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Documentary Movie Summaries & Endings Explained
905 documentary movies, each with a full plot summary, timeline, character guide and the ending explained. Combine filters to narrow it down.
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Elegies
2023 · Documentary
Refuge
2023 · Documentary
Money Shot: The Pornhub Story
2023 · Documentary
Trafficked
2023 · Documentary
Between Earth & Sky
2023 · Documentary
Path of the Panther
2023 · Documentary
The Other Fellow
2023 · Biography
The Holly
2023 · Documentary
Pamela, a love story
2023 · Biography
Square the Circle
2023 · Comedy
Wildcat
2022 · Documentary
Kangaroo Valley
2022 · Documentary
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
2022 · Documentary
Tantura
2022 · Documentary
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
2022 · Documentary
Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter
2022 · Documentary
Santa Camp
2022 · Documentary
Nothing Lasts Forever
2022 · Documentary
Good Night Oppy
2022 · Documentary
Calendar Girls
2022 · Documentary
Meet Me in the Bathroom
2022 · Documentary
Kendrick Lamar Live: The Big Steppers Tour
2022 · Music
The Pez Outlaw
2022 · Comedy
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
2022 · Documentary
Mama's Boy
2022 · Biography
Srpska: The Struggle for Freedom
2022 · Documentary
The Curse of Robert the Doll
2022 · Horror
Moonage Daydream
2022 · Music
Katrina Babies
2022 · Documentary
The Territory
2022 · Documentary
The Last Out
2022 · Sport
The Princess
2022 · Documentary
We Met in Virtual Reality
2022 · Documentary
My Old School
2022 · Drama
Fair Play
2022 · Documentary
A Bunch of Amateurs
2022 · Documentary
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes
2022 · History
Leave No Trace
2022 · Documentary
Halftime
2022 · Music
The Wild One
2022 · Documentary
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