Popular Documentary Movies - Page 372
"Years Ago, I Was Working on a Movie..."
2023
star 6We're alone in a car with the director and Tom Jarmusch, Jim's brother, who tells us stories — about the 1990s, about the city, about cinema — as we drive through New York.Dulce Patria
1984
Dulce Patria
1984
Filmed during hard and decisive years of the democratic struggle against the regime of Augusto Pinochet, it is the first film in which a group of Chilean filmmakers, without anonymity try to give a global account of the Chilean situation of those days. The film reflects the vision and personal testimony of its director about his country at that moment.Return to the Rafters
2008
"Return to the Rafters" documents fans and members of the Boston Celtics during their historic championship-winning 2007-08 NBA season.Retreat
2019
Retreat
2019
Marina and Perla join thousands of women on an annual Catholic pilgrimage. Perla's coming of age accentuates a generational divide as she struggles to assert her independence as a woman.Suffragettes, with Lucy Worsley
2018
star 9The story of the struggle for the women's vote is much more than just the account of the exploits of Emmeline Pankhurst or the tragic fate of Emily Davidson. Lucy Worsley puts herself at the heart of the drama, alongside a group of astonishing young working class suffragettes who decided to go against every rule and expectation that British Edwardian society (1901-1910) had about them…Found
2021
Found
2021
star 7.4Follows the story of three American teenage girls—each adopted from China—who discover they are blood-related cousins on 23andMe. Their online meeting inspires the young women to confront the burning questions they have about their lost history.Wait 'Til Next Year: The Saga of the Chicago Cubs
2006
Using the frame of opening day, 2006, this documentary examines the Cubs' 100 years without a World Series title. Between conversations with a half-dozen selected Cubs fans in 2006, the film looks back at the Wrigley years, sale to the Tribune, and coming oh-so-close in 1945, 1969, 1984, and 2003.Friends, Confidantes: The Keanu/Chad Partnership
2017
star 8.4An appealing look at the longstanding friendship between the two (Stahelski was Reeves' stunt double before going into directing).Into_nation of Big Odesa
2018
star 6.5In the world, there is a city-port Odesa, which was specially created as a refuge for people of different nationalities and religions. Humor is a special language that helps people from Odesa to communicate and get along with each other. Legends are spreading about Odesa's humor and accent. But - a paradox - people are constantly leaving it. It is loved, but it is left as a child leaves his mother. On the example of this city and its inhabitants, we wanted to understand - why people flee from their cities. We tried to find the answer taking pictures of Odesa citizens in Germany, Israel, Ukraine, Russia, Austria, France and other places. Michael Zhvanetskij, Roman Kartsev, Leonid Barats and Rostislav Khait Victor Loshak, Oksana Fandera, Valerij Todotovskij, Mikhail and Anatoly Kontush and many others are telling their stories and giving their opinions on what is the phenomenon of the city by the Black Sea.Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
2008
star 6.5We hear from Coppola, Spielberg, director of photography Gordon Willis, consulting restoration cinematographer Allen Daviau, film archivist Robert A. Harris, Paramount Post Production executive VP Martin Cohen, MPI senior technical advisor Daniel Rosen, MPI scanning technician Chris Gillaspie, senior digital artist Steven A. Sanchez, digital artist Valerie V. McMahon, and MPI technical director and senior colorist Jan Yarbrough as they offer interesting facts about the original cinematography, details on the restoration of the three films.Antoni Gaudi: God's Architect
2003
Documentary about Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi made for the BBC series "Visions of Space".Simply Wilde
1997
Simply Wilde
1997
Stephen Fry discusses Oscar Wilde in relation to Wilde (1997) the biopic in which he starred as Wilde, released that same year.Il mio amico Massimo
2022
Invisible
2019
Invisible
2019
Still considered a taboo topic, mental health is usually associated with craziness, mental derangement, or lack of faith. In the Philippines, there are about 3.3 million Filipinos afflicted with this “invisible” ailment, many of whom are afraid to admit it and deal with their condition for fear of being ostracized. Sometimes, warning signs are ignored and things end up tragically. In this full-length documentary, ABS-CBN hopes to destigmatize mental health by taking a more optimistic approach with stories of recovery and redemption.Hospital
1977
Hospital
1977
star 6.324 hours in the life of a hospital from the point of view of the doctors and nurses.Evelyn
2019
Evelyn
2019
star 7.3Haunted by the suicide of a brother, a director and his kin walk across the UK in an emotionally trying, visually sublime journey toward healing.The Art of Incarceration
2021
Narrated by Uncle Jack Charles and seen through the eyes of Indigenous prisoners at Victoria’s Fulham Correctional Centre, this documentary explores how art and culture can empower Australia's First Nations people to transcend their unjust cycles of imprisonment.Viva Varda!
2023
Viva Varda!
2023
star 8.1A pioneering post-war female film director, an instigator of the New Wave who was honored by Hollywood in her own lifetime, Agnès Varda has become a source of inspiration for a whole new generation of young filmmakers. With movies like Cléo de 5 à 7, Le Bonheur, Sans toit ni loi, Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse, she created a quirky, open to the world, sensitive to the disenfranchised, often silly body of work. Always one finger on the pulse, she shook everything up, including cinema itself which she refused to constrict to pure fiction or long-form films.
