Category: TV • Genre: Documentary, Family • Country: UK, Canada • Language: English
Director
na
Writer
na
Cast
Sigourney Weaver, David Attenborough, Nikolay Drozdov
Plot
A documentary series on the wildlife found on Earth. Each episode covers a different habitat: deserts, mountains, deep oceans, shallow seas, forests, caves, polar regions, fresh water, plains and jungles. Narrated by David Attenbo...
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Animation • Country: Israel, France • Language: Hebrew, Arabic
Director
Ari Folman
Writer
Ari Folman
Cast
Ari Folman, Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag
Plot
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
The funny little details of everyday life; the simple things that makes us laugh. An unforgettable performance from Cem Yilmaz. Yilmaz captures the audience with his hilarious stories about relationships, humankind's struggle with...
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, War • Country: Ukraine, USA • Language: Russian, Ukrainian
Director
Mstyslav Chernov
Writer
Mstyslav Chernov
Cast
Liudmyla Amelkina, Mstyslav Chernov, Roman Golovanov
Plot
As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary • Country: France, USA • Language: English
Director
Robert J. Flaherty
Writer
Frances H. Flaherty, Robert J. Flaherty
Cast
Allakariallak, Alice Nevalinga, Cunayou
Plot
In this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Music • Country: Belgium, Germany • Language: English
Director
Adrian Maben
Writer
na
Cast
David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Richard Wright
Plot
British progressive rock band Pink Floyd perform at the ancient Roman Amphitheater in the ruins of Pompeii, Italy in 1971. Although the band perform a typical live set from the era, there is no audience beyond the basic film crew.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Drama • Country: North Macedonia, USA • Language: Serbo-Croatian, Serbian
Director
Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov
Writer
Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov
Cast
Hatidze Muratova, Nazife Muratova, Hussein Sam
Plot
The last female bee-hunter in Europe must save the bees and return the natural balance in Honeyland, when a family of nomadic beekeepers invade her land and threaten her livelihood.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, News • Country: Palestine, Norway • Language: Arabic, English
Director
Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal
Writer
Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal
Cast
Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal
Plot
This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Y...
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Short • Country: Spain • Language: French
Director
Luis Buñuel
Writer
Luis Buñuel, Rafael Sánchez Ventura, Pierre Unik
Cast
Abel Jacquin, Alexandre O'Neill
Plot
A surrealist film, a pseudo-documentary portrait of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Animation • Country: Denmark, France • Language: Spanish, Danish
Director
Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Writer
Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Amin Nawabi
Cast
Daniel Karimyar, Fardin Mijdzadeh, Milad Eskandari
Plot
A man look back over his life as he grapples with a painful secret he has keep hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Music • Country: Germany, USA • Language: English, Spanish
Director
Wim Wenders
Writer
Wim Wenders, Nick Gold
Cast
Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén González
Plot
Aging Cuban musicians whose talents had been virtually forgotten following Castro's takeover of Cuba, are brought out of retirement by Ry Cooder, who travelled to Havana in order to bring the musicians together, resulting in trium...
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Biography • Country: Austria, USA • Language: English
Director
Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer
Writer
na
Cast
John Branch, Tommy Caldwell, Kevin Jorgeson
Plot
In an unbelievable story of perseverance, free climber Tommy Caldwell and climbing partner Kevin Jorgeson attempt to scale the impossible 3000ft Dawn Wall of El Capitan.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, History • Country: Lithuania • Language: English
Director
Aleksandras Brokas, Mindaugas Urbonavicius
Writer
Aleksandras Brokas
Cast
Jeremy Irons
Plot
Narrated by Jeremy Irons, this definitive account tells of the heart-rending human rights tragedy in 1992 when hundreds of Azerbaijanis were massacred after Armenians stormed the city of Khojaly.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Short • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Boris Kaufman, Jean Vigo
Writer
Jean Vigo, Boris Kaufman
Cast
na
Plot
What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Short • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Louis Lumière
Writer
na
Cast
na
Plot
Workers leaving the Lumière factory for lunch in Lyon, France in 1895; a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birth places of cinema.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Crime • Country: Romania, Luxembourg • Language: Romanian, English
Director
Alexander Nanau
Writer
Alexander Nanau, Antoaneta Opris
Cast
Dan Alexandru Condrea, Liviu Iolu, Razvan Lutac
Plot
Director Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians and led to the deaths of innocent cit...
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, History • Country: India • Language: Hindi
Director
Anuj Bhardwaj
Writer
na
Cast
Suzanne Bernert
Plot
Hitler used a symbol for his political and racial ideology. The world today calls that symbol "Swastika", an Indian name to a symbol used by Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains for ages. But was it a Swastika? or Something else?
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Short • Country: India • Language: Hindi
Director
Praveen Chaturvedi
Writer
Kshitiz Rai
Cast
na
Plot
The dark truth about some of the most significant events of the colonial period in India and the deliberately hidden facts about the 'Ideological Subversion' of Indian people.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Short • Country: Brazil • Language: Portuguese
Director
Jorge Furtado
Writer
Jorge Furtado, CecÃlia Meireles
Cast
Paulo José, Ciça Reckziegel, Douglas Trainini
Plot
The ironic, heartbreaking and acid "saga" of a spoiled tomato: from the plantation of a "Nisei" (Brazilian with Japanese origins); to a supermarket; to a consumer's kitchen to become sauce of a pork meat; to the garbage can since ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Music • Country: USA • Language: None, Hopi
Director
Godfrey Reggio
Writer
Godfrey Reggio, Ron Fricke, Michael Hoenig
Cast
Edward Asner, Pat Benatar, Jerry Brown
Plot
A collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on the relationship between nature, humanity, and technology.
Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at the age of 25. His parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life, when they started receiving messages from online friends around th...
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Music • Country: USA • Language: English, French
Director
Jonathan Demme
Writer
Jonathan Demme, Talking Heads
Cast
David Byrne, Bernie Worrell, Alex Weir
Plot
A live performance of the band Talking Heads shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December of 1983 and featuring their most memorable songs.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Drama • Country: South Africa • Language: English
Director
Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed
Writer
Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed
Cast
Craig Foster, Tom Foster
Plot
A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Adventure • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Writer
na
Cast
Alex Honnold, Tommy Caldwell, Jimmy Chin
Plot
Alex Honnold faces the biggest challenge of his career, climbing El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. He pursues it Free Solo, which means climbing without a rope and alone.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Biography • Country: USA, Japan • Language: English, Japanese
Director
Louie Psihoyos
Writer
Mark Monroe
Cast
Richard O'Barry, Louie Psihoyos, Hardy Jones
Plot
Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, led by renowned dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry, infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health.
Category: TV • Genre: Documentary • Country: UK, USA • Language: English
Director
na
Writer
na
Cast
Oprah Winfrey, David Attenborough, Doug Allan
Plot
A global view of the specialized strategies and extreme behavior that living things have developed in order to survive; what Charles Darwin termed "the struggle for existence."
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, History • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Michael Wadleigh
Writer
na
Cast
Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Roger Daltrey
Plot
Oscar-winning musical chronicle that brilliantly captures the three-day rock concert and celebration of peace and love that became a capstone for the Sixties.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Biography • Country: UK, USA • Language: English, French
Director
James Marsh
Writer
Philippe Petit
Cast
Philippe Petit, Jean François Heckel, Jean-Louis Blondeau
Plot
A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century".
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Family • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Nicolas Philibert
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Lopez, Alizé, Axel Thouvenin
Plot
A documentary portrait of a one-room school in rural France, where the students (ranging in age from 4 to 11) are educated by a single dedicated teacher.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Short • Country: Netherlands • Language: Dutch
Director
Mannus Franken, Joris Ivens
Writer
Mannus Franken, Joris Ivens
Cast
na
Plot
Regen is an experimental documentary film directed by Joris Ivens in 1929. It can be defined as a cinematic-poem. In 2021 Breve Storia Del Cinema restored the film with a new score composed by Nikolas Labrinakos.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Biography • Country: Germany, UK • Language: German, English
Director
Werner Herzog
Writer
Werner Herzog
Cast
Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale
Plot
The love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.
Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness", of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Biography • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Werner Herzog
Writer
Werner Herzog
Cast
Timothy Treadwell, Amie Huguenard, Werner Herzog
Plot
A devastating and heart-rending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzly bears in Alaska.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary • Country: Brazil, UK • Language: Portuguese, English
Director
Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardim
Writer
na
Cast
Vik Muniz
Plot
On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro is Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill, where men and women sift through garbage for a living. Artist Vik Muniz produces portraits of the workers and learns about their lives.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, War • Country: Germany, France • Language: German, Arabic
Director
Werner Herzog
Writer
Werner Herzog
Cast
Werner Herzog
Plot
This film surveys the disaster of the Kuwaiti oil fields in flames, with little narration and scarcely any interviews. Hell on Earth is presented in such transcendent visions and music that one can only be fascinated by it.
This six-episode docu series looks at what happened in the case of the legendary sandalwood smuggler, poacher and terrorist Veerappan. It uses footage archived by Nakkheeran Gopal, editor and publisher of the Tamil journal Nakkhee...
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Short • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Jean Vigo
Writer
Jean Vigo
Cast
Jean Taris
Plot
Jean Vigo films the talents of great swimming champion Jean Taris performing different acts. Vigo film technique allied with Taris swimming style are intertwined with grace and effect.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Short • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Louis Lumière
Writer
na
Cast
Auguste Lumière, Mrs. Auguste Lumiere, Andrée Lumière
Plot
As part of a maiden public film screening at the Salon Indien, on December 28, in Paris, Auguste Lumière pivots the centre of attention around his baby daughter, as he tries to feed her from a spoon.
Bandon Mein Tha Dum is a documentary series which follows the Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test series of 2020-21 which resulted in India stunningly defeating Australia at their home turf of Gabba, where they hadn't lost a test match in...
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English, Arabic
Director
Michael Moore
Writer
Michael Moore
Cast
Michael Moore, George W. Bush, Ben Affleck
Plot
Michael Moore's view on what happened to the United States after 9/11 and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary • Country: India • Language: Hindi
Director
Anand Patwardhan
Writer
Anand Patwardhan
Cast
na
Plot
Since gaining independence in 1947, India has been a secular state. But now, as religious fundamentalism grips much of India's population, the greatest danger to the nation's extremely strained social fabric may come not from Sikh...
