Top Rated Documentary Movies on Kanopy - Page 280

Welcome to Britain

1976

Welcome to Britain

1976
Captures a moment in 1970s Britain's immigration debate, focusing on new arrivals at Heathrow as they wrestle with immigration law.
Wrestling Ghosts

2018

Wrestling Ghosts

2018
Unable to understand why parenting seems like a constant uphill battle, an emotionally exhausted mother who can’t connect with her two young sons courageously confronts the events of her own traumatic childhood.
Aoki

2009

Aoki

2009
A film documenting the life of Richard Aoki, a Japanese-American activist and founding member of the Black Panther Party.
Words from a Bear

2019

Words from a Bear

2019
A visual journey into the mind and soul of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Navarro Scott Momaday, relating each written line to his unique Native American experience representing ancestry, place, and oral history.
Roses in December

1982

Roses in December

1982
The film begins with the exhumation of four American women tortured, raped, and murdered by the right-wing government of El Salvador on December 2, 1980. The women — Dorothy Kazel, an Ursuline; Ita Ford and Maura Clarke, Maryknoll mission sisters; and Jean Donovan, a young laywoman from Cleveland — were providing food, shelter, medical care and burial to the poor. They were targeted for assassination by a death squad within the U.S.-supported Salvadoran military as part of a policy of suppressing the poor and “liberation theology.” The award-winning documentary focuses primarily on the life of Jean Donovan through archival news footage, interviews, home movies, and diary readings.
Love Letters

1983

Love Letters

1983
Citations from love letters and poems written between Karl Marx and his fiancée Jenny von Westphalen during their teenage years are combined with images, paintings, and beautiful, atmospheric landscapes of places connected to Marx.
Women Composers

2018

Women Composers

2018
When Leipzig pianist Kyra Steckeweh realized that her repertoire almost exclusively consisted of music composed by men, she began searching for pieces written by female composers. Her research in archives, libraries, and publishing houses quickly brought to light a variety of remarkable piano pieces that have been buried in history and rarely performed.
Nothing Without Us: The Women Who Will End AIDS

2018

Nothing Without Us: The Women Who Will End AIDS

2018
The first and only documentary telling the story of the inspiring women at the forefront of the global AIDS movement. Combining archival footage and interviews with female activists, scientists and scholars in the US and Africa, this documentary reveals how women not only shaped grassroots groups like ACT-UP in the U.S., but have also played essential roles in HIV prevention and the treatment access movement throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
David Macaulay: Pyramid

1989

David Macaulay: Pyramid

1989
How did ancient Egyptians build the Great Pyramid at Giza, joining two million blocks of heavy stone with amazing precision? Who were the leaders who built these enormous structures, and what did these tombs signify? Host David Macaulay explores the history, mythology, and religions of Egypt's people, combining live footage and animation. Take a rare look at the mummy of Ramses II and buried treasure in the sacred Valley of the Kings.
Memory of Forgotten War

2013

Memory of Forgotten War

2013
Unknown or forgotten by most Americans, the Korean War divided a people with several millenniums of shared history. Memory of Forgotten War conveys the human costs of military conflict through deeply personal accounts of four Korean American survivors whose experiences and memories embrace the full circle of the war: its outbreak and the day-to-day struggle for survival, separation from family members across the DMZ, the aftermath of a devastated Korean peninsula, and immigration to the United States. Each person reunites with relatives in North Korea conveying beyond words the meaning of four decades of family loss. Their stories belie the notion that war ends for civilians when the guns are silenced and foreshadow the futures of countless others displaced by ongoing military conflict today.
Dirty Gold

2014

Dirty Gold

2014
Gold, the enduring safe investment and symbol of wealth, comes at a high price. Mined in slave-like conditions, it has been linked to everything from funding civil wars in Africa to causing environmental disasters in Latin America. The market for gold is enormous with 70% of global production handled by just one country: Switzerland. The industry has been protected by the Swiss state for more than a century, and turning a blind eye here is standard practice. Despite attempts at reforms, a lack of transparency still remains. We travel to Peru, Congo, Dubai and Switzerland to investigate.
Destiny in Alice

2008

Destiny in Alice

2008
In the Heart of Australia, one of the harshest places on the planet, the town of Alice Springs has become a haven for lesbians, confronting the challenges of loving across racial and cultural gaps.
Who Killed Belinda Peisley?

2018

Who Killed Belinda Peisley?

2018
This documentary delivers gripping courtroom drama and investigation into the culture of a community who to this day harbour dark secrets about Belinda Peisley's mysterious disappearance in 1998.
1948

2018

1948

2018
Performing the Border

1999

Performing the Border

1999
A video essay set in the Mexican-U.S. border town of Ciudad Juarez, where U.S. multinational corporations assemble electronic and digital equipment just across from El Paso, Texas. This imaginative, experimental work investigates the growing feminization of the global economy and its impact on Mexican women living and working in the area. Looking at the border as both a discursive and material space, the video explores the sexualization of the border region through labor division, prostitution, the expression of female desires in the entertainment industry, and sexual violence in the public sphere.
Travel Ban

2018

Travel Ban

2018
A political comedy about being brown and immigrant in Trump's America seen through the eyes of comedians of Middle Eastern origin.
Mayskaya Street

2017

Mayskaya Street

2017
Belarus, Winter 2015. The omnipotent president Loukachenko is starting his campaign looking for a 5th mandate. As Kostia celebrates his18th birthday and gets ready to vote for the first time, he takes us around in his village and among his relatives as they all try to understand and conceive their country and their future.
TVTV: Video Revolutionaries

2018

TVTV: Video Revolutionaries

2018
A documentary about Top Value Television (TVTV), a band of merry video makers who, from 1972 to 1977, took the then brand-new portable video camera and went out to document the world.
The Lost Village

2018

The Lost Village

2018
In Greenwich Village there is Debt Slavery and prostitution at NYU due to high tuition and fees for students. NYU and other Land Lords are changing the character of the Bohemian Village due to outrageous rents and pass along real estate taxes.
2e: Twice Exceptional

2015

2e: Twice Exceptional

2015
'2E: Twice Exceptional' follows the personal journeys of a handful of middle school and high school students in Los Angeles who have been identified as 'twice exceptional' -- gifted or highly gifted individuals with learning disabilities or differences. They are geniuses, mavericks and dreamers -- Malcolm Gladwell's budding 'outliers.' Among them may be the next Einstein, Mozart or Steve Jobs... if they can survive the American school system and their own eccentricities.