A Cry From The Grave

Tells the story of the Srebrenica massacre of 1995, in which the Bosnian Serb army killed an estimated 7,000 Bosnian Muslims. ...

Abraham Lincoln

This film is the biography of Abraham Lincoln. It stars Walter Huston as Lincoln and Una Merkel as Ann Rutledge. It was directed by D.W. Griffith and ...

Africa Speaks

A documentary of the 1928 Colorado African Expedition, headed by Paul L. Hoefler, into the Belgian Congo. It includes footage of a young boy who gets ...

Arthur Conan Doyle

A 1927 Fox newsreal interview with the author and spiritualist, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He speaks about his greatest literary creation, Sherlock Holme ...

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

This is a silent documentary about a normal day full of life and energy in Berlin. Directed by Walter Ruttmann, this film was released in 1927. ...

Camouflage

A U.S Air Force training film, where Hoodie the Chameleon explains the importance of camouflage and decoys for equipment and ground installations agai ...

Color of Pomegranates - Sayat Nova (1968)

A 1969 Soviet film written and directed by Sergei Parajanov. It is a biography of the Armenian ashug Sayat-Nova (King of Song) that attempts to reveal ...

Fed Up! Genetic Engineering, Industrial Agriculture, and Sustainable Alternatives

About 70% of the food we eat contains genetically modified ingredients and is not labeled. The biotechnology industry is spending $50 million a year t ...

Forgotten Village

This is a documentary that examines the conflict that is happening between the traditional culture and the modernization of a small Mexican village. R ...

Harmony Lane

A 1935 movie directed by Joseph Santley, based upon the life of composer Stephen Foster. Starring Douglass Montgomery as Stephen Foster and Evelyn Ven ...

Haxan

A look at the history of witchcraft. It stars Benjamin Christensen, who also wrote this 1922 film. ...

Here is Germany

A 1945 propaganda film made directed by Frank Capra to prepare soldiers who had not seen combat to go to Germany for the US occupation after the end o ...

Home

A 2009 documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. Almost entirely composed of aerial shots of various places on Earth. It shows the diversity of life on Ear ...

Man With A Movie Camera

Originally known as Chelovek's Kinoapparatom, this 1929 film by Dziga Vertov documents urban life in The Soviet Union, as a man decides to travel th ...

Nanook of the North

A 1922 silent documentary by Robert J. Flaherty. In the tradition of what would later be called salvage ethnography, Flaherty captured the struggles o ...

Napoleon

A 1955 French historical epic film directed by Sacha Guitry that depicts major events in the life of Napoleon. ...

Operation IVY

A US government produced 1952 documentary about the development and testing of the hydrogen bomb. ...

Panorama Ephemera

A documentary slice of American life. It is a compilation of historical vignettes (from the Prelinger archive), mostly from the 1930-1950 decades. ...

Rembrandt

A luminous biopic of the legendary Flemish painter. Alexander Korda considered this to be his finest film. It also features one of Charles Laughton's ...

The Battle Of Midway

An Academy Award winning short documentary about the pivotal naval battle of the war in the Pacific. ...

The Corporation

A 2003 Canadian documentary film critical of the modern-day corporation, considering it as a class of person and evaluating its behavior towards socie ...

The Eruption of Mt St Helens

A 22 minute documentary about the eruption of the Mount St. Helens volcano in 1980 in Washington state. It triggered the largest landslide in recorde ...

The First of the Few

A 1942 British biographical film produced and directed by Leslie Howard, who stars as R. J. Mitchell, the designer of the Supermarine Spitfire fighter ...

The Holy Ghost People

Cinema verite at its best. A 1967 documentary directed and narrated by Peter Adair, about the service of a Pentecostal community in Scrabble Creek, We ...

The Legend of Marilyn Monroe

A documentary about the life of Marilyn Monroe. It talks about her career and her life in the 1950's. The film was released in 1966. ...

The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress

This war documentary was produced by William Wyler, who joined the Air Force Film unit and recorded the sights and sounds of the last mission of a B-1 ...

The Perils of Pauline

This is the story of actress Pearl White and how she became popular during the silent serials. Released in 1947. ...

The Quiet One

Wiltwyck School has a rehabilitation program and this is a documentary account of a boy who is emotionally disturbed and unwanted. He is tortured inwa ...

The Real Bruce Lee

A 1977 martial arts documentary. It starts with a short bio and then shows scenes from some of his early films. Next there is a highlight reel of Bruc ...

The Secret Life of Adolf Hitler

A 1958 TV documentary about Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. ...

Triumph of the Will

Triumph of the Will (German: Triumph des Willens) is a propaganda film made by Leni Riefenstahl. It chronicles the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nurembe ...

War Comes to America

The seventh and final film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight World War II propaganda film series. ...

Zeitgeist

A 2007 documentary produced by Peter Joseph, created to inspire people to start looking at the world from a more critical perspective and to understan ...

Zeitgeist: Addendum

This is a sequel to the 2007 film Zeitgeist, by Peter Joseph. It attempts to locate the root causes of pervasive social corruption, while offering a s ...