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1. The Rescue (2021)
PG | 107 min | Documentary, Action, Mystery
A chronicle of the enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand.
Directors: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | Stars: Bancha Duriyapunt, Apakorn Youkongkaew, Anan Surawan, Woranan Ratrawiphukkun
Votes: 20,627 | Gross: $1.06M
2. Fashion Reimagined (2022)
100 min | Documentary
Follows Amy Powney, a daughter of environmental activists, during her trajectory from outsider to industry leader as she sets out to create a fashion collection that's ethical and sustainable at every level.
Director: Becky Hutner | Stars: Chloe Marks, Amy Powney
Votes: 133
3. I'm Glad I Did (2020 TV Special)
114 min | Documentary
Bringing Metin Akpinar's extraordinary career of nearly sixty years to the screen, "I'm Glad I Did" is a unique production that focuses on the artist's entire life as well as his career.
Director: Selçuk Metin | Stars: Metin Akpinar, Demet Akbag, Ahmet Gülhan, Dikmen Gürün
Votes: 1,638
4. Ennio (2021)
156 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary on the legendary film composer Ennio Morricone.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Quentin Tarantino, Hans Zimmer, Oliver Stone
Votes: 5,537
5. 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: 938
6. The Straight Story (1999)
G | 112 min | Biography, Drama
An old man makes a long journey by lawnmower to mend his relationship with an ill brother.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz, Joseph A. Carpenter
Votes: 97,511 | Gross: $6.20M
7. Finding Jack Charlton (2020)
97 min | Documentary, Sport
Finding Jack Charlton is the definitive portrait of an extraordinary man; an English World Cup winning legend, who became an Irish hero.
Directors: Gabriel Clarke, Pete Thomas | Stars: Jack Charlton, Des Casey, Paul McGrath, Roddy Doyle
Votes: 954
8. Crazywise (2016)
Not Rated | 82 min | Documentary
What can we learn from those who have turned their psychological crisis into a positive transformative experience? During a quarter-century documenting indigenous cultures, human-rights ... See full summary »
Directors: Phil Borges, Kevin Tomlinson | Stars: Angeles Arrien, Phil Borges, Laura Delano, Carroll Dunham
Votes: 149
9. Flee (2021)
PG-13 | 89 min | Documentary, Animation, Biography
FLEE tells the extraordinary true story of a man, Amin, on the verge of marriage which compels him to reveal his hidden past for the first time.
Director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen | Stars: Daniel Karimyar, Fardin Mijdzadeh, Milad Eskandari, Belal Faiz
Votes: 19,518
10. The Self Portrait (2020)
80 min | Documentary
The Self Portrait is a film about choice - choosing life. This is a choice no one can make for you, you will have to make it yourself. The Norwegian artist Lene Marie Fossen (32) is an up ... See full summary »
Directors: Katja Høgset, Margreth Olin, Espen Wallin | Stars: Lene Marie Fossen, Torill Fossen, Geir Fossen, Morten Krogvold
Votes: 358
11. This Much I Know to Be True (2022)
105 min | Documentary, Music
Explores the creative relationship and songs from Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' last two studio albums, "Ghosteen" and "Carnage".
Director: Andrew Dominik | Stars: Earl Cave, Nick Cave, Andrew Dominik, Warren Ellis
Votes: 1,791
12. Big Boys Gone Bananas!* (2011)
90 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Dole Food Company wages a campaign to prevent a pair of Swedish film-makers from showing their documentary about a lawsuit against the company.
Director: Fredrik Gertten | Stars: Fredrik Gertten, Alex Rivera, Alfonso Allende, Arvid Jurjaks
Votes: 1,061
13. Stories We Tell (2012)
PG-13 | 108 min | Documentary
A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.
