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'Learn Free' (an unschooling documentary)
"Finding Lucy" (Lucille Ball Documentary, 2000)
"TOWER TO THE PEOPLE -Tesla's Dream at Wardenclyffe Continues"
[BBC] The Day Lord Mountbatten Died
[HD] Vladimir Horowitz - The Last Romantic
10 Best New and Anticipated Documentaries of 2021 (So Far)
10 MPH - Segway across America
112 Weddings
13th (2016 film)
14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible (2021)
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything (2024 documentary)
20 Days in Mariupol (2023)
20 Feet from Stardom (2013)
2000 Meters to Andriivka (2025 documentary)
3 Foot Giant (2009)
500 Nations: A Musical Journey (1996 Television Documentary)
9/11: One Day in America (2021)
A Beautiful Obsession (2026 documentary)
A Better Man (2017)
A Brony Tale (2013)
A Closer Walk
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil
A Dangerous Game (2014 film)
A Force More Powerful (1999)
A global guide to the first world war - interactive documentary (fantastic!)
A Good American (2015 AGA)
A Grain of Sand
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
A Great Day in Harlem (1994 film)
À la vie, à la mort
A Mile In Their Shoes
A More – or Less – Perfect Union
A New Economy (2019)
A Palace for Putin. The Story of the Biggest Bribe (2021)
A Powerful Noise
A Short Film About War (2009)
A Sidewalk Astronomer (2005)
A Storm Foretold (documentary about Roger Stone)
A Sunday in Hell (1976)
A Touch of Greatness (2004)
A Year at Mission Hill (2012)
Ab Jetzt Im Handel (2013 From Business to Being - in German)
Abel Raises Cain (2004)
Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America (2016)
Active Measures (2018 Documentary on Russiagate - xlnt)
Actuality Films
Adrienne (2021)
AFOL: A Blocumentary
Africa's Great Civilizations
After the Cap
After the Warming (1989)
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)
aka Charlie Sheen (2025)
Alcaldessa (2016)
Alfred Eisenstaedt - Photographer
Alive and Kicking (2017)
All Light Everywhere (2021)
All That Breathes (2022)
All the Rage (Saved by Sarno) (2016)
All the Wild Horses (2017)
All watched over by machines of loving grace (2011 documentary)
Alma – A tale of violence
AlphaGo (2017 documentary)
Aluna (2012 revisit of the Kogi)
AM I? | A Documentary About AI Consciousness
Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
Amend: The Fight for America (2021)
America at Risk: The War with No Name (2010)
America: Democracy on Trial (1968)
America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014 film - 9% on Rotten Tomatoes)
America's Favorite Neighbor
American Dharma (2018)
American Factory (2019)
American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs (2013)
American Symphony (2023 film)
American Teacher (2011)
An Act of Conscience (1997 documentary)
An Ecology of Mind: A Daughter's Portrait of Gregory Bateson
An Honest Liar (2014)
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
An Open Secret (2015)
An Ordinary Life
Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh (documentary)
And Everything Is Going Fine (2010)
Andre The Giant Has a Posse (1995)
Andrei Tarkovsky: A Poet in the Cinema (1983)
Animated Documentaries
Antarctica Unearthed (2024)
Apocalypse Cow (2020)
Apocalypse in the Tropics (2025)
Apollo 11 (2019 film)
Approaching the Elephant (2015)
Aquarela (2018)
Architecton (2024)
Arguing the World
Arguments Posing as Documentaries
Artificial Immortality (2021 documentary)
Artifishal (2019)
AS - The Eloquent Eye
At the Bottom of the Fiord: The Last Farmers in Ísafjardardjup (2013)
Atomic Cafe (1982)
Authors of the Impossible: The Film
Autodocumentary
Awaken Dawn (2022)
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (1997)
B-roll
BaadAsssss Cinema (2002 documentary)
Babies (2010)
Backpack Full of Cash (2016)
Backyard Blockbusters
Bag It (2010)
Baghdad ER
Banana Land: Blood Bullets and Poison (2013)
Bananageddon Film
Banaz: A Love Story (2012)
Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story (2026 documentary)
Battle of Chile
BBC Documentaries
BBS: The Documentary (2005)
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2019)
Bear 71 (2012)
Becoming (2020 documentary)
Becoming Nobody (2019)
Behind the Curve (2018)
Being and Becoming (2012 Etre et Devenir)
Being in the World (2010)
Belushi (2020 film)
Bending the Arc (2017 documentary)
Benjamin (2018)
Benjamin Franklin (2022 documentary)
Best Free Documentaries
Best Worst Movie
Betrayal: The Life and Art of Rudolf Bauer
Better This World (2011)
Better World (coming 2020)
Betting on Zero (2016)
Between the Folds
Beyond Good Intentions
Beyond Measure (2015)
Beyond Utopia (2023 documentary)
Beyond Zero (documentary)
Bias (2018 documentary)
BIELUTINE, le mystere d'une collection.
