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.

1183. American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
Documentary2026•1h 32min
Director: David Alvarado
Against political resistance and industry skepticism, Luis Valdez pushes Chicano storytelling from the fields to the film screen with Zoot Suit and La Bamba, crafting iconic works that challenge, celebrate, and expand America’s story.
On a Tuesday morning in August 2023, a group of kids set off for school, climbing into a makeshift cable car for the journey across a mountain pass in northwest Pakistan. What happened next would make headlines around the world. Suddenly, 900 feet above the ground, two cables snapped, putting the teenagers in mortal danger.
After the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in 2021, many refugees are stranded in the non-EU state of Bosnia-Herzegovina. One of them is 15-year-old Nahid. The girl finds some warmth and encouragement with Ferida, who lives in one of the border villages - and observes how people return to their tent accommodations after the pushbacks. The memories of her own civil war past slowly come back to her.
Known historically as the Orchard of England, Herefordshire is apple country. Sat in the middle is the ancient market town of Leominster, where people have been growing, picking, eating, stealing, throwing, pressing, cooking, and honouring apples for many generations. This heritage film brings together a wide-ranging and eccentric cast of local people – farmers, Travellers, former apple-pickers, clergymen, wassailers, cider makers, fruit sellers – to explore the deep relationship between the people of this area and its historic crop. Part portrait of a fading way of life, part celebration of how a living culture continues to manifest itself, the film raises deep questions about human nature. Expect games, pies, dancing, petty crime, and varieties of apple beyond your most delirious dreams. Prepare to honour the apple. This film was made possible with the support of the UK's National Lottery Heritage Fund, Leominster Town Council and Leominster Cultural Consortium.








