Observational Documentary Movies

A cinéma vérité exploration of the grueling schedules, auditions, lighting design, and backstage operations at the famous...

The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying the changes in morality that...

This remarkable journey across our planet and universe explores how meteorites, shooting stars, and deep impacts have awoken our wonder about other...

As Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, primary schools across Russia’s hinterlands are transformed into recruitment stages for...

During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an...

2020: A year so [insert adjective of choice here], even the creators of Black Mirror couldn't make it up… but that doesn't mean they...

More than 60,000 of Ernest Cole’s 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these...

A film relating from the inside the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of April 2019.

Marine conservationist and social media activist Ocean Ramsey fearlessly swims with sharks in this documentary about her risky mission to protect...

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem...

A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.

With a team of the world's foremost historic and marine experts as well as friend Bill Paxton, James Cameron embarks on an unscripted adventure back...

A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of...

Weeping Rocks follows Art, an entomologist nearing the end of his life, who has spent over five decades walking the same ten trails counting...

Bertie heads to South Africa for his most audacious mission yet. The wild waters here are a hotspot for one of the ocean’s most famous and...

A close examination of the Whakaari / White Island volcanic eruption of 2019 in which 22 lives were lost, the film viscerally recounts a day when...

In 2001, satellite imagery captured a mysterious “thermal anomaly” on an unexplored volcano at the ends of the Earth. What lies inside...

A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States whose main goal is to make profit even if it means losing people’s...

The elite pilots of the Air Force Thunderbirds display exceptional skill, trust and courage during a high-stakes training season.

In a bold 28-day experiment, comedian Mo Gilligan tours the UK and US on a fried chicken diet to uncover the impact of the craving — and...