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Popular Documentary Movies
Alone through Iran: 1144 miles of trust
The 45-year old Swedish woman, Kristina Paltén, ran across Iran to challenge her own prejudices against a culture and people she knew little about. She felt the very human need to trust in people.
Pleasure Boys
Muscles, screaming crowds and non-stop attention. Is it ego or alter-ego that defines the 'Pleasure Boys’ strip group? Exploring the motives and sacrifices of four male strippers, this documentary challenges masculinity as a construct in the modern world.
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Black Man
A double-screen work on violence and freedom. On one screen the ‘alphabet of violence’. The second screen's function is to evoke potential, possibility, aspirations and ambitions of a future where the value of the black man in society is revitalised through a lexicon of freedom; he runs towards his freedom.
Last Song to Xenitia
Last Song to Xenitia is a story familiar to millions of immigrants. Folk-poet, Vasiliki Scotes left Greece in 1931 during the Great Depression seeking to fulfill her dreams in America! The Greeks call this "xenitia," which means: living as a stranger on foreign shores. Part of an ancient oral musical tradition, Vasiliki recites 350 ancient songs from memory in the last years of her life. These songs are published in a book and at the age of 103 she journeys to Greece for the last time with her book of songs and a message of courage for the youth... who face xenitia once again.
The Winter Garden's Tale
The short documentary film-"tesaer" (later, based on the material, the director will shoot a full-length film) is based on the fate of the Floriculture Pavilion of the former Exhibition of Achievements of the People's Economy, and its elderly employee Valentyna Voronina, who maintains this space, investing her own life into it, until suddenly changes come to her. After forty-five years of work, she is asked to retire. But Voronina does not agree with that, because she thinks that all the plants will die without her. Meanwhile, a group of mysterious radioesthesists find a channel of positive energy right in front of the entrance to the pavilion.
Nazi Killer Magic
It is the great untold story of World War Two. The role the Occult played in shaping and determining the outcome of the fight. "Nazi Killer Magic" reveals how esotericism and mysticism influenced Hitler's wartime commanders.
Les Ovnis du passé, les effroyables signes du ciel
The Lake
The Filippov family live in the north of Russia, far from civilisation. Despite the lack of modern conveniences, they live in harmony with nature, create art, support and understand each other like no other people in this world.
D'Inked: A Tattoo Removal Documentary
D'Inked is a documentary about the development of laser tattoo removal technology and how it has changed the culture of tattoos. The film follows a man named Jake on his 5-year journey through the process of removing a full color half sleeve tattoo. The film also features interviews with prominent figures in the tattoo and laser removal communities discussing the technological, physical and ethical realities of removing what has always been considered a definition of permanent.
Eu sou o Rio
A weekend in the life of Tantão, Brazilian musician and visual artist who estabilished himself as an icon to Rio de Janeiro's underground scene since the 1980s.
Guardians of the Earth
After 21 years of continuous failure in UN climate change negotiations 195 nations, 20.000 worldwide negotiators meet at a private airport shielded by the military in the north of Paris for a last attempt to save our planet.
My Son The Serial Killer
A documentary examining one of the UK's most notorious criminals, as Steve Wright's father Conrad offers his deeply personal insights into the horrific crimes his son committed. Steve Wright, dubbed the Suffolk Strangler', murdered five women who worked as prostitutes and dumped their bodies in the countryside around Ipswich in 2006, and was jailed for life in 2008. The programme also features an exclusive interview with Isabella Clennel, the mother of one of the women brutally murdered by Steve Wright, as she opens up about the impact her daughter Paula's death had - and continues to have - on her family.
Awesome Beauty: The Art of Industrial Britain
Lachlan Goudie explores Britain's industrial landscapes and the artists and artworks inspired by them in a thought-provoking journey that challenges our national stereotypes.
Nicholas Roerich. Altai-Himalayas
Film by Tatyana Borsch “Nicholas Roerich. Altai-Himalayas" (2017) talks about the Central Asian expedition of the outstanding artist, thinker and public figure Nicholas Roerich. It was the largest journey of the 20th century through the most unexplored areas of Asia. The route ran through the majestic, inaccessible mountain ranges of the Himalayas, Tibet, China, Kashmir, Mongolia and Altai. ... Altai - Himalayas.
