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Popular Documentary Movies
The Doctor From India
An Indian doctor introduces the West to an ancient health care system called Ayurveda.
Bei Bei
A legal and political drama with two extraordinary women at its center: one, a Chinese immigrant charged with first degree murder and the other, a successful white collar lawyer who unwittingly finds herself defending a woman against legally unprecedented charges.
Young Solitude
Claire Simon portrays an important time for any individual, from 16 to 18 years of age. Set in the Paris suburbs in high school (for those lucky enough to go), teenagers chat after and even during class, sitting in the hallway or outside on a bench, looking at the city below them.
All Voices are Mine
All Voices are Mine is a remake of a film that was never made in the first place. A dream in broad daylight in which Basir Mahmood assembles his scenes in an elliptical sequence of calm, surreal motifs.
After the Sirens
The suicide rate among Canada's first responders has reached crisis level and continues to rise each year. What's behind this?
Change in the Family
Director Sam Hampton brings heart to this transgender-transition film with a story of celebration, health, and unconditional love. A much-needed portrayal of biracial trans and gender-nonconforming lives in America, this documentary chronicles the transition of Zo Thorpe and the sympathetic response of his family. But CHANGE IN THE FAMILY is about so much more than the transition experience; it speaks to the complexity of young adulthood, being a person of color, having a biracial identity, and coming out as trans and gender-nonconforming. Zo’s story provides hope for a time when portraying this type of experience is no longer so unusual.
Calais Children: a Case to Answer
When the Calais Jungle was taken down in 2016, 2000 lone refugee children were left abandoned. What happened to them next? Sue Clayton takes on the fight to get then to safety.
One Table Two Elephants
One Table Two Elephants is a cinematic ethnography created by Jacob von Heland and Henrik Ernstson that deals with race, nature and knowledge politics in the postcolonial city
The Great Game
An old, ailing general is losing his memory. His anarchist son wants to connect. They share a passion for the Wild East, where grandfather was a famous explorer among Mongol tribes. He died under mysterious circumstances in 1948 in Afghanistan. Rumors say he was a British agent and gunrunner. Michael, the grandson, takes his father Søren out of the nursing home. He wants him to taste life, and he wants them to spend time together. The odd couple travel across China. They encounter temples, chiefs, and ancestors who reveal that the grandfather was a true Lawrence of the East. A man who fought to unite the Mongol tribes and defend them against the Soviet Reds.
Madam Mars: Women and the Quest for Worlds Beyond
As a new space age dawns, have women come far enough to go farther than they ever have before? This film tells the story of the role women have played in the exploration of Mars.
The Radicals
With breathtaking cinematography, The Radicals is a documentary film that follows four snowboarders and surfers driven to become social and environmental stewards through their connection with the environments in which they play. By enjoying and appreciating their natural surroundings, these awakened athletes introduce us to some of the worlds most dedicated activists and game-changing wilderness initiatives that can actually change the world.
The Age of Solzhenitsyn
A film about the work and life of the Nobel Prize in Literature Alexander Solzhenitsyn and some people from his closest circle. The film is dedicated to the centenary of the writer.
Man on Fire
Grand Saline, Texas was a sleepy, unremarkable town--until a white preacher lit himself on fire to protest the town's racism in 2014.
Afghan Cycles
"Afghan Cycles" is a feature documentary about a generation of Afghan women who are pedaling their own revolution, aggressively challenging gender and cultural barriers using the bicycle as a vehicle for freedom, empowerment and social change.
One of the Guys
What defines a man? With the support of her chain of command, Corporal Virginie Lamarre, veteran of Afghanistan, officially becomes a man in the Canadian army.
Mountain
Springtime in northern Albania sparks the herding of goats from the lowlands, up to the towering mountainsides. Prek Gjoni is moving his livestock with the help of Jovalin. Will broken shoes and an umbrella suffice for the 4-day walk?
The Exaggerated Life
Film made with the archive material of the Catalan avant-garde poet Vermell. This philosophical comedy focuses on the years of Vermell's youth. An anxious artist who wonders himself, What is art? Immediately he throws himself on the murky waters of creation. A delirious walk through Barcelona and Paris at the end of the 20th century. The exaggerated life is a story about the dream of art and the unstoppable power of youth, passion and love.
