Documentary

LAW & ORDER surveys the wide range of work the police are asked to perform: enforcing the law, maintaining order, and providing general ...

Bergman interviews the locals of Fårö in this fascinating documentary. An expression of personal and political solidarity with the fellow ...

Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside Northeast High School as a fly on the wall to observe the teachers and how they interact ...

Essay film from Czech director Vojtech Jasný on his home country.

Jayne takes us on a review of her last world tour. She takes us through Rome, shares a fantasy about Roman athletes, and then is off to Cannes. ...

A 1968 animation/documentary that criticises the industrial system. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

While The Rolling Stones rehearse “Sympathy for the Devil” in the studio, an alternating narrative reflects on 1968 society, politics ...

In 1967, New York City is host to the Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant. This documentary takes a look behind the scenes, transporting the ...

A “hidden camera” takes the viewer on a worldwide tour of sexual practices and rituals, including Tijuana strippers, Asian sex shows, British ...

Robert Mitchum narrates an anti drug propaganda film.

A stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and ...

A Man Vanishes examines the concept of Johatsu, tackling the phenomenon of people missing in Japan over the years. It picks one such person from ...

In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the ...

The outrageous life of the American dancer of the 1920s, Isadora Duncan, whom Ken Russell described as “part genius and part charlatan”.

A view from a helicopter of the ten Canadian provinces in 1966. The result is a big, beautiful and engrossing bird’s-eye portrait of the ...

Using morgue photos, newsreel footage, and a recording by Lena Horne, Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez fired off ‘Now!’, one of the ...

This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry ...

Two old men enter an abandoned synagogue, look at the decay around them, and pray.

A group of British children aged 7 from widely ranging backgrounds are interviewed about a range of subjects. The filmmakers plan to re-interview ...

The simple actions of a young boy on the beach provide visual metaphors for the normally unseen world. The camera adds a profound dimension to ...

The official sequel to the original shockumentary, presenting new and bizarre behavior from around the world, including cruelty, graphic gore, ...

A biography of Winston Churchill, shown through re-creations and actual film footage and told by Orson Welles.

Pier Paolo Pasolini sets out to interview Italians about sex, apparently their least favorite thing to talk about in public: he asks children if ...

Motoring programme featuring reviews of and reports about cars of all types.

Documentary about the most famous dribbler in Brazilian Soccer (some say in Soccer’s history!) at the zenith of his career, showing classic ...

Still photographs and narration give an overview of the history of the American Indian.

Les inconnus de la terre starts like a traditional feature film: in the beginning of the film all the leading roles are given a short ...

This final True-Life Adventure would also appear to be one of the best, as we go into the South American jungle to observe the jaguar. Jungle Cat ...

Documentary about the potentially dangerous and unpredictable drug LSD. Various experts discuss how LSD is made and the hazards involved in using ...

A 10-minute portrait of modernist poet and de Andrade’s godfather, Manuel Bandeira, is clear in its affection for it subject, though like many ...

Set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from ...

Several stories depicting the landscapes and fauna of India are mixed with documentary footage.

“Mein Kampf” presents the raising and fall of the Third Reich, showing mainly the destruction of Poland and the life Hitler, which is ...

Windjammer, the first presentation in CINEMIRACLE, is the record of a training cruise of the full-rigged S/S Christian Radich from Oslo across ...

Impressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman.

Tongue-in-cheek look at the French Riviera, especially in summer when it overflows with tourists. Reviews its history and famous visitors; ...

Le chant du Styrène is a 1958 French documentary film directed by Alain Resnais. The film was an order by French industrial group Pechiney to ...

Lowell Thomas travels across Europe and the Middle East on his way to attend the coronation of King Mahendra in Nepal.

A mix of documentary and scripted footage on the Bowery, New York City’s skid row. Against a backdrop of men (and a few women) drinking in ...

A short documentary on the chateaux of the Loire in France was commissioned by the French Tourist Bureau.

Toute la mémoire du monde is a documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing ...

Seven Wonders of the World is a 1956 film in Cinerama. Lowell Thomas searches the world for natural and man made wonders and invites the audience ...

Using a specially designed transparent ‘canvas’ to provide an unobstructed view, Picasso creates as the camera rolls. He begins with ...

With a combination of documentary footage and animation, the science and history of rockets, and the effects of space travel on man are illustrated.

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler’s concentration camps.

Part of Disney’s True-Life Adventures series, this film focuses on the lives of lions in Africa.

Story of the American Prairie as it was when vast herds of bison and elk grazed.

Won the Academy Award for the Best Documentary Short of 1954. The subject deals with the children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, ...