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British Gangsters: Faces of the Underworld Season 2 Villains, gangsters or “Faces” as they prefer to be called, are the men, gang and family members who have made headlines over the past 50 years for all the wrong reasons. Presented by Bernard O’Mahoney, best-selling true crime author, Britain’s most infamous and influential ‘faces’ are interviewed f...
Navalny Enthralling and intimate, director Daniel Roher’s NAVALNY unfolds with the pace of a thriller as it follows Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in his quest to identify the men who poisoned him in August 2020. An extraordinary, fly-on-the-wall documentary that is also a portrait of a leader int...
Anti Semitism: 2000 Years of History Season 1 This four-episode series paints a comprehensive picture of this, “the longest hatred”. It will focus on specific stories from each era that mark out and illustrate the form of these manifestations of violence and hatred in an enlightening and moving manner. It will also provide context for the fight...
Everybody's Oma Filmmaker Jason van Genderen is obsessed with making home videos about his elderly mother and, when he creates a supermarket at home during lockdown, he accidentally turns ‘Oma’ into an internet celebrity. Their heart-warming home movies quickly attract a worldwide audience of over 100,000,000 peopl...
My Old School The astonishing true story of Scotland's most notorious imposter. It's 1993 and 16 year old Brandon is the new kid in school. Soon he’s top of the class, acing exams and even taking the lead in the school musical. He’s the model pupil, until he's unmasked.
Colours of China Season 1 The natural cycles of the universe impact each other in a never-ending circle of five interconnected forces, each represented by colour, season, compass point, emotion and location.
Nothing Lasts Forever Hidden from public view, a war is raging inside the diamond industry. When filmmaker Jason Kohn infiltrates this highly secretive world, he uncovers a vast, far reaching conspiracy that threatens the value of every diamond ever mined.
The Vietnam War (Director's Cut) Season 1 In an immersive 360-degree narrative, Ken Burns tells the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. THE VIETNAM WAR features testimony from nearly 80 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants an...
35 Serial Killers The World Wants to Forget Season 1 35 Serial Killers the World Wants to Forget is about those whose lives were touched in some way by a serial killer. The series investigates why the crimes happened and what effect this has had on those who may have only briefly known a murderer. The ripple effects of a murder are felt far and wide.
Mister Organ Journalist and filmmaker David Farrier (Tickled, Dark Tourist) becomes fascinated by the late-night antics of a rogue wheel clamper in New Zealand. MISTER ORGAN is a thrilling and tension filled three-year long investigation – unearthing a trail of multiple court cases, inflated claims of royal bloo...
Frontmen Season 1 Frontmen are frequently destructive, controlling and angry with highly complex lives who struggle to hold down relationships and often abuse drugs and alcohol. A key ingredient of any frontman is an intense appetite for success and adulation - the power of money and prestige that allows demons in an...
A House Made of Splinters The Lysychansk Centre in Eastern Ukraine houses the kids of unfit parents while they await court proceedings determining their future – young cast-offs of alcoholism, addiction, violence and the social trauma of the nearby Russia conflict that has disturbed the region since 2014.
Apocalypse: World War II Season 1 A story of this huge conflict through the often tragic destinies of those who lived it, those who submitted to it, and those who conducted it. The “horrible yet familiar” war led to the deaths of 50 million men and women across the world, with, for the first time, as many civilian victims as there w...
Architecture of Infinity Temporality and age are inherent in every object and creature and, depending on one’s outlook, may transcend to infinity. How can this be imagined? What goes beyond it? The filmmaker Christoph Schaub explores “spiritual life” in architecture and the fine arts, but also in nature, and literally lifts...
Gangster Number One: The Freddie Forman Story To Britain’s criminal underworld, Freddie Foreman is the Godfather and his name instils more fear than any other. Rightly or wrongly, he has been attached to almost every unsolved gangland murder in London over the last 50 years and remains one of the most iconic and well respected men of his genera...
JFK: Destiny Betrayed Season 1 JFK: DESTINY BETRAYED is Oliver Stone's four-part "deep dive" into the infamous Kennedy assassination. Subjects covered in the mini-series include the early formation of President Kennedy's foreign policy worldview and and his anti-colonial convictions which put him in opposition to the Eisenhower a...
The Pink House The town of Kalgoorlie is a relic of the goldrush, built on ‘gold, girls, and grog’. In its midst is Questa Casa, the oldest working brothel in Australia. Run by the exceedingly proper Madam Carmel, the brothel is struggling, not helped by troubled working girl BJ. Their unique stories tell of two w...
Innocent Behind Bars Season 1 In an intimate portrayal of injustice, this series reveals the true experience of being wrongfully convicted and the impact that lasts well beyond the prison bars.
Persons of Interest Season 1 Persons Of Interest lifts the lid on the Australian Intelligence & Security Organisation’s (ASIO) secret war on dissent. In each episode a person of interest is given their previously secret intelligence file and asked to explain the allegations it contains.
The Happy Worker THE HAPPY WORKER takes us behind the shiny corporate facades to reveal the systemic problems that plague the workplace: from a culture of silence, fake change and incompetent managers, to how we educate our children. The film is laced with humour and irony, but without losing sight of the very real...
Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies A new look at Van Gogh, through the legacy of the largest private collector of artworks by the Dutch painter: Helene Kröller-Müller (1869-1939), who, in the early 20th Century, ended up buying nearly 300 of his works, paintings and drawings.
Notorious Season 1 A captivating one-hour documentary series that chronicles the lives of some of the most infamous crooks and criminals in American history. Notorious digs deep and goes inside the twisted minds of the criminals who made newspaper headlines and captured the attention of the American public.
#UNFIT: The Psychology of Donald Trump An eye-opening and shattering analysis of the behavior, psyche, condition, and stability of Donald J. Trump.
