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Popular Documentary Movies
Behind The Garden Gate
'Behind The Garden Gate' is a documentary film about homegrown biodiversity and the challenges that come with it. In the 1970s Guus Lieberwerth and friends cleared a patch of agricultural wasteland in order to take care of rare and endangered plants and animals. Now, 50 years later nature is thriving within a hidden paradise just five minutes away from a city centre, but even closer to systemic pressures and land developers.
The Crossing: Consequences of the Truth
In 2022 as Russia launched a full-scale invasion against Ukraine, Gheorghe Ignat, a Romanian wrestling champion, found himself a neighbour to one of the greatest humanitarian crises since World War II. As the war continues, Ukrainian children have started disappearing from orphanages around the country.
Prison Blues
A road documentary in the spirit of a western, in which six friends at odds, carrying their scars and virtues, and under the pretext of the director's obsession with Johnny Cash, travel around the country to the film Village Potemkin in prisons and institutions. Their route inside a caravan will be full of unexpected stops and encounters.
Vigneronnes
True pioneers, those winegrower ladies work close to nature. They unlocked the secret of wine and create worldrenowned nectars.
Baby Joachim Damana, the young ladies of Brazzaville
A precocious sculptor, famous at the age of 15, Joachim Badindamana was born in Congo Brazzaville in 1950. He began by working in wood in the style of Muta Mayola and very quickly won a first sculpture prize and then a scholarship. allowing him to study fine arts in Germany. He made his life between Berlin and Dusseldorf in the 1970s and then turned to creating monumental bronzes before returning to Congo at the invitation of President Sassou Ngesso in the early 1980s. Author of monumental bronze sculptures erected in the public squares of Brazzaville from the 1980s, his emblematic works of the Congolese capital disappeared during the events of 1997. The population recovered the bronze to make pots. For Gastineau Massamba, Les Demoiselles de Brazzaville is an important work for the history of contemporary Congolese sculpture.
PATOU: In Black & White
With a career that spans over four decades and across the globe, Jamaican singer Pat Powell (Patou) is one of Australia’s most accomplished yet hidden vocal talents. He is the artist that everyone wants to work with – the singer’s singer who sings with 15 bands, including the ARIA award-winning Melbourne Ska Orchestra. Born in the UK to Jamaican parents, Pat left the racism of the UK as soon as he could, although he ‘stupidly’ found his way to Australia with its own racism issues. Father to four children from different mothers with varying ethnic backgrounds, Pat’s children all identify differently and discuss racism and where identity comes from.
Misha-Icebreaker
Mikhail Klaus, a resident of the village of Rechnikov Zhatai in Yakutia, hails from Austro-Hungarian Germans, as evidenced by his surname, which is rare for these latitudes. It is generally believed that "it's good for a Russian, then death for a German," but Misha's family has become so Russified that it does not fit the saying. Klus is a representative of one of the rarest professions on earth – a shipwrecker. Klus, who works in the wild frost, like other frostbitten people, dreams of going to the sea with his son Sasha. Will he succeed in fulfilling his dream?
Rudolf Nureyev. A Strange Island
In the late 80s, Rudolf Nureyev acquired the island of Li Galli in southern Italy, near Amalfi. Rudolf dreamed of creating a world ballet center here for young ballet talents. But this dream failed to come true...
Rudolf Nureyev. Return
In the film, Rudolf Nureyev's friends, classmates, and colleagues recall the moments of his return to his homeland.
The Mind Game
When he was just 14, Sajid Khan Nasiri fled Afghanistan alone. After a two-year journey filled with danger and hardships – which he minutely documented on his phone camera – he arrives in Belgium to seek asylum. There, a whole new struggle begins. Intimate sequel to the prize-winning Shadow Game.
Elizabeth: Fashioning a Monarch
In this special tribute Fiona Bruce looks at how, across the decades, The Queen used her wardrobe to fashion a style that came to perfectly reflect her dedication to duty.
The Gaze
Ginok Song, a South Korean artist living and painting in a small fishing village in Newfoundland, explores what home is, who she was, and where she is now. Ginok examines the choice to become an artist as a need to explore self-expression, an intimate journey to know herself through the female gaze.
Feds - A Creative Players Film
Liverpool Feds are a team formed 33 years ago from humble beginnings, that despite all odds, now find themselves competing with some of the biggest names in English Women’s football. After promotion to the Third Tier of the women’s game in 2022, Feds now face the biggest battle of all… staying in the league. We filmed with the team through the highs and lows of their rollercoaster 2022/23 season, giving you an unfiltered view on the women’s game away from the spotlight.
