Documentary Movies

Technology and Science DW Documentary Films Full DW produced documentaries on science and technology FILMS IN PLAYLIST Google, Facebook, Amazon - The rise of the mega-corporations Spies, informants and new enemies - Toda...

From the official Iron Maiden YouTube channel! The History of Iron Maiden (2004) is two-part documentary. Released in 2004, Part 1: The Early Days documents the band’s beginnings in 1970s London. It also features epic ...

A documentary about the art of living outside of conventions! As a rising star in the field of abstract mathematics, Michael discovered that he could see beauty and pattern where others could not. But his path was not to...

The Age of strange! We are living through strange days. Across Britain, Europe and America societies have become split and polarised. There is anger at the inequality and the ever growing corruption - and a widespread di...

A cinematic tour de force, Wonderful Experimental Documentary! Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi (1983) is a film with no actors, no storyline, and no dialogue. The only things we see during the experimental documentary's 8...

Documentary examines climate change, fossil fuels, pollution, and the green energy movement! Michael Moore presents Planet of the Humans, a documentary that dares to say what no one else will — that we are losing the b...

Fun look back at 20 years of Coachella! This is the latest documentary about the history (to date) of one of the earliest and most influential major music festivals in the US Coachella. From writer-producer-director Chri...

A very educational and a very inspirational Netflix documentary! Episode 1 profiles Christoph Niemann, an illustrator and his work with abstraction and interactivity from various mediums such as the New Yorker to Instagr...

Critically-acclaimed Documentary on how in-depth look at the United States prison system reveals the nation's history of racial inequality! Filmmaker Ava DuVernay explores the history of racial inequality in the United S...

Discover the story of the one place we all call home - Our Planet, a groundbreaking Netflix original documentary series! Experiencing the planet's natural beauty through an examination of how climate change impacts all l...

Discover the story of the one place we all call home - Our Planet, a groundbreaking Netflix original documentary series! The need for fresh water is as strong as ever. However, the supply is becoming increasingly unpredi...

Discover the story of the one place we all call home - Our Planet, a groundbreaking Netflix original documentary series! Venture into the deep, dark and desolate oceans that are home to an abundance of beautiful - and do...

Discover the story of the one place we all call home - Our Planet, a groundbreaking Netflix original documentary series! Cameras follow desert elephants seeking sustenance, bison roaming North American grasslands and cat...

Discover the story of the one place we all call home - Our Planet, a groundbreaking Netflix original documentary series! From fearsome sharks to lowly urchins, 90 percent of marine creatures live in coastal waters. Prote...

Discover the story of the one place we all call home - Our Planet, a groundbreaking Netflix original documentary series! Jungles and rainforests are home to an incredible variety of species like preening birds, intellige...

Discover the story of the one place we all call home - Our Planet, a groundbreaking Netflix original documentary series! On the unforgiving frontier of climate change, polar bears, walruses, seals and penguins find their...

Discover the story of the one place we all call home - Our Planet, a groundbreaking Netflix original documentary series! Witness the planet's breathtaking diversity -- from seabirds carpet-bombing the ocean to wildebeest...

This season, life in the fast lane spirals out of control when a violent night between rapper Bow Wow and his then-girlfriend Kiyomi sends Atlanta police rushing to the scene. The headlines hound Bow Wow, as his mugshot ...

Watching this film should be mandatory for every man, woman, and child in the world! This film was utterly astounding in every sense, most importantly in the way it just lets a strange, inexplicable, simple truth emerge ...

Real estate heir and accused killer Robert Durst is set to begin trial for the unsolved 2000 murder of Susan Berman in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Durst, who's been a suspect in two additional murder cases, was profiled in...

True Crime Documentary! In 2001 novelist Michael Peterson's wife died, and he claimed she perished after falling down stairs at their home. The medical examiner, however, determined that she had been beaten with a weapon...

Gay, gun-carrying redneck with a mullet! The G.W. Zoo in Wynnewood, Oklahoma is the world’s largest private zoo featuring over 187 big cats. The zoo is operated by founder Joe Schreibvogel, a.k.a. Joe Exotic, the self-...

Amazing Documentary on Amazon Empire! Jeff Bezos is not only the richest man in the world, he has built a business that is without precedent in the history of American capitalism. His power to shape everything from the f...

