Following the world premiere at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival this weekend, National Geographic Documentary Films and Greenwich Entertainment will release The Rescue, the latest film from award-winning directing duo E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin exclusively in theaters on October 8, 2021.
Oaxacalifornia: The Return (Oaxacalifornia: El regreso), the fifth feature film by acclaimed English-born Mexican director Trisha Ziff (The Mexican Suitcase, The Man Who Saw Too Much), will have its U.S. premiere at the 2021 edition of the New York Latino Film Festival, taking place September 14 to 19. Additionally, the film will also be screening at the Milwaukee Film “Cinema Without Borders” series, the AFI Latin American Film Festival in Washington D.C., and the Portland Latino Film Festival.
Becoming Cousteau, the new documentary on legendary oceanographer Jacques Cousteau from director Liz Garbus (“The Farm: Angola, USA,” “What Happened, Miss Simone?”) will open in theaters on Friday, Oct. 22. Boasting never-before-seen footage, Becoming Cousteau will have its world premiere at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival.
The documentary feature film “Desert One” from two time Academy Award-winning director Barbara Kopple (“Harlan County USA,” “American Dream”) will premiere on The History Channel on Sunday, September 12th at 8pm ET/PT.
National Geographic released the official trailer Fauci, the new documentary on Dr. Anthony Fauci, M.D., the nation’s top infectious disease expert and celebrated public servant.
The new official trailer debuted for the documentary My Name Is Pauli Murray, profiling the remarkable Pauli Murray, whose legacy as one of the 20th Century’s great human rights activists and legal scholars finally gets the attention it deserves. My Name Is Pauli Murray will be released in theaters on September 17th, 2021 and on Prime Video on October 1st, 2021.
Three new documentaries from award-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen (Hunger, 12 Years a Slave) – Uprising, Black Power: A British Story of Resistance and Subnormal: A British Scandal will premiere on Friday, September 17 on Amazon Prime Video in the U.S. and Canada.
Apple TV+ released the trailer for The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes documentary on one of rock ’n’ roll’s most revered bands that closed the Perlak lineup of 2021 San Sebastian Festival. The documentary, the first major film to tell the band’s legendary story, will be released in theaters and on Apple TV+ on October 15.
Greenwich Entertainment released the official trailer for Man In The Field: The Life And Art Of Jim Denevan, the documentary profiling the artist, chef and founder of Outstanding in the Field. Directed by Patrick Trefz, the documentary film will be released in theaters and on VOD on September 24th.
MTV Documentary Films acquired the award-winning short subject documentary Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker from director Ryan White (The Case Against 8, Ask Dr. Ruth, The Keepers). The film, narrated by Neil Patrick Harris, won the Best Documentary Short award at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, screened at the 2021 AFI Docs and Nantucket Film Festival, and was named a Critic’s Choice by Independent Magazine.
Sony Pictures Classics will release the documentary Julia from award-winning filmmakers Julie Cohen and Betsy West (RBG) in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on November 5, expanding throughout the month.
Kino Lorber will release The Village Detective: a song cycle, where a Soviet film from 1969 found in a fisherman’s net serves as inspiration for Bill Morrison’s (Dawson City: Frozen Time, Decasia) latest exploration of forgotten histories that endure on celluloid.