Director: Sarah Polley | Stars: Michael Polley, John Buchan, Mark Polley, Joanna Polley
Votes: 14,120 | Gross: $1.60M
14. Radiograph of a Family (2020)
82 min | Documentary, Biography, History
"Mother married a photo of Father," says director Firouzeh Khosrovani in the opening of this deeply personal documentary. She's not speaking metaphorically though. Her mother Tayi literally... See full summary »
Director: Firouzeh Khosrovani | Stars: Farahnaz Sharifi, Hossein Khosrovani, Tayi, Firouzeh Khosrovani
Votes: 292
15. Housewitz (2021)
71 min | Documentary
Follows a Holocaust survivor who has not left her house for decades. She has a recurring nightmare in which she doesn't know how to get home, just like the day when she was deported as a Jewish girl.
Director: Oeke Hoogendijk
Votes: 70
16. Blind Ambition (2021)
96 min | Documentary
Four Zimbabwean men form their country's first Wine Tasting Olympics team.
Directors: Robert Coe, Warwick Ross
Votes: 301
17. My Imaginary Country (2022)
83 min | Documentary
Protests that exploded onto the streets of Chile's capital of Santiago in 2019 as the population demanded more democracy and social equality around education, healthcare and job opportunities.
Director: Patricio Guzmán
Votes: 539
18. Ania (2022)
87 min | Documentary, Biography
A tale about the life of a popular actress, Anna Przybylska.
Directors: Michal Bandurski, Krystian Kuczkowski | Stars: Jaroslaw Bieniuk, Oliwia Bieniuk, Szymon Bobrowski, Katarzyna Bujakiewicz
Votes: 274
19. No Hay Camino - There Is No Path (2021)
93 min | Documentary
No Hay Camino follows legendary director Heddy Honigmann on a real and spiritual journey. Today, facing a terminal illness, she will travel to her country of birth, Peru and through Europe ... See full summary »
Director: Heddy Honigmann | Stars: Heddy Honigmann, Henk van de Staak, Stefan van de Staak
Votes: 27
20. Cow (I) (2021)
94 min | Documentary
A close-up portrait of the daily lives of two cows.
Director: Andrea Arnold | Star: Lin Gallagher
Votes: 2,312
22. Unveiled: Surviving La Luz Del Mundo (2022)
TV-MA | 200 min | Documentary, Crime
The light of the world, described as a hermetic and non-traditional Christian and as several members recount the sexual abuse they suffered as minors at the hands of their successive leaders.
Stars: Rhonda Schwartz, Sochil Martin
Votes: 357
23. Silence of the Tides (2020)
102 min | Documentary
SILENCE OF THE TIDES is a cinematic portrait for international cinema about the Unesco World Heritage Site, the Wadden Sea, one of the largest wetlands, tidal and coastal systems in the world.
Director: Pieter-Rim de Kroon | Stars: Birgit Wildeman, Johann Petersen, Jan van Rees, Freek Töpfer
Votes: 295
24. Murder on a Sunday Morning (2001)
Not Rated | 111 min | Documentary, Crime
Oscar-winning documentary that documents a murder trial in which a 15-year-old African-American is wrongfully accused of a 2000 murder in Jacksonville, Florida.
Director: Jean-Xavier de Lestrade | Stars: Ann Finnell, Patrick McGuinness, James Williams, Michael Glover
Votes: 4,518
25. The Elephant Whisperers (2022)
PG | 41 min | Documentary, Short
Bomman and Bellie, a couple in South India, devote their lives to caring for an orphaned baby elephant named Raghu, forging a family like no other that tests the barrier between the human and the animal world.
Director: Kartiki Gonsalves | Stars: Bellie, Bomman
Votes: 9,809
26. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)
Unrated | 113 min | Documentary
Follows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.
Director: Laura Poitras | Stars: Nan Goldin, David Velasco, Megan Kapler, Marina Berio
Votes: 7,808
27. Navalny (2022)
R | 99 min | Documentary, Biography
Follows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During his months-long recovery he makes shocking discoveries about the attempt on his life and decides to return home.
Director: Daniel Roher | Stars: Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, Christo Grozev, Dasha Navalnaya
Votes: 29,921
28. All That Breathes (2022)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary
Amidst the darkening backdrop of Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the Black Kite.
