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Popular Documentary Movies
Lot 448
Lot 448, a new documentary premiering at this year’s virtual Tribeca Film Festival sponsored by Bulgari. Lynda Albertson, aforensic analyst who has made it her life mission to track down famous missing works of art and repatriate them to their rightful owners.
If You Only Knew My Father
When a filmmaker sets out across the country asking strangers to delve into the abuse and hurt caused by their fathers, it forces him to look inward and address the same hurt he never realized he carried.
Classic Albums: Suede - Coming Up
SKY ARTS presents Suede's Coming Up (released on Nude Records in 1996) in the Classic Albums series.
Fogão a luz
Backed by an echoed horn music, the light passes through a magnifying glass. On the walls, they portrait pans being held on top of a stove.
The Unlikely Fan
She’s a Sri Lankan born, Dallas-based, retired teacher and mother. She’s also crazy about basketball. Meet “The Unlikely Fan” who knows a thing or two about hoops.
O Amor Dentro da Câmera
O AMOR DENTRO DA CÂMERA is an essay documentary that tells the story of Conceição and Orlando Senna, pioneers of Audiovisual, who live a romance of almost 60 years, crossed by the History of cinema and Latin America. Intimate and metalinguistic, portrayed in the warmth of the home and through archival materials, when telling a love story, it takes us through the cinematographic and political networks that have woven across the continent.
Andre Matos: Maestro of Rock
"Maestro do Rock" started when Andre Matos himself authorized recording interviews where he would talk about his life and the different phases of his career. Directed by Anderson Bellini and produced and scripted by Thiago Rahal Mauro, the document had it starting point in a long interview where Andre Matos spoke for over 5 hours about all sort of different subjects. With his sudden passing in 2019, the family yielded this material as well as hundreds of other ones from his personal archives so that this film could be finalized.
A Weave of Light
An anthology film shaped by six people who share their desires and imagination. Each part works towards a whole which is concerned with perception and being perceived.
Quarantine
A short film of the first weeks of strict national lockdown, filmed in Barcelona on a classic home video camera Hi8. Narrates the story of three women who share a flat and who create a microworld not only to survive the global pandemic but also to survive themselves.
Renée Nyberg: The Kidnap of Ulrika Bidegård
Journalist Renée Nyberg meets showjumper Ulrika Bidegård, who in 1993 was kidnapped and kept locked up for five days while the police launched an extensive search operation. Now she and her family are talking about the terrible days and life afterwards.
Someone Waits For Me
The story of five lesbian and gay seniors in the Northwest Florida region as they navigate coming out, identity, politics, and the challenges and victories inherent in the gay experience. The film weaves together interviews with fictionalized interludes of magical realism that capture their feelings and experiences.
Sunrise
I experience conflict everytime I stand towards a landscape. I am always suspicious of the established relationship of seduction that takes into account the current acceleration of time through technology towards the body. An erotics of speed. While on location, I try to understand how these invisible relationships between history of speed, capital, libidinal economies, technological evolution, landscape photography and cinema in itself can create moments of disruption around terms like territory, land belonging, race and citizenship.
Newborn Sky: Women in the Democratic Army of Greece
After the liberation of Athens from German occupation in 1944, a new era followed in Greece. Conflicts broke out between those who had fought against the Germans and those who had collaborated with them and the British Army. After the military defeat of the former, the signing of the Treaty of Varkiza signaled the start of the White Terror. Houses were set on fire, people were raped, beaten, murdered, imprisoned, and exiled. All this drove the persecuted men and women to take to the mountains, where they would form the cornerstone of the Democratic Army of Greece. In this documentary, the women fighters of the Democratic Army tell their stories. Women who were persecuted, women who consciously chose to fight, women who were conscripted to the cause, together they constitute the mosaic of experience of a civil war.
Breathe
A documentary about the female inmates at the penitentiary of Can Brians 1. The film gives a voice to imprisoned women and reflects on the current prison system exploring if the judicial system is favorable to women from a health care, hygiene and bioethics point of view.
Intimidator: The Lasting Legacy of Dale Earnhardt
20 years after Dale Earnhardt's death in the 2001 Daytona 500, ESPN explores the legacy of the legendary NASCAR driver in an E:60 documentary airing just prior to the 2021 running of the event.
The Force of a Smile
Follows the story of Carla Sarni (Antônia Morais), a young woman who sold clothes as a bag seller to pay for dentistry school. After graduating, Carla starts working at a clinic, buys the office where she was an employee and opens her first business. To do this, she receives help from her husband Cléber (Sidney Sampaio), a former soldier who left the military to help her with the office's accounting and become a dentist.
