These documentary films were selected by the Moviepiq editorial team for watching with your partner. Popularity and critic scores don't factor in here. Emotional fit does.
The best documentary movies with your boyfriend from the 80s and 90s that will make you think for days. Includes Won't You Be My Neighbor?, Free Solo, 13th a...
Watching a film together is one of the simplest and best things you can do. Pick something with enough texture that you'll want to pause it and argue about it.
The 80s and 90s remain a goldmine. Films that were commercially dismissed on release and now considered essential.
A great documentary finds the universal in the specific. One person's story becomes everyone's story.
An intimate look at America's favourite neighbor and the life, lessons, and legacy of Fred Rogers.
Follow Alex Honnold as he attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite's El Capitan.
An in-depth look at the US prison system and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock musician Rodriguez.
The documentaries that stay with you are the ones that refuse to simplify. They show you the mess of a real situation and trust you to sit with it.
A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, and illegal, high-wire routine performed between the World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974.
When Bryan Fogel sets out to uncover the truth about doping in sports, a chance meeting with a Russian scientist transforms his project into a geopolitical thriller.
A documentary about the 1965-66 Indonesian mass killings, in which former paramilitary leaders re-enact their crimes.
A film that makes you think for days has done something rare: it's trusted you to do the work. These films trust you.
After watching a great documentary, the world looks slightly different. That's not a small thing.
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