Genre: Documentary
3058 content found
These Amazing Shadows 2011

What do the films Casablanca, Blazing Saddles, and West Side Story have in common? Besides being popular, they have also been deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," by the Library of Congress and listed on the National Film Registry. These Amazing Shadows tells the history and importance of The Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and indeed the American experience itself. The current list of 525 films includes selections from every genre - documentaries, home movies, Hollywood classics, avant-garde, newsreels and silent films. These Amazing Shadows reveals how American movies tell us so much about ourselves...not just what we did, but what we thought, what we felt, what we aspired to, and the lies we told ourselves.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Jeff Adachi,James H. Billington,Robin Blaetz,Brooks Boliek

7.6 IMDB Rating 2,811 Views
Undefeated 2011

A documentary that follows the Manassas Tigers football team, a severely underfunded and underprivileged football team -- who were even hired out as a practice team for more successful schools -- as they reverse their fortunes, thanks to coach Bill Courtney.

Category: Documentary, Sport

Stars: Montrail 'Money' Brown,O.C. Brown,Bill Courtney,Chavis Daniels

7.8 IMDB Rating 4,021 Views
Room 237 2012

A subjective documentary that explores the numerous theories about the hidden meanings within 'Stanley Kubrick (I)' 's Kubrick''s film The Shining (1980). The film may be over 30 years old but it continues to inspire debate, speculation, and mystery. Five very different points of view are illuminated through voice over, film clips, animation and dramatic reenactments. Together they'll draw the audience into a new maze, one with endless detours and dead ends, many ways in, but no way out.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Bill Blakemore,Geoffrey Cocks,Juli Kearns,John Fell Ryan

6.3 IMDB Rating 3,887 Views
Life in a Day 2011

What do you get when you ask the people of the world to chronicle a single day in their lives? You get 80,000 submissions, 4500 hours of footage, from 192 countries. Kevin Macdonald has taken this raw material, all shot on July 24, 2010, and created a 90-minute paean to what it means to be human in the world today.

Category: Documentary, Drama

Stars: Hiroaki Aikawa,Cindy Baer,Teagan Bentley,Ester Brym

7.7 IMDB Rating 3,021 Views
Johnny Carson: King of Late Night 2012

Chronological look at the life and career of Johnny Carson (1925-2005), with commentary from an ex-wife and more than 30 fellow comedians, friends, employees, and biographers. The biography...

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Kevin Spacey,Steve Allen,Jack Bailey,Roseanne Barr

7.8 IMDB Rating 3,165 Views
Finding Vivian Maier 2013

Real estate agent John Maloof explains how a trip to a local auction house, in search for old pictures to use for a history book about his neighborhood, resulted in him bidding and winning a box full of old negatives. John goes through the massive quantity of negatives, describes how impressed he is by the quality of the images, becomes quickly determined they are not reverent to his project and just puts them away. That could have very likely had been the end of the story, if the power of the images had not pushed him to fall in love with photography. John confides that his photo hobby quickly motivated him to set up a darkroom and devote large amounts of time printing. As he learned more about photography, he recognized that those negatives he had bought, then stored, were the work of a real master. In an attempt to confirm his suspicion, he selected about 100 images and put them online with the hope that the feedback would confirm his judgement as to the strength of the images.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Mystery

Stars: Vivian Maier,John Maloof,Daniel Arnaud,Simon Amédé

7.7 IMDB Rating 2,970 Views
Filmage: The Story of Descendents All 2013

Long before punk rock inflicted its puncture wound on the map of mainstream music, the Descendents were in a van brewing a potent mix of pop, angst, love and coffee and influencing a generation to come. FILMAGE: The Story of DESCENDENTS/ALL follows drummer and square-peg Bill Stevenson as he pushes himself and a rotating door of band-mates to "achieve ALL," his relentless concept of "going for greatness, the utmost possible" despite any and all setbacks. Interviews with the band and contemporaries such as Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, Nirvana), Mark Hoppus (Blink-182), Mike Watt (Minutemen), Brett Gurewitz (Bad Religion) and many more reveal the untold tale of one of the most overachieving and influential bands in punk, serving as a reminder to always "go for greatness," because sometimes you're gonna get it.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Music

Stars: Bill Stevenson,Milo Auckerman,Karl Alvarez,Stephen Egerton

8.3 IMDB Rating 3,128 Views
Seduced and Abandoned 2013

SEDUCED AND ABANDONED combines acting legend Alec Baldwin with director James Toback as they lead us on a troublesome and often hilarious journey of raising financing for their next feature film. Moving from director to financier to star actor, the two players provide us with a unique look behind the curtain at the world's biggest and most glamourous film festival, shining a light on the bitter-sweet relationship filmmakers have with Cannes and the film business. Featuring insights from directors Martin Scorsese, 'Bernando Bertolucci' and Roman Polanski; actors Ryan Gosling and Jessica Chastain and a host of film distribution luminaries.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Diane Kruger,Jessica Chastain,Ryan Gosling,Martin Scorsese

6.6 IMDB Rating 3,678 Views
Ballet 422 2014

Ballet 422 is a record of the creative process of a young choreographer Justin Peck, just 26 years old, hired to create a new ballet for the winter season of the New York City Ballet in 2013. The New York City Ballet is considered one of the best companies in the world. Since 1990 he is led by Peter Martins, his Ballet Master in Chief. The documentary describes the intense backstage work that takes place during the process of creating and learning this new ballet: "Paz de la Jolla". It shows Peck working with his fellow dancers (Justin Peck is also a soloist at NYCB!), with musicians, lighting technicians, and costume designers in the composition of a new work, his third creation for the NYCB. It is the first time the New York City Ballet is exposed during the creation of a new a ballet.

