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Popular Documentary Movies
Heart of the Bear
A woodsman from the Catskills helps a group of people get through the COVID-19 pandemic with a daily livestream.
Ventos Que Sopram Maranhão
Zeca Baleiro guides us on this musical journey to his home state. With testimonies and performances by local artists from different musical genres, we discover a pulsating and little explored sound panel.
Au Fer Rouge
Through the records of emblematic figures of Stade Rennais Football Club and archive footages, this film will immerse yourself into the club history.
Tatis: The Rise of El Niño
An in-depth documentary detailing the recent rise of San Diego Padres shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. Hailing from the Dominican Republic, Tatis made his MLB debut in 2019, won a Silver Slugger Award in 2020 and was a 2021 All-Star. In addition to Tatis and his family, MLB Network talks with legends like Pedro Martinez and Alex Rodriguez about the rising star.
Loudmouth Live: From The Micra
When hosts of "The Loudmouth Podcast" Ryan Perry, Luke Hearne Brown & Alfie Akers gather to present a live version of their award nominated podcast, their production crew pulls out and have to resort to shooting a live special from a Nissan Micra. The special features deep discussions on Biscuits, The Meg (2018) and various other mildly funny anecdotes. As well as featuring a Special Guest and a trip to the golden arches.
Influenceurs : une vie de rêve à Dubaï
Influencers are Instagram users who have an established credibility and audience; who can persuade others by virtue of their trustworthiness and authenticity but what are these influencers lives really like? Is it different from what they show on social media?
Mon nom est Johnny
From New York to Los Angeles, a journey in the United States, in the footsteps of Johnny Hallyday, on tour in the country he has always admired. On the stages trodden by his idols, Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent or Eddie Cochran, he presents to an audience that does not know him a raw rock, full of emotion and energy. A tour he did to give back to America what it had given him.
Venice: Infinitely Avant-Garde
1600 years after its legendary foundation, Venice continues to be unique: the urban environment, made of stone, earth, and water, and for its legendary history. But, above all, Venice is unique for its identity as a city of oxymorons, holding together opposing DNA in a formidable contradiction: the allure of decadence, and the frenzy of the avant-garde. VENEZIA-INFINITA AVANGUARDIA is a labyrinth of stories, works of art, palaces, celebrities of social and cultural life, places, extravagances, and traditions. It's a sensory experience made of lights, water, and music. Beside connections and suggestions, testaments flow by of art historians, urbanists, sociologists, philosophers, curators, musicians, writers, journalists, artists, and our contemporaries.
Die kalten Ringe
19 years after the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan, the Olympic Games of 1964 took place in Tokyo. In the midst of the cold war, the games are supposed to become a symbol for a peaceful world. Especially the divided Germany is expected to prove this: By order of the IOC, both German states must participate in Tokyo with a joint team despite deep ideological rifts. The fact that athletes from both German states still had to compete against each other in order to form a joint team for the 1964 Olympic Games in Innsbruck and in Tokyo is all but forgotten. The film tells the story of the East-West German team of 1964 for the first time and is simultaneously a current document about the relation of sports and politics in international relations.
December, Radio Romania
The opening session of the 10th edition of Green Years marks the return of Ana Vîjdea to this section. After having won the Doc’s Kingdom Best Green Years Director Award in 2017, she now presents December, Radio Romania. The film follows the celebrations of several national holidays in a Romanian public radio station. From live shows to backstage parties, the film guides us through a space haunted by a complex history.
Die Rastatter Prozesse - Kriegsverbrecher vor Gericht
Inauguration Day
Brendo wants to be president of Brazil. Until that day, he studies law, makes videos for the networks, dreams of new achievements and imagines himself in a reality show during the pandemic.
The Greatest Toys of the '70s
A selection of the nation's best-loved toys and games, through the years beginning with countdown of the favourites of the 1970s, featuring a cast of experts, toymakers and manufacturers, as well as a smattering of famous faces and comedians. Including crazes from America such as Pet Rock, the skateboard, and Evel Knievel, as well as British classics Sindy, Action Man, Katie Copycat and Striker.
If From Every Tongue it Drips
A hybrid-documentary film that follows a queer Urdu poet as she traces the connections between quantum physics and political movements in South Asia.
Tonight’s Homework
In Homework (1989), Abbas Kiarostami put questions to students at a public school: questions about homework, punishments, and dreams of the future. The result was a portrait of the generation that grew up during the Iran-Iraq war, trapped by uncertainty and a rigid upbringing. Now, some 30 years later, directors Ashkan Nejati and Mehran Nematollahi repeat Kiarostami’s questions and come to the conclusion that the school system and society itself have changed dramatically. The gulf between rich and poor has grown far wider, and that has become evident in the schools. Parents, many of whom are illiterate, are unable to help their young ones, or otherwise too busy with their careers to supervise homework. Any sense of interest or guidance is absent.
The Pacifist – Gertrud Woker: A Forgotten Heroine
The moving life story of Gertrud Woker takes us back to the beginning of the peace and women's movement.
Canto de Família
Raised in one of the most violent outskirts of Fortaleza, the Cruz brothers had their lives shaped by music to the point that their parents turned the house where they live into a school.
Myjing
How to survive the city of tormorrow? An Italian reporter in Beijing, Alessandro lives with his child and wife, alienated by the megalopolis. As he experiences the works of emerging local artists, Alessandro discovers unexpected views on the city, enhancing his own. Myjing is a storytelling in progress, a diary of this experience offering a unique in-depth perspective on today’s China.
From the Planet of the Humans
A border inspection at Ventimiglia, between Italy and France, turns into a fantastical fairy tale narrated by a chorus of frogs, wherein a scientist experiments with rejuvenation techniques using monkey testicles. Dr. Voronoff was a real person, and was world-famous in the 1920s. His villa stands on the border where migrants try to cross. But it is as if they do not exist.
