2025 Movies : Documentary

With Suzannah Herbert

After generations of showcasing its antebellum homes and hoop-skirted docents, Natchez, Mississippi, is now reckoning with a romanticized past, an uncertain future and the debt it owes to the descendants of slavery. A cinematic portrait of a tourist town at a crossroads, NATCHEZ follows an array of historic homeowners, activists and tour guides as they tell their versions of the past, and clash over who gets to tell America’s story.

With Angus Wall

There’s only one Eddie Murphy. At 17, he was already performing stand-up in New York clubs, and a year later joined Saturday Night Live straight out of high school. From Beverly Hills Cop to The Nutty Professor, Dr. Dolittle to Donkey, Murphy has done it all and done it better than anyone. For nearly 50 years, he’s ruled comedy, film, and fame itself without ever losing his center.

With Patrick Creadon • William Neal • Julia Szormba

Lawrence Herbert, a visionary whose innovative idea to standardize color with the Pantone Matching System, revolutionized the worldwide language and use of color. This compelling documentary features an exclusive interview with Herbert, offering an intimate glimpse into the mind behind Pantone and his enduring impact on how we perceive and use color today.

With Sam Abbas

An observation of the migrant experience; from crossing the Mediterranean Sea out of Libya to settling in Paris-based squats. In a view free from prejudice, we quickly see how the experiences of migrants(African and South Asian) vary in extremes during the different stages in their journey to a better life.

With Tig Notaro • Jessica Hargrave • Stef Willen • Ryan White • Megan Falley • Andrea Gibson

An unexpectedly funny and joyful love story, poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley navigate life and mortality in the face of an incurable diagnosis.

With Isabel Castro

Celebrates the life and legacy of the Queen of Tejano, Selena Quintanilla, who along with her family performed, triumphed, and redefined genres, captured through never-before-seen footage from the family’s personal archive.

With Anthony Ing • Charlie Shackleton • Catherine Bray

The true crime genre’s ubiquity is driven by people’s endless fascination, disgust, and — bizarrely — search for comfort in genre conventions that still have the ability to generate complex emotions despite their predictability and familiarity.

With Bao Nguyen

A former Saigon photo editor reveals a secret he’s been plagued with for 52 years, setting off a gripping two-year investigation into the truth behind one of the Vietnam War’s most iconic photographs. Acclaimed conflict photographer Gary Knight and a small team of journalists embark on a relentless search to locate and seek justice for a man known only as “the stringer.”

With Mohammadreza Eyni • Sara Khaki

Patriarchy still reigns in the northwestern Iranian village where 37-year-old Sara Shahverdi—divorced, childless, and an avid motorcyclist—became the first woman elected to city council. Wife and husband team Khaki and Eyni followed Shahverdi's journey over eight years, tracking her inspiring, upstream efforts to subvert economic systems and transform local attitudes (of men and women alike) that destine girls to matrimony and dependence. A midwife and one of nine children, Sara is both deeply connected to the everyday lives of her fellow villagers and a radical lone voice advocating—at great personal cost—for education over marriage, home co-ownership, and girls on bikes.

With Liza Mandelup

Endlessly struggling to feel seen, David becomes infatuated with a mysterious company’s promise to transform people’s lives by permanently changing the color of their eyes. After traveling to India to get the controversial procedure, he begins to question if this artificial beauty will give him the fulfillment he truly seeks.

With Marshall Curry

For the first time, The New Yorker opens up its offices to Academy Award-winning director Marshall Curry, allowing unprecedented access to its newsroom at a pivotal moment for all media, offering a rare look at what it took to publish a century of intrepid journalism, generation-defining fiction, and unforgettable cartoons.

With Tamara Kotevska

Follows Nikola, a farmer in North Macedonia, who struggles to maintain his livelihood due to changing government policies that hinder his ability to sell his land and crops.

With Bao Nguyen

A former Saigon photo editor reveals a secret he’s been plagued with for 52 years, setting off a gripping two-year investigation into the truth behind one of the Vietnam War’s most iconic photographs. Acclaimed conflict photographer Gary Knight and a small team of journalists embark on a relentless search to locate and seek justice for a man known only as “the stringer.”

With Jeremy Irons • Carrie Coon • Ellen Burstyn • John Leguizamo • David Strathairn • Hope Davis • Marcia Gay Harden • F. Murray Abraham • Bebe Neuwirth • Helen Mirren • Stephen Lang • Stephen Fry • Bill Irwin • Kelly MacDonald • Jeannie Berlin • Mamie Gummer • Bill Camp • Lily Rabe • Lily Tomlin • Rufus Sewell • Louisa Jacobson • Nick Davis • Joanna Gleason • Donal Logue • Eric Bogosian • J. Smith-Cameron • David Hyde Pierce • Martha Plimpton • Kelli O’Hara • Harry Hadden-Paton • Albert M. Tapper • Kasia Koleczek • Anna Krippa

Haunting and unforgettable, THIS ORDINARY THING tells the story of non-Jews who helped save Jewish people across Europe during The Holocaust.

With Marshall Curry

For the first time, The New Yorker opens up its offices to Academy Award-winning director Marshall Curry, allowing unprecedented access to its newsroom at a pivotal moment for all media, offering a rare look at what it took to publish a century of intrepid journalism, generation-defining fiction, and unforgettable cartoons.

With Brendan Harty

The Mighty Oaks is a documentary about a high school lacrosse team in Morgan Hill, CA. It follows the 2024 boys’ team through personal challenges, loss, and growth—showing how a community built something greater than just a sports program.

With Mani Sandoval • Lee Strobel

Lee Strobel was an atheist. A thriving legal editor at The Chicago Tribune, he set out to investigate the resurrection of Jesus. His confident disbelief was turned on its head. His findings? Faith. Decades later, Strobel continues his investigations as he builds The Case for Miracles and asks: Do miracles still happen today? From awe-inspiring wonders to God’s silence in times of suffering, this documentary takes audiences on a remarkable journey. Through stories of people who claim have experienced the impossible, and experts who cross-examine the evidence, the film challenges skeptics, inspires seekers, and shows that the search for answers can transform us. Follow Lee Strobel and director Mani Sandoval on a cinematic journey into the miraculous.