Genre: Documentary
2850 content found
Narco Cultura 2013

To a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, narco traffickers have become iconic outlaws and the new models of fame and success. They represent a pathway out of the ghetto - a new form of the American Dream, fueled by the war on drugs. NARCO CULTURA looks at this explosive phenomenon from within; cycles of addiction to money, drugs and violence that are rapidly gaining strength on both sides of the US/Mexican border.

Category: Documentary

Stars: N/A

7.3 IMDB Rating 3,447 Views
Shanghai, de vilda åren 2010

An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret.

Category: Documentary

2,585 Views
Finding Fela! 2014

A look at the life and music of Nigerian singer Fela Kuti.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

2,494 Views
On Tender Hooks 2013

The first feature film from accomplished short filmmaker Kate Shenton, On Tender Hooks is a documentary film delving into the world of human suspension and the people involved. Kate spends a year following a different people and group of suspenders. Every Sunday they pierce themselves with hooks and hang in mid-air from rigs in a display that challenges the perceptions and squeamishness of even the most hardened. The film is a fly on the wall documentary showing how the ordinary human body can achieve extraordinary things. Beginning with groups in London, and then following events in Rico, Croatia and Oslo, Norway, the film depicts a wide variety of experience and opinions, and delves thoughtfully into a deeply misunderstood practice On Tender Hooks was a self-funded project filmed and edited by director Kate Shenton. Completed in 2012 it is an example of independent film-making at its purest.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Kate Shenton,Tam Smith,Charlyne Chiappone,Ana Laco

5.6 IMDB Rating 2,763 Views
People Like Us: Social Class in America 2001

A sprawling look at the class system in the United States, ranging from WASP elegance to trailer-park desperation, with lots of other stuff in between.

Category: Documentary

Stars: N/A

8.6 IMDB Rating 3,429 Views
The Horse Boy 2009

OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY chronicles the journey of the Isaacson family as they travel through Mongolia in search of a mysterious shaman who they believe can heal their autistic son. This film delves into the strange world of autism, horses, shamanism, and Mongolia while telling the story of a family that will go to the end of the earth to find a way into their son's life.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Rupert Isaacson,Kristin Neff,Rowan Isaacson,Kendal Stewart

7.3 IMDB Rating 3,117 Views
Next Goal Wins 2014

In 2001, the tiny Pacific island of American Samoa suffered a world record 31-0 defeat at the hands of Australia, garnering headlines across the world as the worst soccer team on the planet. A decade after that humiliating night, they remain rooted to the bottom of FIFA's World rankings, having scored only twice in seventeen years. They have lost every competitive game they have ever played. Against this backdrop of serial underachievement, the team face the daunting prospect of a qualification campaign for the upcoming 2014 World Cup in Brazil. It would take a miracle-maker or a madman to turn the team's fortunes around - and in maverick Dutch coach Thomas Rongen the islanders somehow find both. As a loan appointment from the mighty U.S. Soccer Federation, with experience of playing alongside football greats like George Best and Johann Cruyff, Rongen is completely unprepared for what greets him on the island - in his own words it is "by far the lowest standard" of football he's ever seen, with only half of his team even fit enough to play a whole game. A lack of athleticism aside, Rongen's ailing squad contains the emotionally scarred goalkeeper who conceded 31 goals against Australia a decade earlier and a member of Samoa's third gender, the fa'fafine, who lives 24/7 as a woman. To complicate matters further the team's best player has been posted 6000 miles away by the US military. With the team about to embark on a grueling World Cup Qualification campaign, Rongen has just one month to transform this ragtag of losers into a winning team - and perhaps learn a little about himself along the way.

Category: Documentary, Sport

Stars: Thomas Rongen,Jaiyah Saelua,Nicky Salapu,Gene Ne'emia

8.0 IMDB Rating 3,673 Views
Lets Go Get Small 2013

Let's Go Get Small features Dave Treadway as he, together with Henrik Windstedt, venture way out into the Canadian Coast Range on snowmobiles. Their mission? To explore. To simply see what's on the other side of the next mountain. To see what's possible on skis. Watch them push limits in order to explore the unexplored, all while feeling really small in the vast territory that surrounds them.

