Observational Documentary Movies

Life in These Days is a documentary short film exploring the changing reality of childhood in modern cities. As urban spaces become increasingly...

The film is a documentary on the day April 17, 2013, when West, a small farm community in Texas was changed forever by a devastating explosion.

The inhabitants of a lobstering village in Maine all have one thing on their minds: their impending deaths.

This is the story of a team of 40 agents facing 4,000 job seekers at a job centre in the Parisian suburbs. Samia, Corinne, Thierry, Zuleika must...

After a failed suicide attempt and time in a psychiatric hospital, Raffael, a young father, decides that he must create his own “missing...

The face of stone. About the natural beauty of Ural gemstones, about the unparalleled beauty of pieces and jewellery made by Russian master...

Moullet explores the causes and consequences of cases of mental disorders that were especially numerous in the Southern Alps.

The first installment of a documentary trilogy chronicling the highs and lows of an APUSH class with a nonsensical substitute teacher.

In a small cockpit-like room, we see two young hip hop musicians from Tokyo giving birth to a beat: precision, patience and camaraderie hold sway,...

Every year, the most beautiful, best and proudest representatives of German youth meet in Dresden to take to the streets together.

Forget the neon lights and cherry blossoms — this is Japan like you’ve never seen it. In this gripping short documentary, Omar Farooq...