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Popular Documentary Movies
The Funeral Murders
A new documentary by acclaimed film-maker Vanessa Engle, The Funeral Murders follows a dramatic and deadly series of events that took place at two funerals in Belfast in March 1988. Thirty years later, those who witnessed or were intimately connected to these events tell their stories. This film offers a range of perspectives - from republicans and loyalists to the security forces and family members of those who died, who share their moving stories for the first time.
Minas do Futebol
Training daily from pre-adolescence to reach the top of women's football, a group of players goes through an unprecedented moment when they win a men's championship played at times by the Brazilian elite such as Corinthians and São Paulo. After being revealed to Brazil, it's time to finally shine.
Good
Rodolphe Burger is a free musician, complex but accessible, without taboos, he mixes with others without ever losing himself on the road. He is a man who shares everything, including the stage. Including his friends and they are numerous, poets, writers, rockers, painters and philosophers.
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She Shears
In the gruelling world of competitive sheep shearing there is no women's section. Women and men compete together. She Shears is the story of passion, purpose and determination and five women for whom shearing is not just a job.
The Run
The Run is a feature length documentary film which follows Australian Pat Farmer’s test of human spirit and behind the scenes drama as he runs the length of India – 80 kilometres a day for 64 days with the backdrop of colourful, enchanting, challenging, organized chaos of India, which will saturate your senses.
Black Indians
Black Indians are inhabitants of New Orleans neighborhoods , African-Americans who gather in tribes, make the most beautiful costumes of the world, and parade in the streets like African angels disguised as dreaming indians by affirming to the face of the world the pride, beauty, and humanity of their communities. This documentary pays tribute to the Indian spirits of the land of America as do the Big Chiefs of the tribes we follow throughout the film. Musical and danced, joyful, Black Indians takes us back to the roots of call and response , a musical form that is the last living tradition of African culture and one of the sources of jazz
Inside the Royal Wedding: Harry and Meghan
In anticipation of the most talked-about nuptials of the year, Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb of NBC's "TODAY" take viewers to London to reveal exclusive insights on the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Le sous-bois des insensés
From his office at La Borde Clinic, Jean Oury recounts a life spent hosting madness. Valuable testimony of one of the major players in twentieth century psychiatry, this film invites us to share the quality of a meeting whose stakes exceed the clinical field from all sides. By drawing us closer to a subtle knowledge of psychosis, He sends everyone back to an essential reconquest of humanity.
Pat Passlof: …unexpected conversation…
“Pat Pasloff is a strong artist within a strong tradition…She has transcended some of the angst of Abstract Expressionism, without descending into something that is bland or formulaic or potentially conceptual” – David Cohen Pat Pasloff (1928 – 2011) was an ambitious abstract expressionist painter who produced large scale, fresh, and vital bodies of work. Studying under pioneering artist William de Kooning, she was able to find her own path and grow from his influence. Her patterns and grids come alive with the materiality and physicality of her paintings. Watch as Pasloff describes her experiences painting, gaining an education in art, and as her visual language of emotion comes alive.
Respect
It was a method to express oneself proudly. It was hope to change someone's life positively. It was a goal to become the best. It was the most fun thing and a way to respect each other. From the playground in Hongdae to "Show Me The Money", 12 rappers talk about rapping which has become their life. When the curtains close, that's when the true story begins.
The Heretic
There is perhaps no figure in American Christianity as polarizing as Rob Bell. Once a pastor of the fastest growing church in America and heralded as the next Billy Graham, that all changed when he began challenging the traditional understanding of hell and suggesting that heaven might be open to all. The film follows Rob with unprecedented access over several years as he challenges deeply held conservative ideals while grappling with some of the most important questions of our time: Can faith and science coexist, or do belief and progress stand in opposition? Is religion insufficient for explaining the complexity of our modern world, or does it give language to something even greater? And do spiritual traditions simply serve to further divide our world, or can they offer real help and hope for a better tomorrow?
The First Patient
A dramatic expedition into an unknown world, challenging audiences to embrace their curiosity and courage as they follow first year medical students through gross anatomy - the dissection of the human body.
Rocks and Rock
The life of a musician and an artist in Transnistria is not easy, normal work cannot be found, and you think about the meaning of life - the hand itself reaches for the bottle.
To Learn Fear
After finding a video camera containing mysterious footage, two friends try to discover the fate of its owners.
Het Hut Syndicaat
Filmmaker Diego Gutiérrez joins 'The Hut Syndicate', a mysterious group of hunters, during one hunting season and witnesses their longing to keep their vanishing world alive.