Big History (2013 docuseries)
Big Sugar (2005)
Bikes vs Cars (2015)
Billy Joel: And So It Goes (2025 documentary)
Biography: I Want My MTV (2019)
Biophilia Live (2014)
Birth (Audio Documentary)
Bitter Lake (2015)
Black Athena (The Fabrication of Ancient Greece)
Black Sheep (2018 film)
Blackfish (2013)
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (2025)
Blockchain City (2018)
Blogumentary
Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann (1994)
Blood, Sweat and T-shirts (2008 documentary series)
Blueberry Soup
Bogotá Change (2009)
Bombshell: the Hedy Lamarr Story
Bonsai People (2011)
Boogie Man
Boomtown Beijing
Born (Audio Documentary)
Born into Brothels (2004)
Born with Curiosity: The Grace Hopper Story (2014)
Bowling for Columbine (2002)
Boys State (2020 film)
Brace for Impact (2010)
Brando: The Documentary
Brasileirinho - Grandes Encontros do Choro (2005)Mika Kaurismäki.avi
Breaking the Taboo (2011 Quebrando o Tabu)
Breath Made Visible (2009)
Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996)
Brick City
Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony (2012)
Buck (2011)
Bully (2011 film)
Bully, Coward, Victim: The Story of Roy Cohn (2019)
Burden of Dreams (1982, about the making of Fitzcarraldo)
Burzynski (2010)
Bushman's Secret: Ancient Khoisan (San) Tribe
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature (1997 film)
California Dreaming
Call Me Lucky (2015)
Can't Get You Out Of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World (2021 TV series)
CAPITAL C (2014)
Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat (coming 2013)
Carbon Cowboys
Carbon Nation (2010)
Cartel Land (2015)
Carterland (2021)
Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid (2024 doc)
Catastrophe (2008 TV series, 5 parts)
Catching the Sun (2015 film)
Catfish (2010)
Cathy at War (2015)
Caucus (2016? documentary)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
Cavedigger (2013)
Center for Documentary Studies
Chasing Scarcity (2020)
Chasing the Moon (2019 documentary)
Chef Flynn (2018)
Chelsea Does...
Cherán, tierra para soñar (2014)
Children Full of Life (2003)
Chinlone (documentary)
Choice Point
Chutspah (2013)
Cities of Sleep (2016)
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (2017)
Citizen Vaclav Havel Goes on Vacation
Citizenfour (2014)
Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark (1969 TV series)
Class Dismissed (2012)
Climate of Change (2010 documentary)
Climate Refugees (2011 doc)
Closer Than We Think (2017)
CNN Films: Ivory Tower (2014)
Cocksucker Blues (1972 documentary)
CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap (2014)
Colette (2020 film)
Collaboration: On the Edge of a New Paradigm? (2015)
Collaborative Cities (2012)
CoLLapse (2009)
Colombia Magia Salvaje (2015 Colombia Wild Magic)
Common Ground (2023 documentary)
Computer Science Documentaries
Concerning Violence: Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defense (2014)
Concert Films
Connected: A Declaration of Interdependence
Connections by James Burke (2023 new series!)
Connections: An Alternative View of Change (1978 series, 10 episodes)
Consumed: Inside the Belly of the Beast (2011)
Continuum (2013)
Cooked (2016 show)
Copa 71 (2023 documentary)
Coração Vagabundo (2008 Wandering Heart)
Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011)
Covolv: A Sustainable World
Cowspiracy (2014)
Crazy Like a Genius
Crazy Sexy Cancer (2007)
Creating Freedom
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (2020)
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
Crocodile in the Yangtze: A Westerner Inside China's Alibaba.com
Crossfire Hurricane (2012 documentary)
Crude (documentary)
Cruz Reynoso: Sowing the Seeds of Justice
Cuba's Crossroads: Hope, Rock, and [R]Evolution (2016)
CuriosityStream (2015)
Daddy I Do (2010)
Dakar: Race Against the Desert (2025)
DamNation (2014)
Dancer (2016)
Dangerous Knowledge (Four Mathematicians)
Darkon (2006)
David Oistrakh - People's Artist?
Dead Birds (1963 film)
Dear Mr. Watterson (2013)
Death Mills (1945 Die Todesmühlen)
Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy (1994)
Debtocracy (2011)
Decreteii (Children of the Decree)
Deliver Us From Evil (2006)
Demain (2015 film, Tomorrow)
Desert of Forbidden Art
Devil's Playground (film)
Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge (2024 documentary)
Diego Maradona (2019 film)
Dig! (2004)
Dior and I (2014)
Dirt! The Movie (2009)
Dirty Wars (2013)
Discover the Gift (2010)
Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath (2007)
Do Not Resist (2016)
Do you trust this computer? (2018)
Docudramas
Docufiction
Documentarians
Documentaries about Copyright and Culture
Documentaries against Bush & Co.
