DOCUMENTARY Movies and Tvshows - Page 238

New York Doll (2005)

IMDb: 7.7
2005

A recovering alcoholic and recently converted Mormon, Arthur Killer Kane, of the rock band The New York Dolls, is given a chance at reuniting with his band after 30 years

The Man Who Stopped the Desert (2010)

IMDb: 8.3
2010

Yacouba Sawadogo, an illiterate farmer from Burkina Faso has transformed the lives of thousands of people across West Africa Over cinematic reconstruction Sawadogo tells his incredible story of his battle with nature and man

Secrets of The Masons (2018)

IMDb: 6.8
2018

History of the Masons starting with Stone Masons and secrets of Construction, to becoming like the Boy Scouts for Men of making Men better Men

One Way Boogie Woogie 2012 (2012)

IMDb: 7.0
2012

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Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Gu

IMDb: 7.7
2018

Pamela B Greens energetic film about pioneer filmmaker Alice Guy Blache is both a tribute and a detective story, tracing the circumstances by which this extraordinary artist faded from memory and the path toward her reclamation

Deseret (1995)

IMDb: 5.8
1995

Landscape shots of Utah with narration chronicling its history by way of The New York Times excerpts from the 1850s to the 1990s

A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974)

IMDb: 7.1
1974

Les Blanks first feature length documentary captures music and other events at Leon Russells Oklahoma recording studio during a three year period 1972 1974

American Hardcore (2006)

IMDb: 7.3
2006

The History of American Punk Rock 1980 1986

Church & State (2018)

IMDb: 6.1
2018

A surprise federal court ruling in 2013 legalized gay marriage for Utah triggering a fierce battle in a state where Mormon church values control the Legislature and every aspect of public life

Google and the World Brain (2013)

IMDb: 6.7
2013

The most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet Googles master plan to scan every book in the world and the people trying to stop them Google say they are building a library for mankind, but they also have other intentio

Billy Connolly: Live in London 2010 (201

IMDb: 7.4
2010

Billy Connolly, the King of Comedy, returns in his first brand new stand up for three years

Elián (2017)

IMDb: 6.9
2017

ELIAN is the remarkable story about Elian Gonzalez, a five year old Cuban boy plucked from the Florida coast in 1999, and how the fight over his future sparked a flashpoint for simmering US and Cuban tensions

Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Sho

IMDb: 6.7
2014

A documentary that explores the world of U S television showrunners and the creative forces aligned around them

Tennessee Whiskey: The Dean Dillon Story

IMDb: 8.0
2017

Dean Dillon has written hit songs for George Strait, George Jones, Kenny Chesney, Brooks and Dunn, Toby Keith, LeeAnn Womack, and many more for over 4 decades

John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls (20

IMDb: 7.3
2018

In depth look at the life of John McCain, from his time as a POW in Vietnam to his three decades of service in the US Senate

A Walnut Tree (2015)

IMDb: 7.4
2015

An old man reminisces about a distant homeland He wants to return

Beast of Whitehall (2016)

IMDb: 5.8
2016

August, 1976 Three boys driving an isolated stretch of road encounter a Bigfoot with glowing, red eyes They report it to local police who go on to have a sighting of their own This is the incredible, true story of the Abair Incide

Bill Hicks: Reflections (2015)

IMDb: 6.8
2015

Stand up comedy legend namenm0382805 legend is recalled by his brother, Steve, in this documentary Steve tells the story of the familys religious family roots, in a film that examines

Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution (201

IMDb: 6.6
2017

A documentary on Queercore, the cultural and social movement that began as an offshoot of punk and was distinguished by its discontent with societys disapproval of the gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgender communities

The Heart of Man (2017)

IMDb: 8.1
2017

The Heart of Man is a timeless tale of a fathers relentless pursuit of his son interwoven with interviews of top thought leaders on brokenness, identity, and shame

UFO: The Greatest Story Ever Denied II

IMDb: 6.5
2009

Did we land on the Moon The answer is without a doubt, yes This film is about what was waiting for us when we got there and the lies put into motion in order to conceal what was found

Karl Marx City (2016)

IMDb: 6.4
2016

A filmmaker journey through the former East Germany looking into her fathers 1999 suicide

Kemper on Kemper: Inside the Mind of a S

IMDb: 6.9
2018

Ed Kemper, also known as the Co Ed Killer, murdered and dismembered 10 people, including his own mother Former FBI agent John Douglas takes us through his extensive interviews with Kemper,

Rat Film (2016)

IMDb: 6.7
2016

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

Death Zone: Cleaning Mount Everest (2012

IMDb: 7.4
2018

The dramatic self documented story of 20 elite Nepali climbers who venture into the Death Zone of Mount Everest to restore their sacred mountain and the contaminated water source of 1 3 billion people

The Gilligan Manifesto (2018)

IMDb: 4.4
2018

At the height of the Cold War, Gilligans Island 1964 depicted seven Americans living in an analogue of a post apocalyptic world where the survivors have to rebuild civilization Remarkably, the society they create is pure communis

As I Walk Through the Valley (2017)

IMDb: 6.2
2017

As I Walk Through The Valley explores 40 years of underground music from the Rio Grande Valley from early garage rock and Chicano funk, through the ChicanoTejano era and up to the metal and pop punk of the 2000s

Bobby Sands: 66 Days (2016)

IMDb: 7.2
2016

In the spring of 1981 Irish Republican Bobby Sands 66 day hunger strike brought the attention of the world to his cause Drawing on an Irish Republican tradition of martyrdom, Sands emotive, non violent protest to be classified as

Ethos (2011)

IMDb: 7.5
2011

Hosted by twice Oscar nominated actor Woody Harrelson, Ethos explores the mechanisms in our systems that work against democracy, the environment and our own personal liberty

JFK: A President Betrayed (2013)

IMDb: 7.4
2013

Narrated by Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman, JFK A President Betrayed uncovers new evidence that reveals how JFK embarked on secret back channel peace efforts with Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro and was determined to get o

Maineland (2017)

IMDb: 6.0
2017

Stella and Harry are affluent, cosmopolitan teenagers who are part of the enormous wave of parachute students from Mainland China enrolling in U S private schools Shot over three years in China and the U S , MAINELAND tells a mul

The Battered Bastards of Baseball (2014)

IMDb: 8.0
2014

In 1973, Hollywood actor Bing Russell starts an independent minor league baseball team in Portland consisting of outcasts and misfits, and turns them into unlikely overnight success

Why We Fight (2005)

IMDb: 8.0
2005

Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy Has the military become too important in American life Jareckis shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questi

Pop! The Science of Bubbles (2013)

IMDb: 7.4
2013

Physicist Dr Helen Czerski takes us on a journey into the science of bubbles not just fun toys, but also powerful tools that push back the boundaries of science

Diego Maradona (2019)

IMDb: 7.7
2019

Constructed from over 500 hours of never before seen footage, this documentary centers on the career of celebrated football player Diego Maradona, who played for S S C Napoli in the 1980s

Barge (2015)

IMDb: 6.8
2015

Dry lands misfits find purpose and direction twenty eight days at a time as the steady hands of a towboat due for the port of New Orleans From a green deckhand following his father and grandmother into the family business, to a for