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

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  • El Dia Que Me Quieras

    Directed by Leandro Katz • Documentary • 1999 • 30 minutes

    Investigating death and the power of photography, EL DIA QUE ME QUIERAS is a meditation on the last picture taken of Che Guevara, as he lay dead on a table surrounded by his captors.

    After Guevara was captured and killed, in 1967, a wir...

  • Los Puros

    Directed by Carla Valdés León • Documentary • 2024 • 19 minutes

    A group of old friends reunite at a summer house in Varadero, Cuba. Their last meeting was in Minsk, mid-1980s: they were preparing to return home to Cuba after five years spent studying Marxist-Leninist philosophy in the Soviet Uni...

  • One or Two Questions

    Directed by Kristina Konrad • Documentary • 2018 • 237 minutes

    What do peace and justice mean to you?

    In 1986, the Uruguayan Parliament approved a law granting amnesty for all crimes and human rights violations committed by the army and police during the dictatorship (1973-1985). This impunity ...

  • Stooges: The Men Behind The Mayhem

    Directed by Paul E. Gierucki • Documentary • With Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Curley Howard, Shemp Howard • 2005 • 63 minutes

    Whether you're a lifelong Stoogephile, or just a casual knucklehead, you are sure to find something to love about this award-winning, in-depth look at America's most beloved ...

  • Stories of A

    Directed by Charles Belmont and Marielle Issartel • Documentary • 1973 • 89 minutes

    Shot in Paris in 1973, this feminist film on the fight for abortion rights was banned as soon it was released. A large-scale game of hide-and-seek ensued, as activists created an underground distribution network,...

  • The Art of Cooking with Fire

    Directed by Iñaki Arteta • Documentary • With Bittor Arginzoniz • 2019 • 84 minutes

    Self-taught Bittor Arginzoniz has achieved world fame as a grill genius with his restaurant Asador Etxebarri, ranked as third best restaurant in the world world in 2019. His personality and the place where he liv...

  • Notre-Dame of Paris, Rising from the Ashes

    Directed by Laurent Fléchaire • Documentary • 2021 • 58 minutes

    Three years ago, Notre-Dame of Paris cathedral’s roof tops were destroyed by flames in front of the eyes of the whole world. Since then, we have seen the clearance and securing efforts and eventually the start of a huge reconstructi...

  • The Price of Progress

    Directed by Víctor Luengo • Documentary • With Angelika Hilbeck, Gilles-Eric Seralini, Bernard Url, Nathalie Moll, Jean-Phillippe Azoulay • 2019 • 80 minutes

    In the urgent context that shapes much of the discourse on the future of agriculture in the E.U., "The Price of Progress" delves into the ...

  • The Wind Blows the Border

    Directed by Laura Faerman, Marina Weis • Documentary • 2022 • 77 minutes

    On the violent border between Brazil and Paraguay, a battle wages between agribusiness and indigenous sovereignty. An indigenous teacher and a lawyer with strong relations to Bolsonarist federal power are on opposite sides ...

  • Jane by Charlotte

    Directed by Charlotte Gainsbourg • Documentary • With Jane Birkin, Charlotte Gainsbourg • 2021 • 92 minutes

    In creating a documentary portrait of a parent, as actor Charlotte Gainsbourg does in her directorial debut, one could overly flatter the subject or iron out the tough creases. Gainsbourg ...

  • Gil Scott-Heron: Black Wax

    Directed by Robert Mugge • Documentary • With Gil Scott-Heron • 1983 • 79 minutes

    BLACK WAX is a musical-political entertainment film produced and directed by Robert Mugge. It centers on the late African American poet-singer-songwriter Gil Scott-Heron - the man Melody Maker called "the most dang...

  • Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise

    Directed by Robert Mugge • Documentary • With Sun Ra and his Arkestra • 1980 • 59 minutes

    Robert Mugge filmed jazz great Sun Ra on location in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. between 1978 and 1980. The resulting 60-minute film includes multiple public and private performances, poet...

