->''"Like real movies but with ugly people.''"
-->-- '''Abed''''s take on this art form, ''Series/{{Community}}'', "[[Recap/CommunityS1E03IntroductionToFilm Introduction to Film]]"

A film or series that revolves around non-news reporting of NonFiction subjects. While there are earlier examples, technical limitations prevented the genre from forming until the 20th century. The term itself was coined by reviewer John "The Moviegoer" Grierson in 1926.

Many documentaries are known to break several OmnipresentTropes which exist in other genres due to nature of the form.

Works of fiction or comedy sometimes use a style that imitates or parodies the Documentary, they can be found at: DocumentaryEpisode, FauxDocumentary, FauxToGuide, and {{Mockumentary}}.

The {{Mondo}} is an interesting type of ExploitationFilm that can be a hybrid of the serious types (the original ''Film/MondoCane'') or be totally fake (''Film/FacesOfDeath'').

Compare and contrast NewsBroadcast. For a list of documentary features that have won or been nominated for Oscars, see MediaNotes/AcademyAwardForBestDocumentaryFeature.
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[[index]]
[[folder:Documentary Tropes]]
* TheKenBurnsEffect
* ManipulativeEditing
* NationalGeographicNudity
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter
* ShootTheMoney
* StockFootage
* TalkingHeads
[[/folder]]

!!Examples:

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'''Subcategories:'''
+ DocuSoap
+ DocumentaryOfLies
++ TwistingTheWords
+ NatureDocumentary
** NarrativeDrivenNatureDocumentary
+ {{Rockumentary}}
+ SpeculativeDocumentary
+ TVDocumentary
]

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* ''Film/OneLifeOnTheLimit''
* ''Film/NineEleven'': About the actions and heroism of the FDNY's Engine 7 on that day. The documentary was originally supposed to be about the life of a probationary firefighter before the attacks forced a retool, and the film is noteworthy for featuring some of the most detailed footage ever recorded of the attacks, including the only clear footage of the first plane's impact and the only surviving footage filmed within the World Trade Center.
* ''Film/TwentyDaysInMariupol'': About the first twenty days of the siege of the UsefulNotes/{{Ukrain|e}}ian city of Mariupol in the early phase of the UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}n invasion of the country in February-March 2022.
* ''Film/AbductedInPlainSight'': The harrowing story of a young girl who is kidnapped by a family friend - twice.
* ''Film/AbacusSmallEnoughToJail''
* ''Film/TheActOfKilling'': Follows the perpetrators of a 1965-1966 mass political killing in UsefulNotes/{{Indonesia}} as they re-enact their deeds.
** ''Film/TheLookOfSilence'': A companion piece to ''Film/TheActOfKilling'', following a massacre victim's brother as he confronts the aging killers.
* ''Series/AlgoHabranHechoPorLaHistoriaArgentina'': A documentary about the history of UsefulNotes/{{Argentina}}.
* ''Film/AllTheBeautyAndTheBloodshed''
* ''Film/AmericanFactory'': Follows the former employees of a automotive factory after their old workplace is bought by a Chinese company and their attempt to unionize.
* ''Film/TheAristocrats''
* ''Film/AspergersAreUs'': A look at a comedy troupe whose members all have UsefulNotes/AspergersSyndrome, who seek to encourage better understanding of the autistic community through performances based on their own experiences.
* ''Film/BamaRush''
* ''Film/{{Baraka}}'': A series of clips shot around the world detailing both human culture and nature--without narration--emphasizing the universality of human experience.
* ''Film/TheBattleOfRussia''
* ''Film/TheBattleOfSanPietro''
* ''Film/TheBeaverTrilogy''
* ''WebVideo/BecomingYouTube'' is a weird mix of a serious documentary and {{Mockumentary}}-style [[SketchComedy sketches]].
