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1. Reality's Invisible (1971)
53 min | Documentary
A short film which presents us footage of students making and discussing their work alongside figures like Gardner, theorist Rudolf Arnheim, artist Stan Vanderbeek, filmmaker Stan Brakhage, and graphic designer Toshi Katayama.
Director: Robert E. Fulton | Star: Robert Gardner
Votes: 66
2. Lord of the Dance/Destroyer of Illusion (1985)
113 min | Documentary
Director: Richard Kohn | Stars: Peter Hudson, Trulshig Rinpoche
Votes: 21
3. The Society of the Spectacle (1974)
91 min | Documentary
Guy Debord's cinematic analysis of consumer society based on his influential book "La société du spectacle" (1967).
Director: Guy Debord | Stars: Guy Debord, Leonid Brezhnev, Fidel Castro, Jacques Duclos
Votes: 662
4. Lucky People Center International (1998)
85 min | Documentary, Music
The film is a journey through some twenty countries where existential issues are addressed and the participants have all taken a stand against modern society and trying to make human life better.
Directors: Erik Pauser, Johan Söderberg | Stars: Alexander Brenner, Djossou Dotche, Bruno Manser, Sogyal Rinpoche
Votes: 645
5. Charles Manson Superstar (1989 Video)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
For forty years, Charles Manson has survived most of his life in what he calls 'the hallways of the all ways,' the reform schools, jails and prisons that have been his home and tomb. His ... See full summary »
Director: Nikolas Schreck | Stars: Charles Manson, Nikolas Schreck, Zeena Schreck, James N. Mason
Votes: 464
6. Path of Cessation (1974)
55 min | Documentary
A dialogue with the Tibetan culture captured through photography.
Director: Robert E. Fulton
Votes: 33
7. Sanrizuka: Heta buraku (1973)
146 min | Documentary
Documentary on the life of the farmers of the Heta Village opposing their resettlement due to the construction of the Narita Airport.
Director: Shinsuke Ogawa | Star: Shinsuke Ogawa
Votes: 74
8. Voyage au Congo (1927)
94 min | Documentary
A love partner of the writer André Gide, as well as his travel companion in their journey to the French colonies of Central Africa, Marc Allégret decided to film their 11-month wandering in... See full summary »
Director: Marc Allégret
Votes: 55
9. Narita: The Peasants of the Second Fortress (1971)
143 min | Documentary
This important film compiles "Magino Story" footage taken by Ogawa for a period of more than ten years after he moved to Magino village.
Director: Shinsuke Ogawa
Votes: 59
10. The End of Time (2012)
TV-G | 109 min | Documentary
Explores our perception of time.
Director: Peter Mettler | Stars: Peter Mettler, Freya Blekman, Richie Hawtin, George Mikenberg
Votes: 421 | Gross: $0.00M
11. The Fall (1969)
116 min | Documentary, Music
An extraordinary piece of filmmaking, an extremely personal statement on violence, revolution and the turbulence within late sixties America.
Director: Peter Whitehead | Stars: Peter Whitehead, Alberta Tiburzi, Angelo Mannsraven, Coral Atkins
Votes: 70
12. News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital (2008 Video)
570 min | Documentary
Director Alexander Kluge provides his own take of Eisenstein's unfinished filming of Karl Marx's Capital, a subject that the Russian director and James Joyce had debated in 1927.
Director: Alexander Kluge | Stars: Oksana Bulgakova, Dietmar Dath, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Durs Grünbein
Votes: 70
13. The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation (1994)
45 min | Documentary
Director: Barrie McLean | Stars: Leonard Cohen, Pema Ozokten, Tsering Sonam, Tobten Tsering
Votes: 253
14. Yakona (2014)
85 min | Documentary, History
Yakona, meaning "water rising" in the language of the indigenous people of the San Marcos River in Texas. This multi-award winning film is a visual journey through the crystal clear waters ... See full summary »
Directors: Paul Collins, Anlo Sepulveda | Stars: Tony Two Hawks Molina, Jeremy Gutierrez, Jacqueline Claire, Tina Rodriguez
Votes: 41
15. Elsewhere (2001)
240 min | Documentary
During the year 2000 Geyrhalter and his teams travelled to a different destination each month, looking for places untouched by the millennium hysteria. Locations include Niger, Finland, Micronesia, Australia, China, Siberia or Greenland.
Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Votes: 143
16. Schwarze Sonne (1998)
90 min | Documentary
The film investigates the mythological backgrounds of nationalsocialism.
Director: Rüdiger Sünner
Votes: 87
17. Mythscape: Remembering the End of the World (1996 Video)
89 min | Documentary
Director: Ben Low | Stars: Ben Low, David Talbott
18. To Be and to Have (2002)
Not Rated | 104 min | Documentary, Family
A documentary portrait of a one-room school in rural France, where the students (ranging in age from 4 to 11) are educated by a single dedicated teacher.
Director: Nicolas Philibert | Stars: Georges Lopez, Alizé, Axel Thouvenin, Guillaume
Votes: 8,417 | Gross: $0.78M
19. Atarashî kamisama (1999)
99 min | Comedy, Documentary
Karin and her "comrade" Ito have started a band, playing nationalist punk music. Left-wing filmmaker TSUCHIYA decides to give Karin a video camera to film herself and her daily life. Camera... See full summary »
Director: Yutaka Tsuchiya | Stars: Karin Amemiya, Hidehito Itô, Yutaka Tsuchiya
Votes: 53
20. Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002)
180 min | Documentary
A filmmaker's inquiry into transcendence becomes a three-hour trip across countries and cultures, interconnecting people, places and times. From Toronto, the scene of his childhood, Peter ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Mettler | Stars: Justine Bellinsky, Govinda, Peter Mettler, Rani Mukerji
Votes: 612
21. Cockroach (2020)
93 min | Documentary
In February 2019, the Hong Kong government proposed a bill that would have allowed the extradition of criminal suspects from Hong Kong to face trial in mainland China. The controversial ... See full summary »
Director: Ai Weiwei
Votes: 48
22. All Light, Everywhere (2021)
Unrated | 105 min | Documentary
A far-ranging look at the biases in how we see things, focusing on the use of police body cameras.
Director: Theo Anthony | Stars: Theo Anthony, Keaver Brenai, Robert Cunniff, Ross McNutt
Votes: 879
23. Invisible (I) (2005)
Unrated | 90 min | Documentary
The story of six young people addicted to heroin in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Director: Konstantin Bojanov | Stars: Alexsandar Bunovski, Kamen Petrov, Rumen Proshev, Diana Rangelova
Votes: 85
24. Naked Spaces: Living Is Round (1985)
135 min | Documentary
Explores the rhythm and ritual life in the rural environment of six West African countries: Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, and Senegal.
Director: Trinh T. Minh-ha | Stars: Barbara Christian, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Linda Peckham
Votes: 40
25. Atlas (I) (2013)
77 min | Documentary
The renowned Antoine d'Agata, again and always, uses his sublime camera and whole being to reveal a parallel world of prostitution and drugs, punctuated by exhausted bodies and lost souls in Cambodia, Russia and India.
Director: Antoine d'Agata | Star: Antoine d'Agata
Votes: 109
26. First Man (2017)
Not Rated | 92 min | Documentary
In this epic special, travel back in time 25 million years to experience the trials, dramas and triumphs that shaped our ancestors.
Directors: Fred Fougea, Jérôme Guiot | Stars: Nadine Adams, Jason Barnard, Fred Bobbitt, Lee-Shane Booysen
Votes: 430
27. Caniba (2017)
Unrated | 92 min | Documentary
Caniba is a film that reflects on the discomforting significance of cannibalistic desire in human existence through the prism of one man, Issei Sagawa, and his mysterious relationship with his brother, Jun.
Directors: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel | Stars: Renée Hartevelt, Issei Sagawa, Jun Sagawa
Votes: 613
28. Civilisation (1969– )
TV-G | 698 min | Documentary, History, Music
Sir Kenneth Clarke walks through the ages exploring the glorious rise of civilization in Western man.
Stars: Kenneth Clark, Ian Richardson, Ronald Lacey, Patrick Stewart
Votes: 1,066
29. The Ascent of Man (1973)
50 min | Documentary, History
An account of man's development through his scientific and technological achievements.
