Top Rated Documentary Movies on Kanopy - Page 180

Secrets in Our DNA

2021

Secrets in Our DNA

2021
Some 30 million Americans have sent their DNA to be analyzed by companies like 23andMe and AncestryDNA, hoping to obtain clues to family origins and forecasts of their future health. Some users have found family members and discovered lurking genetic risks. But what happens once the sample is in the hands of testing companies? What are they looking at and how accurate are their results?
Men: A Love Story

2016

Men: A Love Story

2016
"Men: A Love Story" pieces together a rich tapestry of vignettes, woven from stories shared by men of different race, age, and socio-economic backgrounds. The result is a stunningly honest, unapologetic glimpse into the minds of American men, and what the word 'love' means to them.
The Antechamber of Hell: The World's Largest Refugee Camp

2019

The Antechamber of Hell: The World's Largest Refugee Camp

2019
A gripping portrait of trauma and resilience of the Rohingya people in the world's largest refugee camp. The film approaches the Rohingya crisis from the personal point of view of the victims. Gang rape survivors talk directly to the camera with unprecedented candor. Building upon a heartening thought from Albert Camus, the documentary follows a dramatic arc from hell to redemption, with stories of survival and endurance. Harrowing yet uplifting, THE ANTECHAMBER OF HELL is both a searing testimony of crimes against humanity and an enlivening testament to the human spirit.
Root Hog or Die

1978

Root Hog or Die

1978
Root Hog or Die is a portrait of a living remnant of this once pervasive but rapidly vanishing way of life. Filmed in 1973 in hilltowns across Western Massachusetts and Southern Vermont, it follows the cycle of the farming year from spring to winter. In its course we visit with an array of elders, who reflect on farming's deep natural patterns, share their family histories and personal memories, and ponder the inevitable forces of technological and social change they have endured. The bittersweet nature of their challenges is manifest, as is the quiet pride they take in their lives as farmers.
Viewer Direction Advised

2018

Viewer Direction Advised

2018
Twenty-one year old Ben is on a journey - to follow his TV-obsessed dad and explore how television consumption has evolved from one generation to the next.
Ksenia

2023

Ksenia

2023
21 years young Ksenia will soon need to present herself to the courts, only she doesn't know when and for how long. How is it to live life in limbo,when you don't know when, or how heavily you'll need to pay for what you've done.
Blue Collar & Buddha

1986

Blue Collar & Buddha

1986
Exploration of prejudice and culture clash that a group of Laotian Buddhist refugees must endure in Rockford, Illinois.
Siberian Tiger Quest

2012

Siberian Tiger Quest

2012
Embark with conservation ecologist Chris Morgan on a great challenge: to find and film the Siberian tiger.
Baudouin, les derniers jours

2023

Baudouin, les derniers jours

2023
Aznavour: Breaking America

1985

Aznavour: Breaking America

1985
Speeches That Changed The World

2016

Speeches That Changed The World

2016
Words and delivery can combine to galvanize an audience, creating ‘I remember where I was when...’ moments. JFK at the Brandenburg Gate or Martin Luther King at the Lincoln Memorial provide unforgettable examples that still stir today. This collection of classic speech excerpts contains not only inspiring orations to democratic freedom and the noblest aspects of human endeavor, but also some of the darkest and most despicable speeches delivered in modern times.
Der Schwarm - Die Compagnie XY im Höhenflug

2020

Der Schwarm - Die Compagnie XY im Höhenflug

2020
The Challenge

2016

The Challenge

2016
In June 2015, Alex Smith completed a long distance triathlon - a 3.8km swim, 180km bike ride and 42km run - known as the toughest single day challenge you can undertake, carrying his 40kg disabled son the whole way. An epic achievement for his son, who is dying from a fatal muscle wasting disease: Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Back to the Back of Beyond

1997

Back to the Back of Beyond

1997
Film-maker John Heyer recounts to fellow film-maker Pat Jackson his film career, especially his award-winning film from 1954, the Australian classic Back of Beyond. At the same time as the two friends are in conversation the "original" Tom Kruse, outback mailman and the subject of Heyer's film, is retracing his journey of over 40 years before across the inland desert of Australia to bring the mail to the isolated people along the 325 mile stock-route from Queensland to South Australia. Heyer's importance to Austraian cinema is acknowledged and we get to see him as a person away from the camera too as he chats and travels across Europe with his friend.
Hollywood's Musical Moods

1976

Hollywood's Musical Moods

1976
In the silent film era, movies were never really silent. In the background of films that made figures like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton into cultural icons, were the musical giants whose compositions defined the very films that captivated a generation of movie-goers. Arthur Kleiner converses with the still-living legends from that bygone golden age of cinema.
In Memoriam (La derrota conviene olvidarla)

2018

In Memoriam (La derrota conviene olvidarla)

2018
Backs to the Blast: An Australian Nuclear Story

1981

Backs to the Blast: An Australian Nuclear Story

1981
A document of Australia's nuclear industrial history, from uranium mining and its toxic legacy to the nuclear weapons tests conducted at Maralinga in South Australia.
Edith Head

1981

Edith Head

1981
A light-hearted, toe-tapping portrait of the well-known 8 Oscar winning Hollywood costume designer filmed in her opulent house and garden. Edith Head presents some of her famous designs using glamorous models to impersonate Mae West, Barbara Stanwyck, Dorothy Lamour, Ginger Rogers, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and Grace Kelly. They move to the music of the films for which she was the designer as Head recalls the times and places that served as inspiration for the famed looks.
Poor Kids

2011

Poor Kids

2011
3.5 million children are growing up in poverty in the UK. It’s one of the worst rates in the industrialised world and successive governments continue to struggle to bring it into line. Struggling & without a voice, 'Poor Kids' shines a light on this pressing issue.
Shimon's Returns

2014

Shimon's Returns

2014
Shot in Poland, Ukraine and Israel, this film tells the story of Shimon Redlich, a Holocaust survivor who returns to places from his childhood as well as different hiding places in his struggle to survive.