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1. Op-Docs (2011– )
Documentary
Op-Docs is The New York Times editorial department's award-winning section for short, opinionated documentaries, produced with wide creative latitude and a range of artistic styles, ... See full summary »
Stars: Mo Rocca, Josiah Thompson, Casey Neistat, Logan Ireland
Votes: 37
2. Fly (I) (2024)
120 min | Documentary
Over seven years, three couples involved in the extreme sport of BASE jumping test the limits of love and life itself. Risking everything for the thrill of the jump, their dedication is put to the ultimate test.
Directors: Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz
Votes: 5
3. Independent Lens (1999– )
TV-14 | Documentary
Independent Lens is an award-winning PBS documentary series that streams on the PBS App and airs on public television. Independent Lens documentaries focus on stories of underrepresented ... See full summary »
Stars: America Ferrera, Terrence Howard, Stanley Tucci, Mary-Louise Parker
Votes: 629
4. P.O.V. (1988– )
60 min | Documentary
POV, a cinema term for "point of view," is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. Since 1988, POV has presented more than 300 of the best, boldest, and ... See full summary »
Stars: Stacey Abrams, Rashida Tlaib, Lucy McBath, Veronica Escobar
Votes: 241
5. Weed & Wine (2020)
89 min | Documentary
Continents apart from one another, two farming families aim to reinvent themselves on their land. One family-a strong-willed French matriarch and the son she raised among her vines-tends a ... See full summary »
Director: Rebecca Richman Cohen | Stars: Kevin Jodrey, Nocona Jodrey, Hélène Thibon, Aurélien Thibon-Macagno
Votes: 6
6. Wartorn: 1861-2010 (2010 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 68 min | Documentary, War
With suicide rates among active military servicemen and veterans currently on the rise, the HBO special WARTORN 1861-2010 brings urgent attention to the invisible wounds of war. Drawing on ... See full summary »
Directors: Jon Alpert, Ellen Goosenberg Kent, Matthew O'Neill
Votes: 574
7. Immigration Nation (2020– )
TV-MA | Documentary
A documentary looking inside the world of immigration enforcement under the Trump administration.
Votes: 1,226
8. The First Season (2012)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary, Drama, Family
Paul and Phyllis van Amburgh, believing that a small, family farm is the best place to raise their children, take their life savings and buy a defunct dairy. With three children and a ... See full summary »
Director: Rudd Simmons | Stars: Grace Van Amburgh, Maggie Van Amburgh, Oliver Van Amburgh, Paul Van Amburgh
Votes: 16
9. A Woman Among Boys (2008)
94 min | Documentary, Sport
This documentary chronicles Ruth Lovelace, the first woman to coach the boys' basketball team at Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn, N.Y. The once highly accomplished and storied ... See full summary »
Directors: Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill
Votes: 22
10. All that Passes By Through a Window That Doesn't Open (2017)
70 min | Documentary
Time is measured by kilometer, distance by border.
Director: Martin Dicicco
Votes: 17
11.
Immigration Nation (2020– )
Episode:
Installing Fear
(2020)
TV-MA | Documentary
The Trump administration expanded ICE and changed its mandate. Now agents can deport anyone, including two fathers recently separated from their kids.
Directors: Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz
Votes: 100
12.
Immigration Nation (2020– )
Episode:
The Power of the Vote
(2020)
TV-MA | Documentary
US military veteran César tries to get politicians to ease his undocumented status. He's one of many seeking relief for their service.
Directors: Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz
Votes: 71
13.
Immigration Nation (2020– )
Episode:
Prevention Through Deterrence
(2020)
TV-MA | Documentary
Camerina's efforts to identify and recover her son - one of thousands of migrants who disappeared crossing the border - prove wrenching.
Directors: Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz
Votes: 69
14. Trophy (I) (2017)
Not Rated | 108 min | Documentary
This in-depth look into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Africa unravels the complex consequences of treating animals as commodities.
