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2014

Popular Documentary Movies

Comic Book Heaven
Comic Book Heaven
This short documentary follows 81 year old Joe Leisner, owner of Comic Book Heaven in Sunnyside, Queens, NY as he cantankerously assesses the status of his business, the comic book industry, and his future.
Comic Book Heaven 2014
Gnomebrook
Prime Video
Gnomebrook
Once a year 2000 garden gnomes and 10,000 gnome carers gather in the sleepy mountain hamlet of Glenbrook, for the Annual Australian Garden Gnome Convention.
Gnomebrook 2014
Alumbrones
Prime Video
Alumbrones
This documentary feature looks at the work and lives of twelve contemporary Cuban artists, living in Havana today. Through in-depth interviews, the film covers a diverse range of subjects and issues, from supply shortages and constant blackouts ('apagones') to family life, love, sex and music. Visiting each person in their home and studio, the film explores the varying styles, techniques, themes, philosophies and ideas present in their work. Through this is revealed the many obstacles and difficulties that are faced on a daily basis and the feelings each person has towards the place they call home.
Alumbrones 2014
Zembrocal
Zembrocal
From America, England, France, Italy and Japan. From each corner of the earth, five climbers – Sam Elias, James Pearson, Caroline Ciavaldini, Jacopo Larcher and Yuji Hirayama – attempt to open a new multi-pitch route on the basalt island of Reunion. Lost in the South Indian Ocean, Reunion is the childhood home of Caroline and, after traveling the world for several years as a professional climber, returning was something she had to do. By working together as climbers and friends, the team is able to open, ground-up, one of the hardest multi-pitch rock climbs in the world.
Zembrocal 2014
Palisades in Palisades
Palisades in Palisades
For this video, Palisades in Palisades, 2014, Rose wanted to expand both her conceptual concerns and her cinematographic repertoire. “I was learning how to make a shot in relation to the content,” she explains, “and how the shots were metaphors for pure sensual material.” The artist accomplished this by using a remote-control camera that could zoom from 200 feet away all the way up to the pores in an individual’s skin. She chose to shoot in New Jersey’s Palisades Interstate Park, a onetime Revolutionary War battleground turned landscaped circuit park that sits atop an ancient cliff.
Palisades in Palisades 2014
The Hospice
The Hospice
At the hospice, the average remaining time for patients is 21 days. These patients prepare for their deaths. Park Soo-Myeong is 40 something year old man who is also a husband and father. Kim Jung-Ja is a mother of two sons. Park Jin-Woo was a math teacher. Shin Chang-Yeol lived a lonely life.
The Hospice 2014
N: The Madness Of Reason
N: The Madness Of Reason
N recounts the story of the Frenchman Raymond Borremans, who left Europe for Africa in the mid-20th-century. He devoted his life to the creation of the first encyclopaedia of this other world, dreaming of eternal recognition. He died, however, having only reached the letter N. With his encyclopaedia incomplete, his restless spirit drifts around West Africa, caught between life and death, past and present. This is the story of how he tries to complete his unfinished task from beyond death. N is both visually and musically a truly striking film. It is a multi-layered audio-visual symphony of great narrative richness. Hovering between dream and reality, this magical film plays on the confrontation between the Western mind and African spirituality.
N: The Madness Of Reason 2014
Good luck finding yourself
Good luck finding yourself
My mother will die. Jutta interprets the diagnosis of an incurable cancer as a spiritual crisis. Accompanied by Rainer Langhans, to whom she has a deep friendship since over 40 years, Jutta travels to India and goes on the search for a healing experience from within.
Good luck finding yourself 2014
Pretty Faces: The Story of a Skier Girl
Pretty Faces: The Story of a Skier Girl
Pretty faces is an all female ski film featuring the best athletes from around the world in celebration of playing outside, pushing the sport of skiing and living up to our fullest potential as a supportive community. Inspired by the desire to offer young girls role models and inspiration to play outside, this film aims to capture all the girl stoke from the pioneers who have paved the way to the "never-evers" who will continue to define what it means to ski like a girl.
Pretty Faces: The Story of a Skier Girl 2014
Anthony Fokker
Anthony Fokker
A documentary about the extraordinary life of Dutch aviation pioneer and an aircraft manufacturer Anthony Fokker.
Anthony Fokker 2014
Princes of the Yen
Prime Video
Princes of the Yen
Set in 20th Century Japan the documentary explores the role and power of Central Banks and how they can be used to change a country's economic political and social structures A documentary adaption off the book by Professor Richard Werner.
Princes of the Yen 2014
Hidden Memory
Hidden Memory
We follow the filmmaker's struggle to reconstruct a period of her life when she lost her memory.