Tatay Elmer
At the age of 72, Elmer Cordero better known as "Tatay Elmer" of PISTON 6 always has the stand to fight for his fellow drivers. He continuously campaign against jeepney phaseout here in the Philippines.
NORA THAI FIT
The story of Thai Fit Studio who traveled to learn about “Nora” with Chalermprapha Troupe, in Pattani Province. This story is in hopes to gather knowledge of “Nora” dance postures to develop into Thai Fit exercise posters.
Country Abortion
Once in India, Zakhara from St. Petersburg could not forget about the war in Ukraine. Her desire to go to the front, even as a volunteer, does not meet with understanding either from her girlfriend, or from relatives, or from friends.
The Great Wall: From Beginning to End
Great Wall. 4000 miles. 1800 years. Greatest feat of civil engineering. For one year, Nat Geo photographer Michael Yamashita shot the entire Wall and the people who live in its shadow. See why this immense human feat may never be surpassed.
Line of Vision
In the steppe on the territory of the Orenburgsky State Nature Reserve, a small population of wild Przhevalsky horses lives in their natural habitat. Researchers are reintroducing the species to one day release the animals into the wild. So far, this is impossible, because without a person the species is threatened with extinction. How does a wild horse see the world? People are ready to study today and her point of view.
Plague in the Time of Love
Back in 1942, at the height of the Great Patriotic War, a major plague epidemic broke out in Mongolia. A detachment of Soviet specialists was sent to fight it, who worked selflessly, saving people, burning corpses, testing new methods of administering the vaccine, and also falling in love, getting married and having children. 70 years later, their children, now elderly themselves, set off on a journey to Mongolia, following in the footsteps of their parents.
Lotus-Eyed Girl
A haunting collage of pomegranate arils, rural and urban landscapes, family history and mandalas undulate at a crossroads between death and longing. Inspired by the love poem Caurapañcāśikā by Bilhana, Lotus-Eyed Girl unfurls the impacts of colonialism on human desire with a pulsating, ambient eeriness.
To Scale: Time
On a dry lake bed in the Mojave, a group of friends build a practical scale model of time.
Disaffection Image
The second of two two Videographic essays with critical reflections on representations of the Vietnam War. “Disaffection Image,” uses the writings of Chinua Achebe and Gilles Deleuze to interrogate racist and colonial tropes in “Apocalypse Now.”
The Home Game
This feel-good sports doc is about one man's dogged attempt to finally stage a home game on the football pitch his father created 25 years earlier. By registering the non-existent team of their small town to the Icelandic FA Cup he gives himself a 50/50 chance to fulfill his fathers dream.
Meet The Most Based NYU Student
An interview from acclaimed business youtuber Noah Kagan introduces us to the most based NYU student, Based John.
!Aitsa
The ancient knowledge of indigenous peoples challenges high-tech science in a near-cosmic tale from a South African desert where the world’s largest radio telescope is being built with antennae aimed at the far corners of the universe.
HOUSE IN THE CLOUDS: The Artistic Life of Robert Singleton
The story of Robert Singleton, a world-class artist, from trauma to triumph, from tribulation and deep loss, to equilibrium and mastery.
Our Grandmother the Inlet
Kayah George, a young Tsleil-Waututh woman and her grandmother Ta7a, daughter of the late Chief Dan George, reflect on their relationship to water, culture, and land.
Friends on the Outside
Friends on the Outside is an experimental short documentary that tells the story of Jamie, exploring how foraging for weeds and caring for birds has helped him recover from mental illness and the chronic stress of incarceration. It questions why the UK prison system is currently in its biggest expansion in more than a century, exposing the naturalising language used around this expansion.
Yes No War
From May to September 2022, an unidentified person came and wrote 55 times on three panels in a building courtyard: NO TO WAR
PEACE IN THE WORLD. These signs were each time erased by a municipal employee but never by a resident of the building. The film concludes that in 2022, approximately 20,000 people have been arrested for anti-war activism.
Old Man
Leaving his family and city comfort, Vladimir Alekseevich equips himself a house in the taiga. Unity with nature in a small hut is the joy and everyday life of an 80-year-old huntsman. What makes a person choose the path of solitude? Who is he – a loner, an egoist or a sage who has found the meaning of life?
Flying On Land
Fat tiger and Morgan are friends who skateboard together. They all share the common life choice problems faced by contemporary Chinese youth. Including: love, career, family and so on. How to balance skateboarding with life choices. Both Fat tiger and Morgan are trying to come up with their own answers.
In My Eyes
The daughter looked through the viewfinder of the camera and gazed upon her father's appearance before he passed away. Then she realized this estranged and absurd father had been influencing her all along. The one she had once run away from was also the one she missed the most.