Observational Documentary Movies

The Californian sun, which lights up the city, lights up again every evening in cinemas all over the world". Guided by these words from Blaise Cendrar...

A documentary part of CBS reports. The plight of mental patients fit for discharge, but who find themselves thrust into communities unprepared to trea...

Roger Boussinot directed this episode of the French television show Italiques, which features an overview of the art and career of Fantastic Planet il...

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

A short documentary about the behaviour of Japanese primary school students.

In March 2023, despite a flush of police raids and arrests in the struggle against Cop City in Atlanta, the Weelaunee Food Autonomy Festival gathered...

In a rapidly changing America where mass inequality and dwindling opportunity have devastated the black working class, three Detroit men must fight to...

Interspersing daily life during the occupation with the fight for rights, the documentary follows the Warao indigenous people and portrays their exper...

A feature length documentary shot in Iceland on mediums and the relationship between humans and invisible beings such as elves ghosts, angels, water m...

A great symbiosis of music and documentary film which creates a true-to-life impression of the sense of community what singing in a choir means. Their...

Winner of the New York LOVES Film Award at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008. Filmed over the course of nine years, Zoned In traces the remarkable re...

A fearless horse bonds two men to each other and to the traditions that define their community.

In the first half of the 19th century, the French ornithologist Jean-Jacques Audubon travelled to America to depict birdlife along the Mississippi Riv...

Four filmmakers working in the region of Galicia (in the northwest of Spain) follow and portray on the screen Galician artists working in disciplines...

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

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

This documentary profiles a Maine craftsman and his son, who are among the last practitioners of the art of wooden boat building.