Hidden Memory 2014
Arvydas Sabonis 11
Arvydas Sabonis 11
The film - an open, sincere, warm and funny story about Arvydas Sabonis life and career. This is particularly characteristic of a T-shirt with the number 11 worn out 2.20 m tall basketball giant Olympic and world champion, portrait.
Arvydas Sabonis 11 2014
Mugshot
Mugshot
Originally a law enforcement tool, the mug shot has deviated from its fundamental purpose as a source of criminal identification. It has been sensationalized through celebritydom, exploited by the leniency of freedom of information, and has captivated the attention of the art world. Mugshot explores the personal stories of those whose lives have been transformed by these iconic photographs.
Mugshot 2014
Extol: Of Light and Shade
Extol: Of Light and Shade
A documentary about the Norwegian Christian death metal band Extol.
Extol: Of Light and Shade 2014
When Under Fire: Shoot Back!
When Under Fire: Shoot Back!
The Bang Bang Club were four fearless young photographers who set out to expose the reality of Apartheid in South Africa - a battle that changed a nation but wound up almost destroying them.
When Under Fire: Shoot Back! 2014
Film Is Not a Sausage: Borowczyk and the Short Film
Film Is Not a Sausage: Borowczyk and the Short Film
A documentary about Walerian Borowczyk's short films and animation, featuring his collaborators from that time.
Film Is Not a Sausage: Borowczyk and the Short Film 2014
KISS Kruise IV
KISS Kruise IV
KISS Kruise IV 2014
Never a Dull Moment
Never a Dull Moment
Never a Dull Moment is a film based on the photography and autobiography of Sam Waagenaar. The autobiography sketches a life filled with surprising turns by a bon-vivant who loved traveling and who – apparently without planning in advance – successfully rolled from one job to another. With the title of his unpublished autobiography Never a Dull Moment, Sam Waagenaar also provided a striking and succinct description of his own life. In the 1930s and 1940s, he was publicity manager for MGM, operetta singer in France and correspondent and actor in Hollywood. As war correspondent, he was present at the liberation of Paris and Auschwitz. From those years on, he developed in photography and from 1946 he travelled the whole world as a journalist/photographer. The life story of Sam Waagenaar provides an insight into how he looked at the world and how he experienced a series of events in the 20th century.
Never a Dull Moment 2014
FOOL COOL ROCK! ONE OK ROCK DOCUMENTARY FILM
FOOL COOL ROCK! ONE OK ROCK DOCUMENTARY FILM
Why do they arouse enthusiasm in Japanese audiences? How can they attract audiences from all over the world? Here is the answer
FOOL COOL ROCK! ONE OK ROCK DOCUMENTARY FILM 2014
For Those About to Rock. The Story of Rodrigo y Gabriela
For Those About to Rock. The Story of Rodrigo y Gabriela
The amazing and inspiring journey of Mexican guitarists ‘Rodrigo y Gabriela’ who at a very young age decided to do only what they loved the most: music.
For Those About to Rock. The Story of Rodrigo y Gabriela 2014
Above All Else
Above All Else
A former stuntman and high wire artist puts his family and future on the line when he rallies a group of East Texas landowners and activists to blockade the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.
Above All Else 2014
Babies are Murdered Here
Babies are Murdered Here
Babies Are Murdered Here, is the new controversial pro-life documentary that examines the truth about abortion and the single biggest failure of the pro-life movement, not calling abortion what it really is...Murder.
Babies are Murdered Here 2014
Red Alert
Red Alert
Sloan, shocked to discover a rumour that redheads are going extinct, does some investigating and discovers the truth.
Red Alert 2014
Those Who Feel the Fire Burning
Those Who Feel the Fire Burning
As a group of refugees tries to enter Europe illegally by boat, a storm suddenly appears and all hell breaks loose when an old man falls overboard. His perception shifts into another dimension: a dark, hallucinatory place. Driven by a mysterious power and desperately in search of his loved ones, his soul passes by the everyday reality of many castaway refugees at the border of the alleged paradise, Europe. The old man's spirit observes people on the street being chased away like dogs, follows an illegal worker and a drug-addicted mother and slips inside crowded refugee shelters. Wandering through this limbo, the old man questions the meaning of his existence.
Those Who Feel the Fire Burning 2014
Beauty Is...
Beauty Is...
Beauty Is... the film by community educator and guerrilla film maker Toyin Agbetu asks ‘what is beauty?’ and examines the answer from a philosophical position through discussions on hair, skin shade, body image and character. It's a serious, yet often humorous cross between Chris Rock's "Good Hair" and Bill Duke/D. Channsin Berry's "Dark Girls" documentaries with some sensitive Oprah styled interviews mixed in. The film explores the risks posed by chemical straighteners and skin bleaching, it shares insights on conditions like Vitiligo and Alopecia whilst discussing the impact of biased media on children and personal relationships. Backed by a global campaign to challenge governments and the pharmaceutical industry, this is edutainment that may just change your life.
