New: Documentaries

New: Documentaries

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

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  • Timestamp

    Movie

    Keeping schools open in Ukraine is an attempt to recreate at least some of the normal life they had before the war — until February 24, 2022 (and in some regions even earlier, in 2014). Without interviews, narration and reenactments, TIMESTAMP provides an insight into how the war is affecting the...

  • Pastor: Four Movements

    Directed by Joanna Rechnio • Documentary • 2024 • 70 minutes

    Pastor: Four Movements is an intimate documentary that profiles Krzysztof Pastor, the renowned Polish dancer and choreographer affiliated with the Dutch ballet school. The film delves into Pastor’s creative process, showcasing his work...

  • The Pavilion on the Water

    Directed by Stefano Croci, Silvia Siberini • Documentary • 2023 • 77 minutes

    The documentary feature film The Pavilion On The Water is a cinematic journey into the world of Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa and his passion for Japanese culture. Japan, to him, was an inspirational universe but also...

  • Creating Paradise

    Documentary • 2023 • 67 minutes

    'The ultimate goal of an architect is to create a paradise', Alvar Aalto said.

    After a trip to Finland in 1960, Spanish architect Vicente Saavedra (1937-2021) plans the construction of TenBel, a touristic area in the Canary Islands where he applied some of Aalto'...

  • Leila and the Wolves

    Directed by Heiny Srour • Documentary • With Nabila Zeitouni, Rafik Ali Ahmad • 94 minutes

    Drawing on the Arab heritage of the ‘Arabian Nights’, Leila and the Wolves combines fictional drama, archival footage, fantasy sequences, mosaic pattern, to refute the colonial and male dominated version o...

  • The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived

    Directed by Heiny Srour • Documentary • 68 minutes

    In the late 60s, Dhofar rose up against the British-backed Sultanate of Oman, in a democratic, Leninist guerrilla movement. Srour and her team crossed 500 miles of desert and mountains by foot, under bombardment by the British Royal Air Force, t...

  • Downeast

    Directed by Ashley Sabin and David Redmon • Documentary • 2012 • 81 minutes

    Downeast is an experiential story that unfolds over the course of a year-and-a-half in the small lobster village of Prospect Harbor, Maine. It observes the closing of the last remaining Sardine Cannery in the United Stat...

  • Happy Pills

    Directed by Arnaud Robert, Paolo Woods • Documentary • 2022 • 94 minutes

    The universal quest for happiness is one of the human invariants. The pharmaceutical industry is developing entire classes of drugs (anxiolytics, antidepressants, sleeping pills, opioids) that promise their consumers, if no...

  • Sunday Ball

    Directed by Eryk Rocha • Documentary • 2014 • 64 minutes

    In Rio de Janeiro, close to the mythical Maracanã stadium, stage of the 2014 World Cup grand final, we find the popular field in the Sampaio neighborhood. Football happens there as a genuine expression of Brazilian culture. Played on Sunda...

  • Mardi Gras: Made in China

    Directed by David Redmon • Documentary • 2005 • 72 minutes

    Winner of twenty-one national and international awards, Mardi Gras: Made in China follows the path of Mardi Gras beads from the streets of New Orleans during Carnival – where revelers party and exchange beads for nudity – to the discipli...

  • Intimidad

    Directed by Ashley Sabin and David Redmon • Documentary • 2008 • 71 minutes

    Shot over five years, Intimidad is an in-depth portrait of Cecy and Camilo Ramirez, a young couple struggling to make ends meet in Reynosa, Mexico. They have recently left their 2-year-old daughter, Loida, with Cecy’s mo...

  • The Return - Family Separation

    Directed by Jeremy S. Levine • Documentary • 2025 • 25 minutes

    "The Return - Family Separation" portrays the challenges faced by 12-year-old Geovanny and his family. After being apprehended at the U.S. border and separated from his father for six months due to the U.S. family separation policy, ...

  • Garçonnières

    Directed by Céline Pernet • Documentary • 2022 • 90 minutes

    After three years and 476 matches with men on dating applications, and a certain number of “short relationships that were as nice as they were brief”, director and anthropologist Céline Pernet decides to take the time to investigate her...

  • Edna

    Directed by Eryk Rocha • Documentary • 2021 • 70 minutes

    Living on the edge of Transbrasiliana highway in the Brazilian Amazon, Edna is a witness of a land in ruins built upon massacres. Raised only by her mother, she experiences in her body and of her descendants, the marks of a "war that never...

  • On the Edge

    Directed by Nicolas Peduzzi • Documentary • 2023 • 93 minutes

    Jamal Abdel Kader is the only psychiatrist in a 400-bed state hospital on the outskirts of Paris. Dedicated to his patients, he does his utmost to soothe their pain, to listen to their words, to protect them from their own demons. How...

  • Celluloid Underground

    Directed by Ehsan Khoshbakht • Documentary • 2023 • 80 minutes

    Celluloid Underground is an autobiographical feature-length documentary by Iranian filmmaker, writer and curator Ehsan Khoshbakht, about his experience of growing up in Iran after the 1979 revolution, when his love of cinema became t...

  • The Fish Thief: A Great Lakes Mystery

    Directed by Lindsey Haskin • Documentary • With J.K. Simmons • 2024 • 92 minutes

    J.K. Simmons narrates THE FISH THIEF, which explores the mystery behind how and why the fish most prized by people nearly disappeared from the largest freshwater ecosystem on Earth: the Great Lakes. The story dramat...

  • Raid on the Atlantic

    Directed by Nicolas Van Ingen • Documentary • 2023 • 52 minutes

    West African waters have one of the richest fish stocks in the world. This has been a blessing for the people of the region.

    Since the 1980’s, foreign powers have rushed to profit from this rich fish stock. European first, then Chi...

  • Sarkozy-Gaddafi: The Scandal of All Scandals

    Movie

    It’s a scandal that has all the trappings of a Hollywood thriller. A secret meeting by the Eiffel Tower. Millions of euros crossing borders in suitcases. Cash payments to key people close to politicians. A former member of a terrorist regime whisked from his jail cell in another country. A presid...

  • A Witch Story

    Directed by Yolanda Pividal Garcia • Documentary • 2022 • 73 minutes

    Young writer Alice was a teenager when she discovered something that changed her life forever: she was a descendant of Martha Allen Carrier, a woman hanged for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. At 24, after scou...

  • The Falling Sky

    Movie

    Directed by Eryk Rocha, Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha • Documentary • 2024 • 108 minutes

    In collaboration with Brazil’s indigenous Yanomami people, THE FALLING SKY follows the Yanomami leader and shaman Davi Kopenawa as he fights to return the world to balance in closely observed rituals and trench...

  • Citizen George

    Directed by Glenn Holsten • Documentary • 2024 • 99 minutes

    Citizen George presents the life and work of Philadelphia-based Quaker activist George Lakey, a non-violent revolutionary who has worked his entire life for justice and peace, guided by his ideal of societal transformation.

    Called "a ...

  • Mellodrama

    Movie

    Mellodrama, a documentary by Dianna Dilworth, explores the rising and falling fortunes of the Mellotron – the first musical keyboard to "sample" the sounds of other instruments – from its birth in a California garage in the 1950s, through its dominance on concert stages in the 1970s, through its ...

  • Project Q: War, Peace, and Quantum Mechanics

    Directed by James Der Derian • Documentary • 2024 • 89 minutes

    As governments, corporations and universities pour funds into quantum science, and breakthroughs in quantum technology gather pace, important questions about the reality of a quantum future remain unanswered. In a notoriously complex...