List of HBO Documentary Films films
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This is a list of films produced and distributed by HBO Documentary Films.
1990s
[edit]| Release date | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| June 10, 1996 | Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills | |
| July 9, 1997 | 4 Little Girls | |
| January 21, 1998 | Frat House |
2000s
[edit]| Release date | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| March 13, 2000 | Paradise Lost 2: Revelations | |
| April 22, 2001 | Just, Melvin: Just Evil | |
| January 22, 2002 | Britney Spears Live from Las Vegas | |
| April 30, 2003 | Spellbound | distributed by ThinkFilm |
| May 30, 2003 | Capturing the Friedmans | distributed by Magnolia Pictures |
| February 11, 2005 | Inside Deep Throat | distributed by Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment |
| April 18, 2007 | Autism: The Musical | |
| August 6, 2007 | White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | |
| July 24, 2009 | One Minute to Nine | |
| August 7, 2009 | By the People: The Election of Barack Obama |
2010s
[edit]| Release date | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| January 24, 2010 | 12th & Delaware | |
| March 10, 2010 | Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals | |
| November 22, 2010 | Public Speaking | |
| May 7, 2011 | Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | |
| July 11, 2011 | Love Crimes of Kabul | |
| January 12, 2012 | Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory | |
| December 6, 2012 | In Vogue: The Editor's Eye | |
| February 16, 2013 | Beyoncé: Life Is But a Dream | |
| April 8, 2013 | 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus | |
| May 1, 2013 | Manhunt: The Search for Bin Laden | |
| July 15, 2013 | The Crash Reel | |
| October 28, 2013 | Seduced and Abandoned | |
| December 9, 2013 | Six by Sondheim | |
| June 18, 2014 | Love Child | |
| September 20, 2014 | On the Run Tour: Beyoncé and Jay-Z | |
| October 11, 2014 | Banksy Does New York | |
| October 24, 2014 | Citizenfour | co-production with Participant Media and Praxis Films |
| December 8, 2014 | Regarding Susan Sontag | |
| December 31, 2014 | Jennifer Lopez: Dance Again | |
| November 25, 2015 | 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets | |
| February 22, 2016 | Becoming Mike Nichols | |
| March 7, 2016 | A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness | |
| March 11, 2016 | Beware the Slenderman | |
| March 21, 2016 | Everything Is Copy | |
| December 16, 2016 | Risky Drinking | |
| October 7, 2017 | Spielberg | |
| November 13, 2017 | War Dog: A Soldier's Best Friend | |
| November 20, 2017 | Baltimore Rising | |
| December 4, 2017 | The Newspaperman | |
| December 8, 2017 | Arthur Miller: Writer | |
| January 19, 2018 | The Final Year | |
| March 26 and 27, 2018 | The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling | |
| April 2, 2018 | King in the Wilderness | |
| April 16, 2018 | I Am Evidence | |
| June 25, 2018 | Believer | |
| July 16, 2018 | Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind | |
| September 10, 2018 | Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age | |
| September 24, 2018 | Jane Fonda in Five Acts | |
| January 28, 2019 | Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists | |
| February 18, 2019 | United Skates | |
| March 3, 2019 | Leaving Neverland | in association with Channel 4 |
| March 18, 2019 | The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley | |
| May 3, 2019 | At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal | |
| May 12, 2019 | Home Videos | |
| May 26, 2019 | Game of Thrones: The Last Watch | |
| May 28, 2019 | Running with Beto | |
| June 11, 2019 | Ice on Fire | |
| June 18, 2019 | Wig | |
| June 26, 2019 | True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality | |
| June 30, 2019 | Sermon on the Mount | |
| September 25, 2019 | Buzz | |
| July 9, 2019 | I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth V. Michelle Carter | |
