This is a list of films produced and released by National Geographic under their feature Documentary Films banner, established in 2017. [1] National Geographic Partners is a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company and National Geographic Society, initially established between 21st Century Fox and the National Geographic Society until Disney's acquisition of Fox's media assets on March 20, 2019. [2]
Title | Director(s) | Release date | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
LA 92 | Daniel Lindsay, T. J. Martin | April 28, 2017 | |
Jane | Brett Morgen | October 20, 2017 | |
Into the Okavango | Neil Gelinas | April 22, 2018 | |
Free Solo | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin | September 28, 2018 | |
Science Fair | Cristina Costantini, Darren Foster | October 19, 2018 | |
Sea of Shadows | Richard Ladkani | July 12, 2019 | |
The Cave | Feras Fayyad | October 18, 2019 | |
Saudi Runaway | Susanne Regina Meures | January 25, 2020 | Distribution only [3] |
Rebuilding Paradise | Ron Howard | July 31, 2020 | |
The Last Ice | Scott Ressler | May 22 2020 | |
Akashinga: The Brave Ones | Maria Wilhelm | June 17, 2020 | "Doc short" |
The Nightcrawlers | Alexander A. Mora | September 13, 2020 | "Doc short" |
Lost and Found | Orlando von Einsiedel | September 18, 2020 | "Doc short" |
Blood on the Wall | Sebastian Junger, Nick Quested | September 30, 2020 | |
City So Real | Steve James | October 29, 2020 | Released as miniseries |
Own the Room | Cristina Costantini, Darren Foster | March 12, 2021 | Disney+ original |
Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer | Dawn Porter | June 18, 2021 | |
Playing with Sharks: The Valerie Taylor Story | Sally Aitken | July 23, 2021 | Disney+ original |
Fauci | John Hoffman, Janet Tobias | October 6, 2021 | |
The First Wave | Matthew Heineman | October 7, 2021 | |
The Rescue | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin | October 8, 2021 | |
Becoming Cousteau | Liz Garbus | October 22, 2021 | |
Torn | Max Lowe | December 3, 2021 | |
We Feed People | Ron Howard | May 27, 2022 | |
Fire of Love | Sara Dosa | July 6, 2022 | Distribution only [4] |
The Territory | Alex Pritz | August 19, 2022 | |
Retrograde | Matthew Heinemann | September 3, 2022 | |
The Flagmakers | Cynthia Wade, Sharon Liese | September 16, 2022 | Disney+ original |
Wild Life | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin | April 14, 2023 | |
Bobi Wine: The People's President | Moses Bwayo, Christopher Sharp | July 28, 2023 | Distribution only [5] |
The Mission | Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss | October 13, 2023 | |
Awaiting release | |||
The Space Race: The Untold Story of the First Black Astronauts | Lisa Cortés and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza | February 12, 2024 [6] | |
Untitled Carl Sagan documentary | Nanette Burstein | TBA [7] |
Revolution Studios Distribution Company, LLC, operating as Revolution Studios, is an American motion picture and television studio headed by Chief Executive Officer Scott Hemming, founded in 2000, and based in Los Angeles, California.
Searchlight Pictures is an American film production and distribution arm of Walt Disney Studios, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company's Disney Entertainment division. Founded in 1994 as Fox Searchlight Pictures for 20th Century Fox, the studio focuses primarily on producing, distributing, and acquiring specialty films.
The Walt Disney Studios is a major division of the Disney Entertainment business segment of The Walt Disney Company best known for housing its multifaceted film studio divisions. Founded on October 16, 1923, and based mainly at the namesake studio lot in Burbank, California, it is the seventh-oldest global film studio and the fifth-oldest in the United States, a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and one of the "Big Five" major film studios.
Imagine Entertainment, also known simply as Imagine, is an American film and television production company founded in November 1985 by producer Brian Grazer and director Ron Howard.
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures is an American film distributor within the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company. It handles theatrical and occasional digital distribution, marketing and promotion for films produced and released by the Walt Disney Studios, including Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, and 20th Century Studios; the Searchlight Pictures label operates its own autonomous theatrical distribution and marketing unit.
