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Popular Documentary Movies
Police on Trial
FRONTLINE and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters from local journalism partner Star Tribune examine one of the most pivotal events in the history of race and policing in America.
O País da Pornochanchada
The son of a filmmaker from the 1960s and 1970s searches for his father's latest unreleased work. In this search, he retells the history of pornochanchada and presents a look at cinema and Brazil.
Purr
A queer college student pursues dancing despite the challenging life in the Philippines.
back home
In 1999, 11-year-old Nisha Platzer lost her older brother, Josh, to suicide. Twenty years later, her search for a specialized medical treatment leads her to the door of someone who was once exceptionally close to Josh. And so it is that she finally has the chance to truly know her brother through his chosen family. Captured over five years in which synchronicities continually manifested, Platzer’s documentation of these encounters gently asserts that both grieving and healing are meant to be communal experiences.
Mahatah - Side Stories from Main Stations
Railway stations are like islands, suspended between space and time. In the heat of Cairo, keeping calm helps, in Zurich, air conditioning or dancing. In both places, people are passionately living out their lives at the train station, their little cosmos. Episode by episode, the film consolidates into the collective rhythm of everyday life, uncovering stories from two countries whose shared poetry develops into universal human energy.
VeggieTales: Behind the Scenes
See how the VeggieTales episodes are made! Plus, hear the heart and purpose of VeggieTales from the creators, Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki, as they sit down for an entertaining conversation with Matt and Laurie Crouch.
As Leaves in the Wind
"As leaves in the wind" is the story of two transgender women who migrate from their home countries seeking asylum and opportunities in a new continent. Their lives go through structural changes when they meet and take part in a new support network. Made by them for them.
Maradona: The Fall
One of world football's biggest names is the focus of a new documentary on DAZN. When it comes to discussing who are the greatest players to ever lace up a pair of boots, Diego Maradona is one of those names which is immediately placed towards the top of many lists. The Argentine was a player whose light feet and personality saw him gain many fans across the world, along with a religious-like following in Argentina. But despite his success on the pitch which included a World Cup triumph and two Serie A titles with Napoli, Maradona was someone who often found himself associated with the darker sides of society off it. During his time at Napoli, there were frequent links to the mafia, along with an addiction to drugs. This all came to a head at the 1994 World Cup in the USA when Maradona testsed positive ephedrine. The fallout from this seismic event is the focus of a new documentary
10 til 2
In the modern world where fast food giants dominate the industry having seemingly crushed almost all the local competition. Why does the humble old British staple of the café/sandwich bar still thrive? what is their secret to getting their customers to come back with ketchup covered fingers desperate for more? This documentary goes in to explore and find out more...
Fall
In Orpheus (FID 2021), Vadim Kostrov returned as a young man to the industrial city of his youth, Nijni Taguil, in the Urals. A year later, we’re back in the same city, but in a different timeframe. Little Vadim, ten years old, carries a satchel and wears a yellow cap. The grown-up Vadim follows him as he wanders from shot to shot, day and night, in the changing light of early autumn. With zooms, overprints, velvety DV and variations of points of view, Kostrov works on forms and colours like a solitary painter. The child guides the filmmaker he’s become through the density of time. Leaves and steel merge into the same rusty colour. Although the Soviet tank, a monument to the glory of local industry, is just another game for the schoolboy astride its gun, the young, melancholic filmmaker has no need to comment on it to set darker, more painful harmonies onto the image. (Cyril Neyrat)
Highs and Lows: Living with Diabetes
An overview of living with diabetes with interviews and recreations
Contracampos
Contracampos is the attempt to (re)build a landscape. A recreational area and a shooting range in the west of Asturies, which, between 1937 and 1943, housed a Francoist concentration camp through which thousands of Republicans passed – firstly militiamen, later guerrillas and their relatives. Sharing a leisurely observation with the viewer, the film intends to resignify that space, giving it back its political meaning. But it is not a question of showing –of filming– the invisible, but rather of showing what is missing in what exists today. What was and is no longer, not even in people's memories.
The Future Tense
Staged as a series of voiceover sessions, written with gloriously off-balanced precision and dipped in the color green, THE FUTURE TENSE unfolds as a poignant tale of tales, exploring the filmmakers’ own experiences in aging, parenting, mental illness, along with the brutal history that lies submerged beneath Ireland’s heavy, moist earth.
They Are Outside the Door
This is the story that happened two days before and after my cousin's wedding. Because the Taoist said my zodiac was bad and would bring bad luck to the wedding, I had to stay alone in a room. The door of that room became the only channel for me to communicate with the outside world at that time. The people and things you can see are also the whole world I can see. (Zonghua Li)
Love Infinity - When The Sun Goes Quiet
Oscar-winning artist and costume designer for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Tim Yip turns his lens on a dream of East London, bringing together iconic artists like Gilbert and George, Vivienne Westwood, Jonny Woo, Pandemonia, Andrew Logan, and Daniel Lismore.
