Popular Documentary Movies - Page 113
Marvel's Behind the Mask
2021
star 7A documentary special that explores the power of identity behind the iconic superheroes we know and love today. These legendary Marvel creations and stories have not only reflected the world outside our window – they have become a reflection of our own identities and who we truly are.Unknown: The Lost Pyramid
2023
star 7.4Egyptian archaeologists dig into history, discovering tombs and artifacts over 4,000 years old as they search for a buried pyramid in this documentary.Young Americans
1967
Young Americans
1967
star 5.7A 1967 pseudo-documentary film chronicling the travel experiences of The Young Americans choir. It was given an Academy Award in 1969, though it was revoked because it was released in 1967 and was thus ineligible, the only film in history to have done so.From Atatürk to Erdoğan: Building a Nation
2019
star 7Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as Atatürk, the Father of the Turks, founder of the modern state, and the current president Recep Tayyıp Erdoğan, who apparently wants Turkey to regain the political and military pre-eminence it had as an empire under the Ottoman dynasty.Geraldo Filme
1998
Geraldo Filme
1998
A dive into the universe of samba and black culture in São Paulo through the work of composer Geraldo Filme.Mackintosh
1968
The Matrix Revisited
2001
The Matrix Revisited
2001
star 6.8The film goes behind the scenes of the 1999 sci-fi movie The Matrix.Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940
star 5.5This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother and daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer dress worn by Joan Crawford in a recent movie. We then go to Hollywood and visit Adrian, MGM's chief of costume design, and see how multiple copies of a single clothing pattern are produced. The film ends with short segments of several MGM features.Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
1992
star 6.5Ten women in Canada talk about being lesbian in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: discovering the pulp fiction of the day about women in love, their own first affairs, the pain of breaking up, frequenting gay bars, facing police raids, men's responses, and the etiquette of butch and femme roles. Interspersed among the interviews and archival footage are four dramatized chapters from a pulp novel, "Forbidden Love".Tokyo Olympiad
1965
Tokyo Olympiad
1965
star 7.8This impressionistic portrait of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics pays as much attention to the crowds and workers as it does to the actual competitive events. Highlights include an epic pole-vaulting match between West Germany and America, and the final marathon race through Tokyo's streets. Two athletes are highlighted: Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila, who receives his second gold medal, and runner Ahamed Isa from Chad, representing a country younger than he is.Whitney: Can I Be Me
2017
The Drawings of Yves Saint Laurent
2017
star 6The sketches and drawings of iconic designer Yves Saint Laurent come to life in this documentary. Past colleagues and friends discuss his life and work while poring over some of the thousands of sketches the designer created in his lifetime.Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
2015
star 6.5Bouncing between Europe and the United States as often as she would between lovers, Peggy Guggenheim’s life was as swirling as the design of her uncle’s museum, and reads more like fiction than any reality imaginable. Peggy Guggenheim – Art Addict offers a rare look into Guggenheim’s world: blending the abstract, the colorful, the surreal and the salacious, to portray a life that was as complex and unpredictable as the artwork Peggy revered and the artists she pushed forward.Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance
2021
star 6.2The brilliant Czech writer Milan Kundera has not given an interview in thirty years; nor does he appear in public. How did he become a legendary author? What is so unique about his books?The Fog of War
2003
The Fog of War
2003
star 7.7Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from working as a WWII whiz-kid military officer, to being the Ford Motor Company's president, to managing the Vietnam War as defense secretary for presidents Kennedy and Johnson.Conscience Point
2019
Conscience Point
2019
star 5.7Exposing a painful, quintessentially American geography, CONSCIENCE POINT unearths a deep clash of values between the Native American Shinnecock and their elite Hamptons neighbors, who have made sacred land their playground.Raději dříve
1951
Raději dříve
1951
Housewives Report
1971
Housewives Report
1971
star 1.8A report style film that focuses on salacious episodes of housewives engaging in infidelity.Procession
2021
Procession
2021
star 6.6Six men who were sexually abused by Catholic clergy as boys find empowerment by creating short films inspired by their trauma.Space Dive
2012
Space Dive
2012
star 5.8In this one-off documentary, Space Dive tells the behind-the-scenes story of Felix Baumgartner's historic, record-breaking freefall from the edge of space to Earth. The world watched with bated breath when Felix became the first person to freefall through the sound barrier on 15 October 2012, after jumping from 128,100ft (24 miles) from the edge of space.
