OVID TV

OVID’s March Lineup: After the Troubles in Belfast, Egypt on the Brink, Looking for Robert Kramer, a (beyond creepy) Dutch Nazi, Sweden's de-escalation Police Force, Micro Budget the Mockumentary & mu... OVID.tv, the curated streaming destination for documentary and art-house films from around the world, announces its wide-ranging selection of 21 new films—14 exclusives!—coming in March 2026.

OVID’s March lineup is here! Featuring THE FLATS, about life after the Troubles in Belfast; a portrait of ROBERT KRAMER; a doc about a horrid Dutch Nazi (THE PROPAGANDIST); Sweden's de-escalatory police force, MICRO BUDGET the Mockumentary, and much MORE! metafilm.ovid.tv/2026/02/26/o...

OVID’s March Lineup: After the Troubles in Belfast, Egypt on the Brink, Looking for Robert Kramer, a (beyond creepy) Dutch Nazi, Sweden's de-escalation Police Force, Micro Budget the Mockumentary & mu... OVID.tv, the curated streaming destination for documentary and art-house films from around the world, announces its wide-ranging selection of 21 new films—14 exclusives!—coming in March 2026.

OVID’s March lineup is here! Featuring THE FLATS, about life after the Troubles in Belfast; a portrait of ROBERT KRAMER; a doc about a horrid Dutch Nazi (THE PROPAGANDIST); Sweden's de-escalatory police force, MICRO BUDGET the Mockumentary, and much MORE! metafilm.ovid.tv/2026/02/26/o...

EMERGENT CITY is now available to watch on @ovidtv.bsky.social - and seek out MY BROOKLYN while you’re at it!

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OR Books Selects - metafilm | OVID.tv The team at OR Books are so impressed with OVID’s unique and alternative curation that they accepted our request to share their staff picks for your viewing pleasure! Hidden in the cavernous back room...

The fab team at OR BOOKS are so impressed with OVID’s curation that they accepted our invitation to share their staff picks for your viewing pleasure! There is no better time to support alternative publishers and to resist Amazonian hegemony! 📚▶️ @orbooks.bsky.social
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Feb 20th is EMERGENT CITY - Kelly Anderson makes great films!!!!

OVID’s February Lineup: Marking Black History Month, Battle over Brooklyn's Industry City, Ben Rivers with Oliver Laxe & Rose Wylie, Inquisitive Nuns with music by Philip Glass & much more! - metafilm... OVID.tv, the curated streaming destination for documentary and art-house films from around the world, announces its wide-ranging selection of 16 new films—nine exclusives!—coming in February 2026.

This February, OVID marks Black History Month with THE FORGOTTEN OCCUPATION: JIM CROW GOES TO HAITI. Plus, the battle over Brooklyn’s Industry City with EMERGENT CITY, and two films by Mare’s Nest director Ben Rivers.

Check out the full lineup here! ▶️

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OVID’s January Lineup: The World’s First Diva, Virginie Efira, François Ozon, The Wisdom of Nuns & so much more! - metafilm | OVID.tv OVID.tv, the curated streaming destination for documentary and art-house films from around the world, announces its wide-ranging selection of 27 new films—20 exclusives!—coming in January 2026.

Ring in the New Year with OVID’s January lineup and 27 new films! Highlights include THE DIVINE SARAH BERNHARDT, a biopic on the world’s first diva, the NY Times Critic’s Pick OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN, and the wisdom of nuns in Arizona's high desert in FINAL VOWS.
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OVID's most watched film this week is Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche's “tragic and sublime” @thr.com THE TEMPLE WOODS GANG: a richly imagined, arrestingly original take on the heist genre named one of the 10 best films by Cahiers du Cinéma of 2023.

Now streaming on OVID courtesy @severalfutures.bsky.social

OVID's most watched film this week is Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche's “tragic and sublime” @thr.com THE TEMPLE WOODS GANG: a richly imagined, arrestingly original take on the heist genre named one of the 10 best films by Cahiers du Cinéma of 2023.

