Danish documentary films

Häxan (, The Witch; Heksen , The Witch; English: The Witches; released in the US in 1968 as Witchcraft Through the Ages) is a 1922 Swedish-Danish silent horror essay film written and directed by Benjamin Christensen. Consisting partly of documentary-style storytelling as well as dramatized narrative sequences, the film purports to chart the historical roots and superstitions surrounding witchcraft, beginning in the Middle Ages through the 20th century. Based partly on Christensen's own study of the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th-century German guide for inquisitors, Häxan proposes that such witch

2012 film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer

2021 animated film directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen

Mr Nobody Against Putin is a 2025 documentary film directed by David Borenstein and Pavel Talankin. It follows Talankin in his job at a school in Karabash, a poor mining town near the Ural Mountains. While recording his students, Talankin also documents the Putin administration's moves to control public perception during the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war.

2014 film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer

2017 film by Feras Fayyad

2017 film by Simon Lereng Wilmont

2003 film by Lars von Trier, Jørgen Leth

2008 Danish documentary film directed by Anders Østergaard

2014 film directed by Peter Anthony

2009 film by Erik Gandini

2019 Syrian film

2010 film by Michael Madsen

2010 film directed by Janus Metz Pedersen

2014 documentary film

2007 film

2013 Nigerian Danish documentary directed by Jide Tom Akinleminu

1989 film by Katrin Ottarsdóttir

2022 film directed by Simon Lereng Wilmont

2011 film by Lise Birk Pedersen

2019 Danish documentary film by Mads Brügger

2011 documentary film directed by Mads Brügger

2015 film by Amber Fares

Resan (Swedish for The Journey) is a 1987 documentary film by Peter Watkins, made between the years 1983 and 1985 on several continents, and structured around the theme of nuclear weapons, military spending and poverty. Ordinary people are asked about their awareness of these issues.

1950 film by Bodil Ipsen, Lau Lauritzen

2010 film by Frank Piasecki Poulsen

2022 film directed by Lea Glob

2006 film by Andreas Dalsgaard

2009 film by Mads Brügger

1955 film by Bjarne Henning-Jensen

2010 film by Christian Sønderby Jepsen

1968 film by Gabriel Axel

2017 Norwegian documentary directed by Håvard Bustnes

2025 documentary film by Robin Petré

2004 film by Pirjo Honkasalo

2008 film by Lars Oxfeldt Mortensen

2013 film directed by Berit Madsen

2021 film directed by Andreas Koefoed

2014 film by Hanna Polak