On the Bowery (1956), Last Breath (2018), People of the Wind (1976), This Is Not a Movie (2019), Restrepo (2010), Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004), Benjamin Smoke (2000), The Farm: Angola, USA (1998) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Verité movies.
Storyline: Filmmaker Lionel Rogosin turns his camera on the homeless "bums" who frequent New York City's Bowery area.
Plot Keywords: documentary, new york, alcoholism, social realism, black and white, independent film, street life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Stranded at the bottom of the North Sea with only five minutes of oxygen remaining and no chance of rescue, a diver struggles to survive.
Plot Keywords: documentary, thriller, true story, deep sea, diving, survival, rescue ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: There are two hundred miles of raging rivers and dangerous mountains to cross. There are no towns, no roads, no bridges. There is no turning back. The Bakhtiari migration is one of the most hazardous tests of human endurance known to mankind. Every year, 500,000 men, women and children - along with one million animals - struggle for eight grueling weeks to scale the massive Zagros Mountains in Iran - a range which is as high as the Alps and as broad as Switzerland - to reach their summer pastures. The film's astonishing widescreen photography and brilliantly recorded soundtrack take the viewer out onto the dangerous precipices of the Zardeh Kuh mountain and into the icy waters of the Cholbar River.—Fiona Kelleghan <fkelleghan@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: documentary, culture, iran, tradition, survival, migration, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The groundbreaking and often game-changing reporting of legendary foreign correspondent and author Robert Fisk is profiled in the latest from acclaimed documentarian Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze).
Plot Keywords: documentary, journalism, war, syria, real events, conflict, human rights ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington's year dug in with the Second Platoon in one of Afghanistan's most strategically crucial valleys reveals extraordinary insight into the surreal combination of back breaking labor, deadly firefights, and camaraderie as the soldiers painfully push back the Taliban.—Sundance Film Festival
Plot Keywords: war, documentary, frontline, soldiers, combat, military, danger ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Some Kind of Monster is a music documentary about Metallica's making of their album St. Anger and the difficulties they had to go through in the process. The directors shot over 1200 hours and followed the band around night and day for over a year to create this documentary.—Mathias Nielsen
Plot Keywords: music documentary, creative process, therapy, music industry, verité, self-discovery, interpersonal relationships ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This highly unorthodox documentary follows the crooked path of Benjamin (no last name). He lives in a hidden neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia called "Cabbagetown." Drag-queen, speed-freak, all-around renegade, Benjamin left the straight (in every sense of the word) world behind a long time ago.
Plot Keywords: documentary, music, independent film, biography, rock, counterculture, lgbtq+ ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Documentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate's perspective. Interviews are with several inmates including one with a life sentence who is about to die.
Plot Keywords: prison, documentary, usa, louisiana, crime, justice system, racial issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Iraq in Fragments illuminates post-war Iraq in three acts, building a picture of a country pulled in different directions by religion and ethnicity. Filmed in verité style with no scripted narration, the film explores the lives of ordinary Iraqis to illustrate and give background to larger trends in Iraqi society.—James Longley
Plot Keywords: war, documentary, conflict, politics, society, culture, occupation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Raw and intimate, this documentary captures the struggles of patients and frontline medical professionals battling the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan.
Plot Keywords: documentary, pandemic, hospital, frontline, lockdown, china, real events ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Decline of Western Civilization III is a 1998 documentary film that follows the gutter punk lifestyle of homeless teenagers.
Plot Keywords: documentary, music, punk, los angeles, underground culture, social outcasts, teenagers ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the slum of Cité Soleil, President Aristide's most loyal supporters were ruling as kings. The five major gang leaders were controlling heavily armed young men; the Chiméres. The Secret army of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. "Ghosts of Cité Soleil" is a film about Billy and Haitian 2pac. Two brothers. Gang Leaders of the Chiméres.—Asger Leth
Plot Keywords: documentary, gang, violence, social issues, true story, street life, poverty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The meaning of art itself comes into question in this documentary about Shelby Lee Adams' controversial photos of families in Appalachia.
Plot Keywords: documentary, photography, american culture, poverty, rural life, social documentary, art ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of community in the Deep South that is forced to deal with the struggles of ignorance, hypocrisy and oppression.
Plot Keywords: documentary, lgbtq+, gay, small town life, american south, social issues, identity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Herders guide an enormous flock of sheep to summer pastures on their final drive through the Beartooth Mountains.
Plot Keywords: documentary, usa, agriculture, montana, nature, landscape, tradition ...
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