Fragments of Stars Will Fall from the Sky and Disappear
Once upon a time In Vladivostok, Russia there lived an old woman. She lived all her life with her old man. They lived like two dogs. Biting each other all time. He told her: “Do not smoke, Olya!” She said to him: “Fuck U”. So they lived happily they had children and grandchildren too. They celebrated the New Year together, until one day the old woman died. And the fairy tale here is not the end. That’s where all the fun begins. How to live further?
P.N.G Style
Papua New Guinea "Land of the Unexpected", a country of rugged mountain ranges, impassable terrain and isolated villages. With over 850 indigenous languages and cultural groups, people align themselves with their tribe before their nation. P.N.G. Style follows adventurer and one-man film crew David Fedele's 3 month solo journey through Papua New Guinea, armed only with a backpack, camcorder and traveling guitar.
Discovering Psychology
Philip Zimbardo teaches a lesson in psychology, bookended by two hilarious skits.
Repeal! Procession
A procession from Artists' Campaign to repeal the 8th Amendment of the Republic of Ireland.
Cani Nas Alturas
A small house will be suspended by more than a thousand helium balloons. The idea is for Cani to be suspended inside the house and jump with his parachute.
Namibia Today
Seven people wait in an underground station below Karl-Marx-Allee in former East Berlin.
Le rouge et le gris, Ernst Jünger dans la grande guerre
Holding On to the Farm
No one lives there anymore. So what should we do with my family’s land?
Grandmas Project – Marillenknödel
Mona Achache delivers a delicious portrait of her grandmother, Suzanne Achache–Wiznitzer, affectionately nicknamed "Mamé". Short film from the Grandmas Project, a collaborative web documentary that invites filmmakers from across the world to document their grandmothers’ signature recipes.
River Divides, Work Connects
A bridge over River Sava is being built. The opening ceremony is a festive occasion.
The End of Eternity
Every two weeks, the world loses a language and with it, a piece of human history. Ese Eja is one of the language in danger of extinction. Many stories and myths have been forgotten, but through dreams, the memory of the ancestors fight for remaining in the Ese Eja community.
Glaciers of the Winds
Glaciers of the Winds is a one-hour documentary on the scientific exploration and retreat of the glaciers in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming. WyomingPBS will look at the big picture of how receding alpine glaciers will affect the ecosystem, municipalities, farmers, and ranchers downstream.
The Water Dancers
A short documentary about groundbreaking methods of conservation in South Africa, told through dragonflies, the sentinel indicators of their environmental conditions.
My Name Is Zvonko Milenković
Documentary about Zvonko Milenković (1956-2008), a vocalist member of Rokeri s Moravu as well as occasional actor.
Neighbours
Wrinkled faces, an abandoned lot, a shadow engulfs a cat, two hands link, a banner announces the future… A film that seems like it might fade away at any moment, its temporality suspended: the people, at times, seem to be from another era, the frames recovered from a distant time. But we’re in the present day, in a neighborhood that threatens to disappear. Movement that is barely detained by small acts of resistance. "veCINES" is a collective film made by Laboratorio Reversible in the territory it inhabits: the Poble-sec neighborhood of Barcelona.
Power in my Hands
This is a film about the power of the Rosary, a Catholic Prayer. The film depicts personal stories about how the rosary has affected their lives.
Ifigenia in Aulide
Italian director Tonino De Bernardi, a regular guest at IFFR, filmed on the Greek island Evia (or Euboea) during the refugee crisis. Many immigrants arrived on the Greek islands, as well as in Italy. De Bernardi also filmed the border town Ventimiglia, where refugees play football and queue up for aid in a parking lot.
Nana
Maryla Michalowski-Dyamant, born in Poland, survived Ravensbruck, Malchow, and Auschwitz, where she was the forced translator of the “Angel of Death”, Dr. Mengele. She dedicated her post-war life to publicly speaking of her survival to the young generations, so that it would never be forgotten or repeated. Alice and Serena, her daughter and granddaughter, explore how Maryla’s fight against intolerance can continue today, in a world where survivors are disappearing, and intolerance, racism and antisemitism are on the rise.
The American Revolution - OverSimplified
OverSimplified’s comedy documentary on the American Revolution
The Band
The seven members of the gypsy band Lomnické Čháve come from a Roma settlement and dream of making it big. Sensitively observed and with uplifting music the film tells the story of their journey, struggles, enthusiasm, failures and perseverance.
Angie
Angie Meiklejohn, prominent and articulate Centrepoint survivor, is joined by her siblings in this lucid exploration of the legacy of sexual abuse, directed without a hint of sensationalism by Costa Botes.