, and the aftermath of when he went up against…
Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling (2017)
Correspondent Lisa Ling manages to penetrate its border by travelling undercover, pretending to work with a Nepalese eye surgeon on a humanitarian mission. Lisa’s time in North Korea offers a…
Warren Miller’s Line of Descent (2017)
The lineage of mountain lifestyle continues in Warren Miller Entertainment’s 68th full-length feature film, Line of Descent, presented by Volkswagen. In this year’s film, WME travels the globe, by land,…
My Life Without Air (2017)
Free-diver Goran Colak has dedicated his life to surviving devoid of oxygen. Driven by a desire to be the best in the world, Goran has achieved every feat possible in…
Maker of Monsters: The Extraordinary Life of Beau Dick (2017)
Meet Beau Dick gives an intimate look into the life of one of Canada’s greatest artists. Beau Dick worked within an ancient tradition and rose to the ranks of international…
Queen: Rock the World (2017)
In 1977, BBC music presenter Bob Harris was given exclusive and extensive access to the Queen. Conducting insightful interviews with all four band members as well as filming them at…
The Making of a Dream (2017)
The Making of a Dream is a cinematic essay on stories of dancers. It shows joys and pains from the first steps in an amateur school to the goal to…
Real Fake: The Art Life & Crimes of Elmyr De Hory (2017)
The foundation of today’s multi-billion dollar art market still reverberates with the beautiful lies of one of the most prolific art forgers of the last century.
Think and Grow Rich: The Legacy (2017)
THINK AND GROW RICH: The Legacy will be a feature length docudrama film chronicling the story of some of today’s most renowned entrepreneurs, cultural icons and thought leaders. This feature…
Chaplin in Bali (2017)
In 1932, Chaplin, in full midlife crisis, escapes to Bali in search of himself to find the artistic rejuvenation and inspiration to do his difficult transition to sound film.
No Stone Unturned (2017)
Ireland’s victory over Italy at the World Cup in New Jersey in 1994, remains a source of Irish pride. But it is haunted by memories of a massacre: terrorists opened…
Stopping Traffic: The Movement to End Sex Trafficking (2017)
With the instant reach of social media and explosion in cyber porn, a child sex slave can be purchased online and delivered to a customer more quickly than a pizza….
Nokia Mobile: We Were Connecting People (2017)
Once upon a time there was a large Finnish company called Nokia that manufactured the world’s best and most innovative mobile phones. Nokia’s annual budget was larger than that of…
Tawai: A Voice from the Forest (2017)
Explorer Bruce Parry visits nomadic tribes in Borneo and the Amazon in hope to better understand humanity’s changing relationship with the world around us.
Bluefin (2017)
Bluefin is a tale of epic stakes set in “the tuna capital of the world.” In North Lake, Prince Edward Island, filmmaker John Hopkins tries to shed light on a…
Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton (2017)
This is the remarkable story of an American icon who changed the sport of big wave surfing forever. Transcending the surf genre, this in-depth portrait of a hard-charging athlete explores…
In My Mind (2017)
The film recounts one of Chris’ early filmmaking experiences: an attempt to interview Patrick McGoohan – something McGoohan had resisted previously – about his enigmatic series for a Channel 4…
Pearl Jam: Let’s Play Two (2017)
Let’s Play Two is a documentary film that chronicles Pearl Jam’s legendary performances at Wrigley Field during the Chicago Cubs historic 2016 season. With Chicago being a hometown to Eddie…
The Politics of Hate (2017)
At 16 he became the leader of the Chicago Area Skinheads, later a white supremacist punk band. But when Christian Picciolini started a family, he began questioning his far right…
Romantic Road (2017)
An English couple, a leading London lawyer and his wife re-define later life by motoring rural India in their battered 1936 Rolls Royce, falling into company with tea-wallahs and maharajahs,…
Intelligent Trees (2017)
Trees talk, know family ties and care for their young? Is this too fantastic to be true? German forester Peter Wohlleben and scientist Suzanne Simard have been observing and investigating…
Becoming Who I Was (2017)
Angdu is no ordinary boy. Indeed, in a past life he was a venerated Buddhist master. His village already treats him like a saint as a result. The village doctor,…
Food on the Go (2017)
The diaspora of millions of Italian emigrants marked a strong nutritional influence of this nation on the American continent. The documentary collects the similarities and differences between the dishes adapted…
Def Comedy Jam 25 (2017)
In this special live event, giants of stand-up come together to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Russell Simmons’s groundbreaking “Def Comedy Jam.”
Canaletto & the Art of Venice (2017)
EXHIBITION ON SCREEN open its fifth season with Canaletto & the Art of Venice, an immersive journey into the life and art of Venice’s famous view-painter. No artist better captures…
The Gap Year Paedophile (2017)
Reporter Bronagh Munro investigates how a teenage gap year student became one of Britain’s worst ever paedophiles.
Ram Dass Going Home (2017)
Ram Dass is one of the most important cultural figures from the 1960s and 70s. A pyschedelic pioneer, author of Be Here Now, beloved spiritual teacher, and outspoken advocate for…
Among Us (2017)
Based on the jaw-dropping contact accounts of individuals from around the world, AMONG US explores the suspicious phenomenon of non-human presence on Earth, from angels to ETs, and unveils the…
Saura(s) (2017)
Carlos Saura, a living legend. Félix Viscarret, a director who wants to make a film portrait of the great master. He draws up a plan. He thinks it’s brilliant. He…
Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang (2017)
Known for his spectacular pyrotechnic displays, Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang creates his most ambitious project yet: Sky Ladder, a visionary, explosive event that he pulls off in his hometown in…
More Art Upstairs (2017)
A revolution is taking place in the art world and it isn’t happening in Paris, Berlin or Hong Kong—but in Grand Rapids, Michigan. ArtPrize is the most highly attended art…
Numinous (2017)
Awed and Attracted. He is one of the most aggressive and talented freeskiers of our age. Born and raised in the BC backcountry, with a bloodline alive with adventure and…