| October 17, 2019 | Liberty: Mother of Exiles | |
| November 12, 2019 | Very Ralph |
2020s
[edit]| Release date | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| March 19, 2020 | After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News | |
| March 26, 2020 | Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections | |
| May 5, 2020 | Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind | |
| June 18, 2020 | Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn | |
| June 30, 2020 | Welcome to Chechnya | |
| July 14, 2020 | Showbiz Kids | |
| July 28, 2020 | Stockton on My Mind | |
| August 4, 2020 | The Swamp | |
| October 6, 2020 | Siempre, Luis | |
| October 7, 2020 | Wild Card: The Downfall of a Radio Loudmouth | |
| October 16, 2020 | The Perfect Weapon | |
| October 21, 2020 | 537 Votes | |
| October 27, 2020 | The Soul of America | |
| October 28, 2020 | Burning Ojai: Our Fire Story | |
| November 12, 2020 | Transhood | |
| November 18, 2020 | Crazy, Not Insane | |
| November 21, 2020 | Between the World and Me | |
| December 2, 2020 | Baby God | |
| December 3, 2020 | 40 Years a Prisoner | |
| December 9, 2020 | Alabama Snake | |
| December 12, 2020 | The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart | |
| December 16, 2020 | The Art of Political Murder | |
| February 2, 2021 | Fake Famous | |
| February 9, 2021 | Black Art: In the Absence of Light | |
| March 9, 2021 | Covid Diaries NYC | |
| March 27, 2021 | Tina | |
| March 30, 2021 | The Last Cruise | |
| April 13, 2021 | Our Towns | |
| May 10, 2021 | The Crime of the Century | |
| June 15, 2021 | Revolution Rent | |
| June 29, 2021 | The Legend of the Underground | |
| July 23, 2021 | Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage | |
| August 12, 2021 | In the Same Breath | |
| October 20, 2021 | Four Hours at the Capitol | in association with the BBC |
| November 9, 2021 | Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story | |
| November 15, 2021 | A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks | |
| November 16, 2021 | Simple as Water | |
| November 18, 2021 | Jagged | |
| November 25, 2021 | DMX: Don't Try to Understand | |
| November 30, 2021 | Life of Crime 1984-2020 | |
| December 1, 2021 | Adrienne | |
| December 2, 2021 | Listening to Kenny G | |
| December 6, 2021 | The Forever Prisoner | |
| December 7, 2021 | Slow Hustle | |
| December 9, 2021 | Mr. Saturday Night | |
| December 13, 2021 | Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street | co-produced with Macrocosm Entertainment; distributed by Screen Media Films |
| December 14, 2021 | The Murders at Starved Rock | |
| December 16, 2021 | Juice WRLD: Into the Abyss | |
| December 20, 2021 | Reopening Night | |
| December 27, 2021 | Insecure: The End | |
| December 28, 2021 | The Super Bob Einstein Movie | |
| February 1, 2022 | Terry Bradshaw: Going Deep | |
| February 15, 2022 | Icahn: The Restless Billionaire | |
| February 23, 2022 | Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches | |
| March 8, 2022 | Undercurrent: The Disappearance of Kim Wall | |
| March 15, 2022 | Phoenix Rising | |
| March 29, 2022 | How to Survive a Pandemic | |
| March 30, 2022 | When We Were Bullies | Oscar-nominated documentary short |
| April 5, 2022 | Tony Hawk: Until The Wheels Fall Off | co-production with Duplass Brothers Productions |
| May 3, 2022 | Spring Awakening: Those You've Known | |
| May 20 and 21, 2022 | George Carlin's American Dream | |
| June 8, 2022 | The Janes | co-production with Pentimento Productions |
| June 22, 2022 | Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes | |
| June 28, 2022 | Endangered | |
| July 27, 2022 | We Met in Virtual Reality | |
| August 13, 2022 | The Princess | |
| August 24, 2022 | Katrina Babies | |
| September 21, 2022 | Escape From Kabul | |
| October 11, 2022 | 38 at the Garden | |
| October 18, 2022 | Mama's Boy | |
| October 19, 2022 | Year One: A Political Odyssey | |
| October 26, 2022 | A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting | |
