Channels
Documentary
2023
Clear All
Prime Video
Starz
Paramount+
Max
CineMAX
Shudder
Acorn TV
Paramount+
Fubo TV
Hallmark
HULU
Disney+
Netflix
HBOmax
HBOmax on Hulu
Starz on Hulu
Showtime on Hulu
STARZ
Freevee
MGM+
AMC+
BET+
Britbox
HISTORY Vault
All
Action
Adventure
Animation
Comedy
Crime
Documentary
Drama
Family
Fantasy
History
Horror
Music
Mystery
Romance
Science Fiction
TV Movie
Thriller
War
Western
Channels
Clear All
Prime Video
Starz
Paramount+
Max
CineMAX
Shudder
Acorn TV
Paramount+
Fubo TV
Hallmark
HULU
Disney+
Netflix
HBOmax
HBOmax on Hulu
Starz on Hulu
Showtime on Hulu
STARZ
Freevee
MGM+
AMC+
BET+
Britbox
HISTORY Vault
Genres
All
Action
Adventure
Animation
Comedy
Crime
Documentary
Drama
Family
Fantasy
History
Horror
Music
Mystery
Romance
Science Fiction
TV Movie
Thriller
War
Western
more
Year
Popular Documentary Movies
Trailbound Alaska
On a mission to rediscover trails in his Alaskan backyard, dyslexic filmmaker and painter Max Romey explores a historic trail, and its wild history. With a sketchbook and a pair of shoes, he makes the first likely attempt in decades to connect the once well-traveled trails of the Southern Trek of the Historic Iditarod route from Seward back home to Anchorage.
Mama America
This film is a memoir about a missing mother. The uncertainty with which the author has lived for their whole life is interrupted by sudden news.
Here's to the Absent Ladies!
The most numerous subculture is a nameless one: it’s the boys’ subculture. Mindlessly at first, they mimic the rituals and habits of adult men. Boys curse, boys raise glasses “for ladies not present here”, until they gradually evolve into men, becoming role models for the next generation of boys. The character of this montage film crafted from discovered tapes makes such full circle: through his childhood, a winter dacha with vodka shots, a picture-perfect 2000s vacation in Turkey and Egypt with his parents, and into adulthood and his own family.
The Kill List
Documentary special that investigates the 25-year-long case of what happened to Julie Jensen that just concluded last week.
Bergen, Norway
Yesterday, I found the address of my abuser in the memory of my phone. I have no name, I have no face, I only have his address.
Macula
If we were to imagine a space where the imprints of human existence are stored, what would that space look like? What would those ‘imprints’ be?
Multicellular
Our world exists only thanks to the possibility of a simple cell to evolve through continuous movement. What will happen if we set it above all else in nature and give it power?
Watercolors
Watercolors is an omnibus documentary that highlights indie musicians who are seeking new paths and creating their own musical world.
Traces
A journey back to the darkest years of the military dictatorship, where Valeria Sarmiento, using for the first time in her career her own voice, reflects on the traces of the political violence of that period and summons the testimony of victims and privileged witnesses, but also the opinion of scientists, memory theorists and researchers of genocides of other times. The result is an intimate account of how these traces have impregnated our life stories, our bodies and also our landscape.
Love You to Death: Gabby Petito
When a young couple goes missing, witness sightings, social media tips, and details about a domestic dispute fuel the public’s concern that something has gone terribly wrong.
One with the Whale
Modern technology confronts ancient ritual in this profound and moving documentary. Teenager Chris Apassingok and his Yupik family live in Gambell, Alaska, a tiny village on St. Lawrence island in the Bering Sea. Life there differs vastly from the rest of the US – for one, hunting whales holds the key to the islanders’ survival. Conflict emerges after Chris kills a whale that will feed Gambell’s townspeople for months – and news of the successful hunt reaches the outside world. Facebook trolls and animal-rights activists attack from afar, captured in Pete Chelkowski and environmental journalist Jim Wickens’ captivating film that delves into environmental issues, cultural and generational challenges, and cyberspace hysteria
A field that no longer smells of flowers
In the municipality of Villa Guerrero, State of Mexico, flower growers and their families live together with the hope of better times; meanwhile, they live every day in a field that no longer smells of flowers.
Death of Cinema
Rain does not caress the skin, the wind resists blowing, a soul is like a doll forgotten in the house of glass. Tikhon Pendurin’s piece “Death of Cinema” is a dream of a film, the process of falling asleep, a frozen cosmos, the liturgy of a sigh. Fotogénie, a return to the forgotten magic of magician Segundo de Chomon, the mystery of Val del Omar, Alain Resnais surreal theatricality “Death of Cinema” seems to absorb all the magic of cinema and confesses its own forgetfulness. The characters of “Death of Cinema” stand before the justice of truth, naive children turned with pride away from the audience. Here, the main thing is the hallucination of light, a whisper, a prayer, the bewildered physiognomy of cinema, which allowed itself to laugh at its own seriousness. (by Karina Karaeva)
Planet D
Could another form of life be waiting for us? Somewhere out there, on a distant Planet D? The film is composed of footage captured in a teenage prison camp, where the author led classes for inmates in 2018, as well as from family video chronicles made in the 1990s. Olesya Rudyka reflects: “When my dad was released from incarceration, we believed we had our whole life ahead of us. He seemed to understand that leaving prison isn’t the end – it stays with you indefinitely and, sooner or later, catches up with you unexpectedly, like a bullet”.
Mitrofan Aksenov's Sausage
Mitrofan Aksenov is a genius who anticipated the most important and influential scientific discovery of the twentieth century — the theory of relativity.
