Items20The creator’s order
  1. 1The Perfect Neighbor (2025)The Perfect Neighbor (2025) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased 10 Oct 2025Police bodycam recordings make a long-running neighbourhood dispute accumulate with frightening clarity. The suspense comes from repeated encounters, the words people choose in front of officers and the distance between a complaint and meaningful protection. Geeta Gandbhir's 2025 film centres Ajike…0
  2. 2The Alabama Solution (2025)The Alabama Solution (2025) 7.8/10 on IMDbReleased 28 Jan 2025Contraband phone footage gives incarcerated men a way to challenge what outsiders are allowed to see of Alabama's prisons. Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman's investigation begins with reports of a violent death and grows through sustained contact with people taking risks to document conditions.…0
  3. 3Cover-Up (2025)Cover-Up (2025) 7.4/10 on IMDbReleased 19 Dec 2025Seymour Hersh's notebooks and primary documents turn reporting into a material process: a source has to be found, a claim tested and an institution persuaded to answer. Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus shape decades of work into a political thriller about obtaining and publishing evidence. The 2025…0
  4. 4The Dissident (2020)The Dissident (2020) 7.8/10 on IMDbReleased 25 Dec 2020Jamal Khashoggi's murder is approached through the people closest to him and the digital threats surrounding other Saudi dissidents. Bryan Fogel connects personal grief with surveillance, political power and the danger of communicating at all. The investigative movement is gripping because a…0
  5. 5Citizenfour (2014)Citizenfour (2014) 8.0/10 on IMDbReleased 10 Oct 2014Much of the tension fits inside a Hong Kong hotel room as Edward Snowden speaks with Laura Poitras and journalists about the documents he is disclosing. Waiting, explaining and deciding what to do next become dramatic actions. Knowing the subsequent headlines does little to remove the pressure of…0
  6. 6Icarus (2017)Icarus (2017) 7.9/10 on IMDbReleased 20 Jan 2017An amateur cyclist's experiment with performance-enhancing drugs becomes an increasingly dangerous relationship with anti-doping scientist Grigory Rodchenkov. Bryan Fogel lets the scale of the story change as his access changes, which gives the film the feeling of an investigation overtaking its…0
  7. 7Navalny (2022)Navalny (2022) 7.8/10 on IMDbReleased 8 Apr 2022Daniel Roher follows Alexei Navalny and investigative journalists trying to identify the people behind his 2020 poisoning. Research becomes a sequence of practical tests, culminating in an extraordinary recorded telephone exchange. The film's close access to Navalny makes his personality part of…0
  8. 8Collective (2019)Collective (2019) 8.1/10 on IMDbReleased 13 Feb 2019After a nightclub fire, journalists keep following evidence about why people are dying in hospitals. The film moves between a newsroom, survivors and officials, letting each apparent explanation lead to another institutional problem. Alexander Nanau's observational access gives the discoveries an…0
  9. 9The Imposter (2012)The Imposter (2012) 7.4/10 on IMDbReleased 13 Jul 2012A young Frenchman's claim to be a missing American teenager is only the beginning of the uncertainty. Bart Layton sets confident testimony against discrepancies, letting the audience feel how readily a persuasive account can organise what it sees. The interviews are documentary encounters; the…0
  10. 10Man on Wire (2008)Man on Wire (2008) 7.7/10 on IMDbReleased 1 Aug 2008Rigging a wire between the Twin Towers requires reconnaissance, equipment and people willing to keep an extraordinary secret. James Marsh gives Philippe Petit's 1974 walk the preparation-and-infiltration rhythm of a heist. Interviews, archival material and staged reconstruction supply different…0