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Documentary
2012

Popular Documentary Movies

Murder Capital of the World
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Murder Capital of the World
An investigation of the economic / social / political forces behind the violence plaguing Ciudad Juarez. A coverage of events from 2011, and victims affected by the "drug war." A forecast of Juarez' future from numerous experts, including the critical 2012 elections.
Murder Capital of the World 2012
Wheat And Tares
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Wheat And Tares
Radio host and Bible teacher Harold Camping predicted our world would end on May 21st, 2011. This documentary tells the story of three families in their conviction of this believe. They dedicate their entire life to their conviction, because they don't have the slightest doubt about the coming events, such as a worldwide earthquake and the death of half the human population. While they see it as their task to warn the world, their fundamental ideas more and more alienate them from their personal environment. Our main characters isolate themselves from their family and friends, while they focus on each other and their beacon; Mr. Camping. What will eventually be left of their ideas, after nothing happens on May 21st 2011...?
Wheat And Tares 2012
Spray Paint Beijing
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Spray Paint Beijing
A documentary about graffiti artists in the capital of China.
Spray Paint Beijing 2012
People in Motion
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People in Motion
Cedric Dahl traveled the US west coast with 5 parkour practitioners who shared a passion for movement. This film documents the experience over 9 months.
People in Motion 2012
Eating Alabama
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Eating Alabama
In search of a simpler life, a young couple returns home to Alabama where they set out to eat the way their grandparents did – locally and seasonally. But as they navigate the agro-industrial gastronomical complex, they soon realize that nearly everything about the food system has changed since farmers once populated their family histories. A thoughtful and often funny essay on community, the South and sustainability, “Eating Alabama” is a story about why food matters.
Eating Alabama 2012
The Black Kung Fu Experience
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The Black Kung Fu Experience
This film focuses on how a group of African American pioneers became respected masters in a subculture dominated by Chinese and white men.
The Black Kung Fu Experience 2012
Turned Towards the Sun
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Turned Towards the Sun
The astonishing life story of British writer and poet Micky Burn MC.
Turned Towards the Sun 2012
Orchestra of Exiles
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Orchestra of Exiles
The suspenseful chronicle of how the prodigious Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman helped save Europe’s premiere Jewish musicians from obliteration by the Nazis during World War II. In three years, he transformed from a world renowned violinist to a humanitarian racing against time.
Orchestra of Exiles 2012
Mother India: Life Through the Eyes of the Orphan
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Mother India: Life Through the Eyes of the Orphan
Narrated by Rebecca St. James (Grammy Award Winning Artist), Mother India is a compelling documentary capturing the stories of abandoned and orphaned kids living in India. For one week, David and Shawn stepped into the lives of 25 boys and girls living alongside the railway station in the southern town of Tenali (Andhra Pradesh). With over 31 million orphans in India, the stories that emerge reflect the complexity of the issues and the challenge of rescuing kids from a life of begging and addiction. Find out what happens when these two friends eat, sleep, and play among this 'family' of street kids in an effort to experience life through their eyes. You'll never be the same.
Mother India: Life Through the Eyes of the Orphan 2012
Elephant Whisperer
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Elephant Whisperer
Sangduen Chailert, or Lek, as she is generally known, has already rescued over 200 elephants. She has dedicated her life to saving the Asian elephant and founded a special camp, The Elephant Nature Park to protect them. We follow this winner of Time Magazine’s “Asian Hero of the Year” Award in her work. Lek is on a mission to save the Asian elephant in her native Thailand. This film looks at the plight of the Asian elephant, as it goes from being a widely used domestic animal, to becoming a burden on modernizing communities. With experts predicting its extinction within four decades, Lek’s work is needed now more than ever and she has gathered a large group of supporters and volunteers in her quest for a better future for the Asian elephant. This moving film demonstrates Lek’s natural understanding of and rapport with these huge animals and will stir the viewers emotions as it highlights the often desperate state some elephants are kept in.
Elephant Whisperer 2012
They Come to America
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They Come to America
A documentary that explores the human and financial costs of illegal immigration.
They Come to America 2012
Trash Dance
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Trash Dance
A year spent with choreographer Allison Orr as she rides out with and tries to persuade employees of the Austin Dept. of Solid Waste Services to collaborate in a public dance performance. The performance eventually takes place, in the rain, on the tarmac of an abandoned airport, with over two thousand people watching--16 trucks, 24 people-- and sweeps local art and performance awards.
Trash Dance 2012
Pray for Japan
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Pray for Japan
On March 11, 2011, Japan's Tohoku coastal region was destroyed by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and devastating tsunami that followed. PRAY FOR JAPAN takes place in the devastated region of Ishinomaki, Miyagi - the largest coastal city in Tohoku with a population of over 160,000 people. Filmmaker Stu Levy - an American living in Japan - filmed the tsunami aftermath during his trips to Tohoku as a volunteer and over a period of 6 weeks, captured over 50 hours of footage. PRAY FOR JAPAN focuses on four key perspectives of the tragedy - School, Shelter, Family, and Volunteers. With each perspective we meet victims who faced significant obstacles and fought to overcome them. Through these four vantage points, the audience is able to understand the vast ramifications of this large-scale natural disaster - and the battle these real-life heroes fought on behalf of their loved ones and their hometown.
