
Docs/ology promotes, creates and distributes documentary films and other "true stories" of exceptional artistic quality and substance.
With a focus on projects that authentically explore the human condition and affirm the dignity of all people, Docs/ology seeks to connect smart films with ‘soulful’ people.


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How can a community come back from such utter devastation? Rebuilding Paradise reveals the answer: One tiny, painful step at a time.
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Rebuilding Paradise
How can a community come back from such utter devastation? ‘Rebuilding Paradise’ reveals the answer: One tiny, painful step at a time.
read moreCity So Real
‘City So Real’ doesn’t always show Chicago’s—or America’s—political system at its best. But it does offer an engrossing, unvarnished look at the people, issues and mechanisms that make it tick.
read moreTime
Time is indeed a powerful examination of America’s prison system, but it’s more: It’s a look at a resilient woman and her family, unbowed and still fighting for what they believe is right through faith and hope and hard work.
read moreBoys State
‘Boys State’ gives us a frighteningly accurate microcosm of what real American politics look like today—complete with political shenanigans, scandal and even a wee bit of backstabbing. And yet, somehow, you walk away from this film feeling curiously hopeful.
read moreDads
In her new documentary, Dads, Bryce Dallas Howard reminds us how hard fatherhood can be … but how wonderful and critical it is, too.
read moreRunner
Runner depicts the inspirational journey of Guor Mading Maker from refugee to world-renowned athlete.
read moreThe Booksellers
The Booksellers offers a compelling, wistful look at the art of selling rare books in the age of Amazon and Instagram, and it reveals that booksellers are often as quirky as the books they sell.
read moreJump Shot
Jump Shot uncovers the inspiring true story of Kenny Sailors, the proclaimed developer of the modern day jump shot.
read moreCrip Camp
Crip Camp tells the story of a groundbreaking summer camp that galvanizes a group of teens with disabilities to help build a movement, forging a new path toward greater equality.
read moreCosmos: Possible Worlds
Cosmos: Possible Worlds is an exploration through space and time narrated by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson that shows the audience what it means to consider what’s just past our field of vision and to engage in wonder about what exists on the next level.
read moreFree Burma Rangers
Free Burma Rangers explores the extraordinary 20-year journey of missionaries Dave and Karen Eubank. The film follows Dave, Karen, and their three young children, as they venture into war zones where they are fighting to bring hope to the hopeless.
read moreWe Believe in Dinosaurs
We Believe in Dinosaurs, a 90-minute documentary airing on PBS Feb. 17, zooms its cameras on a creation story, if you will: How creationist Ken Ham’s sprawling Ark Encounter came to be.
read moreThe Cave
The Oscar-nominated film The Cave, which aired recently on National Geographic, follows Dr. Amani and other heroic women as they assist those who are caught in the middle of the Syrian war.
read moreOne Child Nation
One Child Nation offers a riveting and, at times, horrific look at China’s One-Child Policy—a policy that held sway in the country for more than 35 years.
read moreAmerican Heretics
American Heretics is a film about a group of defiant Oklahomans who have been labeled “heretics” for challenging fundamentalist Christian doctrine by calling for a more inclusive interpretation of scripture.
read moreFor Sama
Framed as a letter to her daughter, Waad al-Kateab’s For Sama depicts human dignity in the midst of the horrors of war using her own footage from a besieged Aleppo.
read moreRoll Red Roll
Roll Red Roll is a true-crime thriller that goes behind the headlines to uncover the deep-seated “boys will be boys” culture at the root of high school sexual assault in America.
read moreEmanuel
Emanuel features intimate interviews with survivors of the tragic shooting that occurred in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17, 2015. This film is a poignant story of justice and faith, love and hate, and examines the healing power of forgiveness.
read moreScheme Birds
Awarded ‘Best Documentary’ at Tribeca Film Festival, Scheme Birds tells the story of Gemma- a young girl growing up in the Scottish ghetto of Motherwell.
read moreThe Biggest Little Farm
The Biggest Little Farm is a beautiful documentary by and about John and Molly Chester and their incredible journey creating a two-hundred acre, completely organic and biodynamic farm in Southern California.
read moreHesburgh
During some of the most tumultuous times in our nation’s history, Reverend Theodore Hesburgh finds himself to be an influential voice leading the fight for peace and equality.
read moreThe River and the Wall
The River and the Wall is a story about five adventurers, who set out on a journey along our nation’s southern border and attempt to explore the tough issues surrounding immigration.
read moreAmazing Grace
Amazing Grace captures a breathtaking performance by the legendary Aretha Franklin, and invites us all take part in what was a truly extraordinary evening.
read moreStrange Negotiations
Strange Negotiations is a film about David Bazan, as he reflects on his long career in the music business, his family, and his faith that has played a central role throughout.