Directors: Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz | Stars: Tim Black, Philip Glass, Christo Gomes, John Hume
Votes: 760 | Gross: $0.02M
15. Brasslands (2013)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary, Music
Half a million people descend upon a tiny Serbian village for the 50th anniversary of the world's largest trumpet festival. Brasslands chronicles the cultural and musical collisions through... See full summary »
Directors: Alison Brockhouse, Bryan Chang, Sara Huneke, Meerkat Media Collective, Dara Messinger, Eric Phillips-Horst, Adam Pogoff, Zara Serabian-Arthur, Jay Arthur Sterrenberg, Jeffrey Sterrenberg, Karim Tabbaa | Stars: Emerson Hawley, Dejan Petrovic
Votes: 94
16. Narco Cultura (2013)
R | 103 min | Documentary, Crime
Narco Cultura (Spanish, English subtitles) takes viewers behind the scenes of narcocorridos, the most explosive and violent music subculture in America.
Director: Shaul Schwarz
Votes: 2,496 | Gross: $0.14M
17.
Immigration Nation (2020– )
Episode:
Maintaining Vigilance
(2020)
TV-MA | Documentary
In immigration court, managed out of DOJ instead of the judicial branch and operating by its own rules, Josué argues to be reunited with his family.
Directors: Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz
Votes: 79
18.
Immigration Nation (2020– )
Episode:
The Right Way
(2020)
TV-MA | Documentary
Asylum seeker Berta has been held by ICE for 17 months in an attempt to discourage others. As asylum laws get stricter, exiles face greater hardships.
Directors: Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz
Votes: 69
19. Dark Money (2018)
TV-14 | 99 min | Documentary
DARK MONEY, a political thriller, examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. ... See full summary »
Director: Kimberly Reed | Stars: Jon Tester, Debra Bonogofsky, Jim Peterson, Ellie Hill
Votes: 933 | Gross: $0.21M
20.
Immigration Nation (2020– )
Episode:
The New Normal
(2020)
TV-MA | Documentary
In North Carolina, ICE tries to pressure the newly elected sheriff, but activists fight back. In Florida, a local politician exploits immigrant fears.
Directors: Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz
Votes: 69
21. King Corn (2007)
Unrated | 88 min | Documentary
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from ... See full summary »
Director: Aaron Woolf | Stars: Bob Bledsoe, Earl L. Butz, Dawn Cheney, Ian Cheney
Votes: 2,086 | Gross: $0.08M
22. Untouchable (I) (2016)
105 min | Documentary
After discovering his daughter has been sexually abused, the most powerful lobbyist in Florida pushes the toughest sex offender laws in the county, with surprising and troublesome consequences.
Director: David Feige
Votes: 120
23. The Pyramid Code (2009)
45 min | Documentary
The Pyramid Code is a documentary series of 5 episodes that explores the pyramid fields and ancient temples in Egypt as well as ancient megalithic sites around the world looking for clues ... See full summary »
Stars: Sally Jennings, Abd'el Hakim Awyan, John Anthony West, Carmen Boulter
Votes: 839
24. Redemption (IV) (2013)
Not Rated | 35 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Redemption is a documentary about New York City's canners - the men and women who survive by redeeming bottles and cans they collect from curbs, garbage cans and apartment complexes. You've... See full summary »
Directors: Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill
Votes: 365
25. Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery (2008 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 54 min | Documentary
Washington, D.C., burial grounds of U.S. military personnel.
Directors: Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill
Votes: 133
26.
