Every documentary movie streaming on Now TV in the UK right now — 30 films ranked by rating, checked against Now TV’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Now TV GB
Directed by Adrian Maben
✦ MovieMuse AI takeJuxtaposes timeless rock performance against ancient ruins, creating a haunting dialogue between eras through compositional framing.
British progressive rock band Pink Floyd perform at the ancient Roman Amphitheater in the ruins of Pompeii, Italy in 1971. Although the band perform a typical live set from the era, there is no audience beyond the basic film crew.
Directed by Jon Alpert
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSustained intimate access reveals systemic cycles rather than isolated incidents, exemplifying observational documentary's power.
An intimate documentary that looks at the vicious cycles of drug addiction and street crime in one of the roughest parts of New Jersey.
Directed by Mariska Hargitay
✦ MovieMuse AI takeReconstructs a life through material artifacts—letters, photos, objects—turning domestic archaeology into biographical methodology.
Through deeply personal interviews with her siblings and an examination of the photographs, letters, and belongings left behind, Mariska assembles a new portrait of her mother Jayne Mansfield, an extraordinary and complex woman.
Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
✦ MovieMuse AI takeArchives and composer's own reflections create a living audiovisual biography that honors its subject's creative legacy.
A portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a two-time Oscar winner and the author of over five hundred unforgettable scores.
Directed by Todd Douglas Miller
✦ MovieMuse AI takeReassembles lost footage into pristine chronology, transforming archival material into immersive historical reconstruction.
A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin.
Directed by Jeff Zimbalist
✦ MovieMuse AI takeWeaves two parallel narratives with identical surnames to expose how systems corrupt individual destinies.
Pablo Escobar was the richest, most powerful drug kingpin in the world, ruling the Medellin Cartel with an iron fist. Andres Escobar was the biggest soccer star in Colombia. The two were not related, but their fates were inextricably-and fatally-intertwined. Pablo's drug money had turned Andres' national team into South American champions, favored to win the 1994 World Cup in Los Angeles. It was there, in a game against the U.S., that Andres committed one of the most shocking mistakes in soccer history, scoring an "own goal" that eliminated his team from the competition and ultimately cost him his life. The Two Escobars is a riveting examination of the intersection of sports, crime, and politics.
Directed by Alex Gibney
✦ MovieMuse AI takeLets former members' testimony accumulate into devastating institutional critique without editorial manipulation.
GOING CLEAR intimately profiles eight former members of the Church of Scientology, shining a light on how they attract true believers and the things they do in the name of religion.
Directed by Michael Moore
✦ MovieMuse AI takeUses provocation and direct access to interrogate American mythology rather than merely report facts.
This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280 million Americans lucky enough to have the right to a constitutionally protected Uzi. From a look at the Columbine High School security camera tapes to the home of Oscar-winning NRA President Charlton Heston, from a young man who makes homemade napalm with The Anarchist's Cookbook to the murder of a six-year-old girl by another six-year-old. Bowling for Columbine is a journey through the US, through our past, hoping to discover why our pursuit of happiness is so riddled with violence.
Directed by Kevin Macdonald
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMerges archive footage with dramatic reconstruction, creating visceral climbing experience from survivor testimony.
The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
Directed by Nick Rosen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDocuments a subject aware of being documented, exploring the performativity inherent in modern mountaineering.
Marc-André Leclerc, an exceptional climber, has made solo his religion and ice his homeland. When filmmaker Peter Mortimer begins his film, he places his camera at the base of a British Columbia cliff and waits patiently for the star climber to come down to answer his questions. Marc André, a little uncomfortable, prefers to return to the depths of the forest where he lives in a tent with his girlfriend Brette Harrington. In the heart of winter, Peter films vertiginous solos on fragile ice. He tries to make appointments with the climber who is never there and does not seem really concerned by this camera pointed at him "For me, it would not be a solo if there was someone else" . Marc-André is thus, the "pure light" of the mountaineers of his time, which marvel Barry Blanchard, Alex Honnold or Reinhold Messner, interviewed in the film. An event film for an extraordinary character.
Directed by T.J. Martin
✦ MovieMuse AI takePrivileges subject's voice and archive over conventional biographical structure, centering Tina's agency.
Tina Turner overcame impossible odds to become one of the first female Black artists to reach a mainstream international audience. Her road to superstardom is an undeniable story of triumph over adversity. It’s the ultimate story of survival – and an inspirational story of our times.
Directed by Andrew Jarecki
✦ MovieMuse AI takeEmbedded perspective from incarcerated filmmakers transforms prisoner narratives into first-person institutional testimony.
Incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in one of America’s deadliest prison systems.
Directed by James Marsh
✦ MovieMuse AI takeReconstructs heist through animation and interviews, treating documentary as investigative storytelling rather than coverage.
On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rigged between New York's World Trade Center twin towers, then the world's tallest buildings. After nearly an hour of performing on the wire, 1,350 feet above the sidewalks of Manhattan, he was arrested. This fun and spellbinding documentary chronicles Philippe Petit's "highest" achievement.
Directed by Asif Kapadia
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRaw archival footage becomes character study, letting unedited reality speak louder than narration.
Constructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage, this documentary centers on the personal life and career of the controversial football player Diego Maradona who played for SSC Napoli and Argentina in the 1980s.
Directed by Dan Hartley
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTraces one person's invisibility within global spectacle, interrogating labor and witnessed trauma.
As Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double in the Harry Potter films, David Holmes' work has been seen worldwide by millions of people. Tragically an on-set accident ended what David calls "the best job in the world," leaving him paralyzed. Like the on-screen character he helped bring to life, David is determined to continue seeking adventure and living life to the fullest despite mounting obstacles.
Directed by Dominic Brigstocke
✦ MovieMuse AI takeStand-up isn't documentary, but this captures live performance's unfiltered immediacy—comedy as authentic social commentary without narrative mediation.
A year after Animals, Ricky Gervais comes back with his second stand up comedy tour: Politics.
Directed by Leo Scott
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSubject's own decades of self-documentation becomes the primary text, collapsing filmmaker/subject distance.
For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever. This raw, wildly original and unflinching documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled, sometimes hilarious look at what it means to be an artist and a complex man.
Directed by Stacy Peralta
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCaptures subcultural genesis through participant interviews and era footage, defining a movement in real time.
This award-winning, thrilling story is about a group of discarded kids who revolutionized skateboarding and shaped the attitude and culture of modern day extreme sports. Featuring old skool skating footage, exclusive interviews and a blistering rock soundtrack, DOGTOWN AND Z-BOYS captures the rise of the Zephyr skateboarding team from Venice's Dogtown, a tough "locals only" beach with a legacy of outlaw surfing.
Directed by Matthew Akers
✦ MovieMuse AI takeStreet magic's genuine wonder resists documentary's explanatory impulse, preserving mystery as documentary subject.
David Blaine's signature brand of street magic mystifies the most recognisable celebrities in the world, such as Jamie Foxx, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Ricky Gervais, Katy Perry, Woody Allen, and Robert DeNiro, to name a few. He goes to the homes of Kanye West and Harrison Ford, Will Smith and Olivia Wilde. He pays a visit to Stephen Hawking at his office in Cambridge University. Blaine also travels the world, astonishing people from all walks of life with never-before seen, inconceivable magic.
Directed by Francesco Zippel
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHonors directorial legacy through film analysis and context, making cinema history its own subject.
To mark the recent thirtieth anniversary of Sergio Leone’s death, this documentary sets out to pay tribute to one of the great legends of world cinema. The singular artistic vision of Sergio Leone has transcended national borders, creating the Spaghetti Western genre and transforming the international cinematic panorama forever with his innovative stylistic and narrative solutions, which have now become part of the language of the movies. The film, which is enriched with precious archive footage from the Cineteca di Bologna, including rare audio recordings and film clips shot behind the scenes, sees for the first time the direct participation of the Leone family and has interviews both with Leone’s longtime collaborators and with icons of Hollywood who have been profoundly influenced by his work.
Directed by Kathryn Ferguson
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSonic and visual archives construct portrait of artistic defiance without reducing complexity to narrative arc.
Since the beginning of her career, Sinéad O’Connor has used her powerful voice to challenge the narratives she was surrounded by while growing up in predominantly Roman Catholic Ireland. Despite her agency, depth and perspective, O’Connor’s unflinching refusal to conform means that she has often been patronized and unfairly dismissed as an attention-seeking pop star.
Directed by Brett Morgen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeIntegrates Cobain's personal footage seamlessly, letting subject's own vision shape posthumous portraiture.
Hailed as one of the most innovative and intimate documentaries of all time, experience Kurt Cobain like never before in the only ever fully authorized portrait of the famed music icon. Academy Award nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen expertly blends Cobain's personal archive of art, music, never seen before movies, animation and revelatory interviews from his family and closest friends.
Directed by Bernard MacMahon
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTraces four simultaneous origin stories converging into mythology, rejecting singular-genius biography.
The individual journeys of the four members of the band, as they move through the music scene of the 1960s, playing small clubs throughout Britain and performing some of the biggest hits of the era, until their meeting in the summer of 1968 for a rehearsal that changes their lives forever.
Directed by Oliver Stone
✦ MovieMuse AI takeReopens historical investigation with declassified materials, positioning documentary as ongoing inquiry.
Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which took place in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
Directed by Andreas Koefoed
✦ MovieMuse AI takeExpert testimony and authentication processes become thriller, dramatizing knowledge production itself.
London, England, 2008. Some of the most distinguished experts on the work of Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) gather at the National Gallery to examine a painting known as Salvator Mundi; an event that turns out to be the first act of one of the most fascinating stories in the history of art.
Directed by Nanfu Wang
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDual-country perspective exposes divergent institutional responses, making comparative analysis the documentary method.
This documentary recounts the experiences of people on the ground in the earliest days of the novel coronavirus and the way two countries dealt with its initial spread, from the first days of the outbreak in Wuhan to its rampage across the United States.
Directed by Adrian Buitenhuis
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHeath's own camera becomes primary archive, autobiography eclipsing conventional biographical narration.
The life and career of an actor, artist, and icon. His own journey through his own camera.
Directed by Dan Reed
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCourtroom procedure provides narrative structure, transforming legal process into documentary spectacle.
Filmed over four years with unprecedented access, this documentary chronicles the riveting courtroom drama of two defamation lawsuits brought by Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims' families against Alex Jones and his website, InfoWars.
Directed by Roger Donaldson
✦ MovieMuse AI takeArchival racing footage and interviews reconstruct individual ambition against industrial competition.
The story of New Zealander Bruce McLaren, who founded the McLaren Motor Racing team, showing the world that a man of humble beginnings could take on the elite of motor racing and win.
Directed by Brett Morgen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeProducer's own memoir provides voice-over, collapsing autobiography with documentary form.
Documentary about legendary Paramount producer Robert Evans, based on his famous 1994 autobiography.
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