Documentaries for Bush
Documentaries Online
Documentary "Solidarity Economy in Barcelona" (English version)
Documentary Addict
Documentary Heaven
Documentary Shorts
Documentary TV Series
DOCUMENTARY: Edward Snowden - Terminal F (2015)
Documented (2013)
Docuseries
Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001)
Dominick Dunne: After the Party (2008 documentary)
Dont Look Back (1967)
Dramatizations
Dream Big: Engineering Our World (2017)
Duolingo Documentary: Something Like Home (2018)
Dust to Glory
Eames: The Architect and the Painter (2011)
Earthlings (2005 film)
Eat, Fast and Live Longer (2012)
Echo in the Canyon (2018)
El juicio (2023 The Trial)
El Silencio de Otros (2018 The Silence of Others)
En Un Momento Dado (2004)
End Game (2018 film)
END:CIV (2011)
Enemies of the People (2009 film)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
Escape from Suburbia (2007)
Escaping Twin Flames (2023 documentary)
Estonia: The Find That Changes Everything (2020 documentary)
Ethos: A Time for Change
Everest (1998)
Every Little Step
Every Little Thing (2025 documentary)
Every Three Seconds (someone dies from poverty E3S)
Every War Has Two Losers
Everybody to Kenmure Street (2026 documentary)
Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (2010)
Examined Life (2008)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
Extraordinary People: The Boy with the Incredible Brain (2005)
Eyes on the Prize (1987)
F for Fake (1973)
F**ked: The United States of Unemployment (2012)
Faces Places (2017 film)
Fall to Grace (2013)
Fandango at the Wall (2020)
Fantastic Fungi (2019)
Fantastic Machine (2023 Original title: And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine)
Farmland (2013)
Fast Cheap & Out of Control (1997)
Fed Up (2014)
Feeding Tomorrow (2024)
Feels Good Man (2020 documentary)
Fight the Power: How Hip-Hop Changed the World (2023 documentary)
Filmed in Supermarionation (2014 documentary)
Films For Action
Finding Joe (2011 documentary)
Finding Oscar
Fire at Sea (2016)
First Footprints (2015)
Fit to Print (2010)
FIVE CAME BACK Official Trailer (2017) Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola Documentary Movie HD
Fixed (2013)
Flag Wars (2003)
Flex Is Kings (2012)
Flight From Death: The Quest for Immortality
Flight/Risk (2022 documentary)
Flipside (2023 documentary)
Flock of Dodos
Flow (2008, For Love of Water)
Fly like a Girl (2019)
Flying without Wings
Folkstreams: The Best of American Folklore Films
Follow the Fear: The Influence of Del Close
Food Chains (2014 documentary)
Food Evolution (2016)
Food Fight: A Story of Culinary Revolt (documentary)
Food Inc. (2008)
For All Mankind (1989 documentary)
For Sama (2019)
Forest of Bliss (1986)
Forgiving Dr. Mengele (2006)
Forks over Knives (2011)
Four Horsemen (2012)
Free Solo (2018)
Free the Network (2012)
Free to Choose (1980)
FreeDocumentaries.org
Freethink Media (2016)
Fresh (2012 documentary)
From India With Love
From India with Love (2016)
From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers Warning (1988)
From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers Warning (1990, full doc)
Frontline Programs
Fuel (2008 film)
Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker (1981)
Fursonas (2016)
Fyre Fraud (2019)
Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (2019)
G4m3rs
Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine (2003 documentary)
Garbage Dreams (2009)
Gates of Heaven (1978 documentary)
Gather (2020 documentary)
General Magic (2018 documentary)
Generation Waking Up
Generation Wealth (2018 Documentary)
George Carlin's American Dream (2022 documentary)
German Concentration Camps Factual Survey (2016)
Gerrymandering (2010 documentary)
Get It All Out
Get Me Roger Stone (2017)
Gifting It
GIG: The Uberization of Work (2019)
Gimme Shelter (1970 film)
Glas (1958)
Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me (2014)
Going Clear (2015 film)
Going Upriver
Going Varsity in Mariachi (2023 documentary)
Good Enough Ancestor (2024 documentary)
Goodbye Cows (documentary)
Grateful Dawg (2000 documentary)
Green Gold - Documentary by John D. Liu
Grey Matters
Griefwalker (2008)
Grizzly Man (2005)
Growing Up Female (1971)
Gunda (2020 film)
Hacking for the Commons (2020)
Hacks (1997)
Hafu: the mixed-race experience in Japan
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song (2022)
Happy (2010)
Harmontown (2014 documentary)
Hate in America
Hate Rising with Jorge Ramos
Having It All (2016)
Heartbeat in the Brain (1970)
Hearts and Minds (1974)
Helvetica (2007 documentary)
Herb and Dorothy (2008)
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America (2021)
Highrise
Hillary (2020 docuseries)
Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial (2024 documentary)
Hitler's Hollywood (2017)
HOME (2009)
Honeyland (2019 film)
Hoop Dreams (1994)
Hot Coffee: Is Justice Being Served? (2012)
Hot Girls Wanted (2015)
House of Docs
House of Numbers (2009)
How to Build a Truth Engine (2024 documentary)
How To Die In Oregon (2011)
How to Draw a Bunny
How to Let Go of the World: and Love All the Things that Climate Can't Change
How to Live on Earth (2026 documentary)
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
How to Re-establish a Vodka Empire in 2006-2011 (2012)
How to Start a Revolution (2011)
Human (2015 film)
