Observational Documentary Movies

Tracing the process through which cattle and sheep become consumer goods, Frederick Wiseman's deep dive depicts the processing and transportation of...

Cathline, Ines and Marie have been visiting the metaverse for years. The three young women explore these virtual worlds where everything is possible:...

Steel: The Blood of Us is a cinematic love letter to the end of the industrial revolution, capturing the community of Port Talbot, Wales, in the...

From 1929 to 1939 Edgar Feuchtwanger lived across the street from Adolf Hitler in Munich Germany From his bedroom the young Jewish boy often viewed...

Shark filmmakers hunt for "Air Jaws" breaching in New Zealands hidden "launch pad".

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

During the summer of 1970 at Fort Knox, Kentucky, a group of men going through infantry training show how they're transformed from civilians into...

They have no roots, no seeds, no flowers, but mosses show immense survival capacities and can suspend their biological activity for long periods....

Bora Bora is the most popular destination in French Polynesia, certainly because of its lagoon, considered the most beautiful lagoon in the world. In...

Breaking a centuries-old taboo, Ava stands as the first woman in Iran to master the male-dominated craft of carpentry. Within the grit and clamor of...

Nikos Theodoridis, a street magazine vendor, faces every day the difficulty of earning the money he needs to survive. In this harsh reality, his...

Our planet is running out of drinking water. Only a vanishingly small proportion of the world's water is available as usable fresh water. This...

Lipstick, which has been around since the beginning of time and over the centuries has been considered both a symbol of power and an instrument of...

Follow the people who live and work in the Panama Canal Zone and glimpse into both the operation of the Canal and the various governmental agencies...

"The Pipeline of the Century -- How Soviet Natural Gas Came to the West" by director Matthias Schmidt shows touching personal memories. The...

The War Diary is a contemporary road movie that confronts history with the current reality of Russia, Ukraine, Armenia and Georgia. An extraordinary...

A cinematic essay interweaving private archive images and a mixture of reflective, speculative and poetic intertitles that, like “an old movie...

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