Now streaming on OVID courtesy @severalfutures.bsky.social

OVID’s January Lineup: The World’s First Diva, Virginie Efira, François Ozon, The Wisdom of Nuns & so much more! - metafilm | OVID.tv OVID.tv, the curated streaming destination for documentary and art-house films from around the world, announces its wide-ranging selection of 27 new films—20 exclusives!—coming in January 2026.

Ring in the New Year with OVID’s January lineup and 27 new films! Highlights include THE DIVINE SARAH BERNHARDT, a biopic on the world’s first diva, the NY Times Critic’s Pick OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN, and the wisdom of nuns in Arizona's high desert in FINAL VOWS.
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The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived Directed by Heiny Srour • Documentary • 68 minutes In the late 60s, Dhofar rose up against the British-backed Sultanate of Oman, in a democratic, Leninist guerrilla movement. Srour and her team cross...

Heiny Srour's THE HOUR OF LIBERATION HAS ARRIVED is "a precious document" (Rusted Radishes) and "remains the most striking visual record of the Dhofar Rebellion.” —Bidoun

This Cannes-selected film from 1974 is #nowstreaming on OVID courtesy @severalfutures.bsky.social

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OVID's December Lineup: Nine exclusives! Heiny Srour x 2, Heist with a Twist, School in War-torn Ukraine & much more - metafilm | OVID.tv OVID.tv, the curated streaming destination for documentary and art-house films from around the world, announces its wide-ranging selection of 14 new films—9 exclusives!—coming in December 2025.

OVID's December is here! Exclusive premieres include Kateryna Gornostai's TIMESTAMP, about school kids in war-torn Ukraine. Plus, restored masterpieces by pioneering Lebanese filmmaker Heiny Srour, and Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche’s heist with a twist THE TEMPLE WOODS GANG.
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OVID's December Lineup: Nine exclusives! Heiny Srour x 2, Heist with a Twist, School in War-torn Ukraine & much more - metafilm | OVID.tv OVID.tv, the curated streaming destination for documentary and art-house films from around the world, announces its wide-ranging selection of 14 new films—9 exclusives!—coming in December 2025.

OVID's December is here! Exclusive premieres include Kateryna Gornostai's TIMESTAMP, about school kids in war-torn Ukraine. Plus, restored masterpieces by pioneering Lebanese filmmaker Heiny Srour, and Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche’s heist with a twist THE TEMPLE WOODS GANG.
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I've long admired Amalie R. Rothschild's personal documentary Nana, Mom and Me, now on @ovidtv.bsky.social where she has another great film, too: Woo Who? May Wilson, one of the most exciting and moving portraits of an artist that I've seen—from 1970, expanding a form that Wilson already considered

American Socialist: Eugene Debs Directed by Yale Strom • Documentary • With Eugene Victor Debs, Amy Madigan, Richard Wolff, Dr. Frances Fox Piven, Dr. Nick Salvatore • 2018 • 97 minutes Bernie Sanders inspired a generation – but wh...

Congrats, Mister Mayor!
Born on this day, and invoked last night in Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech, we recommend AMERICAN SOCIALIST: EUGENE DEBS, Yale Strom’s exploration of his life and ideas that shaped Mamdani’s agenda and inspire a new generation of progressives.
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Peter Watkins (Oct 29, 1935—Oct 30, 2025)
“His cinema persistently asked questions about those in power, and what will happen when their power goes catastrophically wrong.” @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social @theguardian.com

LA COMMUNE (PARIS, 1871) is streaming on OVID courtesy @icarusfilms.bsky.social

Peter Watkins, Oscar-winning director of The War Game, dies aged 90 Radical English director who clashed with the BBC over his ‘horrifying’ film about nuclear war, was forced to look abroad to continue working

Peter Watkins has died - perhaps the least-appreciated great British filmmaker (and you sense he wouldn't have wanted it any other way). www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

R.I.P. Peter Watkins (1935–2025)

Peter Watkins: an English film-making revolutionary from a tradition of uncompromising radicalism In films such as The War Game, Culloden and Punishment Park, Watkins pioneered the mock-documentary form and used it to make his historical dramas and up-to-the-minute dystopias all equally immediate and real

Peter Watkins: an English film-making revolutionary from a tradition of uncompromising radicalism

THE BOOKSELLERS with Fran Lebowitz (exec produced by Parker Posey) is OVID's Film of the Week! 📚🎞️

