2019 Documentary Feature Submissions

If you've been reading my posts here for a while, you know that around this time last year, I posted the full list of films that had been submitted for consideration for Best Documentary Feature. Well, the list is back for this year and while not quite as many film as last year, there are still 159 films up for consideration.

Assuming you could get your hands on all 159 films, it would take you nearly 10 days of straight watching them around the clock to complete all of them. But, maybe you only want to watch movies eight hours a day, then it will take you almost a month to watch them all. Of course, you could always wait until December 16th when The Academy will be announcing the short list of 15 films considered for nomination in this category. Even that could take a full day of movie watching, assuming they are readily available.

I am including the entire list in this post. If you want some additional information, you can always hop over to The Academy's official announcement of the list, but they won't give you links to trailers and availability information like you'll find below.

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• Advocate - 
• After Parkland - 
• The All-Americans - 
• Always in Season - 
• The Amazing Johnathan Documentary - 
• American Dharma - 
• American Factory - A look at the cultural backlash when a Chinese company reopens a closed General Motors factory in Ohio. (Netflix)
• American Relapse - Two recovering drug addicts strive to stay clean while helping other addicts. (Amazon Prime)
• Angels Are Made of Light - 
• The Apollo - A look at the history of the famous New York City theater. (HBO)
• Apollo 11 - 
• Aquarela - 
• Ask Dr. Ruth - 
• At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal - (HBO)
• Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable - 
• The Biggest Little Farm - 
• The Black Godfather - A look at the behind the scenes influence of Clarence Avant. (Netflix)
• Blink of an Eye - 
• Blowin’ Up - A group of women strive to change the way women are arrested and prosecuted. (Amazon Prime)
• Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes - 
• The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story - 
• Bridges of Time - 
• The Brink - 
• Broken Dreams - 
• The Bronx USA - (HBO)
• Bruno Sammartino - 
• Buddha in Africa - 
• Call Me Intern - 
• Carmine Street Guitars - 
• The Cave - 
• Chasing Einstein - 
• Cinema Morocco - 
• Citizen K - 
• The Cold Blue - (HBO)
• Cold Case Hammarskjold - 
• Combat Obscura - 
• The Cordillera of Dreams - 
• Cracked Up - 
• Cunningham - 
• David Crosby: Remember My Name - 
• Debut - 
• Diego Maradona - (HBO)
• The Disappearance of My Mother - 
• Don’t Be Nice - 
• Echo in the Canyon - A look back at the 1960s when Laurel Canyon provided a creative center for young musicians in Hollywood. (Netflix)
• The Edge of Democracy - An exploration of the truth behind the unraveling of two Brazilian presidencies. (Netflix)
• The Elephant Queen - 
• Emanuel - 
• Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops - 
• Fantastic Fungi - 
• #Female Pleasure - 
• Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles - 
• Fiddlin’ - 
• Finding Farideh - 
• Finding the Way Home - 
• 5B - 
• For Sama - 
• For the Birds - A woman keeps birds, much to the chagrin of her neighbors and family. (Netflix)
• Foster - (HBO)
• The Fourth Kingdom. The Kingdom of Plastics - 
• Framing John DeLorean - 
• Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened - An inside look at the disastrous music festival. (Netflix)
• The Game Changers - A quest to find the optimal human diet for performance and health. (Netflix)
• Gay Chorus Deep South - 
• Gaza - 
• Ghost Fleet - 
• The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash - 
• The Gospel of Eureka - Christianity and a thriving gay community face off in a small Arkansas town. (Amazon Prime)
• The Great Hack - A look at how the data company Cambridge Analytica tracked information on social media and their connection to the results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. (Netflix)
• Hail Satan? - 
• Halston - A look into the life of 1970s fashion designer Halston. (Amazon Prime)
• Hate among Us - 
• Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel - 
• Heimat Is a Space in Time - 
• Hesburgh - 
• Honeyland - 
• Hope Frozen - 
• The Hottest August - 
• Humberto Mauro - 
• I Had a Dream - 
• Immortal - 
• The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley - (HBO)
• It’s a Hard Truth Ain’t It - (HBO)
• Janani’s Juliet - 
• Jawline - 
• Jay Myself - 
• Jim Allison: Breakthrough - 
• Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People - 
• The Kingmaker - 
• Knock Down the House - Deep dive into four political races for Congress in 2018 including the one ultimately won by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (Netflix)
• Letter to the Editor - 
• Liberty: Mother of Exiles - (HBO)
• Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice - 
• Love, Antosha - 
• M for Malaysia - 
• Maiden - 
• Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound - 
• Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love - 
• Meeting Gorbachev - 
• Midnight Family - 
• Midnight Traveler - 
• Mike Wallace Is Here - 
• Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool - 
• Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements - (HBO)
• The Most Dangerous Year - 
• Mosul - An inside look at the battle to free the city from the control of the Islamic State. (Amazon Prime)
• Moti Bagh - 
• My Home India - 
• My Name Is Daniel - 
• On the President’s Orders - 
• One Child Nation - A look into the Chinese One-Child Policy. (Amazon Prime)
• Pavarotti - 
• The Proposal - 
• Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz - A profile of the only surviving lead prosecutor who participated in the Nuremburg Trials. (Netflix)
• Q Ball - 
• The Quiet One - 
• Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins - 
• Reason/Vivek - 
• Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project - 
• Reinventing Rosalee - A survivor of the Holocaust shares her stories. (Amazon Prime)
• The Rememberer - 
• The River and the Wall - 
• Roll Red Roll - A look inside a rape case in Steubenville, Ohio that explores the impacts of social media and the high school football culture. (Netflix)
• Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese - A look back at Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour. (Netflix)
• Running with Beto - (HBO)
• The Russian Five - 
• Satan & Adam - A blues guitar player and a grad student join forces to busk on the streets of Harlem in the 1980s. (Netflix)
• Scandalous - 
• Sea of Shadows - 
• Serendipity - 
• The Serengeti Rules - 
• Shooting the Mafia - 
• 16 Bars - 
• 16 Shots - (Showtime)
• The Spy behind Home Plate - 
• Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken - 
• Talking about Trees - 
• Tell Me Who I Am - A man loses his memory and must rely on his twin brother to reveal his past. (Netflix)
• Tesla Nation - 
• This Changes Everything - 
• This One’s for the Ladies - 
• Tigerland - 
• To Be of Service - Combat veterans cope with their return to civilian life with canine companions. (Netflix)
• Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am - 
• True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality - (HBO)
• A Tuba to Cuba - New Orleans' famous Preservation Hall Jazz Band travels to Cuba. (Amazon Prime)
• Walking on Water - 
• Watson - 
• Western Stars - 
• What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael - 
• What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? - 
• When Lambs Become Lions - 
• When Tomatoes Met Wagner - 
• Where’s My Roy Cohn? - 
• Who Will Write Our History - 
• Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation - A look at the historic music festival on the occasion of the 60th anniversary. (Netflix)
• Wrestle - 
• XY Chelsea - (Showtime)
• Ximei -