Documentary Movies

SHINE tells the story of Mike Straughter, the owner of Chase Shoe Shine Parlor in Houston’s historic Third Ward — a neighborhood long regarded as a cr...

With the aim of studying sexuality and the role of disciplinary power in controlling the female body for a Philosophy of Communication course, the sho...

NHS GP Dr Claire Taylor learns more about the the UK's fastest growing health condition, she meets patients living with dementia, as well as scientist...

A man and his spirit navigate in harmony with nature. By day, by night, by the upheavals of unpredictability, he navigates the river as we all navigat...

In 1976 a small group of women in Montgomery County, PA sat together around a kitchen table to discuss the Women’s Movement. They were aware of women...

Caught between tradition, chaos, and constant change — how does Istanbul, with its 16 million residents, manage to thrive as a modern global city desp...

Every New Year, and in celebration of their Independence, Haitian families gather together to feast in honor of a line of ancestors that fought for th...

This Ukrainian-Jewish teenager immigrated to San Francisco as a young child. Now on the brink of adulthood, she interviews her grandparents about thei...

In August 2007, after some medical studies, I was diagnosed with bone cancer. This movie is based on my memories of those days.

An approach to experimental diva Diana Mariscal.

Expeditions in the Western Canadian Arctic

Following in the footsteps of Captain John Noel and his immensely popular documentaries taken on the Mount Everest expeditions of the 1920s ("Climbing...

In Canada and Alaska, the consequences of global warming are being keenly felt by brown bears - but in different ways by different populations. Their...

Starting from the Swiss village of Zermatt, two people and a guide make a perilous ascent of the Matterhorn. Local villagers mount a torchlight rescue...