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Planet of the Apes: A Milestone of Science Fiction

2024

Planet of the Apes: A Milestone of Science Fiction

2024
8.1
Since its release in 1968, Planet of the Apes, the masterful film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starring Charlton Heston, and its subsequent sequels have asked its viewers challenging questions about contemporary society under the guise of a bold science fiction saga: a fascinating look at a hugely successful pop culture phenomenon.
The Quilters

2024

The Quilters

2024
7.4
Follow the daily lives of several quilters inside the sewing room at South Central Correctional Center, a Level 5 maximum-security prison in a small town two hours south of St. Louis, MO. From design to completion, the men reveal their struggles, triumphs, and sense of pride in creating something beautiful in this windowless, sacred space deep within the prison walls.
Perfectly a Strangeness

2024

Perfectly a Strangeness

2024
6.1
In the dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe. A sensorial, cinematic exploration of what a story can be.
Elementary

2025

Elementary

2025
6.1
In the Makarenko public elementary school in the Paris outskirts, children want to learn and to be cheered while teachers know they do not only teach, they also educate. With care, tenacity and efforts, children are trained to become not only responsible citizens but also human beings.
Mostruosamente Villaggio

2024

Mostruosamente Villaggio

2024
7.1
The Belle from Gaza

2024

The Belle from Gaza

2024
7.2
They had a fleeting vision one night during the filming of Mr. Beautiful. One of them told Selim Nassib in Arabic that she had walked from Gaza to become a transsexual in Tel Aviv. I called her La Belle de Gaza. With my camera, I looked for her everywhere.
Julia's Stepping Stones

2024

Julia's Stepping Stones

2024
6.3
Oscar-winning filmmaker Julia Reichert reflects on the social, economic and personal forces that led to her career as a pioneering documentarian.
Yintah

2024

Yintah

2024
8.2
Wet’suwet’en leaders unite in a battle against the Canadian government, corporations, and militarized law enforcement to safeguard their territory from gas and oil pipelines.
Cheech & Chong's Last Movie

2025

Cheech & Chong's Last Movie

2025
7.2
Exploring their 5-decade career performing stand-up, making records, and starring in hit films. It covers their lives, comedy partnership, and lasting influence on pop culture.
Chowchilla

2023

Chowchilla

2023
6.1
Go behind the headlines to explore the strangest mass kidnapping in history, with exclusive interviews from those who lived through it.
Christspiracy

2024

Christspiracy

2024
9.3
The moral dimension of humanity's interaction with nonhuman animals and the industries that profit from their exploitation, as informed by world religions. A historical explanation of how the current global situation came to be.
Ozu: The Filmmaker of Happiness

2023

Ozu: The Filmmaker of Happiness

2023
6.9
In the later part of his oeuvre, the famous Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu looks at the society of post-war Japan through family stories from the lower middle class. Arte has compiled a decalogy of 10 films from this period from the director's creative work. This short documentary film, created in this context, explains the film works using fragments of Ozu's notes, which he wrote between 1933 and 1963, elegant drawings and film clips. A fine insight into the themes and aesthetics of this moving cinema about intimacy and the passage of time and a fascinating journey into the moving final part of the Japanese master's work.
JFK: What The Doctors Saw

2023

JFK: What The Doctors Saw

2023
6.8
Unsettling medical details on the JFK assassination are disclosed by seven doctors who were in the ER during a futile effort to save his life in 1963.
Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story

2023

Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story

2023
7.7
Tyler Perry is America’s consummate multihyphenate. But underneath this entertainment behemoth is a man working humbly to heal his childhood trauma by transforming his pain into promise. This documentary, a nod to his mother’s love, is an intimate portrait of visionary Tyler Perry and his harrowing but faithful road to the top of an industry that didn’t always include him.
People's Avengers

1943

People's Avengers

1943
7.7
About the partisan movement during the Great Patriotic War.
Tracy Morgan: Takin' It Too Far

2023

Tracy Morgan: Takin' It Too Far

2023
4.9
Grateful and hyped, Tracy Morgan owns his set and unabashedly tackling topics such as dating in his 50s (along with the unexpected side effects that comes with it), his dysfunctional family, attempting to reverse gentrification in Brooklyn, and the very public 2014 car accident that left him with multiple broken bones, a traumatic brain injury, and a substantial settlement.
Silver Dollar Road

2023

Silver Dollar Road

2023
7.2
The story of the Reels family who are valiantly attempting to protect the land their family bought one generation after slavery. This documentary, based on the 2019 ProPublica article, highlights the covert ways the legal system has been exploited to keep Black land ownership fragile and the racial wealth gap growing.
Explorer: Lost in the Arctic

2023

Explorer: Lost in the Arctic

2023
5.9
Sir John Franklin set off from England in 1845 with two ships and 129 men to be the first to navigate the Northwest Passage, a new trade route over the top of the world, when Franklin’s ships vanished without a trace. Now, a team of explorers attempts to solve the mystery by retracing Franklin’s route in search of his long-lost tomb.
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback

2023

Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback

2023
6.5
The making of Elvis Presley's famous live TV concert and the chaotic behind the scenes. It was the most-watched television event of the year with nearly half of the audience tuned in to watch Presley perform in his iconic black leather suit.
Pencils vs Pixels

2023

Pencils vs Pixels

2023
8.6
A documentary told from the voices of the "second golden age" of animation in the 1990s and 2000s about the rise, fall and rise again of hand-drawn animation. They were trained by animation masters that created the principles of animation, they took animation to heights no one dreamed of - and then came the computer.