Favourite documentaries
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1. A Woman Captured (2017)
89 min | Documentary
A European woman has been kept by a family as a domestic slave for 10 years. Drawing courage from the filmmaker's presence, she decides to escape the unbearable oppression and become a free person.
Director: Bernadett Tuza-Ritter | Stars: Marish, Bernadett Tuza-Ritter
Votes: 544
2. Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs Container (2002)
90 min | Documentary, Reality-TV
FOREIGNERS OUT! SCHLINGENSIEFS CONTAINER is a thrilling, insightful, funny chronicle and reflection of one of he biggest public pranks and acts of art terrorism ever committed. Austria 2000... See full summary »
Director: Paul Poet | Stars: Christoph Schlingensief, Matthias Lilienthal, Rainer Laux, Elfriede Jelinek
Votes: 335
3. Bowling for Columbine (2002)
R | 120 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama
Filmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence.
Director: Michael Moore | Stars: Michael Moore, Charlton Heston, Marilyn Manson, Salvador Allende
Votes: 148,750 | Gross: $21.58M
4. Under the Sun (2015)
Not Rated | 106 min | Documentary
A propaganda documentary about North Korea that reveals a few hidden facts because the director continues filming between the scripted scenes.
Director: Vitaliy Manskiy | Stars: Lee Zin-Mi, Yu-Yong, Hye-Yong, Oh-Gyong
Votes: 5,053 | Gross: $0.07M
5. The Salt of the Earth (2014)
PG-13 | 110 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.
Directors: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders | Stars: Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders, Lélia Wanick Salgado, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Votes: 23,460 | Gross: $1.34M
6. The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006)
150 min | Documentary
Slavoj Zizek examines famous films in a philosophical and a psychoanalytic context.
Director: Sophie Fiennes | Star: Slavoj Zizek
Votes: 7,340
7. The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012)
Not Rated | 136 min | Documentary
Philosopher Slavoj Zizek examines the hidden themes and existential questions asked by world renowned films.
Director: Sophie Fiennes | Star: Slavoj Zizek
Votes: 7,529 | Gross: $0.07M
8. The Song of Styrene (1958)
13 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Poetic and aesthetic visit of a large polystyrene factory.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Pierre Dux, Sacha Vierny
Votes: 1,115
9. Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (2016)
TV-MA | 108 min | Documentary, Biography
An examination of the life and work of the revered and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
Directors: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato | Stars: Nancy Rooney, Harry Mapplethorpe, George Stack, Robert Mapplethorpe
Votes: 1,560
10. In the Basement (2014)
Not Rated | 81 min | Documentary
A documentary that reveals what its subjects do in their respective basements.
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Fritz Lang, Alfreda Klebinger, Manfred Ellinger, Inge Ellinger
Votes: 3,103 | Gross: $0.00M
11. Bodysong (2003)
83 min | Documentary
Simon Pummell's epic movie tells the story of a human life, using found footage from the last 100 years of cinema, cut to a powerful score by Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead.
Director: Simon Pummell
Votes: 767
12. Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief (2015)
Not Rated | 119 min | Documentary
A documentary looking at the inner-workings of the Church of Scientology.
Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Paul Haggis, Jason Beghe, Spanky Taylor, David Miscavige
Votes: 40,913
13. Stream of Love (2013)
70 min | Documentary, Romance
A sleepy village in Hungarian speaking Transylvania, the occupants well past eighty years old. The last place you would expect for scandal. Except here the last men left are desperately ... See full summary »
Director: Ágnes Sós | Stars: Veronika Both, Ferencz Kósa, Rozália Barabás, Jenõné Martin
Votes: 850
14. She's Beautiful When She's Angry (2014)
Not Rated | 92 min | Documentary, History
A documentary that resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women's movement from 1966 to 1971.
Director: Mary Dore | Stars: Chude Pamela Allen, Alta, Judith Arcana, Nona Willis Aronowitz
Votes: 1,654 | Gross: $0.42M
15. Tomorrow (2015)
G | 118 min | Documentary
The world's climate is changing. Instead of showing the worst that can happen, this documentary focuses on the people suggesting solutions and their actions.
Directors: Cyril Dion, Mélanie Laurent | Stars: Anthony Barnosky, Olivier De Schutter, Cyril Dion, Emmanuel Druon
Votes: 3,597 | Gross: $0.04M
16. Granny Project (2017)
89 min | Documentary
Three grandsons embark with their grannies on an anarchic journey into the past - a complex road movie about intergenerational dialogue in Great Britain, Germany and Hungary.
