The best Documentary movies — new releases and enduring classics — each pitched spoiler-free with tone, themes, and where to watch. Tap any movie to pitch it live.
A poignant exploration of marginalized women's agricultural traditions and resistance across generations, praised for its intimate storytelling and visual richness.
Pitch this movie → 2024A devastating investigation into abuse at an Indigenous residential school in Canada that combines personal testimony with institutional accountability, earning critical acclaim for its moral clarity.
Pitch this movie → 2024A visually stunning examination of marine microplastics and ocean pollution that uses innovative cinematography to expose an invisible global crisis.
Pitch this movie → 2023An intimate portrait of a Palestinian family navigating love, rebellion, and political identity across three daughters' coming-of-age journeys, celebrated for its nuanced character study.
Pitch this movie → 2023A gripping chronicle of the Ugandan musician and activist's rise against authoritarianism, lauded for its immediate access and political urgency.
Pitch this movie → 2023A harrowing firsthand account of journalists documenting civilian suffering during the siege of Mariupol, hailed as essential war journalism.
Pitch this movie → 2023A meditative, dialogue-free journey across Russian train routes exploring themes of empire and human connection through pure observation and sound design.
Pitch this movie → 2023A touching portrait of a Chilean couple confronting Alzheimer's through home videos and present-day footage, praised for its tender exploration of memory and love.
Pitch this movie → 2023A Chilean documentary about dementia and enduring love that interweaves personal memory with political history in a deeply moving meditation.
Pitch this movie → 2023An examination of Silicon Valley's influence on American identity and the contradictions between innovation rhetoric and social reality.
Pitch this movie →Claude Lanzmann's monumental nine-hour exploration of the Holocaust through survivor and witness testimony, considered one of cinema's most important moral documents.
Pitch this movie → 1988Errol Morris's innovative reconstruction of a wrongful murder conviction demonstrates how stylistic rigor and investigative depth can overturn injustice.
Pitch this movie → 1929Dziga Vertov's avant-garde celebration of Soviet modernity revolutionized documentary form with its energetic visual collage of urban life.
Pitch this movie → 1975The Maysles brothers' unflinching portrait of eccentric socialites in a decaying mansion became a cult classic for its compassionate observation of isolation and faded grandeur.
Pitch this movie → 1960Robert Drew's groundbreaking direct cinema verite film of the 1960 Kennedy-Hubert primary election established new standards for political documentary.
Pitch this movie → 1922Robert Flaherty's pioneering silent documentary of Inuit survival remains a foundational text that established the documentary form's artistic possibilities.
Pitch this movie → 1966Gillo Pontecorvo's dramatized reconstruction of the Algerian War of Independence combines documentary aesthetics with political passion and formal innovation.
Pitch this movie → 1976Barbara Kopple's immersive account of a Kentucky coal miners' strike is celebrated for its unflinching empathy with working-class struggle.
Pitch this movie → 1983Chris Marker's poetic essay film weaves images from Japan, Guinea-Bissau, and Iceland into a meditation on time, memory, and cinema itself.
Pitch this movie → 1979Glenn Silber and Barry Alexander Brown's powerful chronicle of Vietnam War protests at the University of Wisconsin balances personal testimony with archival evidence.
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