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2013

Popular Documentary Movies

Spark
Spark
Spark was an underground publication that emerged in Gansu province in 1960, and was centered on the ongoing famine and the Great Leap Forward. Ultimately, 43 people, including the Rightist teachers and students who were connected with the publication, the peasants and the rural cadres who sympathized with them, were arrested and given long prison terms. Among them, three key figures were executed during the Cultural Revolution.
Spark 2013
I Hugged the Berlin Patient
I Hugged the Berlin Patient
A spirited cancer survivor goes on a spontaneous search for 'The Berlin Patient' - the first man in the world actually cured of HIV.
I Hugged the Berlin Patient 2013
Febrero, el miedo de los galgos
Febrero, el miedo de los galgos
Febrero, el miedo de los galgos 2013
The Taste of Crème Brulée
The Taste of Crème Brulée
Two sisters, 96 and 98 years old, live in an old house situated opposite the school where they used to teach in the centre of Portugal. Their care and attention is shared between the house and the garden. Their daily life, serene and unhurried, is full of memories and small tasks. They do not make plans for the future – it just happens day after day - like tapestries which are made with neither paper pattern nor prior drawing. Whilst the garden reveals the passing of time, the house seems to live with quivering light and trembling breath. Illness arrives, unannounced apart from that of age itself.
The Taste of Crème Brulée 2013
Adam Ant: The Blueblack Hussar
Adam Ant: The Blueblack Hussar
From Sunrise Pictures, the long awaited Adam Ant documentary film, directed by Jack Bond. Featuring Charlotte Rampling, Mark Ronson, Jamie Reynolds, Allen Jones, John Robb.
Adam Ant: The Blueblack Hussar 2013
Festive Land: Carnival in Bahia
Festive Land: Carnival in Bahia
Festive Land examines one of the largest and most extraordinary popular celebrations in the world, the week-long Carnival that brings more than two million people to the streets of Salvador, the capital of Bahia, in northeastern Brazil. Carnival is the most expressive showcase of the unique cultural richness of Bahia, where African culture has survived, prospered, and evolved, mixing with other Brazilian influences to create forms found nowhere else in the world. The film captures this unique cultural energy through extraordinary footage of musical performances, dances, religious manifestations, and street celebrations. At the same time, Carnival reflects the racial and social tensions of Brazil's heterogeneous society. At first glance there appear to be two million people chaotically mixed on the streets, but a more detailed look reveals how patterns of segregation driven by racial, social and economic differences continue in Carnival.
Festive Land: Carnival in Bahia 2013
The Genius of Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit up the World
The Genius of Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit up the World
Over 80 years after her death, Marie Curie remains by far the best-known female scientist. In her lifetime, she became that rare thing - a celebrity scientist, attracting the attention of the news cameras and tabloid gossip. This multi-layered film reveals the real Marie Curie, an extraordinary woman who fell in love three times, had to survive the pain of loss, and the public humiliation of a doomed love affair. It is a riveting portrait of a tenacious mother and scientist, who opened the door on a whole new realm of physics, which she discovered and named - radioactivity.
The Genius of Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit up the World 2013
Leninland
Leninland
At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, after a long construction, the last and most grandiose museum of the Leader was opened. Soon after the opening, the ideology changed, and the flow of pilgrims gradually dried up. Despite this, the museum still works and the management is looking for ways to attract visitors. Faithful to the Lenin keepers of the museum as they can resist the onset of commercialization. The film tells about the modern life of this amazing museum-reserve and its employees.
Leninland 2013
Kangchenjunga - I Cinque Tesori della Grande Neve
Kangchenjunga - I Cinque Tesori della Grande Neve
Kangchenjunga - I Cinque Tesori della Grande Neve 2013
Wolfman
Wolfman
Wolfman is a film about a man who has taught himself the language and ways of wolves.
Wolfman 2013
God Loves Uganda
Prime Video
God Loves Uganda
A powerful exploration of the evangelical campaign to infuse African culture with values imported from America's Christian Right. The film follows American and Ugandan religious leaders fighting sexual immorality and missionaries trying to convince Ugandans to follow biblical law.
God Loves Uganda 2013
UKs Scariest Debt Collector
UKs Scariest Debt Collector
Ten years ago Shaun Smith was an enforcer for one of the biggest crime families in Liverpool, introducing urban terrorism to the British underworld. He sprayed up houses with machine guns, tortured people and used homemade napalm to firebomb his enemies. After spending 5 years in prison for firearm offences, he's trying to transfer those skills to the legal economy by working as a debt collector across northern England.
