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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.

The Queen Swing

111. The Queen Swing

Documentary Adventure
Upcoming

202653min

Director: Thibaut Marot

The Queen Swing follows climbers Laura Pineau and Kate Kelleghan as they chase history on Yosemite’s granite walls, attempting to become the first women to complete the legendary Triple Crown: linking El Capitan, Half Dome, and Mount Watkins in a single 24-hour push. But this isn’t just a story about summits and speed records. It’s about what happens between two people when the only thing keeping you alive is the person on the other end of the rope. Through extreme conditions and risky terrain, the film reveals how trust gets built in increments through shared confidence, quiet encouragement, and the kind of vulnerability that only emerges when you’re too exhausted to pretend. The Crown is the goal, but the partnership is the heart of the climb.


Crows Are White

112. Crows Are White

Documentary
Upcoming

20261h 38min

Director: Ahsen Nadeem

After decades of living a secret life, a filmmaker travels to a strict Japanese monastery in search of guidance but the only monk willing to help him prefers ice cream and heavy metal over meditation. CROWS ARE WHITE is an exploration of truth, faith and love, from the top of a mountain to the bottom of a sundae.


Landmarks

113. Landmarks

Documentary
Upcoming

20261h 59min

Director: Lucrecia Martel

In 2009, a man and two accomplices try to evict members of the Indigenous community of Chuschagasta in northern Argentina. Claiming ownership of the land and armed with guns, they kill the community’s leader, Javier Chocobar. The murder is caught on video. It takes nine years of protests before court proceedings are finally opened in 2018. During all this time, the killers remain free. The film combines the voices and photographs of the community with courtroom footage to explore the long history of colonialism and land dispossession that led to this crime.


The Thing Expanded

114. The Thing Expanded

Documentary
Upcoming

2026

Director: Ian Nathan

The ultimate companion to John Carpenter’s "The Thing", digging deep into the proverbial iceberg to enhance your viewing experience with new insights, stories, and revelations.


Identidade

115. Identidade

Drama Comedy Documentary
Upcoming

202640min

Director: Cainã de Paulo

During a screening of Oedipus Rex in a run-down movie theater in downtown Rio, three peculiar characters—a frustrated projectionist, his intern, and a wandering poet—decide to interrupt the film to discuss the death of cinema. The audience revolts. So does the film.


Hélène Trésore Transnationale

116. Hélène Trésore Transnationale

Documentary
Upcoming

20261h 34min

Director: Judith Abitbol

In this intimate portrait addressed directly to Hélène Hazera, filmmaker Judith Abitbol revisits a key figure of France’s countercultures from the late 1960s to the 1990s. A member of the Gazolines and the FHAR (Homosexual Front for Revolutionary Action), Hazera was a tireless LGBTQ activist who founded Act Up’s Trans and AIDS commissions—one of her proudest achievements. Her true victory, however, was becoming the first transgender journalist at a major national newspaper (Libération), and later a producer at Radio France and France TV. Through her story, Abitbol reconnects with the insurrectionary spirit and creative chaos of those decades—an era when French culture was shaken by radical imagination, humor, and defiance. The film celebrates these modern Antigones who dared to live their desires beyond the reach of any law.


Terreno

117. Terreno

Documentary
Upcoming

20263h

Director: Christofer Pallu

A portrait of the churches surrounding the Diocese of São José dos Pinhais.


Masked

118. Masked

Documentary
Upcoming

20266min

Director: Lucas Swangard

Masked exposes the often overlooked mental health battles of those on the Autism Spectrum. Chloe Cavelle shares her journey of learning to function in a world not built for her.


Less Travelled

119. Less Travelled

Documentary Adventure
Upcoming

20261h 10min

Director: Steve Haining

Retired Firefighter Kevin Boyd and Fire Chief Dax Huba set off on a 1200km journey from the edge of Alaska to the most southern point of Western Canada by WaveRunner escaping civilization to rediscover themselves.