Amy (2015), The Weather Underground (2003), Arthur Miller: Writer (2017), Uncle Howard (2016), Stevie (2002), No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005), Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (2016), Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (2002) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Archival Footage movies.
Storyline: Archival footage and personal testimonials present an intimate portrait of the life and career of British singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse.
Plot Keywords: documentary, music, biography, singer, uk, jazz, soul ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When the Beatles land in America in the early 1960s, young men wearing their hair long strike the nation as an abomination. But within a few years, youthful rebellion grows more severe: Witness the Weathermen, the radical antiwar activists who mobilize (unsuccessfully) to overthrow the U.S. government. With contemporary interviews and archival footage, this documentary elucidates the Weather Underground's controversial history and continuing significance.
Plot Keywords: documentary, history, politics, radicalism, anti-war, social movement, revolution ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmaker Rebecca Miller presents a portrait of her father, the prolific American playwright Arthur Miller.
Plot Keywords: biography, documentary, writer, literature, 20th century, theater, creative process ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Director Howard Brookner's body of work is rediscovered 30 years after his death.
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, new york, filmmaking, 1980s, archival footage, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After not seeing his younger friend for several years, documentary director Steve James decides to catch up with the Illinois boy he once mentored. No longer the nerdy preteen James once knew, Stephen Fielding is now a damaged adult who has had repeated problems with the law. While reproaching himself for not maintaining a closer relationship with his old friend, James tries to understand Fielding's evolution from abused child to a man convicted of serious crimes.
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, crime, social issues, poverty, family, childhood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmaker Martin Scorsese traces Bob Dylan's evolution from folk troubadour to iconic rock star. Live concert footage and press conferences from the 1960s and a new interview with Dylan are used to draw a portrait of the legendary singer-songwriter.
Plot Keywords: music documentary, biography, usa, rock, 1960s, musician, interviews ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Producer Norman Lear creates "All in the Family," "The Jeffersons," "Sanford and Son," "Good Times" and other classic TV shows.
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, american culture, social commentary, entertainment industry, influence, creativity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmakers André Heller and Othmar Schmiderer interview Traudl Junge, a secretary to Adolf Hitler in 1942.
Plot Keywords: documentary, world war ii, history, nazi, biography, germany, holocaust ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A thoughtful portrait of a renowned artist, this documentary shines the spotlight on New York City painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. Featuring extensive interviews conducted by Basquiat's friend, filmmaker Tamra Davis, the production reveals how he dealt with being a black artist in a predominantly white field. The film also explores Basquiat's rise in the art world, which led to a close relationship with Andy Warhol, and looks at how the young painter coped with acclaim, scrutiny and fame.
Plot Keywords: documentary, art, biography, painter, new york, 1980s, rise to fame ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Through ground breaking computer restoration technology, filmmaker Peter Jackson's team creates a moving real-to-life depiction of the WWI, as never seen before in restored, vivid colorizing & retiming of the film frames, in order to honor those who fought and more accurately depict this historical moment in world history.—Curtis Medina
Plot Keywords: war, documentary, world war i, history, veterans, peter jackson, united kingdom ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Interviews and clever use of still photographs illustrate the life of a talented but often controversial comic who died of cancer at age 32.
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, comedy, stand-up comedy, american, true story, satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On its fiftieth anniversary, the events surrounding the actual Apollo 11 space mission are presented solely using archival footage and still photographs of or associated with the mission. The events span from the eleventh hour preparations for the launch to shortly after the safe touchdown of the capsule with its three astronauts back on Earth. The mission is historic as the first time humans had stepped on the surface of the Earth's moon. It arguably made household names of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin as the first and second to walk on the moon, and slightly less so for the third astronaut, Michael Collins, who remained inside the capsule at the time. It was arguably the most dangerous space mission at the time in part to the astronauts leaving the safety of the capsule.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: space exploration, documentary, nasa, historical event, astronauts, space race, cold war ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based on footage shot in the early seventies and lost for more than thirty years, NAACP IMAGE AWARD winner Esther Anderson takes us on a journey to Jamaica and into 56 HOPE ROAD, Kingston, to see and hear the young BOB MARLEY before he was famous. The film shows us the WAILERS' first rehearsal, when the idea of a Jamaican supergroup like the BEATLES or the STONES was still just a dream. We sit in on the launch of their international career with "GET UP STAND UP", "I SHOT THE SHERIFF", and the "BURNIN'" and "CATCH A FIRE" albums that brought to the world REGGAE music and RASTA consciousness together as one, starting a revolution that would change rock music and contemporary culture.—Esther Anderson
Plot Keywords: music documentary, music history, cultural impact, social change, classic songs, songwriting, music industry ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmaker Francine Parker documents Jane Fonda's tour with musicians and activists opposed to the Vietnam War.
Plot Keywords: documentary, political, anti-war, vietnam war, military, protest, soldiers ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Kurt Gerron was a star in Germany's theater and cabaret scene in the 1920s and 1930s, performing with some of the country's best artists and entertainers of the time. But with the rise of Adolf Hitler, the acclaimed Jewish entertainer was relegated to the role of prisoner in a Nazi-run concentration camp. There he was forced to put his talents to use writing and directing a propaganda film that sang the praises of his captors. This documentary tells Gerron's shocking and tragic story.
Plot Keywords: documentary, world war ii, holocaust, nazi, concentration camp, jewish, propaganda ...
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