Documentary Movies

The ascent of the Zinalrothorn filmed by Frederick Burlingham in September 1916. Burlingham, known at the time as 'The man who kinematographed the Mat...

Fragments is a documentary that explores the feelings expressed in dedications, using archival images and videos to reveal the emotions and memories t...

A documentary featuring interviews with teachers and officials on the profession of teaching and what it means to them.

Three women at high risk for Alzheimer's disease offer their brains and bodies to a medical study. After the deaths of their mothers, these daughters...

"Childhoods without Borders: Voices in Motion" is a documentary in which migrant boys and girls narrate the experiences and challenges they have faced...

A documentary about the aging prima ballerina Balasaraswati (popularly known as "Bala"),the most famous exponent of the Bharatanatyam dance.

Each summer, twenty-four high school students across Tennessee are selected for one shot at creating a full-blown narrative motion picture. For one mo...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

When Don 'Tex' Phillips, an American basketball coach, takes the reins of a Canadian college team on the prairies, his squad becomes the subject of sa...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

A documentary that follows five British teenagers as they come out, capturing intimate first-hand experiences, and empathizing with them as they seek...

At the beginning of the year 2020, a relentless plague sweeps the planet and, as a consequence, a global lockdown is gradually decreed: how did people...

Every summer, nearly a million people pour into the Iowa State Fair. To get there, they have to pass through a different kind of attraction: a neighbo...

First transmitted in 1979, this programme looks at the Rainhill Locomotive Trials in Rainhill, Lancashire (now Merseyside) in 1829, a competition to f...