Human Flow (2017)
Human Resources: Social Engineering in the 20th Century (2010)
Hybrid (2000)
HyperNormalisation (2016, xlnt)
I Am (2010)
I Am Belfast (2015)
I Am Greta (2020)
I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
I Learn America
I.O.U.S.A (2008)
Icarus (2017 film)
If You Build It (coming 2015)
If You Love This Planet (1982 short documentary banned by Reagan)
Il Divo (film)
Improbable Pairs
In & of Itself (2020 documentary)
In Haiti: A road trip documentary
In Search of Voodoo: Roots to Heaven (2018)
In Silico (2020)
Indian Matchmaking (2020)
Indigenous Community Resilience (short documentary films)
Inequality for All (2013)
Inside Deep Throat (2005)
Inside Job (2010)
Inside the Mind of a Dog (2024 documentary)
Inspirations (1997)
Intelligent Trees (2016)
Interactive Documentaries
Into Great Silence (2005)
Into the Inferno (2016 documentary)
Introducing, Selma Blair (2021)
Inventing Tomorrow (2018)
Invisible Airs (2011)
Invisible Children (2003)
Iran: Hot Tea, Cool Conversations (2008)
Iron Crows (2009)
Is School Enough? (2012)
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?: An Animated Conversation With Noam Chomsky (2013)
It's a Different World (2013)
Je chanterai pour toi (I'll Sing For You 2001)
JFK: News of a Shooting
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011)
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017)
Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)
John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020)
Josefin & Florin (2020 documentary)
Journey with the Giant
Julia (2021 film)
Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator (2025)
Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story (2014)
Justice Ginsburg (2020)
Khodorkovsky (documentary)
Killing Us Softly: Advertising’s Image of Women (1979)
King Corn (2007)
King in the Wilderness (2018)
King Leopold's Ghost (2006 documentary; xlnt)
Kiss the Ground (documentary)
Knock Down the House (2019)
KOMBI: The Cooperative (2015)
Kumaré: The True Story of a False Prophet (2011, posed as guru)
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (2021)
LA 92 (2017 film)
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (2009)
La Entrada (1983)
LA TIENDA (Fredy Serna)
Landfill Harmonic (2013)
Lars from 1-10
Last Train Home (2009 documentary)
Latcho Drom (1993)
Laughology (2009)
Learn Free
Leaving Neverland (2019)
Lebanon (2010)
Legalize Democracy!
Lemonade (2009)
Leni Riefenstahl: Her Dream of Africa (2000)
Lessons of the Loess Plateau
Let the Canary Sing (2023)
Let's Get the Rhythm
Leviathan (2013)
Leviathan: Full Documentary
Life in a Day (2011)
Life In Perpetual Beta (2010)
Life Through a Lens
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
Lives Well Lived (2018)
Living Downstream (2010)
Living in the Future's Past | AWARD WINNING DOC | Jeff Bridges | Environment
Living on One Dollar (2012)
Living with Lincoln
Living Without Money
Lo and Behold: Reveries Of The Connected World (2016)
Long Night's Journey Into Day (2000)
Long Way Down (2007, Scotland to Cape Town)
Long Way Round (2004)
Long Way Up (2020, Ushuaia to LA on electric Harleys)
Look into My Eyes (2024 documentary)
LookUpNow (2023 LuN)
Lorne (2026 documentary)
Lost Boys of Sudan (2003)
Lost City, Living Memories: Vanport Through the Voices of its Residents
Lost Zombies
Louder Than a Bomb (2011)
Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere (2026)
M.C. Richards: The Fire Within (2003)
Mad Hot Ballroom (2005)
Maidan (2014 film)
MAKERS: Women Who Make America
Making Sense of the Sixties
Malala (2009)
Malls R Us
Man on Wire (2008)
Manifestes en Série
Manufactured Landscapes (2006)
Maquilapolis
Maria by Callas: In Her Own Words (2018)
Marina: A Documentary Film about Marina Abramović
Marjoe (1972 documentary)
Mark Lombardi: Art and Conspiracy (2012 documentary)
Martha (2015)
Marwencol (2010 - Mark, Wendy and Colleen)
Maya Lin - A Strong Clear Vision
Mcluhan's Wake
Meeting a Monster
Meeting of the Minds
Melania (2026 documentary)
Meltdown (2011 4-part series)
Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944)
Men of War (2024 film)
Mercedes Sosa: Como un Pájaro Libre (1983 documental completo)
Mercedes Sosa: The Voice of Latin America (2013)
Merchants of Doubt (2014 documentary)
Meru (2015 film)
Michael & Me (2005)
Microdocumentaries
Mile... Mile and a Half (2014)
Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World (1992 documentary)
Mini-Documentaries
Mirage Men (2013)
Miss Americana (2020)
Miss Representation (2011)
Mission Blue (2014)
Missionary Positions
Mister Organ (2022)
MIT – Docubase
Money & Life (2012)
Monster Camp
Moon Shot (2016)
Most Likely To Succeed (2015 MLTS)
Mother Nature's Child
Movies About Great Thinkers
Mr. Gaga (2016)
Mrs. Judo: Be Strong, Be Gentle (2012)
Muscle Shoals (2013 film)
Music from the Inside Out (2004 documentary)
Music Inn
Musk (2026 documentary)
My Architect: A Son’s Journey (2003)
My Country, My Country (2006)
My Father’s Garden (1995)
My Generation (2017)
My Kid Could Paint That (2007)
My Name Is Pauli Murray (2021)
My Octopus Teacher (2020)
My Perestroika
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow (2024 documentary)
My Year of Living Mindfully (2020)
N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős (1993)
Naked Citizens
