Observational Documentary Movies

A figure skater seeks wisdom from a local sage to cure her diabetes.

"...a charming depiction of life as I knew it with my grandparents in my own village..." Clara Caleo Green, Cinema Italia UK "The sum of the...

Why does Doris Dörrie have a bag on her head in the interview? Consistent in the sense that in her works she always poses the question of how we...

What would Jesus preach in the 21st century? Who would his disciples be? And how would today's society respond to the return of the Son of God? With...

Filmmaker Theo Anthony offers a far-ranging look at the biases in how people see things, focusing on the recorded image.

After great whites, known as "Air Jaws", vanished from their hunting grounds in South Africa, photographer Chris Fallows and filmmaker Jeff Kurr seek...

Filmed in Paris in 1964, this documentary short follows two fifteen-year-old girls from the city’s 16th arrondissement as they move through...

This documentary investigates the mysterious phenomenon of "Breatharianism".

The world's most beloved and scorned cephalopod, whose remarkable string of 8 correct 'predictions' during the 2010 Soccer World Cup made him a...

For forty days, a group of fourteen volunteers led by explorer and researcher Christian Clot lived independently in a cave in Ariège. Immersed...

In his new film, Erwin Wagenhofer is looking for the good and beautiful in this world.

Utquiagvik is the northernmost city in Alaska, located 555 km beyond the Arctic Circle. This meditative documentary follows its young Inuit...

Ben Fogle spends a week living inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, gaining privileged access to the doomed Control Room 4 where the disaster first...

In this emotionally compelling documentary, Sister Helen opens a private home for recovering addicts and alcoholics in the South Bronx after the...

A couple of artists travels through the Mexico desert to present their puppet show.