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The sixty-or-so most recent documentaries released on OVID.

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  • A Crack in the Mountain

    Directed by Alastair Evans • Documentary • 2022 • 99 minutes

    Deep in the jungle of Central Vietnam, lies a magnificent underground kingdom. Hang Son Ðoòng which translates as “mountain river cave”, is located in the Phong Nha-Ke Bàng National Park in Quang Bình Province. It is the largest cave p...

  • Dressed in Blue (Vestida de Azul)

    Directed by Antonio Giménez Rico • Documentary • 1983 • 98 minutes

    One of the best trans films you’ve likely never heard of, Antonio Giménez-Rico’s landmark 1983 documentary Dressed in Blue (Vestida de Azul) explores the lives and loves of a group of six transgender women living in Madrid in the...

  • Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution

    Directed by Yony Leyser • Documentary • With Bruce LaBruce, G.B. Jones, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, John Waters, Justin Vivian Bond, Lynn Breedlove, Silas Howard, Pansy Division, Penny Arcade, Kathleen Hanna, Kim Gordon, Deke Elash, Tom Jennings, Team Dresch • 2017 • 80 minutes

    Queercore: How To P...

  • The Cruise (Bennett Miller)

    Directed by Bennett Miller • Documentary • With Timothy "Speed" Levitch • 1998 • 76 minutes

    Sailing the streets of Manhattan atop a double-decker bus, Timothy "Speed" Levitch waxes philosophical as the city's most eccentric tour guide. Speed's bombastic and psychedelic poetry is captured in the ...

  • Drug Stories!

    Directed by Max Miller • Documentary • 2022 • 80 minutes

    A compilation of educational anti-drug and anti-alcohol short films from the 1960s and the 1970s.

  • Anonymous Artists of America

    Documentary • 1970 • 9 minutes

    While touring the U.S. in a brightly painted school bus, the psychedelic rock collective Anonymous Artists of America stop to hold a performance at an alma mater, the University of Chicago. Inspired by LSD, the group once opened for the Grateful Dead and played at ...

  • Hum 255

    Documentary • 1970 • 29 minutes

    In 1968, striking students at the University of Chicago occupied an administration building. A year later, two expelled young women were asked by their former classmates to talk about the experience as a class project. The women confront the students about their c...

  • What the Fuck Are These Red Squares?

    Documentary • 1970 • 14 minutes

    Striking students meet at a "Revolutionary Seminar" at the Art Institute of Chicago in response to the invasion of Cambodia and the killing of protesting students at Kent and Jackson State Universities. They explore their role as artists in a capitalist society an...

  • Tehran Blues

    Directed by Javier Tolentino • Documentary • 2020 • 80 minutes

    The city’s musicians and poets take us on a musical tour of Iran’s capital in a charming film about a music culture rarely heard of in the West.

    Erfan is a poet and musician, and he lives with his parents and their lively parrot. Fr...

  • War is Over

    Directed by Stefano Obino • Documentary • 2023 • 49 minutes

    Iraqi Kurdistan. The last war against ISIS left 1.6 million people in need, half of them under the age of 18. One year after the harsh conflict against ISIS, the scars remain. Yet, life persists, gradually returning to a semblance of no...

  • Googoosh: Iran's Daughter

    Directed by Farhad Zamani • Documentary • 2000 • 158 minutes

    Googoosh was Iran's most famous and beloved pop diva, until she was silenced following the 1979 Islamic revolution when female singers were labeled “temptresses” and forbidden to release records or perform publicly in the presence of m...

  • The Rink

    Directed by Sarah Ema Friedland • Documentary • With Gralen Stephon Vereen, Mickey "Bonesaw" Taylor,the Garden State Roller Derby Girls • 2014 • 53 minutes

    Branch Brook Park Roller Rink in Newark, New Jersey is one of the few remaining urban rinks of its kind. This concrete structure is nestled ...

  • Adonis

    Directed by Jérémie Battaglia • Documentary • 2024 • 52 minutes

    Though it was once limited to elite athletes, the use of anabolic steroids has reached endemic proportions among young male bodybuilding and strength training enthusiasts. Daring to tackle the taboos surrounding the concept of male ...

  • 300 Trillion – The Debt Trap

    Directed by Rudolph Herzog • Documentary • 2022 • 80 minutes

    The worldwide mountain of debt is more than 300% of the world's annual economic output. Since the pandemic, debt expansion is out of control. Will the system collapse under its weight?

    The film explores the significance of our debt si...

  • P.S. Burn This Letter Please

    Directed by Michael Seligman & Jennifer Tiexiera • Documentary • With Michael Alogna, Henry Arango • 2022 • 101 minutes

    A demi-monde that would have been lost to time were it not for the chance find of a treasure trove of letters in a storage bin in LA. Written by drag queens all using aliases t...

  • Uncanny Me

    Directed by Katharina Pethke • Documentary • 2022 • 46 minutes

    Lale is a hard-working photo model. Now she’s discovered a way to get more freedom. She can get her body scanned to create a digital clone that can also become a model, in the virtual world. Before leaping into the abyss, she decides...

  • A Shepherd

    Directed by Louis Hanquet • Documentary • 2024 • 70 minutes

    In the mountains of France, a shepherd fights to preserve his way of life against the threat of wolves and the challenges of traditional livestock farming. A Shepherd is a poetic documentary that explores the intimate relationship betwe...

  • The Illusion of Abundance

    Directed by Erika Gonzalez Ramirez, Matthieu Lietaert • Documentary • 2022 • 58 minutes

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    Three women share a common goal: Carolina, Bertha and Maxima are leading today's fight against modern conquistadors. Whereas gover...

  • Where God is Not

    Directed by Mehran Tamadon • Documentary • 2023 • 112 minutes

    Taghi, Homa and Mazyar were arrested and interrogated by the Iranian regime. All three testify with their bodies, with their gestures and tell what it means to resist, what it means to break. Is there any hope that the torturer will o...

  • The Elk Forest

    Directed by Ane Helga Lykka • Documentary • 2021 • 57 minutes

    Sigrid has hunted elk for years, but is still not sure if she actually wants to shoot the beautiful animal. She’s hunting with her father, Geir, who is faithfully doing everything he can to facilitate for his daughter’s first kill. Si...

  • Youth (Homecoming)

    Directed by Wang Bing • Documentary • 2024 • 160 minutes

    Shi Wei, a young migrant garment worker, flops back onto a pile of soft fabric bundles on his workshop’s floor, cellphone in hand. “Shit, I’m exhausted,” he says to the boss who’s trying to get him to sew more clothing before the Lunar New...

  • Youth (Hard Times)

    Directed by Wang Bing • Documentary • 2024 • 226 minutes

    YOUTH (HARD TIMES) is the second installment in Chinese director Wang Bing’s monumental series chronicling the lives of migrant garment workers — some as young as 15 — in the Zhili district of Huzhou City. Wang immerses himself in the live...

  • Film About a Father Who (Lynne Sachs)

    Directed by Lynne Sachs • Documentary • 74 minutes

    Over a period of 35 years between 1984 and 2019, filmmaker Lynne Sachs shot 8 and 16mm film, videotape and digital images of her father, Ira Sachs Sr., a bon vivant and pioneering businessman from Park City, Utah. Film About a Father Who is her ...

  • La Camioneta

    Directed by Mark Kendall • Documentary • 2021 • 71 minutes

    Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses are sold at auction and depart the United States on a southward migration that carries them to Guatemala, where they are repaired, repainted, and reconstructed as the brightly-colored camio...