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  • Nickie Aven and her threshold choir in the Guardian documentary ‘Threshold’ (21 mins)

    Threshold
    The choir who sing to the dying

    Dying is a process and in a person’s final hours and days, Nickie and her Threshold Choir are there to accompany people on their way and bring comfort. Through specially composed songs, akin to lullabies, the choir cultivates an environment of love and safety around those on their deathbed.

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    The fight against superbugs starts in the driest place on Earth

  • Since founding Courtney’s House in 2008, Tina Frundt, 49, believes that her organization has helped about 2000 survivors of sex trafficking. Her current case load of 72 survivors means non-stop phone calls and texts, helping to find placement for people, get counseling for others, and lending an ear to some who just need to be heard.

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    Protecting trafficked children in the US

  • A child feeds a horse in Ukraine. From the series 5K from the Frontline.

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    What life is really like on Ukraine's frontline

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    Hacking nature to save the saltmarsh sparrow documentary

Environment

Films from the frontline of the climate emergency
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    Guilt Trip
    Pilots torn between flight and the fight for the planet - documentary

  • Nina Gualinga in the Guardian documentary, Waska

    Waska
    The cost of spiritual healing in the Amazon

  • Guardian documentary - Atomic Secrets, by Zhanana Kurmasheva

    Atomic Secrets:
    A Chornobyl scientist warns of a toxic future

  • Phuntsho Tshering in the documentary, Bhutan Mountain Man by film-maker Arun Bhattarai

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    Video diaries from a lone glaciologist

More environment

  • Lady of the Gobi
    Trucking coal across the desert to China

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

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

  • Sam and the Plant Next Door
    Growing up with Hinkley Point

  • Climate carnage
    Whose job is it to save the planet?

  • Open Water
    Greenlanders on the climate crisis

Biodiversity

Capturing the variety of life on Earth
  • Guardians of the Gibbons, a film by Ragini Nath and Chinmoy Sonowal

    Guardians of the Gibbons
    Can India save its only ape species?

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

    The Winterkeeper
    A lifetime spent protecting the wilderness

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    Skyward
    Birdwatching is belonging for two teenage conservationists

  • 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

Tech

Films about how technology is impacting our lives
  • Could you live without the internet? Doctors’ appointments, job applications, personal banking, key services and more are today mostly managed online. While the UK government details its plans for a digital future to transform public services, one in seven Britons are forced to live without the internet. This film is voiced by three individuals experiencing digital exclusion, revealing how varied and complex the repercussions can be.

    The Digital Divide
    Could you live without the internet?

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    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
    A disturbing story of deepfake pornography

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

More tech

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

  • Share
    An Instagram star at a crossroads

Europe

A selection of films offering a pan-European lens
  • Scene from the documentary 'Ukrainian Factory' by Olha Zhurba

    Ukrainian Factory
    Two years of war for a Mykolaiv key worker

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

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    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

More Europe

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

  • Sending Aya Back
    The Syrian teen facing deportation in Denmark

  • Belarus
    Personal stories from a country in turmoil

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  • Teranga
    The migrant-run Afrobeat nightclub uniting Naples

  • Cinema of Ukraine
    Artists reflect on modern history, culture and people

  • Unsafe Passage
    On board a refugee rescue ship racing for Europe

  • The year that never ended:
    How a Ukrainian comedian rebuilt a stranger’s house

  • The Wolf Dividing Norway
    The hunter v the environmentalist

Pride

Celebrating LGBTQI+ stories
  • No Man Is An Island

    No Man Is an Island
    A British society and its historic push for gay rights

  • Still from the Guardian documentary, Dear Mamma by filmmaker Sky Neal

    Dear Mamma
    A journey of acceptance for a mother and transgender son

  • Guardian Documentary, 'Old Lesbians' by filmmaker Meghan McDonough

    Old Lesbians
    Reclaiming old age and queerness through storytelling

  • Derek Jarman being canonised by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

    Saintmaking
    The canonisation of Derek Jarman by queer ‘nuns’

Rights and freedoms

Watch films on the global fight for justice
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    You Don’t Think It Will Happen To You
    What life is really like on Ukraine's frontline

  • 'We did not consent,' a Guardian documentary by filmmaker Dorothy Allen-Pickard

    We Did Not Consent
    A restaging of Britain’s undercover police scandal

  • Guardian Documentary, 'House No.30, Kabul' featuring Zaki Daryabi, the founder of the Afghan newspaper, The Etilaat Roz

    House No.30, Kabul
    Can journalism survive the Taliban?

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    After Windrush
    Paulette Wilson's journey to Jamaica, 50 years on

More Rights and freedoms

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

  • Lasting Marks
    16 men put on trial for sadomasochism

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

  • United Voices
    Outsourced key workers fighting for equal rights

Black lives

Foregrounding films by Black filmmakers
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    The Black Panther Cubs
    When the revolution doesn’t come

  • The Things We Don't Say, documentary by film-maker Ornella Mutoni

    The Things We Don’t Say:
    Children of the Rwandan genocide

  • The remote island of St Helena, a British overseas territory, is best known for Napoleon’s tomb - the island’s biggest tourist attraction. However, while overseeing the construction of a long-awaited airport on the island, Annina van Neel learns that the remains of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans have been uncovered, unearthing one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade in the world.

