Documentaries
Watch documentaries online, chosen for the way they look at the world rather than for the headlines they follow. This collection brings together art documentaries, independent documentary films and classic documentaries: portraits of artists and outsiders, investigations into history and society, observational cinema that lets reality unfold without commentary, and essay films where the filmmaker’s own voice shapes what we see. Some are patient and contemplative, others urgent and politically charged, but all of them treat documentary as a form of authorship and not just as information. You will find work from every continent and from every era, from early non-fiction pioneers to contemporary filmmakers working far from the mainstream. If you want to go further, explore our foreign films, short films and arthouse collections, where many of these directors also appear.
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I Am Not a Racist
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Drama, satirical, by C.D. Vallada, United States, 2019.
Freemenville is a small American town trying to come to terms with its history of slavery, celebrating the anniversary of its abolition every year with a grand ball. This year’s event could become a memorable occasion thanks to the possible ... -
The Twilight Hour
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Documentary, horror, by Jason Figgis, Ireland, 2003.
Throughout history, mankind has told stories of ghosts and supernatural presences. In The Twilight Hour, renowned photographer of the fantastic and supernatural Sir Simon Marsden embarks on a journey into the darkest and most unsettling corners... -
KSE
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Documentary by Fedele Aula, 1999, United Kingdom.
An archival film shot on analog video that takes us back to the 1990s in the United Kingdom, to the coastal town of Broadstairs, Kent, where the Kent English School operates in an unconventional and harmonious way.LANGUAGE: English
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Simon Marsden’s Haunted Life In Pictures
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Documentary, by Jason Figgis, United States, 2019.
This documentary retraces the life and work of Simon Marsden, widely regarded as one of the foremost photographers of the supernatural. Premiered at the British Film Institute in London, the film offers a fascinating journey into his creative uni... -
Eve of the Irises
Movie + 1 extra
Documentary, by Isabel Russinova, Rodolfo Martinelli Carraresi, Italy, 2026
Eva of the Irises is a historical biographical docu-film about the scientist Eva Mameli Calvino, a botanist and pioneer of environmentalism in Italy, mother of the writer Italo, born in Sassari in 1886. The film, based o...
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Don Barry: A Quixotic Exploration
Movie + 2 extras
Docufiction, Experimental, by Paul Smart, Mexico, 2026.
Don Barry: A Quixotic Exploration is a debut feature that places the biography of an eighty-year-old experimental filmmaker and artist, Barry Gerson, within the metanarrative of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Don Barry was filmed in the c... -
St. Mary of Vezzolano. The Restoration of the Jubé
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Documentary, by Fedele Aula, Italy, 1998.
In the heart of Monferrato, among silent hills and winding roads, stands the Canonica of Santa Maria di Vezzolano: a place where history, art, and spirituality have intertwined for nearly a thousand years. At the center of the narrative emerges the jubé, ... -
Old Wood Washed up by the Sea...
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Documentary by Fedele Aula, Simona Molari, Italy, 1998.
A rare archival film of an exhibition dedicated exclusively to objects washed up on beaches and transformed into works of art. The archaeology of moving images meets the archaeology of physical artifacts and their transformation into somethi... -
Self Defence
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Documentary, by Olaf de Fleur, Iceland, 2025.
Self-Defence follows the story of Imma Helga, a self-defence instructor in Iceland who turned her teenage struggles with prejudice, homophobia, and depression into a mission of empowerment. Together with her brother Jón Viðar, she teaches a practical,... -
Brussel: Housing, Transport & People
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Documentary, by Fedele Aula, 1997, Italy.
A short observational documentary that takes us back to Brussels in the 1990s. The director films neighborhoods, houses, trams, daily activities, people, and cars that appear and disappear through crossfades like ghosts. A moment in time and a magnetic me... -
Feast
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Documentary, by Franco Piavoli, 2018, Italy.
Franco Piavoli, author of the masterpiece "The Blue Planet", returns to the director to capture the "evening of the day of celebration", between Leopardi and Pascoli. A journey between the poetic and the anthropological. What is a "feast"? What does it... -
Sudditalia
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Documentary, by Adamo Mastrangelo, Italy, 2023.
