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Documentary movies

Fascinating real-life stories, historical accounts, and educational deep dives that reveal the truth about our world.

Subgenres include: True Crime Documentary, Biographical Documentary, Social & Political Documentary.

Labyrinth

1111. Labyrinth

Documentary
7.5

20261h 15min

Director: Dimitris Athanitis

In the heart of Athens, there is another city. A hidden city. Α city breathing for almost more than a century under the artificial light. A documentary about the labyrinth of the arcades and the people living, working, and creating there for three generations. But in these arcades, Labyrinth discovers also a metaphor of cinema itself.


Jung Ei-jin (79), the last transferee of the four Gukchang families, is looking for a transferee of the Dongpyeonje "Sugungga". Jung Ei-jin has many disciples, but everyone is unsuitable as a transferee due to circumstances. Jung Ei-jin is suffering because he can't find a successor as he ages. Students who continue their dreams narrowly between art and livelihood say they are happy when they sing.


An exploration of the life and work of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the world-renowned neurologist and author who transformed our understanding of the human mind.


Thirteen Sector

1114. Thirteen Sector

Documentary
0.0

202626min

Director: Jake Hanrahan

The Islamic country of Kazakhstan is one of the most unlikely places for football hooliganism to take root. And yet, believe it or not, the scene there is growing rapidly. Born from Aktobe’s “13 Sector”, these crews mix British hooliganism, European ultras culture, and ancient Kazakh tradition to create a unique, fully-formed underground counterculture. Forest fights, street patrols, fanaticism—a new scene thriving 3000 miles away from where it all began. Away Days got unprecedented access to these hooligans, travelling all the way to Kazakhstan to meet them. We followed the region’s most notorious firm in the lead-up to the biggest derby of the year…


An Experimental short film. A complete fictional story with some realistic elements to it.The second part of the diaries five part shorts. This part discusses the narrator's relationship with his home town while recalling some of his coloured themed memories of a picture of a black cat.


Something Familiar

1116. Something Familiar

Documentary
0.0

20261h 30min

Director: Rachel Close

While helping another woman search for her birth mother, a filmmaker reopens her own family story. In searching for her missing sisters, she unearths a legacy of abuse and exploitation, and begins to ask: can the creative power of self-authorship help her rewrite the scripts she has inherited?


Lost Heritage

1117. Lost Heritage

Documentary
0.0

20269min

Director: Maar Dinu

A personal exploration of how the panic of an entire population could have been placed into one specific individual, within the context of communist Romania.


EXOUSIA

1118. EXOUSIA

Documentary Thriller Drama
7.0

20261h 37min

Director: Joesiah Garcia

A psychological odyssey-like telling of the year 2025, that takes you on a roller coaster full of emotion, excitement and dark adventures documented by Joesiah Garcia.


Landscapes of Ending

1119. Landscapes of Ending

Documentary
0.0

20261h 34min

Director: Francesco Mattuzz

Along the fragile border that separates and unites life and death, men and women cross the extreme landscapes of ending, searching in the silence of the contemporary world for one last fragment of meaning.


LPS FILES

1120. LPS FILES

Thriller Animation Documentary Mystery
0.0

202641min

Director: Varun Kachare

A nostalgic short documentary revisiting the true story of the LPS Minecraft community. From legendary SMPs to abandoned worlds, it blends memories, mystery, and a haunting atmosphere to uncover the lost legacy of LPS.Community