Best Documentaries

A documentary about a group of pilgrims who travel to Nepal to worship at the legendary Manakamana temple.

A dive, the midday sunlight filtering down through the water. The air in her lungs has to last until she can dislodge the abalone. Dives like these have been carried out in Japan for over 2000 years by the Ama-San.

Boris's father has designated his son to become a world champion, He's devoted his life to Boris's talent while obsessively documenting the process. Can any child, given fine Soviet education, become a genius?

The last female bee-hunter in Europe must save the bees and return the natural balance in Honeyland, when a family of nomadic beekeepers invade her land and threaten her livelihood.

Danish journalist Mads Brügger goes undercover as a Liberian Ambassador to embark on a dangerous yet hysterical journey to uncover the blood diamond trade in Africa.

Three boys, they all committed murder. After discovering their haunting faces and disturbing stories in a banned prison documentary from 1984, the filmmaker goes out to find them and discovers untold secrets and a Hungary he has never known.

A tribute to the late German choreographer Pina Bausch, as her dancers perform her most famous creations.

A documentary on the late Vivian Maier, a nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs earned her a posthumous reputation as one of the most accomplished street photographers.

The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.

A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.

A family that survived the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.

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 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.

In order for the viewer to guess individual Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov in the names of ILFIPETROV, the authors have collected an impressive evidence base: living evidence was obtained in Moscow, Odessa, Yaroslavl, Paris, New York; in an exact repetition of the route of "One-story America", in the miraculously preserved family archives.

An unprecedented look inside the private world of J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye.

The 42 year long relationship between legendary actress Liv Ullmann and master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.

A look at the controversial author, philosopher and candidate for Slovenian presidency: Slavoj Zizek.

After five years of study in Paris, Arash hasn't adapted to French life and decides to return home to Iran. Hoping to change his mind, two friends drag him away on a final trip across France.