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Popular Documentary Movies
At What Cost? Anatomy of Professional Wrestling
A behind the scenes look into the lives, injuries and sacrifices of professional wrestlers.
Machine Soul
Machine Soul is a documentary film about Finnish Electronic musicians. It is a glance at the methods, rituals and philosophy behind the music, but most of all at the burning passion that drives the artists forward year after year. Electronic music is discussed from the point of view of the artists. What are their early influences? How did their style develop? What has been the role of their environment? It is a form of music that is often perceived as cold and lifeless by outsiders, but in the eyes of the artists it is a multifaceted and soulful way of life. The movie is not an overview of the Finnish Techno scene nor a chronicle. Many of the artists are virtually unknown in Finland, but have a large fanbase outside their home country. Machine Soul is a homage to the pioneers and newcomers of the Finnish Electronic music scene.
Heimliche Helden - Keas in Neuseeland
Here are parrots that totally break the stereotypes! The Keas in New Zealand just love the snow and the cold, harsh mountain climate. To survive here, these mountain parrots have developed exceptional intelligence and resourcefulness. Watch these incredibly unique birds in action!
El Porvenir
El Porvenir tells the story of Abelardo Olguin, a third-generation cockfighter struggling to hold on to his family's way of life in the face of a growing movement to ban the sport across the Mexican states.
An Immortal Man
Red Sox legend Ted Williams grew up in front of America during baseball’s golden age. He served his country as an ace fighter pilot in Korea and was the last man to ever hit over .400 for a season. This story isn’t about how he lived, but about the mystery surrounding his world after his death. Williams’s head (yes, his head) is preserved in cryostasis in a facility in Arizona. How this came to be remains a mystery shrouded in claims that his children mistreated him and wrapped in a notorious dirty cocktail napkin.
Kacey Mottet Klein, Birth of an Actor
A body is growing and developing in front of the camera, absorbing sensations and emotions, confronting its limits and its darker hidden parts. A body that through the years abandons itself to the character, transforming what could be seen as simple (children's) play-acting into the true work of an actor.
Conflict
Six conflict photographers reflect on their experiences capturing the atrocities of war and other manifestations of violence on film.
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Surviving the Serengeti
20 years after the TV Mini-Series "Tales of the Serengeti", our crew reunites to truly explore the Serengeti, with no fiction. We almost didn't survive it.
Carola Neher - Todesursache unbekannt
"Cause of Death Unknown" - Carola Neher (1900-1942) actress, singer and feminist. Brecht wrote the role Polly Peachum for her. She practiced boxing with Marlene Dietrich. After Hitler seized power, thousands of German communists and anti-fascists fled to the Soviet Union, the "fatherland of the working people". The tragedy of German communism is that the vast majority of them perished or were lost during Stalin's "cleansing". Carola Neher is one of the fate figures of that time. In the 20s, she belonged to the narrow circle of Brecht actresses. The film accompanies her son Georg Becker in search of his mother's traces in the sinking Soviet Union.
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Message From Hiroshima
This documentary provides an inside look at the devastating effects of the first atomic bomb dropped, as depicted in testimonials from survivors, and computer-generated recreations of the city and way of life that were lost.
American Reflexxx
American Reflexxx is a short film documenting a social experiment that took place in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Alli Coates filmed performance artist Signe Pierce as she strutted down a busy oceanside street in stripper garb and a reflective mask. The pair agreed not to communicate until the experiment was completed, but never anticipated the horror that would unfold in under an hour. The result is a heart wrenching technicolor spectacle that raises questions about gender stereotypes, mob mentality, and violence in America.
Lilit
A little girl suspended in the air. An angel amidst the whispers of the thick night.
Larisa's Crew
In recent years, a special "folk craft" has developed in Russia: in-line production of paintings, which are then sold at markets, highways, street vernissages. The film tells about the artel of artists working in this most popular and democratic genre of fine art.
Norilsk in the First Person
Producer Aleksey Pivovarov and director Alexander Rastorguev started working on a documentary film dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Norilsk Nickel, moving away from the traditional form and choosing the web-doc genre. As a result, the project team created an interactive website, norilskfilm.com, filled with many short stories, archival materials and virtual panoramas.
Hitler's Last Secrets: Hitler and Wagner
From the moment in 1906 when he heard the first note of Lohengrin at Linz opera house until his death in the burning ruins of Berlin in 1945, Hitler was obsessed by the music and mythology of Richard Wagner. The latest research into the often overlooked relationship with musician August Kubizek, his only boyhood friend, has provided clues which have reveal the overwhelming importance of Wagner.
Sicily Jass. The World's First Man in Jazz
2017 will mark a century from the recording of what is historically considered the first Jazz record, but very few know that it was recorded by a Sicilian emigrant to New Orleans: Nick La Rocca. The record sold a million and half copies! Featuring exclusive interviews to American music critics, historians and archivists, as well as amazing archive picturing New Orleans at the beginning of the century, Sicily Jass takes us on a journey through music and history, telling the story of the world's first man in Jazz.
Viento de atunes
An ancient fishery known as the Almadraba Bluefin Tuna Fishing. 600 fishermen. The large bluefin tuna crosses the Atlantic to spawn in the Mediterranean. During the months of May and June, large schools of tuna cross Gibraltar to reach the coasts of the province of Cádiz. For 21 days we have followed the fishermen of the coastal areas of Conil, Barbate and Zahara de los Atunes, learning with them what this ancient fishing means. Originally from the Phoenicians and still preserved the same. Manual, artisanal fishing, in which the fish is trapped through an underwater labyrinth of nets. Many families from these coastal areas of the Iberian Peninsula depend on the experience, wisdom and effort of these workers every year.
