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2011

Popular Documentary Movies

Kutlug Ataman
Kutlug Ataman
This film documents Kutlug Ataman's artistic production in a retrospective approach and elucidates his works with his own words and with commentaries by curators, art institution directors, art historians and critics who are familiar with his production through close collaboration, to witness the construction of an impressive artistic production spanning 15 years. The film also includes the excerpts from the artworks and the installation footages of their realization.
Kutlug Ataman 2011
Mozart's Apples
Mozart's Apples
The film portraits famous lithuanian conductor Saulius Sondeckis, reviews his creative path and personal life which are inseparable from each other.
Mozart's Apples 2011
Walking A Tightrope
Walking A Tightrope
A short documentary that sheds light on Brian Reid, a busker in London. His act is not well received. Despite this, he still insists on not changing his act and sticks true to his performance.
Walking A Tightrope 2011
Thor's Saga
Thor's Saga
The dramatic tale of an extraordinary Icelandic family and its journey through Iceland's economic ups and downs. As a 14 year old boy, the family's founder, Thor Jensen, left a Danish orphanage to accept an apprenticeship in Iceland. The remote Danish colony was impoverished, but Thor Jensen saw opportunities and a potential in growth. With far-sighted initiatives and innovative business ideas. His great-grand son Thor Björgólfsson found inspiration in his forefather's initiatives and inherited the ability to see opportunities in uncultivated markets. With sensational ventures, Björgólfsson looked beyond Iceland's borders and gained success. Björgólfsson then defied his own business strategy and invested in the Icelandic banking system. Here he made his greatest failure. The global financial crisis reached Iceland and threatened with state bankruptcy. Today, Björgólfsson is thought to be one of the key figures to send Iceland into economic pillory
Thor's Saga 2011
Dancing Cat
Dancing Cat
By chance, two men open their hearts to cats on the street. One man is a poet and traveler, the other man is a CF director. The poet takes pictures of cats on the streets every day. The CF director follows the cats with his video camera and meets people who feed the cats on the street. These two men begin to feed and name the cats they see often. The men get closer to the cats, while they observe, that often, the passersby look at the cats with unfavorable gazes. On a whim, the men decide to make a movie on these street cats.
Dancing Cat 2011
Traumhaftes Hochpustertal
Traumhaftes Hochpustertal
Traumhaftes Hochpustertal 2011
Chancre
Chancre
Chancre – a painless ulceration formed during the primary stage of syphilis. A transmission and transmutation of a memory couched in shame. This essay video is bookend with performance documentation from the re-enactment of Brother Cane in Chicago, 2011. Featuring excerpts from The Writings of a Savage by Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), Malay Magic (1900) by Walter William Skeat and T.S. Eliot's Fragment of an Agon (Sweeney Agonistes).
Chancre 2011
Pain
Pain
Not everyone dares to sit in front of the camera like that and talk about love, resentment, disappointment, the tragedy of a breakup. But the heroines of the film decided to “undress” in front of the camera. And not only in the figurative sense of the word.
Pain 2011
Splinters
Splinters
After the collapse of the USSR, several not yet old single men returned to their parents' huts in a small Belarusian village. Not remembering the past, not thinking about the future, men live one day, escaping from loneliness with vodka and conversations. They are fragments of that life that has passed and which they will never return or glue together.
Splinters 2011
Axis of Light
Axis of Light
Seen through the work of eight leading artists from the Middle East, Axis of Light is a poignant and absorbing observation of the influences of conflict.
Axis of Light 2011
Shattered
Shattered
A microcosm of China past and present flows through Xu Tong’s intimate docu “Shattered,” in which the maverick indie filmmaker continues to refine his techniques and concerns shown in his previous “Wheat Harvest” and “Fortune Teller.”
Shattered 2011
The last argument
The last argument
Documentary film that tells, on behalf of football fans, how football and everything around it has changed under the influence of time and money.
The last argument 2011
Inside 9/11: The War Continues
Inside 9/11: The War Continues
Inside 9/11: The War Continues tells the evolving story of radical Islam's war against the West. Osama bin Laden has finally been brought to justice, but al Qaeda is still going strong.
