Documentaries of the Week

In praise of Freedom
TMDB: 8.5/10 | Year: 2015

In Praise of Freedom follows a filmmaker on a personal quest to understand what freedom truly means, not through abstract definition but through direct experience. Travelling across countries and speaking with people from a wide range of backgrounds, he gathers a mosaic of perspectives on one of humanity’s most elusive concepts. The film captures this pursuit in an essayistic, experimental form that is as much about the act of searching as it is about any single answer.

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Good People Go To Hell, Saved People Go To Heaven

In the years following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, director Holly Hardman turns her lens on evangelical Christians along the Gulf Coast who believe the 2005 storms were a divine warning of the coming Rapture. The film enters megachurches, tent revivals, and the lives of believers, including an itinerant cross-carrier and a devout Gulf Coast family, revealing the deep roots of End Times faith in American identity.

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Another News Story

Another News Story is a 2017 British documentary in which director Orban Wallace turns the camera away from the refugees themselves and onto the international journalists racing across Europe to cover the story. Shot across nine countries from Greece to Germany, the film juxtaposes the experiences of reporters with those of the people they are filming, prompting a searching re-evaluation of how the global media shapes our understanding of humanitarian crises.

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The Salt of the Earth
TMDB: 8.1/10 | Year: 2014

During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of our recent history: international conflicts, starvations and exodus… He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of the wild fauna and flora, of grandiose landscapes: a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet’s beauty. Salgado’s life and work are revealed to us by his son, Juliano, who went with him during his last journeys, and by Wim Wenders, a photographer himself.

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Die Schweiz von oben: Vom Zauber der Alpenrepublik
TMDB: 8/10 | Year: 2019

Von oben sieht man gut, was die kleine Schweiz stark macht: atemberaubende Berglandschaften, in deren Schutz die selbstbewussten Eidgenossen Geschichte schrieben.

Now Streaming On: Amazon Prime Video

Anonymous Club
TMDB: 8/10 | Year: 2021

An intimate access to the private life of Courtney Barnett, an anti-influencer who is a powerful voice for our times.

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Maternal Instinct
TMDB: 7.1/10 | Released: 2026-06-11

Police pull over a woman who claims she just gave birth. But the baby — and the blood — aren’t hers. Twisted lies unravel in this true-crime documentary.

Pet Shop
TMDB: 10.0/10 | Released: 2026-06-14

HE ONCE TOLD ME... Pet Shop works as an experiment on regret and suffering. A juxtaposition of a dog in a pet shop and a window. Narrated from the perspective of God, or the Devil, the text recounts discussions a person has had with Him. The person accuses Him of destroying his life. This could be for a sin, a murder, or for falling in love with a person of the same sex.

Pigeon Religion
TMDB: 8.0/10 | Released: 2026-06-13

Descend into the world of New York City’s pigeon people and see how this community reshapes our understanding of the city’s most ubiquitous bird.