Observational Documentary Movies

A short documentary about the behaviour of Japanese primary school students.

An intimate portrait filmed across 10 years of Mary, a charismatic and complex woman, born and raised in rural Kansas, USA. She runs a curiosity shop...

God's Girls describes life in a Sisters of Mercy convent in country New South Wales from the 1940's to present day. This courageous and clever film...

A feature length documentary shot in Iceland on mediums and the relationship between humans and invisible beings such as elves ghosts, angels, water...

The night is falling and Montreal is under the snow. People line up at the lost and found office of the city’s transit company. They all have...

In March 2023, despite a flush of police raids and arrests in the struggle against Cop City in Atlanta, the Weelaunee Food Autonomy Festival gathered...

This documentary profiles a Maine craftsman and his son, who are among the last practitioners of the art of wooden boat building.

Eva’s being allowed to leave the psychiatric institution she’s lived in for six years. After a long year of waiting, the news arrive: an...

During the pandemic, a 14 year old boy remains stuck in his school dormitory while his mother tries to contact him.

A documentary film exposing the truth about psychics and fortune-tellers. All the ins and outs of magical TV shows and services of the most famous...

From the slow waitings for opening of the big top to the loneliness in the dressing room backstage, Abuhadba follows the life of a small circus in...

MENTAL is a feature-length documentary that observes the complex world of an outpatient mental health clinic in Japan, interwoven with patients,...

A documentary part of CBS reports. The plight of mental patients fit for discharge, but who find themselves thrust into communities unprepared to...

In a rapidly changing America where mass inequality and dwindling opportunity have devastated the black working class, three Detroit men must fight...

An observational documentary following Steven Brooke and how the solitude of painting impacts his life and artwork.

Roger Boussinot directed this episode of the French television show Italiques, which features an overview of the art and career of Fantastic Planet...