The Pyramid Code (2009)
Episode:
The Band of Peace
(2009)
44 min | Documentary
This episode raises questions about the purpose of the pyramids challenging the story traditional Egyptology tells. See rare footage of 6 distinct pyrmaid sites near the Great Pyramid with ... See full summary »
Director: Carmen Boulter | Stars: Sally Jennings, Carmen Boulter, John Dering, Robert Bauval
Votes: 69
27. Shawna: Life on the Sex Offender Registry (2017 TV Short)
8 min | Documentary, Short, Crime
After having consensual sex with a younger boy while she was a still a teenager, Shawna Baldwin found herself one of the 800,000 people on American's sex offender registries. Now in her ... See full summary »
Director: David Feige
Votes: 11
28.
The Pyramid Code (2009)
Episode:
High Level Technology
(2009)
44 min | Documentary
Instead of regarding the purpose pyramids as special tombs, the theoretical discussion turns to their global location, their multi-stone structure, and their subsurface water flow.
Director: Carmen Boulter | Stars: Sally Jennings, Carmen Boulter, Walter Cruttenden, John Burke
Votes: 56
29. The Big Scary 'S' Word (2020)
82 min | Documentary
Historians, journalists and politicians reveal that, contrary to popular belief, socialism is in fact deeply American.
Director: Yael Bridge | Stars: Adaner Usmani, Eric Foner, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Cornel West
Votes: 170
30.
The Pyramid Code (2009)
Episode:
Sacred Cosmology
(2009)
44 min | Documentary
Given the cycles of the Sun and the stars, the discussion considers the cycle of the Nile, the various Hieroglyphs, the Dogon culture in Mali, and the Nabta Playa site in the western desert.
Director: Carmen Boulter | Stars: Sally Jennings, Robert Bauval, Robert Schoch, Abd'el Hakim Awyan
Votes: 44
31.
The Pyramid Code (2009)
Episode:
The Empowered Human
(2009)
44 min | Documentary
The Empowered Human proposes that the pyramid builders were living in a Golden Age, they had more refined senses, experienced higher levels of consciousness which gave them superior ... See full summary »
Director: Carmen Boulter | Stars: Sally Jennings, John Major Jenkins, Walter Cruttenden, Carmen Boulter
Votes: 46
32.
The Pyramid Code (2009)
Episode:
A New Chronology
(2009)
44 min | Documentary
With a cross-disciplinary approach to dating the golden age of the pyramids, the discussion also contemplates the precession of the stars, the migration of the Nile riverbed, and the Mayan long count calendar.
Director: Carmen Boulter | Stars: Sally Jennings, Walter Cruttenden, Robert Bauval, Robert Schoch
Votes: 43
33. Welcome to Pine Hill (2012)
Not Rated | 81 min | Drama
A recently reformed drug dealer, now working as a claims adjuster by day and bouncer by night, receives earth-shattering news, compelling to make peace with his past and search for freedom beyond the concrete jungle of New York City.
Director: Keith Miller | Stars: Shanon Harper, Junior Adolph, Ernest Bastien, Mark Anthony Hackett
Votes: 259 | Gross: $0.00M
34. No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike (2010)
TV-14 | 39 min | Documentary, Short
Follows the struggle of 138 mostly immigrant workers who strike to save their jobs at a famous bakery in the Bronx when a private equity firm buys the bakery and demands wage cuts of up to 30%.
Directors: Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill
Votes: 79
35. Broken Trust (1995 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Thriller
Judge Nash is highly regarded for his position and decisions in the courtroom. He's approached by a special agent from a government task force investigating corrupt judges and lawyers, and ... See full summary »
Director: Geoffrey Sax | Stars: Tom Selleck, Elizabeth McGovern, William Atherton, Charles Haid
Votes: 324
36. Public Money (2018)
Documentary, Short
Across New York City, a bold experiment in participatory democracy is underway. Since 2012, the city council has steadily increased investment in a process called "participatory budgeting",... See full summary »
Director: Jay Arthur Sterrenberg
Votes: 8
37. Five Star (2014)
Not Rated | 83 min | Drama
A member of the notorious Bloods since he was 12 years old - both in the film and in real life - Primo takes John, the son of his slain mentor, under his wing, versing him in the code of ... See full summary »
Director: Keith Miller | Stars: James 'Primo' Grant, John Diaz, Wanda Nobles Colon, Jasmine Burgos
Votes: 569
38. After Maria (2019)
35 min | Documentary, Short
Strong Puerto Rican women forced to flee the island after Hurricane Maria have bonded like family in a FEMA hotel in the Bronx. They seek stability in their new life as forces try to pull them apart.
