Documentary Movies

Twenty years ago, director Christiane Burkhard’s parents died in a plane crash. Now she has made a documentary, in collaboration with her...

Lost Nothing is the subject Willie James Crittenden waxes poetically about.

Beginning at the fabulous coral reef of Ningaloo in Western Australia, intrepid marine biologist Mark Meakin attempts to unravel the mysterious...

Completed a year after his death in 1983, this program presents the definitive biography of Spain’s renowned Surrealist film maker and...

There is a monster in Lake Nahuel Huapi. At twilight, it spreads across the surface of the water like a taut cowhide, grabbing its victims with sharp...

The parallel stories of Moka, a young artisan of Moroccan origin, and Achille, an old fortune-teller, once a celebrity on regional TV. Moka studies...

This documentary revisits the French football team's controversial 2010 World Cup and the bus strike that sparked global headlines and national...

Michael Schumacher's first World Championship win roars to life through personal interviews and archival footage of the legendary 1994 Formula 1...

How the art in the Detroit Institute of Art connects to life's experiences and the neighborhood.

The story of pop singer ANNA ASTI.

El Bosque, a small fishing village on the coast of Mexico, is disappearing. Little by little, the sea has swallowed its homes, its streets, and its...

Portrait of a national icon: iskelmä or popular schlager legend Olavi Virta (1915–1972), as an old, lost and lonely man. When the film was...

This first-person-narrated film explores the trajectory of the singer Clara Nunes, who conquered Brazil and several countries across the world.

Featuring the stories and music of seminal Cajun musicians "Bois Sec" Ardoin and Canray Fontenot, Dry Wood is a short, vibrant documentary portrait...

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

Recounted mostly through animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his past as a child refugee from Afghanistan as he grapples with a...

Through dramatization and interviews with her colleagues, this film captures the life and work of famed Puerto Rican poet Mercedes Negrón...

After befriending documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer, former Indonesian death squad leaders reenact their real-life mass killings in the style of...