Stars: Jacob Bronowski, Joss Ackland, Roy Dotrice, Stefan Bor-Grajewicz
Votes: 898
30. Kino Wien Film (2018)
97 min | Documentary
Vienna's Cinemas is a journey through Vienna's movie theaters from 1896 to today. Told through the stories of movie theater owners, projectionists and technicians, audience members, an ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Rosdy | Stars: Wolfram Berger, Kirk Douglas, Christian Dörfler, Herbert Dörfler
Votes: 19
31. Samadhi (2017)
PG | 60 min | Documentary
Samadhi Part 1 is the first installment in a series of films exploring Samadhi, an ancient Sanskrit word which points toward the mystical or transcendent union that is at the root of all spirituality and self inquiry.
Director: Daniel Schmidt
Votes: 755
32. Magical Egypt (2001– )
Not Rated | 48 min | Documentary
Growing evidence is suggesting a missing chapter in human history. West explores evidence of a sophisticated science behind the unexplainable accomplishments of Ancient Egypt, the inheritor of knowledge from an even earlier civilization?
Stars: Derek Partridge, John Anthony West, Chance Gardner, Lon Milo DuQuette
Votes: 196
33. Un pays qui se tient sage (2020)
86 min | Documentary
A group of citizens question and confront their views on the social order, and the legitimacy of the use of violent police force.
Director: David Dufresne | Stars: Arié Alimi, Myriam Ayad, Ludivine Bantigny, Benoît Barret
Votes: 805
34. The Fourth Dimension (2001)
87 min | Documentary
This is an elegant meditation on time, travel, and ceremony in the form of a journey. In her first foray into digital video, Trinh T. Minh-ha deconstructs the role of ritual in mediating between the past and the present.
Director: Trinh T. Minh-ha | Star: Trinh T. Minh-ha
Votes: 85
35. Profit & Nothing But! Or Impolite Thoughts on the Class Struggle (2001)
52 min | Documentary
Documentary about the effects of market economy and globalization on director Raoul Peck's homeland, Haiti.
Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: Serge Latouche, Bernard Maris, Gérald Mathurin, René Passet
Votes: 78
36. Revolution (1968)
Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary, History, Music
A documentary that explores the counterculture of San Francisco in the mid-1960's. In HD.
Director: Jack O'Connell | Stars: Today Malone, Herb Caen, R.G. Davis, Louis Gottlieb
Votes: 222
37. The Architecture of Doom (1989)
Not Rated | 119 min | Documentary, History
An absorbing and chilling documentary about the National Socialist aesthetic, and how attempts to create the Aryan Ideal caused the extermination of millions. Aspects covered include: ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Cohen | Stars: Rolf Arsenius, Bruno Ganz, Sam Gray, Martin Bormann
Votes: 1,137
38. Katka (2010)
90 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Helena Trestikova is the author of 10 episodes from the series Women on the Brink of the New Millennium, intimate portraits of both successful women and women on the social periphery. The ... See full summary »
Director: Helena Trestíková
Votes: 330
39. Please Vote for Me (2007)
Not Rated | 58 min | Documentary
Democracy in China exists, that is, in a primary school in Wuhan where a grade 3 class can vote who they want as class monitor.
Director: Weijun Chen | Stars: Cheng Cheng, Luo Lei, Xu Xiaofei
Votes: 1,447
40. Videograms of a Revolution (1992)
106 min | Documentary, History, War
This documentary uses news footage and amateur video to paint a vivid picture of Romania's 1989 revolution and the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
Directors: Harun Farocki, Andrei Ujica | Stars: Ion Caramitru, Elena Ceausescu, Nicolae Ceausescu, Mircea Dinescu
Votes: 655
41. 21 X New York (2016)
70 min | Documentary
"21 x New York" is an intimate portrait of the city and its people. We meet the characters in the NYC subway and we follow them to the surface finding out about their lives, cravings, ... See full summary »
Director: Piotr Stasik
Votes: 185
42. JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America (2009 TV Movie)
240 min | Documentary, History
On November 22, 1963, three shots that killed President John Fitzgerald Kennedy changes everything
Directors: Nicole Rittenmeyer, Seth Skundrick | Stars: John F. Kennedy, Jose Aleman, Joseph Alsop, James Barger
Votes: 246
43. The Soul of the Bone (2004)
74 min | Documentary
Documentary about Domingos Albino Ferreira, aka Dominguinhos da Pedra, a man who's been living alone for 41 years in caves in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Director: Cao Guimarães | Star: Domingos Albino Ferreira
Votes: 89
44. Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse (2021)
217 min | Documentary
How does one feel at home? In Stadtallendorf, a German city with a complex history of both excluding and integrating foreigners, genial teacher Dieter Bachmann offers his pupils the key to at least feeling as if they are at home.
