Top Rated Documentary Movies - Page 351

Arabian Gun Twirler

1899

Arabian Gun Twirler

1899
4.7
"An interesting exhibit by Hadji Cheriff, of the original Midway Plaisance. Twirls his rifle over his shoulder, behind back, under leg, both hands and one hand."
The Kremos: Perilous Jumps

1899

The Kremos: Perilous Jumps

1899
5.2
A group of highly skilled acrobats perform.
Carpenters

1896

Carpenters

1896
5.2
In front of a building, five carpenters are working on woodworking machines.
Twin Towers

2003

Twin Towers

2003
5.8
Winner of the 2002 Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject, this film chronicles the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Towers. Filmmakers Bill Guttentag and Robert David Port joined Harlem police as they arrived at the chaotic scene after jet airplanes had struck the two buildings. The film captures the harrowing reality of the attacks as the officers cope with disbelief and fear while remaining focused on saving lives.
Ballet Libella

1897

Ballet Libella

1897
4.8
A woman wearing dragonfly wings performs a romantic dreamlike dance.
Carmaux, chargement du coke

1896

Carmaux, chargement du coke

1896
4.9
Women hauling coke in wheelbarrows.
Danse au bivouac

1896

Danse au bivouac

1896
4.8
Soldiers dancing.
Ramassage du linge

1898

Ramassage du linge

1898
4.7
A Storm at Sea

1900

A Storm at Sea

1900
5.8
While our photographers were crossing the Atlantic Ocean a most wonderful and sensational picture was secured, showing a storm at sea. The picture was secured by lashing the camera to the after bridge of the Kaiserine Maria Theresa, of the North German Lloyd Line, during one of its roughest voyages. The most wonderful storm picture ever photographed. Taken at great risk. (Edison Films, 1901)
Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann

1994

Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann

1994
5.2
An intimate portrait of the photographer and the complex, enigmatic pictures she takes of her children.
Amsterdam Global Village

1996

Amsterdam Global Village

1996
6.6
"I am far away on a distant journey through my own city", filmmaker Johan van der Keuken says at the end of his four-hour portrait of Amsterdam. The city is presented as a place where people from all corners of the world live, who all exert their cultural influence on the life in the city. With a motor courier as his central figure, the filmmaker introduces the audience to birds of different feathers. We see diverse cultural expressions, like the house scene, the entry of St. Nicholas and a Ghanese mourning ritual. The binding factor in the film is the concept of 'travelling', in other words Amsterdam as a global village. The camera travels through the film in three ways: over land, over water (canals) and through the air.
Passage d'un tunnel en chemin de fer

1898

Passage d'un tunnel en chemin de fer

1898
5.8
Viramundo

2013

Viramundo

2013
5.8
Gilberto Gil is among Brazil's most famous musicians, having influenced an entire generation in South America and beyond. Now in his seventies, he is serving as Brazil's first black Minister of Culture. Preoccupied with many realities of the modern world, such as racism and poverty, he embarks on a tour through the southern hemisphere— from aboriginal communities in Australia and the townships of South Africa, to the Brazilian Amazon— seeking to promote the power of cultural diversity in a globalized world.
Egypt 3D

2013

Egypt 3D

2013
6
With this publication experience the mysterious mythology of Egypt and be up close during an excavation "live" there. Uncover together with the research team an untouched for centuries tomb and fumble your way bit by bit through her secret with unique 3D shooting.
Starting a Skyscraper

1902

Starting a Skyscraper

1902
4.4
Taken in the immense excavation for the foundation of the new Macy building at the corner of Broadway and 34th Street, New York.
Scene on Lower Broadway

1902

Scene on Lower Broadway

1902
4.6
A busy street scene on Lower Broadway,
Images of Ostend

1929

Images of Ostend

1929
6.9
Structured in visual chapters: the port, anchors, the wind, the spray, the dunes, the North Sea… A series of images that need no anecdote or explanation. Storck offers a glimpse of Ostend, aspects that order its multiple constitutive elements; The water, the sand, the waves, vital cinematic language displayed in simple pictures. A poetic and kinetic shock, without fiction or sound, which relieves film from its narrative obligation and restores it to the world of sensations that it can alone carry.
The Open Road

1926

The Open Road

1926
6.7
In the summer of 1924 Claude Friese-Greene, a pioneer of colour cinematography, set out from Cornwall with the aim of recording life on the road between Land’s End and John O’Groats. Entitled The Open Road, his remarkable travelogue was conceived as a series of shorts, 26 episodes in all, to be shown weekly at the cinema. The result is a fascinating portrait of inter-war Britain, in which town and country, people and landscapes are captured as never before, in a truly unique and rich colour palette.
Inflation

1928

Inflation

1928
6.2
Inflation (1928) is an experimental silent film at eight minutes which is sometimes categorized as a documentary. By now Richter is well beyond playing with light & shadow. Inflation explores the subject of money through photographs & with with stop motion animation techniques, adding faces of people impoverished & enriched by the unpredictability of finance. It functions almost as a political cartoon in motion, building to a chaotic & catastrophic climax.
Mounted Police Charge

1896

Mounted Police Charge

1896
3.4
"A battalion of New York's famous mounted police at inspection. They approach at break-neck gallop." - from the Edison Catalog

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