Ken Burns: Baseball Season 1 Ken Burns’ epic documentary miniseries. Like Burns’s previous masterpiece (The Civil War), this film is more than just the history of baseball. It is a reflection of the American experience.
The Satoshi Mystery: At the Origins of Bitcoin This documentary deciphers the workings of Bitcoin, the first reliable cryptocurrency revolution and investigates the identity of its creator.
Crimes That Made History Season 1 Some crimes have become sensational news stories and their memories are now part of our popular culture. From Jack the Ripper to Roswell and Lady Di, each episode revisits a page of our shared history.
Loading Docs Season 9 Loading Docs is an award-winning initiative producing short documentaries that captivate and inspire audiences locally and internationally, while developing and promoting New Zealand filmmaking talent.
Hitler Versus Picasso After 70 years from the Hitler’s declaration of war to “degenerate” art, an event film that reveals secrets of the Fuhrer treasure. Picasso, Matisse, Renoir and Chagall: paintings hidden, looted and condemned finally come to light to reveal the Nazi obsession for art on the big screen.
Trust Me How did the young entrepreneur and media darling, Waleed Ahmed, known as "Norway's Mark Zuckerberg" end up being arrested by the FBI and sentenced to 11 years in prison?
The Rise of Jordan Peterson With exclusive access, The Rise of Jordan Peterson gives a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the firestorm sparked by professor, provocateur and best selling author exploring the tension between free speech and hate speech, and the points-of-view of those on both sides of this heightened debate.
Hotel Coolgardie In remotest red-dust Australia is the sleepy mining town of Coolgardie. When two Finnish girls take jobs in the town’s only pub, they find themselves in a trial of endurance. Full of raucous drinkers and ogling patrons, the girls soon realise that pouring pints is the least of their work.
The Man Putin Couldn't Kill In August 2019, on a flight to Moscow, Russia’s charismatic opposition leader, Alexei Navalny started to scream in agony. The flight immediately diverted to the nearest city and he was rushed unconscious to hospital. What happened next shook the world.
Deep Blues In 1990, commissioned by Dave Stewart of Eurythmics, veteran music film director Robert Mugge and renowned music scholar Robert Palmer ventured deep into the heart of the North Mississippi Hill Country and Mississippi Delta to seek out the best rural blues acts currently working.
Holy Hell An inside look at Buddhafield, a West Hollywood cult formed by a charismatic teacher in the 1980s that eventually imploded.
2040 Award-winning director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) embarks on a journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them rapidly into the mainstream.
Tickled Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn't stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction.
Flee Nominated for a historic three Academy Awards® — for best Documentary Feature, Best International Feature and Best Animated Feature — FLEE uncovers a remarkable true story. Amin Nawabi is an Afghan refugee who grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, which now threatens to der...
Some Kind of Heaven Explores life inside the palm-tree-lined streets of The Villages, America’s largest retirement community in Florida. Referred to as the “Disneyland for Retirees”, this planned community is home to over 130,000 seniors.
Putin's Revenge Putin's Revenge is a riveting investigation of how the U.S. struggled to confront Vladimir Putin over Russian involvement in the 2016 election, how revenge may have motivated Putin to target American democracy, and the U.S. responses under Presidents Obama and Trump.
Collective In 2015, a fire at Bucharest’s Colectiv club leaves 27 dead and 180 injured. Soon, more burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life-threatening. Then a doctor blows the whistle to a team of investigative journalists. Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary 2021.
The Velvet Queen High up on the Tibetan plateau, amongst unexplored and inaccessible valleys lies one of the last sanctuaries of the wild world, where rare and undiscovered fauna lives. Vincent Munier, one of the world’s most renowned wildlife photographers, goes in search of the snow leopard, one of the rarest and...
Citizenfour CITIZENFOUR is a real time thriller, giving audiences an exclusive front-row seat to the moment Edward Snowden changed history with his revelations of widespread government surveillance around the world.
Balance of the Five Elements The genesis of the universe and everything in it is described by the ancient Chinese philosophy of the Five Elements: known as Wu Xing. Change is the only constant. Balance and harmony are the objectives. On a cinematic journey throughout China, traversing seasons and geographical touch points, we d...
Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan CROCK OF GOLD is the definitive feature documentary on Irish musical icon, Shane MacGowan, best known as the lead singer of The Pogues. Exploring the wild and roving life of Ireland’s most beloved punk poet through unseen archive footage, as well as contributions from Shane himself and those who kno...
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man Since bursting onto the scene in 1967, Leonard Cohen has inspired generations with his unique personality and haunting music, becoming one of the most original and enduring artists to emerge from the 1960s. LEONARD COHEN I’M YOUR MAN, is an intimate look at the songs, poetry and life of one of music...
Being Frank The film explores the extraordinary secret life of artist Chris Sievey, best known as his alter ego Frank Sidebottom, the maverick Manchester comedian in a papier mâché head. Chris Sievey was a songwriter, artist, comedian and wayward genius. A man whose life was a fantastic, subversive piece of per...
Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles Follows chef Yotam Ottolenghi on his quest to bring the sumptuous art and decadence of Versailles to life in cake form at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Waco: The Rules of Engagement Waco: The Rules of Engagement explores the shocking revelations behind the tragic series of events outside Waco, Texas that killed four federal agents and 76 members of the Branch Davidian religious sect.
Afends Hemp Revolution Our new documentary, 'The Hemp Revolution’, explores the modern day hemp industry
HMS Victory - The Nation's Flagship On 7 May 1765 the HMS Victory was floated out of Chatham’s Royal Dockyard. She would become the most famous flagship in the British Royal Navy and achieve everlasting fame as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson in Britain’s greatest ever naval victory, the defeat of the French and Spanish at th...
