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

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  • Four Paths to Dignity

    Directed by Gabriela Chaim Tumax • Documentary • 2022 • 28 minutes

    Four Paths to Dignity profiles the pursuit of dignity for Guatemalan midwives. The midwives confront challenges, as they battle racism and a health establishment that strives to prevent them from providing care that is culturally...

  • From Ground Zero: Stories from Gaza

    Directed by Rashid Masharawi • Documentary • 2025 • 113 minutes

    From Ground Zero is a collection of short films initiated by Palestinian film-maker Rashid Masharawi, in response to the events following the attacks of 7 October 2023. The project brings together 22 filmmakers from Gaza, offering a...

  • Mona Lisa is Missing

    Directed by Joe Medeiros • Documentary • 2013 • 86 minutes

    How did an unassuming housepainter from Italy pull off the greatest little known art heist in modern time? Was his motivation more than money?

    Writer-director Joe Medeiros traces the path of Vincenzo Peruggia, charged with the 1911 thef...

  • The Fruitless Tree

    Directed by Aicha Macky • Documentary • 2016 • 52 minutes

    Married but childless, Aicha finds herself in a situation that is totally “out of the ordinary” in her country, Niger. Just like everywhere else in the world today, Niger also experiences problems with infertility.

    Relying on her pers...

  • Life is Beautiful

    Directed by Mohamed Jabaly • Documentary • With Mohamed Jabaly • 2023 • 97 minutes

    Stuck in the arctic of Norway and refusing to accept the boundaries imposed by international politics and rigid bureaucracy, filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly insists on telling heartfelt stories from his hometown Gaza. De...

  • This Is Home

    Directed by Alexandra Shiva • Documentary • 2018 • 91 minutes

    From acclaimed filmmaker Alexandra Shiva comes the urgent and beautiful story of a community of Syrian immigrants who are resettled in Baltimore in the US. Upon their arrival, they have eight months to find jobs, learn English, and be...

  • The Gospel of Revolution

    Directed by François-Xavier Drouet • Documentary • 2024 • 116 minutes

    The revolutionary fervor that swept through Latin America in the 20th century owes much to the participation of millions of Christians who engaged in political struggles in the name of their faith. Driven by liberation theolog...

  • Long Distance Swimmer: Sara Mardini

    Directed by Charly Wai Feldman • Documentary • 2023 • 89 minutes

    At 20, Sara was already famous. She fled Syria in 2015 with her younger sister Yusra. When their boat broke down as they were crossing the sea to Greece, Sara and Yusra and two others jumped into the waves and swam for three and a ...

  • Ennio

    Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore • Documentary • With Ennio Morricone, Quentin Tarantino, Clint Eastwood • 2021 • 156 minutes

    Giuseppe Tornatore, director of the beloved CINEMA PARADISO, turns his camera on his longtime collaborator Ennio Morricone (1928 – 2020) in a moving and comprehensive profi...

  • Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism's Unholy War on Democracy

    Directed by Stephen Ujlaki, Christopher Jacob Jones • Documentary • With Peter Coyote • 2024 • 89 minutes

    BAD FAITH explores the dangerous rise of Christian Nationalism in the United States. Part archival chronicle, part exposé, the film reveals the secretive political machinery that has relentl...

  • The Frankenstein Complex

    Directed by Gilles Penso and Alexandre Poncet • Documentary • With Rick Baker, Joe Dante, Guillermo del Toro • 2015 • 107 minutes

    The Frankenstein Complex explores a century of cinematic thrills and wonders, focusing on the relationship between movie monsters and their makers like modern Franken...

  • Reconstruction of Occupation

    Directed by Jan Šikl • Documentary • 2021 • 99 minutes

    For 30 years, director Jan Šikl has collected amateur films from families in his community. Then one day, he is brought archival materials - stock shot by Czech military cameramen, which remained hidden for over half a century. Jan accomplis...

  • Francofonia (Alexander Sokurov)

    Directed by Alexander Sokurov • Documentary • With Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath, Vincent Nemeth • 2016 • 87 minutes

    Set against the backdrop of the Louvre Museum’s history and artworks, master director Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) applies his uniquely personal vision onto stage...

  • Coconut Head Generation (Alain Kassanda)

    Directed by Alain Kassanda • Documentary • 2023 • 89 minutes

    At Ibadan, Nigeria’s oldest university, a student association hosts a documentary screening and discussion group. In a country where dissent is frequently punished, this Thursday Film Series becomes a space for conversation and impassi...

  • The Champagne Safari

    Directed by George Ungar • Documentary • 1995 • 94 minutes

    What was a reputed Nazi collaborator doing reconnoitering the Canadian Northwest in 1934? In that year, mogul Charles Bedaux embarked on an ill-fated journey across through the Canadian Rockies. His upper-crust caravan, called "The Champ...

  • Stolen Spirits

    Directed by Anne Worthington • Documentary • 2022 • 31 minutes

    In 2021, in the small rural town of Genoa Nebraska, a harrowing search commenced to locate the graves of Native America children who were taken from their tribes and sent to the Genoa U.S Indian Industrial School, one of America’s la...

  • Touristic Intents

    Directed by Mat Rappaport • Documentary • With Hasso Spode, Sussanna Misgajski, Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper • 2022 • 72 minutes

    Architecture, mass tourism and political ideology come together in Touristic Intents, a new documentary that investigates the never-completed Nazi resort of Prora on Germany'...

  • Writing with Fire

    Directed by Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh • Documentary • With Meera Devi, Suneeta Prajapati, Shyamkali Devi • 2021 • 98 minutes

    2022 Acadamy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature! Reporting from a social environment built to divide based on caste and gender, a fearless group of journalist...

  • 1989: A Statesman Opens Up

    Documentary • 2014 • 58 minutes

    Forty-year-old academic economist Miklos Nemeth was more surprised than anyone when he was named Prime Minister of Hungary. It was 1989, and the Communist system was on the brink of collapse. Nemeth, an outsider with few friends in the Party, was charged with the ...

  • Inside Russia

    Directed by Paul Mitchell, Anastasiya Popova • Documentary • 2023 • 54 minutes

    Despite the huge risks, two Russian filmmakers have been filming the impact of the invasion of Ukraine in their country.

    The filmmakers get rare access to the brave Russians who are willing to speak out against their...

  • Forgotten Stooges

    Directed by Paul E. Gierucki • Documentary • With Curly-Joe DeRita, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Curly Howard, Shemp Howard, Joe Besser • 2024 • 87 minutes

    A fascinating collection of forgotten Stooge rarities including outtakes, home movies, newsreel footage, as well as promotional and short subject...

  • The Dmitriev Affair (Jessica Gorter)

    Directed by Jessica Gorter • Documentary • 2024 • 96 minutes

    Yuri Dmitriev exhumes what the Russian rulers would rather forget. After years of searching the pine forests of Karelia in northwestern Russia, he discovers a mass grave containing thousands of people who were secretly executed during ...

  • Building on Tainted Soil

    Directed by Anneleen Ophoff • Documentary • 2022 • 26 minutes

    Augustine, Charmaine and Jim are some of the hundreds of thousands of Native American children placed in residential schools since the 1870s. The United States government funded over 360 boarding schools which systematically destroyed...

  • Welcome to Nuclear Land

    Directed by Esther Hoffenberg • Documentary • 2009 • 74 minutes

    Discover France, Normandy, the most nuclearized region on the planet. With both humor and seriousness, Esther Hoffenberg explores a well-kept secret: nuclear power and the reprocessing of its waste. What does it mean to live with nu...