Feature-length Documentaries i've seen

A compilation of interviews, rehearsals, and backstage footage of Michael Jackson as he prepared for his series of sold-out shows in London.

The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.

The life and death of Jyoti Singh, an Indian medical student whose violation and murder by gang rapists exposed the violent misogyny of Indian society.

The Film brings to its viewers, a hitherto unseen and unheard narrative of one of the greatest musicians the world has ever known-A.R.Rahman

Capturing life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis.

Oasis's breakthrough years documented into a detailed depiction of the infamous brothers from Manchester forming the band in the early '90s leading up to the legendary performance at Knebworth.

A chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.

A documentary on 85-year-old sushi master Jiro Ono, his renowned Tokyo restaurant, and his relationship with his son and eventual heir, Yoshikazu.

Exposing her role behind the camera, Kirsten Johnson reaches into the vast trove of footage she has shot over decades around the world. What emerges is a visually bold memoir and a revelatory interrogation of the power of the camera.

A group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and regimes, risking their lives to build a new society of conscience.

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

A documentary on a Palestinian farmer's chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army.

A profile of an ancient city and its unique people, seen through the eyes of the most mysterious and beloved animal humans have ever known, the Cat.

Varda films and interviews gleaners in France in all forms, from those picking fields after the harvest to those scouring the dumpsters of Paris.

Agnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story.

Adam Curtis explains how, at a time of confusing and inexplicable world events, politicians and the people they represent have retreated in to a damaging over-simplified version of what is happening.

A filmmaker looks at the history and transformation of his birthplace, Liverpool, England.

The anonymous activists who exposed ISIS atrocities in Raqqa. Follows their undercover operations, exile, and risks taken to reveal the ruthless realities under ISIS rule.

A trippy 45-minute documentary of late-1960s London that is a fascinating time capsule of the remnants of a bygone age before London's extensive redevelopment in the late 1960s.

Boundary tells the story of the Thai-Cambodian conflict through accounts of an ex-soldier who lives near the border, as well as villagers from the two countries. It also touches on other conflicts in Thailand, including the 9-year-old insurgency in the south and the political divisiveness that led to a deadly military crackdown on protesters in 2010.

The true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film.

With minimal narration by the director and very little context this is a kaleidoscope of stunning visuals from Calcutta, a city of 8,000,000 in the late 1960's: rich and poor, exotic and mundane, secular and religious, children and adults, animate and inanimate. Given only the images, the viewer can read any meaning she or he wants into the film.

A documentary about the everyday lives of ordinary Parisians, done in the style of cinéma vérité.