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Popular Documentary Movies
The Knowledge: The World's Toughest Taxi Test
A documentary going behind the scenes of one of the hardest exams in the world, the test that all black cabbies must take: The Knowledge of London. For the first time, a fixed camera rig has been allowed inside the gruelling, nerve-wracking oral exams or ‘appearances’ for which candidates known as ‘Knowledge Boys or Girls’ must pass to show they have the necessary expertise. To pass this legendary exam candidates must memorize and be able to recall the capital’s 25,000 + streets, 100,000 points of interest and how they all fit together. The film follows the surprising range of characters who are each at various stages of the process, including a single mum, Kosovan immigrant and a bus driver. It takes an average of four years to pass The Knowledge and with a 70% drop out rate any candidate needs a dogged determination to pass and join the ranks of the world’s most elite taxi service.
Livet Enligt Loreen
For two years, Bengt Norborg, reporter at SVT News, everyday followed the singer and songwriter Lorine Zineb Nora "Loreen" Talhaoui. The two met for the first time in 2013 in Afghanistan, got good contact and a year later the decision was made to make this documentary. In the film we will come home to Loreen's mother Choumicha in Västerĺs, but also to the family home in Morocco, where she among other things meets her uncles. The film contains several deep interviews with Loreen, which gives a more composite picture of what she wants with her life the time after the Melodifestivalen and the Eurovision Song Contest.
The Devil's Hour
The Devil's Hour is a short horror film with one character and one location: Grace finds herself awakened by an uninvited visitor.
The Fatherland’s Smoke
The film tells the story of the actress from Kirov, Olga Bulycheva, who left for Amsterdam at the beginning of the 90’s.
La lucarne des rêves
This initiatory voyage through the land of 'musique concrète' has two important protagonists as our guides: Bernard Parmegiani and Lionel Marchetti. It's also a history of encounters and transmissions between generations. The film’s ambition is to transform our perception of the sounds of the world and incite us to think of them as music. Sounds surround and shape us even when we don’t pay attention to them. By recording them, we can appropriate them.
Severe
This story is about the Russian North. The research undertaken by the author began with the villages in the Arkhangelsk region, near the White Sea, where his family came from and where he spent his childhood. A large part of the villages are remote from the cities and often have no connection with them, except for air transport...
Rester vivants
A documentary film following events after the Egyptian revolution of 2011.
America's Badlands
Enter the harsh world of the Badlands and discover the oasis within, brimming with charismatic animals.
Elegy for a Working Man
A study into Town End Farm Working Men's Club in Sunderland, England. Like all working men's clubs, Town End Farm has struggled in the past decade to compete with the smoking ban, cheap supermarket alcohol and changing cultural attitudes. The film will be look at the reasons the club is in the position it's in, and how the club has shaped its member's lives.
Ultimate Rivals: Cats vs Dogs
Deadly showdowns in the wilds of Southern Africa between big cats like lions, cheetahs and leopards, and jackals, wild dogs and hyenas.
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On April 6, 2006, Halit Yozgat was murdered by the National Socialist Underground at an Internet café in Kassel. State intelligence officer Andreas Temme was in the café around the same time. An architectural dissection of his police statement.
A Letter to Claudette Colvin
A short film entitled "A Letter To Claudette Colvin", written and directed by Victoria Wilson bringing awareness to Colvin's involvement in the Montgomery Bus Boycott which ignited due to her refusal on March 2, 1955.
An Italian Indian: The Pink Panther Princess With Claudia Cardinale
Claudia Cardinale offers her reflections on her acting role and American debut in "The Pink Panther"
Who Killed Angie Dodge? Keith Morrison Investigates
Keith Morrison investigates Angie Dodge's 1996 murder and the controversial confession and conviction of Chris Tapp. When the victim's mother becomes convinced Tapp falsely confessed, she launches a crusade to free him and find her daughter's killer.
Das Gift der Mafia: Und das europäische Gesetz des Schweigens
The Ties That Bind
An unexpected revelation within a Southern family prompts their poignant conspiracy of love and courageous journey of transformation. An unflinching portrait filmed for over twelve years.
Al-‘Awdah li Agadir
Al-'Awdah li Agadir (1967) films the reconstruction of Agadir after the earthquake that almost destroyed the entire city and is akin to a modernist constructivist moving image tableau.
