Most Similar Movies to Powaqqatsi (1988)
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I Am Because We Are (2008), Manufactured Landscapes (2006), Sisters in Law (2005), Good Hair (2009), Into the Okavango (2018), Last Train Home (2009), The Devil's Miner (2005) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
I Am Because We Are (2008)
A look into the lives of Malawi's 1 million plus orphans in the wake of the AIDS pandemic. It offers hope and real solutions to the challenges that people face living in extreme poverty.
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Manufactured Landscapes (2006)
Photographer Edward Burtynsky travels the world observing changes in landscapes due to industrial work and manufacturing.
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Sisters in Law (2005)
Set in Kumba in South West Cameroon Sisters in Law follows Adultery, Rape and Abuse cases led by a Female Judge.
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Into the Okavango (2018)
A team of modern-day explorers embarks on a four-month expedition across three countries to explore the river system that feeds Botswana's Okavango Delta and to investigate why it is shrinking.
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Last Train Home (2009)
Forced to live far away, two Chinese factory workers make an arduous journey once a year to visit their children, who barely know them.
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The Devil's Miner (2005)
Filmmakers Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani profile Basilio, a 14-year-old Bolivian who supports his family by working in a silver mine. Like his fellow workers, the boy looks to Satan for protection from the daily hazards he encounters in the bowels of the Earth.
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Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
A collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on nature, humanity and the relationship between them.
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The Ivory Game (2016)
Wildlife activists in take on poachers in an effort to end illegal ivory trade in Africa.
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Darwin's Nightmare (2004)
Hubert Sauper's Oscar-nominated documentary about the Nile perch, a species introduced into Lake Victoria as an experiment in the sixties. Since then, the fish has not only wiped out the lake's other marine life, but also has a tendency to consume its own young. Unfortunately, the Nile perch is also the region's most profitable export. Everyone with a stake in the market downplays the ecological disaster.
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The Execution of Wanda Jean (2002)
"The Execution of Wanda Jean" chronicles the life-and-death battle of Wanda Jean Allen. By telling one woman's story, the film becomes an unforgettable exploration into one of America's most controversial moral and political dilemmas: the death penalty. "The Execution of Wanda Jean" is an unflinching investigation of the role that poverty, mental health, race, and sexuality play within the criminal justice system.
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This Is Congo (2017)
An unfiltered look in to the lives of 3 characters surviving amongst the most recent cycle of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, otherwise known as the M23 rebellion.
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The Leopard Son (1996)
Follows the coming of age of a young leopard on the Serengeti Plain, filmed over three years by Dutch naturalist Hugo Van Lawick.
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Lost Boys of Sudan (2003)
Lost Boys of Sudan is a feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America. Orphaned as young boys in one of Africa's cruelest civil wars, Peter Dut and Santino Chuor survived lion attacks and militia gunfire to reach a refugee camp in Kenya along with thousands of other children. From there, remarkably, th...Read all
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I Called Him Morgan (2016)
An exploration of the relationship between jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen, who was implicated in his murder in 1972.
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Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World (2003)
Documentary presenting the realities of coming out in lesser developed countries.
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The Stranger Beside Me (2003)
Sting's wife Trudie Styler documents the turbulent bureaucracy both Sting and the filmmakers went through in order to complete The Emperor's New Groove (2000), a Disney film that underwent extensive storyline changes from start to finish.
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Orania (2012)
Eight hundred white South Africans form their own independent community to preserve their cultural identity.
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