UKs Scariest Debt Collector 2013
Missing Green
Missing Green
A solitary woman walks through the eerie night-time landscape of Dublin's Cork Street, a street once quiet and residential, now a four-laned artery for city traffic. Memories are narrated which no longer match the present-day surroundings.
Missing Green 2013
Card Shark
Card Shark
British magician and card shark to the world’s elite, Drummond Money-Coutts, embarks on an international journey, going from London to Paris with a final destination of Bangkok. In this one-off special, DMC explores the thrilling and high stakes world of card tricks. Through breath-taking stunts and street demonstrations, Drummond reveals the secrets behind advanced card play, card cheating and the dark art of card magic. This show ends with his most dangerous trick to date!
Card Shark 2013
The Alps Murders
The Alps Murders
This investigative documentary sheds light on the baffling 2012 cold-blooded slaying of a British family and local cyclist in the French Alps.
The Alps Murders 2013
The Ghosts in Our Machine
The Ghosts in Our Machine
Through the heart and photographic lens of international photographer Jo-Anne McArthur, 
we become intimately familiar with a cast of non-human animals. The film follows Jo-Anne over the course of a year as she photographs several animal stories in parts of Canada, 
the U.S. and in Europe. Each story is a window into global animal industries: 
Food, Fashion, Entertainment and Research.
The Ghosts in Our Machine 2013
Unmanned: America's Drone Wars
Unmanned: America's Drone Wars
This documentary from Brave New Foundation and director Robert Greenwald, investigates the impact of U.S. drone strikes at home and abroad through more than 70 separate interviews, including a former American drone operator who shares what he has witnessed in his own words, Pakistani families mourning loved ones and seeking legal redress, investigative journalists pursuing the truth, and top military officials warning against blowback from the loss of innocent life.
Unmanned: America's Drone Wars 2013
Marina's House
Marina's House
Andrei Tarkovsky said, “I find it hard to imagine the inner world of women, but I think it must be connected with the world of men…”
Marina's House 2013
Crafting a Nation
Freevee
Crafting a Nation
Crafting A Nation is a feature length documentary and new media project about how the American craft brewers are rebuilding the economy one craft beer at a time.
Crafting a Nation 2013
Terry Pratchett: Facing Extinction
Terry Pratchett: Facing Extinction
Best-selling author Sir Terry Pratchett, diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2007, has one last adventure he wants to go on. Eighteen years ago Terry had a life-changing experience in the jungles of Borneo, where he encountered orangutans in the wild for the first time. Now he is going back to find out what the future holds for these endangered species, and discover a new threat to their habitat that could push them to the brink of extinction. His Alzheimer's will make the trip an incredible challenge both physically and mentally, as he contemplates the role of mankind in the eradication of the planet's species, and considers his own inevitable extinction.
Terry Pratchett: Facing Extinction 2013
Meet the Insiders of 'White House Down'
Meet the Insiders of 'White House Down'
A look at some of the supporting actors/characters in 'White House Down'.
Meet the Insiders of 'White House Down' 2013
Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array
Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array
Narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Jodie Foster (star of the film "Contact," which was based on the novel by Carl Sagan and filmed at the VLA), the program depicts many of the people whose diverse efforts enable the VLA to be a cutting-edge resource for astronomers and humanity worldwide.
Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array 2013
Catching a Killer: Crocodile Tears
Catching a Killer: Crocodile Tears
An examination of the recent trend in criminal cases of the guilty parties performing crocodile tears for the police, the press, and the public.
Catching a Killer: Crocodile Tears 2013
Shakespeare's Road
Shakespeare's Road
Shakespeare's Road 2013
Fish Story
Fish Story
J and Jacky are good friends who attend the same school. J is from a single-parent family, and will be taken care by Jacky’s family whenever his mother has to return to Mainland to renew her visa; such kind of story is not an isolated case. These families have been uprooted for a “better future” in Hong Kong, but is this “future” that the children really long to have? A Chinese saying: “How does one understand the joy of fish, if one is not a fish?” Will the adults really understand what the children want?
Fish Story 2013
Perfect Strangers
Perfect Strangers
What lies beyond the art of giving and receiving? Ellie, a liberal Democrat and kind-hearted masseuse, decides she wants to share the gift of life with a stranger. Five hundred miles away, Kathy loses hope of receiving a transplant until she hears from Ellie. Over the course of four years, both women face unexpected challenges.
