Top Tier Documentaries

Alex Honnold faces the biggest challenge of his career, climbing El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. He pursues it Free Solo, which means climbing without a rope and alone.

A devastating and heart-rending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzly bears in Alaska.

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.

The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.

A collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life and religion.

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

Takes a closer look at what brought about the 2008 financial meltdown.

Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, led by renowned dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry, infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health.

A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.

Fantastic Fungi is a descriptive time-lapse journey about the magical, mysterious and medicinal world of fungi and their power to heal, sustain and contribute to the regeneration of life on Earth that began 3.5 billion years ago.

Documentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes.

Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.

A documentary looking at the inner-workings of the Church of Scientology.

Documentary about Father Oliver O'Grady, a Catholic priest who was relocated to various parishes around the United States during the 1970s in an attempt by the Catholic Church to cover up his rape of dozens of children.

Alex Gibney exposes the haunting details of the USA's torture and interrogation practices during the War in Afghanistan.

A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist 1963 bombing by the Ku Klux Klan of the African American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham during the Civil Rights Movement, which killed four young girls.

A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.

Conversations with death row inmate Michael Perry and those affected by his crime serve as an examination of why people - and the state - kill.

Documentary that chronicles how Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) was plagued by extraordinary script, shooting, budget, and casting problems - nearly destroying the life and career of the celebrated director.

An investigation into the long-obscured mystery of dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a molecule found in nearly every living organism and considered the most potent psychedelic on Earth.

When three hundred thousand members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hells Angels at San Francisco's Altamont Speedway, the bloody slash that transformed a decade's dreams into disillusionment was immortalized on this film.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno face off in a no-holds-barred competition for the title of Mr. Olympia in this critically-acclaimed film that made Schwarzenegger a household name.

A documentary following the controversial captivity of killer whales, and its dangers for both humans and whales.

A team of brave individuals risk their lives to protect the last mountain gorillas.

A documentary about the 1930s drought of North American prairie farm land, and its consequences during the great depression.