Pray for Japan 2012
The United States of Hoodoo
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The United States of Hoodoo
The documentary explores how African-based spirituality has informed Americas popular culture. The old African gods have taken on new forms since their arrival on North America's shores. Their spirit now manifests in turntable wizardry, improvisational skills and mind-blowing collages, performances and rituals. The film shakes up traditional and stereotypical ways of thinking about race, religion, rationality. Through meetings with musicians, writers and artists, healers, gumbo cooks and Mississippi Blues men, the documentary draws a picture of a culture which has always drawn on a unique mix of different ethnic influences to produce its cultural diversity, allure, and vitality
The United States of Hoodoo 2012
Portrait of Wally
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Portrait of Wally
“Portrait of Wally”, Egon Schiele’s tender picture of his mistress, Walburga (“Wally”) Neuzil, is the pride of the Leopold Museum in Vienna. But for 13 years the painting was locked up in New York, caught in a legal battle between the Austrian museum and the Jewish family from whom the Nazis seized the painting in 1939.
Portrait of Wally 2012
The Hungry Tide
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The Hungry Tide
Only metres above sea level, the nation of Kiribati is on the front line of climate change. Maria Tiimon, a Kiribati woman living in Sydney, is passionate about her homeland and, despite her shyness, is determined to raise the world's awareness of its predicament.
The Hungry Tide 2012
Go Ganges!
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Go Ganges!
Television producers and adventurers Josh Thomas and J.J. Kelley test their skills on an epic adventure down India's sacred River Ganges.
Go Ganges! 2012
The Next Life
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The Next Life
In May 2010, Ye Hongmei, a native of Dujiangyan city in Sichuan province, started her Odyssey to get pregnant again. Her eight year old daughter was killed in the devastating Wenchuan earthquake of 2008, a catastrophe that killed and maimed more than 6000 children. Due to China's one-child policy, most of the grieving families were left childless.
The Next Life 2012
Mayan Renaissance
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Mayan Renaissance
Mayan Renaissance is a feature length film which documents the glory of the ancient Maya civilization, the Spanish conquest in 1519, 500 years of oppression, and the courageous fight of the Maya to reclaim their voice and determine their own future, in Guatemala and throughout Central America. The film stars 1992 Nobel Peace Laureate and Maya Leader Rigoberta Mencu Tum. All of the images, voices, expert commentary and music in the film come directly from Central America, the heart of the Mayan World.
Mayan Renaissance 2012
Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story
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Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story
While filming a documentary in Mississippi in 1965, Frank De Felitta forever changed the life of an African-American waiter and his family. In 2011, Frank's son returns to the Delta to examine the repercussions of that fateful encounter.
Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story 2012
Cocaine Unwrapped
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Cocaine Unwrapped
Documentary investigating the supply chain of cocaine from South American jungles to usage in Baltimore.
Cocaine Unwrapped 2012
The Mountain Runners
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The Mountain Runners
The story of America's first mountain endurance/adventure foot race, the Mount Baker Marathon, which took place in Bellingham, Washington. First run in 1911, the grueling 28 to 32 mile race to the glacial summit of Mount Baker and back lasted only three years due to it's inherent dangers. Told in a docudrama style, the film incorporates vintage images, historic film, visual graphics and 3D effects, and recreated dramatizations starring William B. Davis (The X-Files, Bad Times at the El Royale).
The Mountain Runners 2012
Sister
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Sister
Documentary about maternal health care workers in Ethiopia, Cambodia and Haiti.
Sister 2012
The Oyler House: Richard Neutra's Desert Retreat
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The Oyler House: Richard Neutra's Desert Retreat
The Oyler House: Richard Neutra's Desert Retreat explores how Neutra came to befriend a modest, small-town family, and how his design of the home was inspired by the site's stunning desert setting.
The Oyler House: Richard Neutra's Desert Retreat 2012
The People of the Kattawapiskak River
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The People of the Kattawapiskak River
Alanis Obomsawin’s documentary The People of the Kattawapiskak River exposes the housing crisis faced by 1,700 Cree in Northern Ontario, a situation that led Attawapiskat’s band chief, Theresa Spence, to ask the Canadian Red Cross for help. With the Idle No More movement making front page headlines, this film provides background and context for one aspect of the growing crisis.
The People of the Kattawapiskak River 2012
Louis Theroux: Extreme Love - Dementia
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Louis Theroux: Extreme Love - Dementia
As one of the big retirement destinations for middle class Americans, Phoenix Arizona has also become a capital of dementia care. Louis visits the city in order to spend time in state-of-the-art care home Beatitudes and with home-based carers, whose love is tested by a condition that steadily erodes the personality and character of their partners.
Louis Theroux: Extreme Love - Dementia 2012
Elizabeth II: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration
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Elizabeth II: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration
An exploration of Queen Elizabeth's 60 year reign. Episode #1: Elizabeth II: The Young Queen 1952-1969 Episode #2: Elizabeth II: The Monarchy Under Threat 1970-1989 Episode #3: Elizabeth II: Falling In Love With The Queen Again 1990-2012
Elizabeth II: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration 2012