Observational Documentary Movies

An examination of brotherhood through archival footage from 1972-1973 of the Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity of the University of Wisconsin Platteville....

Living in France, a Rwandan psychotherapist committed to rebuilding her country returns this time to learn to play the inanga, the traditional...

In this documentary by Coline Serreau, known for her feature film Why Not?, a selection of Frenchwomen in characteristically no-win situations...

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

A fearless horse bonds two men to each other and to the traditions that define their community.

An incredible travel through space and time between the walls of the Paris Observatory, which is celebrating its 350th birthday. Place of discoveries...

At an altitude of 4500 meters, on the highest plateaus of Karnak in the Himalayan région of Ladakh, in a lunar setting where the sky blends...

The adults and children who reside in the South African village of "Sparrow Village", enjoy a day of tranquility and peace in this free roaming...

Most of us think of death as something clear-cut, and that medical science has it neatly figured out. This feature documentary explodes such...

From 1929 to 1939 Edgar Feuchtwanger lived across the street from Adolf Hitler in Munich Germany From his bedroom the young Jewish boy often viewed...

An observational documentary, shot on high-contrast black and white 16mm film, about a largely undeveloped river in southeastern North Carolina that...

For forty days, a group of fourteen volunteers led by explorer and researcher Christian Clot lived independently in a cave in Ariège. Immersed...

Is Taiwan the scene of the next bloody war? A Chinese attack could trigger a conflict between the superpowers. How great is the danger of a Chinese...

The Californian military base, Twentynine Palms, is a transit point for very young Marines who stay there after returning from Iraq or Afghanistan....