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Popular Documentary Movies
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Divide In Concord
This is a story about an 84 year-old-woman trying to take down the third largest industry in the world. Jean Hill, a self-proclaimed warrior, leads historic Concord, Massachusetts on America's first environmental crusade to ban the sale of bottled water.
Destiny
This documentary has three stories of Vietnamese women interwoven with the matchmaker’s interview. Through their narration, the audience gets a glimpse of what their living conditions are like in Vietnam, and understands the women’s inner hopes, fears and aspirations, and how marrying to Singapore can help improve their families’ standards of living.
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Trying It at Home
A documentary on DIY punk, with the style to match. Musicians such as Frank Turner, Jeff Rosenstock, Chris Clavin, David McWane, and many others discuss the ethics behind their music, and the community that surrounds it.
My Voice, My Life
A Hong Kong documentary directed by Oscar winner Ruby Yang, chronicles the trials and tribulations of a group of under-privileged middle school students as they undergo six months of vigorous training to produce a musical on stage.
Those Who Said No
From Sweden, a survivor of Iranian state terror follows the Iran Tribunal. He dreams of confronting the perpetrators with their crimes.
Background Music
Background Music is a documentary-based short film that chronicles a Rap Hype man's path into legend. Directed by Ian Randolph and Solomon Gross, this uniquely riveting story of an unsung individuals successes and struggles within the music industry is like one that's never been told before.
Bob Harris: My Nashville
'Whispering' Bob Harris journeys to America's country music capital to reveal why Nashville became Music City USA. From the beginnings of the Grand Ole Opry on commercial radio, through the threatening onset of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s, right up to the modern mainstream hits of Music Row, this is the story of how music has shaped Nashville and why today it's a place of pilgrimage for musicians from all over the world.
Que caramba es la vida
In the macho world of Mariachi music, very few women can hold their own. Just like the songs they play, this film is a snapshot of life, death and the things in between - seen from a bird's-eye perspective.
John's of 12th Street
JOHN’S OF 12TH STREET is a portrait of a century-old Italian-American restaurant in New York City, one of the last of its kind in a rapidly changing East Village. This observational documentary loosely follows the rhythm of the restaurant’s day, which swings between boredom and frenzy as the old rooms empty and fill. No one who works at John’s is actually Italian, but some have been here for 40 years, including two pairs of brothers and a father and son. JOHN’S OF 12TH STREET catalogues the overlooked details of working life and a vanishing facet of New York City.
Under Construction: The Film
An honest, brutal and sometimes humorous account of one man's experiment to push his body to its absolute size limit via weight lifting, food and steroids.
Good Girl
Successful documentary filmmaker Solveig Melkeraaen suffers a heavy clinical depression. Treatment with electroshock therapy helps her, but when she falls into a second depression, she has to accept that being perfect is not an option. A feelgood film on depression.
OXI, an Act of Resistance
The popular resistance to the current Greek economic crisis explored and expressed through the ethical and political writings of Ancient Greece.
Secundaria
Ballet in Cuba is a national institution, revered by all. It is also a way to climb out of poverty and achieve a better life. Yet for one young ballerina, even that isn't enough.
Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa
Albie Sachs is a lawyer, writer, art lover and freedom fighter during the lead up to the overthrow of the apartheid regime in South Africa.
Dýrafjörður
An artful feature-length documentary on life, nature, and creativity in Dýrafjörður, a beautiful and remote fjord in Iceland. The film explores the lives of resourceful characters living in the town of Þingeyri amongst the magical nature and light of Iceland. Journey into the timeless world of Dýrafjörður.
Gusto Nang Umuwi ni Joy
Living as an undocumented migrant in the UK for more than six years, a Filipina domestic helper tries to secure a working visa so she can finally fly back home to visit her family.
The Frozen Titans
It’s a route that you cannot climb in summer and that you don’t really want to climb in winter: Helmcken Falls. But ice-climber Will Gadd knows that the technically challenging mixed route on the rear wall of the 141-metre waterfall can only be mastered at sub-zero temperatures, because that’s when the loose rock is literally frozen up by the spray. However, what works for the route doesn’t necessarily help the athlete. The centimetre-thick layer of ice which Will has to remove from his safety rope at regular intervals doesn’t really make it easier for him to warm up to the route.