Native America before European Colonization (100 mins)
Nature Documentaries
Navalny (2022 film)
Near Normal Man
Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously (2016)
Never Look Away (2024 film)
New Urban Cowboy: Toward a New Pedestrianism (2007)
Next Goal Wins (2014 documentary)
No Country for Mothers (2026 documentary)
No Lye: An American Beauty Story (2019)
No Maps for These Territories (2000)
No Other Land (2024 documentary)
Nobelity (2006)
Nothing like Chocolate (2012)
Notre Poison Quotidien (2011)
Nuns On The Bus
Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today (1948)
NYT Op-Docs
O.J.: Made in America (2016)
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union (2021)
Obey Giant: The Art and Dissent of Shepard Fairey (2017 documentary)
OBEY THE GIANT - The Shepard Fairey Story (2012)
Objectified (2009)
Of Wind and Waves - The Life of Woody Brown
Oh My God (2009)
Oh What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me! (2003)
Olympia (1938 film)
Once Upon a Time in Iraq (2020 documentary series)
One Child Nation (2019)
One Day on Earth (2011)
One Hundred Thousand Beating Hearts (xlnt)
One Water (2008)
Online Documentaries 4 U
OPEN: Outlaws and Pioneers of the Electronic Frontier (2013)
Orange Revolution (2007 film)
Orgasm Inc.: The Strange Science of Female Pleasure (2009)
Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret (2008)
Original Cast Album: Company
Orwell Rolls In His Grave (2003)
Our Occupation (2011)
Out of the Woods: Life and Death in Dirty Dave's Homeless Camp (2012)
Outlaws: The Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Society in India (2009)
Outside the Bubble: A Roadtrip with Alexandra Pelosi (2018)
Over the Limit (2017)
overshare: the links.net story (2015)
Page One: Inside the New York Times (2011)
Pakistan: Children of the Taliban (2010)
Pandora's Promise (2013 documentary)
Pandora’s Box (1992)
Paper Clips (2004)
Paper Tigers (2015)
Particle Fever (2014)
Partners in Crime (2011)
Pathways to Invention (2022 documentary)
Paul Goodman Changed My Life (2011)
PBS Documentaries
Pelada (2011)
Pelé (2021 documentary)
People in Glass Houses: The Legacy of Joseph Eichler
Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much
Period - The End of Menstruation?
Period. End of Sentence. (2018)
Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune (2011)
Pick Up Your Feet: The Double Dutch Show (1981)
Pina (2011)
Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea
Planet B-Boy (2007)
Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution
Planet of Snail (2011)
Planet of the Humans (2019)
Play It Again
Playing with Fire (2019)
Plunder: The Crime Of Our Time
Point of Order! (1963)
Pornocracy (2018)
Potala Palace (2024 documentary)
Poverty Inc. (2014)
Power of the Powerless
Powerful No-Narrative Documentaries
Powers of Ten (1977)
Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008)
Precious Life (2010)
Predators (2025 film)
Prefontaine (1997)
Present Perfect
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields (2023)
PROBLEMA: Who are we in the 21st Century? (2010)
Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (2007)
Project Nim (2011)
Prophet's Prey (2015)
Psychomagic: A Healing Art (2020 documentary)
Psywar (2013)
Q: Into the Storm (2021, 6 episodes)
Queen: The Story of Bohemian Rhapsody (documentary)
Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV (2024 documentary)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002 film)
Rabin: The Last Day (2015)
Race to Nowhere: The Dark Side of America’s Achievement Culture (2009)
Racially Charged: America's Misdemeanor Problem (2021)
Radio Documentaries
Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made (2016)
Raise Hell: the Life and Times of Molly Ivins
Raise the Umbrellas (2016)
Rams (2018 film)
Raul
RBG (2018)
Rebels with a Cause
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project (2019)
Red Trees (2017)
ReMade: The Rebirth of the Maker Movement by Electromagnate
Remembering Life: The History Of Photojournalism
Remote Area Medical (2013)
Reporter (2009 documentary)
Reportero (2013)
Requiem for the American Dream (2015 documentary)
ResilientCITY
Restrepo (2010)
Rethink Afghanistan
Return to Eden, It's All About Coming Home (2020)
ReunitedStates.tv
Revolution OS
Rhythmic Uprising
Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power (2014)
Rivers and Tides (2001)
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021)
Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft - Careful With That Axe - Part 1
Robert J. Flaherty
Rockumentaries
Roger & Me (1989)
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019 doc)
Ronaldinho: The One and Only (2026)
Royalty Free: The Music of Kevin MacLeod (2020 docmentary)
Running for Jim
S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003)
Sacred Cow: The Case for [Better] Meat
Salt in their Veins | Full Award-Winning Documentary
Same Mud, Same Blood
San Francisco 2.0 (2015)
Schooling the World: The White Man's Last Burden (2011)
Science, Technology and Nature Documentary Series
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017)
Screenagers (2016)
Searching for Angela Shelton
Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
Seeds of Freedom (trailer)
Seeing the Forest
Seeking Common Ground
Seeking Happily Ever After
