The Vault
Crazy Horse
2011 ★ 6.5A cinéma vérité exploration of the grueling schedules, auditions, lighting design, and backstage operations at the famous Parisian nude cabaret, Le Crazy Horse
Random Acts of Flyness
2018 ★ 4.2Late-night series featuring a mix of vérité documentary, musical performances, surrealist melodrama and humorous animation as a stream-of-consciousness response
Itzhak
2017 ★ 6.4From Schubert to Strauss, Bach to Brahms, Mozart to…Billy Joel, Itzhak Perlman’s violin playing transcends mere performance to evoke the celebrations and strugg
Camp Alec
2025 ★ 6.9Nestled in the woods outside of Grand Rapids, Michigan, is a sleepaway camp for kids who are nonspeaking. To express themselves, they must use augmentative and
Mars
2016 ★ 7.1The maiden crew of the Daedalus spacecraft must push itself to the brink of human capability in order to successfully establish the first sustainable colony on
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
2009 ★ 7.6Frederick Wiseman observes the ins and outs of the Paris Opera House, including the processes behind seven of their operas: Genus (Wayne McGregor), Le Songe de
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
1967 ★ 7.4In this wildly entertaining vision of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Bob Dylan is surrounded by teen fans, gets into heated philosophical jous
An American Family
1973 ★ 5.4Originally intended as a chronicle of the daily life of the Louds, a Santa Barbara upper-middle-class family, the groundbreaking program documented the breakup
Wake (Subic)
2015 ★ 6.0First begun in 2006, WAKE (SUBIC) completes the documentary diptych, FOR EXAMPLE, THE PHILIPPINES, the first part of which, VAPOR TRAIL (CLARK) was released in 2
J'ai tout donné
1972 ★ 9.3An intimate cinéma vérité style documentary following french mega star Johnny Hallyday's summer tour. Music Documentary intimate documentary musical observation
Au coeur de l'arène : la vérité sur les jeux romains
2026 ★ 0.0Documentary History gladiator rome, italy arena roman empire africa bears documentary history lions elephants panthers wildbeast roman games Nicolas Brénéol Nov
Operation Repo
2008 ★ 4.2Operation Repo is an American television program that depicts the world of car repossession with a team that portrays fictionalized tales of repossessions from
Burma Storybook
2017 ★ 0.0Burma Storybook is a parade of characters, poems and cinema verité scenes set in this enchantingly beautiful land trying to recover from six decades of fear and
End Game
2018 ★ 7.2Filmed and edited in intimate vérité style, this movie follows visionary medical practitioners who are working on the cutting edge of life and death and are ded
Becoming Kim
2026 ★ 0.0German filmmaker Susanne, married to a Korean man named Kim Jeong Rae, turns the camera toward her own intercultural marriage and family with both humor and ten
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
1963 ★ 6.9During a two-day period before and after the University of Alabama integration crisis, the film uses five camera crews to follow President John F. Kennedy, atto
SILA
2026 ★ 0.0Set on an island 600 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, this intimate vérité portrait follows two young Inuit coming of age. Created in close collaboration
Robert Drew
Robert Lincoln Drew was an American documentary filmmaker known as one of the pioneers—and sometimes called father—of cinéma vérité, or direct cinema, in the Un