Documentary Movies

⭐ 10.0

Perilous Assignment

1959

"Perilous Assignment" is an episode of ABC's Walt Disney Presents. Disney loved to show viewers behind the scenes of the daring shoots of its theatrically released or TV shows. The theme of the episode is the making of his next film, The Third Man on the Mountain, an adaptation of James Ramsey Ullman's novel Banner in the Sky, based on the true story of the first ascent of the Matterhorn. Walt Disney will not be limited to a simple promotional making-of. He offers to meet exceptional people, including the French mountain guide Gaston Rébuffat. The latter will show climbing techniques and then reveal breathtaking images of his ascents of steep cliffs with a client for the ascent of Mont-Blanc, filmed for the occasion. In 1958, Walt Disney will therefore offer him to be deputy director on the high mountain scenes of the film "The Third Man on the Mountain".

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La Estancia

2023

Walls, windows, curtains, and furniture evoke the sounds of a traveler's childhood who comes back home to remember everything that's gone and the people that will soon be gone. The story of a migrant willing to leave his new life behind to see his father for the last time.

⭐ 8.5

Buckaroo Banzai Declassified

2002

A documentary found on The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension Special Edition DVD.

⭐ 8.7

H2: The Occupation Lab

2022

Segregated, highly surveilled, heavily filmed and intensely guarded: H2 uncovers the ways in which a single neighborhood in Hebron fuels the entire Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 54 years of military occupation, told through the story of a one-kilometer long street.

⭐ 8.1

On a volé ma VF

2024

Documentary on the French dubbing industry. A journey through pop culture, the power of voice, artificial intelligence... French dubbing actors of stars like Brad Pitt, Tobey Maguire, Daniel Craig, Woopy Goldberg or Morgan Freeman, the most talented and known in France tell the story of French dubbing through the strike that immobilized the country's industry and the breaking point between art and business. They also testify to the importance that dubbing has had, its scope and the future it will face with the evolution of artificial intelligence.

⭐ 6.8

Not Quite Hollywood

2008

As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.

⭐ 1.0

Rockumentary

2006

Following the lives of Bunnyranch members, Kaló, Filipe, Calhau and André, we get to know the inside outs of a small but strong rock'n'roll wave that thrives in Coimbra.

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Az Zeeb

2026

The filmmaker, a Chilean of Jewish and Palestinian descent, discovers Super 8 reels belonging to his father’s family. Between Chile, Israel and Palestine, he reconstructs two trajectories shaped by displacement and exile. A lesson in history in which clarity emerges from political complexity.

⭐ 3.0

Somber Tides

2024

Somber tides a cry from the species, startled into survival against the elements. One last breath before being trampled by the Earth or maybe conversely a battle to wage against winds and tides clutching on before extinction.

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And Damn He Could Play

2026

After making his name alongside Ray Charles, Motown’s Funk Brothers, and Charles Mingus, trumpeter Marcus Belgrave chose Detroit over the promise of greater fame, devoting his life to nurturing a community and shaping the next generation of jazz musicians.

⭐ 6.8

38 at the Garden

2022

In a hostile time for Asian Americans, the revisiting of an unlikely athlete's story 10 years later gives hope and shatters stereotypes on sport's biggest stage.

⭐ 5.2

Trees and Other Entanglements

2023

A poetic meditation on nature, mortality, and the passage of time in her exploration of our symbiotic nexus with trees. Weaving together several stories of arboreal adoration, unfolds as a deeply human tale of our connection to the natural world and to one another.

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Dear Mama

TBA

Cristina, Dorina and Fabio are 3 of the more than 15 thousand adolescents who escape abandonment, sexual and mental abuse every year in Italy, and enter reception facilities in the hope of a better future. The documentary tells the story of the adoption system, but from the inside thanks to the point of view of those who have lived it or live it.

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Gridare agli anni luce

2026

Starting from the distance that separates him from asteroid 121019 Minodamato, the narrator embarks on an emotional journey in search of the many lives of his grandfather, Mino Damato: from reporting on some of the most devastating conflicts of the postwar era to the bright lights of 1980s television, and finally to his encounter with an HIV-positive orphan who would change his life forever. As fragments of family, personal and collective memory are pieced together, Mino’s boundless fascination with the cosmos emerges as the thread connecting a life that seems impossible to decipher.

⭐ 6.4

Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told

2024

A celebratory exploration of the boisterous times of Freaknik, the iconic Atlanta street party that drew hundreds of thousands of people in the 80s and 90s, helping put Atlanta on the map culturally.

⭐ 8.3

Under Taliban Law

2022

On August 15, 2021, Afghanistan descends into chaos. In one day, the completion of the withdrawal of Western forces precipitated the debacle of the regime in place: the army vanished, the leaders fled and the Taliban took Kabul without a fight. The great Central Asian country opens a new chapter in its tragic history, twenty years after the "war on terror" launched by George W. Bush in response to the attacks of September 11, 2001. The undisputed masters of 40 million trapped Afghans, the "students of religion" are back and are savoring their revenge by posing as the United States' victors. Their program will surprise no one: to restore the Islamic emirate and set up the "true" sharia, i.e. a perfect world, with divine commandments applied to the letter as in the time of the prophet.

⭐ 7.7

Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress

2019

An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war and the selfish interests of a few, belligerent politicians and captains of industry, damaging the welfare of the majority of mankind, impoverishing the weakest, greedily devouring the limited resources of the Earth.

⭐ 2.5

black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special

2022

An exclusive look at final table read and original audition tapes; interviews with cast, crew and guest stars of the show's eight seasons.

⭐ 5.4

Witchcraft '70

1969

Witness devilish rituals from around the globe. Satanism! Voodoo! Majicks Black and White! Shocking Truths, etc.!

⭐ 6.5

Mary Berry's Highland Christmas

2023

Dame Mary Berry travels to her mother’s homeland of Scotland, where she’s joined by friends Andy Murray, Iain Stirling and Emeli Sandé to cook indulgent Christmas dishes.