Popular Documentary Movies - Page 360
Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations
2020
star 2Antisemitism in the US and Europe is spreading and is seemingly unstoppable. Andrew Goldberg examines its rise traveling through four countries to follow antisemitism and their victims, along with experts, politicians and locals.After Winter, Spring
2012
After Winter, Spring
2012
star 1Family farmers in southwest France practice an ancestral way of life under threat in a world increasingly dominated by large-scale industrial agriculture.Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down
2022
star 8.5The extraordinary story of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords: her relentless fight to recover following an assassination attempt in 2011, and her new life as one of the most effective activists in the battle against gun violence.This Beat Goes On: Canadian Pop Music in the 1970s
2009
Tells the story of Canadian music in the 1970s, a ground-breaking era of great sounds, from glam and progressive rock to punk and reggae.Goldwood
1975
Goldwood
1975
Kathleen Shannon describes the look and feel of her childhood to an artist friend, and uses his paintings and her visit to the ruins of the mining site where she grew up to reflect on her early life and how it influenced the adult she became.Morenitas: Jimena
2024
Morenitas: Jimena
2024
Jimena, like Hannia and Sofía in the first two parts of this trilogy, is the thread that connects the documentary. Gradually, we learn about the life of this young ballet dancer, her desires, experiences, and concerns. Additionally, a series of questions, sayings, and common phrases from Mexican culture are used to engage in dialogue with her and the other participants.Sleeping Lion
2023
Sleeping Lion
2023
star 10Chris Sharma is one of the GOATs of climbing. His first ascents of iconic boulder problems, deep water solos, and sport routes around the world have defined the cutting edge of athletic performance and aesthetic vision for the last 25 years. But it’s been a minute since we’ve seen a new “King Line” from Sharma. Now in his forties, Chris has spent the last few years raising two young kids, opening a series of climbing gyms, launching a TV show, and trying to stay in shape through it all. When he discovers a magnificent new line in the sport climbing mecca of Siurana, Spain, just an hour and a half from his house, the Sleeping Lion is awakened, and Sharma is pulled deep into the project mindset again. Becoming a self-described “extreme weekend warrior,” he juggles family and work commitments with the obsession of trying to climb one of his hardest routes ever.Tim Leary: The Art of Dying
2008
LSD Guru Tim Leary teaches us all to die by dying himself in what he calls his "custom death". This documentary deals with Mr. Leary's last days, all captured on camera by his own request.The Secret Peacemaker
2023
The story of Father Alec Reid’s complex and controversial peace plan to bring an end to violence in Northern Ireland, which eventually led to the historic Good Friday Agreement.:03 from Gold
2002
:03 from Gold
2002
star 9The 1972 Olympic men's basketball final, in which Team USA suffered their first ever loss in Games competition, was one of the most controversial events in the history of both the Olympics and basketball.Betrayal
1994
Betrayal
1994
Journalist Björn Cederberg travels to Berlin, Jena, Weimar and Rome to meet his old friend, the cultural worker Sascha Anderson. He got to know Anderson in 1983 in the GDR, where he was a central figure among opposition writers and artists in East Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg. Cederberg has a hard time believing that it is true that the media reports, namely that for 20 years Anderson has been an informant to Stasi, the East German authority that spied on its own citizens.Moon: The Battles of Space
2019
star 8.5July 20, 1969. Apollo 11 lands on the surface of the Moon. Such a feat was apparently performed to the greater glory of all mankind, but actually it marked the end of the space race disputed by the two great superpowers of the time in their eagerness to arrive before and the beginning of the spread of the Cold War into space. Nowadays, the struggle continues, but the main competitors and their purposes are others.Distress Signals
1991
Distress Signals
1991
American television programming dominates around the world at the expense of regional cultural voices.Fightville
2011
Fightville
2011
star 6FIGHTVILLE is about the art and sport of fighting: a microcosm of life, a physical manifestation of that other brutal contest called the American Dream...Con Man
2003
Con Man
2003
star 5.6The true story of James Hogue, a brilliant impostor who embraced the American art of self-invention, fabricated a spectacular series of fictional identities for himself, and successfully conned his way into Princeton University.Besvärliga människor
2001
Besvärliga människor
2001
star 2"Dificult People" - About the production process when Suzanne Osten directs the theater play ”Difficult people”, written by Nils Gredeby. It is a play about people who fail in their professional careers by ”being difficult”. It all starts with the author attending a course about how to spot the difficult people and how to fire people who sabotage or create problems at the working place. In the process the ensemble has to face questions about how we view our fellow human beings and who is considered expendable.Generation Zero
2010
Generation Zero
2010
star 3.3An examination of the causes of the global economic crisis which began in 2008, studying how decades of social changes have influenced financial systems and practices.Bayard & Me
2017
Bayard & Me
2017
star 6Bayard Rustin was the organizer of the The Great March on Washington and one of the leaders of the civil rights movement. In the 1980s, Bayard adopted his younger boyfriend Walter Naegle to obtain the legal protections of marriage. In this intimate love story, Walter remembers Bayard and a time when gay marriage was inconceivable. He reflects on the little known phenomena of intergenerational gay adoption and its connection to the civil rights movement.Body and Soul
1966
Body and Soul
1966
Short film, shot in twenty hours, about a bodybuilder who is stunned to discover he no longer has his body under control. He wonders whether all the attention he has paid to his physical appearance was worth it.Deep Rising
2023
Deep Rising
2023
star 7The fate of the planet’s last untouched wilderness, the deep ocean, is under threat as a secretive organization is about to allow massive extraction of seabed metals to address the world’s energy crisis.