Inside 9/11: The War Continues 2011
Soup
Soup
The film Soup is the story of a trip in search of lost time. Only instead of Marcel Proust’s Madeleine cookie, the chicken soup by Podravka, well remembered by many generations in former Soviet countries and in Eastern Europe, is the triggering element.
Soup 2011
WigWigWig
WigWigWig
Experimental self portrait
WigWigWig 2011
Testemunha 4
Testemunha 4
A character, an actress and the passing of hours in a Holocaust interrogation. The film moves through the echoes of reality: representation, testimony, memory, fiction and investigates the limits between actress and character.
Testemunha 4 2011
No Ashes, No Phoenix
No Ashes, No Phoenix
A locker room expose about young basketball players in Hagen, Germany who face their fears of losing and challenge enormous odds to succeed.
No Ashes, No Phoenix 2011
Mike Horn 87 Jours Dans Lenfer Du Pole Nord
Mike Horn 87 Jours Dans Lenfer Du Pole Nord
Mike Horn 87 Jours Dans Lenfer Du Pole Nord 2011
Lightflight
Lightflight
In 1953 Herbert Tobias was the first German photographer to work for Vogue in Paris. He was expelled from France in the same year however on account protesting during a raid at a gay venue in the French capital. Success and failure were always Herbert Tobias’ twin companions. Having taken his first photographs as a soldier in the German army, after the war he worked as an actor and fell in love. After coming out in 1950, he escaped arrest by going to Paris where he found refuge at Willy Maywald’s studio. His initial success as a photographer was swiftly followed by his expulsion. Moving to Heidelberg, he competed successfully with 18,000 contestants to win a newspaper photography competition run by the Frankfurter Illustrierte. Tobias was on top again; much in demand as a photographer, his work was shown at exhibitions and he was also the subject of articles. This film illuminates the life and work of this artist in all its breadth and diversity.
Lightflight 2011
Land of women: From Winifreda to Famatina
Land of women: From Winifreda to Famatina
This documentary addresses the struggle that, since 1995, Argentine women have undertaken in certain areas of the Pampa to preserve their lands and communities in the face of devastating open pit mining.
Land of women: From Winifreda to Famatina 2011
Takeo, a Percussionist with Down Syndrome
Takeo, a Percussionist with Down Syndrome
Takeo, a Percussionist with Down Syndrome 2011
Sous la main de l'autre
Sous la main de l'autre
In Their Hands follows the psychotherapy of vulnerable people, sometimes destroyed by acts of torture.Their speech deals with an inhuman past: they want to stop the pain, rule out the folly and protect their family from violence in them, be understood and recognized - these are the issues that drive them.
Sous la main de l'autre 2011
Bom
Bom
Malana, a remote village in the Himalayas, isolated from outside civilization for thousands of years has been fostering a primitive existence in harmony with nature and a unique model of democracy of consensus. They have also been producing some of the best quality hashish in the world. A real life story of transition, this ancient civilization being invaded and obliterated by the modern democracy. Narrated in an epic structure, a visual essay from the edge of the world with a message of trust, peace and eternal unity.
Bom 2011
Behind the Screen
Behind the Screen
7 computers are currently being produced worldwide per second but only 4 humans are born at the same time. Everyday activities like buying a computer always generate a greater global impact on social and ecological levels. BEHIND THE SCREEN gives people behind the major electronic product a face and demonstrates the links of a decentralized economic system that are difficult to understand based on true life processes. The main stages which a computer passes through its life span are presented: Gold-mining in West Africa, electronics manufacturing by migrant workers in the Czech Republic, the use of computer products in the rich western world and their final disposal in the electronic waste dumps of Ghana.
Behind the Screen 2011
The Second Mother
The Second Mother
The Second Mother 2011
Freakbeat
Freakbeat
Freakbeat 2011
Hope
Hope
The film consists of four stories. The documentary part of the film is an interview with a man who got into a difficult life situation and chose to help people living with HIV as his life credo. The film also contains three game stories of people facing the problem of HIV.
