1. Totally Under Control
This documentary puts a spotlight on the White House’s failed response to the global pandemic and how it could have been prevented. Featuring damning testimony from public health officials and hard investigative reporting, director Alex Gibney reveals a system-wide collapse caused by a profound dereliction of presidential leadership.
It has an average vote of 7.422 on TMDB.
2. Velké nic (Velké nic)
(Velké nic)
3. Guide to a Midwest Hometown
Coming back during Winter, Alex Powell explores both the places and personal connections found in his hometown and how they've changed. “Guide to a Midwest Hometown” explores what makes the barren places at home feel sentimental and special, and the good and bad feelings that come when being back home. Inspired by "How To With John Wilson".
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
4. Hacking at Leaves
Hacking at Leaves documents artist and hazmat-suit aficionado Johannes Grenzfurthner as he attempts to come to terms with the United States' colonial past, Navajo tribal history, and the hacker movement. The story hones in on a small tinker space in Durango, Colorado, that made significant contributions to worldwide COVID relief efforts. But things go awry when Uncle Sam interferes with the film's production.
5. Flavio Paolucci. From Guelmim to Biasca (Flavio Paolucci. Da Guelmim a Biasca)
In 2022, an exhibition on the Swiss painter-sculptor Flavio Paolucci was planned in a German museum. The museum had reserved a white wall on which the artist was to create a work. Everything was ready, but the pandemic prevented the 88-year-old artist from travelling. So Flavio Paolucci had the idea of creating this mural in his studio and then destroying it.
6. Affronter l'inconnu (Affronter l'inconnu)
(Affronter l'inconnu)
7. K'i Tah Amongst the Birch
Filmmaker/activist Melaw Nakehk’o has spent the pandemic with her family at a remote land camp in the Northwest Territories, “getting wood, listening to the wind, staying warm and dry, and watching the sun move across the sky.” In documenting camp life—activities like making fish leather and scraping moose hide—she anchors the COVID experience in a specific time and place.
8. Thursday
Thursday shot from filmmaker Galen Johnson's high-rise apartment during COVID-19 “lockdown” in Winnipeg, captures people going about their daily routines in the city's eerily empty streets, yards and parking lots, on their balconies and on the riverbanks. The extreme distance and the diminutive scale of humans is paired with sound close-ups—a combination that embodies the strange, heightened intensity of feeling of the time, knowing an era-defining tragedy is happening yet being so physically removed.
9. Un giorno bello, l'altro no (Un giorno bello, l'altro no)
May 2021: The world sees a way out of the coronavirus pandemic. Manuele Bertoli takes over as President of the Ticino cantonal government and enters his last term of office with a great deal of optimism. But things don't turn out as he had hoped.
10. The Making of Jurassic World VelociCoaster
An inside look at the creation of Universal Orlando Resort's new Jurassic World VelociCoaster.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
11. Hold On - Primum Nocere (Hold On - Primum Nocere)
A documentary about the COVID-19 vaccines.
It has an average vote of 3.7 on TMDB.
12. Chef en pandémie (Chef en pandémie)
(Chef en pandémie)
13. We Met in Virtual Reality
Filmed entirely inside the world of virtual reality , this immersive and revealing documentary roots itself in several unique communities within VR Chat, a burgeoning virtual reality platform. Through observational scenes captured in real-time, in true documentary style, the film reveals the growing power and intimacy of several relationships formed in the virtual world, many of which began during the COVID-19 lockdown, while so many in the physical world were facing intense isolation.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
14. The Panola Project
Highlighting the heroic efforts of Dorothy Oliver to keep her small town of Panola, Alabama safe from COVID-19, The Panola Project chronicles how an often-overlooked rural Black community came together in creative ways to survive.
15. Race Against the Virus: Hunt for a Vaccine
With the drama of a scientific thriller, this documentary reveals—through the eyes of the scientists on the frontline—how Covid-19 spread, and the race to develop a vaccine
16. Edge of the Valley
A nine-year-old Syrian refugee girl contemplates her increasingly bleak future after being forced to drop out of school in the midst of Lebanon’s unprecedented economic collapse and battle with Covid-19.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
17. 100 jours au coeur de la campagne de vaccination (100 jours au coeur de la campagne de vaccination)
(100 jours au coeur de la campagne de vaccination)
18. Veränderung (Veränderung)
Wim Wenders ponders about the future of our society and film making amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.
19. The Last Man
Gravedigger is the last name on the list of fighters facing the Corona epidemic. The gravediggers have buried the dead in one corona after another at the call of humanity even though they were not paid. In return, they received some rewards and an invaluable realization. One of them is Aslam of Ray Bazar Cemetery, The Last Man.
20. When the Bands Stopped Playing
Follow the journey of a time capsule of the live music industry shut down overnight by the Covid-19 pandemic, as seen through the eyes of artists, venue owners, promoters, road crews, and more.