    Buried
    How we choose to remember the transatlantic slave trade

  • 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

More Black lives

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

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

  • The Circle
    Masculinity, racism and brotherhood on a Hackney estate

  • Somalinimo
    Somali culture, blackness and Islam at Cambridge University

Indigenous voices

Films made with and about Indigenous storytellers
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    H̓ágṃ́ṇtxv Qṇtxv Tx̌ (We’re all we got)
    The race to keep their language alive

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    Horse therapy for young Indigenous Australians

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

    Burned to the Ground
    The Canadian village incinerated by record temperatures

  • 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

More Indiginous voices

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    The indigenous activist leading a new generation of Mexican women

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

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Society

Films about community, culture and activism
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    Man freezes late wife but finds new partner

  • Since founding Courtney’s House in 2008, Tina Frundt, 49, believes that her organization has helped about 2000 survivors of sex trafficking. Her current case load of 72 survivors means non-stop phone calls and texts, helping to find placement for people, get counseling for others, and lending an ear to some who just need to be heard.

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    Protecting trafficked children in the US

  • Gerad Argeros in the documentary Fox Chase Boy

    Fox Chase Boy
    Stand up comedy confronts trauma in a Catholic community

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    Is freezing my eggs the answer?

More society

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

  • Crisanto Street
    A child living in a mobile home in Silicon Valley

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

  • The Hour of Lynching
    Vigilante violence against Muslims in India

  • Four Weddings
    Four alternative nuptials to Harry and Meghan's

  • Gun nation
    A journey to the heart of America's gun culture

  • Pitching Up
    Ancient sports for children in Ireland's most ethnically diverse town

  • Born this way
    The Mexican town where gender is fluid

New perspectives

Fresh takes on contemporary stories
  • An image of equipment used in cryonics, part of Guardian documentary Love Immortal

    Love Immortal
    Man freezes late wife but finds new partner

  • 'We did not consent,' a Guardian documentary by filmmaker Dorothy Allen-Pickard

    We Did Not Consent
    A restaging of Britain’s undercover police scandal

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    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

More new perspectives

  • The Circle
    Masculinity, racism and brotherhood on a Hackney estate

  • Somalinimo
    Somali culture, blackness and Islam at Cambridge University

  • Scars
    How our wounds make us who we are – video

  • Black Sheep
    The black teenager who made friends with racists - video documentary

  • The Waiting Room
    A single parent's unflinching account of living with cancer – video

  • Covid from space
    The humans furthest from the pandemic

  • United Voices
    Outsourced key workers fighting for equal rights

  • Dear Bradford
    A love letter to a misunderstood city

Conflict

Documentaries on those whose lives are affected by war
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    You Don’t Think It Will Happen To You
    What life is really like on Ukraine's frontline

  • Dr Lina Qasem-Hassan, a Palestinian doctor in Israel's healthcare system, in the documentary, The Oath

    The Oath
    To be a Palestinian doctor in Israel’s healthcare system - documentary

  • 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

Hope

Inspiring films offering a new lens on a complicated world
  • Nickie Aven and her threshold choir in the Guardian documentary ‘Threshold’ (21 mins)

    Threshold
    The choir who sing to the dying

  • Professor Cristina Dorador searches for life-saving antibiotics in the salt flat of the Atacama, Chile

    Life Invisible
    The fight against superbugs starts in the driest place on Earth – documentary

  • King of the Fells, a documentary by Seth Whitfield

    King of the Fells
    Joss Naylor, the shepherd with an unbeatable running record

  • Since founding Courtney’s House in 2008, Tina Frundt, 49, believes that her organization has helped about 2000 survivors of sex trafficking. Her current case load of 72 survivors means non-stop phone calls and texts, helping to find placement for people, get counseling for others, and lending an ear to some who just need to be heard.

    Give Me Shelter
    Protecting trafficked children in the US

More hope

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

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

  • Cops and Robbers
    The New York cop from the streets

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

  • Scars
    How our wounds make us who we are

  • Little Warrior
    The boxer breaking away from Venezuelan poverty

  • Silent Sam
    The mute punk singer

  • RIP SENI
    Racism, graffiti and the UK’s mental health crisis

Award winners

Watch our Oscar, Bafta, Emmy and other award-winning documentaries
  • Truck driver Maikhuu in the film 'Lady of the Gobi,' directed by Khoroldorj Choijoovanchig

    Lady of the Gobi
    Trucking coal across the desert to China

  • 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

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    Black Sheep
    The black teenager who made friends with racists

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    Fish Story
    The truth about an Anglesey gathering of people with fishy surnames

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    Skip Day
    High school friendship and everyday racism at the beach in Florida

  • Still of a migrant labourer The Great Abandonment documentary

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

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

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