* ''Film/BeforeStonewall''
* ''Film/BeingElmoAPuppeteersJourney''
* ''Film/BeyondTheMat''
* ''Film/BigFunInTheBigTown''
* ''Film/{{Blackfish}}'': An investigation into the [=SeaWorld=] franchise of marine parks and the controversy surrounding keeping orcas in captivity, following the deaths of three people at the hands of one of [=SeaWorld's=] whales.
* ''Series/BloodDolphins''
* ''Film/BobRossHappyAccidentsBetrayalAndGreed''
* ''Series/BondiRescue'': a documentary series following the lifeguards at Bondi Beach, NSW, UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}.
* ''Film/TheBonesBrigadeAnAutobiography'': A biography Stacy Peralta (one of the best skaters in the 70s)'s creation of the Powell Peralta company after the sudden disband of the Zephyr Skateboard team, and the start of the Bones Brigade, their rise to fame, their revolutionary contributions to the skateboarding community and the emotional roller coaster of each individual skaters.
* ''Film/BowlingForColumbine'': A look at the aftermath of the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} high school shootings, looking at the variety of suspected factors and its relationship with American firearms culture.
* ''Film/BroniesTheExtremelyUnexpectedAdultFansOfMyLittlePony''
* ''Film/BrooklynBridge''
* ''Film/CapitalismALoveStory''
* ''WebVideo/CaptainAhabTheStoryOfDaveStieb''
* ''Film/TheCaptainFromNowhere'': A documentary about UsefulNotes/WilliHerold, a 19-year-old German private who stumbled upon an SS Luftwaffe Captain's uniform a short while before the end of World War II and proceeded to use the power and authority it granted him to orchestrate a massacre in a German prisoner camp and to terrorize the Emsland region.
* ''Film/CapturingTheFriedmans''
* ''Film/CardSubjectToChange'': Life on the ProfessionalWrestling independent scene, for both RingOldies, current stars and young hopefuls.
* ''Film/CartelLand''
* ''Film/CartsOfDarkness'': The lives of homeless men who race shopping carts for thrills and collect cans for money.
* ''Film/CaveOfForgottenDreams''
* ''Film/TheCelluloidCloset'': An examination of the evolution of LGBT representation in film.
* ''Film/ChallengerTheFinalFlight'': Examines the 1986 ''Challenger'' explosion and the lives of the astronauts on it.
* ''Film/{{Chang}}''
* ''Film/ChangingOurMindsTheStoryOfDrEvelynHooker''
* ''Film/ChaosOnTheBridge'': About the very TroubledProduction of the first two seasons of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''
* ''Film/ChinaBlue''
* ''Film/{{Citizenfour}}'': About Edward Snowden and the NSA spying scandal.
* ''WebVideo/CityNerd'': The City Visit series are documentaries focusing on the transit and pedestrian development of various cities.
* ''Film/CocaineCowboys'': A documentary about the rise of the illegal cocaine trade in UsefulNotes/{{Miami}} during the 1970s and 1980s. Also spawned a sequel, ''Cocaine Cowboys 2'', about a small-time coke dealer who ends up working for notorious drug lord Griselda Blanco.
* ''Film/{{Collective}}'': An investigation into a deadly nightclub fire uncovers a massive scandal in Romanian hospitals.
* ''Film/TheCove'': About dolphin hunting/fishing in Japan and won an Oscar.
* ''Film/CripCampADisabilityRevolution'': About a group of teenagers who meet in a summer camp for disabled children and adults in the late '60s who later unite to fight for the civil rights of themselves and their peers.
* ''Film/{{Czechoslovakia 1968}}''
* ''Film/TheDarkSideOfChocolate:'' About the widespread but strangely unknown-to-the-public use of child slaves in the cocoa industry.
* ''Series/DarkSideOfTheRing'': About the tragedies of the {{professional wrestling}} industry.
* ''Film/DawsonCityFrozenTime''
* ''Film/{{Dealt}}''
* ''Film/DearZachary''
* ''Series/DeNieuweOrde''
* ''Film/DeNurembergANuremberg'': A French documentary about UsefulNotes/NaziGermany.
