Popular Documentary Movies on YouTube - Page 386

The Original Charvel Gang

2021

The Original Charvel Gang

2021
Documentary film about musician Wayne Charvel who in 1973 started a guitar repair shop in his garage mostly handling overflow work for Fender Guitars. He moved his growing custom guitar/hot rod shop to San Dimas CA, did custom work for Deep Purple's Richie Blackmore and Tommy Bolin, for ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, for Van Halen's Michael Anthony, and on. Word got out that this was the only place to get your guitar customized. Fast forward. In walks Eddie Van Halen who buys some (seconds) guitar parts neck and body and the rest is history. The story is captured with new, never before seen interviews with the artists using their voices and personal stories of Charvel.
The Truth: Lost at Sea

2017

The Truth: Lost at Sea

2017
This film reveals the Israeli attack on the 2010 Freedom Flotilla, a convoy of humanitarian ships which tried to highlight the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza, and break its blockade. Shot from aboard the Freedom Flotilla, directed and narrated by one of its survivors and following up on subsequent media coverage, the film shows how the dead activists & their comrades who defended their vessels were portrayed. The film reveals what really happened and how it was spun in traditional and online media outlets.
InstaBAND

2020

InstaBAND

2020
6
InstaBAND is a documentary film about today's music artist and their hustle to try and achieve music stardom in a streaming world that no longer buys music.
Trapped in the Volcano

2022

Trapped in the Volcano

2022
Walk Against Fear: James Meredith

2020

Walk Against Fear: James Meredith

2020
In 1962 James H. Meredith became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi. This film documents the life and times of one of America's greatest and most controversial civil rights icons.
Kicking the Hornet's Nest

2021

Kicking the Hornet's Nest

2021
Kicking the Hornet's Nest is a startling investigative look at a popular gynecologic device used to perform hysterectomies that has been inadvertently spreading cancer in patients for decades. The film follows two married Harvard-affiliated whistle-blowers as they mount a harrowing campaign against the medical establishment to expose the controversial practice and prevent future needless deaths.
Gonzalo Fonseca: Membra Disjecta & A Life in Stone

2019

Gonzalo Fonseca: Membra Disjecta & A Life in Stone

2019
With unprecedented access to the pioneering Uruguayan sculptor's body of work, Michael Gregory's documentary is the first comprehensive study of this prolific artist's legacy. Eschewing the tropes of the typical artist bio pic, the film is process-oriented; with extraordinary archival footage, expert interviews and thoughtful analysis of Fonseca's work, it conveys the passions which drove this truly renaissance man to work and live life on his own terms.
Oh, It Hertz!

2021

Oh, It Hertz!

2021
1.5
A "musician" explores how sound can be used for healing, as a weapon, and how the Nazis attempted to control the world by manipulating global audio standards.
Menachem Begin: Peace and War

2020

Menachem Begin: Peace and War

2020
9
In his abbreviated one and a half terms as Prime Minister of Israel, Menachem Begin faced a maelstrom of challenges and made a handful of fateful decisions that led to both creating peace and launching a hubristic war. This multi-faceted portrait merges rare archival footage shown for the first time, as well as current interviews of key figures from Begin’s time as Prime Minister.
Lot 448

2021

Lot 448

2021
Lot 448, a new documentary premiering at this year’s virtual Tribeca Film Festival sponsored by Bulgari. Lynda Albertson, aforensic analyst who has made it her life mission to track down famous missing works of art and repatriate them to their rightful owners.
Survival Of The Snow Leopard

2020

Survival Of The Snow Leopard

2020
10
Spend three years in China's remote and inhospitable Tibetan Plateau, home to nearly all the world's snow leopards.
Homeless in Japan

2011

Homeless in Japan

2011
7
From camping out in the Park, to capsule hotels and cyber cafes, we dive into the weird and wonderful world of the homeless in Japan. Their cardboard houses may be painted in technicolor, but the shame of the former day laborer still runs deep.
Betrayed: The Clergy Killer's DNA

2012

Betrayed: The Clergy Killer's DNA

2012
The Church, regarded as a bastion against evil, is afflicted by people perpetrating, aiding and abetting evil within its sanctuaries, parking lots and administrative offices. Individuals carrying out evil agendas are called Clergy Killers, a provocative term that is almost as shocking as the immoral and often illegal acts that Clergy Killers commit against pastors of congregations.
Unknown Male Number 1

2017

Unknown Male Number 1

2017
How far would you go in pursuit of justice? The tragic murder of 13-year old Yara Gambiarasio near her home in northern Italy in 2010 sparked the most high-profile and shocking murder investigation in recent Italian history. This documentary follows the tenacious and emotionally-invested lead prosecutor in her case as she seeks justice.
Breaking the Chain

2020

Breaking the Chain

2020
It's a fate worse than death for countless animals: a life sentence of isolation and deprivation. Their only hope is PETA's Community Animal Project, a field team fighting against a national epidemic of animal overpopulation and neglect.
Ever Slow Green

2020

Ever Slow Green

2020
Ever Slow Green tells the story of a 50-years-young tropical forest that evolved in Auroville, South India, through some of the diverse people who dedicate their lives to bringing it to fruition.
Radical Acts of Love

2019

Radical Acts of Love

2019
Filmed over a three-year period, the film Radical Acts of Love chronicles Linda Folley’s struggle with early-onset Alzheimer’s. The film tells the story of Linda, a master programmer, pilot, scientist, and philanthropist, who was diagnosed with the disease at 52. Stories are woven together with interviews from Linda’s wife and film coproducer Camila Faraday, friends, and family, as well as home movies captured prior to Linda’s diagnosis.
I Am Shakespeare: The Henry Green Story

2017

I Am Shakespeare: The Henry Green Story

2017
I AM SHAKESPEARE (The Henry Green Story) chronicles the true life story of 19 year old Henry Green, living a dual life as a brilliant young actor and inner-city gang member, who was brutally shot and left for dead just shortly after his inspiring performance in Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' and his remarkable (against all odds) recovery/intestinal transplant received by a 13 year old boy (Jack) who was killed in a car accident on the other side of the country but who still managed to save Henry's life.
Every Pedal With You

2015

Every Pedal With You

2015
An emotive documentary filmed over the course of twelve months, on two unique athletes and their individual stories on and off the bike. A roller coaster journey for both Sam Willoughby and Alise Post as they face real life challenges up against the fight to the top. Sam Willoughby, who won silver at the 2012 Olympics wants to make history by winning his third ABA title, something he moved from Australia to California to do. His partner Alise Post, is also on the hunt to win the title and faces many difficulties in her personal life along the way. Will they make history?
Liberdade é uma Palavra

2020

Liberdade é uma Palavra

2020
Vespasiano, in the interior of Minas Gerais, is home to one of the few national penitentiaries specifically for pregnant women and mothers with young children. Guided by these women, we entered fragments of the daily life of the prison unit: evangelical services, conversations, confessions, doodles, vanity, fear, censorship, punishment, longing, memory and the constant struggle for the experience of motherhood.