American Documentary Movie Trailers
Most Popular American Documentary Trailers
Total trailers found: 20
Natours Grocery Trailer (2020)
26 October 2020
Filmmaker Nadine Natour turns her lens on her parents and her hometown, Appomattox, VA, to capture the story of her parents' emigration from Palestine to the United States.
American Promise Trailer (2013)
18 October 2013
In 1999, filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson turned the camera on themselves and began filming their five-year-old son, Idris, and his best friend, Seun, as they started kindergarten at the prestigious Dalton School just as the private institution was committing to diversify its student body.
Through the Night Trailer (2021)
20 June 2021
When one’s sole focus is to provide for their children, the stakes are extremely high. The need for multiple jobs to make ends meet has become a common reality for many families in this country, which leads to a very important question: who looks after the children while their parents work? Through the Night examines the economic and emotional toll affecting some American families, told through the lens of a 24-hour daycare center in Westchester, New York.
The Feeling of Being Watched Trailer (2018)
21 April 2018
Journalist Assia Boundaoui sets out to investigate long-brewing rumors that her quiet, predominantly Arab-American neighborhood was being monitored by the FBI.
And She Could Be Next Trailer (2020)
31 May 2020
The story of a defiant movement of women of color transforming American politics from the ground up. Filmed during the historic 2018 midterm elections, the series follows organizers and candidates as they fight on behalf of black, brown, immigrant and poor communities–long neglected by politicians and pundits alike.
I'm Carolyn Parker Trailer (2011)
13 September 2011
A documentary about a survivor of Hurricane Katrina.
Brief Tender Light Trailer (2024)
05 January 2024
At America's elite MIT, a Ghanaian alum follows four African students as they strive to graduate and become agents of change for their home countries Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.
Fannie Lou Hamer’s America Trailer (2022)
22 February 2022
The film explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of a Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist and one of the Civil Rights Movement’s greatest leaders.
The Hobart Shakespeareans Trailer (2005)
06 September 2005
Rafe Esquith, 1992 American Teacher of the Year and National Medal of Arts recipient, teaches 5th-grade children whose parents don't speak English at a school in a dangerous, poor, drug-infested 100% Latino/Asian neighborhood in Los Angeles.
Motherland Trailer (2017)
21 January 2017
The planet’s busiest maternity hospital is located in one of its poorest and most populous countries: the Philippines.
Midwives Trailer (2022)
26 March 2022
Hla and Nyo Nyo live in a country torn by conflict. Hla is a Buddhist and the owner of a makeshift medical clinic in western Myanmar, where the Rohingya (a Muslim minority community) are persecuted and denied basic rights.
How to Have an American Baby Trailer (2023)
02 March 2023
An intimate and kaleidoscopic voyage behind the closed doors of the Chinese birth tourism industry in the U.
DRIVER Trailer (2024)
07 June 2024
DRIVER is a soulful exploration of resolute female long-haul truck drivers pursuing validation for their hard-earned work as they navigate the oppressive forces in their industry.
Girl Model Trailer (2011)
08 September 2011
A documentary on the modeling industry's 'supply chain' between Siberia, Japan, and the U.S., told through the experiences of the scouts, agencies, and a 13-year-old model.
93Queen Trailer (2018)
29 April 2018
Set in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn, "93Queen" follows a group of tenacious Hasidic women who are smashing the patriarchy in their community by creating the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in New York City.
North by Current Trailer (2021)
01 March 2021
Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown following the death of his infant niece and the subsequent arrest of his brother-in-law as the culprit.
After Sherman Trailer (2022)
03 March 2022
Beautifully layered and expressionistic, After Sherman is a story about inheritance and the tension that defines our collective American history, especially Black history.
Thank You for Playing Trailer (2015)
17 April 2015
For the past two years, Ryan and Amy Green have been working on That Dragon, Cancer, a videogame about their son Joel's fight against that disease.
Let the Little Light Shine Trailer (2022)
21 April 2022
When a thriving, top-ranked African American elementary school is threatened to be replaced by a new high school favoring the community’s wealthier residents, parents, students and educators fight for the elementary school’s survival.
Hold Me Close Trailer (2025)
25 January 2025
A chronicle of the power and complexity of the relationship between Corinne and Tiana, two Queer Black women who experience cycles of life’s joys and pains together in the home they share.
