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Popular Documentary Movies
Heavy Metal Portugal - O Documentário
The untold history of Portuguese Heavy Metal with: Moonspell, Tarantula, Thormenthor, Ramp, Sacred Sin, Arte & Ofício, NZZN, Braindead, Bizarra Locomotiva, Heavenwood, Procyon, and many more.
The Ambassadors
Rivers and Suwichakornpong’s first collaboration, commissioned by the 2018 Thai Biennale.
Sweden: Lessons for America?
It's been suggested that Americans would be better off if the United States was more like Sweden. Do the Swedes know something that we don't? Sweden: Lessons for America? A Personal Exploration by Johan Norberg delves into the economic and social landscape of the Swedish scholar's homeland. Join him to see that the lessons to be learned from Sweden may not be the ones you expect. The one-hour documentary follows Norberg on a journey through the history of Sweden's economic rise, from one of the poorest countries in the world to one of the most prosperous. The program illuminates key ideas and enterprises that sparked the reform and continue to help Sweden maintain its lofty economic position, including freedom of the press, free trade, new technology companies, crazy jobs and even an old Swedish superhero.
Tala om sex – Ottars liv
The legendary sexual enlightenment Elise Ottesen-Jensen (1886-1973), nicknamed Ottar, was the first to speak about the unspeakable. She was a traveling lecturer on contraception, childbirth and the woman's right to her own body in the 1920s and 30s. Despite the fact that it was forbidden. Ottar was born in a Norwegian high-church environment where her mother Karen gave birth to 22 children.
Wildlife: Resurrection Island
National Geographic wildlife filmmaker Bertie Gregory takes audiences on an adventure to iconic South Georgia Island. Sailing through the roughest ocean on the planet in a 50-foot boat, his team's target is the sub-Antarctic island, known for its breathtaking scenery and high concentration of wildlife. It's a life of extremes for Antarctic fur seals. Bulls fight to the death for breeding rights, while seal moms work to raise their adorable pups.
The Great Silence
For the past half-century, humanity has been listening for alien radio transmissions, but so far we appear to be the only ones broadcasting into the void. Astrobiologists now seek to narrow down the search by looking for other technological and biological signatures. In this video, I explore some of the methods by which they hope to do so, and why the great silence of the universe is such a mystery.
Truth and Lies: Waco
Twenty-five years after the 51-day standoff and deadly siege on David Koresh and the Branch Davidian compound, new details and survivor revelations come to light.
Handwerkskunst! Wie man eine Pfeffermühle drechselt
Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt
The life and art of Christopher Pratt. 'Canada's most famous living painter' - The Globe & Mail. This is the first feature-length documentary that Christopher Pratt has agreed to participate in. An honest, funny, eloquent, bizarre, and sometimes unsettling account of his life and art, and an extremely important cultural document.
Vienna Calling
A documentary road-movie following the journey of a grave-robber, who travels in a caravan to Vienna, to return stolen teeth of Strauss and Brahms. The teeth, which he stole himself.
Between Two Crossings
Between Two Crossings بين معبرين is a documentary film that follows the journey of Nour, a Palestinian student from Gaza who had a scholarship to enroll in Portland State University in the United States. But in order to get there, Nour struggled to find a way to travel through the only two gates separating the Gaza Strip from the rest of the world: Erez Checkpoint, controlled by Israel; and Rafah Crossing, controlled by Egypt. The documentary is a presentation of the extreme restrictions of freedom of movement that Gaza has endured for decades and shines a humanizing spotlight on everyday people navigating the anxiety of waiting and attempting to cross the border.
Wax And Feathers
A man searches for a loved one's remains in his fragmented memories and dreams.
Uzbek Elegy
In this film you will see labour emigrants from Uzbekistan who for many years have been working in a car wash and a vehicle service station in Almaty (Kazakhstan).
The Making of True Stories
The making of a film about a bunch of people in Virgil, Texas.
The Tent
Shoemaker Babayev's stall will soon be liquidated, according to a statement from the city's beautification committee. Only the oriental mantras of the poet Nizami can save the shoemaker.
But Now Is Perfect
God, or fate, has brought Becky Moses to Europe via Libya from her native country Nigeria, on the run for an arranged marriage with an elderly man. Never would she have thought she would end up in Riace, a mountain village in Calabria (southern Italy) that has become world famous by its open-door policy for immigrants by the flamboyant mayor Domenico Lucano. Through the eyes of Becky and her fellow villagers, we witness how the shrunken Italian community lives together with the new, mostly African, inhabitants.
1968 Movement of Educated Youths Going to the Countryside and Mountains
Despite the increasing number of people entering the field of documentary filmmaking, historical subjects are less popular due to limited materials and the difficulty in handling them. Hu Jie has chosen to stay in this field and work hard. "I know that shooting these historical subjects is very dangerous, so how can you ask others to do it? It can only be their choice after they have seen your work." Since 2014, due to health reasons, Hu Jie has not been actively making documentaries. This year, in response to an invitation from the Lung Ying-tai Cultural Foundation, he still provided the film "A Sidelight of the 1968 Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement." Over the past three years, he has primarily engaged in printmaking, producing about 70 to 80 pieces, in addition to many small print bookplates.
