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A Beautiful Planet
A Beautiful Planet is a 2016 IMAX 3D documentary directed, written, and edited by Toni Myers. Filmed aboard the ISS with NASA, it is narrated by Jennifer Lawrence.
A Child of My Own
A Child of My Own (Un Hijo Propio) is Maite Alberdi's 2026 Netflix documentary about Eleonor Alejandra Marín Mendoza, who faked a pregnancy and was convicted of kidnapping a newborn in 2009 Mexico City.
André Is an Idiot
André Is an Idiot (2025) is Tony Benna's Sundance Audience Award-winning documentary about André Ricciardi, an advertising creative who filmed his final years with terminal stage 4 colon cancer after skipping a colonoscopy.
Baraka (film)
Baraka is a 1992 non-narrative documentary by Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson, shot in 70mm across 24 countries with no narration, music by Michael Stearns, followed by Samsara (2011).
Before the Flood (2005 film)
Before the Flood (淹没, Yan Mo) is a 2005 Chinese documentary by Li Yifan and Yan Yu recording the 2002 demolition and relocation of Fengjie before Three Gorges Dam flooding; it won the Berlin Wolfgang Staudte Prize and Yamagata Grand Prize.
Blink (2024 American film)
Blink is a 2024 documentary film by Edmund Stenson and Daniel Roher following the Lemay-Pelletier family's year-long world trip after three of their four children are diagnosed with an incurable disease causing blindness.
Capturing Bigfoot
Capturing Bigfoot is a 2026 American documentary directed by Marq Evans about the Patterson-Gimlin film, the 59-second 1967 Bigfoot footage, following the family, believers, and debunkers closest to it.
Chang (1927 film)
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (1927) is a silent Paramount film by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, shot in Siam (Nan), about a farming family versus jungle animals and elephants; Oscar honorable mention 1929, precursor to King Kong.
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (1927) is a silent documentary-drama by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, filmed over eighteen months in Siam (Thailand), released by Paramount, and named to the National Film Registry in 1997.
Come See Me in the Good Light
Come See Me in the Good Light is a 2025 Ryan White documentary on Apple TV about poet Andrea Gibson and wife Megan Falley facing Gibson's terminal ovarian cancer; Sundance Festival Favorite winner and Oscar-nominated.
Cowspiracy
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret is a 2014 documentary by Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn claiming animal agriculture drives environmental destruction and that green groups suppress this, centered on a disputed 51% emissions figure.
Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever
Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever is a 2025 Netflix documentary by Chris Smith profiling tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson's $2-million-a-year anti-aging Project Blueprint regimen and its personal toll.
Everest: The Other Side
Everest: The Other Side is a 2026 National Geographic documentary by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin about ski mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson's attempt to climb and ski Everest's direct North Face, completed by Morrison after Nelson's 2022 avalanche death.
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control is Errol Morris's 1997 documentary interweaving a lion tamer, topiary gardener, mole-rat specialist, and MIT roboticist Rodney Brooks, whose 1989 swarm-robots paper gave the film its title.
Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare
Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare is a 2026 HBO Original documentary by James Jones and Megumi Inman reconstructing the nine days after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi disaster, featuring the Fukushima 50 workers, hydrogen explosions, and the threatened Tokyo evacuation.
Ghost Elephants
Ghost elephants: a secretive, nocturnal population of about 20 to 100 elephants in Angola's eastern highlands (Lisima), long lost to science, studied by Steve Boyes and featured in Werner Herzog's 2025 documentary.
Going Postal: The Legacy Foretold
Going Postal: The Legacy Foretold is a 2025 feature-length documentary by Tad Sallee and Jason Sikorsky about the Postal video game franchise and Tucson studio Running With Scissors, released May 30, 2025 after a five-year shoot.
Grizzly Man
Grizzly Man is Werner Herzog's 2005 documentary about Timothy Treadwell, who lived 13 summers among Alaskan grizzlies before being killed in 2003; built from his 100+ hours of footage.
Honeyland
Honeyland (Медена земја) is a 2019 North Macedonian documentary by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov about Hatidze Muratova, Europe's last female wild beekeeper; it won three Sundance prizes and became the first film Oscar-nominated for both Best Documentary Feature and Best International Feature.
Jane
Jane (2017) is Brett Morgen's National Geographic documentary on Jane Goodall, built from 140 hours of 16 mm footage by Hugo van Lawick rediscovered in 2014, scored by Philip Glass; distinct from the 2017 Korean drama Jane, The Janes, and Jane by Charlotte.
Kiss the Ground
Kiss the Ground is a 2020 American documentary directed by Josh and Rebecca Tickell and narrated by Woody Harrelson, arguing that regenerative agriculture can fight climate change.
Listers: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching
Listers: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching (2025) is Owen Reiser's 119-minute YouTube documentary about the Reiser brothers' 2024 Lower 48 Big Year: 39,000 miles in a $4,500 Kia Sedona, 579 species, and a critique of eBird gamification.
Lost in the Jungle
Lost in the Jungle (2025) is a National Geographic documentary by Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, and Juan Camilo Cruz about four Indigenous Mucutuy children who survived 40 days in the Colombian Amazon after a 2023 plane crash, streaming on Disney+ and Hulu; distinct from Netflix's The Lost Children.
March of the Penguins
March of the Penguins (La Marche de l'empereur) is Luc Jacquet's 2004 French documentary on emperor penguins' Antarctic breeding cycle. Oscar winner, $122.6M gross, US version narrated by Morgan Freeman.
Monkey Kingdom
Monkey Kingdom is a 2015 Disneynature documentary, also called a True Life Adventure, directed by Mark Linfield and Alastair Fothergill and narrated by Tina Fey. It follows toque macaque Maya and her son Kip at Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka; not related to the Monkey King films.
Nanook of the North
Nanook of the North (1922) is Robert Flaherty's silent film about an Inuit hunter, staged with Allakariallak and Maggie Nujarluktuk at Inukjuak, funded by Revillon Frères, and considered the first commercially successful feature documentary.
Nuisance Bear (2026 film)
Nuisance Bear (2026) is a feature documentary by Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman, expanding their Oscar-shortlisted 2021 short, following polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba; it won the 2026 Sundance U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize and was released by Mubi.
Orangutan (film)
Orangutan (2026 Disneynature documentary, Disney+ Earth Day release) directed by Mark Linfield and Vanessa Berlowitz, narrated by Josh Gad, follows young orangutan Indah leaving her family; about 700 hours of footage from Borneo and Sumatra.
Samsara (2011 film)
Samsara (2011) is a nonverbal documentary by Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson, sequel to Baraka, shot on 70mm over five years in 25 countries, premiered at TIFF 2011, released 2012.
Sea Lions of the Galapagos
Sea Lions of the Galapagos is a 2025 Disneynature and Silverback Films documentary on Disney+, released Earth Day April 22, 2025. Narrated by Brendan Fraser and directed by Hugh Wilson with Keith Scholey, it follows sea lion pup Leo and mother Luna, with companion film Guardians of the Galapagos.