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Popular Documentary Movies
Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
A documentary that focuses on the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria Braun".
Prime Video
Superfish: Bluefin Tuna
Rick Rosenthal goes on a quest that plumbs the secrets of the legendary bluefin tuna. This fish can weigh up to 1,500 pounds and can move up to 50 miles per hour. Here he catches a bluefin tuna on camera.
Only the Young
Kevin and Garrison are boyhood friends in a sleepy California suburb. They share a love of skateboarding, an evangelical Christian faith and a sense of confusion about romantic relationships.
Mama Illegal
They gave the smugglers all their money and risk their life on their journey across borders: Three women from a small town in Moldavia, living now in Austria as cleaning women. On top of their hard job they live a life in illegality without documents, far away from their children and family for years.
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
The life and work of master Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli (1915-2010).
Encounter in Space
"Cosmic Encounters" relates one of mankind's oldest dreams: to leave our planet behind and explore outer space - a dream that still fires the imagination of countless human beings to this day. "Encounter in Outer Space" takes the viewer on a journey into the fascinating world of space travel, with images of breathtaking beauty.
Space Junk 3D
50 years after launching our dreams into space, we’re left with a troubling legacy: a growing ring of orbiting debris that threatens the safety of earth’s orbits. SPACE JUNK is a visually explosive journey of discovery that weighs the solutions aimed at restoring our planet’s orbits. Experience mind-boggling collisions, both natural and man-made. Soar for the stunning depths of Meteor Crater to an unprecedented view of our increasingly crowded orbits – 22,000 miles above earth. Join us as foremost expert Don Kessler, the “Father of Space Junk,” guides us through the challenges we face in protecting them, forging a new age of space discovery.
Meaning of Robots
This short film profiles the benevolent Mike Sullivan, who has been in the process of shooting a stop-motion robot sex film in his New York City apartment for the last ten years. Obsessed with the meticulous construction of the miniature robot porn stars, his apartment now overflows with thousands, leaving him only tiny paths to navigate and no place to film his epic.
For You Naked
The main character of Swedish director Sara Broos’s documentary is her godfather and close family friend Lars Lerin, one of Scandinavia’s most highly regarded modern painters. After a complicated period during which the extravagant artist pushed back waves of anxiety by overindulging in alcohol and pills (ultimately entering an abuse program), he focused on finding the love of his life. Via the internet he becomes intrigued by a young Brazilian dancer named Manoel, who flies to Sweden to see him. But due to the language barrier, age difference, and the Swedish artist’s frequent doubts, their relationship doesn’t appear very hopeful. This sensitive record of an untraditional love story takes the viewer through all the ups and downs of a relationship between two people from entirely different backgrounds for whom the tired old cliché of love moving mountains acquires absolute currency.
Breathing Earth - Susumu Shingu's Dream
Documentary on the work of a Japanese artist and his hopes of creating a wind powered community.
The Shadow Knows
This exhaustive documentary covers the history and legacy of Walter B. Gibson's character, The Shadow, from the pulps to radio and beyond.
La bisabuela tiene Alzheimer
A meeting between the daughter and the grandmother of the director, Iván Mora Manzano, at a time when the memories of one, the girl’s, were taking shape, and the other’s the grandmother’s, were vanishing. This starting point is used as a pretext to talk about other topics such as the importance of family memories and the search for memory.
I Am Street Fighter
For one of the longest-running game franchises in history, Street Fighter creators Capcom needed something exceedingly special to accompany the release of their 25th anniversary edition of the game. AREA 5 produced, shot, edited, and finished a documentary that spans three countries, more than two decades, and tells the story of how a game not only birthed an entire genre, but changed the lives of a generation.
When Bubbles Burst
It is becoming increasingly difficult to protect ourselves from extreme financial volatility. This feature documentary will examine the mechanics behind bubbles and crashes, and discuss trends and visions for the future.
DGK: Parental Advisory
Follow the DGK team and a group of young skaters as they make their way through one of the most dirty ghetto days imaginable. Filled with twist and turns, celebrity cameos, and amazing skateboarding; Parental Advisory not only showcases the DGK crew and lifestyle, but also gives a glimpse into what goes on inside the mind of a real dirty ghetto kid - parents beware!
