New Documentary Movies on Plex - Page 133

The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield

1968

The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield

1968
3
Jayne takes us on a review of her last world tour. She takes us through Rome, shares a fantasy about Roman athletes, and then is off to Cannes. She takes a trip to the nudist colony on the Isle of Levant, where she almost kind of joins in. Then it's off to Paris, where she gets a beauty treatment from Fernand Aubrey, and attends some racy dance revues. In New York and Los Angeles, she visits some topless clubs and listens to a topless all-girl pop band. The film wraps up with some posthumous footage of her family in mourning.
Greyhounds of the Sea

1967

Greyhounds of the Sea

1967
Buster Keaton Rides Again

1965

Buster Keaton Rides Again

1965
7.3
In the fall of 1964, just over a year before his death, Buster Keaton traveled to Canada to make The Railrodder, a short subject that now enjoys a small cult following. Documenting this mobile production in fascinating and unexpected detail, Buster Keaton Rides Again offers a rare glimpse of the comedy legend’s temperament, philosophies, hobbies, marriage (his third), and the occasionally combative creative process behind the scenes. An intimate look at one of cinema’s most enduring legends.
Espionage Target: You

1964

Espionage Target: You

1964
Intended for military personnel and civilians in sensitive positions abroad, the film shows three playlets involving foreign agents maneuvering Americans into passing valuable intelligence to the Soviets or Red Chinese. It emphasizes the need to be wary of seemingly friendly strangers, whether one is in Europe or Japan.
David Susskind Archive: Interview With Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

1963

David Susskind Archive: Interview With Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

1963
The historic interview that stopped JFK in his tracks...
Sky Above and Mud Beneath

1961

Sky Above and Mud Beneath

1961
5.8
In September, 1959, six Europeans leave Cook's Bay on the southern coast of Dutch New Guinea, now West Papua or Irian Jaya, to trek north to the far side of the island. The journey (450 miles, as a crow flies) across unmapped territory took seven months; three Muyu porters died. Near both coasts, the expedition met villagers who invited them to observe rituals and live with them. In the interior, all villagers kept them at bay, and they depended on air lifts from Hollandia for food and supplies. They climbed above 10,000 feet, built 14 bridges, and fought leeches and malaria. The narrator focuses on describing Stone Age savages, headhunters, and cannibals.
Jazz on a Summer's Day

1960

Jazz on a Summer's Day

1960
7.2
Set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from day to night and from improvisational music to Gospel. It's a concert film that suggests peace and leisure, jazz at a particular time and place.
The James Dean Story

1957

The James Dean Story

1957
5.3
Released two years after James Dean's death, this documentary chronicles his short life and career via black-and-white still photographs, interviews with the aunt and uncle who raised him, his paternal grandparents, a New York City cabdriver friend, the owner of his favorite Los Angeles restaurant, outtakes from East of Eden, footage of the opening night of Giant, and Dean's ironic PSA for safe driving.
Men Don't Know About It

1957

Men Don't Know About It

1957
This is a distinctive example of a documentary film revealing the disparity between the official gender discourse and the social reality of the Polish female.
Rhythm and Blues Revue

1955

Rhythm and Blues Revue

1955
6
Rhythm and Blues Revue is a plotless variety show, one of several compiled for theatrical exhibition from the made-for-television short films produced by Snader and Studio Telescriptions, with newly-filmed host segments by Willie Bryant. Originally 86 minutes, the "short" version available on public domain collections and websites is missing a reel
A Queen Is Crowned

1953

A Queen Is Crowned

1953
7.1
A lavish documentary film of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation in 1953.
Triangeldrama

1952

Triangeldrama

1952
A film about the sculpture "Belt Buckles" by J.P. Molin.
Kon-Tiki

1950

Kon-Tiki

1950
7.5
"Kon-Tiki" was the name of a wooden raft used by six Scandinavian scientists, led by Thor Heyerdahl, to make a 101-day journey from South America to the Polynesian Islands. The purpose of the expedition was to prove Heyerdal's theory that the Polynesian Islands were populated from the east- specifically Peru- rather than from the west (Asia) as had been the theory for hundreds of years. Heyerdahl made a study of the winds and tides in the Pacific, and by simulating conditions as closely as possible to those he theorized the Peruvians encountered, set out on the voyage.
Nazi Concentration Camps

1945

Nazi Concentration Camps

1945
7.7
Produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Hermann Göring and twenty other Nazi leaders, this film consists primarily of dead and surviving prisoners and of facilities used to kill and torture during the World War II.
The True Glory

1945

The True Glory

1945
6.2
A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen. It opens as the assembled allied forces plan and train for the D-Day invasion at bases in Great Britain and covers all the major events of the war in Europe from the Normandy landings to the fall of Berlin.
Why We Fight

1945

Why We Fight

1945
Frank Capra's WWII propaganda films.
The Battle of San Pietro

1945

The Battle of San Pietro

1945
6
This documentary movie is about the battle of San Pietro, a small village in Italy. Over 1,100 US soldiers were killed while trying to take this location, that blocked the way for the Allied forces from the Germans. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.
Western Approaches

1944

Western Approaches

1944
6.3
A World War II drama-documentary showing the struggles of Merchant Navy seamen following an attack by a U-Boat. Western Approaches is a vast area of ocean control covering thousands of square miles of the Atlantic. In these waters is set this single incident in the fiercest and longest sea battle in history. The players are not professional actors but serving officers and men of Allied Navies and Merchant Fleets. This film is dedicated to them and their comrades who made the Allied victory possible.
Attack: The Battle for New Britain

1944

Attack: The Battle for New Britain

1944
6
War - Documentary film depicting the attack by Allied forces on the Japanese strong-holds of Arawe Beach and Cape Gloucester, New Britain, in the South Pacific theatre of the Second World War in 1943. - Leo Genn, Burgess Meredith, Anthony Veiller
The Memphis Belle

1944

The Memphis Belle

1944
6.7
This WW2 documentary centers on the crew of the American B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle as it prepares to execute a strategic bombing raid on Nazi submarine pens in Wilhelmshaven, Germany.