Must-Watch Docs
Start your journey with a powerful documentary that brings real stories to life. These picks feature some of the best documentaries about people, places, and events that will inform, inspire, and stay with you long after the screen fades to black. Hoopla offers access to a vast collection of books, videos, and music, all free with your library card. Borrow, stream, and download content on iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, Samsung TV, LG TV, and more.
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Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock up - Season 1
Gypsy Rose Blanchard
movie
Ol' Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys
Ol' Dirty Bastard
movie
SOMM: Cup of Salvation
Aimee Keushguerian
movie
Atari: Game Over
Zak Penn
movie
Mark: A Call to Action
Wasna Dabbagh
movie
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
Sophie Okonedo
movie
Carol Doda Topless at the Condor
Carol Doda
movie
Beyond the Headlines: The Tanya Kach Story
Tanya Nicole Kach
movie
Filmworker
Stanley Kubrick
movie
The Booksellers
Parker Posey
movie
Joan Baez I Am a Noise
Joan Baez
movie
Twisters - The Real Story
Paul Botten
movie
Bill Cunningham New York
Bill Cunningham
movie
Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics
Don Cheadle
movie
Super Seniors
Etty Marouani
movie
Serena Williams: The Power and The Glory
Rick Macci
movie
Tale of the Tape
Kendrick Lamar
television
Secrets of Polygamy - Season 1
Matt Browning
movie
Project Nim
Nim Chimpsky
television
Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard - Season 1
Gypsy Rose Blanchard
television
American Buffalo: A Film by Ken Burns - Season 1
Peter Coyote
movie
Dreamscape Explore: Into the Cosmos
Hannah Van der Westhuysen
movie
Banksy Does New York
Banksy
movie
How to Dance in Ohio
Emilio Amigo
movie
A Compassionate Spy
Ted Hall
television
FDR - Season 1
Christian McKay
movie
Film, The Living Record of Our Memory
Martin Scorsese
movie
Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind
Jerry Lee Lewis
movie
ROAR: The Story of the Southern Columbia Football Tigers
movie
Gotta Dance
Joe Bianco
movie
Jews and Baseball
Dustin Hoffman
movie
20 Days in Mariupol
Mstyslav Chernov
movie
Biography: Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper
movie
Twenty Feet from Stardom
Sheryl Crow
movie
Chris Claremont's X-Men
Jason Aaron
movie
Sushi: The Global Catch
movie
JFK: A President Betrayed
Alex Akalovsky
movie
Casey Anthony's Parents: The Lie Detector Test
Casey Anthony
movie
Oppenheimer: The Real Story
J. Robert Oppenheimer
movie
The Codebreaker
Kate Burton
movie
Biography: Dee Snider
Dee Snider
movie
United We Fan
Amy Acker
movie
This is My Black
Danyel Brewer
movie
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue
Dick Cavett
television
Lost U-Boats of WWII - Season 1
Darrell Milkos
movie
Sasquatch Odyssey: The Hunt for Bigfoot
Grover Krantz
movie
Celtic Soul
Jay Baruchel
movie
The PROcess
Eric Paschall