Perfect Strangers 2013
The Greatest Movie Ever Rolled
The Greatest Movie Ever Rolled
Comedian Doug Benson, the subject of Super High Me, is back to answer one question: What is the subject of that cult hit pot-umentary up to now? He’s got three popular podcasts, 400,000 plus Twitter followers, a series on Comedy Central, and a new comedy doc: The Greatest Movie Ever Rolled. It’s a fast paced look at life on the road for a comic with a rabid following, as he travels with his buddy - clean-livin’, wound-up karate enthusiast, Graham Elwood - on a tour to raise money to make a movie about going on tour to raise money to make a movie. Yeah, so very Spurlock of him. Doug finds fun everywhere he goes, and he’d like to share it with you.
The Greatest Movie Ever Rolled 2013
rain's jade derma
rain's jade derma
Do you know? Water constitutes 2/3 of the human body. Newborn baby – approximately 77%. Grown-up man – approximately 65%. Grown-up woman – approximately 68%. The elderly – approximately 50%.
rain's jade derma 2013
Roland Düringer - 50 Jahre ungebremst
Roland Düringer - 50 Jahre ungebremst
Roland Düringer - 50 Jahre ungebremst 2013
Sweet by Matthew Johnson
Sweet by Matthew Johnson
Illusionist and escape artist Matthew Johnson showcases a simple magic trick that can be performed with a pen and sugar packets. Instructional video made for Penguin Magic
Sweet by Matthew Johnson 2013
Blackout
Freevee
Blackout
Blackout is a short, animated documentary about the 2003 power failure in much of the eastern seaboard of the U.S and Canada for up to 4 days.
Blackout 2013
Will There Be a Theatre Up There?!
Will There Be a Theatre Up There?!
The main character of this documentary is one of Georgia's most popular actors, Kakhi Kavsadze, who walks us through this chronicle of the Kavsadzes, a family of famous Georgian folk singers and actors.
Will There Be a Theatre Up There?! 2013
Ultimate Christian Wrestling
Ultimate Christian Wrestling
Why would two New York-based filmmakers dedicate five years of their lives to following three white, Jesus-loving, spandex-clad men from the Bible Belt, particularly when the world of documentary filmmaking has generated its fair share of films concerning sensationalistic religious expression and contact sports in recent years? Because it's not about wrestling, and it's not about Jesus. Against a bizarre and entertaining backdrop, and through a motley cast of characters, we are reminded of what connects us all, lest we forget what it means to be human.
Ultimate Christian Wrestling 2013
Dance for Happiness
Dance for Happiness
It’s just the matter of different stage, why look us down?” It’s the question of Dudu and Barbie, the pole dancers. Everyone usually focuses on the gorgeous side of the pole dancer, but ignore the effort they need to pay. Not only the instable income, but the pole dancing is also high-risking. Furthermore, the society stereotypically values the job with pornography.
Dance for Happiness 2013
Réquiem NN
Prime Video
Réquiem NN
Requiem NN is a film about a ritual of resistance of the people of Puerto Berrio, Colombia, who have lived continuous cycles of violence for many decades. The recovery of the bodies from the Magdalena River, their burial, the favors people ask from the souls of the NN (NO Names), the baptizing given to this unknown corpses, is the collective ritual that has taken place for over 30 years. Juan Manuel Echavarria began photographing the graves in Puerto Berrio in November 2006 and this film is one of the results of this investigation. Written by Anonymous (IMDB)
Réquiem NN 2013
Trough, Skis, Bike
Trough, Skis, Bike
40 km of dirt road. 35 villages. 12 residents. Soon there will be no one left.
Trough, Skis, Bike 2013
The First Physicist of Russia
The First Physicist of Russia
Humanity actively uses the fruits of his discoveries in the 21st century, and the name of the scientist is little known even in his native Fatherland. The film "The First Physicist of Russia" is a fascinating and vivid story about the fate of the discoverer Alexander Grigoryevich Stoletov, whose life was short and difficult, and the trace that he left in science is like the light of a shooting star, bright and long.
The First Physicist of Russia 2013
Cantata of our land
Cantata of our land
Through five episodes, this documentary delves into the history, landscapes and dreams of Argentina. Conceived as a journey into the interior of anger and hope, the film is inspired by a text by the director himself that expresses in each sentence the meaning of each of his films and summarizes the entire spirit of his work
Cantata of our land 2013
Aya: Awakenings
Aya: Awakenings
Aya: Awakenings' is an experiential journey by journalist Rak Razam into the world and visions of ayahuasca, a powerful hallucinogenic plant medicine from the Amazon, capturing the experience and the western dynamic around it in unprecedented detail.
Aya: Awakenings 2013
Landfill Harvest
Landfill Harvest
Mandaue Landfill, The Philippines: the 50 families who call this home are the bottom of their society; the lowest of the low. But material wealth is not the only kind of riches, and where there is hope and resourcefulness there is always the chance of a better life.
Landfill Harvest 2013