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Popular Documentary Movies
Chonda Pierce: Unashamed
Top selling female comedian, Chonda Pierce, is unashamed of her stand for Christ. Chonda will make you laugh and think as she boldly proclaims the truth of the Gospel to a hurting world. Chonda takes a journey into the hearts of the faithful as she engages some of the boldest believers in America. Mike Huckabee, Danny Gokey, the Benham Brothers and others tell their stories of speaking truth to our culture…no matter the consequences. Only Chonda can communicate deep and meaningful truth and make you laugh at the same time. Chonda is unchained, unrestrained and UNASHAMED!
Ojumo Ti Mo
Three years after their father passed, a documentary acts as the perfect stage for a family of four women to talk through their experiences of their loss. Somewhere between distance and time, phone calls provided each person the space to tell their own stories Ojumo To Mio and its director Simisolaoluwa Akande were the winners of the We Are Parable present Who We Are short film competiton, a contest to highlight the work of 16-19 year-old Black British filmmakers, part of We Are Parable's online takeover of BFI Player.
Jürgen Klopp: From the Black Forest to Europe's Football Throne
At a similar pace to that at which German football coach Jürgen Klopp won over the whole of Germany with his charisma and conviction for the then still unknown style of full-throttle football, he is now conquering England's traditional heart of football with Liverpool FC. In parallel with the Reds' rise as a top European team, Klopp's authentic and emotional approach to the national footballing shrine of Anfield has won him all-round respect and enormous popularity on the Mersey and among Liverpool's nationwide fanbase.
The Spirits Just Understand Our Language
Only six elders of the Manoki population in the Brazilian Amazon still speak the indigenous language, an imminent risk of losing the means by which they communicate with their spirits. Although this is a difficult subject, the younger ones decide to narrate with images and words their version of this long history of interaction with non-indigenous, talking about their pains, challenges and desires. Despite all the difficulties of the current context, the struggle and hope echo within the dimensions of a short film, indicating "the manoki idiom will live!"
The Announcement
How do you learn to talk about death when you are a future doctor? Mathilde and Fabian will be entering a residency next year. I'm looking at the gestural dialogue and language strategies that take place during the delicate moment of a "announcement" consultation. I am trying to understand how words, although they do not directly cure the disease, sometimes help to remove the fear it engenders.
Words Can't Go There
The extraordinary journey of John Kaizan Neptune, a California surfer turned Japanese shakuhachi master who became the world's leading player and innovator of this traditional instrument, as told through his son's perspective.
SEASON 1: We are NYXL
In-depth documentary about the NYXL's highs and lows during the inaugural season of Overwatch League with never seen before behind the scenes footage.
1940: Taking over French Cinema
Paris, 1940. German occupation forces create a new film production company, Continental, and put Alfred Greven – producer, cinephile, and opportunistic businessman – in charge. During the occupation, under Joseph Goebbels’s orders, Greven hires the best artists and technicians of French cinema to produce successful, highly entertaining films, which are also strategically devoid of propaganda. Simultaneously, he takes advantage of the confiscation of Jewish property to purchase film theaters, studios and laboratories, in order to control the whole production line. His goal: to create a European Hollywood. Among the thirty feature films thus produced under the auspices of Continental, several are, to this day, considered classics of French cinema.
In The Mountains
The story of a family that left a successful life in Moscow and arrived in the Artsakh village. The head of the family is an Armenian, his wife is Russian, his daughter still remembers life in Russia, but speaks more and more about the Armenian nature and the importance of life on the land of ancestors.
Lluvia de jaulas
Popular neighborhoods that are open-air prisons. Where beauty flirts with violence. The kingdom of the insubordinate children, veterans of the lead. A garden of amputated flowers, which with crutches on their backs, still grow and dance.
Rapidly Evolving Human with Spencer Wells
Renowned geneticist and author Spencer Wells reveal how changes in our genetic code have fueled major changes in our appearance and capabilities and why scientists believe we're continuing to evolve rapidly today. By understanding these changes, we are better prepared for the future.
Acting Straight
Directors Willem and Tofik take a closer look at their own experiences and engage in conversation with other gays about their position in the gay scene. Where one consciously distances himself from strict expectations, the other seems to be losing out. Acting Straight exposes an uncomfortable truth. Pride may be their motto, but the fear of not being masculine enough has gripped many gays.
The "Mother" Trilogy
I - (MMXIX) Mére du Moment II - (MMXX) Tnemom ud Erém III - (MMXXI) The Mother of The Moment A trilogy of cuts for E.C. Lewin's short film "Mére du Moment", over the course of three years. This is a documentation of evolution. Though amateur and flawed as the film is, Lewin's sense of pride is clear. With each cut the definition of mother shifts. In Part I the mother is the setting. In Part II the mother is the figure of creation. In Part III Lewin becomes the mother. They are the mother looking at their child.