SEEKING HOME: a short film (2021)
Self Taught (coming 2018)
Severe Clear (2009)
Seymour: An Introduction (2015)
Shades of Gray
Sharkwater
She's Beautiful When She's Angry (2014)
Sheila Nevins
Shelter (2011)
Sheryl (2022 documentary)
Shift Change (2012)
Shifty (2025 TV series)
Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets (2023)
Shoah (1985)
Shored Up
Shouting in the Dark (2011)
Shungu - The Resilience of a People (2010)
Sicko (2007)
Side by Side (2012 film)
Signs Out of Time: The Story of Archaeologist Marija Gimbutas
SILA: The Life Within Everything (2026 documentary)
Silicone Soul
Sir! No Sir! (2005)
Slave to the Algorithm
Slice of Life (2025 documentary)
Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius) (2024 documentary)
Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001)
Sociology is a Combat Sport
Sold: The Movie (2011)
Some Kind of Monster (2004)
Song From The Forest (2013)
Song of a Citizen
Sound and Fury (2000 film)
Sour Grapes (2016 film)
Soy Cuba (1964 I Am Cuba)
Spaces for the Soul (2017 documentary)
Spanish: Yo No Me Llamo Rubén Blades (2018, Ruben Blades Is Not My Name)
Spent: Looking For Change (Documentary)
Spitfire (2018 film)
Spitfire (documentary)
Split Estate (2012)
Sputnik Mania
Sr. (2022 documentary)
Startup.com (2001)
State Legislature (2007)
State of Fear
STEP (2017 film)
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015)
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023)
Stories We Tell (2012)
Story of America: A Nation Divided
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror (2025 documentary)
Street Fight (2005 film)
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021 documentary)
Subjectified
Sufi Soul: The Mystic Music Of The Islam
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)
Summer's Serious Side (2004)
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan (2025)
Super Size Me (2004)
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
Superpower (2023 film)
Surfwise (2008)
Surviving Progress (2011)
Surviving R. Kelly (2019 documentary series)
Sustainable Table
Sviatoslav Richter The Enigma Documentary (Monsaingeon 1998)
Sweatshop Cinderella
Swedish Dads
Sweetgrass (2009)
Symbiotic Earth: How Lynn Margulis Rocked the Boat and Started a Scientific Revolution
Taboo (2002 TV series)
Take the Ball Pass the Ball (2018 documentary)
Takedown (2000 as Track Down)
Tale Of The Forgotten People Of Andaman Island - Jarawa Tribe Documentary
Tapestries of Hope (2010)
Tapped (2009)
Taro's World (2016)
TechnoCalyps (2006)
Teenage (2013)
Teenage Paparazzo (2010)
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (2017)
Temple of Art
Terms and Conditions May Apply (2013)
Terror's Children (2002)
TEXAS GOLD
Thank You Very Much (2023 film)
Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story (2024 documentary)
That Sugar Film (2015)
The (Dead Mothers) Club (2014 HBO documentary)
The 11th Hour
The 50 Greatest Documentaries
The Abortion Talks (documentary)
‎The Accidental President (2020 documentary)
The Act of Killing (2012)
The Age of Disclosure (2025)
The Age of Uncertainty (1977)
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026 documentary)
The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales (2022)
The American Ruling Class (2005)
The Ants and The Grasshopper (2021)
The Aristocrats (2005 NSFK)
The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo (2014 documentary)
The Art of the Steal
The Augmentation of Douglas Engelbart | Full Documentary
The Australian Dream (2019)
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years (2016)
The best documentaries of 2010
The Best Place to Start
The Big Buy
The Big Uneasy (2011)
The Birth of the Internet
The Black Man's Land Trilogy (1973)
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015)
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
The Black Stars (2024)
The Body in Question (1978)
The Brainwashing of My Dad (2015)
The Bridge (2006 film)
The Brink (2019)
The Burning Season (2008 film)
The Central Park Five (2012 documentary)
The Century of the Self (2002)
The Century: America's Time (1999)
The Color of Fear
The Comey Rule (2020)
The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2003)
The Cove (2009)
The Cruise (1998 film)
The D-Word
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
The Day After Trinity (1981)
The Day the Oceans Boiled
The Day the Wave Came
The Decent One (2014 Der Anständige)
The Decline of Western Civilization (1979-1980)
The Defiant Ones (2017)
The Delian Mode (2009)
The Devil We Know (2018)
The Devil's Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes (2022 documentary)
The Devil's Miner (2005)
The Dhamma Brothers
The Dinosaurs (2026)
The Dreams of Sparrows
The Eagle Huntress (2016)
The Economics of Happiness (2011)
The Edge of Democracy (2019)
The End of Eden (1986)
The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream
The End of the Line (2009)
The Eye of the Storm (1970 film)
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2000 documentary)
The Faithful (2021)
The Fear of 13 (2015)
The Fever of ‘57
The Finland Phenomenon: Inside the World’s Most Surprising School System
The First Class: the Story of Crosstown High (2023)
The Flaw (2011)
The Fog of War (2003)
The Forgotten Sides of Learning: School and the Crisis of the Psyche
