Popular Documentary Movies on Amazon Prime Video - Page 4

Pure Grit

2022

Pure Grit

2022
9
Chronicling three years in the life of a young Native American bareback horse racer, her dogged determination, and the relationships that sustain her.
Nuyorican Básquet

2017

Nuyorican Básquet

2017
6
The story of the basketball players that represented Puerto Rico at the San Juan's 1979 Pan Am Games.
Radical Age

2019

Radical Age

2019
60-year-old Neal Unger tests his limits on a skateboard. 70 year-old Ann Perez de Tejada is the world’s oldest female MMA fighter. Helen Lambin got her first tattoo at the age of 75. 86 year-old James Haake is the world’s oldest working drag queen. After 40 years, Zillah Minx’s band is still as punk as it’s ever been, and Stephen Leafloor is turning his decades-long passion for hip-hop into a powerful tool for change. Their stories are Radical Age, a documentary that proves it’s never too late to defy convention.
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.
Runaway Slave

2012

Runaway Slave

2012
4.5
A perpetual state of welfare exists in the U.S., creating a form of modern slavery for a large percentage of African-Americans. Rev. C.L. Bryant presents an insightful and compelling look at how freedom can be restored.
Baraka

1992

Baraka

1992
8.2
A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life.
Certifiably Jonathan

2007

Certifiably Jonathan

2007
4
A famous comedian and artist wants to display his work at an art museum. Just when he thinks he's lost his touch, a series of famous comedians drop by to help him rekindle his artistic and comedic spark.
Magnus

2016

Magnus

2016
6.8
From a young age Magnus Carlsen had aspirations of becoming a champion chess player. While many players seek out an intensely rigid environment to hone their skills, Magnus’ brilliance shines brightest when surrounded by his loving and supportive family. Through an extensive amount of archival footage and home movies, director Benjamin Ree reveals this young man’s unusual and rapid trajectory to the pinnacle of the chess world. This film allows the audience to not only peek inside this isolated community but also witness the maturation of a modern genius.
Lancaster

2022

Lancaster

2022
6.8
The story of the iconic WW2 bomber told through the words of the last surviving crew members, re-mastered archive material and extraordinary aerial footage of the RAF’s last airworthy Lancaster.
42 Grams

2017

42 Grams

2017
7.9
Portrait of Jake Bickelhaupt from his underground restaurant, Sous Rising, to his 2 Michelin star winning restaurant, 42 Grams.
Kubrick by Kubrick

2020

Kubrick by Kubrick

2020
7.5
American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999), one of the greatest in history, but also one of the most reserved, gave few interviews throughout his long career, and none of them were filmed. A first-person journey through his life and work, based on a recorded conversation with French film critic Michel Climent.
Girls Can't Surf

2021

Girls Can't Surf

2021
7.8
It’s the 1980s and the world of professional surfing is a circus of fluorescent colors, peroxide hair and radical male egos. "Girls Can't Surf" follows the journey of a band of renegade surfers who took on the male-dominated professional surfing world to achieve equality and change the sport forever. Featuring surfing greats Jodie Cooper, Frieda Zamba, Pauline Menczer, Lisa Andersen, Pam Burridge, Wendy Botha, Layne Beachley and more, "Girls Can't Surf" is a wild ride of clashing personalities, sexism, adventure and heartbreak, with each woman fighting against the odds to make their dreams of competing a reality.
Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero

2023

Harrison Ford: Hollywood Hero

2023
8
Documentary detailing Harrison Ford's rise to global stardom while trying to maintain his privacy.
I, Douglas Fairbanks

2018

I, Douglas Fairbanks

2018
8.5
The dashing and dazzling Douglas Fairbanks was the movie star who "swashbuckled in Zorro, dueled exuberantly in Robin Hood and soared magnificently in The Thief of Bagdad"-- He was the "First King of Hollywood".
Science Friction

2022

Science Friction

2022
6
Those TV documentaries you see, and the science experts they feature? Did you know that producers often edit them out of context, and twist their words, to make it seem like they promoted some pop sensationalism instead of the real facts? Science Friction exposes these faux documentaries by name, and gives the scientists a chance to clear the record.
My Scientology Movie

2016

My Scientology Movie

2016
6.6
After being denied access to the Church of Scientology's headquarters, documentarian Louis Theroux teams up with ex-Scientology official Marty Rathbun to stage re-enactments of alleged abuses within the organization. Theroux soon discovers that the church is watching his every move.
American Royalty

2022

American Royalty

2022
The American Royalty docuseries showcases an in-depth perspective of the Miss America Pageant. Experience the hundred year history, influence, controversy, and evolution of this iconic institution.
Oh My God

2009

Oh My God

2009
5.8
"Oh My God" asks people from all walks of life, from celebrities, to the religious, to atheists and the common Man - the question - "What is God?"
Author: The JT LeRoy Story

2016

Author: The JT LeRoy Story

2016
6.6
New York magazine’s October 2005 issue sent shockwaves through the literary world when it unmasked “it boy” wunderkind JT LeRoy, whose tough prose about his sordid childhood had captivated icons and luminaries internationally. It turned out LeRoy didn’t actually exist. He was dreamed up by 40-year-old San Francisco punk rocker and phone sex operator, Laura Albert.
Grizzly Man

2005

Grizzly Man

2005
7.5
Follows the story of "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in his attempt to protect the grizzly bears. The film is full of unique images and a look into the spirit of a man who sacrificed himself for nature.