Every documentary movie streaming on MGM+ in the US right now — 8 films ranked by rating, checked against MGM+’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from MGM+ US
Directed by George Stevens
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRaw archival footage as legal evidence transforms documentary into historical testimony, establishing film's power as courtroom truth.
Produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Hermann Göring and twenty other Nazi leaders, this film consists primarily of dead and surviving prisoners and of facilities used to kill and torture during the World War II.
Directed by Martin Scorsese
✦ MovieMuse AI takeScorsese's concert-interview hybrid revolutionized music documentaries by treating performance and candid conversation as equally essential narrative modes.
Martin Scorsese's documentary intertwines footage from The Band's incredible farewell tour with probing backstage interviews and featured performances by Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, and other rock legends.
Directed by Kevin Macdonald
✦ MovieMuse AI takeOne Day reconstructs historical tragedy through archival footage, interviews, and reconstruction, creating comprehensive forensic narrative.
The full story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli revenge operation 'Wrath of God.' The 1972 Munich Olympics were interrupted by Palestinian terrorists taking Israeli athletes hostage. Besides footage taken at the time, we see interviews with the surviving terrorist, Jamal Al Gashey, and various officials detailing exactly how the police, lacking an anti-terrorist squad and turning down help from the Israelis, botched the operation.
Directed by Godfrey Reggio
✦ MovieMuse AI takeWordless visual anthropology captures modernization's human cost through sustained observation rather than explanatory narration.
An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.
Directed by Frank Capra
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCapra weaponizes montage and stock footage to manufacture consent, exposing propaganda's documentary grammar before the fact.
Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American troops of the necessity of combating the Axis Powers during World War II. This film examines the differences between democratic and fascist states.
Directed by Sarah Price
✦ MovieMuse AI takePerformance-based activism documented in real-time reveals how pranks expose institutional vulnerability through infiltration and trickery.
A comic, biting and revelatory documentary following a small group of prankster activists as they gain worldwide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization (WTO) on television and at business conferences around the world.
Directed by Jon Shenk
✦ MovieMuse AI takePersonal advocacy mixed with scientific data creates tension between individual testimony and objective documentation.
A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the heart of popular culture comes the riveting and rousing follow-up that shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution. Vice President Al Gore continues his tireless fight, traveling around the world training an army of climate champions and influencing international climate policy. Cameras follow him behind the scenes—in moments private and public, funny and poignant—as he pursues the empowering notion that while the stakes have never been higher, the perils of climate change can be overcome with human ingenuity and passion.
Directed by John Huston
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCombat footage restages battle reconstruction, blurring documentary realism with narrative reenactment to honor the fallen.
This documentary movie is about the battle of San Pietro, a small village in Italy. Over 1,100 US soldiers were killed while trying to take this location, that blocked the way for the Allied forces from the Germans. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.
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