Documentaries

In 2014, director Jennifer Peedom was working on a documentary about the Sherpas of Mount Everest when the largest avalanche in recent history occurred on the mountain, killing 16 Sherpas.

Alex Honnold faces the biggest challenge of his career, climbing El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. He pursues it Free Solo, which means climbing without a rope and alone.

A documentary on Brazilian Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna, who won the F1 world championship three times before his death at age 34.

A documentary on the life, music, and legacy of Bob Marley.

A grand and adventurous journey of discovery to the last white areas of the world map. But no matter how far we go and how hard we try to find answers, we ultimately meet ourselves and our own transience.

A portrait of the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

Following the style of some of the world's most prolific street artists, an amateur filmmaker makes a foray into the art world.

The true story of two climbers and their perilous journey up the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.

A collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on the relationship between nature, humanity, and technology.

An intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and his traumatized family.

14-year-old Laura Dekker sets out on a two-year voyage in pursuit of her dream to become the youngest person ever to sail around the world alone.

A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.

A documentary on the effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzania's Lake Victoria. The predatory fish, which has wiped out the native species, is sold in European supermarkets, while starving Tanzanian families have to make do with the leftovers.

Director Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist J.R. journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

A look at the people who live precariously, but with an unusual level of resourcefulness and imagination, in four gigantic urban agglomerations: Mumbai, New York City, Moscow and Mexico City.

A documentary about the violent putsch of general Augusto Pinochet against the legitimate Chilean president Salvador Allende in September 1973.

An elegiac journey through Slovakia's Carpathian Mountain villages, with interviews of old peasants about the happiness and hardships in their lives.

A documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.

Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.

A chronicle of the enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand.

Documentary looks at the daily life of a pig and its farm animal companions: two cows and a one-legged chicken.

A documentary about the Kon-Tiki expedition of the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl.

Three elite climbers struggle to find their way through obsession and loss as they attempt to climb Mount Meru, one of the most coveted prizes in the high stakes game of Himalayan big wall climbing.

A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.