Documentary

A short history of movie music is presented, from silent films accompanied by a single piano, to the elaborate song scores for musicals (with ...

Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra’s Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. ...

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of ...

A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social ...

The 400 million people of China are heirs to a great civilization, as their pagodas and stone lions can attest. But they are under attack from ...

A propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War in support of the Republican government against the rebellion by Gen. Francisco ...

Expeditions in Borneo by Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson show the terrain, flora, fauna and lifestyle of Borneo as the Johnsons search for a huge ...

A showcase of German chancellor and Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally.

This documentary, made up of 3 episodes, is based on three songs sung by anonymous people in Soviet Russia about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

The film is a documentary portraying a struggle as man tries to subdue nature. To prevent flooding and for purposes of land reclamation, the ...

The film explores the story of the Bounty and is based on the 1932 novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.

Short silent documentary from 1931 about those working on the River Douro in Oporto.

A lyrical documentary on the lives of Coal miners in the Donbass who are struggling to meet their production quotas under the Five Year Plan.

A dramatized re-enactment and documentary of the Battle of Verdun as seen by both French and German soldiers, shot on site of the actual battle.

Bold and exhilarating documentary account of the building of the Turkestan-Siberian railway, presented as a heroic triumph of Soviet progress ...

A lyrical portrait of Amsterdam and its changing appearance during a rain-shower.

A silent film by John Grierson. It tells the story of Britain’s North Sea herring fishery.

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working ...

Commissioned by the Moscow Soviet as a documentary and information film for the citizens of Moscow prior to municipal elections, film is a ...

This documentary promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centers on the activities of the Young Pioneers. These children are constantly ...

A pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. This is a world in motion, dominated by mechanical and repetitive images, with ...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada’s northern Quebec region. Although the ...

Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen’s legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to ...

A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to the great socialist October Revolution and ...

What really went down between Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton? This exposé unpacks how a gambling dispute led to guns drawn in an NBA ...

Comedians James Acaster, Guz Khan and Alex Brooker have all been obsessed with the classic 1990 comedy “Home Alone” ever since they ...

Two young actors are exploring the topic of representation of LGBTI people through the history of Yugoslav cinema and social circumstances that ...

Wayne tells the exhilarating story of 1987 World Motorcycle Grand Prix Champion Wayne Gardner’s triumphant, improbable journey from a ...

The official documentary about the 1986 cult classic RAD. It features exclusive interviews with cast, crew and the BMX legends who performed the ...