* ''Film/TheDevilAtYourHeels'': About stuntman Ken Carter's ill-fated attempt to jump a jet car over the St. Lawrence River.
* ''Film/Dinosaur1985''
* ''Film/DionneWarwickDontMakeMeOver''
* ''Series/DirtyMoney'': A documentary series showcasing various forms of financial crimes.
* ''Series/DisastersAtSea''
* ''Film/DisneylandDream'', one family's (unusually sophisticated) home movie of their visit to Ride/{{Disneyland}} in 1956.
* ''Film/DreamsOfALife'':
* ''Film/TheEagleHuntress''
* ''Film/{{Earthlings}}:'' About the horrific treatment of animals in the food industry, puppy mills, etc...
* ''Film/EmpireOfDreams'': About the making of the original ''Franchise/StarWars'' trilogy.
* ''Film/TheEndlessSummer''
* ''Film/EnronTheSmartestGuysInTheRoom''
* ''Film/Everest1998''
* ''Film/FacesPlaces''
* ''Film/Fahrenheit911'': An examination of the UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush administration's handling of UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
* ''Film/FatHead'': A rebuttal to ''Film/SupersizeMe''.
* ''Film/{{Felicia}}'': Documentary short about a teenaged girl in 1965 Watts
* ''WebVideo/FightingInTheAgeOfLoneliness'': A Join Bois documentary about the history of MMA and its popularity
* ''Series/FindingYourRoots''
* ''Film/FirstStrike:'' About the possibility of a nuclear surprise attack on the United States.
* WebVideo/FitMC: Documents the evolution of 2b2t, an anarchy ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' server.
* ''Film/TheFogOfWar:'' About former Secretary of Defence Robert Macnamara.
* ''Film/FoodInc.''
* ''Film/ForAllMankind''
* ''Film/ForbiddenLoveTheUnashamedStoriesOfLesbianLives''
* ''Film/TheForgottenFrontier'' -- nurses tending to the poor in 1931 Appalachia
* ''Series/Formula1DriveToSurvive''
* ''Film/ForTheBibleTellsMeSo''
* ''Series/ForensicFiles''
* ''Film/ForksOverKnives''
* ''Film/FourDaysInNovember''
* ''Film/FourLittleGirls''
* ''Film/FreedomOnMyMind''
* ''Film/FreeSolo'': Follows Alex Honnold's climb of El Capitan.
* ''Film/{{Fyre}}'': A look at the infamous Fyre Festival, which was billed as an upper-crust music festival on a tropical paradise but turned out to be anything but that.
* ''Film/FyreFraud'': Another documentary about the Fyre Festival, this time investigating the founder of the ill fated event.
* ''Film/TheGameChangers2018''
* ''Film/GarlicIsAsGoodAsTenMothers''
* ''Film/GatesOfHeaven''
* ''Film/GeneralIdiAminDadaASelfPortrait''
* ''Film/GenghisBlues''
* ''Film/{{Genocide|1981}}''
* ''Film/TheGirlWhoBecameThreeBoys''
* ''Film/TheGleanersAndI''
* ''Series/Grant2020''
* ''Film/{{Grass}}''
* ''WebVideo/TheGreatWar'': A series chronicling the events of UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne as they happened weekly one hundred years ago.
* ''Film/TheGreatWhiteSilence'': One of the oldest documentaries ever, a 1924 film recounting the ill-fated 1912 British expedition to the South Pole led by Robert Falcon Scott.
* ''Film/GreyGardens''
* ''Film/GrizzlyMan'': A look into the life of nature filmmaker Timothy Treadwell, whose enthusiasm for grizzly bears led to his and his girlfriend's violent deaths at the hands of one.
* ''Literature/GoingClear'': About the ChurchOfHappyology.
* ''Film/{{Gunda}}'': NatureDocumentary set on a farm, with production credits to ''Creator/JoaquinPhoenix''.