The Certainty of Probabilities
1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the young hippies of Hamburg are harshly criticized by Romanian students, while Nicolae Ceaușescu reads the famous defiance speech against the intervention of the Warsaw Pact troops in Czechoslovakia. Floating solemnly over all this is The Internationale, sung on a stadium by a crowd of pioneers dressed in white shirts and red ties. A certainty for each probability: the documentary is at the same time a history lesson and an ideological warning sign, the director’s endeavour permanently draws our attention to the functions of the propaganda film, yet without tarnishing the fascination that dwells in the core of the images, that of the figures that wave at us from a past buried in commonplaces and political parti pris.
Barajas
Explores the tragic death of Angel Rama, Marta Traba, Manuel Scorza and Jorge Ibargüengoitia on an airplane crash near Madrid in 1983. Through the biographies of these four authors –each one from a different part of Latin America- the film explores this continent´s history in the second half of the 20th century, full of social unrest, revolutions and dictatorships that influenced a whole generation.
Among Us Women
In rural Ethiopia the staff of a health centre are fighting maternal mortality. They tirelessly appeal to women to give birth in the clinic. But reservations are strong, and so are the practical obstacles. How are heavily pregnant women supposed to arrive in time when the ambulance comes hours later or not at all? Against medical advice, Hulu Ager decides to give birth at home, assisted by a traditional midwife.
Migliaccio: O Brasileiro em Cena
The documentary Migliaccio - O Brasileiro em Cena follows the path of those who take risks for the art, either as directors, as writers, as scenographers and even as costume designers. The Oscarito trophy received by Flávio Migliaccio in 2014 Gramado Film Festival crowns a career enmeshed by many threads. Since Migliaccio has performed in different fields of art - from cinema and theater to literature and drawing -, the documentary creates varied visual interventions to enchain the narrative, in addition to the interviews and archive pictures, such as a shadow play to represent his humble childhood, and to the cartoons the artist drew to portray his existential questions in his ranch in Rio Bonito (State of Rio de Janeiro). Images and stories that aim to show a professional and personal life pervaded by possibilities and attitudes, both artistic and political.
bb u ok? album documentary
Documentary on Dutch music producer San Holo’s sophomore album ‘bb u ok?’
The List of Ten
In 2010, a probation officer conducts a routine check on 76-year-old Joseph Naso, in Reno, Nevada. During a search of Naso’s home for probation violations, the officer finds a shocking cache of materials: thousands of pictures of women in hosiery, mannequins dressed in lingerie, and a journal recounting dozens of sexual assaults. But the most important piece of evidence found is Naso’s “List of Ten,” a handwritten list with ten cryptic entries of vague locations, but no names or dates. Investigators fear that they have stumbled upon a hidden serial killer and his list of victims completely by chance. Working against time, investigators have one year to decode the list before Naso goes free.
Fistful of Steel: The Rise of Bubba Wallace
A portrait of Bubba Wallace, the only Black driver in the NASCAR Cup Series, who has been a leading voice for racial justice. In this ESPN documentary, Wallace shares stories of the events that shaped his life.
Queer Empathy: The Story of Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head
An in-depth look into the music of LGBTQ+ singer/songwriter Jordaan Mason.
Freestyle to Montenegro
In the summer of 1987, Tonin Gjini swam from Albania to Yugoslavia, in search of freedom. Three decades later, he revisits the locations and recreates the events of that unforgettable experience.
Life in Common
A Vida em Comum follows a period in the life of Poeta and Belinha, a couple of Cape Verdean origin who lives in a community scheduled to be dismantled: the neighbourhood of Barruncho, in Odivelas. Uncertain about the future, Poeta and Belinha take care of their animals and crops, and adjust to the daily changes.
The Real Rannap
Composer and pianist Rein Rannap’s contribution to Estonian music is priceless, but his personality is very complex and contradictory. In numerous TV shows, viewers have met exactly the Rannap that he chooses to show them at that very moment.
The Land
The Land is a haunted place between the two worlds; living and dead, where history and mythology converge. This territory named Krajina which means 'frontier' or ' the edge', is the land given by the Habsburg emperor in 17th century to the Serbian refugees from all over the Balkans to settle down and defend the border from the Ottoman empire. Today, formally the part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, this land is still the imaginary line between the two civilizations, between east and west. It is a bewitched space, a dystopian universe where the ghosts return from all the past battles.
Caminho Longe
Alfonso Etxegarai, former ETA terrorist gang member, sets out on the road back home after decades of exile on the African island of Sao Tome and Principe, where he was deported by France and Spain in 1986.
Les nouvelles Èves
June 2020, Corona, one year after the national women's strike. Six directors dive into the everyday life of six women and explore what it means to be a woman in today's Switzerland.
Hide and Seek
Victoria Fiore’s astonishing feature documentary debut is a surreal journey of a young boy’s final days of freedom before he is taken away from his family.
Above Water
12-years-old Houlaye lives in Niger, and travels several kilometers each day to fetch water. The village got together to construct a well. This is the promise of a new life for people who have literally been walking on water since birth.
If God Were a Woman
Laura lives with her parents in L’Alfàz del Pi, in Valencia. Three years ago, she started her transition. Laura now faces adolescence, and with it, a series of changes that will mean a new chapter for her and her family. Each decision they make could be definitive.
It's a Madcap World: The Making of an Unfinished Film
Split into three parts and featuring interviews with the crew of SOUTHLAND TALES, including Richard Kelly, the story of how this film was made, screwed over in post-production and still technically is unfinished is told.