Unfinished Symphony
80 talented students of primary and secondary music schools – laureates of prestigious domestic and international competitions, from Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, represent a tangible example of the fact that reality in the Balkans cannot be reduced to conflicts.
Light in the Darkness
In this brand new featurette, directors Guillermo del Toro (The Devil's Backbone), Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Till Dawn), and Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) explain what makes Night of the Living Dead a very special film and discuss its lasting impact on the horror genre. The featurette was produced exclusively for Criterion in 2017.
To Be Far
In september 2017 Samira comes from Iran to Sarajevo, BH for the first time to shoot a documentary. She tries to connect with the country and people. In order to find people who traveled from far places like her, she attempts to visit a refugee center, but all she finds are closed gates as she isn't allowed to see anyone.
The Capital Project
Although small in population, the music scene in the city of Fredericton, New Brunswick, is rich in talent across a wide range of genres including rock, punk, hip-hop, metal, country, pop, jazz, classical, and everything in-between. The Capital Project focuses on the tightly knit community and their relationship to The Capital, a music venue and bar that has served as a lynchpin of the live music scene for over a decade.
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Living the Light: Robby Müller
For her extraordinary film essay, Living the Light, Director and Director of Photography Claire Pijman had access to the thousands of Hi8 video diaries, pictures and Polaroids that Müller photographed while he was at work on one of the more than 70 features he shot throughout his career; often with long term collaborators such as Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch and Lars von Trier. The film intertwines these images with excerpts of his oeuvre, thus creating a fluid and cinematic continuum. In his score for Living the Light Jim Jarmusch gives this wide raging scale of life and art an additional musical voice.
You Are My Friend
Follow the vivacious six-year-old Branche, who has recently arrived in the Netherlands from Macedonia with his parents. Branche goes to school for the first time, but he doesn’t speak the language and doesn’t know anybody. Finding a friend isn’t all that easy.
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Eingeimpft
Just like many other parents Jessica and David, the director of this movie, spend a lot of time researching vaccinations for children. Whilst David understands it as a matter of course, Jessica is more than alarmed about the side effects. They try to figure out the best option for their daughter. David actively investigates and speaks to scientists and doctors from different countries. A sudden outbreak of measles in their Berlin neighbourhood forces them to make a decision: Will they vaccinate their daughter or not?
David Bowie Is Dead
Started in 1993, finished in 2018. "David Bowie Is Dead" is a road movie in and out of london.
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The Rest I Make Up
Maria Irene Fornes is “America's Great Unknown Playwright.” When she stops writing due to dementia, a friendship with a young writer reignites her visionary creative spirit, triggering a film collaboration that picks up where the pen left off.
Benching: The Art of Watching Trains
The tradition of watching graffiti on subway trains is passed down to a new generation.
Jag var också med
Astrid Askberger is thinking about different kinds of activism now and when she was a child and followed her mother to demonstrations.
Gimme a Faith
Evangelical Christians in the Bible Belt try to convert newly arrived Chinese international students.
Trace into Infinity
Documentary about the life and work of Oliver Dragojević, famous Croatian singer.
Segundo subsuelo
A Portuguese photographer, an architect and an emblematic building of the City of Buenos Aires, crossed by a common history, but at the same time particular. Segundo Subuelo is a documentary film about the obstinacy of memory, about the search for truth and about two characters traveling together a city with labyrinths that only they know.
Souterrains
An exploration of the world of animation director and cartoonist Diane Obomsawin.
When Pigs Come
Dragoslava has four TV sets, three grandchildren, two best friends, and a husband with whom she fights over a remote control. She keeps her private archive of memories of all major events in recent political history of five countries in which she has lived, without ever moving from her apartment. She is a trained poll monitor, passionate about her right to be in the minority, but more and more desperate as another early election approach.
Second Nature
Driven by the problem of marine plastic pollution, two designers collect nets from the bottom of the sea and, with 3D-printing, transform them into symbols of marine beauty.