Documentary Movies

Life Stinks: Does Life Really Stink?

A behind-the-scenes short about the making of the 1991 Mel Brooks film "Life Stinks".

Make it Three Yards: A Conversation with James Taylor

After not having seen each other in thirty-five years, Monte Hellman and James Taylor sat down for this conversation, re...

Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today

How, in November 1945, after the end of the World War II and the fall of the Third Reich, the international prosecutors ...

A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong

The documentary, using the dramatization of fact, makes the case that the Canadian government knowingly sent two unprepa...

The Shadow of Hate: A History of Intolerance in America

The film expresses the history of oppression, discrimination, violence and hate in America. It was nominated for an Aca...

Into Eternity: A Film for the Future

Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in in...

Bowie: The Man Who Changed the World

Experience an inside look at David Bowie's incredible influence on music, art and culture via interviews with some of th...

Is There Anybody Out There?

While navigating daily discrimination, a filmmaker who inhabits and loves her unusual body searches the world for anothe...

Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation

This biography, shown on American television as part of the PBS "Great Performances" series, examines the life works of ...

The Man Who Left His Soul on Film

Documentary about Nagisa Oshima. It includes interviews with Oshima, Donald Richie, Roger Pulvers and Paul Mayersberg

Inside the Daily Life of a Live Streaming Star in China

Over 2020, as Covid-19 has severely limited our ability to interact with the world beyond our front door, livestreams ha...

Rail Report 6: The Good Way to Travel

Neptune, an automatic and electronically equipped track fault recorder; Tinsley marshalling yard; freight trains - cemen...

E:60 - Dream On: Stories of Boston's Strongest

Stories from survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing.

Nurse Helen Fairchild: Killed in Action?

Bravery, compassion and the will to save lives motivated the young Nurse Helen Fairchild to leave home in Pennsylvania a...

At What Cost? Anatomy of Professional Wrestling

A behind the scenes look into the lives, injuries and sacrifices of professional wrestlers.

The Fall of Berlin

A Soviet documentary chronicling the final assault on Nazi Germany’s capital. More than forty frontline cameramen from t...

Whaler out of New Bedford

Pictures made from an 1800-foot panorama painted in 1848 and authentic songs of the period sung and played by Peggy Seeg...

La última película de Jess Franco

Koyaanisqatsi

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the e...

House: After Five Years of Living

The Eames House and Studio is explored via a series of slides.