Director: Bálint Révész
Votes: 233
17. The Society of the Spectacle (1974)
91 min | Documentary
Guy Debord's cinematic analysis of consumer society based on his influential book "La société du spectacle" (1967).
Director: Guy Debord | Stars: Guy Debord, Leonid Brezhnev, Fidel Castro, Jacques Duclos
Votes: 662
18. The Century of the Self (2002)
59 min | Documentary
A documentary about the rise of psychoanalysis as a powerful means of persuasion for both governments and corporations.
Stars: Adam Curtis, Robert Reich, Ann Bernays, Alfred Pritz
Votes: 6,360
19. The Power of Nightmares (2004)
60 min | Documentary, History
A series of three documentaries about the use of fear for political gain.
Stars: Gilles Kepel, William Kristol, Melvin Goodman, Richard Perle
Votes: 4,542
20. The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007)
180 min | Documentary
The many ways in which Western notions of personal and political freedom are changing in the 21st Century are explored in this three-part documentary from writer and filmmaker Adam Curtis.
Stars: John Nash, Robert Spitzer, Jerome Wakefield, Paul McHugh
Votes: 2,018
21. HyperNormalisation (2016)
166 min | Documentary
Adam Curtis explains how, at a time of confusing and inexplicable world events, politicians and the people they represent have retreated in to a damaging over-simplified version of what is happening.
Director: Adam Curtis | Stars: Adam Curtis, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Victor Gotbaum
Votes: 7,371
22. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)
60 min | Documentary
A series of films about how humans have been colonized by the machines we have built. Although we don't realize it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers.
Stars: Adam Curtis, Stewart Brand, Al Gore, Alvin Toffler
Votes: 2,135
23. Pandora's Box (1992)
276 min | Documentary
The consequences of exploiting technological and political ideas without understanding and concern for the outcome.
Stars: George Ball, Milton Friedman, Tony Benn, Jerry Pournelle
Votes: 596
24. The Social Dilemma (2020)
PG-13 | 94 min | Documentary, Drama
Explores the dangerous human impact of social networking; tech experts sound the alarm on their own creations.
Director: Jeff Orlowski-Yang | Stars: Tristan Harris, Jeff Seibert, Bailey Richardson, Joe Toscano
Votes: 89,463
25. Can't Get You Out of My Head (2021)
75 min | Documentary, History
Love, power, money, ghosts of empire, conspiracies, artificial intelligence and You. An emotional history of the modern world by Adam Curtis.
Star: Adam Curtis
Votes: 2,357
26. Bitter Lake (2015)
136 min | Documentary
An experimental documentary that explores Saudi Arabia's relationship with the U.S. and the role this has played in the war in Afghanistan.
Director: Adam Curtis | Stars: George Bush, George W. Bush, Joanne Herring, Hamid Karzai
Votes: 3,525
27. No Gods, No Masters: A History of Anarchism (2016–2022)
150 min | Documentary, History
"Ni Dieu Ni Maître" reviews all the great events of the social history of the last two centuries and reveals the origin and destiny of this political current that has been fighting for over 150 years all masters and gods.
Stars: Redjep Mitrovitsa, Audrey Vernon, Gaetano Manfredonia, Normand Baillargeon
Votes: 181
28. Workingman's Death (2005)
Not Rated | 122 min | Documentary
A documentary on the extremes to which workers will go to earn a living.
Director: Michael Glawogger
Votes: 1,812
29. Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone (2022)
Documentary, History
What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy.
Votes: 977
30. The Killing of a Journalist (2022)
100 min | Documentary, Crime
In Slovakia, a young investigative journalist is brutally murdered. When the police files of the murder investigation are leaked to the reporter's colleagues, they uncover vast corruption reaching the highest levels of Slovak society.
Director: Matt Sarnecki | Stars: Robert Fico, Robert Kalinak, Andrej Kiska
Votes: 395
31. Total Trust (2023)
97 min | Documentary
Two families fight for justice from within the digital prison of the Chinese surveillance state.
Director: Jialing Zhang | Stars: Zijuan Chen, Tutu, Wenzu Li, Quanzhang Wang
Votes: 201
32. The Last Angel of History (1996 TV Movie)
45 min | Documentary, Sci-Fi
Framed by the fictional story of the "data thief," this hybrid documentary takes a look at the origins, impact and significance of Afrofuturism and techno music for the black diaspora.
Director: John Akomfrah | Stars: Octavia Butler, George Clinton, Kodwo Eshun, Edward George
Votes: 160
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