The following past Sundance Film Festival documentaries are scheduled for release this month:
>May 1
In Theatres
AMERICAN DREAM (1990)
Sundance 1991/2026
Director:
Barbara Kopple
About:
When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota are forced to take a substantial pay cut, the local union takes a stand for its members. Their strike tests the fragile promise of the American ideal, revealing the cost of survival when the dream no longer feels shared.
>May 1
In Theatres
HARLAN COUNTY, USA (1976)
Sundance 2005 (restored version)
Director:
Barbara Kopple
About:
In 1970s Kentucky, coal miners and their families risk everything to stand up against a powerful mining company in a brutal, high-stakes labor strike.
>May 1
Streaming: Criterion Channel
CONBODY VS EVERYBODY
Sundance 2024
Director:
Debra Granik
About:
Over eight years, Coss Marte builds ConBody, a gym inspired by workouts he developed while in prison. Committed to employing trainers who were formerly incarcerated, Coss creates a community fighting to break the cycle of recidivism while navigating society’s many obstacles to reentry.
>May 5
On VOD
ANDRÉ IS AN IDIOT
Sundance 2025
Director:
Tony Benna
About:
André, a brilliant idiot, is dying because he didn’t get a colonoscopy. His sobering diagnosis, complete irreverence, and insatiable curiosity, send him on an unexpected journey learning how to die happily and ridiculously without losing his sense of humor.
>May 22
In Theatres
EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET
Sundance 2026
Director:
Felipe Bustos Sierra
About:
In May 2021, a U.K. Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Scotland’s most diverse neighborhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbors.
>May 25
On TV: Independent Lens
THIRD ACT
Sundance 2025
Director:
Tadashi Nakamura
About:
Generations of artists call Robert A Nakamura “the godfather of Asian American media,” but filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura calls him Dad. Robert’s diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease leads to an exploration of art, activism, grief, and fatherhood.
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