Stories of growing up, going to school and learning about life.

“I was determined to do what I was going to do at any cost. I kept plugging away. Whatever I had to do, I did it.” —Madeline Anderson

From the first half-hour documentary directed by an African American, unionized, female director, I AM SOMEBODY, to precarious gig workers living hand-to-mouth ...

What makes someone an artist? What drives them to express themselves through painting and the visual arts? This collection of films about painters explores these questions and the creativity behind making art. Whether it's Pablo Picasso, Niki de Saint Phalle or an unknown artist, we see the inspi...

Here are films centering Lebanon and Iran, including We Loved Each Other So Much, a documentary that explores the enduring admiration in Beirut for the legendary Lebanese singer Fairuz, particularly during the 15-year civil war. We're also highlighting Skies of Lebanon with Alba Rohrwacher and Wa...

Record stores often play an outsized role in peoples' lives and shaping their taste in music. These documentaries show the influence specific record stores have had on artists, their surrounding communities and how they stir up memories of bygone times.

Famously the only animal to domesticate itself, these documentary and animated films explore feline companionship. From Chris Marker's beloved cat Guillaume-en-Egypte being serenaded by music, to feral cats and their community of carers in present day Chicago, these films each convey Marker's tri...

OVID brings you three chilling ghost stories to haunt you into your weekend! These atmospheric films from bygone Daiei film studios are adapted from stories that have spooked people for centuries.

Animal Kingdom is a collection of films about animals and people's often complicated relationships with them. Ranging from beloved service dogs (BUDDY and TO BE OF SERVICE) to the lives of farm animals (BESTIAIRE and OUR DAILY BREAD), these films show many facets of how people and animals interac...

These visually stylish Yakuza classics by gangster film masters on the dealings of Japanese organized crime syndicates blend conventions of neo-noir thrillers with edge of your seat action hero films. The modern yakuza are depicted not as honorable heirs to the samurai code, but as ruthless (and ...

Appreciate summer with this collection of films that evoke warmth, sun and long days.

What is the “will of the people?” How might it be established, threatened, undermined, expressed, and hopefully secured? These questions and more are explored in OVID’s collection DEMOCRACY AND ITS DISCONTENTS.

What would the end of summer be without Labor Day? So here we are again, happy for the long weekend, and for the reminder to turn our attention at least once a year to, well, the working class. Which if the U.S. is still not ready to celebrate May Day (by the way marking a specifically American h...

A mix of narrative and documentary, this collection of films from the Middle East and North Africa runs the gamut from love stories like Empire M and A Tale of Love and Desire, to hard-hitting political documentaries with Palestinian-American intellectual Edward Said.

Discover a wide array of documentaries from Latin America.

This is a collection of films about the newspaper industry, intrepid reporters, photojournalists and the important work that they do. Ranging from a profile of photographer Gerda Taro, who lost her life covering the Spanish Civil War, to films dealing with the role of mass media and journalism in...

A selection of films of travel and adventure, discovery and cultural encounters, here and there, past and present!

Our wide-ranging collection of films that defy easy classification.

From chairs mass-produced to hand-crafted, architects and architecture, buildings made of mud to high-rises, landscapes, cities and city planning, OVID offers a wide-ranging collection of over thirty films exploring our built environments, and how to live in them.

A special collection of films that explore the recent political history of Russia and Ukraine.

Discover three films by Ukrainian-born Vitaly Mansky, on Mikhail Gorbachev's place in history (GORBACHEV. HEAVEN), Vladimir Putin's rise to power (PUTIN’S WITNESSES), and conflicts between Russia and U...

Travel to Berlin, Germany with this collection of both modern day and historical films. Experience today's club culture with THE NIGHTMARE or the fall of the Berlin Wall with Chris Marker's BERLINER BALLADE and Tilda Swinton in THE INVISIBLE FRAME. World War II is also represented with dramas lik...

For the elections, we did DEMOCRACY AND ITS DISCONTENTS, for the inauguration we did EAT THE RICH. And now, in this era of the lawless Trump-Musk power grab and their brazenly cruel and incompetent actions, we ask: how far can civilian resistance and revolt go? These films look at the long game f...

A bittersweet collection of documentaries and a few fiction films on a wide range of childhoods and childhood experiences around the world, from the adventures and idylls of growing up, to coping with personal challenges, and facing terrible tragedies.

The Internet defines avant-garde as "new and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, or the people introducing them". We here at OVID have tried to stay true to that idea while curating this collection. These are only some of the many films on OVID that either highlight artists tha...

We invited the team at Narrow Margin to curate their own selection of films from OVID’s vast collection, and they found gems even we forgot we had!

Narrow Margin’s quarterly print and digital magazine was founded by a small international collective of cinephile critics exploring obscure corners...