48 Hairpin Bends by Night
The impressive and fascinating story of Giuliano Calore, 77 year-old italian cyclist who descended the Stelvio at night with no bars or brakes.
Room for a Man
A young gay filmmaker who shares a Beirut apartment with his mother and pet dog sets about reconstructing his identity by renovating his bedroom. But as the male construction workers come and go in the freshly embattled household, new questions, old arguments and unexpected passions get stirred.
MakinG of My house walk-through
Behind the scenes video of the short horror film My House Walkthrough.
Brexit Blues on Immigration Street
Marco, a free-spirited Scotsman who feels he has a great deal to say, asks random folk in the streets of Glasgow about their thoughts on Brexit.
Fire in the Heartland: Kent State, May 4, and Student Protest in America
This is the story of Kent State University students who stood up to question racism, violence against protesters, and the long American involvement in the Vietnam War. On May 4, 1970, the National Guard shot thirteen of them, killed four, and all were forever changed.
Generations of Freeskiing
Dive deep into the story of freestyle skiing, its origins, and how it continues to develop. In the fluid style of a top-to-bottom run that reaches across eras, take a thrilling ride through history.
Letters to Sweden
A portrait of a mother and daughter - one living in Sweden and the other in Somalia - who correspond by letter to one another.
Seu Biu, Meu Atlas
Mr. Biu (Seu Biu) was the last native resident of Tatuoca Island in Pernambuco (Northeast Brazil), a place now considered part of the territory controlled by the Suape Port Industrial Complex. The Suape Complex controls the region and through its #miliciasuape it has been intimidating, expelling and removing the local populations. A carpenter, Mr. Biu has fabricated tables for years; in her project made for “Convocatória para um Mobiliário Brasileiro” (“Open Call for a Brazilian Furniture”) an installation at the MASP (Art Museu of São Paulo), the artist Carla Lombardo dubbed these tables as “Gentrificada” (“Gentrified”). The movie builds a regime of visualization with technical images that invite us to think about representation and orientation in a world of data.
Illegal Job Centre
From the landlords who house migrant workers like sardines, to the white van men who exploit them, who's benefiting from the underground jobs market and what are the tragic costs?
Péripherique de Paris, les secrets d'une mégastructure
Sniper: Into the Kill Zone
Amazing feats of marksmanship are recounted by the men who pulled the trigger. Gripping accounts of the longest shots and the deadliest ambushes take us to battlefields from Vietnam, to Iraq, to the Alaskan wilderness. There is no escape for those who enter the Kill Zone.
Soul of The Cat
Most people in the world who know a domestic cat understand the wild look in their pet's eye. This film looks at those thinly veiled behaviors between domestic cats and their wild cousins and ancestors, specifically to draw those parallels and to explain to 'owners' what they are seeing when they watch their cat. There are scenes of cats leaping, landing, running up trees like leopards and all the behaviors we are used to seeing in domestic cats, but drawn exactly from their wild equivalent
Gentrified: Ethnic Cleansing American Style
The first in-depth analysis of the unspoken ethnic component behind the most devastating socio-economic movement in America today.
Memory Eternal
For 15 years, Natalia has been working in the city of Kimry, Tver region, in a workshop where she paints portraits of people on tombstones. Different people come to her. Someone orders portraits for the loved ones of the deceased, and someone-for themselves for the future...
João's House
João’s House is a renovation project for a small house located in the old part of the city of Porto, close to the Douro River. It is a traditional 19th century ground floor building with wells made with stone, and a wooden roof structure covered with tiles.
Nomadic Doctor
This documentary follows the remarkable local doctor who has been providing healthcare to nomadic families living in isolated regions of Mongolia.
My Dear Art
In the past fifteen years, the Asian art market has exploded. Chinese collectors now spend more money in auction than Americans and Brits, while a new generation of Asian artists are reshaping the world’s artistic palate. My Dear Art depicts the wonders and absurdities of the Asian art market. From China, to Singapore to London, it profiles the artists, collectors, gallerists and experts who are changing the face of the art business forever and asks fundamental questions about the value and role of art in modern society.
Guardians of the Strait
The biggest ships... The most dangerous cargoes... The narrowest sea passage through one of the world's mega-cites, Istanbul... A documentary film about the passionate men and women struggling to keep a lid on the explosive mix of shipping passing through the Bosphorus.