The Fourth Revolution: Energy (2010)
The Fuel Film
The Future of Augmented Cognition
The Future of Food (2004)
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2013 documentary)
The Game Changers (2018 documentary)
The Gatekeepers (2012)
The Gender War (2005)
The Genius of Alan Turing
The Gleaners and I (2000 Les glaneurs et la glaneuse)
The Goddess and the Computer
The Goddess Project
The Grace Lee Project (2005)
The Grateful & The Dead Rex Foundation Documentary
The Great Contemporary Art Bubble (2009)
The Great Toilet Paper Scare (2020)
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (2011)
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
The Guns of August (original video)
The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story (1999)
The Helper
The Horse Boy
The Human Scale
The Hunting Ground (2015)
The Imposter (2012 film)
The Internet Age (2014)
The Internet’s Own Boy (2014)
The Interrupters (2011)
The Island President (2012)
The Janes (2022)
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
The Kids Grow Up (2010)
The Kids We Lose (2018)
The Kill Team (2014)
The King (2017 American film)
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)
The Last Dance (2020 miniseries)
The Last Days (1998 documentary)
The Last of the Nomads (1997 documentary)
The Last Repair Shop | 2024 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short
The Life and Times of John Huston Esq
The Linguists
The Lion's Mouth Opens (2014)
The Listening Project
The Living Dead (1995)
The Look of Silence (2014)
The Lottery (2010 film)
The Love Competition (2012)
The Loving Story (2011)
The Man Who Saved the World (2013 documentary)
The Man Who Saves the World? (2025 documentary)
The Man Who Stopped the Desert (2010)
The Man Who Would Be Polka King (2009)
The Man Will Burn (2026 documentary)
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell (1982)
The Mask You Live in (2013)
The Matador
The Mattei Affair (1972)
The Mayfair Set: Four Stories about the Rise of Business and the Decline of Political Power (1999)
The Maze (2017)
The men of the Fifth World (full documentary)
The Missing Picture (2013)
The Mole Agent (2020 documentary)
The Money Fix
The Most Dangerous Man in America
The Movies That Made Us (xlnt series)
The Munsters (documentary)
The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (2016)
The Mystery of Picasso (1956)
The Naked Brand: The Future of Marketing (2013?)
The Need to Grow (2019)
The Negro Soldier (1944)
The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel (2020)
The New Republics (2014 - pretty naive)
The Night of Broken Glass: The November 1938 Pogroms
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
The Only Girl in the Orchestra (2024)
The Other Dream Team (2012)
The Overnighters (2014)
The Painter and the Thief (2020)
The People vs. George Lucas
The Perfect Vagina
The Pirate Bay -- Away From Keyboard
The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)
The Polgar Variant (2015)
The Power Of Mhee - Living Without Money (2012)
The Power of Peace
The Promise of the Commons (2015)
The Pursuit of Water
The Putin Interviews (2017)
The Quantum Activist
The Quiet Mutiny (1970)
The Raft (2018)
The Reagans (2020 miniseries)
The Red Pill (2016)
The Response: How Puerto Ricans Are Restoring Power to the People
The Revisionaries (2012)
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
The Right to Love: An American Family (2012)
The Rise of the Great Powers (2006 documentary)
The Ritchie Boys
The River (1938 film)
The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
The Salt of the Earth (2014 film)
The School in the Cloud
The Search for General Tso (2014)
THE SECRET HISTORY OF GENGHIS KHAN
The Secret Life of Plants (1979 film)
The Seeds of Vandana Shiva
The Silence of the Quandt Family
The Singing Revolution (2007)
The Singularity is Near (2010 documentary)
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte hosts the Tonight Show (2020)
The Sludge War Documentary
The Smashing Machine: The Life and Times of Extreme Fighter Mark Kerr (2002)
The Social Dilemma (2020)
The Socrates of San Francisco
The Source Family (2012 documentary)
The Spanish Civil War: Documentary on the Brutal Reality of Spain's most Violent War
The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire (2017)
The Square (2013 film)
The State Of Empathy
The Story of C++: The World's Most Consequential Programming Language | The Official Story
The Story of China with Michael Wood
The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011, 15 hours)
The Story of Mojang (2013)
The Sunshine Makers (2015)
The Surplus Manifesto
The Surrounding Game
The Take (La Toma)
The Target Shoots First (1999 documentary)
The Tennessee 11 (2024 documentary)
The Thin Blue Line (1988)
The Time I Shook Sinatra's Hand (Doc 2018)
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom? (2007)
The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002 documentary)
The True Cost (2015)
The Truffle Hunters (2020)
The Truth vs. Alex Jones (2024)
The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
The Unknown Known (2013)
The Untold History of the United States (2012)
The Vietnam War (2017 series)
The Vow (TV series)
The Wanted 18 (2014)
The War on Kids (2009)
The Water Front
The Weblog Project
The Whale Warrior: Pirate for the Sea (2008)
