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The Social Dilemma
2020 film directed by Jeff Orlowski

Miss Americana
2020 film directed by Lana Wilson

Virunga
2014 British documentary film directed by Orlando von Einsiedel

The Tinder Swindler
2022 film directed by Felicity Morris
The White Helmets
2016 documentary film directed by Orlando von Einsiedel

My Octopus Teacher
2020 film directed by Pippa Ehrlich James Reed

Period. End of Sentence.
2018 film by Rayka Zehtabchi

American Factory
2019 documentary film by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert

The Elephant Whisperers
2022 Tamil film directed by Kartiki Gonsalves

Gaga: Five Foot Two
2017 film by Chris Moukarbel

Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
2015 film by Evgeny Afineevsky

The 13th
2016 documentary film by Ava DuVernay

Blackpink: Light Up The Sky
2020 film directed by Caroline Suh

The Great Hack
2019 documentary film by Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim

Crip Camp
2020 documentary film by Nicole Newnham and James LeBrecht
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Seaspiracy
Seaspiracy () is a 2021 documentary film about the environmental impact of fishing directed by and starring Ali Tabrizi, a British filmmaker. The film examines human impacts on marine life and advocates for ending fish consumption.

Icarus
2017 documentary film by Bryan Fogel

The Square
2013 Egyptian film by Jehane Noujaim

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
2024 Norwegian documentary film

Hot Girls Wanted
2015 film directed by Jill Bauer and Ronna Gradus

Fyre
2019 film directed by Chris Smith

The Perfect Neighbor
The Perfect Neighbor is a 2025 American documentary film directed by Geeta Gandbhir about a shooting incident on June 2, 2023 where a white woman, Susan Louise Lorincz, fatally shot Ajike Owens, her black neighbor, in Ocala, Florida.

Strong Island
2017 film by Yance Ford

Ariana Grande: Excuse Me, I Love You
2020 American concert film directed by Paul Dugdale

What Happened, Miss Simone?
2015 film directed by Liz Garbus

Pray Away
2021 American documentary film

Athlete A
2020 documentary film directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk

Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen
2020 documentary film by Sam Feder

Schumacher
2021 film directed by Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns, Vanessa Nöcker and Michael Wech

American Murder: The Family Next Door
2020 true crime documentary film

The Greatest Night in Pop
2024 film directed by Bao Nguyen

Circus of Books
2019 documentary film directed by Rachel Mason

Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé
2019 film by Beyoncé

Into the Inferno
2016 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog

End Game
2018 short film by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman

Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb
2020 documentary film directed by James Tovell

The Ivory Game
2016 film by Richard Ladkani, Kief Davidson

Chasing Coral
2017 film by Jeff Orlowski

A Secret Love
2020 documentary film directed by Chris Bolan

The Speed Cubers
2020 documentary film directed by Sue Kim

Life Overtakes Me
2019 documentary film by Kristine Samuelson and John Haptas

Man on the Run
2023 documentary film by Cassius Michael Kim

The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
2017 documentary film by David France

American Symphony
2023 film directed by Matthew Heineman
Jeen-Yuhs
Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy (or jeen-yuhs) is a 2022 American documentary film directed by Coodie & Chike about the life of American rapper, record producer, and fashion designer Kanye West and, to a lesser extent, Coodie Simmons.

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019 film directed by Martin Scorsese

El Pepe, una vida suprema
2018 documentary film directed by Emir Kusturica

A Love Song for Latasha
2019 documentary film

Amanda Knox
2016 film by Rod Blackhurst, Brian McGinn
All the Empty Rooms
2025 short documentary film directed by Joshua Seftel
Extremis
2016 documentary film directed by Dan Krauss

Money Heist: The Phenomenon
2020 documentary film directed by Luis Alfaro and Pablo Lejarreta

Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
2020 documentary film directed by Donick Cary

Sly
2023 film directed by Thom Zimny

Shirkers
Shirkers is a 2018 British-American documentary film by Singapore-born filmmaker Sandi Tan about the making of an independent thriller featuring a teenage assassin set in Singapore. It premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival in January and won the World Cinema Documentary Directing Award, making her the second Singapore-born filmmaker after Kirsten Tan (Pop Aye, 2017) to win an award at the festival. It was also nominated for the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary.

Rising Phoenix
2020 documentary film directed by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui

Jim & Andy
2017 documentary film directed by Chris Smith

Pelé
2021 film directed by Ben Nicholas and David Tryhorn

Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
2022 documentary film directed by Rory Kennedy

Knock Down the House
2019 documentary film by Rachel Lears