Best Documentary Movies and TV Shows to Watch Now on The Criterion Channel

The Horse in Focus (1956)

IX Olympic Winter Games, Innsbruck 1964 (2017)

Challenge in the Snow (1968)

Daphnia (1928)

Sapporo Winter Olympics (1972)

Alain Mimoun (1959)

#Blackmendream (2021)

People, Hopes, Medals (1960)

The Grand Olympics (1961)

Zydeco (1984)

Les Photos d'Alix (1982)

So Far from India (1983)

Caballerango (2018)

Regrouping (1976)

A Place of Rage (1991)

Chiefs (1968)

Surface Tension (1968)

One Light, One World (1992)

Marathon (1993)

Seven Second Love Affair (1965)

Le sabotier du Val de Loire (2025)

Resynator (2024)

Prof at Home Painting (2024)

Milford Graves Live at Jamaica Arts Center (2024)

Bata Wormhole (2024)

Flipside (2024)

The Callers (2024)

Lush: A Far from Home Movie (2024)

A Movement Against the Transparency of the Stars of the Seas (2024)

Bad Press (2023)

Anselm (2023)

Room 999 (2023)

Our Body (2023)

Orlando: My Political Biography (2023)

Oliver Sees Indigo (2023)

Pictures of Ghosts (2023)

32 Sounds (2023)

Mis dos voces (2023)

The Script (2023)

Tribute to the Teachers (2023)

Regrouping (1976)

Night Journey (1962)

Le sabotier du Val de Loire (2025)

Jamal (1981)

Good Times, Wonderful Times (1968)

Rude Boy (1981)

Janine (1990)

The Script (2023)

Vanilla Sex (1992)

Hoop Dreams (1994)

On the Bowery (1962)

A Thousand Suns (2014)

Hand in Hand (1989)

Kings of Pastry (2010)

Streetwise (1984)

Man of Aran (1934)

Salesman (2021)

24 City (2008)

Sans Soleil (1983)

Faya Dayi (2021)

Burroughs: The Movie (1984)

Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World (1963)

I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard (2012)

Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris (1971)

George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin (1994)

Larisa (1980)

My Architect (2003)

Langlois (1971)

He Who Dances on Wood (2022)

Dziga i ego bratiya (2002)

Bergman Island (2004)

The Mystery of Picasso (1956)

The Beaches of Agnès (2008)

Talking Heads (1980)

The Fog of War (2003)

Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch (1997)

My Dad Is 100 Years Old (2005)

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1985)

And When I Die, I Won't Stay Dead (2015)

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (2015)

A Place of Rage (1991)

Black Roots (1970)

Ziveli! Medicine for the Heart (1987)

Chronicle of a Summer (1961)

For All Mankind (1989)

Another Hayride (2021)

Night and Fog (1957)

The Foundation (2015)

The War Room (1993)

Hearts and Minds (1975)

Monterey Pop (1969)

Along the Coast (2019)

Primary (1960)

Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)

Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (2021)

Animals Distract Me (2011)

Total Balalaika Show (1994)

Fishing with John (1991)

Cane Toads: The Conquest (2011)

An Untitled Portrait (1993)

Cane Toads: An Unnatural History (1988)

À Propos de Nice (1930)

Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets (2014)

The Natural History of the Chicken (2000)

The World of Gilbert & George (1981)

A Brief History of Time (1991)

Elena (2021)

Numéro zéro (2003)

Shit Saturday (1988)

Zydeco (1984)

Sprout Wings and Fly (1983)

Lambert, Hendricks & Co. (1964)

Ornette: Made in America (1986)

Rude Boy (1981)

The Cry of Jazz (1959)

Buena Vista Social Club (1999)

A Poem Is a Naked Person (2016)

Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back (1968)

Daybreak Express (1953)

The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1989)

Original Cast Album: Company (1970)

Gimme Shelter (1971)

The Young Girls Turn 25 (1993)

Instrument (1999)

Monterey Pop (1969)

Festival (1967)

Seymour: An Introduction (2015)

The Thin Blue Line (1988)