Observational Documentary Movies

The Spectacle is a short reflective documentary that explores the world of modern tourism. Filmed in various locations across Europe, the documentary...

From our window one can see a set of the film The Green Years, directed by Paulo Rocha in 1963. This was our starting point: guided by Rocha's gaze,...

The Californian sun, which lights up the city, lights up again every evening in cinemas all over the world". Guided by these words from Blaise...

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

An observational documentary, shot on high-contrast black and white 16mm film, about a largely undeveloped river in southeastern North Carolina that...

Most of us think of death as something clear-cut, and that medical science has it neatly figured out. This feature documentary explodes such...

"On the Tip of the Heart" - is a documentary on the St Peter's Hospital in Brussels, structured around seven doors from the maternity to the morgue....

The story of a Warlpiri woman, Audrey, and her Sicilian partner Santo as they navigate through colonial systems to keep the children they care for...

Documentary film recounting the story of Ten House, the fire station right next to the World Trade Center, and the experiences of its firefighters on...

Does Europe also have its own animistic heritage, like Pachamama in South America and Shinto in Japan? If so, which one? In the Misty Lands, i.e....

In a rapidly changing America where mass inequality and dwindling opportunity have devastated the black working class, three Detroit men must fight...

Features gourmets chowing down on bats, voodoo practitioners, a chap who has a fetish for being covered in bees and a gal who has the Eiffel Tower...

An incredible travel through space and time between the walls of the Paris Observatory, which is celebrating its 350th birthday. Place of discoveries...

A documentary following three young nascent drag artists as they navigate a rising queer scene in Norwich City - a place wherein they express their...

An epic aerial journey covering the whole length of China’s Great Wall. Across 2500km, for the first time ever, this triumph of Ming dynasty...