Popular Documentary Movies - Page 298
Divers
2025
Divers
2025
An elite group of athletes gathers under one of the world’s tallest permanent diving platforms.Eastern Heroes: The Video Magazine - Volume 1
1995
Eastern Heroes: The Video Magazine - Volume 1 is a Documentary on Hong Kong cinema.The Hills of Qaytariyeh
1969
A strange and mischievous documentary on an archeological site in the Qaytarieh hills in Tehran. This short narrates the story of the dead people who wished never to be found.Earth's Greatest Enemy
2025
In Abby Martin's second feature documentary, Earth’s Greatest Enemy reveals a hidden truth behind the climate crisis: the role of the U.S. military as the world’s largest institutional polluter. Drawing on powerful testimonies from veterans, scientists, and frontline communities, it uncovers how military operations poison ecosystems, accelerate global warming, and sacrifice the future for endless expansion. From Alaska’s melting glaciers to contaminated bases across the U.S. and toxic battlefields abroad, Earth’s Greatest Enemy delivers a provocative and unflinching examination of the untouchable institution playing an outsized role in the climate crisis.Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses
2011
An intimate look at music and history of Nirvana. The documentary serves as a companion and contextual backdrop to the exhibition at MoPOP.Beside Bowie - The Mick Ronson Story
2017
star 8.2Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story is a documentary about the life and work of Michael "Mick" Ronson, the guitarist, songwriter, producer and arranger who, in the early part of his career, performed with David Bowie as one of the 'Spiders from Mars'.Autumn Fires
1977
Autumn Fires
1977
Actor Martyn Sanderson returns in 1977 to the Hokianga of his youth and visits his elderly and romantic aunt, Olive Bracey. Her reminiscences of pioneer life mesh with nostalgic songs and readings from her fiction.Picture of Light
1994
Picture of Light
1994
star 6.7A documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba to film the Northern Lights.Détour Ceausescu
1990
Détour Ceausescu
1990
After the Romanian Revolution reached its peak during the Christmas Holidays of 1989, Romania’s Communist patriarch and his wife Elena were sentenced to death by a military court and accordingly gunned down. Chris Marker’s short video-collage Détour Ceauşescu documents how the execution was depicted by France’s national TV-channel TF1.Weegee's New York
1948
Weegee's New York
1948
The best known, "Weegee's New York" (1948), presents a surprisingly lyrical view of the city without a hint of crime or murder. Already this film gives evidence, here very restrained, of Weegee's interest in technical tricks: blur, speeded up or slowed-down film, a lens that makes the city's streets curve as if cars are driving over a rainbow. - The New York TimesBURN X
2022
BURN X
2022
star 10The follow-up to the firefighting movie BURN. 12 years in the making, BURN X explores stories and introduces characters never seen before...and continues the journey for many of the Detroit firefighters audiences met in the first film.Vini Jr.
2025
Vini Jr.
2025
star 5.9Vini Jr. has it all: talent, resilience and boldness. Follow his dancing, unpredictable feet on his inspiring journey to becoming a global soccer star.Covid Messages
2021
Covid Messages
2021
‘Covid Messages’ is a video in six parts, based around broadcasts of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s COVID-19 press conferences. The work focusses on the British government’s attempts to eliminate the virus through the use of magic spells and rituals. While the pandemic spreads and the death toll rises, the Prime Minister makes repeated errors of judgement. Exasperated by his many mistakes, the spirits of the dead rise up and intervene.Africa Adventure
1954
Africa Adventure
1954
star 1A true film account of a three-month safari in the big game hunting areas of the Dark Continent, undoctored with any faked plot or contrivance.The Making of ‘My Own Private Idaho’
2005
star 5.4Making-of documentary of Gus Van Sant's 'My Own Private Idaho'.The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
2013
star 10Actor Martin Sheen narrates this newly produced, feature-length high definition documentary, touching on the film's timelessness and legacy before diving into the story of its development, production and release.Umano non umano
1969
Umano non umano
1969
star 5.9Artists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances.ASMR Breakfast
2019
ASMR Breakfast
2019
An ASMR food experience that goes beyond cinema and deep into your brain. This is something you would watch first thing in the morning to get inspiration or on the wall of a famous art museum or right before bed, as you dream about the meal to come.Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989
2024
star 9Archival film maestro Göran Hugo Olsson has assembled—from a vast catalogue of footage in the vaults of Sweden’s national television service SVT—accounts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as witnessed and represented by Swedish journalists. Stories of the beginning of the Israeli state interwoven with the Palestinian struggle for independence. News coverage with Yasser Arafat and interviews with Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban during a visit to Sweden unseen since first broadcast. From the tenth anniversary of Israel’s founding to the First Intifada, perspectives and encounters with statesmen, civilians, revolutionaries, and intellectuals tell the story from myriad angles of an evolving media landscape, revivifying a history of the ongoing conflict.The Rape of Europa
2007
The Rape of Europa
2007
star 7.4World War II was not just the most destructive conflict in humanity, it was also the greatest theft in history: lives, families, communities, property, culture and heritage were all stolen. The story of Nazi Germany's plundering of Europe's great works of art during World War II and Allied efforts to minimize the damage.
