Wild Life (2023)

Summary: A sweeping portrait of conservationists Kris and Doug Tompkins chronicling their fight to preserve one of the last truly wild places on earth.

Release Date: May 26, 2023

Genre: Documentary

Directors: Jimmy Chin

, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Little Monster Films, National Geographic Documentary Films, National Geographic

Country: United States

Domestic: $ 326,184

Queen Cleopatra (2023)

Summary: Netflix docudrama about Queen Cleopatra of Egypt of the Ptolemaic lineage from Macedonia, Greece, that ruled for 21 years, between the years 51 BC and 30 BC, ending with her suicide.

Release Date: May 10, 2023

Genre: Documentary

Runtime: 3 h 00 min

MPAA: TV-14

Production: Nutopia

Country: United Kingdom

Little Richard: I Am Everything (2023)

Summary: The one-of-a-kind rock'n'roll icon who shaped the world of music.

Release Date: April 28, 2023

Genres: Documentary, Music

Director: Lisa Cortes

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

Production: Bungalow Media + Entertainment, CNN Films, Rolling Stone

Country: United States

Domestic: $ 14,895

What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears? (2023)

Summary: In 1970, Blood, Sweat and Tears was one of the biggest bands in the world. They had exploded on the scene with both daring and promise, selling millions of records, winning multiple Grammy Awards including Album of the Year (beati...

Release Date: March 24, 2023

Genre: Documentary

Director: John Scheinfeld

Writer: John Scheinfeld

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

Production: Jesse James Films

Country: United States

Domestic: $ 5,093

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV (2023)

Summary: The life and times of Nam June Paik, the father of video art, who coined the phrase "Electronic Superhighway."

Release Date: March 24, 2023

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Director: Amanda Kim

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

Country: United States

Domestic: $ 10,722

Come Out in Jesus Name (2023)

Summary: Following a startling chain of events, the most controversial pastor in America, Greg Locke, took a 180-degree turn from his mainstream religious traditions and led his church into legitimate revival. He and a diverse group of unc...

Release Date: March 13, 2023

Genre: Documentary

Directors: Ed Lamberg

, Tim Romero

Writers: Greg Locke

, Wayne Caparas

, Tim Romero

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

Production: Locke Media

Country: United States

Domestic: $ 973,795

Body of Mine VR (2023)

Summary: Experience gender dysphoria and trans identity with Body of Mine VR, an interactive experience that takes you inside the body of another gender.

Release Date: March 12, 2023

Genre: Documentary

Director: Cameron Kostopoulos

Writer: Cameron Kostopoulos

Runtime: 0 h 12 min

Country: United States

I Got a Monster (2023)

Summary: The explosive story of America's most corrupt police unit, the Gun Trace Task Force, which terrorized the city of Baltimore.

Release Date: March 10, 2023

Genre: Documentary

Director: Kevin Abrams

Writers: Brandon Soderberg

, Baynard Woods

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

Production: Alpine Labs, Act III Productions

Country: United States

Domestic: $ 7,971

Close to Vermeer (2023)

Summary: Much has been written, but little is known about Johannes Vermeer, painter of iconic paintings and crowd pleasers such as The Milkmaid and Girl with a Pearl Earring. His small oeuvre is almost everything he left behind. Close to V...

Release Date: March 09, 2023

Genre: Documentary

Director:

Runtime: 1 h 19 min

Production: Docmakers, NTR Television

Distributor: Kino Lorber

Country: Netherlands

Domestic: $ 11,237

Chris Rock: Selective Outrage (2023)

Summary: Comedian Chris Rock performs a live stand-up special in Baltimore, Maryland.

Release Date: March 04, 2023

Genres: Documentary, Comedy

Director: Joel Gallen

Runtime: 1 h 09 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Netflix Studios

Country: United States

The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker (2023)

Summary: This shocking documentary chronicles a happy-go-lucky nomad's ascent to viral stardom and the steep downward spiral that resulted in his imprisonment.

Release Date: January 10, 2023

Genres: Documentary, Crime

Director: Colette Camden

Writer: Colette Camden

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Country: United States

Clean (2022)

Summary: A fly-on-the-wall insight into the world of trauma cleaning through the journey of larger-than-life business owner Sandra Pankhurst and the workers at Melbourne's Specialised Trauma Cleaning Services.

Release Date: May 11, 2023

Genre: Documentary

Director: Lachlan Mcleod

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

Production: GoodThing Productions, Walking Fish Productions

Country: Australia

In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis (2022)

Summary: In the first nine years of his pontificate, Pope Francis made 37 trips visiting 53 countries, focusing on his most important issues: poverty, migration, the environment, solidarity and war. Intrigued by the fact that two of Franci...

Release Date: March 31, 2023

Genre: Documentary

Director: Gianfranco Rosi

Writer: Gianfranco Rosi

Runtime: 1 h 20 min

Production: 21 Unofilm, Stemal Entertainment, Rai Cinema

Country: Italy

Domestic: $ 19,608

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022)

Summary: Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women, with over 175 movie clips from 1896 ...

Release Date: March 17, 2023

Genre: Documentary

Director: Nina Menkes

Writer: Nina Menkes

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

Production: Menkesfilm, Eos World Fund

Distributor: Kino Lorber

Country: United States

Movie budget: $ 1,550,000

Domestic: $ 28,826

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)

Summary: Follows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.

Release Date: February 28, 2023

Genre: Documentary

Director: Laura Poitras

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

Production: Participant, Praxis Films

Country: United States

Domestic: $ 500,082

International: $ 454,286

Loudmouth (2022)

Summary: It tells the story of Rev. Al Sharpton, painting an intimate portrait of a tireless warrior who has never ducked a fight in his mission to transform the status quo.

Release Date: February 25, 2023

Genre: Documentary

Director: Josh Alexander

Writer: Josh Alexander

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

Production: BRON Studios, Get Lifted Film Company, Group Effort Films

Country: United States

Domestic: $ 42,000

All That Breathes (2022)

Summary: Amidst the darkening backdrop of Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the Black Kite.

Release Date: February 07, 2023

Genre: Documentary

Director: Shaunak Sen

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: HBO Documentary Films, Submarine Deluxe, Sideshow

Countries: United Kingdom, India, United States

Domestic: $ 90,762

International: $ 9,875

White Balls on Walls (2022)

Summary: How can we be more inclusive? That is a question that many companies ask themselves, including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. And there the search for more diversity turns out to be more difficult than expected.

Release Date: February 02, 2023

Genre: Documentary

Director:

Writer:

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

Production: Zeppers Film & TV

Distributor: Icarus Films

Country: Netherlands

Domestic: $ 2,383

Sirens (2022)

Summary: Lilas and Shery, co-founders and guitarists of the Middle East's first all-female metal band, wrestle with friendship, sexuality and destruction in their pursuit of becoming thrash metal rock stars.

Release Date: January 16, 2023

Genre: Documentary

Director: Rita Baghdadi