New: Documentaries

New: Documentaries

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

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New: Documentaries
  • 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 ...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • La Camioneta

    Directed by Mark Kendall • Documentary • 2013 • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...