Documentary

The strange case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky — once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia — who rocketed to prosperity and prominence in the ...

A documentary based on the archive footage shot in the USSR on March 5 – 9, 1953, when the country mourned and buried Joseph Stalin.

Dr. Stephen Olvey and his team develop revolutionary procedures to make motor sports safer for the drivers.

Independent filmmaker Alan Berliner considers the power of photography and what may be lost as daily newspapers face extinction, in this ...

In this documentary by Asia Youngman, Indigenous artists throughout Canada strive to reclaim their cultures and identities through a reawakening ...

In this provocative and personal documentary, director Lina Al Abed searches for traces of her disappeared father: a seemingly ordinary ...

The iconic Merce Cunningham and the last generation of his dance company is profiled in Alla Kovgan’s 3D documentary, through recreations ...

Using new archival sources and unprecedented access to key players on both sides, master documentarian Barbara Kopple reveals the true story ...

Director Thomas Heise picks up the biographical pieces left by his family, and composes an epic picture of four generations of his family, of a ...

Director Feras Fayyad (Last Men in Aleppo) returns to his native, wartorn Syria to follow a dedicated team of female doctors tirelessly treating ...

Andrew Renzi’s heartfelt and hard-hitting documentary sheds light on the lives of three of the estimated thousands of immigrants who volunteer ...

This keenly observed documentary by Karim Sayad follows the director’s cousin, Fahed, who left Algeria for England in 2001 and, now, ...

Documentarian Hind Meddeb takes her camera through the streets of the French capital’s Stalingrad district and meets many of the refugees ...

“In Chile, when the sun rises, it had to climb hills, walls and tops before reaching the last stone of the Cordillera. In my country, the ...

A chronicle of the worldwide travels and unique cultural finds of renowned American folklorist Henry Glassie.

Ellen Page brings attention to the injustices and injuries caused by environmental racism in her home province, in this urgent documentary on ...

Newly discovered interviews with friends of Truman Capote made by Paris Review co-founder George Plimpton invigorate this fascinating documentary ...

Director Bryce Dallas Howard teams up with her father, Ron Howard, to explore contemporary fatherhood through anecdotes and wisdom from famous ...

This new film from veteran Danish documentarian Eva Mulvad (The Good Life) offers a poignant portrait of a family of asylum seekers desperate to ...

In the aftermath of a tragic fire in a Romanian club, burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life threatening. A team of ...

The groundbreaking and often game-changing reporting of legendary foreign correspondent and author Robert Fisk is profiled in the latest from ...

Every second Saturday in July, since 1871, the city of Durham has been taken over by miners, trade-unions and the general public for one of the ...