Top Rated Documentary Movies on Pantaflix - Page 151

Ringkämpfer

1895

Ringkämpfer

1895
4.9
Two men in white leotards and tights, and black slips over it, wrestle on a theatre stage.
The Spirit of '45

2013

The Spirit of '45

2013
6.1
How the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society.
Pan 0

1974

Pan 0

1974
4.6
Clouds roll by in a static haze.
Salt for Svanetia

1930

Salt for Svanetia

1930
6.3
An ethnographic treasure that documents with visual bravado the harsh conditions of life in the isolated mountain village of Ushkul.
Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke

1896

Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke

1896
5.2
Carmaux is in south-central France, near the Tarn River. As a brick of coke, about four feet high and three feet wide, is gradually pushed out of a smelter into a yard, one worker sprays it with water from a hose while two workers with long metal rakes wait to spread it out. Other workers buzz in and out of the foreground of the stationary camera. Atop the first level of the brick smelter, workers push full carts of coal along a track.
79 Springs

1969

79 Springs

1969
6
This film memorializes the leader of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, on the occasion of his death. It narrates the story of a life which is also the story of a nation-recounting his important accomplishments in the struggle against colonialism and imperialism.
President McKinley and Escort Going to the Capitol

1901

President McKinley and Escort Going to the Capitol

1901
4.9
Cavalry and foot-soldiers escort President McKinley.
Louis Theroux's African Hunting Holiday

2008

Louis Theroux's African Hunting Holiday

2008
7
Louis goes to South Africa where American tourists pay to hunt wild animals in privately owned reserves.
For No Good Reason

2012

For No Good Reason

2012
6.8
For No Good Reason a film about Ralph Steadman. Johnny Depp guides the visually stunning journey, smashing narrative conventions, moving seamlessly from interview to animation and in the finest Gonzo tradition questions of witness and authenticity are challenged. Steadman's art is for the first time animated, including illustrations from Hunter S Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vagas. Featuring Richard E Grant, Terry Gilliam, Bruce Robinson and with music from Slash, The All American Rejects, Jason Mraz, Crystal Castles, Ed Hardcourt and Beth Orton. A touching and at times funny film about honesty, friendship and the ambition driving an artist. This is a true record of the demise of the 20th Century counterculture and hipster dream with Ralph Steadman the last of the Gonzo visionaries.
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me

2000

Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me

2000
7.5
A unique look at the making of Stand by Me including interviews from Stephen King, Rob Reiner, Kiefer Sutherland, Richard Dreyfuss, Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'Connell.
Katt Williams: Kattpacalypse

2012

Katt Williams: Kattpacalypse

2012
6
Katt Williams ushers in Kattpacalypse, exploding with more energy than an atomic bomb and riffing on everything from Doomsday to Obama. Katt Williams has been the best selling urban comic in the last 10 years and proved to have explosive sales across all platforms from DVD to tours.
The Tramp and the Dictator

2002

The Tramp and the Dictator

2002
7
A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film “The Great Dictator,” released in 1940.
Broadway by Light

1958

Broadway by Light

1958
6.7
An experimental meditation on Times Square's marquees and iconic advertising that captures the concurrently seedy and dazzling aspects of New York's Great White Way.
Screaming in High Heels: The Rise & Fall of the Scream Queen Era

2011

Screaming in High Heels: The Rise & Fall of the Scream Queen Era

2011
6.7
Three girls living in Los Angeles, CA in the 1980s found cult fame when they "accidentally" transitioned from models to B-movie actresses, coinciding with the major direct-to-video horror film boom of the era. Known as "The Terrifying Trio," Linnea Quigley (The Return of the Living Dead), Brinke Stevens (The Slumber Party Massacre) and Michelle Bauer (The Tomb), headlined upwards of ten films per year, fending off men in rubber monster suits, pubescent teenage boys, and deadly showers. They joined together in campy cult films like Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-a-Rama (1988) and Nightmare Sisters (1987). They traveled all over the world, met President Reagan, and built mini-empires of trading cards, comic books, and model kits. Then it all came crashing down. This documentary remembers these actresses - and their most common collaborators - on how smart they were to play stupid
Pictures of the Old World

1972

Pictures of the Old World

1972
8.1
A raw and telling portrait of a people left behind by the modern world, inspired by the work of photographer Martin Martinček - whose pictures of the inhabitants of the Liptov region in central Slovakia, encompassed by the Tatra mountains, distilled entire lifetimes into luminous and intransient images. Dušan Hanák's continuation of these photographs takes the shape of a poetic visual essay, capturing more comprehensive vignettes of their isolated human experiences.
Camp 14: Total Control Zone

2012

Camp 14: Total Control Zone

2012
6.7
Shin Dong-Huyk was born on November 19, 1983 as a political prisoner in a North Korean re-education camp. He was a child of two prisoners who had been married by order of the wardens. He spent his entire childhood and youth in Camp 14, in fact a death camp. He was forced to labor since he was six years old and suffered from hunger, beatings and torture, always at the mercy of the wardens. He knew nothing about the world outside the barbed-wire fences. At the age of 23, with the help of an older prisoner, he managed to escape. For months he traveled through North Korea and China and finally to South Korea, where he encountered a world completely strange to him.
Making Michael Jackson's Thriller

1983

Making Michael Jackson's Thriller

1983
8.9
Featuring interviews with director John Landis, make-up artist Rick Baker, and the King of Pop himself, Making Michael Jackson's Thriller takes you on a behind-the-scenes journey from pre-production to shooting on the ghoulish graveyard set of Michael Jackson's legendary music video and short film.
Pearl Jam: MTV Unplugged

1992

Pearl Jam: MTV Unplugged

1992
8.4
A performance by Pearl Jam on MTV’s Unplugged. The band plays acoustic versions of songs from their debut album Ten, including 'Black' and 'Alive', plus 'State Of Love And Trust', which was not included on the original album.
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story

1989

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story

1989
6.5
A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music and sound, and diverse readings; a critical, beautiful and melancholic vision of cinematographic art.
The Making of 'Psycho'

2005

The Making of 'Psycho'

2005
7.4
A retrospective on the entire movie, from start to finish. There are interviews with many of the principle cast and crew (including Janet Leigh and Joseph Stefano), who all talk openly and lovingly about entire process of making the film. The sessions with Janet Leigh are particularly involving, and she talks a great deal about shooting the now infamous shower scene.