Movies genre: Documentary

Mike Douglas takes a week off and John Lennon takes over hosting duties.

The 20th July 1944. Operation Valkyrie is underway. Conspirators race to change the course of history forever. Will the plot succeed or will Adolf Hitler escape unharmed...once again?

A documentary about creatives with disabilities within the horror industry.

At the end of a 60-year career, legendary singer and activist Joan Baez takes an honest look back and a deep look inward as she tries to make sense of her large, history-making life, and the personal struggles she's kept private.

Art Johnston and Pepe Peña are civil rights leaders whose life and love is a force behind LGBTQ+ equality in the heart of the country. Their iconic gay bar, Sidetrack, has helped fuel movements and create community for decades in Chicago's queer enclave. But, behind the business and their historic activism exists a love unlike any other. The documentary film ART AND PEP tells the inspiring story of the long struggle for equality and their fight to love freely.

This is a powerful documentary, filmed over a 16 year span, about the rise of a Coalition of six lions, branded The Mapogo Lions, and their takeover of the largest territory by a pride.

Felipe Esparza riffs on mom, marriage, and why dairy is more dangerous than drugs.

Director Paul Saltzman returns to India as he reminiscences his time with the Beatles while they were on a spiritual retreat under the mentorship of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1968.

In 2019 the CrossFit Games consisted of dramatic changes to the season, and final competition. Can the top male and female athletes find their way in this new format to be crowned, the Fittest on Earth?

Unbranded follows four men and sixteen mustangs on an epic 3,000-mile journey from Mexico to Canada through the American West to inspire adoptions for the 50,000 wild horses and burros in government captivity.

Obscene Beauty examines New York's Burlesque scene and how it has withstood the test of time. It looks at the artistry and self expression of Burlesque and how it combines social political expression, art and comedy within each short three minute performance. The docu-movie examines the history, impact and dancers involved in this art form and how it forms part of New York's cultural scene.—D.Carran

A documentary based on five years of research into a Michigan auto town where tens of thousands were drinking water into which poisonous lead had leached, and how officials failed to respond.

Biography of renowned trumpet player and "Tonight Show" bandleader Doc Severinsen.

A joyful, cinematic celebration of this singular musical artist, who remains as vital and relevant today as when he exploded on the scene with his group, Brasil '66. With a rich, multi-layered approach to storytelling, the film digs deep to reveal the forces that shaped his incredible journey.—John Scheinfeld

It focuses on the life and legacy of Sly and the Family Stone, telling the story behind the rise, reign and fadeout of one of pop music's most influential artists.

Sinclair ZX Spectrum. This film goes into all the finer details of how and why the ZX Spectrum was created, what impact the computer had as well as the various versions

Director Rebecca Carpenter's father, Lewis Carpenter, was a running back for Vince Lombardi's NFL Champion Green Bay Packers. When he dies, her family receives a surprise call from Boston University's brain bank requesting his brain - with shocking results. Lew becomes the 18th NFL player diagnosed postmortem with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative neurocognitive disorder that can cause episodes of rage, social withdrawal, and other unusual behaviors. Carpenter finds herself at ground zero of an unfolding public health controversy and embarks on a three-year odyssey across America to explore the far-reaching implications of this "new" disease in football players. Carpenter approaches her subjects with refreshing humor, manic curiosity, and a huge heart as her father's former teammates and adversaries, scientists, historians, and other families affected by CTE offer their insights and support. Through quirky and poignant visits with family friends, former NFL players, and headline-stealing scientists such as Dr. Bennet Omalu, Rebecca pursues a mystery decades in the making. From NFL Hall of Famers like Mike Ditka and James Lofton, to neuropathologist Dr. Ann McKee, she begins to understand the depression, obsessiveness, forgetfulness, and unpredictable temper that often complicated her relationship with her dad are common side effects of repeat blunt force trauma to the brain.—Hydro Studios

Four women who belonged to the Manson family and experts weigh in on the infamous murders.

Feature length documentary of four preteens who enter the adult world of competitive drag queens.

Story of how Curacao has sent their little league team to the World Series for seven consecutive years. While these children carry a nation's pride, they're also athletes competing at the highest level and having a great time.

It showcases a group of individuals, including frontline workers, educators, activists, historians, scientists and politicians, as they reflect on the turbulent year 2020 and contemplate America's future.

Campus group think, cancel culture, and race/gender orthodoxies foster intellectual fragility and hinder universities' mission of open debate and knowledge-seeking, as seen through students' experiences.

Follows five Native American Tribes across deserts, coastlines, forests, and prairies as they restore their traditional land management practices. For millennia Native Americans successfully stewarded and shaped their landscapes, but centuries of colonization have disrupted their ability to maintain their traditional life ways. As the climate crisis escalates these time-tested practices of North America's original inhabitants are becoming increasingly essential in a rapidly changing world.

Immediately after the US pullout from Afghanistan, Taliban forces occupied the Hollywood Gate complex, which is claimed to be a former CIA base in Kabul.

What happens when an animal perishes in the depths of the forest? Who clears away the remains? Deer, wild boar, mice, beetles, flies, wasps and many others - how are they all connected? A team of researchers in the Bavarian Forest National Park on Germany's border with the Czech Republic is on the trail of these exciting questions. It's obvious that a dead animal is a magnificent banquet for the living as every death means life for zillions of other creatures. But for whom does it matter? A film about life after death.—naturefestival.eu

A documentary revisiting the career of a feisty activist musician, who never quite achieved the same recognition as her similar contemporaries Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell.

Follows Dolours Price, one of very few women who rose to the top of the IRA and who was involved in bombings during the Troubles in the 1970s.

A documentary about two transgender women who are struggling for the right to change their names and gender in all official documents and seeking respect from their families and society.

After 26 years of spinning dives and flying uppercuts in the ring, Cassandro, the star of the gender-bending cross-dressing Mexican wrestlers known as the Exoticos, is far from retiring. But with dozens of broken bones and metal pins in his body, he must now reinvent himself.

Taking us into the heart of the planet's busiest maternity hospital, the viewer is dropped like an unseen outsider into the hospital's stream of activity. At first, the people are strangers. As the film continues, it's absorbingly intimate, rendering the women at the heart of the story increasingly familiar.—Ramona S. Diaz