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time The feature documentary, the first of its kind on Vonnegut, is a deep, immersive dive into the author’s life and work, as well as the 25-year friendship with the filmmaker who set out to document it. It spans his childhood, marriage and family, early careers and his years as a struggling writer, lea...
Chasing 400 As an avid endurance athlete and someone who is always seeking the next challenge, Justin Kinner was naturally drawn to the Grand Slam of Ultrarunning.
Power Play POWER PLAY: Transforming Australia’s biggest climate polluter is a story about hope. It's a story about collaboration. And it's about how Greenpeace, together with a diverse group of people and organisations, took on Australia's biggest climate polluter - and won.
Volcano Man When filmmaker James Crawley discovers his father's hidden video tapes, he sets out to reveal the real Richard Crawley, an eccentric photographer and documentarian who lives atop a dormant volcano and approach to life is utterly explosive.
Dancing on Water Dancing on Water is a 12-minute Short Documentary that dives deep into the paternal bond between Warrick and Felicity Palmateer. Despite all the obstacles and challenges they have come to face in life, the ocean has always kept them grounded, and most importantly a place of healing.
Lancaster From the team behind SPITFIRE comes LANCASTER. Using re-mastered archive material and extraordinary aerial footage of the RAF's last airworthy Lancaster, we follow 38 contributors as they join-up, learn to fly and go to war.
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft Mt. Unzen, Kyushu, Japan at 3.18pm on 3 June 1991, a pyroclastic flow – a cloud of superheated gases and particles – descended at more than 100 mph from the peak of the volcano, consuming everything in its path. It instantly killed Katia and Maurice Krafft, volcanologists and filmmakers from the Als...
The Desert Said Dance The Baja 1000, this is a place where dreams go to die. Grand visions and hopes, materialized, but rarely sustained. The desert has this mysterious allure, there is freedom, solitude, and opportunity. The desert is the unforgiving canvas of life, and this is a story about the art of racing with it an...
The Importance of Being an Architect The vision of one of the largest architecture and interior design practices in Italy is at the centre of a choral and musical documentary that investigates the responsibility of architects in building the society of tomorrow. A society founded on reciprocity, collaboration and coexistence, through a...
Without A Paddle Without a Paddle is an adventure film that blends the history of the upper Columbia River with a 140km paddle from the foot of the Mica Dam to the top of the Revelstoke Dam.
The New Corporation The Corporation (2003) examined an institution within society; The New Corporation reveals a world now fully remade in the corporation's image, perilously close to losing democracy. We trace the devastating consequences, connecting the dots between then and now, and inspire with stories of resistanc...
3 Days, 2 Nights Imagine the defining moment of your life. Then imagine never talking about it with anyone. This sets the stage for 3 Days 2 Nights. In 1974, Mark and Andy Godfrey went on a family ski vacation to Aspen, Colorado. Tragically, the plane they were traveling on crashed. The world, as they knew it, was c...
The World's Biggest Family A man with 600 half-siblings looks at the odd world of anonymous sperm donation and how that standard practice of anonymity is starting to crack open at last. Witness people whose whole life story has been turned upside down in middle age by a DNA result – and witness not only the shock, but the ple...
Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel The end of an long upmarket renovation of the legendary Chelsea Hotel is partly longed for and partly dreaded by the artists who still live there. The film grants us access to their apartments and interweaves the past with the present.
Leaving Tracks The rock stars of motorcycle design and the founder of a moto museum find recovery and kinship on their emotional journey together.
Dear Future Children DEAR FUTURE CHILDREN explores how three young women in Hong Kong, Chile and Uganda cope with the staggering personal impact of their political activism. A film about the next generation, made by the next generation.
Writing with Fire In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India's only newspaper run by Dalit (‘low caste’) women. Armed with smartphones, Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions, be it on the frontlines of India's biggest issues or within the confines of their homes, redefining what...
Meet the Wallers A unique documentary that follows artist Mark Waller and his family over 20 years. When Mark is diagnosed with a deadly Melanoma the fault lines in the Waller family erupt with surprising results.
Crux Crux follows Harvey Wright, a recovering addict who uses rock climbing to work through his ongoing struggle with mental health.
The Lake of Scars The Lake of Scars is a feature-length documentary produced on Dja Dja Wurrung country, with members of the Yung Balug clan, in the Australian state of Victoria. It is a story of allyship and reconciliation at a place unlike anywhere else Australia. One of astounding beauty and rare cultural, archaeo...
Palazzo di Cozzo Ageing patriarch, Franco Cozzo, holds court over an iconic furniture empire. A pioneer of low-fi television advertising, Franco’s tri-lingual catchphrase sparked a cult-of-personality as kitsch as his baroque bedheads. But his character is more than a caricature.
Yellowstone Supervolcano Season 1 Hidden 7 miles below Yellowstone, Americas most famous National Park lies the world’s biggest natural threat a Supervolcano. In this explosive documentary, world leading scientists unpack the danger of this natural phenomenon.
Ride the Wave Scottish Surf champion Ben Larg's bigger challenge is the biggest and most dangerous cold water waves in the world at Mullaghmore. Danger, opportunity, parental dilemma collide, propelling Ben and his family towards an unknown destiny.
Tall Poppy A child who loved to skate from the age of eight, Poppy Starr Olsen became the number one female bowl skater in Australia at 14 and went on to take out bronze at the XGames at 17 - the ultimate competition in the world of skateboarding. TALL POPPY documents Poppy’s journey as she navigates the uncom...
In the Theatre of Gogs New Zealand based adventure film maker Richard Sidey and landscape photographer Christopher David Thompson head into the wild lands of southern New Zealand on a sea kayaking and hiking adventure.
Mum's Gone Climbing Five years after her first child, Nell had a pivotal moment and stuffed her mama feet back into climbing shoes. Climbing seemed like a wonder drug for the challenges of motherhood, and Nell went on a mission to find other climb mamas.
