Documentary movies

Collapse (2009)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Documentary
Countries: USA
Actors: Ruppert, Michael
Directors: Smith, Chris
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A documentary on Michael Ruppert, a police officer turned independent reporter who predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter, From the Wilderness.

Soul Power (2008)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Documentary | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Ali, Muhammad | Brown, James | King, B.B. | King, Don | Spinners, The | Withers, Bill | Cruz, Celia | Makeba, Miriam
Directors: Levy-Hinte, Jeffrey
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A documentary on the legendary soul music concert staged in Kinshasa, Zaire in 1974.

Good Hair (2009)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Documentary
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrell, Andre | Ice-T | KRS-One | Mooney, Paul | Najm, Faheem | Rock, Chris | Sharpton, Al | Angelou, Maya | Calloway, Vanessa Bell | Denton, Sandra 'Pepa' | Eve | Ford, Melyssa | Good, Meagan | James, Cheryl 'Salt' | Jones, Sarah
Directors: Stilson, Jeff
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Chris Rock explores the wonders of African-American hairstyles.

Amazing Journeys (1999)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Documentary | Short
Countries: USA
Actors: Foxworth, Robert | Ajigrotafe, Wemi | Barbee, David L. | Cook, Kerry W. | I., Jimmy | Thomas, George A. | Yardenne, Tamir | Smith, Ebonie
Directors: Casey, George
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Originally presented on the breathtakingly huge IMAX screen, this nature documentary has been digitally remastered to preserve the beauty and clarity of the original film. The gorgeous camera work captures the dramatic journeys that six different animals take in order to survive.

Home (2009)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Documentary
Countries: France
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Directors: Arthus-Bertrand, Yann
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With aerial footage from 54 countries, Home is a depiction of how the Earth’s problems are all interlinked.

Heima (2007)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Documentary | Music
Countries: Iceland
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Directors: DeBlois, Dean
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In the summer of 2006, Sigur Rós returned home to play a series of free, unannounced concerts for the people of Iceland. This film documents their already legendary tour with intimate reflections from the band and a handful of new acoustic performances.

Man on Wire (2008)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Documentary
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Blondeau, Jean-Louis | Demato, David | Forman, David | Frank, David Roland | Greenhouse, Barry | Haskell, Aaron | Heckel, Jean François | McGill, Paul | Moore, Jim | Petit, Philippe | Sciglimpaglia, Robert | Welner, Alan | Allix, Annie | Campbell, Ardis
Directors: Marsh, James
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A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit’s daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City’s World Trade Center’s twin towers in 1974, what some consider, “the artistic crime of the century.”

Chances of the World Changing, The (2006)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Documentary
Countries: USA
Actors:
Directors: Metzgar, Eric Daniel
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An artist abandons his life’s work to build an ark filled with hundreds of endangered animals. A story about time, death, art, love, and turtles.

Roger & Me (1989)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Documentary
Countries: USA
Actors: Blanchard, James | Bond, James | Boone, Pat | Eubanks, Bob | Hamper, Ben | Jackson, Timothy | Kay, Tom | Koppel, Ted | Lennox, Correy | MacDonald, Brian | Rather, Dan | Reagan, Ronald | Ross, Fred | Sawdon, Richard Earl
Directors: Moore, Michael
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A documentary about the closure of General Motors’ plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.

Naqoyqatsi: Life as War (2002)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Documentary | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Aikman, Troy | Beatles, The | Bin Laden, Osama | Brando, Marlon | Castro, Fidel | Christopher, Warren | Clinton, Bill | Edison, Thomas A. | Einstein, Albert | Hitler, Adolf | John, Elton | Khrushchev, Nikita | King, Martin Luther | Kissinger, Henry | Lama, Dalai
Directors: Reggio, Godfrey
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In this cinematic concert, mesmerizing images are plucked from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques. The result is a chronicle of the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology, the synthetic and the virtual. Extremes of intimacy and spectacle, tragedy and hope fuse in a tidal wave of visuals and music, giving rise to a unique, artistic experience that reflects the vision of a brave new globalized world.