FRONTLINE investigates the promise and perils of AI; from fears about work and privacy to rivalry between the U.S. and China. This film looks at a new industrial revolution that will reshape and disrupt our lives, our jo...

The human body is not infallible, but through the wonders of A.I. research scientists are finding ways to address those imperfections. A.I. has the potential to heal, enhance and make up for the things our bodies lack. T...

The Age of A.I. is a 8 part documentary series hosted by Robert Downey Jr. covering the ways Artifial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Neural Networks will change the world. Can A.I. make music? Can it feel excitement ...

YouTube Originals presents The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash. Johnny Cash stands among the giants of 20th century American life. But his story remains tangled in mystery and myth. This documentary, created with the fu...

A great compilation of alternative and positive information! An unconventional documentary that lifts the veil on what's really going on in our world by following the money upstream - uncovering the global consolidation ...

The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history! Using never before seen footage and exclusive access to tell the story of that tragic night in Las Vegas, “A Killer on Floor 32” looks back at the Oct. 1, 2017 ...

The rampant theft being perpetrated by the economic and political establishment of the UK. At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from acro...

Pretty good, but the weird title is kinda misleading! A short documentary that follows director Charlie Tyrell as he tries to uncover a better understanding of his deceased father through the random objects he inherited,...

Thorough research with factual evidence as a response to controversial HBO "documentary" Leaving Neverland: Michael Jackson and Me by HBO & Channel 4 focuses on the lives and accounts of two men: Wade Robson and James Sa...

What makes British men go to Iraq and Syria to fight Islamic State, the worlds most feared terrorist organisation? Emile Ghessen follows western volunteers as they travel to Iraq and Syria to fight ISIS to find out what ...

A contemplative journey into the pulsating heart of Berlin's techno community ‘Rave’ is a short film that offers a reflection on female's raver in Berlin’s techno community. The film follows four Berlin girls on th...

Documentary nominated for an Academy Award Devastating short film tells the story of the country’s oldest interracial newlyweds. Edith and Eddie are deeply in love, but that’s not where the story ends. On my first lo...

Shortlisted by the Academy for Oscar consideration in the best documentary short category Alone tells the story of a 20-something black girl in Louisiana, who is in love with a prisoner apparently serving a ten year sent...

2019 Oscar nominated documentary about black man lliving on a white estate run by racists After the high-profile killing of Damilola Taylor, Cornelius' family move out of London. But when they discover their new town is ...

“The car business in general is a tough business. The car rental business, even more so. Anybody who finds out they can make money and drive a Ferrari, I mean, they’re diving in head first,” says Matt Cruz, owner o...

The downfall of Venezuela serves as a modern-day macro tragedy. Once the richest nation in Latin America, Venezuela is now a broken economy enveloped in crime, corruption and hyperinflation. To tell the story, Brian Pric...

Twenty years on a cruise ship What kind of person takes a cruise not for a week or a month — but for the rest of his life? Mario Salcedo took his first cruise almost twenty years ago-and never stopped. For nearly two d...

Are technocrats creating an comfortable unreal world? The cult documentary maker explores the falsity of modern life in his own inimitable style. Though he’s spent the best part of four decades making television, Curti...

World of Warcraft: Looking for Group (2014) - Documentary traces the game's history and cult following World of Warcraft: Looking for Group (2014) - World of Warcraft has already eaten months of your life. What’s anoth...

Documentary about a tradition that’s carried on for generations! The Gurung people, also called Tamu, are an ethnic group from different parts of Nepal. They live in small villages in the vast Annapurna mountain ranges...

Amazing Documentary Human documentary asks a simple question - What is it that makes us human? Is it that we love, that we fight? That we laugh? Cry? Our curiosity? The quest for discovery? Driven by these questions, fil...

Plot: Everything is a Remix: The Force Awakens is Not a Conspiracy Theory is a feature-length documentary released in episodes. The remix method of copying, transforming and combining is definitely used in Star Wars: T...

The Century of the Self (2002) - Watch The Most Important Documentary The Century of the Self is a 2002 British television documentary series by filmmaker Adam Curtis. It focuses on the work of psychoanalysts Sigmund Fre...

