Netflix released the official trailer for The Trapped 13: How We Survived The Thai Cave, the documentary film exclusively features members of the real Wild Boars team and captures the intimate details of their remarkable fight for survival – straight from the survivors themselves.
Icarus Films dropped a new trailer for My Imaginary Country (Mi país imaginario), the documentary on the 2019 protests in Chile by Chile’s master documentarian Patricio Guzmán, which premiered to standing ovations at the Cannes Film Festival last May.
ARRAY Releasing, the distribution arm of Ava DuVernay’s Peabody Award-winning narrative change collective, will release What We Leave Behind, the SXSW Film Festival award-winning documentary in select US AMC theaters on September 23, 2022, followed by Netflix (United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand) on September 30, 2022, coinciding with Hispanic Heritage Month in the US.
Apple has landed the rights to Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me, a new documentary about singer, songwriter, actress, producer, entrepreneur and activist Selena Gomez, directed and produced by Alek Keshishian (“Madonna: Truth or Dare”).
Oscilloscope Laboratories released the official trailer for Sirens the documentary on Middle East’s first all-female metal band as they wrestle with friendship, sexuality and destruction in their pursuit of becoming thrash metal rock stars.
Filmmaker Warren Pereira’s feature documentary Tiger 24, takes a deep dive into who is responsible when animals kill humans in the Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve in India. Toronto’s Elevation Pictures will distribute in North America and The Gotham Group will executive produce the documentary.
Peacock revealed the official trailer for Shadowland, filmmaker Joe Berlinger’s immersive six-part documentary series on political conspiracy theories premiering Wednesday September 21st as part of Peacock DocFest.
POV on PBS explores the shadowy nexus of pro sports and the migrant trail in the Cuban baseball documentary film The Last Out, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sami Khan (St. Louis Superman) and Michael Gassert. The documentary will make its national broadcast premiere on Monday, October 3, 2022, and available to stream free until November 2, 2022 at pbs.org, and the PBS Video app.
National Geographic released the teaser trailer for Retrograde, the new documentary from Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman world premiering at the 2022 Telluride Film Festival. The documentary film captures the final nine months of America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan from multiple perspectives and offers a cinematic and historic window onto the end of America’s longest war, and the costs endured for those most intimately involved.
National Geographic Documentary Films has acquired Bobi Wine: The People’s President, which premiered at Venice Film Festival under the working title Bobi Wine: Ghetto President, from directors Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp. The documentary which is playing at Telluride Film Festival over the Labor Day weekend, charts the rise of the pop star-turned-politician seeking to end Uganda’s brutal dictatorship. National Geographic will rollout Bobi Wine: The People’s President at global festivals including London Film Festival throughout the rest of the year and release it in theaters in 2023.
Showtime Sports new documentary McEnroe takes a close-up look at the all-time tennis great John McEnroe’s 1981 Wimbledon victory and subsequent controversy for skipping out on the traditional Champions’ Dinner at the end of the tournament.
Directed by Gregory Bezat, The Art of Eating: The Life of M.F.K. Fisher, the new documentary on California food writer Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher will World Premiere at Mill Valley Film Festival. The documentary traces the remarkable life of iconic California food writer Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher and explores the impact of her ideas on food, its meaning in our lives, and how her writing laid the foundation of modern food writing.