Director: Maria Speth | Stars: Dieter Bachmann, Aynur Bal, Önder Cavdar
Votes: 933
45. Episode 3: 'Enjoy Poverty' (2009)
90 min | Documentary
Dutch artist Renzo Martens spent three years traveling throughout the Democratic Republic of the Congo asking the question: "Who owns poverty?"
Director: Renzo Martens
Votes: 357
46. Kyoto (1969)
30 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary on the city of Kyoto, Japan. Topics include the Ryoanji Temple stone garden, a geisha residence, the Katsura Imperial Villa, and the Gion Festival.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Hiroshi Akutagawa, Michael Redgrave, Giancarlo Sbragia
Votes: 25
47. My Kid Could Paint That (2007)
PG-13 | 82 min | Documentary, Family, Mystery
A look at the work and surprising success of a four-year-old girl whose paintings have been compared to the likes of Picasso and has raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Director: Amir Bar-Lev | Stars: Marla Olmstead, Laura Olmstead, Mark Olmstead, Amir Bar-Lev
Votes: 3,502 | Gross: $0.23M
48. Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1989)
75 min | Documentary, War
Documentary examines the 'blind spot' of the evaluators of aerial footage of the IG Farben industrial plant taken by the Americans in 1944.
Director: Harun Farocki | Stars: Ulrike Grote, Harun Farocki
Votes: 322
49. Mother Dao, the Turtlelike (1995)
90 min | Documentary
In a span of ninety minutes the film aims to show how the Netherlands administered its colony as a colonial enterprise and what the relations were like at the time. The usual commentary has... See full summary »
Director: Vincent Monnikendam
Votes: 178
50. On the Bowery (1956)
Not Rated | 65 min | Documentary, Drama
By focusing on the lives of three down-and-out alcoholic transients, the film creates a wrenching portrait of the tragic hopelessness of life on "The Bowery" in New York City.
Director: Lionel Rogosin | Stars: Ray Salyer, Gorman Hendricks, Frank Matthews, George L. Bolton
Votes: 1,161 | Gross: $0.01M
51. Rat Film (2016)
82 min | Documentary
Across walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. This documentary uses the rat to explore the history of Baltimore.
Director: Theo Anthony | Stars: Theo Anthony, Dan Deacon, Matt Fouse, Will Kearney III
Votes: 986 | Gross: $0.04M
52. Pain Is... (1998)
80 min | Documentary
Combines interviews, archival footage and Dwoskin's thoughtful remarks to arrive at a scrupulous anatomy of pain (disease, dental work and sadomasochism). Chats with chronic pain patients or those who are exacting it as an act of pleasure.
Director: Stephen Dwoskin | Stars: Stephen Dwoskin, Astley Harvey
Votes: 40
53. Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (1988– )
360 min | Documentary
Mythologist Joseph Campbell presents his ideas about comparative mythology and the ongoing role of myth in human society.
Stars: Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers, George Lucas
Votes: 1,167
54. Document Rojo (1964)
54 min | Documentary
The film focuses on the taxi drivers of Tokyo in the year before the Tokyo Olympics and the difficulties they face: construction obstructing traffic, poor working conditions, numerous accidents, and bad pay.
Director: Noriaki Tsuchimoto | Star: Kimio Kawasaki
Votes: 68
55. The Second Journey (To Uluru) (1981)
74 min | Documentary
Filmed years after "At Urulu" in very different conditions, showcases the burnt landscape around a monolith in a land inhabited for millennia.
Directors: Arthur Cantrill, Corinne Cantrill
Votes: 25
56. Ascension (III) (2021)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary
The absorbingly cinematic Ascension explores the pursuit of the "Chinese Dream." This observational documentary presents a contemporary vision of China that prioritizes productivity and innovation above all.
Director: Jessica Kingdon
Votes: 4,099
57. Just a Beginning (2010)
97 min | Documentary
"Just A Beginning" follows a nursery school class for a period of two years. But this is a very unusual class as the children, aged three to five study... philosophy!
