Documentaries

Since the dawn of cinema, documentaries have been every bit as thrilling and inventive as any other kind of film. Among our featured docs, you’ll find some of the greatest nonfiction films ever made, incisive chronicles of pivotal moments in modern history, breathtaking journeys to far-flung corners of globe, and real-life characters whose stories are stranger than fiction.

Featuring

A Body to Live In
20251 hr 38 min
Harlan County USA
19761 hr 43 min
Palimpsest: The Story of a Name
20251 hr 53 min
Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives
20151 hr 39 min
Two Gods
20201 hr 21 min

The Projectionist
20191 hr 24 min
Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives
20151 hr 39 min
Palimpsest: The Story of a Name
20251 hr 53 min
Napoli, Napoli, Napoli
20091 hr 42 min
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
19801 hr 26 min
A Body to Live In
20251 hr 38 min
Uncle Howard
20161 hr 36 min
Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story
20181 hr 40 min
Wataridori: Birds of Passage
197637 min
Manzanar
197216 min
Turn in the Wound
20241 hr 17 min
Third Act
20251 hr 33 min
Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars
19851 hr 30 min
New Wave
20242 hr 28 min
. . . And the Pursuit of Happiness
19861 hr 21 min
. . . But Film Is My Mistress
20101 hr 6 min
13 Days in France
19681 hr 52 min
XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport
19482 hr 18 min
16 Days of Glory
19864 hr 44 min
The VI Olympic Winter Games, Oslo 1952
19521 hr 44 min
IX Olympic Winter Games, Innsbruck 1964
19641 hr 30 min
95 and 6 to Go
20161 hr 25 min
A Look at Castes
Phantom India52 min
A Season with Isabella Rossellini
202355 min
Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams
199457 min
An Accidental Studio
20191 hr 34 min
Adventures on the New Frontier
196152 min
The Aggressives
20051 hr 12 min
The AIDS Show
198658 min
Alain Mimoun
195924 min
Alix’s Pictures
198015 min
All in This Tea
20061 hr 9 min
All the Days of May
20237 min
Always for Pleasure
197857 min
American Dream
19901 hr 38 min
And . . . We've Got Sabor
196725 min
And, Towards Happy Alleys
20231 hr 15 min
Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer
20191 hr 37 min
Animalicious
199952 min
Animals Distract Me
201148 min
Another Decade
201813 min
Anselm
20231 hr 34 min
Ante mis ojos
20187 min
Antonio Gaudí
19841 hr 12 min
Appalachian Spring
195831 min
Arab Israeli Dialogue
197441 min
Araya
19591 hr 22 min
Atlanta’s Olympic Glory
19973 hr 27 min
Baby
19547 min
Ballad of Philip Guston
202227 min
The Beaches of Agnès
20081 hr 52 min
The Beales of Grey Gardens
20061 hr 31 min
Benjamin Smoke
20001 hr 12 min
Bergman Island
20061 hr 23 min
The Betrayal
20081 hr 36 min
Betty Tells Her Story
197219 min
Beyond All Barriers
19881 hr 32 min
Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later
20231 hr 18 min
Birth of a Nation
20179 min
Bitter Cane
19831 hr 16 min
The Black and the Green
198345 min
Black Panthers
197028 min
Black Roots
19701 hr 3 min
Blow Up of “Blow Up”
201654 min
The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins
196831 min
Doin’ It in the Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC
20121 hr 22 min
Bombay
Phantom India52 min
The Bowery
199410 min
A Brief History of Time
19911 hr 23 min
Bud Greenspan Presents Vancouver 2010, Stories of Olympic Glory
20101 hr 56 min
Bud Greenspan’s Athens 2004: Stories of Olympic Glory
20051 hr 36 min
Bud Greenspan’s Torino 2006: Stories of Olympic Glory
20071 hr 24 min
Buena Vista Social Club
19991 hr 45 min
Burden of Dreams
19821 hr 35 min
Burroughs: The Movie
19831 hr 30 min
Bushman
19711 hr 13 min
Caballerango
20181 hr 2 min
Calcutta
19691 hr 39 min
Calgary ’88: 16 Days of Glory
19893 hr 22 min
Cameraperson
20161 hr 42 min
Cane Toads: An Unnatural History
198847 min
Cane Toads: The Conquest
20101 hr 24 min
Carol & Joy
202538 min
Celluloid Man
20122 hr 44 min
Celluloid Underground
20231 hr 20 min
Charlie Is My Darling
19661 hr 4 min
Chiefs
197120 min
Christo in Paris