Beauty Is... 2014
Tolonen
Tolonen
In the early 1970s, the internationally celebrated Finnish guitarist Jukka Tolonen chose to continue his promising solo career instead of joining the bands of artists such as Cat Stevens and Abba. However, by the late 90s, Tolonen found himself living on the street in Stockholm and ended up in prison in 2008 for assaulting his girlfriend. The documentary is a story of letting go, surviving and finding a new beginning. It also sees Tolonen’s music live on in the hands of young musicians.
Tolonen 2014
Tabatô
Tabatô
Mutar, who fought in the war, is back in Guinea. In his luggage, he brings strange objects. Fatu, his daughter, takes the opportunity of Mutar's absence to open his bag. Shortly afterwards, Fatu's boyfriend Idrissa finds Mutar with his hand soiled in blood and Fatu dead. It is then that Idrissa picks up a drum.
Tabatô 2014
A Viagem de Yoani
A Viagem de Yoani
Portrait of the polemic visit of the blogger Yoani Sanchez throughout Brazil, showing the activist's background in Cuba, in order to discuss freedom of speech in the world today.
A Viagem de Yoani 2014
The Mother Grain
The Mother Grain
As the international consumption of quinoa rises. The Mother Grain looks at how this increasing demand is affecting quinoa farmers. Bear Witness Pictures traveled to the Bolivian quinoa-growing communities surrounding the world's largest salt flat, the Salar de Uyuni, witnessing their lives first-hand to tell the story of quinoa from the perspective of the farmers themselves.
The Mother Grain 2014
Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek
Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek
When the graves of former slaves are bulldozed in Mississippi, a native son returns to protect the community they settled - a place now threatened by urban sprawl, hurricanes and an unprecedented man-made disaster.
Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek 2014
Above the Fray: The Lessons of Dukakis
Above the Fray: The Lessons of Dukakis
The story of that race as told by the Democratic Presidential Nominee, Michael Dukakis. From his rise to national prominence to his crushing defeat at the hands of Vice President George H.W. Bush, “ABOVE THE FRAY” underscores the personal and political drama of 1988, revealing the stories behind the strategic missteps of the Dukakis campaign. With NBC News reports and never-before-seen footage, it’s a cautionary tale about what it takes to win and why it’s necessary to engage a political opponent when the chips are down. An original documentary for NBC LEARN, by Will Rabbe of HARDBALL on MSNBC. MSNBC.com debuted “Above the Fray” as part of the launch of its digital-only, streaming video channel Shift.
Above the Fray: The Lessons of Dukakis 2014
Basilio Martín Patino. La Décima Carta
Basilio Martín Patino. La Décima Carta
A documentary on the work of filmmaker Basilio Martín Patino.
Basilio Martín Patino. La Décima Carta 2014
Mentor
Prime Video
Mentor
Mentor, Ohio: largely white, largely upper middle class, and listed as one of the Top 100 Places to Live in the United States. Its attraction for immigrants and others has proven to be a deadly illusion.
Mentor 2014
This Is Not a Ball
This Is Not a Ball
Documentary that explores the world's passion for soccer. The documentary follows acclaimed Brazilian artist Vik Muniz throughout the creative process for his new artwork leading up to the biggest sporting event in the world.
This Is Not a Ball 2014
Dorothea Lange: Grab A Hunk of Lightning
Prime Video
Dorothea Lange: Grab A Hunk of Lightning
More than four decades of 20th-century America are filtered through Dorothea Lange's life and lens. Known for her powerful images from the Great Depression, her haunting Migrant Mother remains emblematic of that period.
Dorothea Lange: Grab A Hunk of Lightning 2014
Berkshire Goes Balearic
Berkshire Goes Balearic
Charting the untold story of the Balearic sound, and how hedonism gripped the hearts, minds and dance floors of the English Home Counties, fueled by the freewheeling party island of Ibiza.
Berkshire Goes Balearic 2014
Ronald
Ronald
One man - Joe Maggard, one supersized pair of big red magic shoes. Over 99 billion served. Superhero Ronald McDonald leaps into action at a moments notice and fights Childhood Obesity.
Ronald 2014
Mobilize
Prime Video
Mobilize
Mobilize is an explosive investigative documentary that explores the potential long-term health effects from cell phone radiation, including brain cancer and infertility. This thought-provoking film examines the most recent scientific research and the harsh challenges politicians face trying to pass precautionary legislation. Featuring interviews with expert researchers, major mobile phone associates and prominent politicians, Mobilize illuminates how the power of money can compromise public health.
Mobilize 2014
Monsterman
Prime Video
Monsterman
A film about the monster of Lapland, Mr. Lordi, who after winning the Eurovision Song Contest loses everything, almost everything.
Monsterman 2014