New: Documentaries

New: Documentaries

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

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New: Documentaries
  • The Illusion of Abundance

    Directed by Erika Gonzalez Ramirez, Matthieu Lietaert • Documentary • 2022 • 58 minutes

    Please note the caption file must be turned on to see the English subtitles.

    Three women share a common goal: Carolina, Bertha and Maxima are leading today's fight against modern conquistadors. Whereas gover...

  • A Crack in the Mountain

    Directed by Alastair Evans • Documentary • 2022 • 99 minutes

    Deep in the jungle of Central Vietnam, lies a magnificent underground kingdom. Hang Son Ðoòng which translates as “mountain river cave”, is located in the Phong Nha-Ke Bàng National Park in Quang Bình Province. It is the largest cave p...

  • This Is Not a Movie: Robert Fisk and the Politics of Truth

    Movie

    For more than 40 years, journalist Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent and divisive conflicts in the world.
    Yung Chang’s This Is Not a Movie captures Fisk in action—feet on the ground, notebook in hand, as he travels into landscapes devastated by war, ferreting out the facts and...

  • I Like Killing Flies

    Directed by Matt Mahurin • Documentary • With Kenny Shopsin • 2004 • 78 minutes

    In 2002, an unusual eatery called Shopsin's loses its lease after 32 years. Filmmaker Matt Mahurin goes inside the diner to figure out its gastronomic appeal, and paint a portrait of its colorful owners Kenny and Eve...

  • The Cruise (Bennett Miller)

    Directed by Bennett Miller • Documentary • With Timothy "Speed" Levitch • 1998 • 76 minutes

    Sailing the streets of Manhattan atop a double-decker bus, Timothy "Speed" Levitch waxes philosophical as the city's most eccentric tour guide. Speed's bombastic and psychedelic poetry is captured in the ...

  • Taylor Chain I: A Story in a Union Local

    Documentary • 1980 • 33 minutes

    Taylor Chain I tells the gritty realities of a seven-week strike at a small Indiana chain factory during 1973-74. Volatile union meetings and tension-filled interactions on the picket line provide an inside view of the tensions and conflicts inherent to labor nego...

  • Taylor Chain II: A Story of Collective Bargaining

    Documentary • 1983 • 30 minutes

    In 1981-2, the Kartemquin filmmakers returned to the Taylor Chain plant to show labor and management working together against the odds, trying to save the plant from becoming the latest victim of anti-union legislation and the globalization of cheap, exploitable l...

  • What's Happening at Local 70?

    Directed by Judy Hoffman • Documentary • 1975 • 20 minutes

    Striking workers in one Chicago unemployment compensation office talk about working conditions that led to a walkout in July, 1975. Workers and claimants suggest possible solutions to the problems of understaffing and compulsory overtime...

  • UE/Wells

    Documentary • 1975 • 15 minutes

    UE/Wells follows an organizing drive by the United Electrical Workers Union at the Wells Foundry in Chicago. The multi-ethnic work force of Polish, Arab, Jewish, Hispanic and African American men and women unite together despite the company's efforts to use race a...

  • Hiroshima Bound

    Directed by Martin Lucas • Documentary • 2015 • 56 minutes

    HIROSHIMA BOUND is a personal documentary that tracks the construction of America's collective memory (or lack of one) of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It follows the obscure histories of specific photos and photographers, both...