Top Rated Documentary Movies on Vudu - Page 251

Wet House

2021

Wet House

2021
An unflinching look at life on the fringe, documenting the changing fortunes of residents throughout a year. Encountering humanity within this harrowing reality, a radical care-model offers hope for chronic alcoholism.
The Body Fights Back

2020

The Body Fights Back

2020
A feature documentary about five people navigating the paradoxes of diet culture. While promises of happiness, desirability and perfection are irresistible, joy and contentment remain out of reach. Personal stories from vastly different backgrounds quickly merge into a shockingly similar experience of battling one’s body. Self-starvation and compulsive exercise bring temporary satisfaction, only to be replaced with binging and purging soon after. Surprisingly, none of it has much to do with food.
Celebrating Out of Body

2020

Celebrating Out of Body

2020
In celebration of their new album Out Of Body, Needtobreathe performed the album front to back for the first time in Nashville, TN. The performance includes new versions of classic Needtobreathe songs as well.
Best Kids in Texas

2017

Best Kids in Texas

2017
When Texas emerges as a hotbed for recruiting young talent into the professional paintball scene in early 2000s, a group of teenagers find a mentor, pledge to stick together, and in the process change professional paintball in Texas forever.
Café-Finovo

2013

Café-Finovo

2013
With patience and beauty, our understanding of mortality changes as this film takes a look at life, laughter and Wilhelm Grimm. Between the walls of the Alter St. Matthäus cemetery in Berlin, we meet artists, storytellers and tomb sponsors - the cultural life that revolves around the lively Café-Finovo and its famous cakes. Café-Finovo is the first cemetery café in Germany.
All These Sons

2021

All These Sons

2021
On Chicago's South and West sides, the scourge of guns and gangs is destroying countless lives. Taking matters into their own hands, two men dedicate their lives educating, empowering and healing young Black men at high risk for being victims—or perpetrators—of deadly gun-violence.
When Tariq Ali Met Malcolm X

2019

When Tariq Ali Met Malcolm X

2019
One was a Black human rights leader who had achieved global notoriety. The other was a young Marxist Oxford student from Pakistan looking to bring radical change to the British establishment. When they met in December 1964, Malcolm X's life of activism was about to come to a tragic end, but Tariq Ali's journey was just beginning. This is the story of a brief but impactful friendship that, 50 years later, still ripples through England today, told by Ali, civil rights historians, and rarely seen footage of Malcolm X's overseas visit.
Walk Against Fear: James Meredith

2020

Walk Against Fear: James Meredith

2020
In 1962 James H. Meredith became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi. This film documents the life and times of one of America's greatest and most controversial civil rights icons.
Birth Time: The Documentary

2021

Birth Time: The Documentary

2021
Three women embark on a mission to find out why an increasing number of women are emerging from their births physically and emotionally traumatised. Their discoveries expose the truth and lead them to join the birth revolution and forge a movement that hopes to change the face of maternity care in Australia and across the developed world.
Range of Mystery

2018

Range of Mystery

2018
Range of Mystery is the odyssey of three passionate snowboarders chasing rumors of a high altitude utopia.
Future People: The Family of Donor 5114

2021

Future People: The Family of Donor 5114

2021
Filmed over eight years, Rothman follows a group of adolescents who discover that they were conceived from the same sperm donor, forming an unlikely family of familiar strangers. There are presently 37 half-siblings, and counting. This documentary explores the complexities of alternative conception while defining a new realm of modern family.
Wildest California

2021

Wildest California

2021
Follow the dramas of mustangs, elephant seals, and other wildlife taking place in California’s reserves and sanctuaries.
Superstars: The Documentary

2015

Superstars: The Documentary

2015
In 1971, director Norman Jewison took a group of young actors, singers, and dancers to war-torn Israel to shoot the film adaptation of the hit rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. Filming on location and walking in the footsteps of the actual biblical characters that they were portraying not only made an impact on these performers but on audiences worldwide who, five decades later, still watch annually and love this cinematic presentation. This is their story... in their own words!
She the People: Votes for Women

2020

She the People: Votes for Women

2020
Today, it seems incredible that just a century ago, American women had no voice in democracy. Just as remarkable is that it took over 70 years of campaigns, marches, hunger strikes, and arrests to pass the constitutional amendment guaranteeing them the right to vote. Witness the decades-long fight for suffrage by heroic women who fought to claim their rights as citizens, told through rarely seen footage, expert opinions, and dozens of historic objects from the Smithsonian Institution. The legacy of their quest continues to shape our democracy.
Out of the Box

2020

Out of the Box

2020
Out of the Box is a travelogue through Asia where filmmaker and CrossFit coach, Amit Tripuraneni, discovers and reveals the cultures, samples the local cuisine, and explores the local CrossFit scene across varied Asian cities.
Alaskan Nets

2021

Alaskan Nets

2021
In Alaska's last native reserve, two cousins lead their local basketball team to its first state championship in more than thirty years. That quest is the only thing that will bring life back to a remote island that has been rocked by tragedy.
Battered

1989

Battered

1989
Lee Grant's acclaimed 1989 investigation of domestic violence in American Homes. Battered is the powerful, if harrowing portrait of a life lived in constant fear of the people closest to you. Intimate interviews with the victims and children of the cycle are combined with the eye opening and heart breaking stories of the abusers themselves to take you deeper into every facet of these American lives.
Invisible Valley

2021

Invisible Valley

2021
Documentary profiles the lives of people who live in California's Coachella Valley.
Arc of Aleutia

2021

Arc of Aleutia

2021
A story about 3 surfers retracing the brutal path of a legend in one of the most isolated and turbulent destinations on Earth. The Aleutian Islands, Alaska.
Honorable Men: The Rise and Fall of Ehud Olmert

2020

Honorable Men: The Rise and Fall of Ehud Olmert

2020
How former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert unexpectedly rose to power and how he dramatically fell from grace: from the most powerful position in the country to prison.