Bad Hombrewood
For decades, the film industry has confined minorities to stereotypical characters. Now, filmmakers fight to change the Latinx role in Hollywood.
Donatello: Renaissance Genius
Portrait of the Italian sculptor Donatello (1386-1466), a precursor of the High Renaissance who considerably influenced sculptural art with his innovative way of conceiving space. Donatello is already a legend in his own lifetime. The sculptor is the forefather of the High Renaissance and pioneer for artists such as Raphael or Michelangelo. His bronze sculpture of the "David" or the "Pazzi Madonna" in marble are icons of art history and testify to his sculptural power of renewal.
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The Secret History of the Civil War
Looking at the birth of America's first intelligence units, set in motion in by President Lincoln himself in the early days of the war; exploring a spy who broke the boundaries of gender and race.
Stronger by Stress
When conventional medicine is struggling to keep up with ever increasing stress levels in populations biohackers show us their holistic approach to life which not only increases their resilience against the stress, but also helps them to perform on higher level.
The Eden of La Ciotat
To give creativity free reign, in the space of fifty minutes: this is the strength of the documentary series Cinémas mythiques. This episode gives the critic Alain Bergala complete freedom to commemorate the original Éden de La Ciotat cinema. The oldest continuously operating cinema in the world first opened as a theatre in 1889, but the very same year it also hosted its first commercial film screening, comprised of nineteen Lumière “views”. Threatened with closure in the 1980s, the cinema was reopened in 2013 after a restoration project. This luminous documentary accompanies Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne over the course of a few days in October 2021 as they walk through the Teatro Éden, the shipyard and the Palais Lumière built by Antoine Lumière, the father of Auguste and Louis. And it does not forget the legendary station from L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat.
Bend It Like Beckham: 20 Years On
20 years on, BBC Sport's Miriam Walker-Khan looks at the impact Bend It Like Beckham had on audiences, its legacy in the world of sport and how its humour and characters still make it relatable today.
Goodbye Lady Di
She was once the most loved member of the royal family. Expelled from her fairytale lifestyle, the tragic end of Princess Diana, Queen of hearts, stunned the world. Although she has left us, she has not been forgotten.
The Tone Wheels
Ubay a Dangdut musician and owner of a traveling Dangdut cart group in Lenteng Agung of South Jakarta. Together with his wife and dangdut cart member, he wanted to be able to record their songs. A long-held desire and must be realized before their age is getting older. Didiet (53 years) is Ubay’s old friend who is willing to help them to realize their dreams, even though he has only a simple recording device and an old computer. The process of recording was not entirely as well as they expected, many obstacles they faced. But in the name of Dangdut they don’t give up. Their great passion for dangdut music is the main reason for facing it all.
Dead Girls Rock: Looking Back at Dead Girls
A making-of documentary with the cast and crew for the 1990 film Dead Girls.
Conciergerie, Sainte-Chapelle - Mégastructures au coeur de Paris
The Silence of the Banana Trees
A father finds refuge in memories created together with his daughter, who has been stricken with an illness. She has decided to keep her distance from him and they have not spoken for years. The film encourages her to reconsider her decision.
Pharaohs Of The Two Lands
Examines the history of the African kings from Kush who conquered Egypt and ruled over it for 1500 years through an exhibition at the Louvre.
Tales of the Purple House
From their 'Purple House' in the South of Lebanon, French-Iraqi director Abbas Fahdel and his Lebanese wife, the painter Nour Ballouk, start exploring a multifaceted country that seems to be on the edge of the abyss.
Girl Internet Show: A Kati Kelli Mixtape
This feature-length “mixtape” curated by Jane Schoenbrun and Jordan Wippell reintroduces a stunning body of work by Kati Kelli, an outsider YouTube artist who ran “Girl Internet Show” before her passing in 2019.
L'heure du départ
How do those who may die tomorrow live? Camille visits Louis and then Rosa. These images, shot by Raymond Depardon and Patrick Blossier, introduce her approach. In a playful intimacy, she then begins to film Germaine.
I Am Michelle
The story of Michelle - a young transgender girl with big hopes and dreams. We follow her as she returns home to family in rural Ukraine from the big city.
Ripples under the Skin
'Ripples Under the Skin' is a story of contestations - contestation of space, resources, claims, narratives... of a community struggling to carve out a living out of a dying profession contending with a city that both embraces and marginalizes, of a profession that thrives of supplying water to homes... water that doesn't discriminate yet over whom many wars have been fought... wars of caste, class, religion... of muslim migrant workers supplying water to homes that are inviting and uninviting, of homes that they are sustained over the labour of these people, yet homes that the same people can never claim as their own, of memory and forgetting, of dreams and spectres... above all, this is a story of struggles.
Silencios
Six survivors of sexual abuse speak of the consequences of growing up with the secret of their abuse.
Appear
Users of alternative community mental health resources express their relationship to art and life. The intimate experience of art, of the studio, of associating with artists and of seeing oneself as an artist changes their lives as they contemplate the relationship between art and madness.