Popular Documentary Movies - Page 496
Indoor Garden
2019
Rising Up at Night
2024
Rising Up at Night
2024
star 6In Kinshasa, despite preparations for the construction of Africa's largest power station, the population often finds itself without electricity. The city's inhabitants, struggling for reliable power access, ingeniously utilize makeshift lights as essential means to survive their daily lives and maintain their ability to celebrate.Parteitag 64
1964
Parteitag 64
1964
star 5Impressions of a party congress of the German social democrat party (SPD) in 1964, featuring politicians Max Brauer, Fritz Erler and Willy Brandt.Barbaric Genius
2012
Barbaric Genius
2012
star 6.5The remarkable story of John Healy's rise from wino and street thief to chess master and award-winning author.The Dictators: Stalin
2023
star 8POWER. CONTROL. TERROR. The centre points of any dictatorship. The need for power, the want for tyrannical control and the subsequent terror unleashed to achieve their goals make dictators some of the most fascinating figures to study in history. In this series we will be looking at some of the 20th century's most notorious dictators, from their rise to power to their inevitable downfall.The School in the Cloud
2018
The story of TED Prize-winner Sugata Mitra’s attempt to pioneer a new form of education, seen through the eyes of children in an Indian village and in a northern British town, whose lives are being transformed by his ideas. The film poses the question "What kind of education do children need in the networked world?"Room
2005
Room
2005
star 3.9A Texan begins a cross-country journey in hope of finding the empty loft she keeps seeing in visions.Takumi: A 60,000 Hour Story on the Survival of Human Craft
2019
star 9There is a popular theory that it takes at least 10,000 hours of focused practice for a human to become expert in any field. In Japan, there are craftspeople who go far beyond this to reach a special kind of mastery. These people are called Takumi and they devote 60,000 hours to their craft. That's 8 hours a day, 240 days a year, for over 30 years. It's an almost superhuman level of dedication to a life of repetition and no shortcuts. This film asks the question: Will human craft disappear as artificial intelligence reaches beyond our limits?The Nita & Zita Project
2025
The Nita & Zita Project is the story of two Jewish immigrant sisters in the 1920’s who rose to international burlesque stardom, then became recluses and transformed into the ultimate New Orleans eccentrics.Cinéma, cinéma
1985
Cinéma, cinéma
1985
An anthology of sequences from the best films that the National Film Board of Canada produced since its beginnings. Divided by themes and presented by a trio of actors-signers (including Carle's wife Chloé Sainte-Marie) who sings the same song in between the movie excerpts. This movie celebrated the anniversary of the National Film Board in 1985.My Conversations on Film
2013
star 3.2This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert Kramer and many other visionaries and mavericks of the silver screen – as well as a book seller, a critic and a psychoanalyst – discuss what cinema has meant to them, what it is and what it could be and, implicitly, how it has changed over the 18 years in which this film was shot. Director Boris Lehman leads the charge, drawing in moments of absurdist humour and inventive camera work; he keeps things raw and spontaneous. His encounters with the now much-missed Jean Rouch and Stephen Dwoskin are particularly touching and stand testament to their personal playfulness and candour. An engaging, absorbing, epic odyssey of a movie.Spirits in the Forest
2019
star 7.3A look at Depeche Mode's final moments of their 2017 Global Spirit Tour, featuring intimate stories from select fans.The Return of the War Room
2008
star 5.7Those who played prominent roles in Clinton's 1992 Presidential campaign return to discuss how politics and the media have changed since that time.Rachel into action
2024
Rachel into action
2024
Rachel, 21, is a climate activist. While she must appear alone in front of justice for the first time, she is already preparing to go back into action.Isidora
2012
Isidora
2012
Isidora immerses itself, in the manner of a journey through time and space, in the life of Chilean playwright Isidora Aguirre (1919-2011) and in the main ones of her 30 plays, which are recreated on screen by outstanding actors. Mixing family archives, life diaries and interviews she gave at the age of 91, the film becomes the creative biography of the author of La Pergola de las Flores, her most famous work, and opens the door to the social and political issues she narrated in her theater, the utopias that could not be and the conflicts that are still ongoing in Latin America.Alé
2019
Alé
2019
The film follows a community of non-professional climbers for six months and sees the participation of the writer Erri De Luca.Vivienne Westwood Talks to Kirsty Wark
2004
Kirsty Wark interviews the fashion icon Vivienne Westwood about her career as one of Britain's most inventive and influential fashion designers. Filmed on location at her V&A retrospective, Vivienne Westwood discusses her career from the early days of designing clothes worn by the Sex Pistols to her catwalk shows. She gives an insight into how she works, including her use of very British fabrics such as Harris tweed and tartan and her reinterpretation of historic garments such as the corset and crinoline.Films to Die For
2025
Films to Die For
2025
Hebrang
2010
Hebrang
2010
star 6This TV series follows the life of Andrija Hebrang (1899-1949), a Croatian and Yugoslav communist politician. A member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia until his dismissal, he served as the 4th Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Croatia.
