Best Documentary Movies to Watch Now on Kanopy

Tea With the Dames (2018)

Much Ado About Dying (2024)

The Search for the Palace Letters (2024)

Martha's Vineyard V. DeSantis (2023)

Nuclear Crisis: Planet Earth (2023)

Vishniac (2024)

Playing Frisbee in North Korea (2022)

The Fukushima Disaster (2023)

Phases of Matter (2022)

Rabble Rousers (2022)

Slava Ukraini (2023)

Tramps! (2023)

Free Renty: Lanier v. Harvard (2022)

Warrior Spirit (2023)

Ever Deadly (2023)

Citizen of Moria (2022)

Daughters of the Sun (2023)

Summer in the City (1970)

Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts (2023)

Black Patriots: Buffalo Soldiers (2022)

Mary Heilmann: Waves, Roads and Hallucinations (2024)

The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout (2024)

Flipside (2024)

Sovereign Soil (2024)

Taking Venice (2024)

H2: The Occupation Lab (2024)

The Sixth (2024)

Finding the Money (2024)

The Pushback (2024)

It's Only Life After All (2024)

The Lie Detector (2024)

Carol Doda Topless at the Condor (2024)

Much Ado About Dying (2024)

God & Country (2024)

Matter of Mind: My Parkinson's (2024)

Elvis & Priscilla: Conditional Love (2024)

Open Wide (2024)

Our Time Machine (2024)

Vishniac (2024)

My Mercury (2024)

With My Own Two Wheels (2011)

Kristina Talking Pictures (1976)

Lives of Performers (1972)

Fires Were Started (1943)

Restless (2019)

Mbeu Yosintha (2014)

All My Girls (1980)

Rude Boy (1981)

Broken Heart Land (2014)

Ghost Fleet: The Epic Voyage of Zheng He (2022)

Good Times, Wonderful Times (1968)

Off Label (2013)

The Good Breast (2016)

American Winter (2013)

The Silent Enemy (1930)

Holy Land: A Year in the West Bank (2014)

Ayenda (2023)

The Imposter (2012)

Our Time Machine (2024)

Waldo on Weed (2019)

In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2002)

Westinghouse (2008)

Among the Believers (2015)

Saint Nicholas: The Real Story (2022)

I Am Secretly an Important Man (2010)

Many Beautiful Things (2023)

The Barefoot Artist (2014)

Raymond Lewis: L.A. Legend (2022)

Let Them Eat Cake (2014)

Mother Tongue (2015)

Bixa Travesty (2019)

My Mother's Village (2013)

A Good Day to Die (2010)

Autumn Gem (2009)

Glickman (2013)

Imelda Marcos: Steel Butterfly (2001)

Little Gandhi (2016)

Yangsi (2014)

Soul Boys of the Western World (2014)

Billy Flanigan: The Happiest Man on Earth (2022)

How to Lose Your Virginity (2013)

The Great Hip Hop Hoax (2013)

Wagonmasters (2014)

Exposed (2013)

The Special Need (2014)

Becoming Santa (2011)

When the Screaming Starts (2022)

The Search for General Tso (2015)

Sweatshop Deadly Fashion (2015)

Real Life (1979)

Chop & Steele (2023)

The Clowns (1970)

The Red Chapel (2010)

Sickies Making Films (2018)

Seven Songs for a Long Life (2016)

Something in the Dirt (2022)

Breaking and Entering (2011)

Hospital (1970)

Paul Chowdhry: What's Happening White People? (2012)

The Arrested Development Documentary Project (2013)

Citizen of Moria (2022)

Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts (2023)

Black Patriots: Buffalo Soldiers (2022)

Reel in the Closet (2015)

Putin's Witnesses (2020)

Larry Rivers (1972)

The Grain in the Stone (1975)

The Eugenics Crusade (2018)

Unmarked (2020)

Asana Travelogue (2012)

Horse Tribe (2014)

Lumiere's First Picture Shows (2013)

Because I Was a Painter (2014)

The Unnatural History of the Kakapo (2023)

The Fidel Castro Tapes (2014)

Free to Run (2016)

Colliding Dreams (2015)

Black Roots (1970)

Gods of Mexico (2023)

Last Days of Chinatown (2022)

Raising Bertie (2017)

Just Like You: Anxiety and Depression (2022)

Cracking the Shakespeare Code (2017)

Champagne (1996)

Bias (2020)

Brazen Hussies (2020)

High School II (1994)

Throwing Bombs in Baghdad (2020)

Cell 364 (2020)

The Sound of Identity (2021)

Un pays qui se tient sage (2020)

Silicon Cowboys (2016)

Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) (2020)

Libby, Montana (2004)

Eco-Terrorist: The Battle for Our Planet (2019)

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (2021)

Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary (2019)

Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story (2020)

Bully (2012)

Elena (2021)

Becoming Traviata (2012)

Passing Strange (2008)

Only When I Dance (2009)

The Blonds (2003)

A Year in Port (2016)

Last Will & Testament (2012)

Human Nature (2020)

Breaking the Maya Code (2008)

Girl Model (2011)

Night Labor (2013)

Kingdom of Animal (2012)

Banksy and the Rise of Outlaw Art (2020)

Out of My Head (2017)

Humano (2014)

Men at Lunch (2014)

Shaping Bamboo (1979)

Rude Boy (1981)

Slim & I (2020)

Elvis & Priscilla: Conditional Love (2024)

It's Only Life After All (2024)

I Need That Record (2008)

Britney Spears: Breaking Free (2021)

Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields (2010)

Meet Me in the Bathroom (2022)

Dare to Drum (2015)

Punk in Africa (2012)

Charli XCX: Alone Together (2022)

Amy (2015)

Truth to Power (2021)

Deep Blues (1995)

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (2007)

Three Songs About Lenin (1934)

Genghis Blues (1999)

Salad Days (2015)

Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm (2013)

Farewell, Herr Schwarz (2014)

Divorce Iranian Style (1998)

Whiteys Like Us (1999)

In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2002)

Union Maids (1977)

Kristina Talking Pictures (1976)

Lives of Performers (1972)

Among the Believers (2015)

The Secret Life of Lance Letscher (2017)

How to Lose Your Virginity (2013)

She Did That (2019)

Virgin Tales (2012)

The Great Hip Hop Hoax (2013)

Free the Mind (2012)

My Name Is Salt (2013)

Through the Night (2020)

Mother Tongue (2015)

Bixa Travesty (2019)

Mugabe and the White African (2009)

Getting to the Nutcracker (2014)