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.

14 Year Old Snowcross Racer

1171. 14 Year Old Snowcross Racer

Documentary
0.0

202615min

Director: Olena Hætta

We follow Čan Martin, a 14-year-old snowcross rider from Kautokeino, as he navigates the challenges of this high-risk sport with the dedicated support of his family and local community. This short documentary is an inspiring story about pursuing dreams, overcoming obstacles, and the strength of family unity.


Our image of short men is clichéd. But isn't there a grain of truth in every cliché? Tall men are successful, short men have problems.


Today, 66 sisters with an average age of 86 still live in the Ilanz convent. Their communal life is coming to an end. Two central wishes accompany this change: to remain in the convent and to find a new use for it that preserves their spiritual heritage –prayer, care, and education.


A sort of non-narrative itinerary between Lyon, Vienne and Valence-Ville that goes exploring the relationships between the interactions and the light it exposes, a reflection of identity and beauty that the shadows goes preserving the perceptions of new space.


When I'm Gone

1175. When I'm Gone

Drama Documentary
8.0

20262min

Director: Zeynep Asude Demir

A movie including footages of nature talking about the journey of life


Natural wine and the end-of-the-world.


O Fantasma da Ópera

1177. O Fantasma da Ópera

Documentary
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202624min

Director: Júlio Bressane

We see the film, not the cinema; cinema remains hidden within the film. Cinema is the Phantom of the Opera. A movement and a moment of transition, the Phantom fades away with each opera. It disappears and then reemerges in another, and another, and another, and yet another opera.


Gypsy Tales travels to Japan to spend 100 hours with Jo Shimoda.


In 1968, Tom Zé moved from Bahia to São Paulo, went to the movies, had lunch with Caetano Veloso, and one morning composed the song that would go on to win the main music festival on Brazilian television that year. In "História de Música", the most São Paulo–minded of Bahian artists tells how filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person introduced him to the paulista capital at one of the city's most famous intersections.


Madame Favre's

1180. Madame Favre's

Documentary Drama Family
0.0

2026

Director: Robin Kaufmann

In a nursing home, a young man visits his grandmother. As she constantly repeats that she wants to go home, his grandson visits her now empty apartment, seeking to capture memories of a fading past.