Category Documentary

When she was 9 years old, Maya Kowalski was admitted to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in 2016 due to a rare disease. Neither she nor her family imagined the odyssey that awaited them. As they tried to understand her illness, members of the medical team began to question the ties that united the Kowalskis. Suddenly, the state took custody of Maya, even though her parents were desperate to take her daughter back home...

Descending to remarkable depths under the sea, by lungs, Alessia Zecchini enters what she describes as the last quiet place on Earth...

This special explores the return of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker to the screen, as well as Ewan McGregor and Hyaden Christensen to their classic roles...

The film follows Opportunity, the Mars Exploration Rover affectionately nicknamed Oppy by its creators and NASA scientists...

Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson join filmmaker Chris Columbus and other cast members from the Harry Potter films to return to Hogwarts for the first time to celebrate the anniversary of the first film in the series...

August Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize winner who wrote the screenplays for “Fences,” “The Piano Lesson,” and “Come and Gone,” is one of America’s leading playwrights, a chronicler of the African-American experience with more than 10 plays, each set at a different time from the s. XX. Now, every year, thousands of young students gather in New York City to perform one of his monologues in a Broadway competition. Giving Voice closely follows the lives of six of those students as they develop their performances in hopes of faithfully representing Wilson’s legacy...

In the search for a new and more humane society, a countercultural revolution takes the world by storm. In the first of the InterReflections trilogy, we looked out into the modern world and wondered how we managed to survive as long as we did...

Explore actress Natalie Wood’s personal and professional triumphs and challenges, which have often been overshadowed by her untimely death...

“In the Footsteps of the Elephant” follows the documentary makers in their recording of the epic journey of the African elephants through the Kalahari Desert in the Disneynature documentary “The Elephants...

Swimming with Dolphins tells the filming of Dolphins: Life on the Reef by Disneynature, the story of a Pacific bottlenose dolphin calf named Echo. From surfing with the dolphins in South Africa to dancing with humpback whales in Hawaii, filmmakers go to great lengths (and depths) to shed new light on the mysteries of the ocean...