True Till Death
A DIY-documentary about the power in the Swedish hardcore- and straight edge-scene - the things happening outside the large venues. We get to meet a couple of people that has chosen a straight edge-lifestyle and see what they do for this scene in Sweden.
Verbatim
A jaded lawyer wastes an afternoon trying to figure out if a dim-witted government employee has ever used a photocopier. All the dialogue in this short comes from an actual deposition filed with the Supreme Court of Ohio.
Christopher Doyle: Filming in the Neon World
"I feel like a piece of neon, I'm just a gas inside a tube." — 'Christopher Doyle: Filming in the Neon World' is part of NEONSIGNS.HK — an online exhibition on Hong Kong's neon signs.
Rowdy Ronda Rousey
On Feb. 23, 2013, Ronda Rousey made history by becoming the UFC's first female bantamweight champion. After locking up her signature arm bar on Liz Carmouche, Rousey became the No. 1 female fighter in the world, and she has been on the rise ever since. Where did this force of nature come from? And how high can Rousey go? The film takes an inside look at that fight and how Rousey's ascension is paving the way for female fighters.
My Brother the Terrorist
In this sequel to "My brother the Islamist," we continue to follow Robb Leech as the tries to understand his stepbrother's journey and transformation from middle-class boy to convicted terrorist.
Digital Amnesia
Focusing on the vulnerability of digital data, Digital Amnesia ponders the sustainability of modern artifacts that have no material state. Notable archivists share their perspectives on the Digital Age and whether it poses great promise or threat to the longevity of digital information and our collective memory.
MECCA: The Floor That Made Milwaukee Famous
In the 1970s the city of Milwaukee hired an artist to paint the Bucks' floor. More than 30 years later, Bucks fan Andy Gorzalski puts his family's credit card down for $20k to protect this iconic symbol of the city's history.
Crustaceans
The film Crustaceans treats itself like an impressionist picture or a Japanese Haiku. Crustaceans is a matter of reflection on an instance in life with the social-economical crisis as a landscape. The heartbreak in times of crisis. The film was filmed as demonstrations in the streets against crisis and social welfare cuts took place. For two years, it filmed street demonstrations and incorporated actors in the social landscape. The result, is a film in which the collective and the intimate come together. Both the characters and the people in the street, like identical crustaceans, take to the street to express their shame and rage for what is happening and try to find a solution. A time of anxiety, uncertainty and protest that conforms the landscape in which the characters, such as crustaceans hide their wounds under their hard shell is seen.
Remake.me
A poetic journey through the life and work of a filmmaker, where the mix between reality and fiction creates new and surprising stories.
Marciano
Built around found stories of relatives, acquaintances and even strangers, this documentary paints a compelling portrait of a gay OFW who lives in Paris for 25 years and dies there alone.
Camel: In From the Cold
Camel concert recorded live at the Barbican, London, England. October 28. 2013 Including: The Snow Goose, Never let go, Song within a song, Echoes, The hour candle, Tell me, Watching the Bobbins, Fox Hill, For today and Lady Fantasy.
Equí y n'otru tiempu
Between October 1937 and November 1952 hundreds of Republican supporters took to the mountains of Asturias with two main objectives: to save their lives, and to continue their armed resistance against Franco. Many of them would die in those mountains. This film is centered on filming the places in the present where the major figures of the Asturian Guerrilla Group were killed.
A City of Children
Summer in the city: for the youth, there's no better season to enjoy New York's balmy charms. Part of the Open City Mixtape series.
Toronto Croatia – One Big Croatian Story...
A documentary about Croatian immigrants' soccer clubs, especially the Croatia Toronto soccer club, and their significance to the Croatian diaspora as well as Croatia itself.
Vashava
VASHAVA is EN-KNAP film production team's way of saying goodbye to the Slovenian mining town of Trbovlje and, in terms of content, ends a 15-year-long reflection on the industrial era that left its mark on the valley. The international dance company EnKnapGroup enters the mining facilities for the last time before they disappear from the collective consciousness forever.
Movie for Two
We see the film title card on screen and sound is coming from the cinema, but the screen is black. The filmmaker hands a cellphone with video to two sitting in front of the crowd. The image of the film plays on the phone for those who can see it in the crowd as the audio comes through the cinema speakers.
South to North
Following the steps of the Nan Shui Bei Diao - South to North Water Transfer - the world's largest water transfer project, stretching between southern and northern China.