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Popular Documentary Movies
The Whole and the Parts
In a hidden workshop, surrounded by water and vegetation, a group of craftspeople live together with the statues they restore, silent spectators of a discreet battle against the inclemency of time and oblivion.
Karuara, People of the River
Facing cultural genocide, a group of Indigenous women from Peru file a groundbreaking lawsuit demanding the government recognize the Marañón River, which flows into the Amazon, as a person with rights in order to protect the world of powerful spirits led by the Karuara (people of the river).
A Portrait of Sufyan
A Portrait of Sufyan is a five-episode documentary about the life and art of Kurdish artist Sufyan Jalal. especially about the Tasan Artwork Project. the film took 4 years to shoot.
Nasrin's Voice
Kurdish child bride Nasrin becomes independent in Finland against her husband’s will. The punishment is harsh. But Nasrin doesn’t give up. She wants to win the battle for her rights.
Urban Cracks
The documentary began as an observational documentary of the urban landscape, but soon this changed and was influenced by the people "in" it. For this reason, there follows a group of students who set up a film festival at the premises of the A,U,Th and PAMAK with the aim of open universities and free and accessible film screenings on the premises of the universities. Strangers who became friends because they shared a great love for cinema and the will to make the world a better place, one film at a time!
Where Olive Trees Weep
Where Olive Trees Weep offers a searing window into the struggles and resilience of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. It explores themes of loss, trauma, and the quest for justice.
Serão
Between the arduous secular practice of manual lime extraction and the new promise of entrepreneurship offered by the textile industry, a family of Cariri (Paraíba) remains hostage to an endless working day.
Cats Dreaming in a Foreign Place
While documenting the streets of Al-Muhammadiyyah in Jeddah, a Filipino expat unexpectedly unveiled his relationship with the place and his peculiar kinship with the community cats in the neighborhood.
Hazardous Journey - The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
July 1969. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are 240,000 miles from earth facing the most hazardous venture in the history of space flight; the first human landing on another world. They'll succeed, abort, or die in the attempt.
142 Years
In Greek prisons, thousands of refugees and migrants are convicted as traffickers. Rescuer Jason Apostolopoulos takes part in an international endeavor to save three innocent people. The first has been sentenced to 142 years in prison and the other two to 50. In a courtroom drama that lasts over a year, will their fight for justice and freedom pay off?
Untitled #9: Nor All Flowers of Foul
Coleridge's flower in the garden of the paths that fork from Borges. Paper and film flowers; fossil flowers. "Panorama of all the flowers of speech" (Joyce), a "flower full of the real, of the current" (Wallace Stevens).
8/1 – A Democracia Resiste
Unpublished images and exclusive testimonies from the main figures in power who tell how they faced the coup threat of January 8, 2023, a recent trauma in the country's history and revealing something that still remains hidden.
Illusion of Abundance
Begun in 2022, Illusion of Abundance (IOA) is a grassroots racial, social and climate justice project. It exposes a climate and culture in crisis due to the declining Great Salt Lake. IOA illuminates the historical erasure of the natural world and indigenous knowledge systems that hold innovative and necessary concepts available for saving our climate holistically. Through dance, prose, intertribal interviews and song, research, and stunning cinematography of Utah’s waterways and the nature it supports, IOA immerses you in the possibility of positive change and building paradigms to include underrepresented voices in stewardship, artistry and decision making around natural resources, land use, and climate.
Trailblazers
The fight for equality by Australia's female footballers. From early days of paying-to-play, to sold-out stadiums watched by over 11 million at the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, the largest recorded viewership in Australian TV History.
Landscape of our Body
As queer trans and gender non-conforming children of the Vietnamese diaspora, we are fragmented at the crossroads of being displaced from not only a sense of belonging to our ancestral land, but also our own bodies which are conditioned by society to stray away from our most authentic existence. Yet these bodies of ours are the vessels we sail to embark on a lifetime voyage of return to our original selves. It is our bodies that navigate the treacherous tides of normative systems that impose themselves on our very being. And it is our bodies that act as community lighthouses for collective liberation. Ultimately, the landscape of our bodies is our blueprint to remembering, to healing, to blooming.
