Popular Documentary Movies on Kanopy - Page 302

Los que buscamos

2019

Los que buscamos

2019
7
Enrique was separated from his mother at birth, Ascension was forced to give up her daughter after giving birth. Both are victims of the "stolen babies" plot, a slippery ground for Spanish justice. While they continue with the legal battle, they continue with their searches, living with guilt, rejection and the construction of their own identity.
Finding Our Way Together

1989

Finding Our Way Together

1989
Shows how people with AIDS and their caregivers can work together to meet the challenges of the AIDS epidemic.
Valley of the Queens: The New Secrets

2021

Valley of the Queens: The New Secrets

2021
7
Archaeologists decode ancient inscriptions hidden in the valley of the Queens, a necropolis filled with more than 90 burials, to uncover the lost stories of the most powerful women in Ancient Egypt.
Subtango: The Spirit of Tango

2000

Subtango: The Spirit of Tango

2000
A journey to the Buenos Aires underground tango culture, where the elusive soul of tango is to be found... Even after a century of history, after enshrinement as the national music, after rampant commercialization and packaging for export, the tango still speaks to the Argentine soul. Subtango shows how tango music, dance, art and poetry are an essential part of the emotional expression of regular people, featuring the gamblers, ramblers and barroom prophets of the Buenos Aires night, playing weather-beaten accordions and singing old tangos of heartbreak and resentment.
Concert Crush: The Travis Scott Festival Tragedy

2022

Concert Crush: The Travis Scott Festival Tragedy

2022
On Nov. 5, 2021, rapper Travis Scott headlined the Astroworld Festival in Houston, which tragically led to the deaths of 10 concertgoers in a crowd crush.
Darryl Jones - In the Blood

2022

Darryl Jones - In the Blood

2022
8
Follows the evolution of Jones, who grew up on the South Side of Chicago and was introduced right away to music and the politics of race.
Hiding in the Walls

2022

Hiding in the Walls

2022
Hiding in the Walls unwinds the fraught history of lead poisoning in Baltimore and follows the adult survivors who are on a mission to reclaim the narrative.
Traded

2021

Traded

2021
The film exposes the life of women who have been trafficked in various parts of India. Some of them have been trafficked because of debt bondage and some for sexual exploitation.
Between Father and Son

2022

Between Father and Son

2022
This portrait of a Chinese family centers on the paterfamilias, who at the age of 85 still works his land by hand every day, his wife, who feeds and slaughters the chickens, and one of their sons, who lives in an apartment in the city and spends his days keeping company with his television and a steady flow of alcohol.
The Interrogation

2018

The Interrogation

2018
In America, nearly 30% of those exonerated by DNA tests had previously confessed. For more than half a century, the Reid technique was the favored method of extracting confessions out of suspects. This method of slowly building pressure often made it seem that admitting guilt was the easiest way out. But now, a number of police forces are abandoning the Reid technique because of the risk of generating false confessions. We hear from the men and women who have spent more than 20 years in prison for crimes they did not commit. They tell us about that moment when, in the darkness of the interrogation room, cut off from the world and terrified by police officers, they finally said what the interrogators wanted to hear…the moment their lives changed forever.
Aamakaar

2002

Aamakaar

2002
Aamakaar tells the story of preservation. This film depicts the struggles of a small fisihing village in North Kerala that is fighting the assault on its estuary by sand mining. The villagers are also engaged in the conservation of Olive Ridley turtles that have come to their beach to nest. They make a connection between a species fast becoming extinct and the fate of a community that could face displacement.
Secrets of the Space Station

2018

Secrets of the Space Station

2018
The International Space Station is the most ambitious orbital project ever built. This film explores elements of life inside it.
At Highest Risk

2006

At Highest Risk

2006
Just as the rivers of the Andes mountains twist and coil in a curious maze, so does the grave situation of Peruvian women's health care. Through the compelling story of one Andean woman, Judyth Aguero Vega, we see the horrors and triumphs of Peru's volatile health care situation. Inside a small adobe kitchen, Elsa Romero-Murrado, a midwife in the rural town of Capacmarca, takes us through rarely seen birthing ceremonies. Down the dirt path, her neighbor Judyth, 27, shares her fears of birth as she bestrides the lines of modern and traditional medicine. Their town sits seven hours from the nearest hospital. Cerlia Mendoza, president of the Mother's Club, testifies to a list of 200 women who were bribed by doctors to undergo sterilization.
Sky Burial: A Tibetan Death Ritual

2005

Sky Burial: A Tibetan Death Ritual

2005
Sky Burial follows the ritual of "jha-tor", the giving of alms to birds in a northern Tibetan monastery - where the bodies of the dead are offered to the vultures as a final act of kindness to living beings. At the Drigung Monastery lamas chant to call the consciousness from the body. Juniper incense is burned to summon the vultures. Special body breakers, or "rogyapas", unwrap the bodies and cut away the flesh. The bones are crushed and mixed with tsampa, roasted barley flour. The entire body is consumed by the birds, assuring the ascent of the soul. The sky, or the universe, is where the sacred world lies. To merge with the sky after death is a holy event, one that replaces the sufferings of this world with peace.
The Earth is Our Home

1979

The Earth is Our Home

1979
This documentary about the early Indians of the Great Basin emphasizes the traditional culture of the last 5,000 years. The story unfolds through the words and skills of the older Piaute women of southeastern Oregon and northern Nevada. They tell us how they make cakes from berries, baskets from tulles, cord for nets…necessary daily tasks linked with an ancient heritage. The earth is ever present in the film, wildlife, rivers and marshes, sagebrush desert, all part of the story. The lifeways of the Northern Paiutes are followed through a seasonal cycle, from root-gathering in spring to building shelter in winter.
In Search of the Hamat'sa: A Tale of Headhunting

2004

In Search of the Hamat'sa: A Tale of Headhunting

2004
The Hamat'sa (or "Cannibal Dance") is the most important-and highly represented-ceremony of the Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) people of British Columbia. This film traces the history of anthropological depictions of the dance and, through the return of archival materials to a First Nations community, presents some of the ways in which diverse attitudes toward this history inform current performances of the Hamat'sa. With a secondary focus on the filmmaker's fieldwork experience, the film also attends specifically to the ethics of ethnographic representation and to the renegotiation of relationships between anthropologists and their research partners.
Ten by Ten

2022

Ten by Ten

2022
There is no denying the evocative power of food to remind us of who we are and where we come from.
Bad Hombrewood

2022

Bad Hombrewood

2022
For decades, the film industry has confined minorities to stereotypical characters. Now, filmmakers fight to change the Latinx role in Hollywood.
Not to Lose You, My Language

1975

Not to Lose You, My Language

1975
This program looks at a bilingual education program in the Northern Territory, where children are taught in English and Aboriginal languages. As there are many different Aboriginal languages, subjects are taught in a language appropriate to the subject matter. The aim of the program is to help Aboriginal children to see their language and culture as something worthwhile and so nurture their self-confidence and self-respect.
Sittwe

2017

Sittwe

2017
Sittwe is about two teenagers separated by conflict and segregation in Burma's Rakhine state, Phyu Phyu Than, a Rohingya girl and Aung San Myint, a Buddhist boy. Both youth saw their homes burned down during communal violence in 2012. Phyu Phyu Than is confined in an apartheid-style camp and has no chance to go to school or travel to her home just a few miles away. Aung San Myint's family struggles to survive and support his high school studies to fulfill his dream to go to medical school. Interviews filmed over two years with the teenagers reveal their ideas about each other's communities and the hope of reconciliation.