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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 first tour of rising artist Olivia Yells, held in 2025, passed through the Brazilian states of Paraná, Santa Catarina, and São Paulo – where six shows were performed and became a milestone in the singer/songwriter's career.


Denise Van Outen explores the eye-opening reasons why we can't get no sleep; from food and hormones to the sneaky sleep-thief of snoring. How we can stay in the land of Nod?


Room

323. Room

Documentary
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20265h 30min

A 5 hour and 30 minute film consisting of an unchanging view of a bedroom in real time


Our Lost Thing

324. Our Lost Thing

Documentary
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20261h 10min

Director: Martina Cruz

A daughter searches for a film script, driven by her father's last words: "I can't die because I didn't make a movie." The film is the incomplete and obscured unfolding of that man, that mystery: an unusual family man, with a variety of jobs and no success, who uses a camera like an obsessive, someone who lives his life observing others.


Palestine Comedy Club

325. Palestine Comedy Club

Documentary
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20261h 36min

Director: Alaa AliAbdallah

Six Palestinian stand-up comedians write and tour a comedy show exploring the unlikely, often dark humour that surrounds the complexity of Palestinian identity. What starts as a blending of comic traditions to encourage honest and open reflections through the shared enjoyment of laughter becomes an existential imperative to survival and sharing common humanity.


Floodland

326. Floodland

Documentary
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20261h 31min

Director: Jordan Giusti

A deeply moving story of love and loss set in the northern NSW town of Lismore, Australia’s most flooded postcode and site of the nation’s most costly climate disaster.


Tgirls Make Music

327. Tgirls Make Music

Documentary Animation Music History
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202630min

Director: Lucy Rose Shaftain-Fenner

A documentary about trans woman rapper and producer htmljones (Ishaani Ponniah), framed through the visual language of early-2000s television, 2010s internet aesthetics, and contemporary British culture.


Broken English

328. Broken English

Documentary Music
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20261h 36min

Director: Jane Pollard

A survivor, provocateur and true original, Marianne has spent more than six decades defying expectations — releasing over thirty-five albums while constantly reinventing herself. Made with her full involvement, Broken English is an intimate and unflinching exploration of a fractured yet unbreakable life shaped by fame, creativity and relentless public scrutiny.


Natural Selection

329. Natural Selection

Documentary
7.0

202613min

Director: Santiago Magro

The lives of Mexico City’s nightclub bouncers—what they see, what they hide, and what no one dares to ask.


The Thing to Be Done

330. The Thing to Be Done

Documentary
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20261h 28min

Director: Srđan Kovačević

In the heart of Ljubljana, the Workers' Advocacy Office (Delavska svetovalnica) stands as a beacon of hope for society’s most vulnerable: working men and women, the unemployed, the disabled, pensioners, and migrants. Far surpassing the traditional boundaries of union work, this extraordinary organization fosters solidarity, champions justice, and envisions a more equitable future for the working class.