"Sudditalia" is a documentary directed by Adamo Mastrangelo that takes an in-depth look at the socio-economic conditions of Southern Italy. Through an immersive narrative, the film follows the daily lives of people living in the southern regions of ... -
Every Work of Confession
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Documentary, by Alberto Gemmi, Mirco Marmiroli, Italy, 2016.
A man has decided to buy a penthouse in a controversial area of the city. From the windows of this building you can see a huge area in disuse. It is an industrial complex with a glorious past, which lies waiting for a complex redevelo... -
Days Blows by in a Moment
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Documentary, by Cristiana Donghi, Italy, 2022.
Ancilla is 86 years old. Two years ago, she moved in with her daughter Emanuela at the pandemic's beginning. Ancilla is slowly losing her memory. He does not remember what she had for lunch, she only remembers events from the past, perhaps only becau... -
Cathnafola - A Paranormal Investigation
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Documentary, horror, by Jason Figgis, USA, 2014.
In "Cathnafola", everything begins when renowned paranormal investigator Chris Halton of Haunted Earth UK receives footage filmed by three teenagers at the ruins of Cathnafola House in Ireland. Determined to unearth the truth behind the location’s ... -
Studio 2091
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Documentary, by Naù Germoglio, Italy, 2020
In a former warehouse on the ground floor of the civic number "2091", in the district of “Santa Croce” in Venice, two sculptors, a craftswoman and an alchemist-photographer work together. It is a 65 square meters space with two windows overlooking a smal... -
Turcomannia
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Documentary, by Leopoldo Bonessio, Italy, 2024.
Leopoldo, the director, finds himself filming with little more than a tent and a GoPro in the most isolated, mysterious and authoritarian of the ex-Soviet countries, Turkmenistan. He has 5 days to find out what kind of strange people live in this de... -
Investigation of Six Pieces of Noisy Life Dispersed in a Sultry Summer
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Documentary, by Ilaria Pezone, Italy, 2016.
A documentary shot as "proximity film", intimate filming with a "sensible structural" scheme. The confidential atmosphere originates from the closeness between the author and the characters: a closeness that is necessary to create a communicative intima... -
The Choice to Stay
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Documentary, by Mattia Mura, Italy, 2020.
Damanhur is a community of spiritual seekers located in Valchiusella, Piedmont. The people of Damanhur, who live in the largest ecovillage in Italy, consider themselves to belong to a micronation, although it is not recognized by the Italian state. The co... -
Ancestral
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Documentary, by Lumar Brothers, Italy, 2023.
“Ancestral: Life and Art of Massinissa Askeur” is a documentary that explores the life and art of Algerian painter Massinissa Askeur. The film follows Askeur on his creative journey, showing his artistic process and his commitment to the preservation o... -
The Witches of Mount Sciliar
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Docufiction, by Andrea Dalfino, 2022, Italy.
The Witches of Scillar is a documentary that delves deeply into the trials that took place in Alto Adige, in Castel Presule and surrounding areas at the beginning of the 16th century, following which more than 10 were condemned to the stake on charges ... -
The Passenger
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Documentary, by Tommaso Valente, Christian Poli, Italy, 2022.
The territory of Ravenna, suspended between its centuries-old history and recent industrial development, is a land of conflicts and rarefied landscapes. It is here that the action of "Housing First" develops, an association that focuse... -
Lightning part 1
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Documentary, by Manuela Morgaine, France, 2013.
A film divided into two parts, a legend intertwining with a documentary across four seasons. This portrait unfolds like a cinematic kaleidoscope, zigzagging like the branching of lightning bolts. The narrative is set in different countries around th... -
Lightning part 2
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Documentary, directed by Manuela Morgaine, France, 2013.
This fresco is a cinema of zig-zags, akin to the branching of lightning bolts. It unfolds its subject across different countries of the world and over the span of several centuries, concurrently presented in both documentary and legendary f...