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New: Documentaries

New: Documentaries

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

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New: Documentaries
  • 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...

  • 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...