Long Night's Journey Into Day (2000), Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation (2019), Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993), Woodstock (1970), Amarcord (1973), Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), The Ruins of Lifta (2016) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Collective Memory movies.
Storyline: Following the end of apartheid in South Africa during the 1990s, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to pursue social justice, and this acclaimed documentary focuses on some of the stories that emerged from the organization's cases. Although renowned leader Bishop Desmond Tutu appears, the film focuses primarily on everyday people, both white and black, who committed appalling crimes during apartheid and came to the commission seeking forgiveness.
Plot Keywords: documentary, apartheid, south africa, human rights, justice, forgiveness, historical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A teacher and three schoolgirls at Appleyard College disappear in 1900.
Plot Keywords: mystery, drama, psychological thriller, historical, literary adaptation, female perspective, surrealism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Featuring never-before-seen footage, filmmaker Barak Goodman examines the cultural, political and social ramifications of the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival in upstate New York.
Plot Keywords: music festival, documentary, counterculture, rock music, historical event, music history, american culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This Canadian documentary portrays the 1990 showdown between the Mohawk Nation and the predominantly white Quebec town of Oka, which is intent on developing land deemed sacred by the native people. When members of the Mohawk tribe protest plans to expand a golf course into their territory, they form a barricade, leading to an armed standoff with provincial police that becomes increasingly tense, with the possibility of violence looming over the heads of everyone involved.
Plot Keywords: documentary, history, canada, resistance, social justice, political, conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits of the concertgoers; negative and positive aspects are shown, from drug use by performers to naked fans sliding in the mud, from the collapse of the fences by the unexpected hordes to the surreal arrival of National Guard helicopters with food and medical assistance for the impromptu city of 500,000.—Dan Hartung <dhartung@mcs.com>
Plot Keywords: music festival, documentary, rock music, counterculture, 1960s, live music, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: One year in a small northern Italian coastal town in the late 1930s is presented. The slightly off-kilter cast of characters are affected by time and location, the social mores dictated largely by Catholicism and the national fervor surrounding Il Duce aka Benito Mussolini and Fascism. The stories loosely center on a mid-teen named Titta and his household including his adolescent brother, his ever supportive mother who is always defending him against his father, his freeloading maternal Uncle Lallo, and his paternal grandfather who slyly has eyes and hands for the household maid. Other townsfolk include: Gradisca, the town beauty, who can probably have any man she wants, but generally has no one as most think she out of their league; Volpina, the prostitute; Giudizio, the historian; a blind accordionist; and an extremely buxom tobacconist. The several vignettes presented include: the town bonfire in celebration of spring; life at Titta's school with his classmates and teachers; ...
Plot Keywords: nostalgia, coming of age, italy, small town life, memories, adolescence, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series ('Trilogy', 'The Long Day Closes') is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies's own family. The first part, 'Distant Voices', opens with grown siblings Eileen (Angela Walsh), Maisie (Lorraine Ashbourne) and Tony (Dean Williams), and their mother (Freda Dowie) arranged in mourning clothes before the photograph of their smiling father (Pete Postlethwaite). Soon after, the family poses in a similar tableau, but for a happier occasion - Eileen's wedding. While relatives sing at her reception, Eileen hysterically grieves for her dad, and recalls happy times of her youth. Tony and Maisie's memories, however, are more troubled. Davies intermingles and contrasts scenes like the family peacefully lighting candles in church with the brutal man beating his wife and terrorizing his young children. In 'Still Lives', set (and filmed) two years later, the siblings are settled in life, but not all happily. For Eileen, relief from her drab existence comes only when singing at the pub. With his skillfully composed frames and evocative use of music in place of dialogue, Davies creates a lovely, affecting photo album of a troubled family wrestling with the complexity of love.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: family, memory, working class, british, post-war, childhood, trauma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lifta is the only Arab village abandoned in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that has not been completely destroyed or repopulated. Its ruins serve as a haunting backdrop for a confrontation between the two mega-narratives that underlie the Arab-Israeli conflict; the Nakba and the Holocaust.
Plot Keywords: documentary, history, culture, conflict, heritage, memory, displacement ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This documentary from director Steven Rosenbaum presents the experiences of a diverse group of regular Americans in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Featuring footage from the area surrounding the World Trade Center shot as early as 10:05 a.m. on the day of the tragedy, SEVEN DAYS IN SEPTEMBER looks at the way 9/11 changed the lives of a firefighter's wife, a Muslim-American woman, an 11-year-old boy, and many others.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, 9/11 attacks, american history, trauma, collective memory, eyewitness, patriotism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The cultural revolution that occurred in the 1960s England is explored in this documentary.
Plot Keywords: documentary, british culture, 1960s, social change, music, fashion, politics ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Shane Black ("Lethal Weapon"), John Carpenter ("Halloween"), Frank Darabont ("The Shawshank Redemption"), William Goldman ("The Princess Bride"), Paul Schrader ("Taxi Driver"), and dozens of other Hollywood screenwriters share hilarious anecdotes and penetrating insights in "Tales from the Script," the most comprehensive documentary ever made about screenwriting. By analyzing their triumphs and recalling their failures, the participants explain how successful writers develop the skills necessary for toughing out careers in one of the world's most competitive industries. They also reveal the untold stories behind some of the greatest screenplays ever written, describing their adventures with luminaries including Harrison Ford, Stanley Kubrick, Joel Silver, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg. The film was produced in tandem with the upcoming HarperCollins book of the same name.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: comedy, historical, allegory, black comedy, political, social satire, anthology film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hell bent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by mate Gary King, a 40-year old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to their home town and once again attempts to reach the fabled pub, The World's End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind's. Reaching The World's End is the least of their worries.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, comedy, action, british film, aliens, friendship, nostalgia ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Heise's latest, Heimat is a Space in Time, is a monumental work that traces four generations of his family's archives, from the 19th century to the present - their intimate stories revealing the larger cultural and political events that have shaped the past hundred years of German history. The collage of documents in Heise's brilliant essay film include letters and diaries that he reads, in voiceover, to luminous black-and-white images of various German landscapes and spaces. In this immersive work, silences reveal as much as what is said, with fragments drawing attention to what is missing. Heise's family was torn apart only to have subsequent generations coalesce and try to make sense of their remnants. Heimat is a Space in Time spans both world wars, economic collapse, a horrific genocide, and the rise and fall of political ideologies, and it is Heise's focus on the small details of personal experience, the subtlest shifts of light across a landscape, that make for his film's most visceral experiences.—Toronto International Film Festival
Plot Keywords: documentary, germany, history, family saga, world war ii, memory, time ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: If they missed Beatles' first appearance in the U.S.A. they would hate themselves for the rest of their lives! So they (six teenagers from New Jersey) set off even though they don't have tickets for the show! The journey is full of surprises and misfortunes but the young ladies are determined to reach to their idols...—Xenophon Tsakanikas <ftpadmin@antigoni.med.auth.gr>
Plot Keywords: music, comedy, youth, the beatles, fandom, nostalgia, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A small village garrison has been overrun by hostile Congolese troops. After loosing government soldiers and an essential document, Kaptain De Brand is ordered to get the secret document back. A task force of six men and a female doctor must fight their way through central Africa's swamps and deserts to free the soldiers, getting the document and revenge their fallen comrades.—Fauno
Plot Keywords: documentary, world war ii, france, occupation, collaboration, resistance, historical ...
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