199058 min
Christo’s Valley Curtain
197426 min
Chronicle of a Summer
19611 hr 30 min
Ciao, Federico!
197060 min
Colors
197616 min
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
19891 hr 20 min
Costa Rica with Matt Dillon
Fishing with John23 min
Counting
20151 hr 51 min
Crisis
196353 min
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
20187 hr 27 min
Daguerréotypes
19751 hr 18 min
A Dancer’s World
195730 min
Darwin, What? What?
20208 min
David Lynch: The Art Life
20171 hr 28 min
A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China
198845 min
A Dedicated Life
19942 hr 37 min
Diary of Yunbogi
196524 min
Dont Look Back
19671 hr 36 min
Dream and Reality
Phantom India51 min
Dry Wood
197337 min
Du côté de la côte
195825 min
Dying
19761 hr 22 min
Dziga and His Brothers
200252 min
Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther
19701 hr 13 min
The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On
19872 hr 1 min
Europe Endless
20251 hr 30 min
The Everlasting Flame
20101 hr 40 min
Evolution of a Criminal
20141 hr 23 min
Experimental Treatment of a Hemorrhage in a Dog
19304 min
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
19741 hr 33 min
The Eyes of Orson Welles
20181 hr 55 min
F for Fake
19751 hr 29 min
Faces of November
196412 min
Factory
197118 min
Fårö Document 1979
19791 hr 44 min
Faya dayi
20211 hr 58 min
Festival
19671 hr 38 min
Fight Without Hate
19481 hr 31 min
Fire Through Dry Grass
20231 hr 28 min
First
20121 hr 44 min
Flickering Lights
20231 hr 29 min
Floyd Norman: An Animated Life
20161 hr 35 min
For All Mankind
19891 hr 20 min
The Forgotten
195921 min
A Fuller Life
20131 hr 20 min
The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912
20162 hr 50 min
Games of the XXI Olympiad
19771 hr 58 min
Gap-Toothed Women
198731 min
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
198051 min
Gates of Heaven
19781 hr 23 min
Gender Troublemakers
199325 min
General Idi Amin Dada: A Self-Portrait
19741 hr 30 min
George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey
19841 hr 51 min
George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin
199446 min
Gimme Shelter
19701 hr 31 min
Girls at 12
197530 min
The Gleaners and I
20001 hr 22 min
The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later
20021 hr 2 min
Los Sures
198457 min
God’s Country
19851 hr 29 min
Godard 1980
198017 min
Gold and Glory
19531 hr 37 min
Good Times, Wonderful Times
19651 hr 9 min
Goodbye CP
19721 hr 23 min
Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus
20251 hr 43 min
The Grand Olympics
19612 hr 27 min
Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life
19251 hr 11 min
Greetings from Washington, D.C.
198128 min
Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us
198354 min
Grey Gardens
19751 hr 35 min
Growing Up Female
197150 min
Guanabacoa: Chronicle of My Family
196613 min
Gulpilil—One Red Blood
200256 min
Haiti: The Way of Freedom
19731 hr 31 min
Halving the Bones
19951 hr 9 min
Hand in Hand
19891 hr 59 min
Harlan County USA
19761 hr 43 min
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
20121 hr 16 min
Heart of a Dog
20151 hr 15 min
Hearts and Minds
19741 hr 52 min
Helvetica
20071 hr 20 min
Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Delights
198135 min
Hoop Dreams
19942 hr 52 min
Hospital
197621 min
Hot Pepper
197354 min
Hotel Monterey
19721 hr 2 min
How to Smell a Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock at His Farm in Normandy
20141 hr 15 min
Huey Lewis and the News: Before!
198631 min
Humain, trop humain
19731 hr 12 min
I Am Wanda
19801 hr 3 min
I Went to the Dance
19891 hr 24 min
I'll Go to Santiago
196415 min
In Heaven There Is No Beer?
198449 min
In Vanda’s Room
20002 hr 50 min
India: Matri Bhumi
19591 hr 30 min
Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie
19622 hr 26 min
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
20151 hr 54 min
The Inland Sea
199156 min
Innocents Abroad
19911 hr 24 min
Instrument
19991 hr 56 min
Interview with Salvador Allende: Power and Reason