Hope 2011
Cleaning up the Studio
Cleaning up the Studio
At the invitation of the Nam June Paik Art Center museum, Jankowski travels to Korea. There he gets to know Nam June Paik's studio. Shortly before his death, Paik sold the untidy studio as an installation. After his death, the entire studio was shipped from New York to Seoul and faithfully reconstructed in the heart of the museum. Jankowski decides to clean up the mess. He commissions the professional cleaning company “Beautiful Cleaning” to put things in order.
Cleaning up the Studio 2011
Unge på druk
Unge på druk
Unge på druk 2011
O Homem que Gostava de Zombies
O Homem que Gostava de Zombies
The story of Eurico Bernardes Catatau, the precursor of Portuguese zombie films.
O Homem que Gostava de Zombies 2011
Tia Creuza
Tia Creuza
Tia Creuza is a lady who works in a family home, and tells in a very funny way how is the day to day in the house of the bosses, personal life and everyday things. Mockumentary made by MTV, starring Marcelo Adnet.
Tia Creuza 2011
Nos ancêtres les Gauloises
Nos ancêtres les Gauloises
Nos ancêtres les Gauloises 2011
Ruth Lyons: First Lady of Television
Ruth Lyons: First Lady of Television
Even though her program was only seen in four Midwestern cities, Ruth Lyons presided over America's highest-rated daytime TV talk show for nearly two decades! This documentary draws upon rare and previously undiscovered footage, along with comments from associates and admirers to create a portrait of an outspoken, multi-talented woman who became one of the most beloved and influential figures in TV history. Featuring the Recollections Of: Carol Channing, John Davidson, Phyllis Diller, Phil Donahue, David Letterman, Johnny Mathis, Peter Nero, Bonnie Lou, Nick Clooney, Oscar Robertson and many others, along with archival audio and video of Ruth Lyons' 50-50 Club.
Ruth Lyons: First Lady of Television 2011
Red Red Red
Red Red Red
A personal and political film about a law in Iowa that severely limits the social liberties of people with HIV. Eclectic in the presentation of its rhetoric, the film also considers broader questions like the contemporary state of queer politics, the dimensions of an identity for HIV-positive persons, and how it is that a local convenience store chain came to be called Kum 'N Go.
Red Red Red 2011
The Life of Muhammad
The Life of Muhammad
Three-part historical miniseries on the life of the founder of Islam.
The Life of Muhammad 2011
Wonders of the Universe
Wonders of the Universe
Who are we? Why are we here? Where do we come from? These are among the most enduring and profound questions we can ask, and it is an essential part of human nature to want to find the answers. We can trace our ancestry back hundreds of thousands of years to the dawn of humankind, but in reality our story extends much further back: it starts with the beginning of the universe. Professor Brian Cox tells the epic story of the universe and shows how its story is also our story.
Wonders of the Universe 2011
Timeless - Taiwan
Timeless - Taiwan
Depicting the beauty of Taiwan's "3D Taiwan shock point", the content, Taiwanese folk landscape, but also the market's first DVD films with 3D way we work in Taiwan to write his autobiography. This lifelike image appears three-dimensional over Taiwan attractions, natural scenery, shot through the 3D camera, monuments of a previously never seen out of style, especially in Taroko Gorge, the Su-Hua Highway cliff of water and other scenes, screen can show a very strong soul of momentum, 3D effects to create a large depth of field picture charm, sea, space, mountains, etc. can be presented with a sense of distance effects, very real sense of the scene. View 3D images with well-known buildings in Taiwan do not have a flavor, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Taipei 101, CKS Memorial Hall, Chihkan Tower, Confucius Temple, Eluanbi lighthouse, Longshan Temple? Buildings can show sharp edges, clear and realistic picture the three-dimensional!
Timeless - Taiwan 2011
Madagascar
Madagascar
On the east side of the island, rugged mountains rise dramatically from the palm fringed Indian Ocean. These uplands catch drenching rains almost all year round - steep and inaccessible, they are the most diverse part of the island. "Lost Worlds" travels from the highest mountains, where trees are few and it's cold enough for frost, through the lush, cloaking rainforests, down to the tropical coast, discovering the ringtailed lemurs, the jeweled geckos and the predatory wasps. So what is it that has made this narrow eastern strip in particular so rich in life?
Madagascar 2011