Documentary Movies

After Marta had decided to become a nun at a young age, filmmaker Maud Nycander followed her and her family for ten years.

Gender specific restroom spaces are challenging places for gender non-normative people and single parents! This film not only takes a candid look at...

A mockumentary about sex in America.

Leading biblical scholars and religious experts discuss the implications of the Rapture, when prophecies predict that Jesus Christ will return to...

When a cross-section of seven-year-olds were interviewed for 7 Up in 1964 it was immediately evident that their social backgrounds influenced their...

Silva, an old drifter, arrives at a small and isolated Portuguese village where he meets the young Ana. They develop a relation in between friendship...

The film follows adventurer Jeff Johnson as he retraces the epic 1968 journey of his heroes Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins to Patagonia.

Come take an avant-garde walk in the Montparnasse of the late 1920's. This district of Paris, filmed in a most unusual way, shows how dedicated it is...

A film about a young woman's future plans in Munich, Germany. MUNCHEN, RAPHAELA (also known as RAPHAELA RING MUNCHEN) is part of Mike Plante's...

A documentary on Leonardo Dicaprio.

The following video essay, written and narrated for the Criterion Collection by Peter Bogdanovich biographer Peter Tonguette, considers Moze and...

An intimate and revelatory portrait of one of the world’s most influential political figures, Lula explores the rise, fall and triumphant...

This 1965 documentary portrait of a civil war is today a remarkable time capsule of Venezuelan political and social history, and valuable background...

If you're a teenager living in Liberal, Kansas, you can have a job "being Dorothy" at Liberal's own Land of Oz Museum. Being Dorothy weaves the...

“My family was shocked when they found out that I'm driving,” says Eva, a Kenyan woman, as she sits behind the wheel of a truck, heavily...

An instructional film by Bruce Lacey.

The Antonio Maceo Brigade consists of fifty-five children of Cuban families that escaped the revolution and settled down in Miami. To the annoyance...

The remarkable life and career of the legendary Dick Vitale, ESPN's voice of college basketball for more than four decades, and an inspiration as he...

Documentary in four parts on Latin American cinema. Third episode: from the 1960s, France and Europe showed a real enthusiasm for Latin American...