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.
Blurring the line between performance and personal crisis, comedian Maria Bamford turns her mental health journey into material that’s riotously funny and ultimately inspiring. What emerges is a portrait of an artist transforming vulnerability into creative strength through honesty.
The race to grab the last great prize in mountaineering, K2 in winter, left five dead. It exposed deep fault lines in alpinism today: pressures from commercialization, toxic effects of social media, and long-brewing tensions between those who've been marginalized and those who've always basked in the sport's glory.
Poetic documentary about London.
A portrait of Clay and Paper Theater, Toronto artists whose storytelling, puppets and performances transform public spaces into celebrations of community and collective memory.
Ljubisa Terzic, a former war medic, flees Yugoslavia and rebuilds his life by transforming trauma into knowledge as an anatomy professor at Humber College.
A 90-year-old single-screen non-profit cinema in Hamilton, Ontario fights to survive mounting financial pressures, as the staff, volunteers, and patrons who love it reveal what’s at stake when a community’s cultural centre could be lost to history.
A non-profit organization uses the four elements of hip-hop to combat the youth mental health crisis and build community.
'Lost in White' brings survivors of the sixties scoop together, to share their experience with loss of culture and identity during Canada's biggest genocide, but promote a future of reconciliation and rebuilding of the indigenous community in the western world.
In today's world of loud stories, the ones that matter the most often become silenced: Viollette Belivoue and Rushana Zarifulena share their stories of sexual assault in public for the first time and reflect on the importance of talking about it to not let offenders escape responsibility for their actions anymore.
Another Urban Documentary (Mais um Documentário Urbano) It centers around Caio Leite, a comedian from Aracaju, who decides to hold an event to launch his book a few weeks before moving to São Paulo. Throughout this journey, the film combines his reflections on art, music and, of course, comedy.