Top Rated Documentary Movies - Page 500

A Thousand Suns

2013

A Thousand Suns

2013
6.7
In 1972, Djibril Diop Mambety shoots "Touki Bouki." Mory and Anta are in love. Two young lovers share the same dream: to leave Dakar for Paris. At the fateful moment, Anta embarks. Mory stays alone on quay, unable to tear himself away from his land. Forty years later, "A Thousand Suns" investigates the personal and universal inheritance which represents "Touki Bouki." What has happened since? Magaye Niang, the hero of the movie, has never left Dakar. And today, the old cowboy wonders where Anta is, the love of his youth. Stories about family, exile and cinema meet between the sphere of intimacy and that of myth.
The Days of Our Years

1955

The Days of Our Years

1955
2.6
A minister reflects on the devastating traumas and injuries of railroad workers in his congregation.
Taiga

1992

Taiga

1992
7.1
The Darkhad and Soyon Uriyanghai peoples live in a vast valley in Northern Mongolia, much as their ancestors have for centuries. "Taiga" is the record of a long period spent by the German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger among these people.
The Secret Life of Adolf Hitler

1958

The Secret Life of Adolf Hitler

1958
6.1
1950's television documentary special that includes interviews with Hitler's sister Paula Wolf and a fellow prisoner who was incarcerated with Hitler, actual footage shot by the Nazi's and Eva Braun's rare home movies.
The Pig Farm

2011

The Pig Farm

2011
5.3
The life and murders of one of the worst serial killers in history, Robert Pickton who went unchallenged for decades.
I Am Because We Are

2008

I Am Because We Are

2008
8.9
A look into the lives of Malawi's 1 million plus orphans in the wake of the AIDS pandemic. It offers hope and real solutions to the challenges that people face living in extreme poverty.
Rocks at Whiskey Trench

2000

Rocks at Whiskey Trench

2000
6.3
The fourth film in Alanis Obomsawin's landmark series on the Oka crisis uses a single, shameful incident as a lens through which to examine the region's long history of prejudice and injustice against the Mohawk population.
David Blaine: Magic Man

1998

David Blaine: Magic Man

1998
6.7
In Magic Man, Blaine is shown traveling across the country, entertaining unsuspecting pedestrians in New York City, Atlantic City, Dallas, San Francisco, Compton, and the Mojave Desert recorded by a small crew with handheld cameras. Jon Racherbaumer commented, "Make no mistake about it, the focus of this show, boys and girls, is not Blaine. It is really about theatrical proxemics; about the show-within-a-show and the spontaneous, visceral reactions of people being astonished."
Brooklyn Girls Fight Club

0000

Brooklyn Girls Fight Club

0000
8.1
From the birthplace of boxing legend Mike Tyson, young women brawl in secret fight clubs to win $1000 and invaluable street cred.
Celluloid Man

2012

Celluloid Man

2012
7
Indian documentary about Indian film history and P. K. Nair, the founder of the National Film Archive of India and guardian of Indian cinema. He built the archive can by can in a country where the archiving of cinema was considered unimportant.
View from an Engine Front: Barnstaple

1898

View from an Engine Front: Barnstaple

1898
5.1
A ‘phantom ride’ taken from the front of a train passing through the Devon town of Barnstaple.
Rose, c'est Paris

2010

Rose, c'est Paris

2010
5.1
Bettina Rheims and Serge Bramly's Rose, c'est Paris is both a photographic monograph and a feature-length film. This extraordinary work of art, in two different but interlocking and complementary formats, defies easy categorization. For in this multi-layered opus of poetic symbolism, photographer Bettina Rheims and writer Serge Bramly evoke the City of Light in a completely novel way: this is a Paris of surrealist visions, confused identities, artistic phantoms, unseen manipulation, obsession, fetish, and seething desire.
The Solar Film

1980

The Solar Film

1980
5.9
Educational film about solar energy, told with striking imagery and animation.
The Fourth Dimension

2001

The Fourth Dimension

2001
7.3
This is an elegant meditation on time, travel, and ceremony in the form of a journey. In her first foray into digital video, Trinh T. Minh-ha deconstructs the role of ritual in mediating between the past and the present.
An Image

1983

An Image

1983
5.6
"Four days spent in a studio working on a centerfold photo for Playboy magazine provided the subject matter for my film. The magazine itself deals with culture, cars, a certain lifestyle. Maybe all those trappings are only there to cover up the naked woman. Maybe it’s like with a paper-doll. The naked woman in the middle is a sun around which a system revolves: of culture, of business, of living!" (Harun Farocki, Zelluloid, no. 27, Fall 1988)
Britain in a Day

2012

Britain in a Day

2012
6.7
On Saturday 12 November 2011, an eclectic range of British people turned the camera on themselves, capturing the entertaining and mundane, the exciting and unusual, the poignant and the everyday. The result, Britain in a Day tells the fascinating story of the British public in their own words. Following on from the feature film Life in a Day, this 90-minute film directed by BAFTA winner Morgan Matthews offers an extraordinarily candid look at 21st-century life across the UK, crafted from over 750 hours of footage, including 11,526 clips submitted to YouTube. The documentary offers remarkable insight into the lives, loves, fears and hopes of people living in Britain today. This captivating self-portrait of Britain forms part of the BBC's Cultural Olympiad.
My Fathers, My Mother and Me

2012

My Fathers, My Mother and Me

2012
4.6
Communal property, free sexuality, dissolution of the nuclear family - these were the basic principles of the Friedrichshof, the largest commune in Europe founded by the Viennese Actionist Otto Muehl in the 1970's. Because of these principles Paul-Julien Robert, who was born into this commune, for a long time didn't know who was his biological father.
Tlatelolco: The Keys to the Massacre

2002

Tlatelolco: The Keys to the Massacre

2002
7
Gather all materials known film about the events of October 2, 1968, identifies the military leaders that led to the killing and displays key documents to highlight the mechanisms used by the repressive forces and the government against the student movement.
Los últimos zapatistas, héroes olvidados

2002

Los últimos zapatistas, héroes olvidados

2002
6
In the year 2000 the Mexican film director, Francesco Taboada Tabone, began his search for the last of the soldiers to have fought beside General Emiliano Zapata in the 1910 Revolution.
A Is for Autism

1992

A Is for Autism

1992
6.8
An animated documentary short made by people with autism.

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