Documentary

A documentary exploring the legends of vampires, using books, paintings and early films on the subject.

Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island ...

Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made ...

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Paris is a monstrously inhuman cityscape, in which cars, buses, crowds, and unceasing noise combine to smother any decent and delicate human ...

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio’s 50 year history.

Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian ...

Filmmaker Martin Scorsese interviews his mother and father about their life in New York and family history back in Sicily.

Here and Elsewhere takes its name from the contrasting footage it shows of the fedayeen and of a French family watching television at home. ...

Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the ...

Filmmaker Barbet Schroeder shows the Ugandan dictator meeting his Cabinet, reviewing his troops, explaining his ideology.

An intimate portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers of the Rue Daguerre in Paris, a picturesque street that has been the filmmaker’s home for ...

A documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots. Director Mel Stuart mixes ...

Eight acclaimed filmmakers bring their unique and differing perspectives to the 1972 Summer Olympic Games held in Munich. The segments include ...

JUVENILE COURT shows the complex variety of cases before the Memphis Juvenile Court: foster home placement, drug abuse, armed robbery, child ...

Made shortly after his death, this documentary explores the brief life and remarkable legacy of guitarist Jimi Hendrix. After finding fame in the ...

A study of the psychology of a champion ski-flyer, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.

Documentary about the dancer Rudolf Nureyev.

A 1971–72 documentary film by Jonas Mekas. It revolves around Mekas’ trip back to Semeniškiai, the village of his birth.

The first in a series of independent documentaries that Tsuchimoto made of the mercury poisoning incident in Minamata, Japan.

James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.

Self-directed combination of concert footage from 1966 onward, backstage footage and art film-like sequences.

A documentary about a political troupe headed by actors Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland which traveled to towns near military bases in the US in ...

Essene is about daily life in a Benedictine monastery and the resolution of conflict between personal needs and the institutional and ...

Fiction and documentary mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar, a New York celebrity on a drug-fueled downward slide that mirrors ...

Documentary on motorcycle racing featuring stars of the sport, including film star Steve McQueen, a racer in his own right.

Fred Hampton was the leader of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party. This film depicts his brutal murder by the Chicago police and its ...

Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, ...

A documentary by Werner Herzog exploring the different treatment accorded to the disabled in Germany and the USA.

Shot during the summer of 1970 at Fort Knox, Kentucky, Frederick Wiseman’s film Basic Training focuses on a group of men going through infantry ...