New Story Run Frustrated with their impact from behind a desk, Rosie Watson and Mike Elm are running and cycling from the U.K. to Mongolia to tell the stories of people living the changes we need to make in a time of climate crisis, and to try to shape a new story of our place in the natural world.
The Sanctity of Space Lured by a black and white photograph, three renowned climbers pursue the ultimate adventure and show us why humans MUST explore.
Inside the Mind Season 1 In this series, renowned psychiatrist, Dr Bob Johnson, will explore the incredibly complex and unusual lives of Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson. He'll reveal the forces and experiences that shaped their unique personalities - from childhood traumas and family life to relationships and their musi...
Perfect Chapter – Looking for Perfection Carcavelos is at the centre of the world for its waves, people, and places as one of the best surfing destinations in Portugal. This seventh edition brings you the worst and best moments lived throughout the day of the competition, as well as a different perspective of the contest.
When the Camera Stopped Rolling The daughter of trailblazing Australian filmmaker, Lilias Fraser, tells the epic tale of her mother’s extraordinary life, her career and their challenging relationship. Director Jane Castle digs deep using the rich textures of a stunning, unseen part of Australia’s cinematic history.
Finding the Archibald Season 1 As the Archibald celebrates its centenary with an ambitious exhibition; art lover and acclaimed actor Rachel Griffiths embarks on a cultural romp through our most coveted and controversial arts prize.
Euforia A visual and sound journey through the Pacific coast. For two years, Alejandro Maytorena and Octavio Coutiño traveled to the shores of Oaxaca to make their dream come true, creating a film that will highlight Mexican talent. Starring Sebastian Williams.
The Stories We Tell Ourselves Imagine you are alone, on North America’s Highest Peak (Denali), trying to break The Female Fastest Known Time (FKT). You must travel 38 miles on a glacier to 20,310 feet- in less than 21 hours. How would you fare in this frigid, lifeless landscape? Where would your mind go?
Regenerating Australia Regenerating Australia is a 17-minute short film based on a four-month interview process with a diverse group of Australians who shared their hopes and dreams for the country's future. The film is a construction of news reports and press conferences featuring high profile journalists, politicians, b...
Our Connection with the Blue Mountains Featuring Brendan Davies and David King, both locals, the film explores their deep connection with the Blue Mountains.
Philly D.A. Season 1 A groundbreaking documentary series embedded inside the long shot election and tumultuous first term of Larry Krasner, Philadelphia's unapologetic District Attorney, and his experiment to upend the criminal justice system from the inside out.
The Sea Decides In January 2017, human-powered adventurer Grant Rawlinson began a journey by row-boat and bicycle that he planned would take him 12,000km from his home in Singapore to his homeland of New Zealand. It was a journey never before attempted.
James & Isey Ahead of her 100th birthday, Isey and her devoted son James prepare for the party of a lifetime. Cheeky and vivacious, the 99-year-old is preparing to celebrate her centenary when award-winning Kiwi filmmaker Florian Habicht turns up with a camera. Over the next seven days, as James organises the fe...
Paradise Lost From above the surface the salmon industry in Tasmania spruiks to the consumer a green and sustainable industry. PARADISE LOST looks under the water to reveal a dark underbelly of lies and environmental devastation which will shock anyone who decides to eat another mouthful of this toxic fish.
Three Minutes: A Lengthening A home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938 in a Jewish town in Poland offers an emotionally charged, meditative glimpse into the lives of the unsuspecting Jewish citizens at the precipice of World War II.
Cow "This film is an endeavour to consider cows. To move us closer to them. To see both their beauty and the challenge of their lives. Not in a romantic way but in a real way. It’s a film about one dairy cow’s reality and acknowledging her great service to us. When I look at Luma, our cow, I see the who...
Come Back Anytime Self-taught ramen master Masamoto Ueda and his wife Kazuko have run their Tokyo ramen shop, Bizentei for more than 40 years. Scores of devoted customers have joined them in creating an intimate place of community.
Legacy: Surfing Now and Then As surfing grows to a larger audience around the world and the sport progresses faster and faster, how do the surfing legends of past stack up to today's surf professionals? How has mainstream media changed the sport of surfing? Legacy: Surfing Now And Then explores these topics with some of the bes...
Kids Cup A feel-good family film from the world's largest sports tournament for kids, Norway Cup. They all share the same dream, but meet unexpected obstacles along the way.
We Are Like Waves We are like Waves is an intimate look into how surfing changes Sanu’s life, documenting the struggles and breakthroughs of becoming one of the first female Sri Lankan surfers.
I'm Wanita Wanita lives her own unique version of the rough-talking, hard-drinking, country music lifestyle. Devoted to the sound and personalities of classic country, Wanita commits to walk in the footsteps of her honky-tonk idols by recording what she says will be her ‘definitive album’, in the mecca of coun...
Enfer & Paradis Follow Justine Dupont who continues to chart her way forward to become the world’s best surfer. This documentary will take a close look into her daily life, in the center of an environment mainly reserved for men.
THE SCARS OF ALI BOULALA Ali Boulala, a skateboarding legend of the 1990s. The poignant story of a skateboarding genius's staggering career and the tragic turn it took.
Holy Silence HOLY SILENCE examines the actions – and inactions – of the Vatican in response to the rise of Nazi Germany and to the Holocaust that occurred during World War II. While focusing on the activities of two popes during this period – Pius XI and Pius XII – the film also concentrates on the behind-the-sc...
My Name is Gulpilil A true icon of Australian cinema. His mesmerising, electrifying presence leapt off the big screen and changed Australian screen representation forever. The only actor to appear in both of the two highest grossing Australian films of all time, Crocodile Dundee (1986) and Australia (2008), David Gulpi...
Mau Mau is the first-ever, feature-length documentary about the design visionary Bruce Mau. The film explores the untold story of his unlikely rise in the creative world, and ever-optimistic push to expand the boundaries of design. As the film weaves in and out of Mau's work, past and present, it examin...