Directors: Pierre Barougier, Jean-Pierre Pozzi
Votes: 154
58. Connections (1978)
50 min | Documentary, History
Follow James Burke through the history of science and technology in this collection of 10 1-hour episodes, starting with "The Trigger Effect."
Stars: James Burke, Kenneth Kendall, Bruce Boa, Mark Wing-Davey
Votes: 1,434
59. Far from Vietnam (1967)
Not Rated | 120 min | Documentary, Drama, War
In seven different segments, Godard, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy and support for the North Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War.
Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda | Stars: Anne Bellec, Karen Blanguernon, Fidel Castro, Bernard Fresson
Votes: 884
60. Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion (2002)
Unrated | 104 min | Documentary, History
A film about the state of Chinese occupied Tibet and its history of oppression and resistance.
Director: Tom Piozet | Stars: Edward Edwards, Ed Harris, Shirley Knight, Tim Robbins
Votes: 688 | Gross: $0.58M
61. Imitations of Life (2003)
75 min | Documentary, Drama
Director: Mike Hoolboom | Stars: Liza Agrba, Bill Evans, Janieta Eyre, Jack Daniels Fuller
Votes: 68
62. Il ne suffit pas que Dieu soit avec les pauvres (1978)
70 min | Documentary
The Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy talks about his life and work. Footage of Cairo, Gharb Assouan, New Gourna, Kom-Ombo.
Directors: Borhane Alaouié, Lotfi Thabet | Star: Hassan Fathy
Votes: 21
63. Makino monogatari: Yôsan-hen - Eiga no tame no eiga (1977)
112 min | Documentary
The film opens with an old woman recounting a folk tale concerning silkworms (she calls them "honorable worms"), in which the Magino silkworms are seen as the reincarnation of a vanished ... See full summary »
Director: Shinsuke Ogawa | Stars: Hatsu Kimura, Sadatoshi Mikado, Yoko Shiraishi
Votes: 7
64. The Violence of a Civilization without Secrets (2018)
10 min | Documentary, Short
The 1996 discovery of the Kennewick Man is examined in a deconstruction of indigenous identity and anthropological ethics.
Directors: Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, Jackson Polys
Votes: 92
65. Dying at Grace (2003)
148 min | Documentary
Director Allan King documents the final months of five terminally ill cancer patients at the Toronto Grace Health Centre.
Director: Allan King | Stars: Phyllis Bobbitt, Joyce Bone, Norman Collins, Lloyd Greenway
Votes: 434
66. Tableau noir (2013)
117 min | Documentary, Drama
Tableau noir chronicles life at a one-room school in the Swiss mountains during an academic year, giving an endearing portrait of the twelve pupils aged six to twelve who share the same ... See full summary »
Director: Yves Yersin | Stars: Gilbert Hirschi, Debora Ferrari, Sophie Jacot, Dylan Jacot
Votes: 67
67. Black Sun (2005)
Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary
Gary Tarn's remarkable, award-winning documentary, BLACK SUN, investigates this through the story of Hugues de Montalembert, a New York-based artist and filmmaker who was blinded by a vicious attack in 1978.
Director: Gary Tarn | Star: Hugues de Montalembert
Votes: 415
68. Pestilent City (1965)
16 min | Documentary, Short
Anticipating Taxi Driver a decade later, this short captures the sleaziness of the Times Square/42nd Street area with its riffraff,lurching drunks, and movie theatre marquees.
Director: Peter Emmanuel Goldman
Votes: 53
69. Le message des Tibétains (1966)
Documentary
Director: Arnaud Desjardins | Stars: His Holiness the 41st Sakya Trizen, The Dalai Lama, Arnaud Desjardins, Dilgo Khyentse
Votes: 8
70. Cosmos: Possible Worlds (2020)
TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, Animation, Family
"Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" returns for a second season. Ann Druyan, original creative collaborator to Carl Sagan, serves as executive producer.
Stars: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Seth MacFarlane, Sasha Sagan, Trang Vo
Votes: 7,792
71. Gubben i stugan (1995 TV Movie)
89 min | Documentary
A documentary about Ragnar in Kestina and his everyday life as a retired forest worker in the Finnish forests of Dalarna. We get to follow Ragnar all year round and take part in a lifestyle that was common not so long ago.