Driving to the Edge
Between 2007 and 2011, 725 Quebecers aged 16 to 24 were killed in car accidents. Excessive speed and alcohol were involved in half of these deaths. To try to understand what is going on in these young drivers' heads when they get behind the wheel, host and documentary filmmaker Paul Arcand met with some of them. On one hand, he gives a voice to these young people who love driving fast. On the other hand, he provides a forum for two accident victims who were injured both physically and psychologically. Finally, the director meets the mother of little Bianca Leduc, who was killed by a drunk driver while she was in the care of her babysitter, and the parents of Michael Borduas, 23, who is severely disabled from an accident.
Great Barrier Reef - Nature's Miracle
Three-part series exploring Australia's Great Barrier Reef, one of the natural wonders of the world and the largest living structure on our planet. Monty Halls explores its full 2000-kilometre length, from the wild outer reefs of the Coral Sea to the tangled mangrove and steaming rainforest on the shoreline; from large mountainous islands to tiny coral cays barely above sea level; from the dark depths of the abyss beyond the reef to colourful coral gardens of the shallows.
Coast Modern
A core group of architects embraced the West Coast from Vancouver to LA with its particular geography and values and left behind a legacy of inspired dwellings. Today, architects celebrate the influence established by their predecessors.
Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992
Audre Lorde, the highly influential, award-winning African-American lesbian poet came to live in West-Berlin in the 80s and early '90s. She was the mentor and catalyst who helped ignite the Afro-German movement while she challenged white women to acknowledge and constructively use their privileges. With her active support a whole generation of writers and poets for the first time gave voice to their unique experience as people of color in Germany. This documentary contains previously unreleased audiovisual material from director Dagmar Schultz's archives including stunning images of Audre Lorde off stage. With testimony from Lorde's colleagues and friends the film documents Lorde's lasting legacy in Germany and the impact of her work and personality.
The Ephemerol Diaries: An Interview with Stephen Lack
Stephen Lack talks about playing the lead in David Cronenberg's 1981 sci-fi/horror cult classic SCANNERS.
Few Words
Few Words is the story of a modern skiing pioneer, who became one of the most successful and talented freestyle skiers in the world, Candide Thovex.
Prime Video
Iron Maiden: Behind the Beast
A fascinating, high quality “home movie”, produced entirely in-house by Maiden’s own Krew led by Andy Matthews, it reveals how to put on an Iron Maiden tour and what goes on behind the scenes at a show. It describes the extraordinary story of one of the most acclaimed and ambitious touring shows in the world, illustrating the day to day life and complex tasks of the Maiden Killer Krew and the other characters behind the scenes.
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
The film explores societal inequality through subversive imagery, examining the bleak consumerist landscape and its transition between industrial and organic spaces.
In the Usual Manner
In the evocative film shown here, Barret Oliver brings his darkroom and gear to the Huntington Library to produce hauntingly beautiful work 'in the usual manner' of the nineteenth-century photographer.
Notorious Women of the Bible
The Women In The Bible Have Always Been Portrayed As The Downfall Of Their Male Counterparts Eve Makes Adam Eat The Apple Delilah Cuts Samsons Hair But What Does The Text Really Say About These Women This Film Investigates The Historical Geographical Cultural And Theological Context Of Their Stories In A Patriarchal Society They Took Risks And Challenged The Social Order They Continue To Inspire Poets Theologians And Artists Today
Filmrestaurierung der Orient-Filme
Featurette about the restauration of Der Schut and Durchs Wilde Kurdistan
Making of Karl May's Orient-Filme
Featurette about the filming of Durchs wilde Kurdistan and Der Schut
We Returned to Our Homeland
Borisoglebsk. 20 years ago, Russian refugees and "forced migrants" rushed here from the former Soviet republics to escape the interethnic massacre. Did they manage to become their own in their historical homeland? And isn't Russia on the brink of an inter-ethnic war today?
