Category Documentary

A documentary that shows the mechanisms of power at the highest levels, denouncing the labyrinth of falsehoods behind the murder of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi embassy in Istanbul. Offering an impressive number of unreleased footage and exclusive testimonies brought by the people most involved in the affair, including Hatice Cengiz, Khashoggi’s girlfriend, law enforcement, Turkish prosecutors and the young Saudi dissident Khashoggi was working with. The Dissident is a story of money, tyranny and runaway technology. Every single piece of evidence leads directly to the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has stopped at nothing to cover up the affair around the world. At the center of the film is the figure of Khashoggi, a reformer of sound principles who sought to bring about a fairer and more open society in his home country of Saudi Arabia. The Dissident shows that, in today’s world, no one who opposes the strong powers is really safe...

A five-episode Amazon Original docuseries that traces the long relationship of the famous serial killer Ted Bundy with his girlfriend Elizabeth Kendall. The docuseries frames Bundy’s crimes from a female perspective by revealing how much Bundy’s hatred of women clashed deeply with the feminist movement of the 1970s, culminating in the most famous crime story of our times. After nearly 40 years of silence, Elizabeth Kendall and her daughter Molly share their experiences with disturbing new details about Bundy, her attraction to women and an archive of never-before-seen family photos. Their stories will be joined by a chorus of other female voices, including some survivors of the Bundy attacks, coming forward for the first time with chilling details that will change the way of telling the story of this famous serial killer and will also trigger a discussion about gender politics, a hot topic of recent times...

This documentary follows four hopeful contestants and the decades-long success of Indo-American citizens in the most important national spelling contest...

Based on the archive of the work of feminist Gloria Steinem. The film tells of the influence of her childhood spent traveling on her life as a writer, activist and organizer for women’s rights around the world...

The life and artistic expression of photographer Helmut Newton is told through the testimonies of actresses and models who got to know him and work with this artist whose work was both an object of admiration but also of contestation...

A documentary that tells the exciting last years of the Canadian artist, his career, his path, and his brand new album “Wonder” expected for December 4, 2020. The documentary is a sincere look at a singer-songwriter and performer struggling with the pressures of celebrity and the emotional changes of coming of age. All this while the world watches him...

Anyone who imagines the parable of the Gibb brothers, namely The Bee Gees, as the unstoppable rise to success of the “king of disco music” will probably be disappointed or amazed. Because that of Barry, Robin, Maurice and Andy Gibb is a much more complex affair, full of ups and downs, of sudden changes and unexpected turns, as Frank Marshall exemplifies in How Do You Mend a Broken Heart. A classic musical documentary, which builds the sensational pages of his novel starting from the declarations of the protagonists, witnesses and heirs of a successful and customary phenomenon like the one that shocked the world forever in 1977...

City government affects almost every aspect of life. Most of us are unaware of this, or take for granted such basic services as the police, firefighters, health care, veterans affairs department, senior assistance, park maintenance, licensing for various professional activities, registration of births, marriages and deaths along with hundreds of other activities that protect Boston residents and visitors. The film shows the commitment of the city government of Boston to be able to offer these services. The film also explains the various ways in which the administration engages with citizens. Mayor Walsh and councilors are portrayed addressing a range of political priorities, including racial justice, affordable housing, climate action, and homelessness...

An intimate portrait of Robin Williams and his invulnerable spirit...

The documentary reconstructs the professional adventure of Dorothy Otnow Lewis, the American criminologist who has spent her life investigating the mentality of serial killers, first studying the effects of multiple personality disorders and then managing to have them recognized as such by the courts...