Escape
JaBig, a Montreal-based DJ, is on a quest to beat the record for the longest continuous bike ride in a single country. Join him on the last day of his ride to discover what happens when you stop listening to all the reasons why you shouldn’t, and listen to the voice inside you, telling you to go.
Paleo Impulse
Paleo is a video clip shoot at the famous homonymous music festival in the French canton of Vaud in Switzerland, where many hippie-techno-pagans gather every summer since 1977. The editing style is a tribute to the reworking of psychedelic theories and the New Age proliferation within rave culture in the early 90s from the perspective of the late second decade of the new millennium. In the footage, the ritual ingestion of psychedelics is symbolically replaced by a liberating dance through a powerful fast montage that epitomizes the frenzy of intoxication achieved through psychedelic plants. A revival of a revival of a revival.
Alexandrychi
The film is dedicated to memory, historical, national, individual. Two protagonists, an experienced man and a young teenager with a mustache. One of them heads a private museum dedicated to the expedition to find the site of the Battle of the Ice, the second is carried away by boyish joys. But behind the routine of daily affairs, both are constantly looking for an answer to the questions, who am I, who are my ancestors, what is the history of my people?
Song for the Jungle
Calais, a few weeks before its clearing.The 'Jungle' is a place where thousands of migrants live and wait to go to England, or just that somebody takes care of them. And they wander in this deserted place, maybe to survive to our indifference.
The End of Darkness
For multiple generations from a small Bosnian mining town, the dark coal mine Breza is the fulfillment of professional dreams and a symbol of progress, as well as the cause of the biggest tragedy. Sakiba, an enthusiastic woman with strong opinions, stands tall among the majority male miners. She can’t get her head around division of jobs to ‘female’ and ‘male’, an opinion she has fought since she landed a miner’s job at the age of nineteen. Walking down the dark tunnels with loose safety regulations, she talks about appreciation for natural light and retirement, when she hopes to try some new mindfulness techniques her colleague reads about online. Sakiba was never welcome to drink along a male colleagues in a local bar when payday comes, but she ends up dancing to the beats of well-known Yugoslav rock band celebrating her hero.
The Extravagant Genius
A documentary film "Extravagant genius - gentle uncle: Nikola Tesla correspondence with relatives," the media exclusivity that displays the last man alive who met with Nikola Tesla. Tesla's eighty-grandson after her sister's line of William Terbe (Trbojevic), native American premiere confesses about his relationship with close family genius who is very influenced by his scientific and practical work.
Carlotta's Face
We all share the same kind of brain yet everybody has a different view of the world around us. As a very intriguing example, Carlotta vividly explains how a world without faces does look like. She suffers from the miswiring of a tiny brain region that makes it impossible for her to see and remember faces as a complete construct, called prosopagnosia or face blindness.
SANGHARSH (TIMES OF STRIFE)
Shot in Uttar Pradesh in the late 1990s just after the BSP lost political power and the BJP took over, Sangharsh takes us deep into the lifeworld of Dalit Panther activists in the state. By following three activists, one is taken on a rough trip in the slums and villages of Kanpur region, where these characters are determined to continue spreading the revolutionary messages of Ambedkar, come what may despite the backlash, and in a creative way. It is an emotional journey into the urge to struggle in order to assert one's humanity, when humiliation, exploitation and violence remain always around the corner.
Waiting for a Miracle
A woman’s greatest joy is giving the gift of life to a new human being. Her deepest sorrow – the loss of a child. This very personal and touching film is not about death, it is about the beauty of life and how miraculous it is that we are alive. Waiting for a miracle was never planned to be filmed. It was dictated by the unique unusual situation, and life was the main scriptwriter. The director hopes that her work can be therapy for people in similar situations.
18 Years Old and I Think I'm Having a Heart Attack
What does it feel like to have a panic attack? In this animated short from our Arts x Radio collaboration, Vancouver-based filmmaker and illustrator Karla Monterrosa animates a clip from CBC Radio'sCampus to imagine what it's like inside an 18-year-old's mind and body during her first attack.
The Kid A 9/11 Theory
The journalist Chuck Klosterman went on a road trip and wrote a book. He described in detail how the album Kid A by the band Radiohead had predicted 9/11. Klosterman even described what event was happening at what timecode of the songs. This film is a visualization of Klosterman's idea.
Bare With Me
A film that questions our relationship with the naked body and what it means for society. For those that regularly remove their clothes socially, the naked body breaks down barriers, gives back choice and builds a trusting community. Can we learn anything from them?
My Dad, the Peace Deal and Me
Documentary in which Patrick Kielty, whose father was murdered by paramilitary gunmen, returns home to explore the legacy of Northern Ireland's peace deal, 20 years on.
The Bolsonaro's Myth
To understand the obsession with federal deputy and presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro (PSL) and how his network of support is structured on the internet, VICE went to São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul to investigate its largest bases of support in the country.