197345 min
An Island for Miguel
196820 min
Islands
198758 min
It’s Not Me
202441 min
God Respects Us When We Work, but Loves Us When We Dance
196820 min
Jamaica with Tom Waits
Fishing with John27 min
James Baldwin: From Another Place
197312 min
Jane B. par Agnès V.
19881 hr 38 min
Jimi Plays Monterey
198649 min
Joyce at 34
197227 min
Kedi
20161 hr 19 min
Kings of Pastry
20101 hr 27 min
Koko: A Talking Gorilla
19781 hr 20 min
Landfall
20201 hr 33 min
Langlois
197052 min
Let There Be Light
194658 min
Letter from Siberia
19571 hr 1 min
Letter to Jane
197252 min
Let’s Get Lost
19882 hr
Lightning Over Water
19801 hr 31 min
Lillehammer ’94: 16 Days of Glory
19944 hr 9 min
Liv and Ingmar
20121 hr 23 min
Local Power, Popular Power
197010 min
The Lonedale Operator
201815 min
Long Line of Ladies
202222 min
Lost Book Found
199636 min
Louie Bluie
198560 min
The Love Goddesses
19651 hr 27 min
Love Meetings
19641 hr 33 min
Lumumba: Death of a Prophet
19911 hr 13 min
Lynch/Oz
20221 hr 49 min
The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists
199553 min
Maine with Willem Dafoe
Fishing with John24 min
The Making of FANNY AND ALEXANDER
19821 hr 50 min
Man of Aran
19341 hr 16 min
The Many Miracles of Household Saints
202458 min
Marathon
19932 hr 10 min
Marc and Ann
199128 min
Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
19973 hr 13 min
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris
197027 min
Megadoc
20251 hr 42 min
The Melbourne Rendez-vous
19571 hr 46 min
Memories of the Olympic Summer of 1952
195452 min
Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company
20051 hr 52 min
Microcosmos
19961 hr 15 min
Milford Graves Full Mantis
20181 hr 32 min
Milisuthando
20232 hr 3 min
Millhouse
19711 hr 32 min
The Miracle on George Green
202212 min
Mississippi Blues
19831 hr 36 min
Mistress Dispeller
20251 hr 34 min
Montauk with Jim Jarmusch
Fishing with John23 min
Monterey Pop
19681 hr 19 min
Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You.
20211 hr 16 min
Mr. Hoover and I
19891 hr 26 min
Muhammad Ali, the Greatest
19751 hr 34 min
Mur Murs
19811 hr 22 min
My Architect
20031 hr 56 min
My Contribution
197230 min
My Two Voices
20221 hr 8 min
My Winnipeg
20071 hr 20 min
The Mystery of Picasso
19561 hr 18 min
Nagano ’98 Olympics: Stories of Honor and Glory
19981 hr 58 min
the names have changed, including my own and truths have been altered
201925 min
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
200357 min
The Natural History of the Chicken
200054 min
Navajo Talking Picture
198540 min
News from Home
19761 hr 29 min
Night and Fog in Japan
19601 hr 47 min
Nocturnes
20241 hr 22 min
Norman Mailer vs. Fun City
197050 min
Not a Pretty Picture
19751 hr 22 min
Notfilm
20152 hr 8 min
Numéro zéro
19711 hr 52 min
O Sport, You Are Peace!
19812 hr 29 min
Objectified
20091 hr 15 min
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
19382 hr 7 min
Olympic Games, 1956
195660 min
The Olympic Games as They Were Practiced in Ancient Greece
19248 min
The Olympic Games Held at Chamonix in 1924
192437 min
The Olympic Games in Paris 1924
19252 hr 54 min
The Olympic Games, Amsterdam, 1928
19283 hr 15 min
Olympic Glory
199942 min
Olympic Spirit
198026 min
On the Other Island
196841 min
On Sugar Workers' Quarters
197124 min
On the Bowery
19561 hr 5 min
On the Fringes of Indian Society
Phantom India51 min
One Light, One World
19921 hr 44 min
Original Cast Album: “Company”
197053 min
Orlando, My Political Biography
20231 hr 42 min
Ornette: Made in America
19851 hr 17 min
Out
195725 min
Painters Painting
19731 hr 57 min
Rock Rubber 45s
20181 hr 36 min
Paragraph 175
20001 hr 14 min
Paris Is Burning
19901 hr 17 min
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
197930 min
Penkelemes
202519 min
People, Hopes, Medals
19601 hr 33 min
Perfect Image?
198831 min
The Impossible Camera
Phantom India52 min
The Pig
197050 min
Place de la République
19741 hr 35 min
A Poem Is a Naked Person
19741 hr 30 min
Point of Order!
19641 hr 37 min
Portrait of Jason
