Popular Documentary Movies - Page 396
The Last Year of Darkness
2023
star 6.9Bass-heavy and neon-coloured portrait of the alternative Chinese youth in a country in constant state of change that now threatens the underground club Funky Town.La Garoupe
1937
La Garoupe
1937
star 5Home movie from Man Ray while on vacation with Pablo Picasso, Paul, Nusch and Cecile Eluard, Emily Davies, Valerie and Roland Penrose. The friends have fun with themselves and performing for the camera.Transgender Nation
2019
Transgender Nation
2019
star 1Gender identification is changing rapidly and is causing heated division between the left and the right. From LGBTQ, gay, transsexual, transgender and more, lift the veil on the world of the Transgender and explore the secrets of a world most misunderstand.The Overture
1965
The Overture
1965
star 2Young men are faced with a medical commission for army recruits and asked to choose where they want to get to, at least theoretically.Fog City Mavericks
2007
Fog City Mavericks
2007
star 8.5Fog City Mavericks: The Filmmakers of San Francisco is a compelling exploration of the legendary filmmakers who call the San Francisco Bay Area home including George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Chris Columbus and producer Saul Zaentz. The special weaves interviews, commentaries and unforgettable moments from some of the most visionary movies ever created such as American Graffiti, the Star Wars film series, the Indiana Jones film series, The Godfather trilogy, Apocalypse Now, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, Toy Story, The Incredibles, Lost in Translation, Flags of Our Fathers and many others. It also features interviews with those who have worked with Bay Area mavericks: Steven Spielberg, Michael Douglas, Anthony Minghella, Milos Forman and Frank Darabont.Mad Hot Ballroom
2005
Mad Hot Ballroom
2005
star 6.9Eleven-year-old New York City public school kids journey into the world of ballroom dancing and reveal pieces of themselves and their world along the way. Told from their candid, sometimes humorous perspectives, these kids are transformed, from reluctant participants to determined competitors, from typical urban kids to "ladies and gentlemen," on their way to try to compete in the final citywide competition.Guaicurus Street
2022
Guaicurus Street
2022
star 3.5A red-light district in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The camera is admitted into a "running house". Love for sale looks like a routine, dreary assembly line exercise here, sometimes almost like a comedy.Herci
1995
Herci
1995
Facing Nolan
2022
Facing Nolan
2022
star 7.4In the world of Major League Baseball no one has created a mythology like Nolan Ryan. Told from the point of view of the hitters who faced him and the teammates who revered him, Facing Nolan is the definitive documentary of a Texas legend.Open Wide
2024
Open Wide
2024
star 5.2John Mew thinks we're all ugly. And modern living is to blame. For decades he's waged a lonely war against orthodontics and that teenage rite of passage - braces. With his son now taking up the fight, Mew's fringe theories suddenly find an enthusiastic audience online.Gather
2020
Gather
2020
star 7.2A portrait of a growing movement amongst Indigenous Americans to reclaim their spiritual and cultural identities through obtaining sovereignty over their ancestral food systems, while battling against the historical trauma brought on by centuries of genocide.The Horror Crowd
2020
The Horror Crowd
2020
star 6Revealing, intimate documentary spotlighting the Hollywood horror community.Film Rehearsal
2018
Film Rehearsal
2018
In 2014, Andrea Beltrão, Malu Galli and Mariana Lima decide to make a theatrical spectacle. Maria Flor asks to attend the rehearsals and register with her camera the process of creating the piece. While observing the actresses on the scene and accompanying the construction of the work, the girl ends up identifying in the assembly the representation of the course of her own life and her profession'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
2016
star 8.2Through never-been-seen-before footage and fascinating interviews with key members of the 1985 Chicago Bears -- Mike Ditka, Jim McMahon, Mike Singletary, and others -- you will hear the inside story of their historic season.Notre-Dame: Our Lady of Paris
2020
star 6.2This ABC documentary special provides a detailed look into the disastrous fire that ravaged Paris' revered Notre-Dame Cathedral in 2019. Firsthand accounts of firefighters, clergy, local officials and those who were inside the cathedral on April 15, 2019, as well as harrowing footage from within the inferno, tell the story of the fire watched around the world.Paralamas em Close Up
1998
"A journey within the brazilian rock history, having as guide the band Paralams do Sucesso. Interviews with Jorge Ben Jor, Evandro Mesquita, Roberto Frejat, Kid Abelha, Roger, Arnaldo Antunes and others."Hurt
2015
Hurt
2015
HURT is a documentary portrait of Steve Fonyo, a one-legged cancer survivor who successfully completed a cross-Canada run in the '80s, only to spend three decades mired in crime and addiction.Seven Wonders of the World
1956
star 5.2Seven Wonders of the World is a 1956 film in Cinerama. Lowell Thomas searches the world for natural and man made wonders and invites the audience to try to update the ancient Greek list of "Seven Wonders of the World."The Hobart Shakespeareans
2005
star 4Rafe Esquith, 1992 American Teacher of the Year and National Medal of Arts recipient, teaches 5th-grade children whose parents don't speak English at a school in a dangerous, poor, drug-infested 100% Latino/Asian neighborhood in Los Angeles.