* ''Literature/GunsGermsAndSteel''
* ''Film/HailSatan''
* ''Film/HaleCountyThisMorningThisEvening''
* ''Series/HarryAndMeghan''
* ''WebVideo/Hampow93MyBrotherWhichICareFor''
* ''Film/HarlanCountyUSA'': Follows a group of miners fighting to unionize and the families working with them.
* ''Film/HeartsAndMinds''
* ''Film/HeartsOfDarknessAFilmmakersApocalypse'': About the TroubledProduction of ''Film/ApocalypseNow''.
* ''Film/{{Heckler}}'': A documentary by Creator/JamieKennedy.
* ''Hellbound'': A documentary about different perceptions of hell.
* ''Film/HighSchool'': A DayInTheLife at an American high school in 1968.
* ''Series/HighScore'': a miniseries about the history of {{video game}}s from the 1970s to the 2000s.
* ''Series/AHistoryOfScotland'': Explores [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the history of]] UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}}.
* ''WebVideo/TheHistoryOfTheSeattleMariners'': A Creator/JonBois documentary about the bizarre history of the Seattle Mariners.
* ''Film/HollywoodOnTrial''
* ''Film/{{Home|2006}}'' (2006): This documentary looks at New York City through the eyes of a number of famous people.
* ''Film/HoopDreams''
* ''Film/TheHouseIsBlack''
* ''Series/HowToWithJohnWilson''
* ''Film/IAmBigBird''
* ''Film/IAmNotYourNegro'': An look at the history of anti-black racism in America, as told through the writings of Creator/JamesBaldwin.
* ''Film/{{Icarus}}''
* ''Film/IfATreeFallsAStoryOfTheEarthLiberationFront''
* ''Film/IKnowThatVoice'': An in-depth look at voice acting as told by some {{living legend}}s and familiar faces in the industry.
* ''Series/ILoveYouYouHateMe'' - about the rise and public backlash of ''Series/BarneyAndFriends''
* ''Film/TheImposter2012'': A documentary about the disappearance of 13-year-old Nicholas Barclay and the man who claimed to be him.
* ''Series/IShouldntBeAlive''
* ''Film/IllFindAWay''
* ''Film/AnInconvenientTruth''
* ''Film/IndieGameTheMovie'': A look at the production of ''[[VideoGame/MeatBoy Super Meat Boy]]'', ''VideoGame/{{Fez}}'', and ''VideoGame/{{Braid}}'', providing an in-depth look at the double-edged nature of independent video game development.
* ''Series/InSearchOf'': A documentary series centered around popular mysteries, with Creator/LeonardNimoy as the narrator.
* ''Film/InTheCourtOfTheCrimsonKing'', an acclaimed 2022 documentary about the band Music/KingCrimson.
* ''Film/InTheYearOfThePig'': A 1968 documentary about UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar and the events leading up to it.
* ''Film/TheInventorOutForBloodInSiliconValley''
* ''Film/TheInvisibleWar''
* ''Film/JesusCamp''
* ''Film/TheJewishAmericans''
* ''Film/TheJinx'': About billionaire murder suspect Robert Durst.
* ''Film/JiroDreamsOfSushi''
* ''Film/JodorowskysDune''
* ''Film/{{Jonestown}}''
* ''Film/{{Kedi}}''
* ''Film/TheKidsGuideToTheInternet''
* ''Film/TheKillingOfAmerica''
* ''Film/TheKingOfKong''
* ''Film/KissLovesYou''
* ''Film/KonTiki''
* ''Film/{{Koyaanisqatsi}}''
* ''Film/LastDaysInVietnam'' -- the panicked American flight from Saigon as the North Vietnamese close in on the South Vietnam capital at the end of UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar.
* ''Film/TheLastLions'': Following a lone lioness and her three cubs in the wilds of Botswana.
* ''WebVideo/LEGORewind'': A guerrilla documentary / VideoReviewShow about various Franchise/{{LEGO}} themes.
