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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
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