A&E Networks is an American multinational broadcasting company that is a 50–50 joint venture between Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company through its General Entertainment Content division. The company owns several non-fiction and entertainment-based television brands, including its namesake A&E, History, Lifetime, FYI, and their associated sister channels, and holds stakes in or licenses their international branches.
Fox 2000 Pictures was an American film production company within The Walt Disney Studios. It was a sister studio of the larger film studios 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Pictures, specializing in producing independent films in mid-range releases that largely targeted underserved groups. The company dissolved on May 14, 2021, following the release of The Woman in the Window on Netflix, and the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by The Walt Disney Company on March 20, 2019.
20th Century Animation is an American animation studio located in Century City, Los Angeles. Formed in 1994, it is organized as a division and label of 20th Century Studios, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Studios, and is tasked with producing animated feature-length films. At one point, 20th Century Animation had two subsidiaries: Fox Animation Studios, which was shut down on June 26, 2000, and Blue Sky Studios, which was closed on April 10, 2021. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment distributes the films produced by 20th Century Animation in home media under the 20th Century Home Entertainment banner.
Regency Enterprises is an American entertainment company formed by Arnon Milchan. It was founded in 1982 as the successor to Regency International Pictures.
Disney General Entertainment Content (DGEC), formerly ABC Group, Disney–ABC Television Group and the second incarnation of Walt Disney Television, is part of Disney Entertainment, a division of The Walt Disney Company that oversees its owned-and-operated television content, assets and sub-divisions.
20th Television is an American television production company that is a division of Disney Television Studios, part of The Walt Disney Company. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment distributes the television series produced by 20th Television in home media formats through the 20th Century Home Entertainment banner.
FX Networks, LLC, is a company consisting of a network of cable channels plus a production company and a subsidiary of the Disney Entertainment business division of The Walt Disney Company. Originally a part of 21st Century Fox, the company was acquired by The Walt Disney Company on March 20, 2019. Consequently, FX Networks was integrated into the newly renamed Walt Disney Television unit.
Fox Networks Group (FNG) is a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company that oversees the international television assets that were acquired from former 21st Century Fox in March 2019. The division oversaw the production and broadcasting of the Fox brands in the United States and internationally. These brands included Fox, Fox Sports, National Geographic, and BabyTV, as well producing and distributing more than 300 entertainment, film, sports and factual channels in 45 languages across Europe, Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Asia, using several brands in those regions. Among their non-linear brands were Fox Play and Fox Plus. These brands reached over 1.725 billion households around the world
Star Studios is an Indian motion picture production and distribution company. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Disney Star, part of the Disney International Operations segment of The Walt Disney Company. The studio produces Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and other South Asian language films through acquisitions, co-productions and in-house productions for worldwide distribution.
Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc., which did business as 21st Century Fox (21CF), also known simply as Fox, was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was one of the two companies formed on June 28, 2013, following a spin-off of the publishing assets of the old News Corporation as News Corp.
National Geographic Partners, LLC is a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company and the namesake non-profit scientific organization National Geographic Society. The company oversees all commercial activities related to the Society, including magazine publications and television channels. The company's board of managers is evenly divided between the Society and Disney.
The acquisition of 21st Century Fox by The Walt Disney Company was announced on December 14, 2017, and was completed on March 20, 2019. Among other key assets, the acquisition included the 20th Century Fox film and television studios, U.S. cable channels such as FX, Fox Networks Group, a 73% stake in National Geographic Partners, Indian television broadcaster Star India, and a 30% stake in Hulu. One day before the acquisition, 21st Century Fox spun off the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox Television Stations, Fox News Channel, Fox Business, Fox Sports 1 and 2, Fox Deportes, and the Big Ten Network into the newly formed Fox Corporation. Other 21st Century Fox assets such as the Fox Sports Networks and Sky were divested and sold off to third parties such as Comcast and Sinclair Broadcast Group.
Fox Corporation is an American multinational mass media company headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in New York City. Incorporated in Delaware, it was formed on March 19, 2019, as a result of the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by The Walt Disney Company, which was closed on March 20. The company is controlled by the Murdoch family via a family trust with 39.6% ownership share, and by Rupert Murdoch himself to the effect of almost 40%.