* ''Film/LetTheFireBurn''
* ''Film/{{Let There Be Light|1946}}''
* ''Film/TheLifeAndTimesOfRosieTheRiveter''
* ''Film/TheLineKingTheAlHirschfeldStory''
* ''Film/LongShot2017''
* ''Film/TheLongWayHome''
* ''Film/LookingForMsLocklear'' - A documentary by WebVideo/RhettAndLink about their search for their first grade teacher.
* ''WebVideo/LooseChange''
* ''Film/LostInLaMancha''
* ''Film/LostSoulTheDoomedJourneyOfRichardStanleysIslandOfDrMoreau''
* ''Series/MakingAMurderer''
* ''Film/{{Manson|1973}}'', one of the first documentaries about UsefulNotes/CharlesManson and the Tate-[=LaBianca=] murders.
* ''Film/ManWithAMovieCamera''
* ''Film/{{Marjoe}}''
* ''Film/{{Marwencol}}''
* ''Series/{{Mayday}}'', also called ''Air Crash Investigation''
* ''Film/TheMemphisBelle''
* ''Film/MichaelDesBarresWhoDoYouWantMeToBe''
* ''Series/MiraclesForSale'': A Derren Brown special about the US faith healing industry.
* ''Film/MiseryLovesComedy''
* ''Film/MoreThanMiyagiThePatMoritaStory''
* ''Film/MoscowStrikesBack''
* ''Series/MurderAmongTheMormons''
* ''WesternAnimation/MyDepression''
* ''Film/MyOctopusTeacher''
* ''Film/MyOldSchool''
* ''Film/NanookOfTheNorth'', the TropeMaker, Robert Flaherty's film about life among the Inuk people of upper Hudson Bay.
* ''Film/{{Navalny}}'': Followed Alexei Navalny, a political opponent to UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin's autocracy in UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia.
* ''Film/TheNegroSoldier'': A look at the role of black soldiers in the United States, both in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and in previous conflicts, intended as a way of boosting the morale of black officers during the latter.
* ''Film/NextGoalWins'' is the story of the worst team in international soccer and their attempts to win one game.
* ''Film/NightAndFog''
* ''WebVideo/NoClip''
* ''Film/OJMadeInAmerica'': A ''very'' long docuseries (three parts in theaters, five on TV) examining the life, career, and criminal cases of Creator/OJSimpson.
* ''Film/{{Olympia}}'': Leni Riefenstahl's documentary of the 1936 UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}} Olympics, which despite all the Nazi propaganda proved highly influential in how sports are dramatized onscreen.
* ''Film/OnAnySunday''
* ''Film/OneDayInSeptember''
* ''Film/OnePlusOne'': Creator/JeanLucGodard's film about, among other things, the [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Rolling Stones]] recording "Sympathy for the Devil".
* ''Film/ParisIsBurning'' is about ball culture in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity during the 1980s.
* ''Film/ThePixarStory'': about the history of Creator/{{Pixar}}.
* ''Film/ThePlowThatBrokeThePlains''
* ''Film/PointOfOrder'': About the 1954 Senate subcommittee hearings to investigate conflicting accusations between Senator UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy and the U.S. Army.
* ''Film/PowersOfTen''
* ''Film/PortraitOfJason''
* ''Film/{{Primary}}'': Groundbreaking cinema verite film about the 1960 UsefulNotes/{{Wisconsin}} Democratic presidential primary contest between Hubert Humphrey and UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy.
* ''Film/ProjectNim'': About an experiment on a chimpanzee to see if they could learn how to communicate like a human if raised like a human child.
* ''Film/PumpingIron''
* ''Film/{{RBG}}'': Life and career of Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
* ''Film/ReclaimingTheBlade'': On medieval European swordmanship.
* ''Film/TheRedPill'': A look at the history of the Men's Rights Movement.
* ''Film/ReelBadArabs'': A documentary about the stereotyping of Arabs and other [[UsefulNotes/TheMiddleEast Middle Eastern]] peoples in mainstream media, particularly films, and all the UnfortunateImplications coming from it.
