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Popular Documentary Movies
Hanukkah: A Festival of Delights
The evolution of Hanukkah, including its history and how it is celebrated across America as seen in a series of interviews and historical footage.
Wish You Weren't Here: The Dark Side of Roger Waters
This is the highly acclaimed full length documentary about Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters and his controversial views against Israel, including saying Israel is worse than Nazi Germany. Waters is widely known as a leader of the BDS Movement, which aims to get artists to boycott Israel. Many prominent world leaders and musicians appear in this film, discussing Waters' contemporary antisemitism.
Angel Vianna – Voando Com os Pés no Chão
Considered one of the most influential dancers of all time, Angel Vianna marked her name in history after founding the Klauss Vianna School with her husband. Taking the lead of the project, she created her own dance style, mixing body expression with classical ballet, and soon afterwards formed a transformation to dance in a course that has postgraduate lato sensu. Today, at the age of 90, she struggles to remain active and exercise her greatest passion.
It's Been Three Years
The main character of the film, Alexander Strizhenova, became famous in talk shows and tabloid media as the daughter of a Soviet actress, Natalya Strizhenova, who grew up without a father - but this is not mentioned in the film by Rastorguev. Sasha, beaten by life, when we meet her, lives in a cluttered and untidy village house somewhere in the Moscow Region with her husband, with whom they swear dirtyly in the presence of their young son Ilya. Sasha smokes, drinks and endlessly suffers from a lack of love and from the fact that no one can understand it. Three years later, the viewer again sees her life - in another place, with another man and with a new child, but in about the same circumstances.
Forbidden History Revealed - Ep 1: The Egyptian Presence in the Americas and the Pacific Rim
For the first time in history; an eyewitness account to the fact that Egyptian artifacts and giant skeletons were taken from the Grand Canyon and stored in the secret, underground Smithsonian warehouse. This film explores the following questions: Why are the landforms in the Grand Canyon named for Egyptian deities?
Why is the DNA of giant mummies and giant skeletons, being extracted by the militaries of the world?
Was a live 21-foot giant captured in 1877, with the most unusual features ever noted?
Will the giants of yesterday become the super-soldiers of tomorrow? (Revised Edition - January 2021)
Beyond the Noise
Two surfers seek refuge in the vastness of the ocean, away from the deafening clamour of humankind. Unchained and dangerously close to freedom.
The Marvellous Defender
In the documentary about Olivér Halassy, the outstanding sports career of the legendary swimmer and water polo player is shown, and with the assistance of Olympic and Paralympic champions we also gain insight into the world of domestic water sports in the 20th and 21st century.
Metal From The Dirt
A document of the originators of the DIY Rez Metal scene, and the bands that are now carrying the torch, including I Dont Konform, Mutilated Tyrant and Born of Winter. From a generator-powered show in the Arizona desert to a band practicing in a traditional Navajo dwelling called a Hogan, this story — told by Navajo ("Diné") bands and individuals involved in the scene — explores the creation of Rez Metal in the Eighties, the juxtaposition of old and new Navajo traditions and the link between heavy metal and native pride.
Regime of the Queen
An exploration of the feline motherhood world. The lion is king, but the lioness holds the true power behind the scenes.
Abortion: Beyond the Backstreet
The struggle to pass the 1967 Abortion Act and its continued ramifications to the present day. Featuring never before broadcast interviews with women who had backstreet abortions, those in the medical profession on both sides of the debate, and the politicians and campaigners who were at the forefront of the law on illegal abortion being changed.
Ouzoum
From a window I film the isolated, seemingly unchanging valley of Ouzoum. Voices and faces emerge. They haunt this piece of land. The landscape cracks and hollows. Leaning against this mountain, I feel a sense of loss. I converse with the dead, filming those who are still here.
Booba, Des Poèmes Sans Poésie
Is Booba the latest great French poet? Yes, there is a lot of vulgarity, but also a unique pen. We explore Booba's poetic legacy through Verlaine and Baudelaire, also delving into literary giants like Céline to unravel "the puzzle of words and thoughts" in Booba's work. The analysis of his punchlines is deliberately conducted in-depth to take the time to reflect and thoroughly explore all aspects of his pen, concluding with an extensive analysis of one of his greatest works: Ma Définition.
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Frame of two overlapping images. Traffic in the city and the sunset on the mountain
Kitchen Triptych
‘A day in the life’ of the kitchens of some of Estonia’s top restaurants. What happens in the engine room of a restaurant once you’ve placed your order? This film shows us the ‘hidden places’ where diners rarely go, with all the stress and passion that goes into making great food. Who does what and where and how in an often cramped room at 35°C. When and what do chefs eat, what are their thoughts about restaurants, food, food fads and fashions, money – and life. Why do they do the job they do? Toomas Lääts, Rene Uusmees, Dimitri Demjanov, Dmitri Rooz, Märt Metsallik, Ott Tomik – six head chefs shown simultaneously on a 3-way split screen. Watch 90 minutes on screen, get four and a half hours of action!
Prima passeggiata - Tra le rondini
"It all started with a flea market and "Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire". A night storm and the cat Vadinho did the rest, leading me on the first walk."
Yeltsin
In 2013, the Springfield, Missouri band Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin traveled to Russia as Cultural Ambassadors, having been formally invited by the Boris Yeltsin Foundation (who had accidentally discovered the band while Googling the former Russian president’s name). Filmmaker Brook Linder followed and chronicled the band’s strange connection with Russian history, leading to a reflection of the band’s own past.
