Documentary Movies

Exploring how Black actresses, a historically overlooked and under-valued group in Hollywood, have in recent years begun to ascend to the top echelons...

In Afghanistan many hundreds of boys, often as young as ten, are being lured off the streets on the promise of a new life.

Celebrating colorful broadcaster Bob Uecker and his 50-plus years in baseball. His famously undistinguished playing career led to film and TV roles, a...

60 years ago, almost nothing was known of elephants in the wild. But then one young Scottish biologist changed that forever. In 1965 Iain Douglas-Hami...

Filmed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Tate Britain, London, the exhibition reveals Sargent’s power to express distinctive personalities, p...

In 1906, Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso were 24 and 25 years old. The Butte Montmartre is their Parisian sanctuary where artists in need of recognit...

This documentary film includes never-before-seen footage and exclusive interviews to tell the story of Charity Hospital, from its roots to its controv...

An examination of the hitherto unexplored relationships between Pan-African culture, science fiction, intergalactic travel, and rapidly progressing co...

Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) is both a cultural icon and a lasting source of artistic inspiration. His famous female figures, like...

A portrait of the artist as a "sublime demon with the archangel's face", with an innovative musique concrète soundtrack.

The Bokelberg photographic collection brings to life the Paris of the Belle Époque (1871-1914),an exhibition of workshops and stores with extremely b...

A portrait of Pope Pius XII (1876-1958),head of the Catholic Church from 1939 until his death, who, during World War II, and while European Jews were...

You find fungi in Antarctica and in nuclear reactors. They live inside your lungs and your skin is covered with them. Fungi are the most under appreci...

Manuel Horrillo has visited for 7 years the fields where the clashes between the Spanish troops and the rebels of the protectorate took place during t...

Providing behind the scenes footage of the director on set with clips from his own films, Martin Scorsese Directs depicts to riveting effect the way S...

As part of a high-tech forensic probe into the demise of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, scientists use X-rays and CT scans as they attempt to reach a c...

A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.

Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feature documentary reveals how art addressing politic...

OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli military arrest. Each year, some 700 Palestinian children...

The story behind the infamous downing of an American Black Hawk helicopter by Somali gunmen.