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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.

Après eux, qui va raconter l'histoire ?

961. Après eux, qui va raconter l'histoire ?

Documentary
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202642min

Director: Joseph Romano

French documentary that explores how the third generation deals with the memory of the Holocaust. It follows grandchildren of survivors—Camille, Frankie, Théo, and Mathis—as they inherit family secrets and the responsibility of bearing witness to this trauma


Tennis is a way for Alexander Bublik to express himself. It is not his entire being or identity. Instead, he introduces himself as a, “full-time father and a part-time tennis player”, a description that reflects the 28-year-old’s priorities and his playful approach to the sport in which he has earned more than $10 million in prize money. Bublik is largely unpredictable and vastly entertaining. He maintains a sharp sense of humour on court, allowing him to freely enjoy the game without letting fierce competition consume his life. Tennis, for Bublik, is both a stage and a playground — a place for him to take risks, embrace creativity and find joy.


In Febuary 2026 the world's best ice hockey players will descend on Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo for the most eagerly awaited XXV Olympic Winter Games in living memory. For German national coach Harry Kreis the twelve months leading up to the final nominations of his olympic squad are equally exciting and stressful - a period plagued with difficult decisions and sleepless nights. A young team falters at the world championships, struggling under the pressure of the big stage, while older statesmen wait in the wings ready to replace them. The start of the domestic season offers a chance to impress the head coach, but the intense schedule heightens the risk of injury. Ultimately it's up to coach Kreis to make the final cut: who will play and who will be left at home?


Ouenzé,

964. Ouenzé,

Documentary
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202613min

Director: K0chaiii

In France, "my country," a question became the starting point of an obsession. To understand, I had to break 21 years of family silence and trace the threads of a story of which I only knew distant echoes. Ouenzé, the 5th arrondissement of Brazzaville. The stronghold, the homeland, and the starting point of my family's exile.


TRUTH in EXPOSURE

965. TRUTH in EXPOSURE

Adventure Documentary
8.0

20266min

Director: Aiden Aleman

Watch as Aiden Aleman creates his newest art piece “TRUTH” in the middle of Zilker Park.


Antarctica, a legacy mission

966. Antarctica, a legacy mission

Documentary History
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202653min

Director: Jeanne Lefèvre

While emptying her grandparents' house, director Jeanne Lefevre discovers the journal kept by her grandfather during a scientific mission to Adélie Land, French Antarctic Territory, in 1960. Atomic engineer Bruno Parlier had never spoken of this trip to his family. With her archives in hand, Jeanne decides to follow in his footsteps, to Antarctica.


Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart

967. Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart

Documentary Crime
6.7

20261h 31min

Director: Benedict Sanderson

Elizabeth Smart's harrowing abduction at 14 from her family's Utah home unfolds through her own words and never-before-seen material in this documentary.


Days Yet Unknown

968. Days Yet Unknown

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20261h 20min

Director: Jola Wieczorek

With letters, conversations, physically constructed spaces of memory, and Super 8 re-enactments, Jola Wieczorek reconstructs her family’s escape from Poland—an experience that culminated in a sense of estrangement that has accompanied the filmmaker to this day.


Narrated by Olympic champion Enzo Lefort, this documentary traces the legacy of Guadeloupean fencing. From Mayolè, the combat art of slaves in the 16th century, to current Olympic dominance. How did this small Caribbean island produce more than a third of French fencing medals over twenty years?


2025, the year of the intensification of a total and deadly war, which nothing and no one seems able to stop, targeting military personnel and civilians, and which has now claimed more than 1.5 million lives or left that many wounded on both sides. But 2025 is also the year of our break with Donald Trump's America, an America with violent and unpredictable reactions, which risks abandoning the old continent, its most loyal ally for 80 years, for Vladimir Putin. How can we stop this bloodshed on our doorstep? How can we contain the master of the Kremlin, a dictator whose predatory logic threatens to spread beyond Ukraine? Sabotage, ghost ships, interference operations, and drone flights: he is already waging a hybrid war against the rest of Europe. Is armed conflict between Europe and Russia now a possibility?