Some Women
With bracing honesty, filmmaker Quen Wong shares her journey as a transgender woman in Singapore—from her days as a teenage boy coming out to her uncommonly supportive family, to the present as a woman about to marry the love of her life. Locating herself within the local trans community, the documentary also weaves in interviews with different generations of trans women including ‘Anita’, a former legend of Bugis Street—a world-famous stomping ground for trans women in the 1950s to the ’80s—and Lune LOH, a trans youth activist.
The Soldier
The Danish war veteran Henrik returns home from Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress. After a series of failed treatments, he travels deep into the Amazon jungle to heal himself with natural remedies and the world's strongest hallucinogenic drink, Ayahuasca. 'The Soldier' follows Henrik's struggle in the jungle for three full years, and is an inner portrait of a broken man.
Water & Wall
The Dutch settler town lying beneath Manhattan’s current financial district seen through a mosaic of material remains and landscapes, an entanglement of things past and present.
Heaven
Tomáš Etzler worked for seven years as a foreign correspondent in China. He came to know a country that was developing at an admirably fast pace, was swayed by its energy, and for a moment believed that modernity could bring about political change as well. Before long, it dawned on him that many people would continue to be severely punished, and the regime would still keep most of the nation in a state of indecision and ignorance. Without neglecting that face of China today, Etzler chose to tell a story of hope in his personal documentary. Using the example of an orphanage for disabled children, he shows that the answer to collectivist brutality and ruthlessness can be mutual assistance, tolerance and empathy.
Gwen Stefani: Not Just a Girl
Gwen Stefani continues to reinvent herself and create incredible and infectious pop music year after year. Only the future knows what the next chart topping hit will be for this California Girl turned international pop Queen.
For My Right To Choose And Be Chosen
Panamanian women tell their struggle to overcome inequality and discrimination in the political and public sphere and for the right to universal suffrage which they obtained in 1946.
Mãe Solo
The stories of two single mothers, bringing with them some essential reflections on how the responsibility for raising children falls on women and exposing the issues surrounding the lack of support and acceptance.
Framing Sutherland
In a series of short portraits the documentary tries to establish a dialog with the Christian painting The Broad and The Narrow Way, to illustrate some of the spiritual and existential challenges of the South African community of Sutherland.
The Tram Goes to the Front
For the besieged Leningrad, the primary need was bread. But it was equally important to ensure the smooth operation of transport communications. In order for the city to live, people had to go to the factories, soldiers - to the front; it was necessary to transport a huge amount of cargo… The most indispensable transport was the tram.
Excluded by Design
Writer and community organizer Dave Meslin thinks that bad public notices are hurting our democracy—and he's calling on graphic designers to show us what we're missing.
Michael James - Happiness of Being
Happiness does not exist in any external object. It arises within us. Eternal happiness is our only true nature. Author of “Happiness and the Art of Being,” Michael James, joins Hale Dwoskin in this episode of “Letting Go & The Greatest Secret.” Michael lived in Tiruvannamalai from 1976 to 1996, spending the first eight years studying the teachings of Bhagavan Ramana under the clear guidance of one of his foremost disciples, Sri Sadhu Om, assisting him firstly in the translation of Guru Vācaka Kōvai, and later in the translation of Bhagavan’s own writings. Learn more about Michael at www.HappinessOfBeing.com.
The Power of the Fed
When COVID-19 struck, the Federal Reserve stepped in to try to avert economic crisis. As the country's central bank continues to pump billions of dollars into the financial system daily, who is benefiting and at what cost?
Classic British Cars: Made in Coventry
Find out how the cars were crafted and discover the secret family stories behind the most famous marques including Riley, Standard, Triumph and Jaguar. Legendary racers Rosemary Smith, Pat Quinn and Norman Dewis share their memories of competing Coventry’s cars in some of the world’s most dangerous motorsport events. And, meet the people passionate about preserving the city’s extraordinary motoring heritage.
Irani Bag
Using excerpts of films produced between 1990 and 2018, Irani Bag is a split-screen video essay questioning the innocence of bags in post-revolution Iranian cinema.
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Love Yourself Today
The film centres around the music of Irish singer-songwriter Damien Dempsey but also turns the lens onto his fans. Love Yourself Today is an emotive celebration of modern spirituality and the power of music to heal.
The Communion of My Cousin Andrea
Andrea’s communion takes place in a small Galician church, according to ancient traditions. Fortunately, with her filmmaker cousin and the help of some technical tools, the little girl takes matters into her own hands.