Popular Documentary Movies - Page 397
Working with the Duke
2007
Film historians, a costumer, and three of the actors relate what it was like to work with John Wayne on True Grit (1969).Boys State
2020
Boys State
2020
star 7.1This raucous journey into the heart of democracy captures an unusual rite of passage: 1,100 teenage boys from across Texas coming together to build a representative government from the ground up.George Harrison: Living in the Material World
2011
star 8.5Filmmaker Martin Scorsese examines the life of musician George Harrison, weaving together interviews, concert footage, home movies and photographs.Cryptid: Goatman
2025
Cryptid: Goatman
2025
star 6Various experts discus the legendary creature that's seen all around the United States.This Is Bob Hope...
2017
This Is Bob Hope...
2017
star 8During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment. American Masters explores the entertainer’s life through his personal archives and clips from his classic films.Pacific Challenge
1975
Pacific Challenge
1975
star 7.5Documentary detailing the six-month crossing of the Pacific Ocean by a rafting expedition of 12 men on three balsa-wood rafts, from Guayaquil, Ecuador, to Ballina, Australia.The Magic of Méliès
1997
The Magic of Méliès
1997
star 7.3A walk through the life and work of the brilliant French filmmaker Georges Méliès (1861-1938), pioneer of special and visual effects.Countdown: Taylor vs. Serrano
2025
star 7.9Two elite boxers, Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano, prepare for their epic trilogy finale, a live-streamed match on Netflix July 11. Uma Thurman narrates their rigorous training journey.Jane
2017
Jane
2017
star 7.5Drawing from never-before-seen footage that has been tucked away in the National Geographic archives, director Brett Morgen tells the story of Jane Goodall, a woman whose chimpanzee research revolutionized our understanding of the natural world.The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
star 8.2This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.The Other Day
2012
The Other Day
2012
star 6.3The house of the director has a door out to the sidewalk. This gate separates the inside from the outside. The interior contains the filmmaker's personal story and his world of objects, thoughts and imaginations. Outer space contains the city of Santiago de Chile. The stories of the world inside the house are interrupted when the doorbell rings unknown and thus come into the film.Albert & Hermann Goering
2016
star 8Two brothers who could not have been more different. The eldest, Hermann Göring (1893-1946), was a prominent member of the Nazi regime, head of the German Air Force, and a war criminal. The youngest, Albert Göring (1895-1966), opposed tyranny and was persecuted, but today he is still unjustly forgotten, although he saved many lives while his brother and his accomplices ravaged Europe.The Banana
1997
The Banana
1997
The Velvet Underground's John Cale tells the story behind Andy Warhol's famous LP cover, Auberon Waugh and John Walters recall their first encounters with the fruit after the war, and footballer Brendan Batson considers how they became a symbol of racism hurled from the terracesLover, Stalker, Killer
2024
star 6.8In this twisting documentary, a mechanic tries online dating for the first time and meets a woman who takes romantic obsession to a deadly extreme.Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest
1896
star 3.8Staged boxing match between Sergeant-Instructor Barrett and Sergeant Pope, with a round, interval, and knockout.Food Matters
2010
Food Matters
2010
star 6.7With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and our tendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to treat what's wrong with our malnourished bodies, it's no wonder that modern society is getting sicker. Food Matters sets about uncovering the trillion dollar worldwide sickness industry and gives people some scientifically verifiable solutions for curing disease naturally.Whales!
1987
The Hunter's Son
2023
The Hunter's Son
2023
star 9Samir hardly knows his father. Hoping to become closer with him, he decides to accompany a hunter on a expedition in the mountains.Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
2022
star 6.1Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women, with over 80 movie clips from 1896 - 2020.Lives in Hazard
1994
Lives in Hazard
1994
star 8.5Lives in Hazard is a tough, uncompromising look at kids in gangs and the men they become in prison. Filmed in the barrios of east LA and in the prisons of California, this real-life drama follows the making of the Hollywood feature film American Me, in which director Edward James Olmos used real gang members and prison inmates as actors. The fictional scenes these homeboys portray pale in juxtaposition to the stark reality of their daily lives, a world where opportunities are scarce and guns plentiful. The brutal honesty of these gang members as they struggle to change makes Lives in Hazard a powerful story of kids caught up in a growing national crisis.
