New Documentary Movies on Kanopy - Page 7

Love Over Money

2024

Love Over Money

2024
Love Over Money tells the incredible true story of John Robbins, heir apparent to the Baskin-Robbins ice cream empire, who turns down a billion-dollar inheritance from his father to follow his own truth.
Hacking Hate

2024

Hacking Hate

2024
5.5
Simon Klose’s kinetic and socially-pressing documentary follows award-winning Swedish journalist My Vingren as she goes undercover online as a white supremacist in order to expose a network of neo-Nazis and far-right organizations that are viciously fostering hate speech and extremism on a global scale.
Made in Ethiopia

2024

Made in Ethiopia

2024
10
Made in Ethiopia examines China’s increasing impact on Africa through the story of charismatic businesswoman Motto, who is tasked with expanding the biggest Chinese industrial zone in Ethiopia.
Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme

2024

Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme

2024
6.6
Wannabe actor Zachary Horwitz was desperate to make it big as a movie star. The only thing stopping him was talent. Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme is a juicy true story about deception, denial, and the seductive promise of fame and fortune.
The Life & Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson

2024

The Life & Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson

2024
5
Nicole Brown Simpson's sisters and friends break their silence about her murder and O.J. Simpson's controversial trial, aiming to shed light on the truth.
Flipside

2024

Flipside

2024
6
Chris Wilcha helped adapt This American Life to television. His new documentary embodies the spirit of that show as he tries to save a New Jersey record store, in this comic yet deeply moving reflection on opportunities lost and gained.
The Klezmer Project

2024

The Klezmer Project

2024
8.3
A Jewish wedding cameraman falls in love with a klezmer clarinetist and pretends to be making a documentary in order to spend time with her. His fake project leads to a real journey through Eastern Europe in search of lost klezmer melodies and the remnants of Yiddish culture. A documentary-fiction hybrid. Winner of the Best First Feature Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning

2024

South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning

2024
FRONTLINE and The Associated Press examine allegations of fraud and abuse in South Korea’s historic foreign adoption boom. The documentary investigates cases of falsified records and identities among the adoptions of 200,000 children to the U.S. and other countries over decades.
I Am the River, the River Is Me

2024

I Am the River, the River Is Me

2024
7
Māori tribal leader Ned Tapa takes a group of friends and family on a breathtaking canoe trip down the Whanganui River in Aotearoa, as the Māori call New Zealand. The Whanganui is the first river to be recognized as a legal person. Together, this diverse group of people embraces the spirit of the river and tries to find what is needed to save the planet.
The Empty Grave

2024

The Empty Grave

2024
10
John Mbano and Cesilia Mollel are on a mission to bring the stolen remains of their ancestor back home to Tanzania. A story about loved ones kept in German museums, the power of institutions, generational trauma and resilience.
Battleground Georgia

2024

Battleground Georgia

2024
Passionate voter engagement, followed by the fury of those who spread and believed "the big lie" were dominant narratives of the U.S. elections of 2020. Ahead of the 2024 election cycle, in this installment of the Turning Point series, Battleground Georgia becomes the lens through which to view the history of racist voter suppression, the power of grass roots organizing and the tension between old institutions and new ways of thinking about what a vibrant democracy could be.
Periodical

2024

Periodical

2024
7.5
Tells the unexpected story of the human body by exploring the marvel and mystery of the menstrual cycle, from the first period to the last.
Secrets in Your Data

2024

Secrets in Your Data

2024
Whether you’re on social media or surfing the web, you’re probably sharing more personal data than you realize. That can pose a risk to your privacy – even your safety. But at the same time, big datasets could lead to huge advances in fields like medicine. Host Alok Patel leads a quest to understand what happens to all the data we’re shedding and explores the latest efforts to maximize benefits – without compromising personal privacy.
The Bad Guy

2024

The Bad Guy

2024
The gun epidemic has become so intense in the USA, that schools and community groups are now looking away from prevention and towards preparation – tolerating mass killing as part of the fabric of American life. Measures like active shooter drills and arming teachers seem an unsavoury but necessary response to keep our loved ones safe. What impact do these militarised approaches have on children’s mental wellbeing? What kind of society will they build in the future? Told through the perspective of a European new mother, who is deciding to make a life for her young family in America, this candid and urgent documentary asks what is at stake during these frightening times.
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

2024

Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

2024
7.6
Martin Scorsese presents this very personal and insightful new feature-length documentary about British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
Cat City

2024

Cat City

2024
Chicago's love/hate relationship with feral cats, and the communities who look after them.
Teaches of Peaches

2024

Teaches of Peaches

2024
8
Peaches - artist, feminist, rock star. She has been challenging gender stereotypes for over 20 years and is on par with the icons of the pop and rock world. With exclusive private archive material and current footage of preparations and concerts of her 2022 jubilee tour “20 Years of Teaches of Peaches”, we learn how the Canadian Merrill Nisker became the internationally celebrated musician and electro-clash icon Peaches.
The Click Trap

2024

The Click Trap

2024
9
Digital advertising algorithms curate content precisely for users. Major tech firms claim to restrict disinformation yet still profit from harmful content, raising ethical concerns about democracy and online capitalism.
No Horses on Mars

2024

No Horses on Mars

2024
5
A look at the daily practice of a horse-human relationship through the eyes of the mare as she travels through her world being transported, anesthetized, treated and led, infused with an unexpected sense of happiness at her own existence. The horse's point of view is the most effective element of the film. The human is introduced as an onlooker who follows, measures and takes in the horse as an object.
Finding the Money

2024

Finding the Money

2024
6.4
FINDING THE MONEY follows economist Stephanie Kelton on a journey through Modern Money Theory or “MMT”. Kelton provocatively asserts the National Debt Clock that ticks ominously upwards in New York City is not actually a debt for us taxpayers at all, nor a burden for our grandchildren to pay back. Instead, Kelton describes the national debt as simply a historical record of the number of dollars created by the US federal government currently being held in pockets, as assets, by the rest of us. MMT bursts into the media with journalists asking, “Have we been thinking about how the government spends money, all wrong?” But top economists from across the political spectrum condemn the theory as “voodoo economics”, “crazy” and “a crackpot theory”. FINDING THE MONEY traces the conflict all the way back to the story we tell about money, injecting new hope and empowering countries around the world to tackle the biggest challenges of the 21st century: from climate