Type: Movies
Genre: Documentary
1895 content found
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 2,974 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 2,935 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 2,759 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 2,462 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 3,361 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 3,984 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 4,176 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 3,031 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 4,329 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 3,973 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 4,853 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 2,543 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 3,717 Views
12 OClock Boys 2013

Pug, a wisecracking 13 year old living on a dangerous Westside block, has one goal in mind: to join The Twelve O'Clock Boys; the notorious urban dirt-bike gang of Baltimore. Converging from all parts of the inner city, they invade the streets and clash with police, who are forbidden to chase the bikes for fear of endangering the public. When Pug's older brother dies suddenly, he looks to the pack for mentorship, spurred by their dangerous lifestyle. Pug's story is coupled with unprecedented, action-packed coverage of the riders in their element. The film presents the pivotal years of change in a boy's life growing up in one of the most dangerous and economically depressed cities in the US.

Category: Biography, Crime, Documentary

4,203 Views
African Safari 2013

Filmmaker Ben Stassen and cinematographer Sean MacLeod Phillips return to southern Africa for a whole new adventure. Animal behaviorist Kevin Richardson - "The Lion Whisperer" - guides audiences on an extraordinary journey across the most spectacular sceneries on earth: from the picturesque coastal desert dunes of Namibia, through the natural wonder of the Ngorongoro crater and then on to the breathtaking Victoria Falls. The film delivers startlingly close encounters with lions, cheetahs, leopards, black rhinoceros and elephants. This is the trek of a lifetime, so get ready to be immersed in the real wild Africa - where there are no fences for your protection.

Category: Documentary

5.8 IMDB Rating 2,942 Views
Ångrarna 2010

Two men in their 60s meet for the first time and discuss their respective sex changes, and subsequent reversals.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Orlando Fagin,Mikael Johansson

6.9 IMDB Rating 2,449 Views
Hästmannen – Sista striden 2014

The Swedish farmer Stig-Anders Svensson who lives in the rural village Råskog in southern Sweden, received a great deal of attention when "The Horseman's Last Stand" documentary was released. Since then he has pursued a fierce battle with the authorities to keep his horses. A fight that has evolved into a question about justice and morality. How do we treat those who are perceived as different? Do the actions by the animal protection inspectors rely on their merits, or are there other, more personal, reasons for their interference? Meanwhile Stig-Anders continues to work on the farm, determined to fulfill his task according to the old traditions and fight for his right to keep horses like his forefathers always did.

Category: Documentary

Stars: Stig-Anders Svensson

3,113 Views
The Summit (II) 2012

The story of the deadliest day on the world's most dangerous mountain, when 11 climbers mysteriously perished on K2.

Category: Adventure, Documentary

Stars: Christine Barnes,Hoselito Bite,Marco Confortola,Pat Falvey,Niall Foley,Stefan Grossniklaus,Pasang Lama,Tshering Lama,J.J. McDonnell,Hristo Mitzkov,Johannes Moser,Lars Nessa,Damien O'Brien,Lochlainn O'Mearain,Garrett Philipps

6.7 IMDB Rating 4,943 Views
We Will Always Love You: A Grammy Salute to Whitney Houston 2012

Her extraordinary voice sold 200 million albums and singles worldwide. During the 1980s, she had seven straight number ones on the U.s. Billboard charts, a seemingly unbeatable record. She enrolled in the Guinness book of records as the female artist that has received the most awards, including two Emmys and six Grammys. The role of Kevin Costner in the Bodyguard made her a mega star even on the white cloth and gave her also, the world hit I Will Always Love You.But it was a star that would burn out too quickly, and finally go out for good on February 11, 2012 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in California. Whitney Houston-We Will Always Love You tells the story of a singer without blinders, scandal divan and private person Whitney Houston-one of our time's greatest pop-icons, along with Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson.

Category: Documentary, Music

Stars: Yolanda Adams,Halle Berry,Clive Davis,Céline Dion,C.J. Emmons,David Foster,Taraji P. Henson,Whitney Houston,Jennifer Hudson,T.D. Jakes,LL Cool J,Dolly Parton,Usher Raymond,Rebecca Riedy,Britney Spears

7.9 IMDB Rating 4,345 Views
Jag var värd 50 lamm 2011

I Was worth 50 Sheep is the story of a brave girl, Sabere, and her struggle for life. Through the prism of her family this heart-rending and thought-provoking film brings the tragedy that is Afghanistan vividly to life. Sabere, has a price on her head. When she was just ten years old she was sold to a man forty years her senior. After seven years of confinement and abuse she escaped to find temporary refuge in a women's sanctuary. Now she again has a price on her head as her husband will kill her on sight. The camera picks up Sabere at the point where she has re-made contact with her family. She faces the decision of whether to stay in the safety of the sanctuary or whether to rejoin her family. For the family it is a dangerous game of cat and mouse as they move from location to location, always trying to stay one step ahead of her murderous husband. Only divorce can set Sabere free. But Islamic law will only grant a divorce if she can bring her husband to court. But there is a problem. Her husband is a Taliban man far beyond the reach of the law. With desperation mounting, Sabere's step-father proposes an audacious plan. They try to mount a "sting" that would simultaneously capture her husband and free Sabere from his clutches. But for it to work, Sabere will have to meet her husband. And all the while the family dreads receiving the telephone call that will seal the fate of Sabere's ten-year-old sister. I Was worth 50 Sheep is a simple and moving story of one family's struggle to survive. I Was worth 50 Sheep was filmed over a period of two years in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, by award-winning director Nima Sarvestani.

Category: Documentary

5.9 IMDB Rating 3,024 Views