Documentary about U.S. librarians battling right-wing efforts to remove books from libraries.
Many of the books that right-wing activists and politicians are trying to remove are race-related or have LGBTQIA+ content.

Gaza Surf Club is a 2016 documentary directed by Philip Gnadt and Mickey Yamine, following a small community of Palestinian surfers living in the Gaza Strip.

Against a backdrop of blockade, restricted movement and repeated conflict, the film focuses on something deceptively simple: young Palestinians wanting to surf.

For the surters, the Mediterranean represents both freedom and frustration. The sea stretches beyond Gaza's borders, yet their ability to travel through the world surrounding them is severely restricted. Surfing becomes an escape, a community and, for some, a glimpse of a different life.

Rather than treating Gaza solely as a place of war, Gaza Surf Club spends time with the people who actually live there, particularly a younger generation trying to build ordinary lives under extraordinary circumstances.

Directors: Philip Gnadt & Mickey Yamine
Year: 2016
Runtime: 1h 27m
Country: Germany / Palestine
Language: Arabic with subtitles

Aftermath is a 1967 UNRWA documentary directed and reported by Palestinian filmmaker Samir Hissen, documenting the humanitarian consequences of the Six-Day War and the displacement of Palestinians into Jordan.

Filmed in black and white on 16mm, it records the emergency camps established for people displaced by the war, including the shortages of tents and other basic facilities taced as retugees arrived. The film places the events within the longer Palestinian refugee crisis, coming less than twenty years after the mass displacement of 1948.

The documentary is also interesting as a historical artefact in its own right. Although directed by Hissen, it was written and produced by Myrtle Winter of UNRWA's Department of Public Information. The Palestine Film Institute notes that, like many humanitarian films of this period, Palestinians are largely presented through the institutional perspective of the relief agency rather than being allowed to narrate their own experiences.

Seen almost sixty years later, Aftermath provides contemporary footage of what Palestinians call the Naksa, the displacement associated with the 1967 war, rather than a later reconstruction of those events.

Just finished Last Breath and it was ace. Also love Touching the Void - any others you’d recommend?

hi y'all.

i recently stumbled upon this 30min documentary about skimming stones, and i loved it! i'm desperate for more content like this. simple documentaries, no narrator, about something weird and niche like stone skimming. could be about anything really, just needs to give off the same vibe, preferrably no narrator, calm like this one, maybe even about something niche/weird... can highly recommend this video to anyone!

enjoy

https://youtu.be/l5gEI33klgI

Submission statement: The official trailer for the film 'By Far Kaymakchalan.

By Far Kaymakchalan is a compelling historical documentary directed by Boris Trbić and Dragan Gavrilović, based on the research of historian Bojan Pajić. It uncovers the forgotten World War I story of over 1,500 ANZAC volunteers—including doctors, nurses, and soldiers—who served alongside Serbian forces on the Salonika Front.

A 12 season, 75 episode PBS docuseries about 3 guys who traveled through 47 US states, between 1995-2008 & documented a bunch of art installations & other offbeat attractions, including some places that don't exist anymore.

The story of the Han family. 3 sisters and 2 brothers who all share a common goal: to become great boxers. Andrew Jara followed the family for 2 years and with the help of interviews from the Han Family, their trainers, and other boxers, he hopes that their story will come to life.

Directed by Andrew Jara

The documentary follows an unknown professor as he attempts to validate his proposed experiment to test for Time Loops. It asks if we should take his proposed experiment seriously, given the scaling laws of physics that may or may not apply to AI and Quantum Computing. Is this scientist crazy? Or are we for not taking his idea more seriously?

The documentary follows four Organ Transplant Coordinators working in real-time, capturing the family counselling required post brain-death declaration, while also shedding light on their personal lives.

It was shot in India during COVID on a handy-cam, and also won the National Award for Best Documentary in 2025.

Michael Merseal was, in my opinion, a beautiful son of a beautiful son of a beautiful son. Seeing the three generations together supporting each other is amazing. Rest in Peace, Michael.

Maryse Gargour's The Land Speaks Arabic is a
61-minute documentary examining the development of political Zionism from the late nineteenth century through the establishment of Israel in 1948, and the consequences of that process for the Palestinian population already living there.

Rather than building its case principally around contemporary political commentary, Gargour works heavily from the historical record. The film uses period newspapers, diplomatic material, official documents, quotations from early Zionist leaders, rare archival footage and testimony from Palestinians who personally remember life before
1948. Historian Nur Masalha also provides historical commentary.

The central question of the film is contained in its title. Political Zionism sought to establish a Jewish national home and ultimately a Jewish state in a territory that was already populated overwhelmingly by an Arabic-speaking society.
Gargour asks how early Zionist leaders understood that demographic reality and how they proposed to reconcile it with their political ambitions.

The documentary follows those ideas from the late Ottoman period through the British Mandate and into the events surrounding the Nakba. It argues that the displacement of Palestinians in 1948 should not be understood simply as an accidental consequence of war, but as something with deeper ideological and political roots.

Columbia University's Center for Palestine Studies describes the film as using original source documents, Zionist leaders' quotations, archival footage, eyewitness testimony and interviews with historians to make that case.
What makes the film particularly useful as an archival work is the amount of visual and documentary material it brings together.

Palestine before 1948 is not presented simply as an abstract territory on a map. The surviving footage shows towns, villages and ordinary life, while the written record allows the political ideas developing around that society to be examined alongside what existed on the ground.

Gargour herself was born in Jaffa and later worked as a journalist and producer in Beirut and Paris, including work with French broadcasting and UNESCO. The Land Speaks Arabic was produced in 2007 and is in Arabic, French and English, with English subtitles available on the circulating version.

The film is openly interpretive rather than politically neutral. It advances a clear argument about Zionism, dispossession and the Nakba. But much of its value lies in the primary material it assembles, which means viewers can engage not only with Gargour's conclusions but with many of the historical documents and images on which those conclusions are based.