Popular Documentary Movies on Plex - Page 127

Two Fingers: The Windy City Wonder

2014

Two Fingers: The Windy City Wonder

2014
George Nottoli, is a regular guy extraordinaire: family man, rocker, stunt man, and Sausage King of Chicago. At age 35, in need of a new challenge, George re-invents himself as professional wrestle, Vito 'Two Finger' Fontaine. Follow him into the world of pro wrestling where the more you love someone the harder you hit them....even if its with a rubber chicken!
Peanut Gallery

2015

Peanut Gallery

2015
Filmmaker Molly Gandour, in her mid-20s, returns to her childhood home in Indiana to speak with her parents in depth for the first time about her sister's death from cancer sixteen years earlier. The filmmaker comes of age as she weaves a deeply observed portrait of a family unearthing a long ago loss. Unflinching and poignant, Peanut Gallery shows us how we can transform when we begin to fill the silences between those closest to us.
Anonymous: A Million Men

2015

Anonymous: A Million Men

2015
Join young filmmaker Patrick Ireland as he tumbles down the rabbit hole, penetrating the very core of Anonymous in the build-up to the infamous 'Million Mask March' on the 5th of November 2014.
Anapeson

2015

Anapeson

2015
Count Karl Ulysses von Salis-Marschlins was a Swiss botanist and naturalist. He travelled widely observing and studying the lands he visited. In 1789 he travelled in the Kingdom of Naples. On returning home, he wrote a book about it. Here is how he described his visit to the "Casino del Duca" at San Basilio, the largest estate of Apulia, South Italy. "Anapeson" are these places, now, sleepless and abandoned within the distracted modernity. The History as ruins.
Degrees North

2015

Degrees North

2015
Degrees North mixes hair-raising action footage of leading freeriders with a story of adventure and discovery. World-renowned freeriders Xavier De Le Rue, Samuel Anthamatten and Ralph Backstrom progress the sport of freeriding through the use new technology to scope remote areas in order to show ski and snowboard action in a way never seen before. The film charts the progress of an idea to use these wings to access areas from the air in a more personal and organic way, with the aim of capturing great action footage. However the realities were not so simple.
I'm With Phil

2015

I'm With Phil

2015
I'm with Phil is a feature length documentary concerning a series of events that transpire in a small Alabama town with a very unique name, Phil Campbell.
Little Angels

2015

Little Angels

2015
In a portrait of his New York relatives, one of them a Holocaust survivor and the other her daughter, filmmaker Marco Niemeijer gradually unfolds the harrowing, smothering effects of the war trauma across generations.
Christiania: 40 Years of Occupation

2014

Christiania: 40 Years of Occupation

2014
In 1971, hundreds of young people claimed the 85 acres of an abandoned 17th century military base in Copenhagen and set up a community. Over the next 40 years, they build a self-governed community with the hope of becoming legitimate. Finding it politically unpopular to evict the settlers, the Danish government declared Christiania a "short-term social experiment". Following 40 years of tense relations with the government, much of it focusing on the open hashish trade, Christiania is on its way to becoming a legitimate community. Christiania was born in 1971 when youthful idealism and a severe housing shortage incited hundreds of young people to occupy 85 acres of deserted brick buildings, woods, ramparts and canals as their home.
Investigating the Afterlife

2008

Investigating the Afterlife

2008
How hard can ghost hunting be? Join Shane Free as he enlists the help of friends and family and documents personal experiences at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania's Cashtown Inn, the Prospect Place Mansion in Trinway, Ohio, and the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. Unlike many popular ghost hunting shows, "Investigating the Afterlife" does not alter the footage and presents the evidence as it was recorded.
La encrucijada de Ángel Sanz Briz

2015

La encrucijada de Ángel Sanz Briz

2015
Aspie Seeks Love

2015

Aspie Seeks Love

2015
A fearless outsider has been searching for love longer than many of us have been alive.
Andrew W.K. Party Safari

2014

Andrew W.K. Party Safari

2014
Rockstar Andrew WK goes nuts in a wild life Park this documentary looks into the mysteries surrounding Andrew WK
Uprising

2014

Uprising

2014
Uprising is all action film with intense sequences of airs, carves and new maneuvers on the made for ripping walls of Lower Trestles. An epic battle from the best surfers in the world in a one hundred percent free surfing bananza. This is the hottest freshest action to date. Bonus features include huge Wedge from hurricane Marie and State of The Art surfing by the best woman surfers in the world. All set to epic music by Cruzmatik.
The Fortune Wild

2014

The Fortune Wild

2014
In The Fortune Wild, a new Sitka Films production directed by Ben Gulliver with support from Pacific Wild, a small group of surfers set out to seek their own kind of riches on some of the most remote beaches of the Canadian coast.
The Hitler Conspiracies

2008

The Hitler Conspiracies

2008
A closer look at those who tried to rid the world of Hitler, including many within his organization. The story of the German Resistance is one that is rarely heard, but the bravery of the conspirators, despite their lack of success in stopping Hitler in his tracks, is nothing short of heroic. In 1944, Operation Valkyrie and Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg got within striking distance of assassinating the Fuhrer..
Drop The Gun

2014

Drop The Gun

2014
Drop the Gun is a new age professional wakeboard film that takes you into the minds of Andrew Adams, Davis Griffin, and Chris Abadie as they each portray their unique outlook on what wakeboarding is today.
California 90420

2012

California 90420

2012
The real story of "4:20 Somethings" living in California's semi-legalized marijuana culture.
Becoming Barack

2009

Becoming Barack

2009
A revealing portrait of Barack Obama's formative years in Chicago, featuring the oldest videotape interview Obama, from 1993.
Betty Blowtorch: And Her Amazing True Life Adventures

2003

Betty Blowtorch: And Her Amazing True Life Adventures

2003
For two years, filmmaker and music video director Anthony Scarpa followed the all-girl punk rock band Betty Blowtorch, documenting their ferocious sound and dangerously low-tech pyrotechnic shows, unaware of the turmoil and tragedy that he will ultimately capture. From their near rise to the top of the major labels, to their ultimate sad end, this critically-acclaimed rock n roll tragedy features the band Betty Blowtorch, as well as other rockers such as Duff McKagan (Guns N Roses, Velvet Revolver), Vanilla Ice, Dez Cadena (Black Flag), Jennifer Finch (L7), Kevin Baldes (LiT), and many others.
The Price of Desire

2014

The Price of Desire

2014
In the hedonistic, rapidly shifting Barcelona of the 2000s, three foreign women turn the rules of power, sex, and money on their heads. Through their eyes, this documentary by Lise Reiner unravels the illusions of control, the price of autonomy, and the paradox of independence in a world of men that commodifies desire, challenging who truly holds power in the exchange.