Documentaries | Cinema St Louis

Sisters with Transistors

Apr 28, 2021 | By Andrew Wyatt

A smiling Black woman standing in front a microphone, with three Black woman backup singers on the right.

Tina

Mar 31, 2021 | By Joshua Ray

A mixed-media artwork incorporating two male figues standing in water up their waists, embracing and kissing. The figures are rendered in pieces of a map. Black-and-white photos are partially visible the margins.

Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker

Mar 26, 2021 | By Joshua Ray

An older woman in a red polo shirt and older man in gray striped polo shirt sit side-by-side on sports bleachers, looking at one another.

Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal

Mar 25, 2021 | By Kayla McCulloch

An older, bearded man laying down in a field of dry grass, pointing a rifle with a scope at something offscreen.

A Shape of Things to Come

Mar 11, 2021 | By Andrew Wyatt

A laughing girl with a picture frame attached to her face, with fenced agricultural fields in the background.

Un Film Dramatique

Feb 28, 2021 | By Cait Lore

A family consisting of a father, mother, and seven children of varying ages walk through a field of high grass and herbs, as a city looms in the background.

Acasa, My Home

Jan 20, 2021 | By Andrew Wyatt

Audrey Hepburn behind the glamorous image is dissected in Helena Coan's 'Audrey: More Than an Icon'.

Audrey: More Than an Icon

Dec 21, 2020 | By Kayla McCulloch

A high-tech assassin becomes trapped in a psychic nightmare in Brandon Cronenberg's 'Possessor'.

Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for November 2020

Dec 5, 2020 | By Andrew Wyatt

Markie Wenzel tries to resolve the challenges of her new and old lives in Matt Kliegman's 'Markie in Milwaukee'.

Markie in Milwaukee

Dec 3, 2020 | By Cait Lore

A mystery beyond belief is unraveled in William J. Saunders' 'The Penny Black'.

The Penny Black

Nov 20, 2020 | By Kayla McCulloch

A still from 'God Save the Wings'.

God Save the Wings

Nov 7, 2020 | By Andrew Wyatt

Director Spike Lee gives cinematic form to a David Byrne (center front) performance in 'David Byrne's American Utopia'.

David Byrne's American Utopia

Oct 23, 2020 | By Joshua Ray

Fox Rich (left) waits (and fights) for her husband Rob's liberation in Garrett Bradley's 'Time'.

Time

Oct 16, 2020 | By Andrew Wyatt

Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter's 'Space Dogs' follows a group of Moscow street dogs and meditates on the legacy of the Soviet space program's canine cosmonauts.

Space Dogs

Sep 17, 2020 | By Andrew Wyatt

Notorious amusement park Action Park is profiled in Seth Porges and Chris Charles Scott III's 'Class Action Park'.

Class Action Park

Sep 3, 2020 | By Kayla McCulloch

Director Mehrdad Oskouei goes inside a Iranian juvenile detention center in 'Sunless Shadows'.

Sunless Shadows

Aug 7, 2020 | By Joshua Ray

Photographer Helmut Newton and his provocative work are celebrated in Gero von Boehm's 'Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful'.

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful

Jul 24, 2020 | By Kayla McCulloch

Director Sasha Joseph Neulinger turns his documentary eye on his own childhood in 'Rewind'.

Rewind

May 22, 2020 | By Andrew Wyatt

Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind

May 8, 2020 | By Kayla McCulloch

Heavy machinery moves terra firma in Nikolaus Geyrhalter's 'Earth'.

Earth

Apr 16, 2020 | By Joshua Ray