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Spotlight

Watch the latest documentary release
  • Steven Fuller, from the Guardian documentary The Winterkeeper, directed by Laurence Topham and David Levene

    The Winterkeeper
    The?Winterkeeper: protecting the US’s last great wilderness

    Steven Fuller has lived and worked at Yellowstone national park for the past 50 years, but now faces an uncertain future as the climate crisis intensifies

Environment

Films from the frontline of the climate emergency
  • Birdsong - documentary about the Hmong people of northern Laos

    Birdsong
    The?dying whistled language of the Hmong people in northern Laos

  • A still from the documentary, Burned to the Ground, set in Lytton, Canada

    Burned to the Ground
    The?Canadian village incinerated by record temperatures

  • Eve documentary image

    Eve
    The?off-grid life of a nine-year-old climate activist

  • Image from Sam and the Plant Next Door

    Sam and the Plant Next Door
    Growing up with Hinkley Point

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Tech

Films about how technology is impacting our lives
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    Ilya
    Ilya: The AI scientist shaping the world

  • Helen Mort, shares her disturbing story of deepfake pornography in the documentary 'My Blonde GF'

    My Blonde GF
    My?Blonde GF: a disturbing story of deepfake pornography

  • Kjell Frode - Internet Warriors

    The internet warriors
    Meet the 'trolls' in their own homes

  • Erica : Man Made

    Erica: Man Made
    The?world's most human-like autonomous android

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Europe

A selection of films offering a pan-European lens
  • Still Ghosts of Moria Documentary 1

    Ghosts of Moria
    Living in the ashes of Europe’s largest migrant camp – documentary

  • Colette Marin-Catherine's photo album

    Colette
    Former French resistance member confronts a family tragedy 75 years later

  • Dalila from Guardian documentary Sindicat on the phone

    Sindicat
    Evading eviction in one of Europe’s most densely populated cities – Guardian documentary

  • A still from the Guardian Documentary, Lenka

    Lenka
    A?portrait of methamphetamine addiction in the Czech Republic – documentary

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Pride

Celebrating LGBTQI+ stories
  • Derek Jarman being canonised by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

    Saintmaking
    The?canonisation of Derek Jarman by queer ‘nuns’

  • A fan of Lebanese alternative rock band Mashrou' Leila holds a rainbow flag during their concert at the Ehdeniyat International Festival in Ehden town, Lebanon August 12, 2017. Picture taken August 12, 2017. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi<br>A fan of Lebanese alternative rock band Mashrou' Leila holds a rainbow flag during their concert at the Ehdeniyat International Festival in Ehden town, Lebanon August 12, 2017. Picture taken August 12, 2017. Jamal Saidi

    Beirut Dreams in Color
    The?queer revolution in the Middle East

  • A still from latest Guardian Documentary The Black Cop

    The Black Cop
    A?police officer’s story of racism, remorse and resistance

  • Image of Monica Benicio from Marielle Franco documentary

    Marielle and Monica
    The?LGBT activists resisting Bolsonaro's Brazil

Rights and freedoms

Watch films on the global fight for justice
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    After Windrush
    Paulette Wilson's journey to Jamaica, 50 years on

  • The Trap: the deadly sex–trafficking cycle in American prisons

    The Trap
    The?deadly sex–trafficking cycle in American prisons

  • Still from Lasting Marks documentary

    Lasting Marks
    16?men put on trial for sadomasochism

  • Still of a migrant labourer The Great Abandonment documentary

    The Great Abandonment
    The?extraordinary exodus of India’s migrant labourers

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Black Lives

Foregrounding films by Black filmmakers
  • With Woman: a home-birth midwife in Illinois, guides a first-time mother through her delivery

    With Woman
    With Woman: the high stakes for a home-birth midwife in the US

  • A still from latest Guardian Documentary The Black Cop

    The Black Cop
    A?police officer’s story of racism, remorse and resistance

  • RIP SENI Documentary

    RIP Seni
    RIP?SENI: racism, graffiti and the UK’s mental health crisis - video

