American Documentary Movies
- 2005
The Hobart Shakespeareans
The Hobart Shakespeareans42005HD
Rafe Esquith, 1992 American Teacher of the Year and National Medal of Arts recipient, teaches 5th-grade children whose parents don't speak English at...
- 2023
How to Have an American Baby
How to Have an American Baby02023HD
An intimate and kaleidoscopic voyage behind the closed doors of the Chinese birth tourism industry in the U.S.
- 2021
North by Current
North by Current62021HD
Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown following the death of his infant niece and the subsequent arrest of his...
- 2011
I'm Carolyn Parker
I'm Carolyn Parker62011HD
A documentary about a survivor of Hurricane Katrina.
- 2022
Midwives
Midwives82022HD
Hla and Nyo Nyo live in a country torn by conflict. Hla is a Buddhist and the owner of a makeshift medical clinic in western Myanmar, where the...
- 2017
Motherland
Motherland6.42017HD
The planet’s busiest maternity hospital is located in one of its poorest and most populous countries: the Philippines. There, poor women face...
- 2020
And She Could Be Next
And She Could Be Next02020HD
The story of a defiant movement of women of color transforming American politics from the ground up. Filmed during the historic 2018 midterm...
- 2024
Brief Tender Light
Brief Tender Light02024HD
At America's elite MIT, a Ghanaian alum follows four African students as they strive to graduate and become agents of change for their home countries...
- 2018
The Feeling of Being Watched
The Feeling of Being Watched6.52018HD
Journalist Assia Boundaoui sets out to investigate long-brewing rumors that her quiet, predominantly Arab-American neighborhood was being monitored...
- 2018
93Queen
93Queen7.82018HD
Set in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn, "93Queen" follows a group of tenacious Hasidic women who are smashing the patriarchy in their...
- 2013
American Promise
American Promise6.72013HD
In 1999, filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson turned the camera on themselves and began filming their five-year-old son, Idris, and...
- 2022
Fannie Lou Hamer’s America
Fannie Lou Hamer’s America02022HD
The film explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of a Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist and one of the Civil Rights...
- 2022
After Sherman
After Sherman02022HD
Beautifully layered and expressionistic, After Sherman is a story about inheritance and the tension that defines our collective American history,...
- 2021
Through the Night
Through the Night82021HD
When one’s sole focus is to provide for their children, the stakes are extremely high. The need for multiple jobs to make ends meet has become...
- 2015
Thank You for Playing
Thank You for Playing7.32015HD
For the past two years, Ryan and Amy Green have been working on That Dragon, Cancer, a videogame about their son Joel's fight against that disease....
- 2022
Let the Little Light Shine
Let the Little Light Shine82022HD
When a thriving, top-ranked African American elementary school is threatened to be replaced by a new high school favoring the community’s...
- 2020
Natours Grocery
Natours Grocery02020HD
Filmmaker Nadine Natour turns her lens on her parents and her hometown, Appomattox, VA, to capture the story of her parents' emigration from...