New Documentary Movies on Amazon Video - Page 214

Woman

2020

Woman

2020
7.7
The film is based on interviews with 2,000 women from 50 countries, and covers the status of women all over the world. The topics covered include forced marriages, sexual assault, female genital mutilation, acid attacks, motherhood, sexuality, menstruation, education and the professional success of women.
The Last Autumn

2020

The Last Autumn

2020
6
If the world has an edge, then it is almost certainly visible from Iceland. On the outermost cape, beyond which there is only the inhospitable Arctic Ocean, lies a farm belonging to Úlfar and his wife. This autumn will be the last time their grandchildren come from the city to drive the sheep back down from the hills. An almost tangible cinematic fabric that weaves a tale of an abandoned place where the mist clings to the steel-blue surface of the sea and where the occasional human visitor is sometimes welcome.
Pretending I'm a Superman: The Tony Hawk Video Game Story

2020

Pretending I'm a Superman: The Tony Hawk Video Game Story

2020
6.4
The story of the skaters and developers who came together to create one of the best-selling games of all time, changing the skateboarding scene and pop culture forever.
Quiet Explosions: Healing the Brain

2020

Quiet Explosions: Healing the Brain

2020
6
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) impacts 2 million people per year. Professional athletes, military veterans and first-responders share their recovery stories after suffering severe PTSD and depression. Joe Rogan and Super Bowl MVP Mark Rypien, NFL running back Anthony Davis and Ben Driebergen, Marine veteran and winner of CBS’s 35th “Survivor” season, are featured in this enlightening documentary.
For Walter and Josiah

2020

For Walter and Josiah

2020
The Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana is shaken to its core by a teen suicide epidemic that claims 22 Native lives in a single year - including two high school basketball team members. 'For Walter And Josiah' follows the team during their season as the surviving members play to honor their fallen brothers and uplift their community.
Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago

2020

Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago

2020
6
Author Barry Gifford's gritty autobiographical stories of growing up in 1950s Chicago provide the backdrop for an impressionistic documentary portrait of a vanished time and place.
There’s No Such Thing as Ghosts?

2020

There’s No Such Thing as Ghosts?

2020
Do ghosts exist? In this new documentary, a filmmaker travels to rumored haunted places interviewing psychics, scientists, and skeptics in search of the truth. Along the way, his crew captures unexplained phenomena including a box that allows the dead to speak.
Autobahn

2020

Autobahn

2020
Traffic on the B61 road, which connects Rotterdam to Warsaw and cuts through the German spa town of Bad Oeynhausen, is permanently gridlocked. The promised cure is a bypass whose construction is documented for a period of eight years: the efforts of the mayor, police, fire brigade and construction companies, the delays in the construction of the northern bypass and above all the reactions of the affected residents.
With - A Journey to the Slow Life

2020

With - A Journey to the Slow Life

2020
A tale about the new worldwide trend that embraces the concept of Slow-Life: taking a step back from today's chaotic, hectic life to embrace an everyday simpler life, enjoying every step of it with all our senses.
Sisu

2020

Sisu

2020
2
SISU follows a ten person cycling team from a small community in Maine on a journey to compete in a 1,358KM race around the perimeter of Iceland. The one hour documentary combines an observational filmmaking style with elements of a travelogue and engagement of action sport. Set just after the summer solstice, the team faces rapidly changing road and weather conditions as they push forward against the 72 hour time limit. The film explores the motivations of amateur athletes pursuing a massive physical challenge and considers the role adventure plays in contemporary life.
Searching For Gerda Taro

2020

Searching For Gerda Taro

2020
10
Searching for Gerda Taro celebrates the life and work of Taro — a charismatic Jewish refugee from Germany, an anti-fascist, and a trailblazing photographer whose work would be forgotten for decades.
Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier

2020

Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier

2020
America's experiences during the Civil Rights Movement and the Space Race are well documented. However, few know about the moment these two worlds collided, when the White House and NASA scrambled to put the first black astronaut into orbit. This is the untold story of the decades-long battle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to be the first superpower to bring diversity to the skies, told by the black astronauts and their families, who were part of this little known chapter of the Cold War.
Free Burma Rangers

2020

Free Burma Rangers

2020
7.9
Free Burma Rangers is a documentary film exploring the extraordinary 20-year journey of missionaries Dave and Karen Eubank. The film follows Dave, Karen, and their three young children, as they venture into war zones where they are fighting to bring hope.
Big Enough, Small Enough

2020

Big Enough, Small Enough

2020
8
South Bend is in the midst of its most dramatic shift since the collapse of Studebaker in 1963. Today, it is at a turning point and still trying to find its footing. We held conversations with people around South Bend to capture how residents were experiencing its changes, embracing its new life, and confronting its enduring problems - thinking about it all as the mayor ran for president.
The Tale of the Dog

2020

The Tale of the Dog

2020
The Tale of the Dog is a documentary film produced and directed by Dan Obarski and Scott Montgomery. The film tells the story of the Family Dog Denver, a music venue opened in 1967 by Chet Helms' San Francisco-based Family Dog Productions and Barry Fey.
The Opium War

2020

The Opium War

2020
2
Thousands of young people are dying from using drugs in Kachin State, Myanmar. When the government is not doing enough to crack down drugs problem, the civilians formed the anti-drugs organization called "Pat Jasan" which means "Stop and Clean the drugs" in local Kachin Language, to eradicate drugs. A clash between "Pa Jasan" grups and drugs lords occurred.
Unprescribed

2020

Unprescribed

2020
Amid the opioid and suicide epidemics, military veterans across the nation are ditching prescription medications in favor of cannabis.
Whitmer Thomas: The Golden One

2020

Whitmer Thomas: The Golden One

2020
7.7
Thomas reflects on his Alabama childhood and his identity as an “aging emo kid” in LA through stories and songs on topics like dating, drinking, family and his mom’s legacy.
ReWilding Kernwood

2020

ReWilding Kernwood

2020
For three decades, Jean Aspen and Tom Irons called Alaska's remote Brooks Range home. Choosing to live lightly with the land, their family built a log cabin and explored the valley on foot-a journey they shared in books and documentaries. Now elders, the couple decide to close the circle and erase their footprints. In their third documentary, they dismantle their home and carefully restore the site to intact wilderness while exploring stewardship, responsibility, and human belonging to our living Earth. ReWilding Kernwood is a layered conversation on release, completion, and finding purpose in the shifting mystery of life.
Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations

2020

Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations

2020
2
Antisemitism in the US and Europe is spreading and is seemingly unstoppable. Andrew Goldberg examines its rise traveling through four countries to follow antisemitism and their victims, along with experts, politicians and locals.