Documentary Movies

A city of reinvention, San Francisco tries to rise from the ashes after an era of turmoil and troubled headlines. Told through intimate vignettes; a M...

A pioneering mountaineering film made by Frank Ormiston-Smith for the Warwick Trading Company in 1902. Ormiston-Smith himself led and filmed an expedi...

Long Way to the Top is a story about the trials and tribulations of working musicians and life on the road. From unexpected tour line-ups to the undyi...

Field of Vision and The New Yorker have created a six-part episodic documentary, filmed in 2015, that immerses us in the Syrian refugee crisis. Matthe...

Ten years after an enormous open-pit gold mine began operations in Malartic, the hoped-for economic miracle is nothing more than a mirage. Filmmaker N...

An ocean stood between Baba and her grandson, so she did the only thing she could: she became a whale and swam to him.

Through the stories of Luciana (Moda Mangue),Trícia (Escama Fina),and Rebeca (byNevoa),the documentary follows women who transform the territory wh...

Frederick Burlingham visits Vesuvius and climbs down into the crater accompanied by two Italian guides. Contains some nice actuality of Pompeii and th...

This film takes a candid, inside look at the world of juvenile delinquency. We are shown the tough existence on the streets of Montreal, but it could...

The death of the dictator Francisco Franco on November 20, 1975 changed the course of Spanish history. The Franco dictatorship gave way to the democra...

Lyse Doucet speaks to Hind Kabawat, Syria's minister for social affairs and labour and the only female minister in the transitional government.

In 1983, the director's 24-year-old sister developed symptoms of schizophrenia. Her parents couldn't accept it—refusing to seek treatment for their si...

A documentary tragicomedy of a father-daughter relationship, told by the subjective perspective of the young director. She tries to understand how a r...

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Since the 18th century, the Paris Foreign Missions Society (MEP) has been sending priests to Asia in the name of the Gospel. The MEP missionaries have...

Elvira Luz Cruz was accused of killing her children. The filmmakers interview neighbours, the father, the mother-in-law, the psycologist and the lawye...

Michael Almereyda’s Paradise is a poignant and surprising sketchbook, a collection of brief episodes captured during a decade of travel. The film is m...

Romania: State of Fear is a compelling BBC documentary that provides a rare, clandestine look at life in Romania during the final year of Nicolae Ceau...

Kyiv, 1929. Shots of the city as it wakes up and its awakening echoes with the lyrical pictures of the rebirth of nature. Kaufman’s attentive camera p...

Marc Fennell charts the rise of the Western Sydney Wanderers, a ragtag Aussie team whose passionate and sometimes controversial fans drew the ire of p...