Manfei
A pioneer in Taiwan’s contemporary dance scene, Lo Man-fei receives a beautiful tribute from director En Chen, a decade after her passing. Three years in the making, Manfei traces the life and work of the dance legend, including her early days at the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, her studies at New York’s most prestigious dance schools, and the founding of her Taipei Crossover Dance Company. Featuring rare footage of Lo’s graceful performances as well as candid conversations with her closest friends and collaborators, Manfei is a stirring journey into the heart of a true artist and a moving remembrance for a dearly missed member of the Taiwan art world.
The Secret Weapon That Won World War II
Discover how a small Florida town called Boca Raton was the site of a top-secret military project during World War II. Thousands of airmen were tasked with learning the ins and outs of an emerging technology known as airborne radar. See how this tiny device turned the tide of World War II for Allied forces.
The Expansions
The present, past and future of the conquest of the city known as Buenos Aires.
Dead On Arrival: The Punk Documentary That Almost Never Was
An in-depth look at the auspicious production of D.O.A. A Rite of Passage, the documentary funded by High Times founder Tom Forcade in which guerrilla filming methods captured the first (and only) U.S. tour of the notorious Sex Pistols.
Europe's Last Wilderness
A land of myriad climates and terrains, within whose boundaries lie some of the most complex and beautiful habitats on the planet. A continent whose limits stretch from northern realms of ice and snow to arid Mediterranean shores. A world shaped by the seasons, that gives life to wildlife as rich and vibrant as anywhere on the planet. This is Europe; wild and thriving.
Beauty/Girl Dictionary Mei Shiraishi
The first DVD work. Mei Shiraishi challenged the young lady university with a tiny bikini and a bold pose that I can't think of as her debut. The clear white skin turns slightly flushed for shame every time you take off your clothes. More beautiful ... more sexy, Mei-chan did her best for you!
Doomed by the Wind
In order to fly only a few tens of seconds, these people are ready to climb the mountain for hours. And they think their efforts are worth it. Wingsuit, a wing of a special design, allows you to plunge into the world of complete freedom for at least a short time, to feel like birds. Base jumping also gives a slightly less thrill – this is what skydiving from fixed objects is called. However, this freedom is deceptive, and sometimes its price is prohibitively high.
Day of Unpaid Work
A picture of rebellion. About those who want to be or at least appear to be rebels.
13 Kilometers
The film is about how a blind man goes from wintering to the village. On the way, he remembers the most significant episodes from his life. The road to the village becomes an allegory of a person's wandering in search of a goal. The simple values of life are laid bare before us…
Isis: The Origins of Violence
Historian Tom Holland traces the origins of Isis’ barbaric and sadistic violence which it claims is justified by the tenets and scriptures of Islam.
São Paulo: Three Visual Essays
São Paulo: Three Visual Essays redeems key characters of the city, with photographs taken in 1862, such as the ones by Militão Augusto de Azevedo, then onwards through the 20th century, with shots by Alice Brill, and finally through the 21st century, with pictures by Mauro Restiffe, among others. The visual communication of the city is presented since the painted walls of the 19th century to its neon lights and billboards by the 20th and 21st centuries. It also accompanies the grand transformations the city has gone through. Within the course of a hundred years, São Paulo, which started out as a village, transformed into one of the world's greatest metropolis.
Making a Macaron
Join Mines N Crafts trio Stef Woodburn, Gina DeVivo, and Amy Dallen as they head to Honey and Butter in Irvine, California to investigate the secrets of les macarons.
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Superguns of WWII
The English Channel during WWII was a strategic passageway separating two major enemies: Great Britain and Germany. Whoever controlled the Channel controlled the passage of warships and commercial vessels—basically, all weapons supplies. Particularly important was the Dover Strait, the narrowest part of the Channel, where enemy encounters were more than likely, so the entire area had to be protected by powerful bunker cannons. In 1942, the Germans quickly built sixteen giant coastal artillery batteries along the French coast. The precision and force of some of them meant they could wipe out any English vessel at sea, and even reach the British coast. Churchill, in a panic over the power of these guns, in turn ordered the building of six batteries atop the cliffs of Dover. A previously unseen page out of history tells of these superguns—whose formidable firepower made them invaluable throughout the war—standing guard on both sides of the Dover Strait.
Jewish American Soldiers: Stories from WWII
A documentary focusing on the life stories of Jewish American World War II veterans. The film explores their unique experiences of being Jewish soldiers during a time of extreme anti-Semitism both abroad, and in America.