Happy New Year from OVID! Here's a roundup of our top fifty most-watched films and programs in 2023. The list is based upon the total number of views for each film, and it is ranked from # 1 to # 50. Look out for surprises, and some great films you may have missed!

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Happy New Year from OVID! Here's a roundup of our most-watched films and programs in 2024. The list is based upon the total minutes watched for each film. Look out for surprises, and some great films you may have missed!

Here's a roundup of our most-watched films and programs in 2025.

"Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.”—Audre Lorde

Poetry can be a groundswell for bold ideas. This curated collection will expose you to work ranging from Marlon Rigg’s “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (No Regret),” which illuminates the difficult journey of livin...

Explore this holiday collection of unconventional Christmas films.

Ghosts and spirits haunt the films in this special collection for Halloween.

Films about sports and the barriers people have overcome to succeed.

October 10th is World Mental Health Day. Now available on OVID is a collection of films exploring a complicated subject. Included are films reflecting historical perspectives like A Captive Feast and The Yellow Wallpaper, films exploring more modern approaches as seen in 12 Days, and documentarie...

There is a long tradition of student activism to end wars and social inequities. From Hong Kong to South Africa and across the United States, this collection of films explore student-led protests and capture the sense of chaos, risk, and helplessness in the face of authorities that try to stifle ...

From just before World War II until the dawn of the "New Wave" here is a small group of enjoyable, curious, sometimes unexpected black & white films with many of the major stars of the period. (Also we've included the much earlier first film by Marc Allégret, one of the most prolific French direc...

When I first took interest in Robert Kramer, as a grad student in Los Angeles around 2003, it was nearly impossible to see his films. Later, I caught a substantial 2009 retrospective at Anthology Film Archives in New York City, commemorating the tenth anniversary of his tragically early death at ...

OVID is proud to present yearly selections from Dance Camera West. DCW is an internationally renowned Los Angeles-based film festival committed to exploring dance in the context of cinema.

“Where the allusiveness of dance meets the intimacy of film to create a new kind of magic!” —The New York ...

The first Pride was a riot. Heading towards the fifty-fifth anniversary of the Stonewall Inn riot gives us the opportunity to reflect on how far queer rights have come, and what’s left to achieve. It’s all intersectional with gender equity, a quiet revolution we fight at The Future of Film is Fem...

A selection of films that incorporate jazz into their story. Ranging from Shirley Clarke's The Connection, a play within a play within a jazz concert, to portraits of jazz musicians like Ornette Coleman and Marcus Miller, these films celebrate and appreciate the music art form.

With a focus on indie and punk rock, this collection of documentary and feature films illustrates the beauty – and sometimes danger – of losing oneself too deeply in the music, or art, and brings us up-close to some of the obsessive personalities who create it.

Alongside our Animated Shorts, this collection of animated feature films introduces a selection of international filmmakers working across diverse animation styles, from the minimalist watercolor compositions of Jean-Francois Laguionie’s Louise by the Shore to the intricate stop motion animation ...

A collection of films in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whether on top of a mountain, deep in Antarctica or just a New York City street, these are documentaries that take the viewer to the edge of the world. Not for the faint of heart, they all show what human beings are able to accomplish and what difficulties can be overcome in life.

We invited the Arab Film and Media Institute (AFMI), a nonprofit organization founded by the team behind the largest and oldest Arab Film Festival in North America, to curate a collection of new and existing films with a focus on the lives, joys, daily struggles, and resilience of Arab women in d...

In partnership with Spectacle Theater, we present a new playlist curated by Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer celebrating our collaborations with the Brooklyn microcinema. The selections include Japanese maverick Shohei Imamura’s portrait of remote island communities THE PIRATES OF BUBUAN, the Afrofuturist ...

The African Film Festival (AFF) has curated this collection of films that showcases the creativity, community, courage, good humor and resilience that Africans display in the face of great adversity.

The festival is dedicated to advancing an enhanced understanding of African culture through film...

Ranging from the French classic OLIVIA and early trailblazers like PARTING GLANCES to recent indie hits, this collection features LGBTQ fiction films that stand the test of time.

It’s that pride-thang time of year again, and as good a time as any to bask in our spectacularly wide-ranging collection of LGBTQ+ films for Pride 2026. From classic docs and risqué dramas, to off-kilter experimental films, we offer John Cameron Mitchell's erotic romp Shortbus, Wayne Koestenbaum'...

In honor of Earth Day, here's a collection of the top 25 most-streamed environmental films on OVID so far this year.