Director: Shaunak Sen | Stars: Salik Rehman, Mohammad Saud, Nadeem Shehzad
Votes: 4,802
29. Mind Over Murder (2022)
TV-MA | 331 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Chronicles the bizarre and psychologically complex story of six individuals who were convicted for the 1985 murder of a beloved 68- year-old grandmother, Helen Wilson, in Beatrice, Nebraska.
Stars: Noah Archibald, Tim Shelburne, Cara D'Adamo, Scott Watson
Votes: 1,635
30. Paradise (III) (2022)
88 min | Documentary
The heart of a raging forest fire in northeastern Siberia, brought on by climate change. Left to their own fate, the villagers join forces.
Director: Alexander Abaturov | Stars: Anton Zakharov, Nelli Alekseeva, Vasili Everstov, Viktor Timofeev
Votes: 86
31. Torn (II) (2021)
92 min | Documentary
Alex Lowe's ill-fated climb and his son's arduous journey to return to the spot where his father perished.
Director: Max Lowe | Stars: Conrad Anker, Jennifer Lowe-Anker, Alex Lowe, Sam Lowe
Votes: 1,852
32. Much Ado About Dying (2022)
84 min | Documentary
Looking after his madcap gay actor uncle, filmmaker Simon is engulfed in a whirl of Shakespeare and clutter, as uncle David lends his credit card to neighbors, greets visitors in the nude and teaches Simon a profound lesson on dying happy.
Director: Simon Chambers
Votes: 50
33. Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song (2021)
PG-13 | 118 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
This documentary explores the life of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, "Hallelujah".
Directors: Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine | Stars: Leonard Cohen, Nancy Bacal, Steve Berkowitz, Jeff Buckley
Votes: 1,297 | Gross: $1.06M
34. Wildcat (2022)
R | 106 min | Documentary
Back from war in Afghanistan, a young British soldier struggling with depression and PTSD finds a second chance in the Amazon rainforest when he meets an American scientist, and together they foster an orphaned baby ocelot.
Directors: Trevor Frost, Melissa Lesh | Stars: Dante Cueva Altamirano, Cristian De La Cruz, Erick Scott Vargas Laura, Niery Tafur Olortegui
Votes: 3,251
35. Sr. (2022)
R | 89 min | Documentary, Biography
Follow the tender but appropriately irreverent account of the life and career of Robert Downey Sr., the fearless and visionary American director who set the standard for countercultural comedy in the 1960s and 1970s.
Director: Chris Smith | Stars: Robert Downey Sr., Zaina Ali, Paul Thomas Anderson, Alan Arkin
Votes: 3,537
36. Tukdam: Between Worlds (2022)
91 min | Documentary
First document about a tibetan meditation that preserves the body from days to weeks after traditionally considered death.
Director: Donagh Coleman | Stars: The Dalai Lama, Richard Davidson, Dylan Lott, David M. Perlman
Votes: 75
37. Nothing Compares (2022)
97 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Following the career of singer Sinéad O'Connor through her rise to fame and how her iconoclastic personality led to her exile from the pop mainstream.
Director: Kathryn Ferguson | Stars: Sinéad O'Connor, Gay Byrne, John O'Connor, Bob Dylan
Votes: 3,086
38. Stevie (2002)
R | 140 min | Documentary
In 1995, director Steve James (of 'Hoop Dreams') returned to rural Southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie Fielding, a troubled young boy to whom he had been an "Advocate Big Brother" ten years earlier.
Director: Steve James | Stars: Steve James, Stephen Fielding, Tonya Gregory, Bernice Hagler
Votes: 2,742 | Gross: $0.10M
39. Planet Soil (2023)
80 min | Documentary
The creators of The New Wilderness and Wild Amsterdam go underground. The film Below The Ground makes the unseen seen.
Director: Mark Verkerk | Star: Marc van Will
Votes: 59
40. Close to Vermeer (2023)
79 min | Documentary
Much has been written, but little is known about Johannes Vermeer, painter of iconic paintings and crowd pleasers such as The Milkmaid and Girl with a Pearl Earring. His small oeuvre is ... See full summary »
Director: Suzanne Raes | Stars: Abbie Vandivere, Pieter Roelofs, Gregor J.M. Weber, Betsy Wieseman
Votes: 434
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