Documentary

Filmmaker Barbet Schroeder shows the Ugandan dictator meeting his Cabinet, reviewing his troops, explaining his ideology.

An intimate portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers of the Rue Daguerre in Paris, a picturesque street that has been the filmmaker’s home for ...

After a difficult break-up, Hockney is left unable to paint, much to the concern of his friends.

A documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots. Director Mel Stuart mixes ...

Eight acclaimed filmmakers bring their unique and differing perspectives to the 1972 Summer Olympic Games held in Munich. The segments include ...

JUVENILE COURT shows the complex variety of cases before the Memphis Juvenile Court: foster home placement, drug abuse, armed robbery, child ...

Made shortly after his death, this documentary explores the brief life and remarkable legacy of guitarist Jimi Hendrix. After finding fame in the ...

A study of the psychology of a champion ski-flyer, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.

A crew of car lovers at a garage in the Rocky Mountains transforms abandoned heaps of rust into collectible classics.

Ice Pilots NWT is a reality television series broadcast on History Canada that portrays Buffalo Airways, an airline based in Yellowknife, ...

Documentary about the dancer Rudolf Nureyev.

A documentary about the 1972 Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo, Japan.

A 1971–72 documentary film by Jonas Mekas. It revolves around Mekas’ trip back to Semeniškiai, the village of his birth.

The first in a series of independent documentaries that Tsuchimoto made of the mercury poisoning incident in Minamata, Japan.

James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.

A documentary about a political troupe headed by actors Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland which traveled to towns near military bases in the US in ...

Essene is about daily life in a Benedictine monastery and the resolution of conflict between personal needs and the institutional and ...

This documentary captures Elvis Presley on his 1972 American tour and includes rehearsals, interviews, archival television appearances and ...

Fiction and documentary mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar, a New York celebrity on a drug-fueled downward slide that mirrors ...

A documentary about the hearings of President Nixon’s Commission on Obscenity, featuring adult-film producer David F. Friedman (one of the ...

Documentary on motorcycle racing featuring stars of the sport, including film star Steve McQueen, a racer in his own right.

Fred Hampton was the leader of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party. This film depicts his brutal murder by the Chicago police and its ...

Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, ...

A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.

A documentary by Werner Herzog exploring the different treatment accorded to the disabled in Germany and the USA.

Shot during the summer of 1970 at Fort Knox, Kentucky, Frederick Wiseman’s film Basic Training focuses on a group of men going through infantry ...

An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to ...

Outtakes to the once lost Edward D. Wood Jr. film from 1970. For nearly two decades these outtakes were all that was known to survive.

After a 7 year wait, director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born children from Seven Up! The subjects are interviewed as to ...

The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a black Oresteia.