United Red Army (2007), Shooting Dogs (2005), A Man Escaped (1956), The Assault (1986), In Cold Blood (1967), A Night to Remember (1958), End of Watch (2012), Boat People (1983) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Documentary-style movies.
Storyline: Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences of passing as a black man. John Horton takes treatments to darken his skin and leaves his home in Texas to travel throughout the South. At one stop, Horton encounters a black shoeshine man, Burt Wilson, who befriends him and shows him how to "act right" to fit more easily into the African American culture. Through Wilson, Horton learns the art of shining shoes. Most of his encounters with whites are quite degrading and disturb him. As a hitchhiker, John meets several white men who refer to black men and women in disparaging ways that anger him. Throughout the movie, John is harassed and persecuted by whites without reason. In one of his many stops throughout the South, John finds himself on a park bench sitting by a white woman. A white man walks by and says, "You'd better find another place to sit." Although he had a college degree, menial jobs were all that he could find. John meets Frank Newcomb whose son Tom is arrested for civil-rights demonstrations. John tells Tom about his "passing for black" in the South, and Tom becomes enraged. Tom feels that John could have served the plight of the black man in the South better as a white man. Frank asks John if people would believe the story. Tom says, "I don't know, but I'll tell them."—Broncine G. Carter
Plot Keywords: racial discrimination, race relations, american south, social experiment, identity, prejudice, social injustice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A beauty parlor manager has her sister help her with interesting results.
Plot Keywords: drama, history, war, revolution, patriotic, political, military ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for Panzram, befriends him, and gets him to write his life story. Lesser learns that Panzram's past is much more violent than he thought, but also that he's capable of being a much better person than the rest of the prison staff believes - or so Lesser thinks.—Jon Reeves <jreeves@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: crime, biography, drama, history, true story, prison, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Taylor and Harold are good friends and avid climbers. While climbing one day, they meet a man who it seems might be attempting to climb K2, the world's second-highest peak. Always pushy, Taylor bugs the man for a spot on the team, claiming that he and Harold are good enough. They may be very good, but K2 is a very tough mountain.—Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>
Plot Keywords: adventure, action, mountain climbing, survival, drama, thriller, based on true events ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Accompanied by an Interpreter, Wali Zarif, and a cameraman, Sunil, Don Larson, heads out to Afghanistan in order to locate Osama Bin Laden, the man George W. Bush believes was responsible for the terrorists attacks in the U.S.A. on September 11, 2001. Little does Don realize that soon he will face opposition from Wali himself and must face facts that the terrorists attacks were as a result of his country's 'foreign policy'; he will be arrested and held by the local Police; beaten by Al-Qaeda sympathizers who tell him that they and many others will not rest until Americans are forced to leave every Muslim country; and join hands with a bounty hunter, Babak Ali, to travel to the region bordering Pakistan, even after being fully aware that there is an open bounty on every westerner in the region.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
Plot Keywords: found footage, war film, mockumentary, terrorism, independent film, low budget, american ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This movie portrays three women living in today's Algeria between modern society and Islamic fundamentalism, self-determination and dependence. Goucem, a young woman who works for a photographer and mistress of a rich doctor, her mother Papicha, a former cabaret star, and her best friend Fifi, a prostitute, all live in a hotel in the city center of Algiers. Their difficult personal situation and the growing influence of Islam lead to dramatic consequences...—fippi2000
Plot Keywords: drama, war, independence, history, revolution, nationalism, freedom ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: For the first time in movie history, audiences will truly see and feel what it was like when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. "Walking with Dinosaurs" is the ultimate immersive experience, utilizing state of the art 3D to put audiences in the middle of a thrilling and epic prehistoric world, where an underdog dino triumphs to become a hero for the ages.
Plot Keywords: animation, 3d, adventure, family, educational, nature, cgi ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the early evening of August 21, 2015, the world watched in stunned silence as the media reported a thwarted terrorist attack on Thalys train #9364 bound for Paris, an attempt prevented by three courageous young Americans travelling through Europe. This movie follows the course of the friends' lives, from the struggles of childhood through finding their footing in life, to the series of unlikely events leading up to the attack. Throughout the harrowing ordeal, their friendship never wavers, making it their greatest weapon and allowing them to save the lives of the more than five hundred passengers on-board.
Plot Keywords: true story, heroism, courage, self-rescue, usa, france, europe ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: For nearly his whole life, things have been simple for 21-year-old Marcin Koprowski (Rafał Maćkowiak). His two constants have been his job as an auto mechanic in the shop owned by his father, and his longtime girlfriend, Kaska (Sylwia Juszczak). Things are turned upside down, however, when Marcin's father dies, leaving him the shop and house. Then, while he is dealing with funeral arrangements and hosting eccentric relatives from out of town, Kaska announces that she is moving to America.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, war, documentary, music, history, conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jimmy (Ryan Phillippe) would do anything to protect his mother (Nastassja Kinski) and two younger brothers from his abusive father, Ray (John Savage), a veteran who suffers from PTSD. A talented baseball player with dreams of escaping his small Texas town, Jimmy is terrified of leaving Ray alone with the family. When the police start questioning Ray about a local murder, Jimmy finds that keeping Ray in check may be harder than he initially thought.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, true story, murder, family, tragedy, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The tormented Norwegian artist (Geir Westby), famous for "The Cry," struggles for recognition in the late 19th century.
Plot Keywords: biography, historical, art, painter, norway, psychological drama, expressionism ...
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