Given Away
What does it mean to adopted and brought up far away from your country of birth? In “Given Away,” this week’s moving new Op-Doc by directors Glenn and Julie Morey, Korean adoptees who grew up in Western countries reflect on the complicated emotional terrain that they’ve navigated in their lives. Glenn Morey was himself adopted from Korea in the wake of the Korean war, and the directors have channeled that connection to create a beautifully nuanced and emotional film. As the Moreys write of Glenn’s experience interviewing adoptees, “He has needed others like him … to help him make sense of his life. They have also helped him make peace with the universe.”
Mumbai’s Midnight Gardeners
Two night shift workers reflect upon their loves, lives and losses as they work their way around Mumbai after dark.
Past Perfect
Many cities or countries have a distinct malaise. They are places that could be Portugal, so sunk in a painful longing of the past, and where each tension of the present is only the tip of an iceberg that is explained in successive retreats that can go straight until origin of the species, at least. This feeling common to many latitudes is often presented as a diagnosis, a denial of a painful present as opposed to the desire to return to a glorious past.
Up Close and Personal
Join Ray Comfort as he shares the gospel with gang members and defense attorneys in what has been called the murder capital of America. Compton, infamous for gang violence, sidewalk assassinations and drive-by shootings, is, according to the FBI, the number one city in the United States for rape, robbery, assault and murder. Its homicide rate is a staggering eight times higher than the national average. In the one city, more than 50 street gangs vie for control of a massive crack cocaine and methamphetamine market. But watch how using the biblical principles taught by The Way of the Master cut through to the consciences of even hardened gang members.
The Gifts of Time
In THE GIFTS OF TIME, Guzzetti focuses not on his own family members but on his longtime friends, men and women he’s known for half a century or more, inviting them to reflect on this stage of their lives, on the choices they’ve made as they’ve grown older, and on their attitudes towards mortality
Erlebnis Erde: Norwegen – Zwischen Fjorden und Fjells
mySELFie
At the age of 12 Maya lost all of her hair. Within a couple of weeks she turned completely bald. The diagnosis: Alopecia areata. It causes Maya's body to reject every single hair like a foreign object. Two years later she has gotten used to her baldness. But summer is a brutal time for her. It's too hot to hide under a wig or a hat. Then, Maya feels naked, and she asks herself: How do others perceive me? Am I alright the way I am? Am I beautiful? Almost like a way to provide the answers, Maya takes lots of selfies, just like her friends. And somewhere in between swiping, liking and sharing, the girls are growing into young women. MySelfie is a documentary that observes the levels of self-perception and external perception that Maya and her friends are experiencing. It is not about narcissism but about searching and finding one's inner self, and eventually self-love. A coming-of-age film that portrays the self-exploration of a whole generation by looking at Maya's story.
The Lake and The Lake
In the peripheries of a polluted lake in Bangalore, India’s Silicon Valley, the act of observation is interrupted by flying foam, noxious gases, daydreams, and questions from passers-by. Despite its spectacular toxicity, the lake remains a valuable resource and refuge for counter publics.
To The Street!
The first Russian documentary film about the phenomenon of street music. This story is about how artists with different social status, education, views of the world were united, once the decision was made - to go out and turn it into a stage. Underground passages, subway cars, avenues, parks and squares are their battlefields for the indifference of passers-by; the opportunity to do what you burn from; to be heard; a sense of freedom and independence; searching for your audience; a step on the way to the stadiums; not uncommon and just a way not to die of hunger.
Le monde parfait
A documentary without comment that shows life in a shopping center during a year. It shows the center and the seemingly effortless ways it pushes humans to consume.
Mother's
The portrait of the family of a Brussels drag queen composed of four generations in their dressing rooms during a show. As facial features ae covered by multiple layers of makeup and imbibed in alcohol, jokes are made and they open their hearts and tackle certain difficult questions.
Jay Cocks and Farran Smith Nehme on 'The Heiress'
In this 2018 Criterion Collection program, screenwriter Jay Cocks and film critic Farran Smith Nehme discuss the adaptation for the film version of 'The Heiress' (1949) of the 1947 play by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, which was itself inspired by the 1880 Henry James novel 'Washington Square'.
Jessica's Tree
Film-maker Jazz Thornton recounts the last 24 hours of Jessica's life, speaking to those close to her to understand what her passing can teach us about suicide.
Cines de Video
A group of ex-projectionists from different parts of Peru prepared to show a film in which they themselves are the protagonists; alongside former patrons and managers, they reveal their most intimate and unforgettable experiences in the cinemas that have aged along with them.
Mothers of the Land
MOTHERS OF THE LAND accompanies five women from the Andean highlands in their daily struggle to maintain a traditional and organic way of working the land.
