Documentary Movies

The film, shot in the Saharawi refugee population camps, tells the story of a group of students from a film school who, for their final year project,...

The Way of the Psychonaut explores the life and work of Stanislav Grof, Czech-born psychiatrist and psychedelic psychotherapy pioneer. Stan’s quest fo...

The film explores the destruction of a unique train station in Zurich and the construction of the new prison and police centre in its place. From the...

A documentary telling the remarkable human story of Stephen Hawking. For the first time, the personal archives and the testimonies of his closest fami...

Trust Me uses stories, facts and experts to explain how our lack of media literacy is hurting us and how the media is negatively affecting our perspec...

A film about America between the world wars that attempts to capture and interpret the vital moving forces in American society that caused the United...

Charles Babbage (1791-1871),computer pioneer, designed the first automatic computing engines. He invented computers but failed to build them. The f...

Germans colonized the land of Namibia, in southern Africa, during a brief period of time, from 1840 to the end of the World War I. The story of the so...

The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its memory: new light on a tragic era of division, dest...

The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was a botanical genius, Trofim Lyssenko was an agronom...

Abandoned by his father, he was a reform school kid with nothing going for him and a giant chip on his shoulder. He joined the Marines but never staye...

An Iranian filmmaker participates in a series of video calls with a young Palestinian photojournalist who describes her life confined in Gaza during t...

Though lightsabers have been a force in the Star Wars galaxy since George Lucas’ original film, the weapon’s on-screen presence evolved throughout bot...

Greek Theo Angelopoulos traveling from Athens to Ostia, the Roman beach where Pasolini was killed. Far from there, in a Spanish train station, Víctor...

Adrian Edmondson narrates a documentary chronicling the story of Stiff Records, a tiny independent that took music out of the boardroom and gave it ba...

Americans know President Ronald Reagan s politics, his policies, and his oratorical prowess. But as we approach what would have been his 100th birthda...

The BBC produced “Kings of The Ring – History of Heavyweight Boxing 1919-1990” celebrates boxing’s marquee division. Comprehensive and nonjudgmental,...

An intimate portrait of Alabama public interest attorney Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, who for more...