Observational Documentary Movies

In GLOBAL METAL, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West's most maligned musical genre - heavy metal - has impacted the...

Writer/director Blake Edwards chronicles his wife Julie Andrews' decision to star in a TV variety show while balancing her home and family life.

He built a supplement empire by devouring raw meat on social media. And he had the muscles to prove it. But, really, how did the Liver King get so...

In Japan, thousands of people disappear voluntarily every year. And there are companies ready to help those who want to disappear without a trace and...

Bathed in the uncanny glow of late afternoon sun and set against a noisy highway, Interchange depicts the melancholy and isolation of a small...

The current trend to render prostitution a profession "as any other" is belied by women who were themselves prostitutes. With clarity and courage,...

A showcase for breathtaking shark behaviour, covering a wide variety of species across the coastal waters of the US.

By exploring the relationship between the watched and the watching, our film uncovers the trauma and hope engendered by the Chinese all-surveilling...

Today in France, one in five young people suffers from severe depressive symptoms, and the number of minors visiting psychiatric emergency rooms has...

Behind the glitz of Miss Italia, director Patrizia Mirigliani fights to save the iconic pageant, now wavering amid scandals and changing beauty...

At an Atlanta abortion clinic besieged by protesters, the director of operations, Tracii, takes necessary risks to safeguard staff and patients.

A furious, iconoclastic attack on power and the media in a modern France where Islamophobia has become mainstream and inequality is growing from the...

Follow filmmakers as they capture the epic journey of African elephants across the Kalahari desert. The team faces extreme weather, inaccessible...

The Allies dropped over 5 million bombs on Nazi Germany. One out of every ten didn't explode. The men of bomb disposal teams in Germany risk their...

Facing a mid-life crisis, a journalist discovers the regular folk moonlighting as indie wrestlers, who help him transform his childhood dream into...

"LIDA" takes place on the day of Lida's 70th birthday. This already special day is made more unusual by the recent arrival of her grandson, Lev, who...

The director films their neighborhood over the course of a day

In recent years, Hollywood productions have turned away from sensuality. Is the sex scene on the verge of extinction or reinvention? Alongside film...

The moral dimension of humanity's interaction with nonhuman animals and the industries that profit from their exploitation, as informed by world...

Filmmaker Roman Polanski and photographer Ryszard Horowitz meet in Kraków, Poland, where, strolling the streets, they share memories of their...