| November 8, 2022 | Say Hey, Willie Mays! | |
| November 16, 2022 | Master of Light | |
| November 18, 2022 | Camilo: El Primer Tour De Mi Vida | |
| November 19, 2022 | 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony | |
| November 27, 2022 | The Howard Stern Interview: Bruce Springsteen | |
| November 29, 2022 | My So-Called High School Rank | |
| December 13, 2022 | Pelosi In The House | |
| December 16, 2022 | Sex Diaries | |
| December 30, 2022 | This Place Rules | |
| February 7, 2023 | All That Breathes | |
| March 19, 2023 | All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | |
| April 7, 2023 | Jason Isbell: Running with Our Eyes Closed | |
| April 29, 2023 | Moonage Daydream | |
| May 2, 2023 | 1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed | |
| May 20, 2023 | Love to Love You, Donna Summer | |
| May 26, 2023 | Being Mary Tyler Moore | |
| June 14, 2023 | How Do You Measure a Year? | |
| June 21, 2023 | The Stroll | |
| June 27, 2023 | Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music | |
| June 28, 2023 | Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed | |
| July 1, 2023 | Brandi Carlile: In the Canyon Haze | |
| July 26, 2023 | After the Bite | |
| August 23, 2023 | BS High | |
| September 13, 2023 | Donyale Luna: Supermodel | |
| October 1, 2023 | The Ringleader: The Case of the Bling Ring | |
| October 8, 2023 | Last Stop Larrimah | |
| October 10, 2023 | No Accident | |
| October 15, 2023 | The Insurrectionist Next Door | |
| October 22, 2023 | AKA Mr. Chow | |
| November 7, 2023 | Stand Up & Shout: Songs From a Philly High School | |
| November 8, 2023 | You Were My First Boyfriend | |
| November 11, 2023 | Albert Brooks: Defending My Life | |
| November 14, 2023 | How We Get Free | |
| November 15, 2023 | David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived | |
| November 28, 2023 | South To Black Power | |
| December 5, 2023 | Great Photo, Lovely Life | |
| December 12, 2023 | Trees and Other Entanglements | |
| December 20, 2023 | Daniel | |
| December 30, 2023 | Time Bomb Y2K | |
| January 8, 2024 | Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project | |
| January 19, 2024 | Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story | |
| January 27, 2024 | Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero | |
| January 31, 2024 | The Unbreakable Tatiana Suarez | |
| March 5, 2024 | A Revolution on Canvas | |
| March 12, 2024 | The Lionheart | |
| March 26, 2024 | The Truth vs. Alex Jones | |
| May 25, 2024 | Gaga Chromatica Ball | |
| May 29, 2024 | MoviePass, MovieCrash | |
| July 13, 2024 | Faye | |
| August 3, 2024 | Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes | |
| September 7, 2024 | Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos | |
| June 17, 2025 | Surviving Ohio State | |
| June 24, 2025 | Enigma | |
| June 27, 2025 | My Mom Jayne | |
| September 23, 2025 | The Devil Is Busy | |
| October 10, 2025 | The Alabama Solution | |
| October 21, 2025 | Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud | |
| November 18, 2025 | Thoughts & Prayers | |
| March 10, 2026 | Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare | |
| June 7, 2026 | Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs That's the Weight of the World) | |
| June 23, 2026 | The Welcome Table | |
| June 30, 2026 | Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story |
HBO Comedy Specials
[edit]| Title | Premiere |
|---|---|
| Robert Klein: An Evening with Robert Klein | December 31, 1975 |
| George Carlin at USC | April 08, 1977 |
| Robert Klein Revisited | June 17, 1977 |
| George Carlin: Again! | September 8, 1978 |
| Robert Klein at Yale | May 24, 1982 |
| George Carlin: Carlin at Carnegie | January 8, 1983 |
| Eddie Murphy: Delirious | October 15, 1983 |
| Billy Crystal: A Comic's Line | February 10, 1984 |
| George Carlin: Carlin on Campus | June 22, 1984 |
| Robert Klein: Child of the 50s, Man of the 80s | August 24, 1984 |
| Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway | July 20, 1985 |
| Comic Relief | March 29, 1986 |
| George Carlin: Playin' with Your Head | June 14, 1986 |
| Robert Klein on Broadway | July 26, 1986 |
| Jerry Seinfeld: Stand-Up Confidential | September 5, 1987 |
| An All-Star Toast to the Improv | January 30, 1988 |
| Dennis Miller: Mr. Miller Goes to Washington | February 27, 1988 |
| George Carlin: What Am I Doing in New Jersey? | June 12, 1988 |
| Whoopi Goldberg: Fontaine... Why Am I Straight | August 6, 1988 |
| Whoopi Goldberg Presents Billy Connolly | September 10, 1989 |
| George Carlin: Doin' It Again | June 2, 1990 |
| Bob Saget: In the Dream State | August 5, 1990 |
| Dennis Miller: Black and White | December 15, 1990 |
| Sinbad: Brain Damaged | January 12, 1991 |
| Richard Jeni: Platypus Man | January 30, 1993 |
| George Carlin: Jammin' in New York | April 25, 1992 |
| Dennis Miller: Live from Washington D.C.: They Shoot HBO Specials, Don't They? | March 27, 1993 |
| Sinbad: Afros and Bellbottoms | April 17, 1993 |
| Rosie O'Donnell | April 29, 1995 |
| 20 Years of Comedy on HBO | August 12, 1995 |
| Bill Maher: Stuff That Struck Me Funny | September 23, 1995 |
| Dana Carvey: Critics' Choice | October 14, 1995 |
| Dennis Miller: Citizen Arcane | March 2, 1996 |
| George Carlin: Back in Town | March 30, 1996 |
| Sinbad: Son of a Preacher Man | April 13, 1996 |
| Chris Rock: Bring the Pain | June 1, 1996 |
| Bill Maher: The Golden Goose Special | January 6, 1997 |
| George Carlin: Personal Favorites | February 23, 1997 |
| George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy | February 28, 1997 |
| Sinbad: Nothin' But the Funk | July 19, 1997 |
| Richard Jeni: A Good Catholic Boy | October 4, 1997 |
| Denis Leary: Lock 'n Load | November 15, 1997 |
| David Spade: Take the Hit | April 17, 1998 |
| Jerry Seinfeld: I'm Telling You for the Last Time | August 8, 1998 |
| George Carlin: You Are All Diseased | February 6, 1999 |
| Chris Rock: Bigger & Blacker | July 10, 1999 |
| D. L. Hughley: Goin' Home | August 7, 1999 |
| David Cross: The Pride Is Back | September 18, 1999 |
| Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm | October 17, 1999 |
| Dennis Miller: The Millennium Special - 1,000 Years, 100 Laughs, 10 Really Good Ones | December 4, 1999 |
| Bill Maher: Be More Cynical | June 10, 2000 |
| Ellen DeGeneres: The Beginning | July 23, 2000 |
| Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly | July 26, 2000 |
| Robert Klein: Child in His 50s | December 2, 2000 |
| George Carlin: Complaints and Grievances | November 17, 2001 |
| The Vagina Monologues | February 14, 2002 |
| Jamie Foxx: I Might Need Security | February 23, 2002 |
| Dennis Miller: The Raw Feed | April 12, 2003 |
| Ellen DeGeneres: Here and Now | June 25, 2003 |
| Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home | July 19, 2003 |
| Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales | August 3, 2003 |
| Chris Rock: Never Scared | April 17, 2004 |
| Lewis Black: Black on Broadway | May 15, 2004 |
| Elaine Stritch at Liberty | May 29, 2004 |
| Tracey Ullman: Live and Exposed | May 14, 2005 |
| Richard Jeni: A Big Steaming Pile of Me | January 15, 2005 |
| Whoopi: Back to Broadway - The 20th Anniversary | April 9, 2005 |
| Bill Maher: I'm Swiss | July 30, 2005 |
| George Carlin: Life Is Worth Losing | November 5, 2005 |
| Robert Klein: The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue | December 3, 2005 |
| Dennis Miller: All In | January 21, 2006 |
| Lewis Black: Red, White, and Screwed | June 10, 2006 |
| Cedric the Entertainer: Taking You Higher | July 15, 2006 |
| Dane Cook: Vicious Circle | September 4, 2006 |
| Katt Williams: The Pimp Chronicles Pt. 1 | September 16, 2006 |
| Wanda Sykes: Sick and Tired | October 14, 2006 |
| Louis C.K.: Shameless | January 13, 2007 |
| George Lopez: America's Mexican | February 24, 2007 |
| Bill Maher: The Decider | July 21, 2007 |
| Bob Saget: That Ain't Right | August 25, 2007 |
| D. L. Hughley: Unapologetic | September 22, 2007 |
