observational documentary movies

Tiger (2024)
8.75 / 10

Documentary, Family

Journey alongside a young tigress raising her cubs in the fabled forests of India.

Time (2020)
6.881 / 10

Documentary

Fox Rich, indomitable matriarch and modern-day abolitionist, strives to keep her family together while fighting for the release of her incarcerated...

Secrets of the Neanderthals (2024)
7.206 / 10

Documentary

This documentary delves into the mysteries surrounding the Neanderthals and what their fossil record tells us about their lives and disappearance.

HyperNormalisation (2016)
7.448 / 10

Documentary

We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing,...

An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
6.973 / 10

Documentary

A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.

Planet Ocean (2012)
7.4 / 10

Documentary

Dive into our planet's greatest mysteries with a team of international underwater cinematographers as they explore the breathtaking bond between...

Julie (1972)
0 / 10

Documentary, Drama, Music

Writer/director Blake Edwards chronicles his wife Julie Andrews' decision to star in a TV variety show while balancing her home and family life.

Milano 2015 (2015)
4 / 10

Documentary

Six Italian directors explore contemporary Milan in a rich and eclectic portrait of urban life and spaces—both rooted in history and bursting with...

Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress (2019)
7.7 / 10

Documentary, History

An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war...

Sei Venezia (2012)
0 / 10

Documentary

What is the "feeling" of a city? Is it the roads, the light that illuminates them, the people that live there and their stories? It's all these...

Audrey Napanangka (2023)
8 / 10

Documentary

The story of a Warlpiri woman, Audrey, and her Sicilian partner Santo as they navigate through colonial systems to keep the children they care for...

Sister Helen (2002)
6.556 / 10

Documentary

In this emotionally compelling documentary, Sister Helen opens a private home for recovering addicts and alcoholics in the South Bronx after the...

A Tear in the Sky (2022)
7 / 10

Documentary, Mystery

A Tear in the Sky takes you on an unprecedented journey into the UAP/UFO phenomenon as we follow a team of world-renowned experts, scientists, and...

THE COCKPIT (2015)
6.7 / 10

Documentary

In a small cockpit-like room, we see two young hip hop musicians from Tokyo giving birth to a beat: precision, patience and camaraderie hold sway,...

Making Kayfabe (2024)
0 / 10

Documentary, Comedy

Facing a mid-life crisis, a journalist discovers the regular folk moonlighting as indie wrestlers, who help him transform his childhood dream into...

Manufacturing Ignorance (2020)
7.8 / 10

Documentary, Crime, Drama

Tobacco, climate change, pesticides,... Never has scientific knowledge seemed so vast, detailed and shared. And yet it appears to be increasingly...

La vallée des loups (2017)
6.933 / 10

Documentary

Unpublished Visions (2021)
0 / 10

Documentary

Four filmmakers working in the region of Galicia (in the northwest of Spain) follow and portray on the screen Galician artists working in disciplines...

The Sound of Identity (2020)
7 / 10

Documentary

In the spotlight of global media coverage, the first transgender woman ever to perform as Don Giovanni in a professional opera, makes her historic...

Olive (2023)
0 / 10

Documentary

“Olive” is a short documentary that follows Olive Hagemeier, an energetic woman, on her daily routine of salvaging, repackaging and...