Documentary Movies

In our current world, where worth is often gauged by online popularity, an economy has developed for paying for followers and likes. Through access in...

Jokes as a weapon of resistance: how satire sustains a beleaguered culture.

Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings is a compelling portrait of an inspiring and inventive musician whose virtuoso skills on the ukulele have trans...

The Mayan calendar predicts that the world will end in 2012, and many believe it's true. This Emmy-nominated Discovery Channel documentary illustrates...

Collection of 15 black and white films by Jean Manzon, released between 1962 and 1963 for IPÊS (Institute of Social Research and Studies). IPÊS was cr...

A documentary about Lithuania's secret special task force, which operated in 1991.

Charlie is an awkward teenage boy who can't get over his ex-girlfriend. After his attempt to win her back goes horribly wrong, he and his bumbling fri...

This is the true story of Herman Cain. A man who comes from a poor and under-educated family and reaches the highest levels of corporate, social and p...

Documentary account of a man’s life in the face of imminent death – Francisco Varela's story told affectionately and gently, touchingly and astutely....

Bette Midler performs four songs from her recording "Bette Midler Sings The Peggy Lee Songbook". Selections include "I'm A Woman," "He's A Tramp," "Fe...

"Gia pente diamerismata kai ena magazi" is a documentary about how the process of "exchange" transformed the neighborhoods of major cities of Greece,...

The film that Michael Janusonis of the Providence Journal claims, "is not to be missed," is an exhilarating ride; a poignant and often hilarious look...

The Making of THE BETA TEST.

Wes Hurley's autobiographical tale of growing up gay in Soviet Union Russia, only to escape with his mother, a mail order bride, to Seattle to face a...

A documentary about the Varos district in Sibenik, Croatia, which once was a home to Arsen Dedic, Vice Vukov and Miso Kovac - three singers who marked...

For her latest industrial exposé, Rachel Boynton (Our Brand Is Crisis) gained unprecedented access to Africa's oil companies. The result is a gripping...

A moving scrapbook of opinions and advice about love in Sierra Leone.

'Bijelo Dugme' was a legendary rock and roll band of the former Yugoslavia that is still enormously popular. The leader of the band was Goran Bregović...

This Traveltalk series short opens with views of Nevada's natural wonders, then visits a mining town and a dude ranch. It's then on to Reno.