Category: Documentary, Music, Sport

Stars: Tiler Peck,Sterling Hyltin,Justin Peck,Amar Ramasar

6.0 IMDB Rating 3,130 Views
Murph: The Protector 2013

A documentary based on the honor, courage and commitment of Navy SEAL LT Michael P. Murphy, who gave his life for his men in 2005 and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in 2007.

Category: Documentary

Stars: John McElhone,Jason Keenan,Hector Velez Jr.,Craig Palmer

6.7 IMDB Rating 3,608 Views
Particle Fever 2013

As the Large Hadron Collider is about to be launched for the first time, physicists are on the cusp of the greatest scientific discovery of all time -- or perhaps their greatest failure.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Martin Aleksa,Nima Arkani-Hamed,Savas Dimopoulos,Monica Dunford

7.4 IMDB Rating 3,070 Views
The Armstrong Lie 2013

A documentary chronicling sports legend Lance Armstrong's improbable rise and ultimate fall from grace.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Reed Albergotti,Betsy Andreu,Frankie Andreu,Lance Armstrong

7.2 IMDB Rating 3,471 Views
Inequality for All 2013

A documentary that follows former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich as he looks to raise awareness of the country's widening economic gap.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Lily Tomlin,Mary Tyler Moore,Candice Bergen,Dolly Parton

8.1 IMDB Rating 3,382 Views
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic 2013

The life and times of Richard Pryor.

Category: Documentary

Stars: David Banks,Rona Barrett,David Brinkley,Skip Brittenham

7.3 IMDB Rating 2,895 Views
Into the Mind 2013

This is a story of rising to the ultimate challenge. Having the courage to risk fatal expo- sure and the perseverance demanded on the quest for achievement. These are not solely physical feats, they are mental conquests.

Category: Documentary, Sport

Stars: Callum Pettit,Kye Petersen,J.P. Auclair,Xavier De Le Rue

7.1 IMDB Rating 3,467 Views
Alive Inside 2014

The documentary follows social worker Dan Cohen, founder of the nonprofit organization Music & Memory, as he fights against a broken health-care system to demonstrate music's ability to combat memory loss and restore a deep sense of self to those suffering from it. Rossato-Bennett visits family members who have witnessed the miraculous effects of personalized music on their loved ones, and offers illuminating interviews with experts including renowned neurologist and best-selling author Oliver Sacks (Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain) and musician Bobby McFerrin ("Don't Worry, Be Happy").

Category: Documentary, News

Stars: Dan Cohen,Louise Dueno,Nell Hardie,Norman Hardie

8.1 IMDB Rating 4,231 Views
Doc of the Dead 2014

The definitive zombie culture documentary, brought to the screen by the makers of THE PEOPLE vs. GEORGE LUCAS.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Charlie Adlard,Joanna Angel,Steven Barton,Arnold T. Blumberg

6.4 IMDB Rating 3,296 Views
Journey to Le Mans 2014

The 24 hours of Le Mans is the most prestigious endurance motorsport event in the world. Fantelli Productions follows Great British privateer team Jota Sport, taking an intimate look at the feat of human endurance and the marvel of engineering it takes to compete in one of the most challenging races on earth. We bring to the screen the spectacle that is Le Mans, through the eyes and emotions of the men at the very heart of it. Proving with enough hard work, dedication and passion, you really can achieve anything. Journey to Le Mans is a depiction of the blood, sweat and tears we see, as we travel with the team. Our journey playing out over the season to - and during - Le Mans 2014.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Patrick Stewart,Tiff Needell,Filipe Albuquerque,Simon Dolan

5.5 IMDB Rating 3,569 Views
Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger 2014

WHITEY: United States of America v. James J. Bulger captures the sensational trial of infamous gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger, using the legal proceedings as a springboard to explore allegations of corruption within the highest levels of law enforcement. Embedded for months with Federal Prosecutors, retired FBI and State Police, victims, lawyers, gangsters and journalists, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger examines Bulger's relationship with the FBI and Department of Justice that allowed him to reign over a criminal empire in Boston for decades. Pulling back the curtain on long-held Bulger mythology, the film challenges conventional wisdom by detailing shocking, new allegations. With unprecedented access, Berlinger's latest crime documentary offers a universal tale of human frailty, opportunism, deception, and the often elusive nature of truth and justice.

Category: Biography, Crime, Documentary

Stars: Stephen Rakes,James 'Whitey' Bulger,Tommy Donahue,David Boeri

6.8 IMDB Rating 3,744 Views
Pulp: a Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets 2014

PULP find fame on the world stage in the 1990's with anthems including 'Common People' and 'Disco 2000'. 25 years (and 10 million album sales) later, they return to Sheffield for their last UK concert. Giving a career best performance exclusive to the film, the band share their thoughts on fame, love, mortality - & car maintenance. Director Florian Habicht (Love Story) weaves together the band's personal offerings with dream-like specially-staged tableaux featuring ordinary people recruited on the streets of Sheffield. PULP is a music-film like no other - by turns funny, moving, life-affirming & (occasionally) bewildering.

Category: Documentary, Music

Stars: Nick Banks,Jarvis Cocker,Candida Doyle,Richard Hawley

7.3 IMDB Rating 2,916 Views