Illusion of Freedom: Richard H. Kline on John Frankenheimer's Birdman of Alcatraz
A first-hand account of the shooting of John Frankenheimer's The Birdman of Alcatraz by the film's camera operator, Richard H. Kline, ASC.
Hyacinthine Scar
Hyacinthine Scar condenses the undigested emotions in me while traveling from Hong Kong to my brother’s wedding in Guam. Presences and gazes of all sorts, to look and to be looked at, repetitive camera work of the hired videographers, the vow that is rehearsed over and over again by the priest, all the uncontrollable clickings of the shutter from all us (including myself), and the endless sightings of different sides of the fragmented Western Pacific. The many spots I visited appear as though they belong to passersby. They are as real as they are dreamy.
Head-to-tail
An overwhelming pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong (also described as the Occupy Movement or the Umbrella Revolution in the region) in 2014 has devastated many families in the city. A veteran journalist father, a policeman son and an activist daughter are living in a torn society of Hong Kong. The trios in the Suen family are caught off-guard by the teasing of Moerae, or the Goddess of Destiny. In philately, "tête-bêche", or head-to-tail in English, is used to referred to a pair of generic stamps which is inverted in relation to one another, either through a printing error or intentionally. The stamps are of special value only when they are unseparated. Metaphorically, "tête-bêche" can precisely reflected the portrayed family's tricky situation, that different role-plays or value judgments can lead to sparkling tension among family members, yet somehow the old saying of "blood is thicker than water" prevails.
The Greatest Painters of the World: Camille Pissarro
Thanks to his experiments with brushstrokes and impasto, Camille Pissaro came to be known as one of the fathers of Impressionism
Anya and Seryozha
Anya and Seryozha, eighteen and nineteen years old, have been close friends since school. They live in Mariupol, an industrial city in southeastern Ukraine. The film shows snapshots from the life of young people searching for who they want to be and how they want to live. They move between autonomy and uncertainty, rebellion and melancholy. They are full of imagination and willpower.
The Hidden
There are currently more people living in slavery than at any other time in human history. One such family has been enslaved in a rock quarry in southern India for 10 years-over a paltry debt of $70 USD. Indian government representatives, supported by the human rights group International Justice Mission, plot a daring raid to free the family.
Clementina
A film about the universe of Clementina de Jesus, singer revealed at the age of 63 as one of the greatest voices in the history of Samba.
Girl of the Moon
Lamia, Aya and Siham suffer from the rare disease called "Xeroderma Pigmentosum", the film shows their monotonous daily lives, how each accepts their illness differently, and how each has chosen to challenge reality.
Subutex
In the district of Bab Jdid on the capital Tunis of Tunisia a Muslim country, two marginal young men Rzouga and Fanta squat an old Hamam and live a story between romance, drugs and violence. Rzouga who was able to improve big care about Fanta but also very big violence against his thin partner. However, Rzouga decides to leave Fanta but he desists after discovering the illness of his partner (hepatitis C) when he started to vomit blood.
The Leopard Rocks
The documentary “The Leopard Rocks” accompanies Neelam, a female leopard, as she fights for the lives of her offspring, and provides a fascinating insight into the lives and adventures of one of the world's most interesting big cat species in a unique, unusual environment.
Aileen Wuornos: An American Monster
Examination of the motives behind the brutal murders committed by Aileen Wuornos, America's most notorious female serial killer. In a never-before-seen interview, she reveals intimate details of the love affair that led her to kill seven men.
YAYA
YAYA is a story about a filmmaker who explores the complex relationship between his family and the domestic worker who spent decades away from her family in the Philippines to raise his. This documentary is a tribute to all the domestic workers in Hong Kong, who has served as the backbone of Hong Kong's economy by unleashing a substantial female workforce into the economy and taken care of so many lives with love and care. You are all heroes in the hearts of the Hong Kong people. - Justin Cheung, the director
Syndebukken: Prosessen mot Harry Lindstrøm
Mads Ousdal discovers as an adult that his babysitter at one time was Norway's most hated man after a national crisis in the 1960s.
Hola, mi nombre es Oscar Lucero i les tengo una pregunta
A film about the poet Oscar Lucero during the year 2012 in La Legua.
Dyke Jails
Andrea took a drug mule trip from Argentina. She was taken directly from Barcelona airport to prison. Katia was imprisoned for two years at Martutene correctional facility in the Basque Country. Marta Dillon, journalist and feminist, visited over several years the female prisoners at the Ezeiza prison in Buenos Aires and captured their experiences in the book "Corazones Cautivos". These stories, along with those of other ex-prisoners and researchers, are part of the documentary "Cárceles Bolleras" (Dyke Jails), that pictures the reality of women behind bars and how gender inequality affects their lives there. Under these circumstances , lesbian desire becomes a form of resistance to the penitentiary institution. Through these interviews, we depict the prison universe we are unallowed to access.
Mercado
The soul of a town is in its market. San Camilo is the most emblematic of Arequipa; full of life, history and tradition, it is a clear example of Peruvian cultural identity. The characters in this feature film dance, laugh and yearn in a space that they do not want to stop being theirs.
More than Life
Freddy Grenzmann is Estonia’s last rockstar and the singer of a punk-rock band called Psychoterror. And a poet. The phenomenon of a rockstar stands outside of normality – is bigger than life. Recognizingly what we can say about Freddy, is that he is not normal – not on stage, nor in life. Freddy’s creation and life are equivalent – he puts everything out there. What makes Freddy interesting is not the social or textual play, but the ammount that he puts in. Possibility of total loss of self-control and the depth of a predictable human or metaphysical agony. This is the story of the last real rockstar and poet, his work and of a punkbands anatomy.