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Hard Copy
This is a mock episode of the 80's-90's era tabloid show was created as part of the film's Internet promotion.
Bulb Fiction
Let's save energy, whatever the cost. The European Commission in Brussels banned incandescent light bulbs and forced all EU citizens to buy compact fluorescent lamps containing mercury. The documentary BULB FICTION shows, why these measures marketed as "win, win, win"-situation by the industry, public policy officials and NGOs turned out to be expensive, a health hazard and questionable for citizens.
A Behind The Scenes Featurette
A behind the scenes featurette included in the Adventure Time Season 1 DVD.
Fragments of Kubelka
This epic documentary subtly introduces the complex worldview of iconic filmmaker and theoretician Peter Kubelka (born 1934, Vienna). While Kubelka’s radical and pioneering body of films is a highly condensed work of about an hour, focusing on the essence of cinema, his legendary lectures often unfold over many hours. These lectures on “what is cinema” and “cooking as an art form” are frequently illuminated by presentation of archaeological artefacts from Kubelka’s eclectic collection. He considers his ongoing collecting to be an expanded film practice which explores the evolution of humanity.
Martina Kudláček has carefully woven an open-ended portrait which goes beyond the biographical to reveal fresh insights into the phenomenon of film.
In Organic We Trust
What’s “organic” really? Are people better off eating organic foods? Are organic farms better for the environment? This film looks into the organic food industry and explore its shortcomings. We will explore cost, access, and health. Most importantly, it will examine paths towards a truly organic, self-sustaining agriculture system with local farmer’s markets, urban farmers, and school gardens inspiring new solutions.
Pela Desordem Natural das Coisas
A deep dive into the life and work of Brazilian actress Maria Alice Vergueiro. The documentary explores her turbulent beginning in the theatrical world, highlighting her strength and courage during the Military dictatorship in Brazil, which culminated in the foundation of the Teatro do Ornitorrinco.
Beyond Euro
"Beyond Euro" is the result of collective work of the youth creative laboratory. His idea can probably be defined as an attempt to impersonate the crowd. The ability to see, to distinguish a human face from a crowd that seems faceless, cohesive on a sporting, political, or any other basis. And tell me about it. That's probably the point. Both the Almanac and the laboratory. How successful this experiment is will be judged by the audience. In any case, it took place. And here is a series of attentive, thoughtful, concerned or ironic, but always caring and independent views of young authors on the reality that surrounds them. To see a separate human face in a crowd also means to keep your own. In any crowd... which is thus personified and gets a chance to turn into a society. The thought is not new, but it needs to be reminded.
Wild Poland
Huge wandering dunes on the Baltic, thousands of lakes in the dream landscape of Masuria, gigantic river systems of Biebrza and Narew, mystical primeval forests and the rugged crags of the Southern mountains: all of this is Poland. No other country in Europe has more square kilometres of national parks.
Saxon Hoard: A Golden Discovery
In 2009 metal-detecting enthusiast Terry Herbert discovered the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon treasure in the UK. Dan Snow travels across the old Kingdom of Mercia to unravel the secrets of the Staffordshire Hoard.
Of Two Minds
Of Two Minds explores the extraordinary lives, struggles and successes of three unique and compelling people living with bipolar disorder in America today. Through a combination of intimate verité and revealing interviews, we experience what it feels like to be bipolar - from exquisite feelings of grandiosity and sensuality to the depths of despair and depression. A journey from the painful to the painfully funny, Of Two Minds puts a human face on the illness, opening an engaging, harrowing and perception-changing view on those all around us who live in bipolar's shadows...our sisters and brothers, parents and friends, and ourselves.
Climbed Every Mountain: The Story Behind the Sound of Music
The Sound of Music is one of the most enduringly popular films ever made, yet behind it lays an even more astonishing family story. Sue Perkins travels to Salzburg, Ellis Island and Vermont to discover how the family made a living in America as the Trapp Family Singers and they eventually bought an estate in Vermont which looks uncannily like Austria. She also discovers that the ultimate feel good story has dark undertones, is disliked by Austrians, and witnesses the first ever performance of the musical in Salzburg itself.