Type: Movies
Genre: Documentary
1895 content found
Deepsea Challenge 3D 2014

DEEPSEA CHALLENGE 3D follows the dramatic story of James Cameron's odyssey as he undertakes an expedition to the deepest part of the ocean. This is a journey of historic proportion and risk. The film will mesmerize viewers of all ages with the thrill of true discovery and the allure of the unknown, of new life forms, and of vistas never before captured on camera - all right here on planet Earth.

Category: Documentary

Stars: James Cameron,Paul Henri,Frank Lotito,Lachlan Woods

6.7 IMDB Rating 3,252 Views
Venus and Serena 2012

Ever since Venus and Serena Williams started playing in tennis tournaments, they've provoked strong reactions - from awe and admiration to suspicion and resentment. They've been winning championships for over a decade, pushing the limits of longevity in such a demanding sport. How long can they last? In Venus & Serena, we gain unprecedented access into their lives during the most intimidating year of their career. Over the course of 2011, Venus grappled with an energy-sapping autoimmune disease while Serena battled back from a life-threatening pulmonary embolism. Neither Venus nor Serena let their adversities hold them back. They drew their greatest strength from each other.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Billie Jean King,John McEnroe,Richard Williams,Serena Williams

6.0 IMDB Rating 2,904 Views
Red Army 2014

Red Army is a feature documentary about the Soviet Union and the most successful dynasty in sports history: the Red Army hockey team. Told from the perspective of its captain Slava Fetisov, the story portrays his transformation from national hero to political enemy. From the USSR to Russia, the film examines how sport mirrors social and cultural movements and parallels the rise and fall of the Red Army team with the Soviet Union.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Scotty Bowman,Mark Deakins,Viacheslav Fetisov,Anatoli Karpov

7.8 IMDB Rating 4,027 Views
Blue Note – A Story of Modern Jazz 1997

"It must 'schwing!'" was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records, the jazz label that was home to such greats as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins.Blue Note, the most successful movie ever made about jazz, is a testimony to the passion and vision of these two men and certainly swings like the propulsive sounds that made their label so famous.The only documentary about the legendary Jazz record label includes original footage from concert recordings by Blue Note label artists, original footage of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff and interviews with Carlos Santana, Rudy Van Gelder, Horace Silver, Herbie Hancock among others.Grammy nominated for "Best Long Form Music Video" in 1997, Blue Note also went on to earn a Peabody Award (1998), Vision Award (1998) and a Rocky Award nomination.

Category: Documentary, Music

Stars: Freddie Hubbard,Gil Melle,Herbie Hancock,Horace Silver

7.8 IMDB Rating 3,038 Views
Last Days in Vietnam 2014

During the chaotic final weeks of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately attempt to escape. On the ground, American soldiers and diplomats confront the same moral quandary: whether to obey White House orders to evacuate U.S. citizens only--or to risk treason and save the lives of as many South Vietnamese citizens as they can.

Category: Documentary, History, War

Stars: N/A

7.7 IMDB Rating 4,655 Views
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 3,449 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

2,586 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 2,765 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 3,431 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 3,120 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

2,789 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 3,290 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 4,064 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 3,233 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 3,210 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 6,192 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 5,471 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 2,776 Views