Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty, and seemingly the sole member of the family with a hands-on interest in continuing the directing legacy. Among the materials he found in the estate of Robert and Frances Flaherty’s daughter Monica were the film reels and video tapes detailing several years of work on realising her lifelong dream project: a sound version of her parents’ 1926 docu-fiction axiom, Moana: A Romance of the Golden Age.

Documentary about the lost 1914 film "Sperduti nel buio". Film historian Denis Lotto journeys across...

A rare 1979 BBC Arena documentary on the Albion Band, Ashley Hutchings and the development of Englis...

The story, told by the survivors, of a group of young men, members of a Uruguayan rugby team, who ma...

A documentary film about the Slovenian filmmaker Boštjan Hladnik.
The Tsar visits the Russian embassy
Documentary showing a couple of photographers driving for 35 days, leaving Brazil for Ushuaia.

The people of Unamenshipu (La Romaine), an Innu community in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, are see...
Pearl Gluck travels to Hungary to retrieve a turn-of-the-century family heirloom: a couch upon which...
This short impressionist documentary looks at the creation of a Button Blanket by integrating the pe...

Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...

Filmmaker Tobias Hermansen, known for Dreamscape and Mentally Unavailable, has battled depression fo...
A haunting story of the FBI's dark hand in American life. In 2015, Khalil Abu-Rayyan was just a you...

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur...

Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and f...

A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the 1969 Na...

Klaus Kinski has perhaps the most ferocious reputation of all screen actors: his volatility was docu...

Despite its Afro-American origins, the history of disco music, the soundtrack of the seventies, woul...
A documentary film about Comanche activist LaDonna Harris, who led an extensive life of Native polit...

From the sweaty basement bars of 70s New York to the glittering peak of the global charts, how disco...