Documentary movies

Indexed titles: 38

Queen of Chess

2026

Rating: 7.7

A Hungarian girl dreams of conquering international men’s chess. After a 15-year battle against world champion Garry Kasparov and her domine...

Melania

2026

Rating: 3.0

Offering unprecedented access to the 20 days leading up to the 2025 Presidential Inauguration — through the eyes of the First Lady-elect her...

Mia

2017

Rating: 6.1

Mia recounts her most intimate confessions, uncensored, in her first approach to a totally new world of domination and submission....

Skyscraper Live

2026

Rating: 7.6

No ropes. No fear. Free solo legend Alex Honnold risks it all in a high-stakes, live ascent of one of the world's tallest skyscrapers in Tai...

I Am Greta

2020

Rating: 5.9

Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old student in Sweden, started a school strike for the climate as her question for adults was, if you don’t care a...

Rocco

2016

Rating: 5.5

Rocco Siffredi is to pornography what Mike Tyson is to boxing or Mick Jagger is to rock’n’roll: a living legend. His mother wanted him to be...

Free Solo

2018

Rating: 7.9

Follow Alex Honnold as he attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite's 3,000 foot high El Capitan wall. With no ro...

Audrey

2020

Rating: 7.2

An unprecedented and intimate look at the life, work and enduring legacy of British actress Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993)....

Val

2021

Rating: 7.2

For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft thro...

McLaren

2016

Rating: 7.5

The story of New Zealander Bruce McLaren, who founded the McLaren Motor Racing team, showing the world that a man of humble beginnings could...

I Am

2011

Rating: 7.2

I AM is an utterly engaging and entertaining non-fiction film that poses two practical and provocative questions: what’s wrong with our worl...

XXXXXXX

2016

Rating: 6.9

A tarot card reading as a starting point. A disruptive relationship as a point. Translation of the cards' symbols to a joint. Of the dome...

Stuntman

2018

Rating: 6.7

A veteran stuntman sets out to complete the jump that bested his idol Evel Knievel: clearing the Snake River Canyon in a rocket-powered craf...

Hot Girls Wanted

2015

Rating: 6.1

A first-ever look at the realities of the professional “amateur” porn world and the steady stream of 18-to-19-year old girls entering into i...

Invincible

2021

Rating: 7.0

A dynamic and emotional story of fighting, passion and sacrifice. From 2016 to 2018, the filmmakers accompanied Joanna Jedrzejczyk, a multip...

Faye

2024

Rating: 6.3

Through honest reflection, complemented by insight from colleagues and friends, Faye Dunaway contextualizes her life and filmography, laying...

Killer Legends

2014

Rating: 5.8

Delving into our collective nightmares, this horror-documentary investigates the origins of our most terrifying urban legends and the true s...

Zappa

2020

Rating: 7.3

With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting t...

Girls State

2024

Rating: 7.3

What would American democracy look like in the hands of teenage girls? In this documentary, young female leaders from wildly different backg...

White Boy

2017

Rating: 7.1

“White Boy Rick”, as he was called, was a novelty: A white teenager seemingly running a major inner-city drug operation. In May of 1987, 17-...

Elephant

2020

Rating: 7.7

Disneynature’s Elephant follows African elephant Shani and her spirited son Jomo as their herd make an epic journey hundreds of miles across...

I Am

2011

Rating: 6.5

I Am is a 2011 Indian anthology film by Onir. It consists of four short films: "Omar", "Afia", "Abhimanyu", and "Megha". Each film shares th...

Chop Suey

2001

Rating: 4.0

A homage to Bruce Weber's Favourite things, these being mixing film, photography and classic movies. With portraits of a lesbian jazz singer...

Blue

1993

Rating: 7.0

Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of ...

Blackfish

2013

Rating: 7.8

Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. Blackfish shows the...

Rukus

2018

Rating: 3.6

A hybrid of documentary and fiction, Rukus is a queer coming-of-age story set in the liminal spaces of furry conventions, southern punk hous...

Coachella

2006

Rating: 6.4

Filmmaker Drew Thomas brings California's popular Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival to the screen with a different kind of musical do...

Sour Grapes

2016

Rating: 7.3

Controversy erupts when an unassuming young man floods the American wine market with fake vintages valued in the millions, bamboozling the w...

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