Director: Nina Hedenius
Votes: 282
72. Becoming Nobody (2019)
PG | 81 min | Documentary
Director's interviews, accompanied by archival footage and original music, Ram Dass explores our universal human condition and behaviors in connection to the journey of the soul and the shared unity of all of our lives.
Director: Jamie Catto | Stars: Jamie Catto, Ram Dass
Votes: 427
73. Mediterranean (1963)
44 min | Documentary, Short
A short film documenting the seas and shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
Director: Jean-Daniel Pollet
Votes: 885
74. Shiny_Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord (2021)
TV-MA | 96 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Max S. reveals how he built a drug empire from his childhood bedroom in this story that inspired the series "How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)."
Directors: Eva Müller, Michael Schmitt | Star: Maximilian Schmidt
Votes: 5,877
75. The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Way of Life (1994)
Not Rated | 46 min | Documentary
Death is real, it comes without warning and it cannot be escaped. An ancient source of strength and guidance, The Tibetan Book of the Dead remains an essential teaching originating in the ... See full summary »
Directors: Yukari Hayashi, Barrie McLean | Stars: Leonard Cohen, The Dalai Lama, Ram Dass, Nagap
Votes: 276
76. The Sky on Location (1983)
78 min | Documentary
The director/cinematographer explores the idea of wilderness based on the geography of the French landscapes she grew up in, and the colors of the seasons.
Director: Babette Mangolte | Stars: Bruce Boston, Honora Ferguson, Babette Mangolte
Votes: 32
77.
Vsauce (2010– )
Episode:
Illusions of Time
(2021)
TV-PG | Documentary, Talk-Show
Vsauce examines illusions of time.
Votes: 16
78. Wholly Communion (1966)
33 min | Documentary, Short
A short film documenting what was referred to as "The International Poetry Incarnation". It was billed as Great Britain's first full-scale "happening", with the world's leading Beat poets ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Whitehead | Stars: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael Horovitz, Gregory Corso, Harry Fainlight
Votes: 108
79. Whores' Glory (2011)
Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary
An examination of the lives, needs, troubles, and hopes of prostitutes in Thailand, Bangladesh, and Mexico.
Director: Michael Glawogger | Stars: Emma, Ning, Toh, Wat
Votes: 5,118 | Gross: $0.03M
80. The Doors Are Open (1968 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 56 min | Documentary, Music
A British TV documentary that originally aired in 1968. The Doors are Open focuses on the bands performance at London's Roundhouse with rare backstage footage and interviews.
Director: John Sheppard | Stars: Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, The Doors, John Densmore
Votes: 228
81.
Vsauce (2010– )
Episode:
Do Chairs Exist?
(2021)
TV-PG | Documentary, Talk-Show
Vsauce examines if chairs exist.
Votes: 10
82. Señales de ruta (2000)
30 min | Documentary, Short
Chilean filmmaker Tevo Diaz (Chile) and Beccaria Cinema (USA) team up to Senales de Ruta. Shot on 16mm, the piece examines the mind and work of artist Juan Luis Martinez. Martinez's ... See full summary »
Director: Tevo Díaz | Stars: Andrés García, Camila Díaz, Sebastian Patillo, Ada
Votes: 55
83. Das Kino und der Tod (1991)
46 min | Documentary
"Why does cinema need death, when it can't show it?" The filmmaker's monologue and the discourse of images meet.
Director: Hartmut Bitomsky
Votes: 29
84. Fantastic Fungi (2019)
Not Rated | 81 min | Documentary
Fantastic Fungi is a descriptive time-lapse journey about the magical, mysterious and medicinal world of fungi and their power to heal, sustain and contribute to the regeneration of life on Earth that began 3.5 billion years ago.
Director: Louie Schwartzberg | Stars: Brie Larson, Andrew Weil, Giuliana Furci, Paul Stamets
Votes: 11,538
86. Koko: A Talking Gorilla (1978)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary
A documentary that follows Dr. Penny Patterson's current scientific study of Koko, a gorilla who communicates through American Sign Language.