19671 hr 45 min
Poto and Cabengo
19801 hr 13 min
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
19971 hr 20 min
Primary
196053 min
Rabindranath Tagore
196154 min
Railway Station
198013 min
Rams
20181 hr 13 min
Rat
199856 min
Regret to Inform
19981 hr 12 min
Regrouping
19761 hr 20 min
Réponse de femmes: Notre corps, notre sexe
19759 min
Resynator
20241 hr 36 min
Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel with the World
196352 min
Room 666
198245 min
Room 999
20231 hr 29 min
Routine Pleasures
19861 hr 19 min
Running Fence
197758 min
Rupert Remembers
200023 min
Rush to Judgment
19672 hr 3 min
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
20231 hr 43 min
Salesman
19691 hr 31 min
Salt Lake City 2002: Bud Greenspan’s Stories of Olympic Glory
20031 hr 59 min
Sans Soleil
19831 hr 44 min
Sapporo Winter Olympics
19722 hr 47 min
Say Amen, Somebody
19821 hr 40 min
Searching for Mr. Rugoff
20191 hr 34 min
The Second Game
20141 hr 37 min
Sennan Asbestos Disaster
20163 hr 34 min
Sensation of the Century
19662 hr 36 min
Seoul 1988
19892 hr 19 min
Seven Women of Different Ages
197816 min
The Shepherd and the Bear
20241 hr 41 min
Snows of Grenoble
19681 hr 37 min
a so-called archive
202021 min
Specialised Technique
20187 min
Spend It All
197143 min
Sprout Wings and Fly
198331 min
A Story from Africa
201932 min
Strange Victory
19481 hr 4 min
Streetwise
19841 hr 31 min
Two Gods
20201 hr 21 min
Sweet Sugar Rage
198556 min
Sworn to the Drum: A Tribute to Francisco Aguabella
199535 min
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take 2 1/2
20191 hr 39 min
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One
19681 hr 15 min
Sympathy for the Devil
19681 hr 41 min
Talking Heads
198016 min
The Terror and the Time
19781 hr 10 min
TGM the Liberator
19901 hr 3 min
Thailand with Dennis Hopper, Part 1
Fishing with John23 min
Thailand with Dennis Hopper, Part 2
Fishing with John24 min
Thank You and Good Night
19911 hr 23 min
The Indians and the Sacred
Phantom India52 min
The Thin Blue Line
19881 hr 41 min
Things Seen in Madras
Phantom India52 min
A Thousand Suns
201344 min
The Times of Harvey Milk
19841 hr 28 min
Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell
20161 hr 28 min
Tokyo Olympiad
19652 hr 48 min
The Tokyo Trial
19834 hr 37 min
Tokyo-ga
19851 hr 32 min
Town Bloody Hall
19791 hr 25 min
The Tramp and the Dictator
200255 min
Trances
19811 hr 28 min
Treasure Island
19699 min
A Turning Point
19841 hr 22 min
Umbrellas
19941 hr 21 min
Underground
19761 hr 28 min
Union
20241 hr 39 min
Urbanized
20111 hr 25 min
Vernon, Florida
198155 min
The Virgin of Pessac 79
19791 hr 11 min
The Virgin of Pessac
19691 hr 6 min
Visions of Eight
19731 hr 48 min
Volume 1
Heifetz Master Class Series28 min
Volume 2
Heifetz Master Class Series28 min
Volume 3
Heifetz Master Class Series29 min
Volume 4
Heifetz Master Class Series29 min
Volume 5
Heifetz Master Class Series28 min
Volume 6
Heifetz Master Class Series29 min
Volume 7
Heifetz Master Class Series25 min
Volume 8
Heifetz Master Class Series30 min
The War Room
19931 hr 36 min
Warrendale
19671 hr 41 min
We Need New Names
201514 min
We Were Lost in Our Country
201938 min
A Well Spent Life
197144 min
When We Were Kings
19961 hr 27 min
Where Are We? Our Trip Through America
19921 hr 13 min
Where the World Meets
19521 hr 41 min
White Rock
19771 hr 20 min
White Shamans and Plastic Medicine Men
199625 min
The White Stadium
19282 hr 4 min
White Vertigo
19571 hr 36 min
Who’s Going to Pay for These Donuts Anyway?
199258 min
Women of Suriname
197857 min
Women of the Resistance
196550 min
Woodcutters of the Deep South
19731 hr 25 min
Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives
19772 hr 4 min
The World of Gilbert & George
19811 hr 12 min
The World of Jacques Demy
19951 hr 30 min
You Got to Move
19851 hr 26 min
The Young Girls Turn 25
19931 hr 6 min
The Young Rebels
19802 hr 11 min
Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of Cajun and Creole Cooking
199031 min
Ziveli! Medicine for the Heart
198751 min

