Op-Docs

In Memphis, a doctor and a volunteer driver contemplate the discontinuation of abortion services at a women’s health clinic two years after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

In this short film, the visual artist Nouf Aljowaysir examines a question she’s struggled with since childhood.

In the early 1970s, two high school filmmakers ventured out in a rowboat to make a 16 mm film about an abandoned space nearby: Ellis Island.

A long-due conversation between a man and his mother sends the two of them on a quest for acceptance and love.

In the 1970s, the filmmakers Claudia Weill and Eli Noyes interviewed New Yorkers across the city about their unwanted roommates: roaches.

In the midst of a political and environmental dispute between the Czech Republic and Poland over a coal mine, a potato salad contest is held in a small border town.

Rob C., a firefighter in Idaho, undergoes psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy in an attempt to address his PTSD.

Why did a U.F.O. allegedly crash in Roswell, N.M., of all places? In 1994 the filmmaker Bill Brown set out on a road trip to explore the 1947 incident.

Louis Johnson, the choreographer of “The Wiz,” could “outdance anyone.” Watch two rarely seen performances here.

Both a ceremonial custom and a dynamic sport, lion dancing is a cultural practice that spans generations and continents.

After the 2021 military coup in Myanmar, loved ones of the deceased artist and political prisoner San Zaw Htway wrote him letters as an act of remembrance and hope.

In this short film, Congolese artworks voice the poet and author Aimé Césaire’s words: “Colonization is thingification.”

Crafters across Britain speak to how knitting can help us heal, even at our most broken.

Nearly 13 years after his civil service in Senegal, Paul Drey questions his role as a volunteer in the German system of development aid.

Mysterious deaths have occurred all over the planet and followed a similar pattern. Why have so many species vanished? And what does it all have to do with us?

S. Leo Chiang reflects on his relationship with Taiwan, the United States and China from the islands of Kinmen, just a few miles from mainland China.

On Achill Island in Ireland, Cian hopes to spend the summer playing soccer with his friends. But his grandfather thinks it’s about time to pass down a family tradition.

Every week Raquel and Madeleine, two friends born 67 years apart, hang out. Madeleine refuses to leave the retirement home, but Raquel finds a way to bring her on a road trip.

Through reconstructions in a special effects studio, “Neighbour Abdi” embarks on a candid journey through Abdiwahab Ali’s personal history scarred by war.

At the dawn of their teenage years, the bond between the twins Raphaël and Rémi begins to weaken. But during the summer, time seems to stand still.

Conversations with slaughterhouse workers, by the son of one, explore family and masculinity.

A filmmaker captures her attempt to come off the synthetic opiates that kept her off heroin for the past six years.

With A.I. and a six-core processor, my avatar learns a backflip.

A Northern Irish man’s relationship with a peregrine falcon reveals a personal history of torture during the Troubles.

Dream Hampton explores water as a force of harmony and devastation as climate change affects her home city of Detroit.

As background extras, some nonplayer characters are programmed to do one thing forever: drudgery.

Two actors, partners at the time, discuss their own relationship conflicts between takes of a scripted scene.

Three women reflect on the complexities of their relationships with their A.I. companions.

A mother and daughter find a connection in a place they least expected.

Two teenage Ukrainian refugees in Budapest express their pain and grief through art.

Akiko Takakura survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. This is her story, in her words.

Nearly 20 years after their deployment to Iraq, veterans grapple with their younger selves and try to make sense of the war.

When a director gets hold of an action movie he and his best friend made two decades ago, he reconsiders the risks they took as young men.

It was 1970. Over 50 years later, these words serve as a dire warning.

A filmmaker revisits his time in Cuba to tell a story he left unfinished.

In Burkina Faso, a diplomatic spouse spends her days within the boundaries of the embassy.

In a traditional Catholic town, Alex develops his identity and defends his dreams.

Incarcerated men and women watch nature videos on a loop in a mental health program.

A space is filled after an only child leaves the nest.

An idealistic journalist and a prosperous real estate guru question each other’s worldviews.

The medium is the message: a poster with your face on it.

Volunteers at a Montreal call center train to be an ear for a lonely society.

In “Long Line of Ladies,” the Karuk people celebrate a girl’s first period in a coming-of-age ceremony.

Indigenous Sami tradition versus Swedish bureaucracy — who wins this dogfight?

Two brothers from the Boston suburbs set out on an improbable journey to Montreal’s Expo 67 by hoof.

Sally Schmitt sold the French Laundry. Then it became “the best restaurant in the world.”

For my mother, music unlocks the past, reminding her of both the joy of her life in Sarajevo and the pain of leaving.

After nearly 33 years in prison — and over two decades in solitary confinement — Jack Powers embarks on the first day of his new life.

Throughout her life, Representative Patsy Mink challenged the status quo. As a leading advocate of Title IX, she defended the bill against those who sought to weaken it.

In a new short film, Warsaw residents express their deepest worries and anxieties.