Type: Movies
Genre: Documentary
1922 content found
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 3,338 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 4,107 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 3,258 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 3,249 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 6,239 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 5,506 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 2,816 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 3,013 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 2,975 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 2,796 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 2,495 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 3,405 Views
The Fog of War 2003

Former corporate whiz kid Robert McNamara was the controversial Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, during the height of the Vietnam War. This Academy Award-winning documentary, augmented by archival footage, gives the conflicted McNamara a platform on which he attempts to confront his and the U.S. government's actions in Southeast Asia in light of the horrors of modern warfare, the end of ideology and the punitive judgment of history.

Category: Documentary, History, War

Stars: Robert McNamara

8.2 IMDB Rating 4,015 Views
En obekväm sanning 2006

A documentary on the threat that climate change poses to the Earth - it's causes, effects and history and potential solutions to it. Presented by Al Gore through a lecture that he has given to audiences across the globe, plus through more introspective moments.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Al Gore,Billy West

7.6 IMDB Rating 4,221 Views
Stories We Tell 2012

In this inspired, genre-twisting new film, Oscar®-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who's telling it. Polley is both filmmaker and detective as she investigates the secrets kept by a family of storytellers. She playfully interviews and interrogates a cast of characters of varying reliability, eliciting refreshingly candid, yet mostly contradictory, answers to the same questions. As each relates their version of the family mythology, present-day recollections shift into nostalgia-tinged glimpses of their mother, who departed too soon, leaving a trail of unanswered questions. Polley unravels the paradoxes to reveal the essence of family: always complicated, warmly messy and fiercely loving. Stories We Tell explores the elusive nature of truth and memory, but at its core is a deeply personal film about how our narratives shape and define us as individuals and families, all interconnecting to paint a profound, funny and poignant picture of the larger human story.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Michael Polley,Harry Gulkin,Susy Buchan,John Buchan

7.7 IMDB Rating 3,069 Views
Video Games: The Movie 2014

A feature length documentary, that aims to educate and entertain audiences about how video games are made, marketed, and consumed by looking back at gaming history and culture through the eyes of game developers, publishers, and consumers.

Category: Animation, Documentary, History, Kids

Stars: Sean Astin,Zach Braff,Al Alcorn,Peter Armstrong

6.0 IMDB Rating 4,380 Views
Red Obsession 2013

For centuries, Bordeaux has assumed a mythical status in the world of fine wine as a leitmotif of wealth, power and influence, but its prosperity has always been linked to the capricious nature of markets and the shifting fortunes of global economies. Now change is coming to Bordeaux, with traditional customers like the US and the UK falling away, as China's new rich push prices to stratospheric levels. The demand is unprecedented, but the product is finite and this new client wants it all. Will the China market be the bubble that never bursts or the biggest threat yet to Bordeaux's centuries old reputation?

Category: Documentary, History, News

Stars: Russell Crowe,Sara Eisen,Debra Meiburg

6.8 IMDB Rating 4,009 Views
Leave The World Behind 2014

A music documentary following the last tour of the band Swedish House Mafia in 2012/2013, the film tells a story of friendship and huge success.

Category: Documentary, Music

Stars: Sebastian Ingrosso,Steve Angello,Axel Hedfors,Nikhil Chinappa

8.1 IMDB Rating 4,893 Views
The Unknown Known 2013

Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Donald Rumsfeld,Errol Morris

6.9 IMDB Rating 2,577 Views
Mistaken for Strangers 2013

In 2010, rock band The National were about to embark on the biggest tour of their career. After ten years as a band, and five critically acclaimed albums, they were finally enjoying wider recognition. Lead singer Matt Berninger invited his younger brother, Tom, to join the tour's crew. A budding horror filmmaker, Tom - who is nine years younger than Matt and listens exclusively to heavy metal - decided to bring his camera along. Tom's at sea in the world of indie rock, and living in his brother's shadow brings out the younger sibling in him - he drinks, complains, and struggles to balance his ambition with his tour responsibilities. The result is a film about brothers and about making something of your own.

Category: Comedy, Documentary, Music

Stars: Matt Berninger,Aaron Dessner,Bryce Dessner,Bryan Devendorf

7.5 IMDB Rating 3,755 Views