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

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  • Women Against the Bomb

    Directed by Sonia Gonzalez • Documentary • 2021 • 58 minutes

    In 1981 a group of women occupy the British military base at Greenham Common to protest againsit stockage of U.S. nuclear missiles. Soon thousands of women from all walks of life will join the cause, challenging the state and the milit...

  • Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting

    Directed by Aviva Kempner and Ben West • Documentary • 2022 • 95 minutes

    A comprehensive look at the movement to eradicate the words, images, and gestures that many Native Americans and their allies find harmful, demeaning, and offensive. The film examines mascoting issues through archival foota...

  • Trinity

    Directed by Martina Car, Anthony Audi • Documentary • With Phil Harrison, Henry Herrera, Bernice Gutierrez, Bill Payne, Louisa Lopez, Tina Cordova • 2024 • 76 minutes

    Oppenheimer's Manhattan Project culminated in the Trinity test: the detonation of the first nuclear bomb. In an instant, shrouded...

  • Chris & Don: A Love Story

    Directed by Tina Mascara, Guido Santini • Documentary • 2007 • 90 minutes

    Chris & Don: A Love Story chronicles the lifelong relationship between author Christopher Isherwood and his much younger lover, artist Don Bachardy. It combines present-day interviews, archival footage shot by the couple f...

  • Poly Styrene: I am a Cliché

    Directed by Celeste Bell, Paul Sng • Documentary • With Ruth Negga, Thurston Moore, Kathleen Hanna • 2021 • 96 minutes

    Poly Styrene was the first woman of color in the UK to front a successful rock band. She introduced the world to a new sound of rebellion, using her unconventional voice to sin...

  • How They Got Over

    Directed by Robert Clem • Documentary • With J.W. Alexander, Ira Tucker • 2018 • 87 minutes

    How They Got Over tells the story of how Black gospel quartet music became a primary source for what we would call rock and roll, and in the process helped to break down racial walls in 1950s America.

    Be...

  • Roberta

    Directed by Antonino D'Ambrosio • Documentary • 2022 • 87 minutes

    Directed by award-winning filmmaker Antonino D'Ambrosio, this is the long overdue documentary about the legendary Roberta Flack. Of course she is well known the world over for “First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and "Killing Me Soft...

  • Terrorists in Retirement

    Movie + 1 extra

    Directed by Mosco Boucault • Documentary • 1983 • 71 minutes

    Too controversial to be shown on French TV when first released – after its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, in 1983 – TERRORISTS IN RETIREMENT is the story of men and women from Armenia, Poland, and Romania, mostly Jews, who fough...

  • 23 Foreigners — Our Brothers

    Directed by Mosco Boucault, Ruth Zylberman • Documentary • 2024 • 38 minutes

    Just outside Paris, in a peaceful clearing surrounded by woods, a French flag flies above a bare concrete pad. Here, on February 21, 1944, Nazi occupiers executed 23 Resistance fighters by firing squad.

    After the execu...

  • The Birth of Sake

    Directed by Erik Shirai • Documentary • 2015 • 93 minutes

    A beautiful and immersive portrait of life at the 144-year old Yoshida Brewery, a producer of world class sake. With changing times ahead and new regime led by the 6th generation heir, this is a rarified look at the personal and professio...

  • The Sojourn

    Directed by Tiffany Sia • Documentary • 2023 • 32 minutes

    Directed by artist and filmmaker Tiffany Sia, “The Sojourn” imagines a restless landscape film in Taiwan. Visiting scenic locations shot by King Hu, the short experiments with the road movie genre and its intersection with the martial art...