Top Rated Documentary Movies - Page 275

Loading a Boiler

1896

Loading a Boiler

1896
4.4
A stationary camera placed amidships looks toward the round end of a 10- or 12-foot boiler that's been loaded onto the open deck. Three men climb down from atop the boiler and then remove their ladder. Four or five other workers tie the boiler down to the deck. Their pace is leisurely. In the background is a busy harbor.
Corridor

1970

Corridor

1970
6.4
An unknown observer is seen traveling through a bleak corridor. At the end of the corridor they see a naked woman, whom they are unable to reach as their trip seems to become increasingly twisted and looped.
Children of Darkness

1983

Children of Darkness

1983
6.9
A significant number of American children and teenagers - from all social backgrounds - suffer from mental disorders, schizophrenia, autism and emotional problems, leading them to isolation from society while treating their issues in mental health facilities. But there's no end in sight for those young individuals when they face obstacles and mistreatment in inadequate places under the supervision of careless and inexperienced professionals. The documentary follows some of those public mental institutions and another private center dealing with troubled kids and reveals what's wrong with their procedures, and the irreparable harm they cause in those patients.
Fengming: A Chinese Memoir

2007

Fengming: A Chinese Memoir

2007
7.7
The film consists almost entirely of an interview with the elderly He Fengming, recounting her experiences in post-1949 China.
Siege

1940

Siege

1940
5.9
Siege is a 1940 documentary short about the Siege of Warsaw by the Wehrmacht at the start of World War II. It was shot by Julien Bryan, a Pennsylvanian photographer and cameraman who later established the International Film Foundation. Siege was nominated for an Oscar for Best One-reel Short at the 13th Academy Awards in 1941, and in 2006, it was named to the National Film Registry by the Librarian of Congress as "a unique, horrifying record of the dreadful brutality of war."
Multiple SIDosis

1970

Multiple SIDosis

1970
5
Short film utilizing quick cuts and multiple angles of a one-man-band musical performance by Sid Lavarents (who served as both film-maker and musician). Added to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress for 2000.
The Plow That Broke the Plains

1936

The Plow That Broke the Plains

1936
5.7
A documentary about what happened to the Great Plains of the United States and Canada when uncontrolled farming destroyed the soil and led to the Dust Bowl.
Historic Centre

2012

Historic Centre

2012
6.2
Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012.
A Bigger Splash

1973

A Bigger Splash

1973
5.8
After a difficult break-up, Hockney is left unable to paint, much to the concern of his friends.
Legends of the Dark Knight: The History of Batman

2005

Legends of the Dark Knight: The History of Batman

2005
7
A brief history of the DC Comics character Batman, created by Bob Kane in 1939.
Alien Autopsy: (Fact or Fiction?)

1995

Alien Autopsy: (Fact or Fiction?)

1995
5.8
This provacative FOX Network "prime time" television special investigates the purported "Alien Autopsy" footage that was allegedly filmed by the United States military after the legendary UFO crash near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.
The Road to 'Dracula'

1999

The Road to 'Dracula'

1999
7.4
A documentary from Universal about the movie "Dracula" (1931) starring Bela Lugosi.
The Sinking of the Belgrano

2003

The Sinking of the Belgrano

2003
5.8
During the Falklands war England's attack on the ARA Belgrano outside of the conflict zone is reviewed 20 years later by a team of National Geographic hoping to find the ship and shed more light into what happened that night.
Small Roads

2011

Small Roads

2011
6.8
Lengthy static shots of various backroads, smaller interstates, quieter roads, and lonely highways.
Reassemblage: From the Firelight to the Screen

1983

Reassemblage: From the Firelight to the Screen

1983
5.6
A complex visual study of the women of rural Senegal. Through a complicity of interaction between film and spectator, Reassemblage reflects on documentary filmmaking and the ethnographic representation of cultures.
The World Before Her

2012

The World Before Her

2012
6.9
Moving between two extremes - the intimate verite drama of the Miss India pageant's rigorous beauty "bootcamp" and the intense regime of a militant Hindu fundamentalist camp for young girls. The World Before Her delivers a provocative portrait of India and its current cultural conflicts during a key transitional era in the country's modern history.
Spiritual Voices

1995

Spiritual Voices

1995
5.8
In 1994, Alexander Sokurov accompanied Russian troops assigned to a frontier military post at the Tajikistan/Afghanistan border to film their experiences. While unnamed tribal forces occasionally engaged the troops in skirmishes, Sokurov’s haunting documentary chronicles the downtime between activity.
One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train

1990

One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train

1990
7.4
Tells the story of a group of Chilean children who discover a larger reality and a different world through the cinema. Each Saturday, Alicia Vega transforms the chapel of Lo Hermida into a film screening room as she conducts a workshop for children under the auspices of the Catholic church. The hundred or so children involved had never seen a movie, and in the workshop they see and learn about the cinema: photograms and moving images, projection, camera angles and movement, film genres, and much more. And they watch movies: Chaplin, Disney, Lamorisse's 'The Red Balloon,' the Lumieres' 'The Arrival of the Train to the Station.' Finally, each child designs his own film with drawings. And then, for the first time in most of their lives, the children got to the movies in downtown Santiago.
Milestones

1975

Milestones

1975
7
A portrait of those individuals who sought radical solutions to social problems in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. Cutting back and forth between six major story lines and more than fifty characters. Exploring the lifestyles and attitudes of the American left during the period following the Vietnam War.
Rock Hudson's Home Movies

1992

Rock Hudson's Home Movies

1992
3.3
In this revisionist documentary, actor Eric Farr re-creates the character of Rock Hudson in order to take a look back at his films. It compares the actor's screen (and public) image with his real life and shows certain scenes, lines and situations in his films to insinuate that Hudson may have been gay.

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