Popular Documentary Movies - Page 159
Music by John Williams
2024
star 8.1His unforgettable scores are an essential part of some of the most beloved movies of our time, over a career that spans decades. See and hear maestro John Williams' own story, with insights from filmmakers, musicians, and others he has inspired, complete with rare behind-the-scenes looks at the making of movie history.Convention
2009
Convention
2009
A group of documentary filmmakers chronicle the 2008 Democratic National Convention.1985 Bebow
1986
1985 Bebow
1986
This is a documentary introduces to the viewer some of the members of Kogawa's Bebow anime studio and a couple short animations that they show off afterwards. Bebow is primarily known for having produced Cool Cool Bye but they also assisted with the animation on various other titles, such as Layzner, Odin: Photon Sailor Starlight, and Greed.And, Towards Happy Alleys
2023
A passionate declaration of love for the cinema and poetry of Iran, which also offers a frank view of the precarious situation for critics of the regime and shows the uncompromising daily struggle of Iranian women against their oppression.Arrivée de l’ “Élan”
1897
Arrivée de l’ “Élan”
1897
Soul Exodus
2016
Soul Exodus
2016
star 6.8The story of five secretive characters, told with Klezmer music. Five 21st century young and not so young men someplace in the world. They are musicians in search for someone and something which might have been born in their imagination. Once upon a time in the beginning of the 20th century there lived a Klezmer musician and storyteller Prince Nazaroff. Many people don’t believe he ever existed, but these five do. They have imagined him, and imagination can be stronger than reality. To this day, Nazaroff lives in them. They can’t except that something could disappear forever. They call themselves ‘The Brothers Nazaroff’. A deeply emotional story told through Klezmer music about identity, emigration, inner emigration, brothers and godbrothers, religion and belief, faith and disbelief. A modern story about our strange world we live in.Antarctica
2025
Antarctica
2025
star 7.8Scientists live and research in Antarctica, facing isolation and harsh conditions. They study climate change, glaciers, and wildlife while maintaining Ukraine's presence on the continent.I Am Bolt
2016
I Am Bolt
2016
star 7.1Fully authorized, access-all-areas feature doc on the hugely charismatic and globally adored Usain Bolt – officially the fastest man alive. With never-before-seen archive footage of his youth in Jamaica, through to original footage that will be captured at his fourth and final Olympic Games in Rio, where he will compete for the gold in both the 100 and 200 metres races, for a third straight Games before his retirement in 2017. I AM BOLT will reveal the man and define the legacy of this incredible athlete.Love the Beast
2009
Love the Beast
2009
star 6.5What if you were a Hollywood movie star with an obsession for cars and racing? Eric Bana is such a star!Bocal aux poissons rouges
1897
star 5.2[…] by shooting the fish in a globular bowl, the Lumières effectively use a fisheye lens, which offers distortions. The history of cinema has witnessed a struggle between the objective and subjective camera and the optically distorting lenses like the fisheye lens has been a powerful tool for the subjective camera. Here it is at the start.Life After Flash
2017
Life After Flash
2017
star 5.6A look at the roller coaster life of Sam J. Jones since his role as Flash Gordon, his struggles and successes, and the aftermath of when he went up against one of the most powerful producers in Hollywood.Liza Minnelli, la dernière héritière d'Hollywood
2025
star 8Singer, dancer, and actress, Liza, daughter of Vincente Minnelli and Judy Garland, with whom she had a close relationship, made a name for herself on Broadway and in Hollywood with her unique voice and flamboyant style. A sensitive portrait of the unforgettable Sally Bowles from Cabaret.The Drunkmen’s Marseillaise
2024
star 8In the summer of 1961, a group of young Italian anthropologists made a clandestine journey through Spain, in order to record popular songs that supported anti-Franco resistance. As a result of their work, they were prosecuted and their recordings were censored. Sixty years later, and guided by Emilio Jona, aged 92, the last living member of that group of travellers, we recover the unpublished recordings and reconstruct the journey, today, across an emotional and political landscape, regaining historical memories through these songs, as relevant today as they were then.Atlantic Patrol
1940
Atlantic Patrol
1940
A wartime documentary following Canadian convoy operations and naval escort duties in the North Atlantic during the early years of World War II.Horses Bathing
1896
Horses Bathing
1896
star 5.1Mexican vaqueros (cattle herders) in Guadalajara guide their horses through water.Eight Brothers and Sisters
2023
“Acht Geschwister” by Christoph Weinert is a tribute to sibling life, a piece of non-fictional narrative cinema. The film tells the story of two sisters and six brothers who were born between 1933 and 1943 and grew up on a farm in a small village in Pomerania. With their intertwined, very different lives, the film tells not only the story of the eight siblings and their common escape with their parents after the end of World War 2, but also a piece of recent German history, when the siblings are separated by the inner-German border for over 40 years during the Cold War. Nevertheless, the contact between them never breaks.Porndemic
2018
Porndemic
2018
star 5.7The inside story of the 1998 HIV outbreak that tore through the San Fernando Valley adult film industry told by the people who experienced it. Using archival footage and exclusive, original interviews with such recognizable adult performers as Ron Jeremy, Ginger Lynn, Marc Wallice and Tricia Devereaux among other, the film goes behind the scenes of the porn industry as it confronted a deadly disease which was a threat to its very existence.Cult People
1989
Cult People
1989
star 7In interviews, various actors and directors discuss their careers and their involvement in the making of what has come to be known as "cult" films. Included are such well-known genre figures as Russ Meyer, Curtis Harrington, Cameron Mitchell and James Karen.Paradise Restored
1974
Paradise Restored
1974
A fictionalised biography of the latter years of the poet, John Milton. Now an old man, blind and out of favour, Milton seeks to leave a plague-ravaged London and set-up home in the countryside.