Other Worlds Child
The father of Russian futurism, Velimir Viktorovich Khlebnikov, wants to publish his book "Boards of Fate", with the help of which people will be able to avoid wars by predicting future events.
The Beauty of Film and T.V.
A documentary about the subject of 'Film and T.V.' in schools and the students that study it.
The Elk Calf
Katya is an employee of the Sumarokovskaya Elk Farm; she has been delivering births to elk cows for 20 years and telling tourists about the benefits of elk milk. Katya’s duties sometimes include very cruel things, but she loves her job and her son, for whom she wants a better future like any mother.
Krush The Wrestler
Exploring the innate intimacy of submission wrestling, a lifelong wrestler turns his talents into an on-demand fetish video service.
Lunch Break: Leave Your Screen Behind
It's easy to fall victim to the daily, and sedentary, routine. This film aims to motivate you to take full advantage of your lunch break. Plan a Lunch Break with your friends in you neck of the woods, and we guarantee you'll want to go back for seconds.
The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History
The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in 1973, which forever shook the very foundations of communist ideology.
FAREWELL
To index my position in popular culture, existing in scenes of Taiwanese indie youth and migrating to New York and we all exist under the umbrella of confederacy/ white supremacy/ Eurocentricism/ and patriarchy. FAREWELL asks questions about internet labor and surveillance, comments on Eastern and Western cultures and local communities, what it means to self-document through motion images, and the urge to archive (Hal Foster wrote about the archive impulse.) It is another video that will ultimately end up in the vast sea of YouTube shorts but it is a way to pass down a momentary legacy.
National Anarchist: Lino Brocka
In the Philippines, Lino Brocka is considered a national monument who waged a cinematic battle against corruption and oppression, directing over sixty fiction features between 1970 and 1991, encompassing both lost works and non-political narratives and revealing a multifaceted legacy beyond the political realm, until his untimely death in a 1991 car accident.
Niels Bohr - Verdens bedste menneske
The Danish documentary 'Niels Bohr: The World's Best Man' is about the world-renowned Danish physicist Niels Bohr. Here we delve into his life, work and the legacy he has created.
Niels Bohr is known for making fundamental contributions to the understanding of atomic structure and quantum theory, and the film draws a portrait of a man who in the 20th century probably left the biggest mark on the world.
Gudow Nord
The motorway roars in the background, darkness lies over the service area. One truck driver smokes; another turns on the light in his sleeper cab. A summer Sunday is dawning, everything is standing still. Precisely designed detail shots induce in us a state of waiting. This is what life on the road can also look like. Cooking, dozing, staring into space. Hair is shorn short, words are exchanged. Polish pop songs resound from one of the cabs.
Can't Stop, Won't Stop
There’s magic in realizing you can do something you didn’t think was possible. The Richmond Cycling Corps is using bikes to tap into this magic by helping kids to see that if they can get better at cycling, they can get better at anything they put their mind to.
Canopy Climbers
A group of friends in the Costa Rican jungle are spearheading the exciting new sport of tree climbing by using traditional rock climbing techniques to scale giant strangler fig trees. As climbers living in the jungle without rocks around, they began climbing the trees.
What's wrong with you? Nothing.
Child psychiatry is in a phase of clinical death. Yet there are facilities and doctors who can return children back to their families cured and healthy. That is the path that needs to be taken. The documentary mapping the state of child psychiatric care in the Czech Republic was made by director Jiří Podlipný, Czech Television cooperated with the Vendula Pizingerová Foundation Kapka naděje. Artificial intelligence visualization under the guidance of cinematographer Jiří Studnička allows us to look into the depths of a child's aching soul.
Emma in the Sky
An unconventional portrait of Emma Srncová, a painter, artist and occasional actress.
Jugaad
A word abandoned, a meaning misinterpreted, a tradition upheld, an economy satisfied.
Tracing Imperfection
As master conservator Naoko Fukumaru demonstrates Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing pottery using gold, she recalls how learning the practice has taught her to embrace her own imperfections as it has mended her own life.
77 Years Back
Born in 1943 in Bessarabia region, Victor was forced to flee his homeland because of the war. After 77 years, his grandson, Dan, goes back there with his grandpa, Victor, who is recounting memories and seeking information about his birth and his lost relatives, in the country that is now the Republic of Moldova.
Air
For the protagonist, breathing therapy and anti-stress techniques become a starting point for a life change. He enters the world of freediving, i.e. diving while breadth-holding. Risking his life, he starts practicing holding his breath for increasingly longer periods of time. Where is the boundary of his capabilities?
Amérique: la nouvelle histoire des premiers hommes
From the far north of Canada to the southern tip of Chile, through the southern United States, central Mexico and the Brazilian Mato Grosso, new concordant but still controversial archaeological discoveries have brought a new paradigm to the archaeology of American prehistory: the appearance of the first humans on the continent could date back to nearly 30,000 years before our era, that is to say, about 15,000 years earlier than the commonly accepted and taught thesis. Although there were a few mavericks in the past who disputed the scenario according to which the first ancestors of Americans arrived on foot through the Bering Strait 16,000 years ago, they were long kept out of the scientific community.
Scandalous: Phone Hacking on Trial
Candid and exclusive testimony from Sienna Miller, Hugh Grant, Steve Coogan, Heather Mills and others on claims of unlawful information gathering at some of UK's biggest papers. The documentary unpicks the evidence and examines the claims now emerging out of the civil courts in unprecedented detail, via celebrities who claim they were targeted unlawfully by the papers, as well as private individuals who were caught up in the news.