Top Rated Documentary Movies on Free Services - Page 276

Acadiana

2019

Acadiana

2019
5.5
May 2017. As the new President of the United States takes his ease in the White House, the city of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, is the theatre of the mythic Crawfish Festival. It's just another day, in America.
Oil in the Blood

2019

Oil in the Blood

2019
6.5
Lifelong biker Gareth Maxwell Roberts explores the contemporary custom motorcycle culture.
Retirement Home

2017

Retirement Home

2017
10
A group of elders spends their weekdays in a retirement home in Sandim, in the north of Portugal, where they talk, do arts and crafts, practice yoga and pray. We follow them between October 2012 and March 2013, when an economic crisis overshadowed Portuguese society and unemployment rates reached record levels. Meanwhile, arrangements are made for the Carnival ball. Will they bring the first place home this time?
Life Love Dogs

2019

Life Love Dogs

2019
7
Heartwarming, inspiring documentary that explores the unbreakable bonds we share with our dogs & how humans and dogs rescue each other.
Iceland You Think You're Alone

2018

Iceland You Think You're Alone

2018
8.2
Iceland is one of the wildest places on earth. You could be caught up in the midst of snowstorms and blizzards, but you are never alone... Although tourists from all over the world have started a silent invasion, nature keeps on winning.
Narrowsburg

2019

Narrowsburg

2019
6
The stranger-than-fiction story of a French film producer and her mafioso-turned-actor husband who attempt to turn a tiny town into the “Sundance of the East.”
Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago

2020

Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago

2020
6
Author Barry Gifford's gritty autobiographical stories of growing up in 1950s Chicago provide the backdrop for an impressionistic documentary portrait of a vanished time and place.
Prendre soin

2019

Prendre soin

2019
7
An immersive documentary about four nurses working in retirement houses in Alzheimer units. Near to Claire, Luca, Antoinette and Lika, we discover how the nurses work, how the care is possible, with patience, ability, intelligence, tenderness and love.
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman

1996

Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman

1996
7.5
Jack Lemmon made over 60 films and received numerous awards, including eight Academy Award Nominations and two Oscars. Later in life, his achievement was enriched by new challenges in which he exposed the vulnerability and emotion of the later years as few had dared. He reveled in his ongoing screen partnerships with directors like Billy Wilder and stars like Walter Matthau. Narrated on-camera by Jack Lemmon, this documentary includes interviews with Lemmon's son, the actor Chris Lemmon. Also appearing are such legends as Jack's life-long friend, the writer and director Billy Wilder, writer-director Garson Kanin, drama teacher Uta Hagen and actor Gregory Peck.
We Brought Back MST3K

2018

We Brought Back MST3K

2018
10
This feature length documentary provides fans with an insider’s look at the creation of Season 11 and its triumphant debut on Netflix. Featuring new interviews with Joel Hodgson, Jonah Ray, Felicia Day, Patton Oswalt and many others, interwoven with previously unseen footage from all stages of MST3K’s miraculous comeback.
Love Bite: Laurie Lipton and Her Disturbing Black & White Drawings

2016

Love Bite: Laurie Lipton and Her Disturbing Black & White Drawings

2016
6.5
With millions of tiny strokes of her humble pencil, Laurie Lipton’s haunted images seek answers to some of the most uncomfortable themes in our culture. But what compels her to live a life of isolation drawing is neither black nor white.
White Savior: Racism in The American Church

2019

White Savior: Racism in The American Church

2019
3.5
The 2008 election of Barack Obama led many to believe we had entered a post-racial America, one in which the nation's traumatic and painful history of racism had finally been erased. In the years since, it's become increasingly clear that the deep roots of racism and white supremacy continue to run through our political, cultural, and religious institutions. Based on interviews and current research, the documentary film White Savior explores the historic relationship between racism and American Christianity, the ongoing segregation of the church in the US, and the complexities of racial reconciliation. Featuring interviews with Lenny Duncan, Soong Chan Rah, Jacqueline Woodson, Jim Bear Jacobs, Dominique Gilliard, and more.
What Has Been Lost

2020

What Has Been Lost

2020
4
My mother has died. Her name was Maria. Her children, we, Raúl and Santiago, discover among the objects left by our mother hundreds of photographs from our maternal grandfather, from REGINA -our great-aunt-, from our mother, from our father... And through those photographs, and with the help from an old camera -my grandfather's inheritance-, I, -along several trips to the places where those photographs were taken-, seek to recover and not lose my memory... that of my family. In the end, we will have to think on our memory and on what we have preserved and lost.
I Am (Not) a Monster

2019

I Am (Not) a Monster

2019
7
A journey to find the origins of knowledge.
The Divided Brain

2019

The Divided Brain

2019
7
A film which explores a radical new idea - is there an imbalance between our brain hemispheres that is affecting how we live in our modern society?
Own The Sky

2019

Own The Sky

2019
7
Self-flight heroes Nelson Tyler & Bill Suitor, join forces with rookie David Mayman on his gravity defying quest to build & fly the world's first Jet Pack.
The Boy Who Found Gold

2016

The Boy Who Found Gold

2016
10
William Hart McNichols is a world renowned artist, heralded by Time magazine as "among the most famous creators of Christian iconic images in the world". As a young Catholic priest from 1983-1990 he was immersed in a life-altering journey working as a chaplain at St. Vincent's AIDS hospice in New York city. It was during this time that he became an early pioneer for LGBT rights within the Catholic church. "The Boy Who Found Gold" is a cinematic journey into the art and spirit of William Hart McNichols. The film follows his colorful life as he crosses paths with presidents, popes, martyrs, and parishioners, finding an insightful lesson with each encounter. McNichols' message as a priest, artist and man speaks to the most powerful element of the human spirit: Mercy.
Adolf Hitler: Pure Evil

2016

Adolf Hitler: Pure Evil

2016
4
There have been many evil men in the history of the world including serial killers, rapists and mass murderers – but none of them as extreme and as monstrous as Adolf Hitler.
Bellatrix

2019

Bellatrix

2019
7.5
A 20-year-old woman begins to question the experiences of women in society; she meets researchers and people who work on the gender issue to better discuss and understand the struggles and differences that women face in their daily lives.
Latter Day Jew

2019

Latter Day Jew

2019
1
Latter Day Jew follows H. Alan Scott, a gay former Mormon/converted Jew/cancer survivor/writer-comedian, as he finds his spiritual path and prepares for his Bar Mitzvah at age 34.