What's on DocPlay?

British Gangsters: Faces of the Underworld

Season 2

Villains, gangsters or “Faces” as they prefer to be called, are the men, gang and family members who have made headlines over the past 50 years for all the wrong reasons. Presented by Bernard O’Mahoney, best-selling true crime author, Britain’s most infamous and influential ‘faces’ are interviewed f...

Navalny

Enthralling and intimate, director Daniel Roher’s NAVALNY unfolds with the pace of a thriller as it follows Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in his quest to identify the men who poisoned him in August 2020. An extraordinary, fly-on-the-wall documentary that is also a portrait of a leader int...

Anti Semitism: 2000 Years of History

Season 1

This four-episode series paints a comprehensive picture of this, “the longest hatred”. It will focus on specific stories from each era that mark out and illustrate the form of these manifestations of violence and hatred in an enlightening and moving manner. It will also provide context for the fight...

Everybody's Oma

Filmmaker Jason van Genderen is obsessed with making home videos about his elderly mother and, when he creates a supermarket at home during lockdown, he accidentally turns ‘Oma’ into an internet celebrity. Their heart-warming home movies quickly attract a worldwide audience of over 100,000,000 peopl...

My Old School

The astonishing true story of Scotland's most notorious imposter. It's 1993 and 16 year old Brandon is the new kid in school. Soon he’s top of the class, acing exams and even taking the lead in the school musical. He’s the model pupil, until he's unmasked.

Colours of China

Season 1

The natural cycles of the universe impact each other in a never-ending circle of five interconnected forces, each represented by colour, season, compass point, emotion and location.

Nothing Lasts Forever

Hidden from public view, a war is raging inside the diamond industry. When filmmaker Jason Kohn infiltrates this highly secretive world, he uncovers a vast, far reaching conspiracy that threatens the value of every diamond ever mined.

The Vietnam War (Director's Cut)

Season 1

In an immersive 360-degree narrative, Ken Burns tells the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. THE VIETNAM WAR features testimony from nearly 80 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants an...

35 Serial Killers The World Wants to Forget

Season 1

35 Serial Killers the World Wants to Forget is about those whose lives were touched in some way by a serial killer. The series investigates why the crimes happened and what effect this has had on those who may have only briefly known a murderer. The ripple effects of a murder are felt far and wide.

Mister Organ

Journalist and filmmaker David Farrier (Tickled, Dark Tourist) becomes fascinated by the late-night antics of a rogue wheel clamper in New Zealand. MISTER ORGAN is a thrilling and tension filled three-year long investigation – unearthing a trail of multiple court cases, inflated claims of royal bloo...

Frontmen

Season 1

Frontmen are frequently destructive, controlling and angry with highly complex lives who struggle to hold down relationships and often abuse drugs and alcohol. A key ingredient of any frontman is an intense appetite for success and adulation - the power of money and prestige that allows demons in an...

A House Made of Splinters

The Lysychansk Centre in Eastern Ukraine houses the kids of unfit parents while they await court proceedings determining their future – young cast-offs of alcoholism, addiction, violence and the social trauma of the nearby Russia conflict that has disturbed the region since 2014.

Apocalypse: World War II

Season 1

A story of this huge conflict through the often tragic destinies of those who lived it, those who submitted to it, and those who conducted it. The “horrible yet familiar” war led to the deaths of 50 million men and women across the world, with, for the first time, as many civilian victims as there w...

Architecture of Infinity

Temporality and age are inherent in every object and creature and, depending on one’s outlook, may transcend to infinity. How can this be imagined? What goes beyond it? The filmmaker Christoph Schaub explores “spiritual life” in architecture and the fine arts, but also in nature, and literally lifts...

Gangster Number One: The Freddie Forman Story

To Britain’s criminal underworld, Freddie Foreman is the Godfather and his name instils more fear than any other. Rightly or wrongly, he has been attached to almost every unsolved gangland murder in London over the last 50 years and remains one of the most iconic and well respected men of his genera...

JFK: Destiny Betrayed

Season 1

JFK: DESTINY BETRAYED is Oliver Stone's four-part "deep dive" into the infamous Kennedy assassination. Subjects covered in the mini-series include the early formation of President Kennedy's foreign policy worldview and and his anti-colonial convictions which put him in opposition to the Eisenhower a...

The Pink House

The town of Kalgoorlie is a relic of the goldrush, built on ‘gold, girls, and grog’. In its midst is Questa Casa, the oldest working brothel in Australia. Run by the exceedingly proper Madam Carmel, the brothel is struggling, not helped by troubled working girl BJ. Their unique stories tell of two w...

Innocent Behind Bars

Season 1

In an intimate portrayal of injustice, this series reveals the true experience of being wrongfully convicted and the impact that lasts well beyond the prison bars.

Persons of Interest

Season 1

Persons Of Interest lifts the lid on the Australian Intelligence & Security Organisation’s (ASIO) secret war on dissent. In each episode a person of interest is given their previously secret intelligence file and asked to explain the allegations it contains.

The Happy Worker

THE HAPPY WORKER takes us behind the shiny corporate facades to reveal the systemic problems that plague the workplace: from a culture of silence, fake change and incompetent managers, to how we educate our children. The film is laced with humour and irony, but without losing sight of the very real...

Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies

A new look at Van Gogh, through the legacy of the largest private collector of artworks by the Dutch painter: Helene Kröller-Müller (1869-1939), who, in the early 20th Century, ended up buying nearly 300 of his works, paintings and drawings.

Notorious

Season 1

A captivating one-hour documentary series that chronicles the lives of some of the most infamous crooks and criminals in American history. Notorious digs deep and goes inside the twisted minds of the criminals who made newspaper headlines and captured the attention of the American public.

#UNFIT: The Psychology of Donald Trump

An eye-opening and shattering analysis of the behavior, psyche, condition, and stability of Donald J. Trump.

Ken Burns: Baseball

Season 1

Ken Burns’ epic documentary miniseries. Like Burns’s previous masterpiece (The Civil War), this film is more than just the history of baseball. It is a reflection of the American experience.

