After you watch ALUMINATION on @ovidtv.bsky.social you might get the camper bug! Live out your trailer park fantasies and watch our film, HAPPY CAMPERS, on Apple or Amazon (bit.ly/HappyCampersDoc OR bit.ly/HappyCampersDocAmazon) www.ovid.tv/videos/alumi...

OVID’s July Lineup is here! With Tributes to Ingmar Bergman, Israel and the US's long March to War with Iran, Marriage with a Mistress, Cats of Istanbul, Souls Rescued at Sea, and much more... metafilm.ovid.tv/2026/06/26/o...

"OVID has been a godsend for making Kramer available," says Whitney Strub, author of FILMS THAT EXPLODE LIKE GRENADES: ROBERT KRAMER AND THE SEARCH FOR A RADICAL CINEMA, out now! For Author Selects, Whitney has chosen films with connections to Kramer 🎞️ metafilm.ovid.tv/2026/06/17/w...

Heads up, eyes forward for two great docs streaming on @ovidtv.bsky.social

Have you checked out OVID’s JUNE LINEUP yet? Penélope Cruz in Rome, Upstate with artist Peter Bradley, Serge Gainsbourg's Euro spy-thriller cameo, Paraguay’s 35-year dictatorship, and much more to come... metafilm.ovid.tv/2026/05/20/o...

Have you checked out OVID’s JUNE LINEUP yet? Penélope Cruz in Rome, Upstate with artist Peter Bradley, Serge Gainsbourg's Euro spy-thriller cameo, Paraguay’s 35-year dictatorship, and much more to come... metafilm.ovid.tv/2026/05/20/o...

found the OVID account @ovidtv.bsky.social. good service! lot of hard to find stuff on there!

Shtetl fettle: the Brothers Quay's latest liminal cabinet of curiosities, the hermetic, hypnotic SANATORIUM UNDER THE SIGN OF THE HOURGLASS (2024), is "a projected peepshow for lost souls". On @ovidtv.bsky.social from today. projectedfigures.com/2025/03/18/s...

OVID’s Spring GIFT Sale is here! 💐🌸💮🪷🌹 We hope you will share this Special May Day offer with friends. Use Promo Code: MAYDAY26 *25% OFF monthly, annual, and gift subs! Works like a charm for Gifts + New Users. Offer expires May 12th 🎹 www.ovid.tv/checkout/sub...

OVID's May lineup is here! It's full of resplendent restorations and monumental new releases, including ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958-1989, MAYA DEREN's experimental films, Christopher Nolan presenting THE QUAY BROTHERS, revived CZECH GEMS, and MUCH MORE! metafilm.ovid.tv/2026/04/24/o...

Robert Wynne-Simmons' pioneering folk horror THE OUTCASTS (1971) is now on @ovidtv.bsky.social. Here is a piece on Irish horror that I wrote for BFI, occasioned by the film's re-release last year on Blu-ray and BFIPlayer. www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...

Ill-starred man of clay: Adam Elliot’s stop-motion short HARVIE KRUMPET (2003) "poses life’s important questions with compellingly absurd concision". On @ovidtv.bsky.social from today. projectedfigures.com/2026/03/19/h...

“Fascinating… As THE PROPAGANDIST almost imperceptibly darkens… we realize that Teunissen not only hid a lot about his past in postwar years, he had a hell of a lot to hide.” —Dennis Harvey @48hills.bsky.social Streaming ONLY on OVID courtesy @icarusfilms.bsky.social 48hills.org/2026/03/scre...

OVID's April lineup has arrived! What would April be without some wildly surreal folklore tales, environmental films for Earth Week, and a down-on-his-luck Serge Gainsbourg wannabe? Check out everything on the way here! metafilm.ovid.tv/2026/03/19/o...

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 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! www.ovid.tv/videos/emerg...

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 metafilm.ovid.tv/2026/02/10/o...

Feb 20th is EMERGENT CITY - Kelly Anderson makes great films!!!!

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! ▶️ metafilm.ovid.tv/2026/01/25/o...

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. metafilm.ovid.tv/2025/12/18/o...

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

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. metafilm.ovid.tv/2025/12/18/o...

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 www.ovid.tv/videos/the-h...

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. metafilm.ovid.tv/2025/11/21/o...

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. metafilm.ovid.tv/2025/11/21/o...

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

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. www.ovid.tv/videos/ameri...

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 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

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 ovid.tv/the-booksell...

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 ovid.tv/the-booksell...

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! metafilm.ovid.tv/2025/10/24/o...

I wrote a short appreciation of Roger Corman's The Terror for @ovidtv.bsky.social www.metafilm.com/2025/10/16/r...

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! metafilm.ovid.tv/2025/09/15/o...

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 👇 metafilm.ovid.tv/2025/08/20/o...

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 👇 metafilm.ovid.tv/2025/08/20/o...

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

“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 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/m...

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 👇 metafilm.ovid.tv/2025/07/18/o...

As the premier streaming destination for social issue documentary films from the US and internationally, OVID has partnered with pathbreaking filmmakers’ collective New Day Films, bringing their collection to our members for the first time. New Day Summer begins TODAY! www.ovid.tv/new-day-films

“One of the greatest documentary characters ever... He makes the Soup Nazi look like an angel at times.” @nonfics.bsky.social Starring the unforgettable Kenny Shopsin, I LIKE KILLING FLIES dishes up bites of wisdom, serving up a charming slice of NYC history. #NowStreaming/Noshing on OVID 🍽️

“One of the greatest documentary characters ever... He makes the Soup Nazi look like an angel at times.” @nonfics.bsky.social Starring the unforgettable Kenny Shopsin, I LIKE KILLING FLIES dishes up bites of wisdom, serving up a charming slice of NYC history. #NowStreaming/Noshing on OVID 🍽️

"A timely and edge-of-your-seat Dardenne brothers-produced thriller." @loudandclearrvs.bsky.social “RED SOIL pits a tireless underdog against the forces of corporate greed and looming environmental catastrophe.” @hollywoodreporter.bsky.social #NowStreaming on OVID www.ovid.tv/videos/red-s...

THIS IS NOT A MOVIE: ROBERT FISK AND THE POLITICS OF TRUTH "The two things that give this doc its power and provocativeness are intellectual rather than dramatic: Fisk’s work, and his ideas." @slantmagazine.com Now Streaming on OVID courtesy @kimstim.bsky.social www.ovid.tv/videos/this-...

Born on this day, 2 July 1925, Patrice Lumumba was the leader of the Congolese National Movement from 1958 until his assassination in 1961. Raoul Peck's LUMUMBA made Ava DuVernay's top ten movies of the 21st century @nytimes.com Streaming on OVID courtesy @kinolorber.com www.ovid.tv/videos/lumumba