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You are looking for archived material, or specialised films - you want to borrow something...
Here is a list of documentary film collections in addition to that of the Bpi.

Generalist video libraries:

Archives françaises du film du Centre national de la cinématographie
Access conditions: accreditation required.
The collections of the French Film Archives contain nearly 100,000 titles, and are composed in equal measure of long and short fiction films (50% of them being French) and documentary films (90% French).

Bibliothèque nationale de France
The French National Library has adapted its audiovisual collections and its areas in accordance with its users' requests: three rooms are devoted to the viewing of films, each with specific collections for a defined user profile. The Audiovisual Department receives the legal deposit copy of commercially released videos.

CNRS - Images
The CNRS video library has the mission of preserving and distributing the films and videos produced or coproduced by the CNRS (CNRS Images, mass media, laboratories …). The possibility to view this material on the CNRS premises is reserved to specialists and requires an appointment, but around thirty hours of films, which will increase as their digitalisation advances, can already be viewed on their website.

Forum des images
Access conditions: aimed at general audiences; entrance fee.
An audiovisual record about Paris, its inhabitants, its town-planning and its evolutions, covering more than a century (5,000 documents of all kinds, in all formats). The collection of the "Forum des images" is currently being expanded to include other audiovisual collections, in two directions: films created by young film-makers (the films of the FEMIS and the GREC), and images that are not given a wide distribution, such as the films produced by Films d’Ici or the Point Ligne Plan collective.

Inathèque de France
Access conditions: accreditation required; entrance fee.
63 audiovisual viewing-stations give access to the legal deposit copies of radio and television programmes, that are managed by the "Institut national de l’audiovisuel" (Ina).

Université de Paris VIII
Access conditions: aimed at general audiences.
More than 3,000 fiction and documentary videos. Two-thirds of the collection concern the visual arts, dance, cinema and music. 

Specialist video libraries:

• Art
• History
• Leisure, Sport, Tourism
• Philosophy, Religion
• Science, Technology, Medicine
• Humanities and Social Sciences