Popular Documentary Movies on Kanopy - Page 169

Vija Celmins: 4 Decades

2007

Vija Celmins: 4 Decades

2007
Best known for her drawings of the ocean and the galaxies of the night sky, Vija Celmins has solidified herself as one of the most important artists of the postwar generation. Stepping back from painting in order to explore her photorealistic drawing style, Celmins creates spectacularly precise renderings of the natural world. In her forty year retrospective at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Celmins recalls her beginnings in abstraction, her choices of subject matter after freeing herself of the New York School influence, and her later immersion in what must be termed her great master drawings.
Blue Collar & Buddha

1986

Blue Collar & Buddha

1986
Exploration of prejudice and culture clash that a group of Laotian Buddhist refugees must endure in Rockford, Illinois.
American Terrorist: Could the '08 Mumbai Attack Have Been Prevented?

2015

American Terrorist: Could the '08 Mumbai Attack Have Been Prevented?

2015
FRONTLINE investigates Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley (Dawood Sayed Gilani) who helped plan the deadly 2008 siege on Mumbai. In collaboration with ProPublica, the film — an updated and expanded version of A Perfect Terrorist — reveals how secret electronic surveillance missed catching the Mumbai plotters, and how Headley planned another Charlie Hebdo-like assault against a Danish newspaper.
Triptych: 3 Women Making Art

2014

Triptych: 3 Women Making Art

2014
Women and art rarely get serious attention in our culture, and older women in art are virtually ignored. In TRIPTYCH: 3 Women Making Art, we see three artists who debunk the myth of the older woman as a used up and useless part of society. In fact, these women have remained vibrant and creative well into their sixties and seventies.
Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity

2012

Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity

2012
8
"Marking Infinity", Lee Ufan's recent retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim charts the artist's creation of a visual, conceptual, and theoretical language that has radically expanded the possibilities for sculpture and painting over the past forty years. Deeply versed in modern philosophy, Lee is also an influential writer and is recognized as the key theorist of Mono-ha, an anti-formalist, materials-based art movement that developed in Tokyo in the late 1960s. Active internationally over the last four decades, Lee is acclaimed for an innovative body of Post-Minimalist work that promotes process and the experiential engagement of viewer and site.
Plastic Earth

2023

Plastic Earth

2023
6
Worldwide plastic production from fossil-based sources continues to rise and contribute to climate change, pollution and environmental issues. Scientists, engineers, researchers and innovators tackle solutions to deal with the over-production of single-use plastics.
Divided States of America

2017

Divided States of America

2017
7
Review the partisanship that gridlocked Washington and charged the 2016 presidential campaign.
Evolution 4K

2018

Evolution 4K

2018
5.2
Experience the wonders of evolution like never before.
GTFO: Get The F% Out

2015

GTFO: Get The F% Out

2015
5.1
Sparked by a public display of sexual harassment in 2012, GTFO pries open the video game world to explore a 20 billion dollar industry riddled with discrimination and misogyny. Every year, the gaming community grows increasingly diverse. This has led to a clash of values and women are receiving the brunt of the consequences every day, with acts of harassment ranging from name calling to death threats. Through interviews with video game creators, journalists, and academics, GTFO paints a complex picture of the video game industry, while revealing the systemic and human motivations behind acts of harassment. GTFO begins the conversation that will shape the future of the video game world.
Paper Dolls

2006

Paper Dolls

2006
6.2
Paper Dolls follows the lives of transgender migrant workers from the Philippines who work as health care providers for elderly Orthodox Jewish men and perform as drag queens during their spare time. It also delves into the lives of societal outcasts who search for freedom and acceptance.
#Untruth: The Psychology of Trumpism

2024

#Untruth: The Psychology of Trumpism

2024
6
From the filmmakers of the critically-acclaimed blockbuster #UNFIT: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DONALD TRUMP, which grossed over $2.5 million, has been viewed by millions, and was nominated for the IDA Documentary Awards Video Source Award Director, producer, and writer Dan Partland and producer Art Horan are back with #UNTRUTH: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TRUMPISM examines the psychology of “Trumpism” and the authoritarian strain that it seeded in the American political landscape.
The Tentmakers of Cairo

2015

The Tentmakers of Cairo

2015
Amid the tumult of the Arab Spring in Cairo, vendors in a small souk observe the political upheaval while seeking to preserve an ancient tradition of fabric making.
Spiritual Revolution

2008

Spiritual Revolution

2008
Spiritual Revolution examines Eastern Spirituality in the West: its origins, forms, and the many ways it has evolved and been embraced in the United States as a philosophy and an ethical approach to life. The film explores various forms of Hinduism and Buddhism through interviews with a Whos Who of spiritual leaders, swamis, gurus, Zen Masters and Tibetan Lamas as well as scientists, psychotherapists and scholars.
Search for Paradise

1957

Search for Paradise

1957
6
Lowell Thomas travels across Europe and the Middle East on his way to attend the coronation of King Mahendra in Nepal.
Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes

2022

Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes

2022
7
The life and career of jazz musician Ron Carter, the most recorded bassist in history, featuring original concert footage and insights from jazz icons.
The Real Inglorious Bastards

2012

The Real Inglorious Bastards

2012
7.8
The truth is way stranger than fiction,” muses one interviewee in this unbelievable true account of an incredible war time saga. As the Second World War was coming to a close, the US Office of Strategic Services trained and parachuted two Jewish refugees and a German deserter deep into Nazi occupied Austria. Through vivid first-person accounts, re-enactments, archival footage and learned commentary, the film reveals how their efforts disrupted a vital supply route between Germany and the Italian front to bring about the surrender of Innsbruck to Allied Forces. Their unbelievable adventure has a finale that beats any Hollywood movie hands down — but a story so powerful that it became the basis for Quentin Tarantino’s mega hit.
Refugee

2018

Refugee

2018
8.3
A harrowing account of Europe's migrant crisis. A family of Syrian refugees separated by the borders of Europe, fight to be reunited as they migrant from Syria to Germany.
Kumbh Mela: Songs of the River

2004

Kumbh Mela: Songs of the River

2004
The Kumbh Mela is a great roving Hindu spiritual festival that has moved around India for more than four thousand years, erecting temporary cities along the Ganges River.
My Transgender Life: Male or Female?

2016

My Transgender Life: Male or Female?

2016
The documentary covers what it's like to grow up in the wrong gender and eventually transition. The decision to transition from one gender to another is a life changing one not just for the transgender person themselves but also for their family and friends. Here are the Stories of Tien, Pina, James, Sandy-Leo, Kinnon, Evan and Gayle.
Life After Manson

2014

Life After Manson

2014
5.6
Life After Manson is an intimate portrait of one of the world's most infamous crimes and notorious killers. An exclusive interview with Manson Family member Patricia Krenwinkel reveals an unlikely relationship with charismatic Charles Manson that led her to cross every line of moral consciousness, culminating in the brutal murders she committed to win approval of the man she loved. Life After Manson offers a provocative character study that exposes a broken woman struggling with her past, her arduous effort to evaluate the cost of her choices, and the possibility of self-forgiveness. Can society offer her the same, and even identify with a woman who took life only to lose her own in a desperate effort to find love?