Popular Documentary Movies - Page 487
Hoops, Hopes & Dreams
2025
The untold story about how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and an all-star team of civil rights activists took to basketball courts to rally young voters while winning hearts of communities, and how their strategy has echoed in contemporary politics.Taking On Taylor Swift
2022
star 4As Taylor Swift’s record-breaking Eras Tour expands around the globe and onto the silver screen, CNN’s investigation into the copyright lawsuit brought by songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler against Swift for her hit song “Shake it Off.”The End of the World
2022
The End of the World
2022
What was going on at Bennington College in the 1980s? Matthew Tyrnauer reveals the not-so-secret history of a small (enrollment: 700) liberal arts school that nurtured a shocking amount of genius. Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho), Donna Tartt (The Goldfinch), and Jonathan Lethem (The Fortress of Solitude) were standouts amongst many young creatives, who found plenty of inspiration and material within the messy realities of this collegiate petri dish.D Tour
2009
D Tour
2009
Pat Spurgeon is a professional musician whose dreams of being in a successful rock 'n' roll band have come true. But just as his band, Rogue Wave, starts to take off, his kidney starts to fail. "D tour" chronicles the life of a musician with "no back-up plan" as he's faced with daily dialysis, a grueling tour, and a search for a new kidney.69: The Saga of Danny Hernandez
2021
star 6Part investigative documentary, part real-life gangster movie, this film unpacks the life of polarizing rap sensation and internet troll Tekashi69, aka 69, while chronicling his meteoric rise and fall from fame.The Director's Notebook: The Cinematic Sleight of Hand of Christopher Nolan
2007
star 9Behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "The Prestige" (2006).Bribe, Inc.
2024
Bribe, Inc.
2024
star 10'Revealed: Bribe, Inc.' is an investigative feature documentary about what really fuels global commerce: corruption. For years a company with jet-set style and dirty hands operated in the shadows of the global oil industry with total impunity, paying multi-million dollar bribes to some of the biggest companies in the world. 'Bribe, Inc.' details Unaoil's audacious corruption, exposes the widespread damage it caused, and explains the half-hearted efforts to fight back against large-scale financial criminals that made bribery a big business. —Bribe, Inc. Production TeamCornelis - Balladen om den flygande holländaren
1986
A documentary about the poet / singer / actor Cornelis Vreeswijk. Made about a year before he died.Robert Townsend: Partners in Crime: Vol. 2
1988
Director Robert Townsend (Hollywood Shuffle) knows how to construct and, when necessary, even milk a laugh for optimal effect. This second riotous volume in the Partners in Crime collection features more ribald moments culled from Townsend's laugh-filled HBO variety show. Sinbad, David Allen Grier and Damon Wayans also star.All Eyes on Lenzi: The Life and Times of the Italian Exploitation Titan
2018
star 6A look back at the storied career of the late, great exploitation director Umberto Lenzi - as told through the director, in one of his last substantial sit-down interviews, colleagues and critics.Anderson
2014
Army Champions
1941
Army Champions
1941
star 5.7This Pete Smith Specialty short focuses on the young men who have signed up for the U.S. Army. The film uses the analogy of the speed, accuracy, and teamwork of sports and how these qualities are translated into the weapons training of American soldiers. We watch target practice by Army personnel with shoulder weapons, mortars, and various artillery pieces.Deerfoot of the Diamond
2022
star 10In late 2021, Cleveland’s baseball team was reborn as the Guardians. This documentary, directed by Lance Edmands, chronicles the saga of that name change, which has its roots in a forgotten legend named Louis Sockalexis, and the tragedy that enveloped his story more than a century ago.Quicker'n a Wink
1940
Quicker'n a Wink
1940
star 6.9In this Pete Smith Specialty short, Dr. Harold E. Edgerton demonstrates stroboscopic photography, which he helped develop. This process allows us to see in slow motion what happens during events that occur too fast to be seen by the naked eye. Examples shown here include a bullet in flight as it shatters a light bulb, the moment of impact when a kicker kicks a football, and the motion of a hummingbird's wings as it hovers.Bread
1959
Bread
1959
star 6Each day, Man must work around the clock to produce and acquire bread: throwing the seeds into earth, helping the breeding of the corn, the corn's recolt, transport to the mills – traditional or industrial ones – manipulation of the flour into actual bread, transport to a variety of locations and consumers. And then, after the consumption, the cycle restarts.No Address
1988
No Address
1988
star 8This feature-length documentary by Alanis Obomsawin examines the plight of Native people who come to Montreal searching for jobs and a better life. Often arriving without money, friends or jobs, a number of them quickly become part of the homeless population. Both dislocated from their traditional values and alienated from the rest of the population, they are torn between staying and returning home.The Making - Is This Story About Nak or Mak?
2013
ABS-CBN documentary about the 2013 film Pee Mak and an exploration about whether it is Nak's story or Mak's.Radiohead | OK Computer: A Classic Album Under Review
2006
This 53-minute film reviews the most influential album of one of rock musics true giants. The documentary includes rare musical performances never before available on DVD, and obscure footage of comments, criticisms and insights on every track from the album by; writer, journalist, and author of Radiohead: A Guide To Their Music, Mark Paytress; respected rock authority and ex-Mojo editor, Barney Hoskyns; Radiohead biographer Alex Ogg, and more. Through this DVD you can reassesses and get insight into one of rocks seminal works: OK Computer.The Art of Amália
2000
The Art of Amália
2000
star 7Documentary about the life of Portuguese Fado singer Amalia Rodrigues (1920-1999) with an interview and collection of footage from performances throughout her long career.Snowden's Great Escape
2015
star 7.3Tells the story of how Edward Snowden managed to evade capture by the US. For the first time Snowden tells the story of how he managed to escape so that not to have to spend the rest of his life in an American prison.