The Wolfpack (2015)
The World According to Dick Cheney (2013)
The World before Her (2012)
The Wrecking Crew (2008 film)
The Yes Men (2003)
The Yes Men Fix the World (2009)
The Young Girls Turn 25 (1993)
Then There Were None (1996)
They Call Us Monsters (2016)
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018)
Thirst (documentary)
This Is Not A Conspiracy Theory (2014, in installments)
This Is Not an Atlas - A Documentary on Counter-Cartographies
This Is Our Country Too: A Documentary of the Aboriginals of Australia {Tribe of Reuben}
This Land Is Our Land (2010)
This Machine Greens (documentary)
This Place Rules (2023)
This Space Available (2011)
Thomas Sankara - the Upright Man
Thoth (2002)
Thought Crimes: The Case Of The Cannibal Cop (2015)
Thought Maybe
Three Minutes: A Lengthening (2021)
Thrive (movie)
Throw Down Your Heart
Tigray Rising (2014)
Tim's Vermeer (2013)
Titicut Follies (1967)
Tito Puente (2013)
To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America (2011)
Tomorrow (2015 documentary)
Tomorrow We Disappear (2014 documentary)
Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru (2016)
Torre David (2013 documentary)
Torrents of Change
Totally Under Control (2020)
Touching the Void (2003)
Tough Guise: Men, Violence and the Crisis in Masculinity (1999)
Toxic Baby (2009)
Traces of the Trade
Transcendent Man: The Life and Ideas of Ray Kurzweil
Transformer (2017 film)
Transforming Finance (2013)
Travel Documentaries
Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism (1976)
Trophy Kids (2013 film about parental pressure)
Troupers (2010)
Trudell (2005)
True Crime Documentaries
True Films
Trump: What’s The Deal (1991 but suppressed 25 yrs)
Truth in Numbers? (2010)
Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb (2022)
Twittamentary
Two Catalonias (2018)
Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination (2007-2009, 4 chapters)
UFO Friend, Foe or Fantasy (1966)
UNBREAKABLE: The Mark Pollock Story (2014)
Unbroken Ground (2016)
Uncertainty Experts
Uncle Tom: An Oral History of the American Black Conservative (2020)
UNDROPPABLE
Unlocking the Cage (2016)
Unmasked Judeophobia (2012)
Unprecedented (2022 documentary about Trump)
Unrest (2017 film)
Unschooled (2020 documentary)
Up! Series
Urbanized (2011)
Us Now (2009)
Utopia (2013 film)
Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World (2024 documentary)
Victory at Sea (1952 documentary series)
Videocracy (2009)
View from the Overlook: Crafting The Shining
Virunga (2014)
Waiting for Superman (2010)
Wake Up, Freak Out: then Get a Grip
Wal-Mart - The High Cost of Low Price
Walking The Camino: Six Ways to Santiago
Walkumentary.com
Waltz with Bashir (2008)
War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts (2011)
Wasfia (2016)
Waste Land (2010)
We Are As Gods (documentary)
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists (2012)
We Are Wizards
We Have to Call It School (1974)
We Live in Public (2009)
We Need to Talk About Cosby (2022 Documentary)
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013)
We The Tiny House People: Small Homes, Tiny Flats & Wee Shelters (2012)
We Were So Beloved (1985)
Weapons of the Spirit (1989)
Web Documentaries
Weight of a Nation: All Blacks.
Weiner (2016 film)
WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn (2021 documentary)
WHAAM! BLAM! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation (2023)
What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire (2007)
What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)
What Is Democracy? (2020 documentary)
What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann (2005)
What Will Happen Yesterday? (2012)
What Would It Look Like?
What’s Happening! The Beatles in the USA
When Bankers Were Good
When Disaster Strikes: Make Something Good Out Of It
When Two Worlds Collide (2016)
When We Were Kings (1996)
Where to Invade Next (2015)
Where’s My Roy Cohn? (2019)
White Like Me
White Noise (2020 film)
White People
White Right: Meeting the Enemy (2017 xlnt)
Who Killed Malcolm X? (2020 documentary)
Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006)
Who's Counting? (1995)
Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics (1995)
Whose Streets?
Why We Fight (2005)
WikiRebels – The Documentary
Wilder (2026)
Willful Infringement
Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (2015 documentary)
Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018 documentary)
Woodstock (1970 film)
Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (2018)
Yanuni (2025 documentary)
Yeah Maybe No
Yield to Total Elation: The Life and Art of Achilles Rizzoli
Yogis Of Tibet
You Can See Everything (2026 documentary)
You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train
You Got to Move (1985)
You Had To Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution, Spread Love & Overalls, and Created a Community That Changed the World (In a Canadian Kind of Way) (2025)
You Laugh but It's True (2011)
You've Been Trumped (2011)
Young@Heart
Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love (2008)
Youth v Gov (2021, xlnt)
Zeitgeist (the movie 2007)
Zizek! (2005)
Zoo (1962) HQ

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Mockumentaries
Propaganda Films
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