Category: Action, Adventure, Documentary

Stars: Dave Treadway,Henrik Windstedt

2,787 Views
Life Itself 2014

'Life Itself' recounts the surprising and entertaining life of world-renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert - a story that's by turns personal, wistful, funny, painful, and transcendent. The film explores the impact and legacy of Roger Ebert's life: from his Pulitzer Prize-winning film criticism and his nearly quarter-century run with Gene Siskel on their review show, to becoming one of the country's most influential cultural voices, and finally to Roger's inspiring battles with cancer and the resulting physical disability - how he literally and symbolically put a new face on the disease and continued to be a cultural force despite it.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Martin Scorsese,Ava DuVernay,Werner Herzog,Roger Ebert

8.1 IMDB Rating 3,289 Views
Louis Theroux: Under the Knife 2007

Louis Theroux gets under the skin of the plastic surgery patients of Beverly Hills.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Stuart Linder,Louis Theroux

7.3 IMDB Rating 4,063 Views
Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Johannesburg 2008

One of the installments in the Louis Theroux Law and Disorder Series

Category: Documentary

Stars: N/A

7.5 IMDB Rating 3,231 Views
Louis Theroux: Gambling in Las Vegas 2007

Louis Theroux goes to the heart of gambling culture in Las Vegas.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Louis Theroux,Richard Wilk

7.3 IMDB Rating 3,208 Views
Disaster at Chernobyl 2004

Zero Hour dramatizes the hour leading up to some of the most memorable historical events as they unfold minute by minute. The focus of the series isn't the event itself, but the individual moments that culminate in the actual event. The aim of Zero Hour is to experience history just before it became history.

Category: Documentary, Drama, History

Stars: Paul McGann,David Morrissey,Sean Pertwee,Ben Johnson

8.1 IMDB Rating 6,191 Views
911 Loose Change Second 2005

An exploration of the viewpoint that the September 11, 2001 attacks were planned by the United States government.

Category: Documentary, History, Mystery

Stars: N/A

7.2 IMDB Rating 5,469 Views
Birth of the Living Dead 2013

In 1968, Pittsburgh native, George Romero, would direct a low budget film that would revolutionize the horror genre forever, Night of the Living Dead. Through interviews with the talents involved, the story of this film creation is told and how it reflected its time with a grotesque and powerful immediacy. Furthermore, the film's difficult and controversial release to an unsuspecting film public is also recounted as it survived the early revulsion to become a landmark cinematic creation with a profound effect on popular culture.

Category: Documentary

Stars: George A. Romero,Fred Rogers,H. Rap Brown,Mark Harris

7.1 IMDB Rating 2,775 Views
When Jews Were Funny 2013

Alan Zweig's 2013 documentary "When Jews Were Funny" surveys the often colorful history of Jewish comedy in America. The documentary is insightful, often hilarious and packed with one-liners. While taking the viewer on the journey through the history of Jewish comedy, a second journey is taken in the exploration of what it means to be Jewish in America.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Howie Mandel,Rodney Dangerfield,Gilbert Gottfried,Eugene Mirman

5.9 IMDB Rating 2,971 Views
NAS: Time Is Illmatic 2014

Time Is Illmatic is a feature length documentary film that delves deep into the making of Nas' 1994 debut album, Illmatic, and the social conditions that influenced its creation. Twenty years after its release, Illmatic has become a hip-hop benchmark that encapsulates the socio-political outlook, enduring spirit, and collective angst of a generation of young black men searching for their voice in America.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Mrs. Braconi,Fab 5 Freddy,Alicia Keys,Nas

7.3 IMDB Rating 2,933 Views
Vapen, lögner och videoband 2014

When he was arrested in 2008 in Thailand as a result of a U.S. government sting operation, the career of internationally known arms smuggler Viktor Bout came to a decisive end. Veiled by the obscurity of post-Soviet Russia, Bout had built an empire of aerial delivery so vast he was called "the merchant of death" and was even the subject of a Hollywood film. In sharp contrast to the widely known, super-villain persona, however, was another Bout: a philosophical businessman who simply enjoyed travel, his work, his family, and filming it all with his video camera.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Alla Bout,Sergei Bout,Viktor Bout,Wim Brown

6.6 IMDB Rating 2,757 Views
Skapelsen av Linux 2001

Finnish-made documentary about GNU/Linux, featuring some of the most influential people of the free software (FOSS) movement.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Eric Allman,Alan Cox,Miguel de Icaza,Jon Hall

7.5 IMDB Rating 2,460 Views
Iron Maiden: Rock in Rio 2002

Live concert on the back of 'Brave New World' album, showing why they're one of the greats, performing many hits from their long career, a band at its peak.

Category: Documentary, Music

Stars: Iron Maiden,Bruce Dickinson,Steve Harris,Dave Murray

8.7 IMDB Rating 3,359 Views