Popular Documentary Movies - Page 289
Caregiving
2025
Caregiving
2025
star 1From Executive Producer Bradley Cooper, this is the story of paid and unpaid caregivers navigating the challenges and joys of this deeply meaningful work. Intertwining intimate personal stories with the untold history of caregiving, the documentary reveals the state and the stakes of care in America today. Narrated by Uzo Aduba (The Residence) and directed by Chris Durrance. Caregiving explores systemic issues in the US care system, where over 50 million provide unpaid care, and personal stories of caregivers for loved ones.A Secret Love
2020
A Secret Love
2020
star 7.3Amid shifting times, two women kept their decades-long love a secret. But coming out later in life comes with its own set of challenges.Sauts à la corde
1897
Sauts à la corde
1897
Between These Times
2025
Between These Times
2025
A 10-hour, 'slow TV' film, documenting 10 days spent travelling the length of England on public buses, exploring the issues faced with service quality and the disabled bus pass.Play Sound Portraits: Free Finga
2024
“Telia Play+ | Original Content” presents a deep and intimate portrait of the artist Tomas Narkevičius, better known as Free Finga, and a synthesis of his work, life and culture. This musical documentary of the artist is a never-before-seen personal story that reveals the artist’s creative path and details of his personal life. Archival footage, sensitive interviews and unique songs create an emotional journey that invites viewers to experience the artist’s world and learn the story of his rise to musical heights. “Play Sound Portraits: Free Finga”Hollywood Chinese
2007
Hollywood Chinese
2007
Hollywood Chinese is a captivating look at cinema history through the lens of the Chinese American experience. Directed by triple Sundance award-winning filmmaker, Arthur Dong, this documentary is a voyage through a century of cinematic delights, intrigues, and treasures. It weaves together a wondrous portrait of actors, directors, writers, and movie icons who have defined American feature films, from the silent era to the current new wave of Asian American cinema. At once entertaining and enlightening, Hollywood Chinese reveals long-untold stories behind the Asian faces that have graced the silver screen, and weaves a rich and complicated tapestry, one marked by unforgettable performances and groundbreaking films, but also by a tangled history of race and representation.The Chronicler
2025
The Chronicler
2025
85-year-old Margers stores his life's work in banana boxes - VHS tapes and DVDs that fill an entire room. However, as his eyesight rapidly deteriorates, it becomes unclear what fate awaits this unique cultural and historical material, which he has continuously documented over the years.Ivan Mykolaichuk. Dedication
1998
star 8The story of life and death of actor Ivan Mykolaychuk - the legend of Ukrainian poetic cinema. The film is stylized as Vertep Christmas mystery: the heroes are explaining themselves with the roles they play.Anonymous: A Million Men
2015
Join young filmmaker Patrick Ireland as he tumbles down the rabbit hole, penetrating the very core of Anonymous in the build-up to the infamous 'Million Mask March' on the 5th of November 2014.Espagne : courses de taureaux
1897
star 4After a picador tries in vain to bite the bull, several cape passes are performed. Then, the bull gores several horses.Algorithms of Beauty
2022
Algorithms of Beauty
2022
In 1772, Englishwoman Mary Delany wrote to her niece: “I have found a new way of imitating flowers.” The imitation in question was the art form called decoupage, based on cut-outs and reshuffling of pictures. The charm and botanical precision of these works attracts attention of even today’s artists, among others by an anonymous programmer who is trying to invent a way of capturing the flowers’ vivacity in pictures. With this aim in mind, she has created an algorithm, which would combine science and beauty, similarly to Delaney’s efforts, whose illustrations it is meant to animate.Nemesis
2020
Nemesis
2020
star 7.5The film explores the destruction of a unique train station in Zurich and the construction of the new prison and police centre in its place. From the perspective of the filmmaker’s window, and with testimony from prisoners awaiting deportation, the film probes how we deal with the extinction of history and its replacement with total security.A Song of Africa
2000
A Song of Africa
2000
star 8.5An impressively done new documentary taking a look back at the making of this picture. Interviews with everyone from director Pollack to composer John Barry take us through the memories of the making of the picture. In between interview segments are looks and thoughts on and at the history of the story and Africa itself. Especially entertaining is when Streep and Pollack talk about working with the animals.Philadelphia by the Delaware
2025
star 10In wake of the Joel Farabee and Morgan Frost trade, a fan comes to terms with their new reality during a journey to the sea.Canada Mania
2025
Angel Abuse
2020
Brascuba
1987
My Favorite War
2020
My Favorite War
2020
star 7Ilze Burkovska, a little girl who is obsessed with stories of World War II and will be a filmmaker in a distant future, lives in Latvia under the totalitarian boot of the Soviets and the ominous shadow of the many menaces and horrors of the Cold War.Hunt for the Bunker People
2019
star 6Journalist Baz MacDonald searches for evidence of the survival bunkers being shipped to New Zealand, while investigating the factors causing this rise in paranoia among the rich and the effect this rhetoric has on their destination of choice - the mountain resort town, Queenstown.
