Popular Documentary Movies - Page 407
Redlight
2009
Redlight
2009
star 10A powerful feature documentary about child sexploitation, an epidemic happening in every country around the world. Filmed over a four year period, REDLIGHT focuses on the personal stories of young Cambodian victims and two remarkable advocates for change: grass-roots activist Somaly Mam and politician Mu Sochua. Using gritty footage smuggled out of brothels and harrowing testimonials, REDLIGHT follows the plight of several current and former child sex slaves. Some are trying to regain entry into Cambodian society to find some semblance of normality after their horrific experiences. Other stories highlight the plight of victims who are attempting to bring the perpetrators to justice. Their torturous yet ultimately heroic battles to find witnesses and take brothel owners to court are dramatically brought to life in this topical and moving feature documentary.The Making of Lawrence of Arabia
2000
star 10Documentary about the making of the epic 1962 film, with reminiscences from surviving cast and crew.According to Plan: The Making of 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'
2006
star 8.4Special feature documentary following the cast and crew through the making of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.Punitive Damage
1999
Punitive Damage
1999
The story of New Zealander Helen Todd's law suit against an Indonesian general that she pursued after her son, Kamal, was shot dead in the Dili massacre in East Timor.Thin Air
1999
Thin Air
1999
An extremely rare and hard-to-find documentary short by director Ashim Ahluwalia. Thin Air chronicles the lives of three magicians against the backdrop of contemporary Bombay and offers a refreshingly complex vision of urban life through three illusionists who have little option but to confront reality.Untamed Romania
2018
Untamed Romania
2018
star 7.9Untamed Romania provides insight into the stunning natural wonders of Romania, with the Carpathian Mountains, the Danube Delta, and Transylvania as its major areas of interest.Hamlet: This Is Your Family
2001
A provocative and ironic pamphleteering documentary about the making of Christoph Schlingensief’s Nazi-'Hamlet’ (2001). Both a media event and a form of political action Schlingensief let ex-neo-Nazis play themselves. His provocation in so-called Nazi-free Switzerland was not appreciated and when he added fuel to the flames by calling for the local political party SVP to be banned, his media offensive made front-page news far beyond Switzerland.Hitler's Museum
2006
Hitler's Museum
2006
One and a half years before the begin of the Second World War during the annexation of Austria in March of 1938, Hitler conceived the megalomaniac idea of creating the largest European art center in his home town of Linz. At the beginning of the war on the 1st of September 1939, not only did his armies advance but also his art thieves began to fan out in their great foray of art plundering; an expedition on a previously unheard of scale began. Not only did the task forces of diverse National Socialist organizations pillage the occupied countries; Nazi bigwigs like Goering also took whatever they felt was valuable. This documentary includes the long and eventful journey of an exceptional masterpiece of European art: the Ghent Altar, created by van Eyck.Angeles FC
2025
Angeles FC
2025
Christian, a former organized crime member, seeks redemption by founding Ángeles Soccer, a team that trains kids and women on a once crime-ridden lot in one of Mexicali's most dangerous neighborhoods, aiming to rebuild the community he once harmed.Letzte Ausfahrt Gera: Acht Stunden mit Beate Zschäpe
2016
star 7Beate Zschäpe has broken her silence, but her statements raise doubts. The docudrama shows how interrogators tried to find out the truth from her in 2012.Miss Sharon Jones!
2015
Miss Sharon Jones!
2015
star 7.1Two-time Academy Award® winner Barbara Kopple shines a powerful, inspiring and entertaining spotlight on contemporary soul queen Sharon Jones. As she prepares to release her much-anticipated new album, Sharon comes face to-face with the greatest challenge of her life: a grave cancer diagnosis. Follow this tour de force over the course of an eventful and remarkable year as she struggles to hold her band The Dap-Kings together while battling her way back to the stage with the unstoppable determination of a true soul survivorThe Pythons: Somewhere in Tunisia, Circa A.D. 1979
1979
star 7.1Ten years ago exactly, more or less, give or take a day or two, six young men sat down, or maybe stood, or perhaps some of them just lounged, and wrote the first episode of a new series called Owl Stretching Time. They were called Graham Chapman , John Cleese, Terry Gilliam , Eric Idle,Terry Jones and Michael Palin and later both they and the series became known as Monty Python 's Flying Circus . Today they are the best known British comedy group in the world, famous from Cathay to Kathmandu, from Sydney to Sidcup (except in Japan where the programme is called The Gay Boys' Dragon Show ... say no more). To commemorate their tenth anniversary a BBC team tracked them down in the deserts of Tunisia where they were filming their Life of Brian and almost persuaded them to examine the genesis, the genius and the gender of Monty Python.Bleeding Audio
2020
Bleeding Audio
2020
An intimate portrait detailing The Matches' promising career, defeating break up, and inspiring reunion as they reflect on what success truly means for musicians in today's digital industry. The Matches' story overlaps with the drastic changes the music industry has undergone in the past several years. From declining record sales, to excessive touring, to illegal downloading and streaming.Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth
1992
star 5.7Presented by the late literary critic Edward Said, this thirty-seven minute 1992 documentary reflects on director Gillo Pontecorvo's youth and politics in an attempt to understand his approach to filmmaking.Bigg Snoop Dogg | Raw N Uncut Volume 1
2003
Feel like a guestlisted VIP with this all-access look at the 31st-birthday bash of gangsta rap superstar Snoop Dogg. Recorded in 2003, RAW N UNCUT captures all the musical, sexual, and pharmaceutical decadence expected of such a pimped-out event, offering candid and revealing documentary footage of some hardcore partying, as well as guest appearances by P-Diddy, Warren G, Soopafly, Battle Cat, Bishop Don Magic Juan, E-White, Julio G, Goldie Loc, and many of Snoop's closest family and friends.MacArthur
1999
MacArthur
1999
MacArthur is a 1999 television documentary film about Douglas MacArthur, a United States General of the Army. Produced by PBS for The American Experience (now simply American Experience) documentary program, it recounts the significant events and controversies in MacArthur's life, from childhood to his death in 1964. Written and produced by Austin Hoyt, directed by Hoyt and Sarah Holt, and narrated by David Ogden Stiers.Killing Oswald
2013
Killing Oswald
2013
star 6.5From the director of RFK Must Die, Killing Oswald explores the mystery of how and why John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald were assassinated in 1963, tracing Oswald's strange transformation from US Marine radar operator in Japan, monitoring U2 spy planes over Russia; to 20-year-old Marxist defector, decamping to Moscow threatening to share military secrets with the KGB; to pro-Castro activist in New Orleans and self-proclaimed patsy in Dallas.New Earth
1933
New Earth
1933
star 6.8The film is a documentary portraying a struggle as man tries to subdue nature. To prevent flooding and for purposes of land reclamation, the people of the Netherlands struggle and succeed in building a breaker, thereby eliminating the wild inland body of water once known as the Zuider Zee (now called Ijsselmeer).KANDYTOWN LIFE
2023
Tsukiji Wonderland
2016
Tsukiji Wonderland
2016
star 7.9Through the lives of professionals working at Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo, the film portrays how Tsukiji has been the center of fish culinary culture and helped Japanese food culture to flourish as we know it today.
