DOC NYC documentary film festival returns. Check out this year’s lineup.

November 10, 2026 / 10:32 AM EST / CBS News

DOC NYC, America's largest festival for documentary films, returns to New York City and streaming for the 17th year, with screenings in Manhattan beginning Wednesday through Nov. 19, and continuing online through Nov. 29.

The festival includes more than 115 feature-length documentaries — many making their world, U.S. or New York City premieres — as well as short film programs, while the DOC NYC Pro Conference offers panel discussions and workshops in a variety of areas of nonfiction filmmaking and distribution.

The festival's opening-night feature is the American premiere of "The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs," about an Indigenous artist in the Peruvian Amazon who uses her art to advocate for her people and their land. The film won best international documentary at the São Paulo International Film Festival.

Barbara Kopple's "Union Town," the festival's centerpiece, tells three stories of workers fighting for better conditions in the U.S. Kopple won two Academy Awards for her films "Harlan County, U.S.A." and "American Dream."

The closing-night feature explores our fascination with solar eclipses. In "Totality," 21 film crews across the U.S. captured how the public embraced the 2024 total eclipse of the Sun.

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