Documentary

This documentary traces the deep-rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti-black prejudice.

The Making of Fanny and Alexander is a fascinating look at the creation of a masterpiece. Directed by Ingmar Bergman himself, this feature-length ...

The definitive photographic record of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, told “from the inside” through the lives of the participants, ...

German director Wim Wenders tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of Yasujiro Ozu and finds a very different city.

Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a ...

Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin’ is the first stand-up act of Richard Pryor to be filmed out of the four that were released in total. This ...

PUMPING IRON II: THE WOMEN, a film that is changing the way the world views the female physique-creating “a new definition of the female ...

Shirley Clarke’s frenetic documentary about multi-talented musician Ornette Coleman.

The Dream Is Alive takes you into space alongside the astronauts on the space shuttle. Share with them the delights of zero gravity while ...

Carefully picked scenes of nature and civilization are viewed at high speed using time-lapse cinematography in an effort to demonstrate the ...

A documentary with fully AI-translated voices. Amid post-mobilization Russia Nov 2022, a man navigates personal and collective trauma, Soviet ...

This in-depth examination of the life and career of clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw cuts between archival footage, location shots, and an ...

Just two years away from turning 30, participants in Michael Apted’s documentary series are facing serious questions of identity and ...

A Dutch documentary about legendary French filmmaker Robert Bresson.

Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his ...

This documentary about teenagers living on the streets in Seattle began as a magazine article. The film follows nine teenagers who discuss how ...

A concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, on tour for their 1983 album “Speaking in Tongues.” The ...

Theodore Roosevelt was America’s 26th president and a larger-than-life legend whose incredible story must be seen to be believed. Narrated ...

Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on ...

A group of Miskito Indians use Nicaraguan child soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.

Memoirs of the Italian Opera by the singers and musicians of the Casa Verdi, Milan, the world’s first nursing home for retired opera singers, ...

A documentary film about a boys school in Iran. The film shows numerous, funny and moving interviews of many different young pupils of this ...

Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí (1852-1926) designed some of the world’s most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks; Japanese ...

In their final year at Muncie’s Southside High School, a group of seniors hurtles toward maturity with a combination of joy, despair, and ...

One of comedian Richard Pryor’s later stand-up performances. As foul-mouthed as ever, Pryor touches on most of the same topics as in his ...

Derek Jarman’s film portrait of American writer William S. Burroughs was shot in September 1982 during his first visit to England to attend ...

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone ...

What starts off as a squadron of American daredevil bombers in World War II, branded by society as renegades, turns into a revealing ride into ...

Through the experiences of two women in Paris and London, Ghost Dance offers an analysis of the complexity of our conceptions of ghosts, memory ...

A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira.

A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as ...

This feature documentary retraces the century of haggling by successive federal and provincial governments to agree on a formula to bring home ...

Richard Pryor’s stand-up act includes his frank discussion about his freebasing addiction, as well as the infamous night on June 9, 1980 ...

A complex visual study of the women of rural Senegal. Through a complicity of interaction between film and spectator, Reassemblage reflects on ...

More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Early in the film, Charles Bukowski talks about the energy ...

“Breathtaking in its techniques, rhapsodic in its passion, and encyclopedic in its scope, the film traces the long fall from paradise into ...

Now, for the first time, you can re-live the Beatles legends with this stunning 2-hour musical “Rockumentary”. It’s all there from the wild ...

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems ...

Dateline NBC, or simply Dateline, is a weekly American television newsmagazine series. It was previously the network’s flagship ...

Gil Scott-Heron, one of rap’s earliest (and unfortunately unknown) pioneers, gets his full due in Black Wax, the 1982 documentary recently ...

A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb ...

An experimental film of the group Throbbing Gristle in concert.

Educational film about solar energy, told with striking imagery and animation.

The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism is on the rise and the events of the ...

The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, ...

Documentary chronicling the rise and fall of the punk movement with rare interview footage of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen. Also concert and ...

Directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ...

Rude Boy is a semi-documentary, part character study, part ‘rockumentary’, featuring a British punk band, The Clash. The script ...

Venturing from Venice Beach to Watts, Varda looks at the murals of LA as backdrop to and mirror of the city’s many cultures. She casts a curious ...