must-see DOCUMENTARIES

It follows soldiers, politicians, and experts speaking about the Russian offensive.

Le Monde en face is a French television program presenting a documentary followed by a debate.

On January 20, 1942, leading representatives of the German Nazi regime met in a villa in Berlin-Wannsee for a meeting that went down in history as the Wannsee Conference, at which the systematic murder of 11 million Jews was decided.

Follows patients and caregivers at a psychiatric centre with a unique floating structure located in the middle of the Seine river in central Paris.

Twenty-four hours in the life of Radio France, from one dawn to another. Along its corridors, inside its recording studios, with its producers, presenters, journalists and various guests. And outside on a motorbike in the wake of the Tour de France or in the company of a thunderstorm photographer.

A voyage into the museum's reserves, and part of the extra work involved to mount the expositions after the renovation of the Louvre in the 1980s, when the glass pyramid was added to the classic buildings. From the preservation rooms through the frame and painting retouches by experts, to the personnel instruction on how to be efficient in protecting the collections, and look nice to the visitors.

In this documentary, we visit a training school for young women who want to become nurses, in Paris.

My father immortalized in family films the most beautiful moments of his life, while my mother's difficulties hit the blind spot of his images. Today, I revisit these images to tell a different story: that of a woman who sees her role as a mother take away her freedom step by step.

Follows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.

Home videos shot by Ernaux and her family from 1972 to 1981 and feeds into the themes of her work over the past 60 years.

Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.

Follows many families who inhabit the oak like a home, living together as in a proper society, with problems with the neighbors, education, solidarity, survival, etc.

Filmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence.

Michael Moore's view on what happened to the United States after 9/11 and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

While sailing the world together, a horrible event takes place. Along the coast of Columbia Peter Putker's wife Durdana gets murdered. And although Peter states from the very beginning that it was an attack by pirates, the local authorities do not buy into his innocence. For them, he is the one who killed his own wife. Problem is: only Peter himself was there and only he truly knows what took place that night. The Colombian authorities assign the case to the Dutch court. A grueling lawsuit ensues, in which not only Peter but also his family and friends are confronted with the consequences of not being able to determine with certainty the true course of events. What happens when you're the only one knowing the truth without strong evidence to prove your innocence?

Director Patrice Leconte weaves an impressionistic, sensorial tapestry of existence in and around early 21st-century Cambodia. Journeying through the country's farmlands, factories, streets and rural villages, camera-in-hand, Leconte glimpses the people and the elements of the landscape that make Cambodia so culturally specific, and gently contrasts modes of life found there.

Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea on behalf of a political prisoner. Jean Luc Godard and Anne Marie Mieville's film concerns the plight of Thomas Wanggai, West Papuan activist who has since died in prison. The short films were commissioned by Amnesty International.

As a medical team tries to understand 10-year-old Maya Kowalski's rare illness, they begin to question her parents. Suddenly, Maya is in state custody, and her family is desperate to bring their daughter home.

Playing a fictional version of herself, actress Kasumi Arimura enjoys a day off in this charming example of Hirokazu Koreeda's rarely seen television work.

Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France and captures the oldest known pictorial creations of humanity.

Film-maker Werner Herzog travels to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, looking to capture the continent's beauty and investigate the characters living there.