Regreso a la Alcarria
In June 1946 the writer Camilo José Cela toured Alcarria on foot. The book “Viaje a la Alcarria” was published from his journeys through that region. 70 years later, a traveler follows the same itinerary that Cela outlined in his novel.
Seven Days in St. Petersburg
After a twelve-year separation from her son and from the city of her dreams, Liza travels to St. Petersburg to visit them both. The purpose of her trip is to convince Leonid to return with her to Israel, but an insurmountable barrier stands in her way, in Israel Leonid is waiting for a prison.
Near Far East
A personal road-movie where a Czech filmmaker goes to Ukraine, a country where he has familial ties, friendly bonds and which has been the place for a long working relationship. Individual meetings are a way and an opportunity for him to think about how local recent events are affecting him personally, but also helping him create successful social interactions.
Cogumelo 35 Anos
Remembering that this documentary is not an official documentary by Cogumelo Records, which aims to launch an official project about its history soon. I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to the bands and people who were not mentioned in the documentary, as it is impossible to cover everyone, especially the way we work, without sponsorship, without a producer, with our own resources. I hope you understand.
Still Life
In the dream I had one early morning in 2014, I was sitting in the backseat of a car. The driver suddenly turned to look at me and said: Why aren’t you filming? It was my second elder sister who had already passed away. After her death, I began to keep a diary and take pictures. When I got a video camera, I began to film the daily life of my family. I filmed out of the fear of death and loss. The idea was to capture everything on film before it disappeared. 2015 was the 20th anniversary of my sister’s death. That dream seemed to tell me to face her death. Death did not stop the passing of time, and the family members I was filming continued to avoid their grief which hadn’t subsided with time. Birth and death continue to alternate in our lives, and we are always getting ready for the day when we must say goodbye.
Battling the Ndrangheta Mafia
The Ndrangheta is the most powerful branch of the mafia which has a stranglehold on Southern Italy.
Film Me!
Novosibirsk: a town in deepest Siberia, where the absurd and the comical are in constant rivalry within the walls of its crematorium. Death can cause the crossing of paths of those never destined to meet, and I, standing in its midst, am learning to grapple with it.
Restoration Neon
Neon signs defined Las Vegas, signifying fantasy, fun and the kind of frontier freedom that has slipped away from so many other places. Yet many of the signs are in danger of forever disappearing as old buildings are demolished. Discover the history of the neon signs from their first usage in late 1920s Las Vegas to the present day and what it takes to bring these historic icons back to life.
Tom
Tom Ballard lives with his father James in a campsite in the Dolomites. Tom's mother, Alison Hargreaves died descending K2 when he was just 6 years old. Despite this, he never wanted to be anywhere other than in the mountains. His whole life is dedicated to climbing and his last goal is to solo the Six North Faces of the Alps in a single winter season. Nobody has achieved this before, and he wants to be the first. In a white van driven by James, Tom will travel through the Alps to make his dream come true.
The Wolf's Lair
Every family has its secrets, the family of Portuguese filmmaker Mourão included. As the granddaughter of the well-known writer Tomaz de Figueiredo, she picks apart several of them in an intimate yet universally meaningful way. As such, her film also becomes a portrait of dictatorship and resistance and of the urge to create art.
Meine Reise in die DDR - 25 Jahre später
About a journalist and his cameraman visiting East Germany, former GDR, 25 years later again after their journey which took place in January 1990, just between the Fall of the Wall and the reunification with West Germany, comparing the old pictures with the present of 2015 and meeting former interview partners a second time. An impressive work of time documentary showing seemingly surreal scenes about the changings of cities, industrial locations and lifes in different political and economical systems.
King and the Crook
How could Gulosten, who was a major criminal during prohibition, and a resistance fighter during WW2, get away with the murder of two Germans in peacetime Norway? And what part did his friend, king Haakon of Norway, play in this?
Jihad: A Story of the Others
An unflinching but sensitive and personal examination of jihadism and radicalisation, its causes and its possible solutions.
George for Real
Founder and leader of one of the world's largest missionary movements, Operation Mobilization, George Verwer takes you on his travels all over the world, driven by a passion to see men and women come to faith. Discover how George Verwer's hunger for God was ignited during his turbulent teenage years and how God led him to ignite a dynamic global missionary movement.
Hospital in the Sky
Orbis volunteers work alongside local staff amid the chaos and emotion of screening, surgery and recovery.
Betinho: Hope on the Line
Documentary on the life of Brazilian sociologist Herbert de Souza, engaged in the struggle against hunger, SIDA and military dictatorship.
SuperTornado: Anatomy of a MegaDisaster
May 22nd, 2011. A powerful tornado cut a mile-wide swath through Joplin, Missouri, the costliest and one of the deadliest tornado disasters ever. What did scientists learn when they peered into the realm of this SuperTornado?
The Power of the Chair
In Mexico, citizens outraged by the rampant corruption and the way of doing politics are questioning power every day. This documentary shows the personal and direct experience involved in the act of governing through four protagonists who reveal what is “the power of the chair”.