Director: Nadia Hallgren | Star: Glenda Martes
Votes: 426
39. Conbody VS Everybody (2024– )
120 min | Documentary
Throughout the course of eight years, Coss Marte constructs ConBody, a gym modeled after the exercises he learned while incarcerated.
Star: Coss Marte
41. Commie Camp (2013)
81 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Not Another Jesus Camp is a documentary about the legendary Camp Kinderland, the summer camp, which still exists, and was founded in the 1920's by secular Jewish workers who wanted their ... See full summary »
Directors: Katie Halper, Nora Eisenberg
42. The Mothers Most Vulnerable to Incarceration (2018)
7 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Zara Serabian-Arthur, Jay Arthur Sterrenberg
43. Not with a Bang, But a Whimper (2005)
Not Rated | 11 min | Short
Stars: Sally Bergom, Eric Gonzales, Fernando Perez, Lex Powell
44. Into the Streets (2014)
9 min | Documentary, Short
Over 400,000 people took to the streets of Manhattan as a unified front against climate justice inaction. Diverse perspectives converge as a popular movement unfolds.
Directors: Meerkat Media Collective, Alison Brockhouse, Bryan Chang, Chloe Gbai, Alex Mallis, Dara Messinger, Eric Phillips-Horst, Adam Pogoff, Samin Sajadi, Zara Serabian-Arthur, Jay Arthur Sterrenberg, Jeffrey Sterrenberg
46. One Chance (2002 Video)
15 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
A drug dealer-turned clean and now at college, Reggie is pulled into one more big deal to help his best friend. With the deal about to go down, Reggie must decide if he can risk all that ... See full summary »
Director: Shane Tilston | Stars: Jaben Early, Doreille Hanczyk, Dorielle Hanczyk, Angelo Lanza
47. Prince/William (2010)
8 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
The true story of a single confrontation over a found dog. Through the discussion issues of race, class and love of the dog come up. With the actual characters in the original location.
Director: Keith Miller | Stars: Shanon 'Abu' Harper, Keith Miller
48. Every Third Bite (2008 Video)
9 min | Documentary, Short, Family
Three years ago, honeybees started to disappear. Today there are at least 33% fewer bees in the U.S., and with bees helping to pollinate one in every three bites that we eat, everyone is at... See full summary »
Directors: Erin Espelie, Meerkat Media Collective, Ann Lorraine Novak, Eric Phillips-Horst, Lex Powell, Jay Arthur Sterrenberg, Gina Telaroli, Keith Watson, Wendy Cohen | Stars: David Graves, Jim Gross, Shamuel Israel, Ian Lipkin
49. Brooklyn Boondoggle (2009)
12 min | Documentary, Short
The controversial Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn has the future of this vibrant city hanging in the balance. Brooklyn Boondoggle introduces a diverse chorus of community voices as they confront the realities of urban development.
Directors: Meerkat Media Collective, Tal Bar-Zemer, Adam Barton, Bryan Chang, Dara Messinger, Eric Phillips-Horst, Zara Serabian-Arthur, Jay Arthur Sterrenberg, Karim Tabbaa
50. Consensus (2011)
8 min | Documentary, Short
A look into the "HOW" of the Occupy Wall Street movement: the consensus process.
Directors: Tal Bar-Zemer, Russell Brandom, Bryan Chang, Eric Phillips-Horst, Zara Serabian-Arthur, Jay Arthur Sterrenberg, Jeffrey Sterrenberg, Karim Tabbaa