| Jim Norton: Monster Rain | October 13, 2007 |
| Dave Attell: Captain Miserable | December 8, 2007 |
| George Carlin: It's Bad for Ya | March 1, 2008 |
| Dana Carvey: Squatting Monkeys Tell No Lies | June 14, 2008 |
| Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger | September 27, 2008 |
| You're Welcome America. A Final Night With George W Bush | March 14, 2009 |
| Jim Jefferies: I Swear to God | May 16, 2009 |
| George Lopez: Tall, Dark & Chicano | August 9, 2009 |
| Wanda Sykes: I'ma Be Me | October 10, 2009 |
| Bill Maher: But I'm Not Wrong | February 13, 2010 |
| Robert Klein: Unfair and Unbalanced | June 12, 2010 |
| Tracy Morgan: Black and Blue | November 13, 2010 |
| Dennis Miller: The Big Speech | November 19, 2010 |
| Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking | December 12, 2010 |
| Colin Quinn: Long Story Short | April 9, 2011 |
| George Lopez: It's Not Me, It's You | July 14, 2012 |
| Louis C.K.: Oh My God | April 13, 2013 |
| Bob Saget: That's What I'm Talkin' About | May 10, 2013 |
| Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles | November 23, 2013 |
| Billy Crystal: 700 Sundays | April 19, 2014 |
| Katt Williams: Priceless: Afterlife | August 16, 2014 |
| Bill Maher: Live from D.C. | September 12, 2014 |
| Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store | October 4, 2014 |
| Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen | January 31, 2015 |
| Rosie O'Donnell: A Heartfelt Stand Up | February 14, 2015 |
| Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted | August 22, 2015 |
| Ferrell Takes the Field | September 12, 2015 |
| Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo | October 17, 2015 |
| Whitney Cummings: I'm Your Girlfriend | January 23, 2016 |
| Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill | March 12, 2016 |
| Quincy Jones: Burning the Light | June 2, 2016 |
| Pete Holmes: Faces and Sounds | December 3, 2016 |
| Jerrod Carmichael: 8 | March 11, 2017 |
| Chris Gethard: Career Suicide | May 6, 2017 |
| T.J. Miller: Meticulously Ridiculous | June 17, 2017 |
| George Lopez: The Wall, Live from Washington D.C. | August 5, 2017 |
| Felipe Esparza: Translate This | September 30, 2017 |
| Michelle Wolf: Nice Lady | December 2, 2017 |
| Notes from the Field | February 25, 2018 |
| Bill Maher: Live from Oklahoma | July 7, 2018 |
| Drew Michael: Drew Michael | August 25, 2018 |
| Flight of the Conchords: Live in London | October 6, 2018 |
| Amanda Seales: I Be Knowin' | January 26, 2019 |
| My Dad Wrote a Porno | May 11, 2019 |
| Ramy Youssef: Feelings | June 29, 2019 |
| My Favorite Shapes by Julio Torres | August 10, 2019 |
| Gary Gulman: The Great Depresh | October 5, 2019 |
| Daniel Sloss: X | November 2, 2019 |
| Lil Rel Howery: Live in Crenshaw | November 23, 2019 |
| Dan Soder: Son of a Gary | December 7, 2019 |
| Whitmer Thomas: The Golden One | February 22, 2020 |
| Yvonne Orji: Momma, I Made It | June 25, 2020 |
| David Byrne's American Utopia | October 17, 2020 |
| Tig Notaro: Drawn | July 24, 2021 |
| Ricky Velez: Here's Everything | October 23, 2021 |
| Drew Michael: Red Blue Green | December 4, 2021 |
| Jerrod Carmichael: Rothaniel | April 1, 2022 |
| Bill Maher: #Adulting | April 15, 2022 |
| Nikki Glaser: Good Clean Filth | July 16, 2022 |
| Jesus Sepulveda: Mr. Tough Life | August 5, 2022 |
| Yvonne Orji: A Whole Me | October 1, 2022 |
| Lil Rel Howery: I Said It, Y'all Thinking It | November 12, 2022 |
| Atsuko Okatsuka: The Intruder | December 10, 2022 |
| Marc Maron: From Bleak to Dark | February 11, 2023 |
| Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love | May 27, 2023 |
| John Early: Now More Than Ever | June 17, 2023 |
| Sam Jay: Salute Me or Shoot Me | September 23, 2023 |
| Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?! | December 16, 2023 |
| Ramy Youssef: More Feelings | March 23, 2024 |
| Alex Edelman: Just for Us | April 6, 2024 |
| Nikki Glaser: Someday You'll Die | May 11, 2024 |
| Seth Meyers: Dad Man Walking | October 26, 2024 |