Popular Documentary Movies on Pantaflix - Page 237

The Other Side of AIDS

2004

The Other Side of AIDS

2004
1
The Other Side of AIDS takes us behind the hype and headlines and into the heart of a brewing controversy over the cause and treatment of AIDS. Through candid interviews with doctors and scientists representing both sides of the issue and HIV positives on and off the drugs, the film opens minds and much-needed dialogue. Informative without being instructive, it raises fundamental questions about what we think we know. Its surprising and sometimes shocking revelations inspire us to take a closer look at HIV and AIDS and the systems that support our current views.
Offensive: The Real Derek and Clive

2002

Offensive: The Real Derek and Clive

2002
8
Documentary charting the Derek and Clive phenomenon. The two foul-mouthed toilet attendants were the creations of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and were responsible for some of the filthiest comedy to come out of Britain. Despite being banned from radio and television the duo achieved great success and a cult status, but the act broke up one of the greatest comedy partnerships of recent years. Featuring excerpts from the actual records and video footage of Cook and Moore.
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko & Ichiro Itano: Collection of KeyAnimation Films

2014

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko & Ichiro Itano: Collection of KeyAnimation Films

2014
5
“Mobile Suit Gundam” series are still favored by various generations, passed its 35th anniversary. The animators who played the core roles in the memorable first series “Mobile Suit Gundam” are Yoshikazu Yasuhiko and Ichiro Itano: “We would like to leave the key animations as the film production to posterity to praise their achievements, which influenced not only on the audience but also on the current anime industry.”
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy

2000

Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy

2000
For more than 30 years, Lucille Ball was one of the most recognized and loved entertainers in the world. Known to all simply as Lucy, she portrayed a scatterbrained housewife with the ability to turn simple chores into humorous disasters.
Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility

2009

Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility

2009
7.3
A double portrait of two dictators who were thousands of miles apart but were constantly fixated on each other.
Baghdad ER

2006

Baghdad ER

2006
7.3
Produced and directed by 11-time Emmy Award-winner Jon Alpert, this 64-minute verite documentary takes an unforgettable look inside the 86th Combat Support Hospital (CSH), the U.S. Army's premier medical facility in Iraq and former site of one of Saddam Hussein?s elite medical facilities. Shot over two months in the summer of 2005, the film puts a human face on the war's cold casualty statistics, as doctors and nurses fight to save the lives of wounded soldiers who are Medevaced (helicoptered) in a numbingly routine basis.
Hate Among Us

2019

Hate Among Us

2019
Depicts unique perspectives on antisemitism from young and old alike, from Jew and non-Jew, from within historic Jewish neighborhoods in Europe, to the streets of Charlottesville and Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue massacre. This narrative connects real stories of current survivors of violent antisemitism, to those of the Holocaust. 'Hate Among Us' illustrates how renewed intolerance is taking root in our communities, institutions and universities, with far reaching consequences around the world.
Requiem for the Big East

2014

Requiem for the Big East

2014
7
The meteoric ascension of the Big East conference, and how in less than a decade, it became the most successful college basketball league in America.
The Last of Us

2022

The Last of Us

2022
A documentary recounting the stories that have characterized the personal and artistic lives of Sergio Martino and Ruggero Deodato, two filmmakers who have represented Italian genre cinema in the world, loved by directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth, Tim Burton, etc. All this takes place in the setting of a typical Roman restaurant, where the two directors meet for a lunch based on "spaghetti alla carbonara". Pasta is a determining element in Italian culture and, like the spaghetti western, it will characterize our story.
The Propaganda Game

2015

The Propaganda Game

2015
6.9
North Korea. The last communist country in the world. Unknown, hermetic and fascinating. Formerly known as “The Hermit Kingdom” for its attempts to remain isolated, North Korea is one of the largest sources of instability as regards world peace. It also has the most militarized border in the world, and the flow of impartial information, both going in and out, is practically non-existent. As the recent Sony-leaks has shown, it is the perfect setting for a propaganda war.
Balrog: Behind the Glory

2011

Balrog: Behind the Glory

2011
7.5
A documentary that dismantles the myths and lore surrounding one of Street Fighter's most commonly overlooked principal characters.
The 1957 Transcripts

2024

The 1957 Transcripts

2024
The film delves into an almost forgotten event that took place in Kfar Qasim in October 1956, when 47 innocent civilians were shot and killed by Israeli Border Police soldiers. Through a gripping narrative structure, like a suspenseful legal drama, the film unfolds the historical, political, and psychological reality that shaped and triggered the event. A cinematic montage created by the intertwined plotlines, emphasizes immense gaps, conflicting narratives, and deep divides between Jews and Arabs who are destined to live together on the same land. If we begin to recognize these gaps, will there be hope for reconciliation?
Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle

2017

Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle

2017
10
For fifty years, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark has challenged the abuses of U.S. power and championed the causes of human rights.
Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag

2004

Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag

2004
6.5
Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag follows American F-15 Eagle pilot John Stratton as he trains with some of the world’s best pilots. The movie depicts Stratton’s progression through the challenging and dangerous exercises of Operation Red Flag, the international training program for air forces of allied countries.
Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary

2016

Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary

2016
6.8
A dramatisation based on the exchange of letters between Mary Queen of Scots and her cousin Elizabeth I, detailing the hatred and obsession in their bitter rivalry. Expert historians examine and interpret the royals' motives for the animosity that lasted more than two decades, and which threatened to tear apart the reigning monarch and her kingdom.
Annie Girardot selon son cœur

2020

Annie Girardot selon son cœur

2020
6
A gifted student, Annie Girardot thought for a while of becoming a nurse, before passing the entrance exam to the Conservatory. She leaves with two first prizes in comedy. In the theater she triumphed in "The Typewriter" by Jean Cocteau. It was Cocteau who made her cut her hair to adopt his famous short cut. The cinema opened its doors and she turned with Pierre Fresnay, then with Jean Gabin, in "Le rouge est mis" by Gilles Grangier. The Comédie-Française then asked her to make a choice. It would be the cinema.
Stax, le label soul légendaire

2019

Stax, le label soul légendaire

2019
With the founding of Stax Records, the white siblings Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton created a label during the period of racial segregation that caused a revolution in the music scene with artists such as Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave and Isaac Hayes. Their commercial success was closely linked to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Zhang Yimou's "Shadow"

2018

Zhang Yimou's "Shadow"

2018
Documentary about the making of Zhang Yimou's fiction movie Shadow.
Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés

2025

Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés

2025
7
The Hitler Youth

1999

The Hitler Youth

1999
8
The historical documentary Hitler Youth explores Adolf Hitler's maniacal construction of the titular organization - one comprised of young Aryan men who would rule the world by fear, intimidation and violence. Via a compendium of terrifying archival footage, the program documents the establishment of the Hitler Youth, its escalation from a membership of 13,000 to 10,000,000 within fifteen years, and the death of the organization following Hitler's suicide in 1945.