The Satoshi Mystery: At the Origins of Bitcoin

This documentary deciphers the workings of Bitcoin, the first reliable cryptocurrency revolution and investigates the identity of its creator.

Crimes That Made History

Season 1

Some crimes have become sensational news stories and their memories are now part of our popular culture. From Jack the Ripper to Roswell and Lady Di, each episode revisits a page of our shared history.

Loading Docs

Season 9

Loading Docs is an award-winning initiative producing short documentaries that captivate and inspire audiences locally and internationally, while developing and promoting New Zealand filmmaking talent.

Hitler Versus Picasso

After 70 years from the Hitler’s declaration of war to “degenerate” art, an event film that reveals secrets of the Fuhrer treasure. Picasso, Matisse, Renoir and Chagall: paintings hidden, looted and condemned finally come to light to reveal the Nazi obsession for art on the big screen.

Trust Me

How did the young entrepreneur and media darling, Waleed Ahmed, known as "Norway's Mark Zuckerberg" end up being arrested by the FBI and sentenced to 11 years in prison?

The Rise of Jordan Peterson

With exclusive access, The Rise of Jordan Peterson gives a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the firestorm sparked by professor, provocateur and best selling author exploring the tension between free speech and hate speech, and the points-of-view of those on both sides of this heightened debate.

Hotel Coolgardie

In remotest red-dust Australia is the sleepy mining town of Coolgardie. When two Finnish girls take jobs in the town’s only pub, they find themselves in a trial of endurance. Full of raucous drinkers and ogling patrons, the girls soon realise that pouring pints is the least of their work.

The Man Putin Couldn't Kill

In August 2019, on a flight to Moscow, Russia’s charismatic opposition leader, Alexei Navalny started to scream in agony. The flight immediately diverted to the nearest city and he was rushed unconscious to hospital. What happened next shook the world.

Deep Blues

In 1990, commissioned by Dave Stewart of Eurythmics, veteran music film director Robert Mugge and renowned music scholar Robert Palmer ventured deep into the heart of the North Mississippi Hill Country and Mississippi Delta to seek out the best rural blues acts currently working.

Holy Hell

An inside look at Buddhafield, a West Hollywood cult formed by a charismatic teacher in the 1980s that eventually imploded.

2040

Award-winning director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) embarks on a journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them rapidly into the mainstream.

Tickled

Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn't stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction.

Flee

Nominated for a historic three Academy Awards® — for best Documentary Feature, Best International Feature and Best Animated Feature — FLEE uncovers a remarkable true story. Amin Nawabi is an Afghan refugee who grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, which now threatens to der...

Some Kind of Heaven

Explores life inside the palm-tree-lined streets of The Villages, America’s largest retirement community in Florida. Referred to as the “Disneyland for Retirees”, this planned community is home to over 130,000 seniors.

Putin's Revenge

Putin's Revenge is a riveting investigation of how the U.S. struggled to confront Vladimir Putin over Russian involvement in the 2016 election, how revenge may have motivated Putin to target American democracy, and the U.S. responses under Presidents Obama and Trump.

Collective

In 2015, a fire at Bucharest’s Colectiv club leaves 27 dead and 180 injured. Soon, more burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life-threatening. Then a doctor blows the whistle to a team of investigative journalists. Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary 2021.

The Velvet Queen

High up on the Tibetan plateau, amongst unexplored and inaccessible valleys lies one of the last sanctuaries of the wild world, where rare and undiscovered fauna lives. Vincent Munier, one of the world’s most renowned wildlife photographers, goes in search of the snow leopard, one of the rarest and...

Citizenfour

CITIZENFOUR is a real time thriller, giving audiences an exclusive front-row seat to the moment Edward Snowden changed history with his revelations of widespread government surveillance around the world.

Balance of the Five Elements

The genesis of the universe and everything in it is described by the ancient Chinese philosophy of the Five Elements: known as Wu Xing. Change is the only constant. Balance and harmony are the objectives. On a cinematic journey throughout China, traversing seasons and geographical touch points, we d...

Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan

CROCK OF GOLD is the definitive feature documentary on Irish musical icon, Shane MacGowan, best known as the lead singer of The Pogues. Exploring the wild and roving life of Ireland’s most beloved punk poet through unseen archive footage, as well as contributions from Shane himself and those who kno...

Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man

Since bursting onto the scene in 1967, Leonard Cohen has inspired generations with his unique personality and haunting music, becoming one of the most original and enduring artists to emerge from the 1960s. LEONARD COHEN I’M YOUR MAN, is an intimate look at the songs, poetry and life of one of music...

Being Frank

The film explores the extraordinary secret life of artist Chris Sievey, best known as his alter ego Frank Sidebottom, the maverick Manchester comedian in a papier mâché head. Chris Sievey was a songwriter, artist, comedian and wayward genius. A man whose life was a fantastic, subversive piece of per...

Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles

Follows chef Yotam Ottolenghi on his quest to bring the sumptuous art and decadence of Versailles to life in cake form at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Waco: The Rules of Engagement

Waco: The Rules of Engagement explores the shocking revelations behind the tragic series of events outside Waco, Texas that killed four federal agents and 76 members of the Branch Davidian religious sect.

Afends Hemp Revolution

Our new documentary, 'The Hemp Revolution’, explores the modern day hemp industry

HMS Victory - The Nation's Flagship

On 7 May 1765 the HMS Victory was floated out of Chatham’s Royal Dockyard. She would become the most famous flagship in the British Royal Navy and achieve everlasting fame as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson in Britain’s greatest ever naval victory, the defeat of the French and Spanish at th...

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

The feature documentary, the first of its kind on Vonnegut, is a deep, immersive dive into the author’s life and work, as well as the 25-year friendship with the filmmaker who set out to document it. It spans his childhood, marriage and family, early careers and his years as a struggling writer, lea...

