2025 Movies : Documentary

With Perri Peltz • Matthew O'Neill

A gripping documentary that exposes the dark side of social media and its devastating impact on young users.

With Michael T. Workman • Matthew Belen • Munir Atalla • Benjamin Haggerty • Macklemore • Kei Pritsker • Ben Becker

With raw, emotional footage and in-depth interviews with whistleblowers, professors, and the central organizers, The Encampments tells the full story of the Columbia encampment and the global movement it spawned. The film chronicles the protest’s escalation from Columbia’s administration banning student organizations for Palestine to the mass arrests that broke a 50-year police ban on campus.

With Christopher Ninness • Eric Kimelton

A documentary film about the 1995 Disney classic, A Goofy Movie. A true story about underdogs, the power of art and the fandom that embraced it.

With Emmanuel Itier

Water is essential for all life on earth, but also holds many untold secrets. Experts discuss water’s healing effects, how it can capture positive and negative energy, and the importance of conserving this precious resource before it’s too late. Join these scientists, authors, and healers as they explore the relationship between water, people, and the rest of the world.

With Dede Gardner • Jeremy Kleiner • Marc Robinson • Kevin Macdonald • David Joseph • Steve Condie • Bradd Pitt

An expansive and revelatory inside look at the 18 months John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent living in Greenwich Village in the early 1970s, One to One: John & Yoko delivers an immersive cinematic experience that brings to life electrifying, never-before-seen material and newly restored footage of Lennon's only full-length, post-Beatles concert. With mind-blowing remastered audio overseen by their son, Sean Ono Lennon, the film is a seismic revelation that will challenge pre-existing notions of the iconic couple.

With Antony Crook

Over 25 years and 10 studio albums—using powerful sonic force mixed with subtlety and grace—Mogwai have defined their own musical genre and built a cult following. The film takes us on a journey from their very beginnings, in the mid 1990s, to creating their tenth studio album in their hometown of Glasgow in 2020. While at first seemingly impossible to make, they ultimately made history with it.

With Hendrik Faller

From dog-lawyers in Detroit to clone-farms in Iowa, "Dogs Are People Too" explores the four-legged civil rights movement sweeping across America. Dogs may soon be considered ‘non-human persons’, changing the human-dog bond forever.

With Bryce Dallas Howard

A documentary that explores the extraordinary relationship that exists between animals and their people all around the world. Highlighting dogs, cats, pigs, goats and even birds of prey, “Pets” takes us on a hilarious and poignant journey that celebrates love, loss, and licks along the way.

With Pete Thompson • Pine Pienaar • Zach Smith • Sammy Podhurst • Chris Tomer • Will Gadd

An extreme sports enthusiast tries to paraglide across the state of Colorado after unsuccessful previous attempts. He’ll have to brave dangerous thunderstorms, create nightly camps, and hike for miles to find a suitable launch point. Documenting every minute of the journey, he takes the viewer along for the ride for all the beautiful vistas Colorado has to offer from the seat of the paraglider.

A raw and intimate documentary that unveils the hidden struggles behind Nick Carter (Backstreet Boys) and Aaron Carter’s fame. Told through the eyes of their sister, Angel, this powerful film unpacks the family’s complex dynamics, leading to the tragic deaths of three siblings and their father.

With Vicky Du

In her deeply personal and moving directorial debut, filmmaker Vicky Du unravels her family’s war-torn history across three generations and three countries—China, Taiwan, and the United States. Light of the Setting Sun is a poetic exploration of the unspoken, revealing how inherited trauma, insecurity, and the echoes of war shape both identity and legacy. Through archival footage, personal reflections, and intimate interviews, Du crafts a candid and compassionate meditation on survival and the lasting impact of her family’s escape from the 1949 Chinese Communist Revolution.

With Greg Tillman

Filmmaker Greg Tillman delves into the harrowing events of April 19, 1995, when a bomb devastated the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The film features crime scene recreations, firsthand accounts from survivors, first responders, law enforcement, and audio-recorded interviews with domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh, the man responsible for the bombing — all shedding new light on the tragedy that claimed 168 lives. Probing how the FBI collaborated with local authorities, the documentary takes a detailed look into the investigative methods — and strokes of pure luck — used to bring McVeigh and his co-conspirators to justice, while also exploring the personal demons driving McVeigh's radical, far-right, insurrectionist agenda.

With David Levine • Craig Foster • Swati Thiyagarajan • George Chignell • Pippa Ehrlich • Jessica Grimshaw • Nick Shumaker

A man finds new purpose when he helps rescue a baby pangolin, one of the most trafficked animals in the world, in a sting operation in South Africa. He leaves the city and embarks on a heartfelt mission to rehabilitate and prepare the vulnerable animal for a life of freedom in the wild.

With Blake Lively • James Cameron • Bertie Gregory

On the twentieth anniversary of National Geographic’s Academy-Award Winning “March of The Penguins”, SECRETS OF THE PENGUINS changes everything we ever believed to be true. From the Emperor Penguins’ revelatory bonds of friendship to the gritty resolve of Gentoos and Rockhoppers, and the astonishing ingenuity of the migrant penguins that reached deserts and far beyond, their incredible traditions and societies echo ours in ways we never dreamt possible – until now. For over two years, BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning wildlife cinematographer Bertie Gregory collaborates with world leading scientists, using cutting-edge camera technology and unique access to capture three world-first episodes that resonate with our lives like never before.

With Brendan Fraser

In “Sea Lions of the Galápagos,” Leo eventually leaves his mother’s colony to find his own home following swimming lessons, fishing expeditions and some growing up. Male sea lions must fight to earn the best spots, and only the strongest will become beachmasters. Leo’s lifelong quest is fraught with challenges and filled with new encounters with an array of creatures, from marine iguanas and racer snakes to yellow fin tuna and huge Galapagos sharks.

With Assaf Beker

They witnessed what no child should ever see. For the first time, they're telling their story.

With Cheech Marin • David Bushell • Tommy Chong

Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie defies documentary expectations and instead offers up a wildly imaginative take on genre convention, a true-life tale told through a heady mix of animation and archival madness, all underscored by a classic cinematic road trip.

With Jim Wahlberg

In a world losing itself to screens, teenage mystic Carlo Acutis saw beyond our social media-addicted society and offered an answer—if we’re willing to listen. Carlo Acutis: Roadmap to Reality explores the life of the first millennial saint while following teens on a phone-free pilgrimage to his tomb, immersing them in his story, his passion for Christ, and a search for meaning in a digital age.