"A fascinating look into the world of rare book dealers.”
@lithub.com.web.brid.gy

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THE BOOKSELLERS with Fran Lebowitz (exec produced by Parker Posey) is OVID's Film of the Week! 📚🎞️

"A fascinating look into the world of rare book dealers.”
@lithub.com.web.brid.gy

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OVID's November Lineup: The Sarkozy Scandal, Iranian Cine-Odyssey, Eryk Rocha trifecta, Charlotte Le Bon as Niki de Saint Phalle & much more! - metafilm | OVID.tv OVID.tv, the curated streaming destination for documentary and art-house films from around the world, announces its wide-ranging selection of 23 new films—19 exclusives!—coming in November 2025.

OVID's November lineup is here! Feat. the Sarkozy Scandal, Charlotte Le Bon as Niki de Saint Phalle, films x 3 by Eryk Rocha, an “absorbing” Iranian cine-essay movie by Ehsan Khoshbakht, an expansive family memoir from New Day Films' Amalie Rothschild, and much MORE!
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Roger Corman's "The Terror" by Will Sloan - metafilm | OVID.tv The story goes that after completing principal photography on The Raven (1963), producer/director Roger Corman realized he still had a perfectly good castle set and a few days with nothing to do. So, ...

I wrote a short appreciation of Roger Corman's The Terror for @ovidtv.bsky.social
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OVID's October Lineup: Witch Trials, Quaker Activists, Quantum Mechanics & much more! - metafilm | OVID.tv OVID.tv, the curated streaming destination for documentary and art-house films from around the world, announces its wide-ranging selection of 21 new films—16 exclusives!—coming in October 2025.

OVID's October presents a week of Bullfrog Films spanning subjects from habitats to quantum science. For narrative features, the tension-drenched drama WHO BY FIRE (NYFF Main Slate), Atsushi Yamatoya's noir INFLATABLE SEX DOLL OF THE WASTELANDS, and so much more!
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OVID's September Lineup: Fifty years of indie docs from New Day, Labor Day films from Kartemquin, Woolly Mammoths in Siberia, and… Adults-only Cat-Noir! - metafilm | OVID.tv OVID.tv, the curated streaming destination for documentary and art-house films from around the world, announces its wide-ranging selection of 30 new films—21 exclusives!—coming in September 2025.

OVID's September MEGA-LINEUP is HERE!
30 new films are on the way, with 50 years of indie docs from New Day, Labor Day films from Kartemquin, more Yakuza Films from Radiance, Woolly Mammoths in Siberia, an Adults-only Cat-Noir, and MUCH MORE below 👇

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OVID's September Lineup: Fifty years of indie docs from New Day, Labor Day films from Kartemquin, Woolly Mammoths in Siberia, and… Adults-only Cat-Noir! - metafilm | OVID.tv OVID.tv, the curated streaming destination for documentary and art-house films from around the world, announces its wide-ranging selection of 30 new films—21 exclusives!—coming in September 2025.

OVID's September MEGA-LINEUP is HERE!
30 new films are on the way, with 50 years of indie docs from New Day, Labor Day films from Kartemquin, more Yakuza Films from Radiance, Woolly Mammoths in Siberia, an Adults-only Cat-Noir, and MUCH MORE below 👇

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Powerful and infuriating Cooked is a must-watch doc that hits hard!

Three Great Documentaries to Stream

“Much of the retrospective material is still enraging.” —Ben Kenigsberg @nytimes.com

COOKED: SURVIVAL BY ZIP CODE by Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand, the story of Chicago's worst heat disaster, is a top must-see doc this month!

Streaming ONLY on OVID
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OVID’s August Lineup: Streaming Resistance! Political and social issue indie docs from New Day Films (+ a handful of fun & thrilling features!) - metafilm | OVID.tv OVID.tv, the curated streaming destination for documentary and art-house films from around the world, announces its wide-ranging selection of 23 new films coming in August 2025.

OVID's August lineup is here with over twenty new films!
As the premier streaming destination for social justice docs, OVID continues joining forces with filmmakers’ collective New Day Films! Plus, a selection of thrilling feature films on top. Check these out 👇
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