Chasing 400

As an avid endurance athlete and someone who is always seeking the next challenge, Justin Kinner was naturally drawn to the Grand Slam of Ultrarunning.

Power Play

POWER PLAY: Transforming Australia’s biggest climate polluter is a story about hope. It's a story about collaboration. And it's about how Greenpeace, together with a diverse group of people and organisations, took on Australia's biggest climate polluter - and won.

Volcano Man

When filmmaker James Crawley discovers his father's hidden video tapes, he sets out to reveal the real Richard Crawley, an eccentric photographer and documentarian who lives atop a dormant volcano and approach to life is utterly explosive.

Dancing on Water

Dancing on Water is a 12-minute Short Documentary that dives deep into the paternal bond between Warrick and Felicity Palmateer. Despite all the obstacles and challenges they have come to face in life, the ocean has always kept them grounded, and most importantly a place of healing.

Lancaster

From the team behind SPITFIRE comes LANCASTER. Using re-mastered archive material and extraordinary aerial footage of the RAF's last airworthy Lancaster, we follow 38 contributors as they join-up, learn to fly and go to war.

The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft

Mt. Unzen, Kyushu, Japan at 3.18pm on 3 June 1991, a pyroclastic flow – a cloud of superheated gases and particles – descended at more than 100 mph from the peak of the volcano, consuming everything in its path. It instantly killed Katia and Maurice Krafft, volcanologists and filmmakers from the Als...

The Desert Said Dance

The Baja 1000, this is a place where dreams go to die. Grand visions and hopes, materialized, but rarely sustained. The desert has this mysterious allure, there is freedom, solitude, and opportunity. The desert is the unforgiving canvas of life, and this is a story about the art of racing with it an...

The Importance of Being an Architect

The vision of one of the largest architecture and interior design practices in Italy is at the centre of a choral and musical documentary that investigates the responsibility of architects in building the society of tomorrow. A society founded on reciprocity, collaboration and coexistence, through a...

Without A Paddle

Without a Paddle is an adventure film that blends the history of the upper Columbia River with a 140km paddle from the foot of the Mica Dam to the top of the Revelstoke Dam.

The New Corporation

The Corporation (2003) examined an institution within society; The New Corporation reveals a world now fully remade in the corporation's image, perilously close to losing democracy. We trace the devastating consequences, connecting the dots between then and now, and inspire with stories of resistanc...

3 Days, 2 Nights

Imagine the defining moment of your life. Then imagine never talking about it with anyone. This sets the stage for 3 Days 2 Nights. In 1974, Mark and Andy Godfrey went on a family ski vacation to Aspen, Colorado. Tragically, the plane they were traveling on crashed. The world, as they knew it, was c...

The World's Biggest Family

A man with 600 half-siblings looks at the odd world of anonymous sperm donation and how that standard practice of anonymity is starting to crack open at last. Witness people whose whole life story has been turned upside down in middle age by a DNA result – and witness not only the shock, but the ple...

Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel

The end of an long upmarket renovation of the legendary Chelsea Hotel is partly longed for and partly dreaded by the artists who still live there. The film grants us access to their apartments and interweaves the past with the present.

Leaving Tracks

The rock stars of motorcycle design and the founder of a moto museum find recovery and kinship on their emotional journey together.

Dear Future Children

DEAR FUTURE CHILDREN explores how three young women in Hong Kong, Chile and Uganda cope with the staggering personal impact of their political activism. A film about the next generation, made by the next generation.

Writing with Fire

In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India's only newspaper run by Dalit (‘low caste’) women. Armed with smartphones, Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions, be it on the frontlines of India's biggest issues or within the confines of their homes, redefining what...

Meet the Wallers

A unique documentary that follows artist Mark Waller and his family over 20 years. When Mark is diagnosed with a deadly Melanoma the fault lines in the Waller family erupt with surprising results.

Crux

Crux follows Harvey Wright, a recovering addict who uses rock climbing to work through his ongoing struggle with mental health.

The Lake of Scars

The Lake of Scars is a feature-length documentary produced on Dja Dja Wurrung country, with members of the Yung Balug clan, in the Australian state of Victoria. It is a story of allyship and reconciliation at a place unlike anywhere else Australia. One of astounding beauty and rare cultural, archaeo...

Palazzo di Cozzo

Ageing patriarch, Franco Cozzo, holds court over an iconic furniture empire. A pioneer of low-fi television advertising, Franco’s tri-lingual catchphrase sparked a cult-of-personality as kitsch as his baroque bedheads. But his character is more than a caricature.

Yellowstone Supervolcano

Season 1

Hidden 7 miles below Yellowstone, Americas most famous National Park lies the world’s biggest natural threat a Supervolcano. In this explosive documentary, world leading scientists unpack the danger of this natural phenomenon.

Ride the Wave

Scottish Surf champion Ben Larg's bigger challenge is the biggest and most dangerous cold water waves in the world at Mullaghmore. Danger, opportunity, parental dilemma collide, propelling Ben and his family towards an unknown destiny.

Tall Poppy

A child who loved to skate from the age of eight, Poppy Starr Olsen became the number one female bowl skater in Australia at 14 and went on to take out bronze at the XGames at 17 - the ultimate competition in the world of skateboarding. TALL POPPY documents Poppy’s journey as she navigates the uncom...

In the Theatre of Gogs

New Zealand based adventure film maker Richard Sidey and landscape photographer Christopher David Thompson head into the wild lands of southern New Zealand on a sea kayaking and hiking adventure.

Mum's Gone Climbing

Five years after her first child, Nell had a pivotal moment and stuffed her mama feet back into climbing shoes. Climbing seemed like a wonder drug for the challenges of motherhood, and Nell went on a mission to find other climb mamas.

New Story Run

Frustrated with their impact from behind a desk, Rosie Watson and Mike Elm are running and cycling from the U.K. to Mongolia to tell the stories of people living the changes we need to make in a time of climate crisis, and to try to shape a new story of our place in the natural world.

