Docs to Watch

Every year, Florida holds a competition where people head into the Everglades at night to catch invasive pythons.

It’s a brilliant setup for a documentary, and the film makes the most of it: ten nights in the swamp, some proper characters, and a lot of people becoming completely obsessed with f...

A coming-of-age story set on the back of a dirt bike in Baltimore.

12 O’Clock Boys follows Pug, a young kid growing up in West Baltimore who is desperate to join the city’s illegal dirt bike riders. They tear through the streets in huge packs, pulling near-vertical wheelies while police helicop...

One of the most dangerous festivals on Earth, and the most beautiful.

Brimstone & Glory takes you inside the National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico, a town built around fireworks. Once a year, the whole place erupts into fire as giant wooden bulls covered in explosives are pushed thro...

Meet Peter. He's autistic, obsessed with Survivor, and stages full eviction ceremonies whenever a family member gets on his nerves. His brother Matthew is trying to overcome a serious fear of dogs, with Peter helping him in the way only a brother would: partly supportive, partly making everything...

The war documentary the Marine Corps tried to stop.

Miles Lagoze enlisted at 18 and was sent to Afghanistan as his unit’s Combat Camera, filming the clean, controlled footage used in official military releases. Combat Obscura is made from everything he kept shooting when the cameras were suppos...

This is New York eccentricity at its finest.

I Like Killing Flies follows Kenny Shopsin, the stubborn, brilliant and frequently hostile owner of a tiny Greenwich Village restaurant with a 900-item menu and a set of rules only he fully understands. Customers are insulted, fed and looked after in...