Popular Documentary Movies - Page 172
Refuge(e)
2019
Refuge(e)
2019
Refuge(e) traces the incredible journey of two refugees, Alpha and Zeferino. Each fled violent threats to their lives in their home countries and presented themselves at the US border asking for political asylum, only to be incarcerated in a for-profit prison for months on end without having committed any crime. Thousands more like them can't tell their stories.The Age of Stupid
2009
The Age of Stupid
2009
star 6.6Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?Jodorowsky's Dune
2013
Jodorowsky's Dune
2013
star 7.8In 1974, Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky embarked on the quixotic project of adapting Frank Herbert's influential novel Dune (1969) for the big screen. After investing two years, and millions of dollars, the gigantic project ended in failure; but the artists Jodorowsky brought together to carry it out continued to work together, and ended up laying the foundations for modern science fiction cinema.Revolució 304
2025
Revolució 304
2025
star 8.2Revolució 304, a TV3 documentary, uses Lamine Yamal as a starting point to explore racism, identity, and representation in Catalonia. Featuring voices from Rocafonda, it calls for structural change and a more inclusive future.Steven Spielberg, the “New Hollywood” Prodigy
2025
star 8A new light on American filmmaker Steven Spielberg, Hollywood’s greatest director, offering a unique perspective on his work and digging into his personal influences.Latidos en la lluvia
2026
Latidos en la lluvia
2026
Amy
2015
Amy
2015
star 7.6A documentary on the life of Amy Winehouse, the immensely talented yet doomed songstress. We see her from her teen years, where she already showed her singing abilities, to her finding success and then her downward spiral into alcoholism and drugs.Napoleon and Wellington
1997
Battle of Waterlooo-1815. The Compelling Story of the Bloody Conflict that shaped the World's Destiny.Passage of Venus
1874
Passage of Venus
1874
star 6.4Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotographic sequences. In 1873, P.J.C. Janssen, or Pierre Jules César Janssen, invented the Photographic Revolver, which captured a series of images in a row. The device, automatic, produced images in a row without human intervention, being used to serve as photographic evidence of the passage of Venus before the Sun, in 1874.Sparkle
2008
Caleta Palace
2023
Caleta Palace
2023
star 5.3Eight foreign characters recall their exploits and fears in Malaga, a paradise city that starts a revolution on July 18th 1936, as the military coup is stopped by popular rebellion, until February 9th 1937, when Mussolini troops take Malaga and put it under the rule of Franco. Seven months that shape the stark tale of a besieged city, the first capital to be conquered in Spanish Civil War and a prelude of WW2.In Doctor von Trier's Laboratory: Back to the Magic of Cinema
1998
star 7German/French TV documentary portraying Danish film director Lars von Trier.Les chapeaux, II
1897
Les chapeaux, II
1897
The Eruption of Kilauea 1959-1960
1960
Produced by the United States Geological Survey and the National Park Service during the 1959-1960 eruption of Kilauea. Narrated footage includes lava fountains and the creation of the Kilauea Iki lava lake.Nostalgies of the Far West
1987
Short documentary on Chilean poet Jorge Teillier (1935-1996), who comes back to Lautaro, on the south of Chile, the place where he was born.Fake Orgasm
2010
Fake Orgasm
2010
star 6Lazlo Pearlman is a conceptual artist, an activist capable of dinamiting our prejudices about sex and identity. What it seems to be a reflexion about lies in our sexual lives suddenly turns out to be a sharp discourse about gender theory and the continuous evolution of our identitiy. Fake Orgasm, first part of an ambitious multidisciplinary project about sexuality and identity, hits our minds and forces a change of perspective to reconsider some concepts we've been educated with and grown up with.