The Sanctity of Space

Lured by a black and white photograph, three renowned climbers pursue the ultimate adventure and show us why humans MUST explore.

Inside the Mind

Season 1

In this series, renowned psychiatrist, Dr Bob Johnson, will explore the incredibly complex and unusual lives of Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson. He'll reveal the forces and experiences that shaped their unique personalities - from childhood traumas and family life to relationships and their musi...

Perfect Chapter – Looking for Perfection

Carcavelos is at the centre of the world for its waves, people, and places as one of the best surfing destinations in Portugal. This seventh edition brings you the worst and best moments lived throughout the day of the competition, as well as a different perspective of the contest.

When the Camera Stopped Rolling

The daughter of trailblazing Australian filmmaker, Lilias Fraser, tells the epic tale of her mother’s extraordinary life, her career and their challenging relationship. Director Jane Castle digs deep using the rich textures of a stunning, unseen part of Australia’s cinematic history.

Finding the Archibald

Season 1

As the Archibald celebrates its centenary with an ambitious exhibition; art lover and acclaimed actor Rachel Griffiths embarks on a cultural romp through our most coveted and controversial arts prize.

Euforia

A visual and sound journey through the Pacific coast. For two years, Alejandro Maytorena and Octavio Coutiño traveled to the shores of Oaxaca to make their dream come true, creating a film that will highlight Mexican talent. Starring Sebastian Williams.

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

Imagine you are alone, on North America’s Highest Peak (Denali), trying to break The Female Fastest Known Time (FKT). You must travel 38 miles on a glacier to 20,310 feet- in less than 21 hours. How would you fare in this frigid, lifeless landscape? Where would your mind go?

Regenerating Australia

Regenerating Australia is a 17-minute short film based on a four-month interview process with a diverse group of Australians who shared their hopes and dreams for the country's future. The film is a construction of news reports and press conferences featuring high profile journalists, politicians, b...

Our Connection with the Blue Mountains

Featuring Brendan Davies and David King, both locals, the film explores their deep connection with the Blue Mountains.

Philly D.A.

Season 1

A groundbreaking documentary series embedded inside the long shot election and tumultuous first term of Larry Krasner, Philadelphia's unapologetic District Attorney, and his experiment to upend the criminal justice system from the inside out.

The Sea Decides

In January 2017, human-powered adventurer Grant Rawlinson began a journey by row-boat and bicycle that he planned would take him 12,000km from his home in Singapore to his homeland of New Zealand. It was a journey never before attempted.

James & Isey

Ahead of her 100th birthday, Isey and her devoted son James prepare for the party of a lifetime. Cheeky and vivacious, the 99-year-old is preparing to celebrate her centenary when award-winning Kiwi filmmaker Florian Habicht turns up with a camera. Over the next seven days, as James organises the fe...

Paradise Lost

From above the surface the salmon industry in Tasmania spruiks to the consumer a green and sustainable industry. PARADISE LOST looks under the water to reveal a dark underbelly of lies and environmental devastation which will shock anyone who decides to eat another mouthful of this toxic fish.

Three Minutes: A Lengthening

A home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938 in a Jewish town in Poland offers an emotionally charged, meditative glimpse into the lives of the unsuspecting Jewish citizens at the precipice of World War II.

Cow

"This film is an endeavour to consider cows. To move us closer to them. To see both their beauty and the challenge of their lives. Not in a romantic way but in a real way. It’s a film about one dairy cow’s reality and acknowledging her great service to us. When I look at Luma, our cow, I see the who...

Come Back Anytime

Self-taught ramen master Masamoto Ueda and his wife Kazuko have run their Tokyo ramen shop, Bizentei for more than 40 years. Scores of devoted customers have joined them in creating an intimate place of community.

Legacy: Surfing Now and Then

As surfing grows to a larger audience around the world and the sport progresses faster and faster, how do the surfing legends of past stack up to today's surf professionals? How has mainstream media changed the sport of surfing? Legacy: Surfing Now And Then explores these topics with some of the bes...

Kids Cup

A feel-good family film from the world's largest sports tournament for kids, Norway Cup. They all share the same dream, but meet unexpected obstacles along the way.

We Are Like Waves

We are like Waves is an intimate look into how surfing changes Sanu’s life, documenting the struggles and breakthroughs of becoming one of the first female Sri Lankan surfers.

I'm Wanita

Wanita lives her own unique version of the rough-talking, hard-drinking, country music lifestyle. Devoted to the sound and personalities of classic country, Wanita commits to walk in the footsteps of her honky-tonk idols by recording what she says will be her ‘definitive album’, in the mecca of coun...

Enfer & Paradis

Follow Justine Dupont who continues to chart her way forward to become the world’s best surfer. This documentary will take a close look into her daily life, in the center of an environment mainly reserved for men.

THE SCARS OF ALI BOULALA

Ali Boulala, a skateboarding legend of the 1990s. The poignant story of a skateboarding genius's staggering career and the tragic turn it took.

Holy Silence

HOLY SILENCE examines the actions – and inactions – of the Vatican in response to the rise of Nazi Germany and to the Holocaust that occurred during World War II. While focusing on the activities of two popes during this period – Pius XI and Pius XII – the film also concentrates on the behind-the-sc...

My Name is Gulpilil

A true icon of Australian cinema. His mesmerising, electrifying presence leapt off the big screen and changed Australian screen representation forever. The only actor to appear in both of the two highest grossing Australian films of all time, Crocodile Dundee (1986) and Australia (2008), David Gulpi...

Mau

Mau is the first-ever, feature-length documentary about the design visionary Bruce Mau. The film explores the untold story of his unlikely rise in the creative world, and ever-optimistic push to expand the boundaries of design. As the film weaves in and out of Mau's work, past and present, it examin...

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