Director: Barbet Schroeder | Stars: Koko, Penny Patterson, Saul Kitchener, Carl Pribram
Votes: 944
87. Dead to the World (1998 Video)
R | 60 min | Documentary, Horror, Music
Shock rocker Marilyn Manson takes a camera crew along with him on his worldwide tour that caused controversy at every place the band played. This rockumentary is much like the documentary ... See full summary »
Directors: Sean Beavan, Joseph F. Cultice | Stars: Marilyn Manson, Jeordie White, Ginger Fish, Zim Zum
Votes: 363
88. Hello Cinema (1995)
75 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors.
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Shaghayeh Djodat, Behzad Dorani, Feizola Gashghai, Maryam Keyhan
Votes: 2,184
89. Boatman (1993)
55 min | Documentary
Boatman is Gianfranco Rosi's account of a boattrip along the Ganges river, together with his helmsman Gopal. They pass tourists and Indians who are bathing, working or meditating. In a ... See full summary »
Director: Gianfranco Rosi
Votes: 219
90. Mou hitotsu no kyouiku - Ina shogakkou haru gumi no kiroku (1991)
47 min | Documentary, Drama
An elementary school in Japan begins an experimental program that frames the students' curriculum around one single project: the raising of a calf from adolescence to adulthood. Through ... See full summary »
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu
Votes: 136
91. The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971)
G | 90 min | Documentary, Drama
A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.
Directors: Walon Green, Ed Spiegel | Stars: Lawrence Pressman, Conlan Carter, Ian McShane, Suzanne Pleshette
Votes: 962 | Gross: $0.04M
92. ChickenHawk (1994)
55 min | Documentary, Crime
Members of the controversial group NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Association) discuss why their organization supports "boys and men who have or desire engagements in sexual or emotional relationships."
Director: Adi Sideman | Stars: Barbara Adler, Mimi Turner, Bill Andriette, Bill Bickly
Votes: 387
93. The Cambodian Room: Situations with Antoine D'Agata (2009)
56 min | Documentary, Biography
Antoine D'Agata, a Magnum photographer, is in Phom Penh (Cambodia) where his artistic trail seems to reach an utmost point. After devoting his art to picture desolated landscapes and ... See full summary »
Directors: Tommaso Lusena, Giuseppe Schillaci | Star: Antoine d'Agata
Votes: 35
94. In the Land of the Deaf (1992)
Unrated | 99 min | Documentary
With unerring curiousity and sensitivity, director Philbert portrays the difficulties and joys of being deaf, offering vivid portraits of people of all ages coping with and surmounting their challenges.
Director: Nicolas Philibert | Stars: Jean-Claude Poulain, Abou Bakar, Anh Tuan, Betty
Votes: 372
95. Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
Not Rated | 107 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Documentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes.
Director: Andrew Jarecki | Stars: Arnold Friedman, Jesse Friedman, David Friedman, Elaine Friedman
Votes: 27,104 | Gross: $3.12M
96. Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary (1997)
PG | 98 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Twenty-four contestants compete in an endurance/sleep deprivation contest in order to win a brand new Nissan Hardbody truck. The last person to remain standing with his or her hand on the ... See full summary »
Director: S.R. Bindler | Stars: Sid Allen, Brent Baskin, Greg Cox, J.C. Crum
Votes: 2,478 | Gross: $0.49M
97. Comment Yukong déplaça les montagnes (1976)
763 min | Documentary
From 1972 until 1974, Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan, along with a Chinese film crew, documented the last days of the Cultural Revolution, marking the end of an era. The vast amount of ... See full summary »
Directors: Joris Ivens, Marceline Loridan Ivens, Jean Bigiaoui
Votes: 117
98. Somniloquies (2017)
73 min | Documentary
Almost hallucinatory images of unidentified sleeping figures float across the screen to the accompaniment of increasingly unnerving monologues, the "dream narratives" of Dion McGregor, an ... See full summary »
Directors: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel
Votes: 71
99. Goodbye CP (1972)
Not Rated | 82 min | Documentary
An intimate documentary about a group of people with cerebral palsy in Japan that confronts our preconceptions and prejudices about who they are, what they feel, and how they view their lives.
Director: Kazuo Hara | Stars: Kazuo Hara, Sachiko Kobayashi, Hiroshi Yokota, Kôichi Yokozuka
Votes: 228
100. Dreaming Film (2010)
180 min | Documentary
Belgian filmmaker Eric Pauwles' meditation on dream, travel and film.
Director: Eric Pauwels
Votes: 46
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