  • Gospel According To Al Green

    Directed by Robert Mugge • Documentary • With Al Green, Willie Mitchell, Ken Tucker • 1984 • 66 minutes

    GOSPEL ACCORDING TO AL GREEN looks at Green's transition from hugely successful soul singer to gospel artist and fundamentalist preacher. Filmed in concert in Washington, D.C., in rehearsal in...

  • Youth (Spring)

    Directed by Wang Bing • Documentary • 2023 • 215 minutes

    The town of Zhili, about 95 miles from Shanghai, is a center for the children’s garment industry. Workers in their teens and early twenties come from surrounding provinces to live in sparse, trash-strewn concrete dorms in the same building...

  • Island in Between

    Directed by S. Leo Chiang • Documentary • 2023 • 20 minutes

    The rural Taiwanese outer islands of Kinmen sit merely 2 miles off the coast of China. Kinmen attracts tourists for its remains from the 1949 Chinese Civil War. It also marks the frontline for Taiwan in its escalating tension with Chin...

  • The First Year

    Directed by Patricio Guzmán • Documentary • 2023 • 96 minutes

    THE FIRST YEAR is a jubilant record of the 12 months following the election of Chile’s first socialist president, Salvador Allende. Director Patricio Guzmán travels the country, meeting workers who no longer have to answer to the capr...

  • Gaza Online

    Directed by Mohamed Jabaly • Documentary • 2020 • 22 minutes

    Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly’s 2020 short film follows the interactions with friends and family back home in Gaza while living in exile in Northern Norway, not being able to return. Jabaly’s first award-winning feature Ambulanc...

  • Israelism

    Directed by Erin Axelman and Sam Eilertsen • Documentary • With Peter Beinart, Noam Chomsky • 2023 • 84 minutes

    When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the brutal way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns. They join a movement of young A...

  • Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why is Everybody Talkin' About Him)?

    Directed by John Scheinfeld • Documentary • With Micky Dolenz, Terry Gilliam • 2010 • 116 minutes

    In this definitive documentary on the Grammy® award winning music legend Harry Nilsson, friends, family and colleagues delve into the acclaimed singer-songwriter's music, creative process and person...

  • No Place For You In Our Town

    Directed by Nikolay Stefanov • Documentary • 2022 • 81 minutes

    No Place for You in Our Town pulls the audience into the heads of the football hooligans from the roughest city in Bulgaria — Pernik. A once flourishing industrial center, today all that’s left is the urban legend about its citizens’...

  • Abba Forever: The Winner Takes It All

    Directed by Chris Hunt • Documentary • With Agnetha Fältskog, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, Anni-Frid Lyngstad • 2019 • 51 minutes

    It's been 50 years since Abba's founders met, 40 since their last concert, and 20 since Mama Mia! became a worldwide phenomena. This multi-Gold Award-winning doc t...

  • a-ha: The Movie

    Directed by Thomas Robsahm • Documentary • With Morten Harket, Pål Waaktaar, Magne Furuholmen • 2021 • 108 minutes

    Follows the band a-ha on tour, telling the full story of how three young men followed their impossible dream of becoming Norwegian pop stars. When Take On Me reached number 1 on Bil...

  • The Dilemma of Desire

    Directed by Maria Finitzo • Documentary • 2020 • 118 minutes

    THE DILEMMA OF DESIRE is a provocative new film helping to normalize dialogue about female sexuality. The film follows diverse, intergenerational stories of women who are shattering lies about female sexual desire, bodies and power. Ar...

  • Polish Prayers

    Directed by Hanka Nobis • Documentary • 2022 • 82 minutes

    It is the women, the tender, difficult, exciting relationships with them, through which Antek learns to really be a man. The film follows him from when he has all the answers to the many questions any young man needs to answer for himself...