Observational Documentary Movies

Shark filmmakers hunt for "Air Jaws" in New Zealands hidden "launch pad".

Raising Bertie is a longitudinal documentary feature following three young African American boys over the course of six years as they grow into...

A look back at the encounter between the King, then a conscript in Germany, and a 14-year-old “nymphet“ who became his wife, for better...

A documentary part of CBS reports. The plight of mental patients fit for discharge, but who find themselves thrust into communities unprepared to...

A short documentary about the behaviour of Japanese primary school students.

During the pandemic, a 14 year old boy remains stuck in his school dormitory while his mother tries to contact him.

What is the "feeling" of a city? Is it the roads, the light that illuminates them, the people that live there and their stories? It's all these...

Irish director Donagh Coleman explores the extraordinary phenomenon of Tukdam, whereby some Tibetan Buddhist practitioners are able to forestall...

Meet Lanz Priestley, a charasmatic homeless man, who owns nothing but a phone and a Facebook page. When Lanz discovers taps have run dry in...

One of four film sketches on the problems of adolescents facing the adult world in the 1960s. The three other sketches were directed by Michel...

An outward look into the universe, as scientists challenge traditional planetary thinking, and reveal the existence of unknown worlds: exoplanets.

In the heyday of the jute industry, millions of people in Bengal made their living doing this laborious work, which has hardly changed since the...

They come from all walks of life and have lived for almost a century. They have lived through the upheavals of history. They are funny, moving and...

The current trend to render prostitution a profession "as any other" is belied by women who were themselves prostitutes. With clarity and courage,...

Like crocodiles pulling zebra into the Mara River and like Orcas beaching themselves to capture sea lions, the aerial attacks of great white sharks...

In March 2023, despite a flush of police raids and arrests in the struggle against Cop City in Atlanta, the Weelaunee Food Autonomy Festival gathered...