* ''Film/{{Religulous}}''
* ''Film/ReportFromTheAleutians''
* ''Film/{{Restrepo}}''
* ''Film/{{Revolution|1968}}'' (1968): This documentary explores hippiedom in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco in 1967.
* ''Film/{{Revolution|2012}}'' (2012): This documentary explores the importance of saving the environment.
* ''Film/RobertFrostALoversQuarrelWithTheWorld''
* ''Film/RogerAndMe'': A documentary about the decline of the motor industry in Michigan and Creator/MichaelMoore's attempts at getting General Motors CEO Roger Bonham Smith to see the effects of it firsthand.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ryan}}'': Documentary short about animator Ryan Larkin unusual for itself being animated
* ''WebVideo/SabatonHistory'': Web series about military history co-produced by [[WebVideo/TheGreatWar TimeGhost]] and the metal band Music/{{Sabaton}}.
* ''Film/{{Salesman}}''
* ''Film/SansSoleil''
* ''Film/{{Santoalla}}''
* ''Series/SavageKingdom''
* ''Film/SearchingForSugarMan'': A look at how Music/{{Rodriguez}} was hugely hit by GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff in UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica during UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra, leading to people there attempting to learn what became of him in the wake of a popular rumor that he committed suicide on-stage.
* ''Series/SecondsFromDisaster'', about major disasters (natural or man-made) and the series of events leading up to them.
* ''Series/{{Serengeti}}''
* ''Podcast/{{Serial}}'': A podcast exploring the real life murder conviction of Adnan Syed and his potential innocence.
* ''Film/ShermansMarch''
* ''Film/{{Shoah}}''
* ''Film/ShowbizKids'': A documentary about {{Former Child Star}}s.
* ''Film/ShowdownInSeattle''
* ''Film/{{Sicko}}''
* ''Film/{{Siege}}'': A documentary short about the siege of UsefulNotes/{{Warsaw}} in 1939.
* ''WebVideo/TheSmashBrothers'': A nine-episode WebOriginal following seven of the most influential ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee'' players of all time, as well as the community surrounding them.
* ''Film/TheSocialDilemma'': A documentary about how SocialMediaIsBad, starring several tech insiders and academics.
* ''Film/TheSorrowAndThePity''
* ''Series/SovietStormWorldWarIIInTheEast''
* ''Film/SpainTheFirstGlobalization'': A documentary about Spanish history and its Black Legend.
* ''Film/SpecialWhenLit'': A look at the history, culture, and creators of {{Pinball}}.
* ''Film/{{Spielberg}}''
* ''Film/{{The Square|2013}}'' (2013)
* ''Film/TheStatueOfLiberty''
* ''Film/StillAMichaelJFoxMovie''
* ''Film/TheStoryOfTheWeepingCamel''
* ''Film/StreetFight''
* ''Film/StrongIsland''
* WebVideo/SummoningSalt's videos, documenting the history of {{speedrun}}ning on a game-by-game (and goal-by-goal) basis.
* ''Film/SuperSizeMe'': One man's attempt to eat UsefulNotes/McDonalds, and only [=McDonalds=], for 30 days in a row.
** ''Film/SuperSizeMe2HolyChicken'': Has fast food really gotten healthier? Maybe a transparent chicken sandwich restaurant will answer this burning question.
* ''Film/TheSweatbox'': The look into the history and making of the abandoned Creator/{{Disney}} film ''Kingdom of the Sun'' and its painful transformation into the film ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove''.
* ''Podcast/{{Swindled}}'': A podcast series covering white collar crimes.
* ''Film/ThankYouForPlaying'': A documentary about the creation of the critically acclaimed indie game ''That Dragon, Cancer''
* ''Film/TheyShallNotGrowOld'': a documentary by Creator/PeterJackson about British soldiers' experiences in UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne, primarily using restored wartime footage and archived interviews from the soldiers themselves
* ''Film/ThisFilmIsNotYetRated'': A look at the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the frequent {{Double Standard}}s applied to film ratings.