  • The Circle documentary holding image

    The Circle
    Masculinity, racism and brotherhood on a Hackney estate

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Indigenous voices

Films made with and about Indigenous storytellers
  • While millions of people around the world have gone into lockdown amid the coronavirus crisis, a family in the Ecuadorian Amazon has opted to move deeper into the relative safety of the jungle. As they reconnect with dormant ancestral knowledge, away from the distractions of modern life, their affinity with nature begins to flourish. As news spreads that Ecuador might lift lockdown soon, will the family stay?

    The Return
    A?family reconnects with the Amazon as Covid threatens their village

  • Guardian Documentary: Lupita

    Lupita
    The?indigenous activist leading a new generation of Mexican women

  • Tribal fighter from Lost Rambos documentary

    The 'Lost Rambos'
    How?weapons and Hollywood changed tribal disputes in Papua New Guinea

  • Image from The Fight documentary

    Fighting for a pension
    Disability rights protesters in Bolivia face police barricades – video

Society

Films about community, culture and activism
  • Image from Dearborn documentary

    Dearborn, Michigan
    A?divided city grappling with what it means to be Muslim and American

  • Image from The Hour of Lynching documentary

    The Hour of Lynching
    Vigilante violence against Muslims in India

  • Qandeel Badoch

    Qandeel Baloch
    The?life, death and impact of Pakistan’s working class icon

  • Image from Four Weddings Documentary

    Four Weddings
    Four alternative nuptials to Harry and Meghan's

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New perspectives

Fresh takes on contemporary stories
  • Still from Guardian documentary, A Mouthful of Petrol, directed by Jess Kohl

    A Mouthful of Petrol
    A?Mouthful of Petrol: coming of age in the world of banger racing

  • On the set of No Ball Games, directed by Charlotte Regan

    No ball games
    Life and play through the eyes of children across the UK

  • The Circle documentary holding image

    The Circle
    Masculinity, racism and brotherhood on a Hackney estate

  • Guardian Documentary 'Somalinimo'

    Somalinimo
    Somali culture, blackness and Islam at Cambridge University

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Conflict

Documentaries on those whose lives are affected by war
  • Still image from documentary, The 'Spider-Man' of Sudan

    The ‘Spider-Man’ of Sudan
    The?real-life superhero of the protest movement

  • Vasyl Baidak and Iryna Terekhova, from the documentary The Year that Never Ended, directed by Anton Shtuka

    The Year that Never Ended
    How?a Ukrainian comedian rebuilt a stranger’s house

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    Untold Chaos
    Living through Libya's wars

  • Battle of Mosul

    The Battle for Mosul
    A?dirty war in Isis's heartland

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Hope

Inspiring films offering a new lens on a complicated world
  • still from the documentary

    My Brother’s Keeper
    A?former Guantánamo detainee, his guard and their unlikely friendship

  • Still from How to make a pearl documentary

    How to Make a Pearl
    The?San Francisco man who lives in darkness

  • Image from Cops and Robbers documentary

    Cops and Robbers
    The?New York cop from the streets

  • Image from Champs documentary

    The Sprinter Factory
    Where girls compete to be Jamaica's next top athletes

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Award winners

Watch our Oscar, Bafta, Emmy and other award-winning documentaries
  • A still from latest Guardian Documentary The Black Cop

    The Black Cop
    A?police officer’s story of racism, remorse and resistance

  • Colette Marin-Catherine's photo album

    Colette
    Former French resistance member confronts a family tragedy 75 years later

  • A screengrab from Unsafe Passage, a Guardian Documentary. (Ed Ou/The Outlaw Ocean Project)

    Get Away from the Target
    On?board a refugee rescue ship racing for Europe

  • Image from Black Sheep documentary

    Black Sheep
    The?black teenager who made friends with racists

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