Most Viewed From HBO Documentary Films

In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edward Snowden

A funny, intimate and heartbreaking portrait of one of the world’s most beloved and inventive comedians, Robin Williams, told largely through...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mark Rasmussen

A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Steven Spielberg

Child abuse, mental illness, and forbidden love converge in this mystery involving a mother and daughter who were thought to be living a fairy tale...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gypsy-Rose Blanchard-Anderson

Hailed as one of the most innovative and intimate documentaries of all time, experience Kurt Cobain like never before in the only ever fully...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kurt Cobain

In 1972, a seemingly typical shoestring budget pornographic film was made in a Florida hotel: "Deep Throat," starring Linda Lovelace. This film would...

Genre: History

Cast: Dennis Hopper

Tina Turner overcame impossible odds to become one of the first female Black artists to reach a mainstream international audience. Her road to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tina Turner

This documentary looks at the surge in political violence through the story of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, showing the roots of anti-government...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kathy Sanders

With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Elizabeth Holmes

GOING CLEAR intimately profiles eight former members of the Church of Scientology, shining a light on how they attract true believers and the things...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Haggis

SEDUCED AND ABANDONED combines acting legend Alec Baldwin with director James Toback as they lead us on a troublesome and often hilarious journey of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alec Baldwin

Rob Reiner profiles Albert Brooks, comedic legend, acclaimed filmmaker, talented character actor and a lifelong friend, who Reiner first met in their...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Albert Brooks

Take a stroll down Sesame Street and witness the birth of the most influential children's show in television history. From the iconic furry...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joan Ganz Cooney

Spotlighting the art of drag, and centered on the New York staple Wigstock, this documentary showcases the personalities and performances that inform...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joey Arias

Explore Woodstock 99, a three-day music festival promoted to echo unity and counterculture idealism of the original 1969 concert but instead devolved...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Lang

An Oscar nominated documentary about a middle-class American family who is torn apart when the father Arnold and son Jesse are accused of sexually...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Arnold Friedman

Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta. Director Zana Briski went to photograph the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Zana Briski

In this horrifyingly modern fairytale lurks an online Boogeyman and two 12-year-old girls who would kill for him. The entrance to the internet...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Richard Dawkins

Performance artist Marina Abramovic prepares for a major retrospective of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marina Abramović

Fascinated by the human brain and its capacity for ruthlessness, psychiatrist Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis has spent her life investigating the interior...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dorothy Lewis