Top Rated Documentary Movies on Pantaflix - Page 500

The Dazzling Light of Sunset

2016

The Dazzling Light of Sunset

2016
5.6
Flanked by her phlegmatic sidekick, Dariko is the only outside broadcast journalist at a local Georgian television channel. With derisory resources, she races from one report to another to give an honest, if not objective, image of the current events that shape her environment.
Ama-San

2016

Ama-San

2016
7.1
A dive, the midday sunlight filtering down through the water. The air in her lungs has to last until she can dislodge the abalone. Dives like these have been carried out in Japan for over 2000 years by the Ama-San.
Cities of the Plain

2000

Cities of the Plain

2000
6.3
The final film from expatriate American filmmaker Robert Kramer, who died in France in 1999. Kramer and collaborators tell the somber life story of Ben. After leaving his homeland as a youth, he is greeted in France by menial jobs in industry. In time, he opens a fruit market, finds a wife, fathers a child, and has it all come crashing down when he learns his mother is in danger back home. Upon his return to France, he finds his life in ruin.
Russian Jews. Part One. Before Revolution.

2016

Russian Jews. Part One. Before Revolution.

2016
7.4
The history of Jewish people in Russia up until the 1917 revolution.
Phi Slama Jama

2016

Phi Slama Jama

2016
6.6
Winning is never a slam dunk. They were the most popular fraternity on the campus of college basketball in the early 1980's. Led by a Nigerian soccer player named Hakeem Olajuwon and a lightly recruited hometown kid named Clyde Drexler, the University of Houston Cougars not only electrified the NCAA Final Four with three straight appearances (1982-84), but they also helped transform the game itself. Director Chip Rives brings back the high-flying circus act under ringmaster Guy V. Lewis and spins a tale of true greatness and crushing heartbreak.
The Worst of Faces of Death

1987

The Worst of Faces of Death

1987
3.9
Includes many disturbing highlights from the first three Faces of Death films, such as animal slaughtering, executions, and more.
Check It

2016

Check It

2016
5
Fed up with being pushed around, a group of gay and trans teens of color form a gang and fight back on the brutal streets of Washington D.C. They call their gang ‘Check it’ and this group of one-time victims of bullying, rape and abuse have turned the tables on anyone trying to hurt them. The group formed to provide its members safety in numbers and let people know that if they jump a queer kid in D.C., they may get beaten into a coma. This raw and intimate portrait follows three childhood friends as they struggle to survive and claw their way out of gang life through an unlikely avenue: fashion.
Memories of a Penitent Heart

2016

Memories of a Penitent Heart

2016
5.6
Twenty five years after Miguel died from AIDS, his niece, filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo, embarks on an excavation into a quagmire of unresolved family drama. Like many gay men in the 1980s, Miguel moved from Puerto Rico to New York City; he found a career in theater and a rewarding relationship. Yet, on his deathbed he grappled to reconcile his homosexuality with his Catholic upbringing. Now, decades after his death, Cecilia locates Miguel’s lover Robert, who has been shunned and demonized by the family, in order to understand the whole story.
Unknown Refugee

2016

Unknown Refugee

2016
6.4
In the autumn of 2015, Finnish-Iranian Ali Jahangiri wanted to personally experience the reality faced by refugees in Europe. Ali travelled across Europe to Finland with refugees who had landed in Greece. Unknown refugee is an authentic documentary of encounters that are not covered by the news.
Their Frozen Dream

1997

Their Frozen Dream

1997
5.9
Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously dramatized in "Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd" (1982).
These C*cksucking Tears

2016

These C*cksucking Tears

2016
4.2
Patrick Haggerty, the gritty, fearless voice behind the world's first and only gay-themed country music album, 40 years after its release.
Vali, The Witch of Positano

1967

Vali, The Witch of Positano

1967
4.6
A documentary portrait shot in Positano, Italy in 1965 about Australian artist and occultist Vali Myers.
Screen Test: Lou Reed (Coke)

1966

Screen Test: Lou Reed (Coke)

1966
6
Andy directs Lou Reed drinking a Coke.
Cinéastes de notre temps : Carl Th. Dreyer

1965

Cinéastes de notre temps : Carl Th. Dreyer

1965
6.7
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes

2016

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes

2016
6.6
More people are imprisoned in the United States at this moment than in any other time or place in history, yet the prison itself has never felt further away or more out of sight. This is a film about the prison in which we never see an actual penitentiary. The film unfolds a cinematic journey through a series of landscapes across the USA where prisons do work and affect lives, from an anti-sex-offender pocket park in Los Angeles, to a congregation of ex-incarcerated chess players shut out of the formal labor market, to an Appalachian coal town betting its future on the promise of prison jobs.
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo

2016

Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo

2016
6.6
Feature-length in-depth documentary by High Rising Productions chronicling the Giallo film genre from its beginnings as early 20th century crime fiction, to its later influences on the modern slasher film genre. Featuring interviews with Dario Argento, Umberto Lenzi, Luigi Cozzi, Richard Stanley, and more.
The Banksy Job

2016

The Banksy Job

2016
5.7
Documentary about a man who steals a Banksy piece.
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'

2007

The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'

2007
8
Director Francis Ford Coppola, cast and production crew explore the making of the 1992 masterpiece.
Capitulation, the Final Hours that Ended World War II

2005

Capitulation, the Final Hours that Ended World War II

2005
7.3
A film made of archives mostly unknown, on the last day of the Second World War in Europe and on the events which preceded it. This film also shows the growing tension between the Allies and the Soviets at the time: May 8, 1945 is also the first day of the Cold War.
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs

2010

Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs

2010
7.1
With interviews from cast and crew, including stars Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, and director Jonathan Demme, this feature-length documentary tells the story of how a film with a young director trained in B-movies and cheesy comedies managed to make one of the most chilling films in decades, and how a studio in the midst of collapse turned out a film that took the box office - and Oscars - by storm.