* ''Film/TheThinBlueLine'': A documentary that combines investigative journalism and FilmNoir presentation to examine and attempt to overturn a false murder conviction.
* ''Film/ThreeIdenticalStrangers''
* ''Film/ThreeSistersSearchingForACure''
* ''Film/{{Tickled}}'': Creator/DavidFerrier's documentary on "competitive tickling," which takes a dark turn.
* ''Film/TheTiesThatBind1985'': A documentary on the life of the filmmaker's mother.
* ''Film/ATimeForBurning''
* ''Film/TheTimesOfHarveyMilk''
* ''Film/TiltTheBattleToSavePinball'': A documentary on the creation of the "Pinball 2000" game platform.
* ''Film/TokyoOlympiad'': A look at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, and how they represented Japan's return to the world stage nearly 20 years after their defeat in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tower|2016}}'' (2016): A documentary on the 1966 University of UsefulNotes/{{Texas}} tower shooting. Interestingly, this film recreates the shooting with actors portraying the people who there on the day of the shooting, recreating the scenes as recalled by some of the real survivors, then animated with {{rotoscoping}} to give the film a unique look.
* ''Film/{{TPBAFK}}'': A documentary about ''Website/ThePirateBay'' and the trial of its creators.
* ''Series/TrainwreckWoodstock99'', also known as Clusterf**k: Woodstock '99: A documentary about Woodstock '99.
* ''Film/TreeMan2015''
* ''Film/TriumphOfTheWill'': A propaganda piece from and about UsefulNotes/NaziGermany pre-UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
* ''Film/TroubleTheWater''
* ''Film/TruthIn24''
* ''Film/TwentyFeetFromStardom''
* ''Film/TwistOfFaith''
* ''Film/{{Undefeated}}''
* ''Series/UrasawaNaokiNoManben''
* ''Film/{{Val}}''
* ''Series/TheVow2020''
* ''Film/WakingSleepingBeauty''
* ''Film/TheWeatherUnderground''
* ''Series/{{Welcome to Wrexham}}'', documenting Creator/RyanReynolds and Creator/RobMcElhenney's purchase of the Welsh soccer team Wrexham AFC.
* ''Film/WhatIsAWoman'': Matt Walsh asks this question of ordinary people after Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said she couldn't define a woman.
* ''Film/WhenWeWereKings'': Chronicles the "Rumble in the Jungle", the boxing match between UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli and George Foreman in which Ali defeated the previously unbeaten Foreman to regain the world heavyweight title.
* ''Film/WhoKilledTheElectricCar'': It examines the reasons for the dismantlement of the electric car program of the early 2000s.
* ''Series/WhyWeFight'': A series of propaganda films detailing the United States' motives for getting involved in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII following their initial stance of neutrality, made as a direct response to ''Film/TriumphOfTheWill''.
** ''Film/PreludeToWar'': A look at the rise and threat of fascism in Germany, Italy, and Japan.
** ''Film/TheBattleOfRussia'': A look at Russia and their past and present successes in repelling foreign invasions.
* ''Series/WildWildCountry''
* ''Film/WinnebagoMan'': Explores the phenomenon of viral videos, in particular that of one man's profanity-laden out-takes.
* ''Film/WinterOnFire'': The events in UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}} in the winter 2013-2014 that saw the Maidan Revolution oust pro-Russia President Yanukovych after violent repressions, the annexation of Crimea by UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} and the war in Donbas caused by Russia.
* ''Film/WordWars'': A documentary about competitive TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}} playing.
* ''WebVideo/WorldWarTwo'': A series documenting the events of UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo week by week in real time.
* ''Film/YoungAtHeart2007'': The inspirational true story of a choir of senior citizens who perform modern {{rock}} music.
* ''Film/{{Zoo}}''
[[/index]]
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