Documentaries

Featuring

A Body to Live In

Harlan County USA

Palimpsest: The Story of a Name

Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives

Two Gods

The Projectionist

Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives

Palimpsest: The Story of a Name

Napoli, Napoli, Napoli

Hito Hata: Raise the Banner

A Body to Live In

Uncle Howard

Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story

Wataridori: Birds of Passage

Manzanar

Turn in the Wound

Third Act

Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars

New Wave

. . . And the Pursuit of Happiness

. . . But Film Is My Mistress

13 Days in France

XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport

16 Days of Glory

The VI Olympic Winter Games, Oslo 1952

IX Olympic Winter Games, Innsbruck 1964

95 and 6 to Go

A Look at Castes

A Season with Isabella Rossellini

Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams

An Accidental Studio

Adventures on the New Frontier

The Aggressives

The AIDS Show

Alain Mimoun

Alix’s Pictures

All in This Tea

All the Days of May

Always for Pleasure

American Dream

And . . . We've Got Sabor

And, Towards Happy Alleys

Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer

Animalicious

Animals Distract Me

Another Decade

Anselm

Ante mis ojos

Antonio Gaudí

Appalachian Spring

Arab Israeli Dialogue

Araya

Atlanta’s Olympic Glory

Baby

Ballad of Philip Guston

The Beaches of Agnès

The Beales of Grey Gardens

Benjamin Smoke

Bergman Island

The Betrayal

Betty Tells Her Story

Beyond All Barriers

Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later

Birth of a Nation

Bitter Cane

The Black and the Green

Black Panthers

Black Roots

Blow Up of “Blow Up”

The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins

Doin’ It in the Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC

Bombay

The Bowery

A Brief History of Time

Bud Greenspan Presents Vancouver 2010, Stories of Olympic Glory

Bud Greenspan’s Athens 2004: Stories of Olympic Glory

Bud Greenspan’s Torino 2006: Stories of Olympic Glory

Buena Vista Social Club