Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018), One Day in September (1999), Double Dare (2003), The Man With a Movie Camera (1929), King Corn (2007), On the Bowery (1956), Bigger, Stronger, Faster (2008), The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Documentary 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: Storyboard artist Harold Michelson and his wife, film researcher Lillian Michelson, were once considered the heart of Hollywood.
Plot Keywords: documentary, hollywood, love story, biography, film industry, marriage, cinematography ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this film, documentarian Pearl Gluck chronicles her Hasidic Jewish upbringing and her subsequent, more secular life as a Manhattanite. Gluck then documents her return trip to her old neighborhood, where she tries to reconcile with her devout father, who hopes that she will move back to Brooklyn. Gluck strikes an on-camera compromise with her dad, and agrees to trek to Hungary in order to find a long-lost family heirloom -- a couch that many notable rabbis have crashed on.
Plot Keywords: documentary, jewish culture, family, tradition, immigration, identity, poland ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A homeless musician's life is transformed after he discovers a flock of wild South American parrots living in San Francisco. How they got there is a mystery, but Mark Bittner forms a bond with the exotic birds through his music and his patient, attentive care. Over time he comes to appreciate their individual identities and makes a case for humans to reevaluate their relationship to animals. When he is forced to leave them, he despairs over the birds' fate.
Plot Keywords: documentary, nature, birds, san francisco, wildlife, environmental, human-animal bond ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This documentary presents an epic portrait of winter bird migration. Filmed on all seven continents over four years, the footage is brought together into one portrait of a journey that's uniformly arduous for all kinds of different birds. Rather than concentrating on statistics and facts, the film near-wordlessly portrays the sheer physical effort demanded of the birds on their disparate routes. Along the way, we see the many dangers they face, from man-made waste to a group of hungry crabs.
Plot Keywords: documentary, nature, birds, migration, wildlife, cinematography, flight ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The visually stunning and humorous world of creative dog groomers.
Plot Keywords: documentary, competition, dogs, creativity, art, usa, culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: For over half a century, "60 Minutes" fearsome newsman Mike Wallace went head-to-head with the world's most influential figures. Relying exclusively on archival footage, the film interrogates the interrogator, tracking Mike's storied career and troubled personal life while unpacking how broadcast journalism evolved to today's precarious tipping point.
Plot Keywords: documentary, journalism, interview, media, television, investigation, biography ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Street Gang will take us inside the minds and hearts of the Sesame Street creators to help us understand not only how they produced this groundbreaking show, but also what it was like to be at the center of a cultural and social phenomenon. Street Gang concentrates on the most experimental and groundbreaking period of Sesame Street. The original surviving creators weave together personal narratives, and never before seen behind the scenes footage to reveal how they collaborated to push every boundary that confronted them, changing television, and changing the world.
Plot Keywords: documentary, behind the scenes, cultural impact, puppetry, social change, multiculturalism, innovation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Stephen Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along" opened in November 1981 to scathing reviews and closed after just 16 performances. Despite its inauspicious beginnings, the musical's score has grown to become one of the composer's most beloved. Archival footage of the rehearsals along with interviews with the cast -- as well as Sondheim himself and director Harold Prince -- tell the tale of this infamous production.
Plot Keywords: documentary, musical, broadway, theater, behind the scenes, revival, director ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: People come face to face with mysterious and stunning creatures of the ocean off Australia and New Guinea.
Plot Keywords: documentary, ocean, nature, wildlife, environmental, marine life, deep sea ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Psychiatrist Dorothy Otnow Lewis stirs controversy for her views on serial killers and the death penalty.
Plot Keywords: documentary, psychology, criminal psychology, interview, true story, mental illness, human nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Actors Yves Montand and Simone Signoret narrate an introduction to springtime in Paris, as described by its citizens.
Plot Keywords: documentary, paris, 1960s, cinéma vérité, social observation, everyday life, politics ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman chronicle the persecution of homosexuals under the Third Reich. Narrated by Rupert Everett.
Plot Keywords: history, documentary, nazi, holocaust, homosexuality, persecution, world war ii ...
Movie Details Click Here !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: At the age of 24, American director Barbara Sonneborn lost her husband in the Vietnam War. Twenty years after his death, Sonneborn sets out to interview other American and Vietnamese women whose spouses died in the conflict. Along the way she meets a Vietnamese woman who was forced into prostitution during the war, an American woman whose husband died of chemical poisoning years after the conflict ended and a woman who worked as a North Vietnamese spy.
Plot Keywords: war, documentary, vietnam war, grief, memories, female perspective, history ...
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