read moreBluebird
What you’re left with at the end of Bluebird is an enormous appreciation and gratefulness that some smart and caring people kept this remarkable place alive all these years.
read moreThe Story of God
The Story of God, which begins its third season March 5 on National Geographic, follows Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman as he and the show’s crew travel around the globe, exploring fascinating and often hidden facets of the world’s religions.
read moreTigerland
In his new documentary, Tigerland, Ross Kauffman impresses upon us the urgency with which conservationists are working to save the tigers.
read moreMidnight Family
Midnight Family is the story of the Ochoa family as they run their private ambulance in Mexico City.
read moreHoneyland
Honeyland tells the story of Hatidze, a woman who lives in a remote area of Macedonia and is the last living beekeeper of her kind in the world.
read moreMidnight Traveler
Hassan Fazili, his wife, and their two young daughters, fled Afghanistan in 2015 to Tajikistan when the family learned that the Taliban had put a price on his head. This documentary chronicles the Fazili family’s incredible journey and struggle to find safety.
read moreMonrovia, Indiana
Monrovia is a celebration of small towns and community but also of friendship and family. More significantly, though, it’s a celebration of our shared humanity.
read moreOn Her Shoulders
On Her Shoulders is a testament to a perseverance born out of immense suffering. Nadia Murad has been through much more than most, and that has instilled in her an ability to endure the burden of advocacy for her people.
read moreParis to Pittsburgh
Paris to Pittsburgh makes a powerful argument that the fight against climate change in the U.S. is as strong as ever thanks to hundreds of cities, states, universities and businesses who picked up the baton and continued the goals of the Paris agreement, despite the Trump administration’s position.
read moreMARS
Mars offers a unique, grounded look at space exploration and shows us how it relates to those of us whose feet will always be planted on earth.
read moreSocial Animals
In Social Animals one thing becomes clear – for all the ways Instagram allows someone to filter and frame their life, it can’t help but also be truly revelatory. What we choose to show and not show discloses who we are and what we value.
read moreIntelligent Lives
When it comes to some of our most vulnerable men and women—people with disabilities that we might avoid or discount— ‘Intelligent Lives’ reminds us more progress needs to be made.
read moreCielo
Cielo creates space of the cinematic kind so that the viewer can create space inwardly to reckon with the vastness of outer space and all it contains, an immensity which we can only see with our naked eye in the night sky.
read moreBehold the Earth
A meditative and gorgeously filmed experience that asks the question, “Is the root cause of the environmental crisis we face spiritual in nature?”
read moreScience Fair
Science Fair makes you smile—not just a surface smile because it’s a fun, entertaining, well-made documentary (which it is), but a deeper smile. One that comes of being encouraged and inspired by these high schoolers, and what they can do in the coming years.
read moreFree Solo
Free Solo is the kind of documentary that makes you hold your breath, both because you don’t want Alex to slip off the granite face of El Capitan and because you can see how easy it would be for him to slip free of those who love him.
read moreCrime + Punishment
Crime + Punishment is riveting and persuasive. It’s not an instrument in tearing down a treasured institution as much as a potential tool to help rebuild it.
read moreGeneration Wealth
The temptation in observing outlandish people is to “other” them. Generation Wealth wants to do the opposite — to see how we are like them, so that we may reconsider our own selfish pursuits.
read moreMinding the Gap
The past has its own gravity, pulling at us, keeping us in the same circular orbits we’ve always known. To break free requires tremendous resolve, not to mention a little outside help.
read moreFar From The Tree
Far From The Tree is as rich, as moving and as frustratingly complex as family itself.
read moreThe King
Eugene Jarecki’s brilliant The King may be the most surprisingly profound documentary film of the year.
read moreThree Identical Strangers
Three Identical Strangers hits every note of emotion and questions the very fabric of human nature in light of a story that is just as sad as it is joyful.
read moreRBG
RBG documents the legacy and marriage of the iconic supreme court justice, Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
read moreAmerican Jail
American Jail isn’t just brave filmmaking. It’s loving. It wants us all to be free, and it knows that it must act in love even now in the face of such injustice if love is to triumph over all.
read moreWon’t You Be My Neighbor?
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is a beautifully simple portrayal of a man who had the quiet audacity to challenge the status quo in everything he did.
read moreAmerica Inside Out with Katie Couric
America Inside Out reminds us that a resilient thread of humanity remains, ready to dig in to bring about change for the good of the country.
read moreSubmissions
If you are a documentary filmmaker looking to connect with your audience, please send us a note. Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Free Solo, The Biggest Little Farm, The Story of God with Morgan Freeman, Strange Negotiations, Jump Shot, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, Dark Waters and Jane are among the many award-winning films, television and festival favorites we represent and we’d love to help you too!
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