How I Trafficked $5 Million Worth of Cocaine | Posh Pete’s Full Story
"Former cocaine smuggler Pieter Tritton returns for a second interview with Business Insider about his experience trafficking drugs from South America to the United Kingdom. Tritton says he started selling cocaine in the illegal rave scene in the UK in the 2000s. He then established a cartel connection and began importing cocaine to Europe in larger quantities. Tritton was arrested in Ecuador and served 10 years in prison there, first in Garcia Moreno in Quito, and later in Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, which is one of the world's most violent and corrupt prisons. "He now works as a public speaker on the dangers of drugs, consults with the UK police force, and is writing a follow-up to his 2017 memoir, 'El Infierno: Drugs, Gangs, Riots and Murder: My time inside Ecuador's toughest prisons.'"
Big Gay Wedding with Tom Allen
Celebrating the tenth anniversary of same-sex marriage in England and Wales, Tom Allen explores the fight for equal marriage and arranges a dream wedding for one lucky couple.
Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things
"What causes Delusion? The prevailing view is that people adopt false beliefs because they’re too stupid or ignorant to grasp the truth. But just as often, the opposite is true: many delusions prey not on dim minds but on bright ones. And this has serious implications for education, society, and you personally."
Die Macht der Musik - 200 Jahre Beethovens Neunte
The Boys: The Real Story
The Boy's Word: a true story about Kazan street gangs of the late 1980s
The River of Partition
Habibur Rahman’s The River of Partition (Ichamati, 2023) documents this riverine environment, the diverse communities that live around it, and the socio-historical role played by the river in the wake of the partition of India in 1947 and the creation of Bangladesh in 1971.
A Bloody Long Run
In 1864 the mass murdering pastoralist Angus McMillan cut an ambitious 220km path through the mountains between two remote gold mining towns in the heart of Victoria, Australia. 120 years later a group of bushwalkers stitched the trail back together. When Beau Miles found out about the track he decided to run it, thinking ‘gee, this track has a story to tell’! Running 73 km a day for three days over steep, often unmarked terrain, and having grown up thinking McMillan was a colonial hero, there was a lot of terrain, and thinking, to be absorbed. He’d finally embarked on a running adventure that wasn’t just about running.
The Ecuadorian Candidate
An intimate chronicling of Andrés Arauz, a young leftist economist, as he embarks on a journey to become the next President of Ecuador. A gripping documentary that explores the high-stakes world of Latin American politics.
The Pilgrimage of Gilbert & George
From their iconic house and studio in London’s Brick Lane, Gilbert & George have been at the forefront of British art for over half a century. Their unmistakable art is stark, urban, poetic, profoundly romantic, brutally realistic, and wholly visionary. It has captivated mainstream audiences around the globe. By unpacking their long and literal walk through life – repeatedly likened to a Pilgrimage – substantially with their voices, and few other commentators, the film offers a rare, deep, and captivating insight into their personal philosophy.
Maurice Tourneur: Weaver of Dreams
Franco-American film pioneer Maurice Tourneur is a forgotten name in cinema history. This film traces the incredible journey of this crucial innovator from Paris to Hollywood. He inspired many of his peers and was also a mentor to some great filmmakers, including his son Jacques. Using previously unseen home movies, this film reveals the private man as well as the inspired artist whose career spanned four decades and two world wars.
La Frontera
Iliana Sosa examines how "nepantla," an embrace of in-betweenness, characterizes relations to both her Mexican heritage and her hometown of El Paso, Texas.
Between Krutxaltea and Urona
Between the springs of Krutxaltea and Urona in the Navarrese Pyrenees lies Uztarroz, a village where, until recently, three films had been shot. However, in all of them the town was nothing more than a scenic prop... Until now.
Después de un buen día
This is the story of a successful family of artists and an unlikely blended family, told through what for some is the worst Argentine film in history and for others, an object of devotion.
Everything Needs to Live
Anna loved animals from an early age - she taught biology at school and worked at the zoo. As a woman, she quickly realized that she had to be strong, also physically. Thus, at the age of 40, she began her career as a powerlifter and soon became a multiple world champion and the strongest woman in the world. Using the power of social media, she campaigned for animal rights, established shelters, and looked for new families for dozens of stray dogs and cats. When Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, Anna rushed to help injured and abandoned animals.
Making Nico
The director of photography and the still photographer of a university production combine their work and visions to document Nico's behind-the-scenes, following the difficulties faced in the recordings and the collective work developed by the team.