Tokyo Girls Tokyo Girls is a candid journey into the world of four young Canadian women who work as well-paid hostesses in exclusive Japanese nightclubs. Lured by adventure and easy money, these modern-day geisha find th...

Kim Dotcom: The Man Behind Megaupload (2014) In October 2013, VICE News was invited to visit the infamous tech mogul and creator of Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, at his palatial property in New Zealand. Even though Kim is unde...

Real Life Ukrainian Barbie - A Controversial Attention-Seeking Model Real Life Ukrainian Barbie follows Valeria Lukyanova, the girl who turned herself into a real-life Barbie doll. Controversy has surrounded her every mo...

The Giants of Iceland are Vikings of the modern age The Giants of Iceland documentary deals with the facts that despite its tiny population, Iceland has a reputation in the World's Strongest Man competition that stands h...

UK's Scariest Debt Collector - Urban terrorism as a Career UK's Scariest Debt Collector documentary tells a stroy of Shaun Smith. Ten years ago, he was an enforcer for one of the biggest crime families in Liverpool and e...

The Japanese Love Industry and the Negative Population Index Japan is a country that is dying—literally. Japan has more people over the age of 65 and the smallest number of people under the age of 15 in the world. It h...

World's Scariest Drug Review: World's Scariest Drug is another astonishing documentary by VICE's Ryan Duffy. This time he went to Colombia to check out a strange and powerful drug called Scopolamine, also known as "The D...

The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard info TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard is a documentary about the founders of the Pirate Bay. The twists and turns of the reality of how The Pirate Bay was formed, how the autho...

Amazing Documentary! Life in a Day follows the people of the world as a chronicle of a single day in their lives! 80,000 submissions, 4500 hours of footage, from 192 countries. Kevin Macdonald has taken this raw material...

Slomo (2013) - Doctor abandons career to save his soul and stay human! Slomo (2013) - Dr. John Kitchin thought he had it all, lots of money, nice cars (A BMW and Ferrari), an exotic animal farm, and a mansion. Depressed ...

We Will Live Again (2012) - Documentary about Post-Cryonics Life After Death We Will Live Again (2012) is a look at the unusual and extraordinary operations of the Cryonics Institute. The film follows Ben Best and Andy Z...

The Streets of Japan (2014) - Thugs, Bosozoku Bikers and Lamborghini Yakuza As the sun goes down, Tokyo transforms to a wild and exotic playground for those who like to pour on the speed. As a method of expression, the c...

When Ireland's TV signal went fully digital, a camera crew went to local Irish pub in South Galway to discuss this change with the patrons – and whatever else is on their minds. Since we have a load of blokes gently dr...

A short documentary by Paul Waters of Brown Elephant Collective that explores the different facets of commercial and film work from director and screenwriter Wes Anderson. Anderson has a very distinctive deep-rooted mela...

Plastic Bag (2009) - the plastic bag with the voice of legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog drifts across the USA, to finally arrive at the ocean! Plastic Bag (2009) - In a not too distant future, a Plastic Bag (voice of We...

Beautiful short film Wanderers by Erik Wernquist and narration by Carl Sagan is a vision of humanity's expansion into the Solar System, based on scientific ideas and concepts of what our future in space might look like, ...

They Are The Last (2013) - Lighthouse Watchman Documentary Leonardo Da Costa is a lighthouse keeper stationed in Cabo Polonio, a remote cape in a stretch of Uruguayan coastline rich in shipwrecks and sunken treasures. Ca...

The Magic Capital of the World (2014) - Most Magical place in the USA Colon, Michigan, is a sleepy, one-streetlight town somewhere between Detroit and Chicago that proudly bills itself as "The Magic Capital of the World....

Sean (2014) - Amazing Documentary In the latest installment of Mainline's renowned Tribute series, director Ryan Reichenfeld returns to his hometown of Lake Havasu City to tell the story of Arizona teenager Sean. A small...

The Fox Of Bloody Women Island (2014) - Women fishing with their underwear This source of curiosity took us to Nordland - a mystical Viking land of changing light, deep fjords and mountainous archipelagos. We arrived in ...

Sun Dog (2014) - two mountain souls sharing a day In the snow-capped Argentinian peaks In the snow-capped Argentinian peaks, Refugio Frey is the only protection from the ravaging winds, drawing wanderers of all sorts to ...