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1. The Fog of War (2003)
PG-13 | 107 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara.
Director: Errol Morris | Stars: Robert McNamara, John F. Kennedy, Fidel Castro, Richard Nixon
Votes: 25,054 | Gross: $4.20M
2. Night and Fog (1956)
TV-14 | 32 min | Documentary, Short, History
The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 21,473
3. The Pressures of the Text (1983)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short
A parody of art/critspeak, educational instruction, gothic narrative and pornographic diction.
Directors: Jessie Lewis, Peter Rose | Star: Peter Rose
Votes: 14
4. Cinema Iran (2005 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary
Tracing the history and influence of Iranian cinema and its filmmakers.
Director: Mark Cousins | Stars: Omid Djalili, Mania Akbari, Massoud Bakhshi, Mark Cousins
Votes: 23
5. Random Acts of Intimacy (2002 TV Short)
15 min | Short
A group of people discuss chance encounters they have had that has led to sex with complete strangers. One girl recounts her experiences in the middle of a busy club, another being caught ... See full summary »
Director: Clio Barnard | Stars: Robert Beck, Sibyl Buck, Isla Fisher, Clare Gorham
Votes: 26
6. Thorns and Silk (2009)
Documentary, Short
Director: Paulina Tervo | Stars: Majda Al-Bahr, Niveen Al-Sawi, Hanan Al-Sharef, Yusra Mansur
7. Talk to Me (2006)
23 min | Documentary, Short
In 1985, Mark Craig bought an answer machine. He then kept every message it recorded - for 20 years.
Director: Mark Craig
8. Papa Hedi: The Search for My Grandfather (2013)
54 min | Documentary
Director: Claire Belhassine
Votes: 12
9. The War on Democracy (2007)
Not Rated | 96 min | Documentary
Venezuela, Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, Salvador, Bolivia: people's struggle for democracy versus US imperialism in Latin America since the 1950s, backing coups and supporting dictatorships.
Directors: Chris Martin, John Pilger, Sean Crotty | Stars: John Pilger, Philip Agee, Salvador Allende, George Bush
Votes: 2,527
10. The Gleaners & I (2000)
Not Rated | 82 min | Documentary
Varda films and interviews gleaners in France in all forms, from those picking fields after the harvest to those scouring the dumpsters of Paris.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: François Wertheimer, Agnès Varda, Jean La Planche, Bodan Litnanski
Votes: 8,807 | Gross: $0.15M
11. Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, Music
A collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on the relationship between nature, humanity, and technology.
Director: Godfrey Reggio | Stars: Edward Asner, Pat Benatar, Jerry Brown, Johnny Carson
Votes: 41,502 | Gross: $1.72M
12. Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
G | 105 min | Documentary, Music
Aging Cuban musicians whose talents had been virtually forgotten following Castro's takeover of Cuba, are brought out of retirement by Ry Cooder, who travelled to Havana in order to bring the musicians together, resulting in triumphant performances of extraordinary music, and resurrecting the musicians' careers.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén González, Octavio Calderon
Votes: 20,548 | Gross: $7.00M
13. Calling Hedy Lamarr (2004)
71 min | Documentary
A Face, a Tag Line, an Invention. Two facets that don't seem to belong to the same woman. A Hollywood star as an ingenious inventor piques our curiosity. The director Georg Misch is ... See full summary »
Director: Georg Misch | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, Anthony Loder, Denise Loder-DeLuca, Charles Stansel
Votes: 132
14. Into Great Silence (2005)
Not Rated | 169 min | Documentary
An examination of life inside the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the reclusive Carthusian Order in France.
Director: Philip Gröning
Votes: 2,496 | Gross: $0.79M
15. Lessons of Darkness (1992 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 54 min | Documentary, War
This film surveys the disaster of the Kuwaiti oil fields in flames, with little narration and scarcely any interviews. Hell on Earth is presented in such transcendent visions and music that one can only be fascinated by it.
Director: Werner Herzog | Star: Werner Herzog
Votes: 6,753
16. Lift (II) (2001)
25 min | Documentary, Short
Director Marc Isaacs installs himself in the lift of a typical English tower. People start talking to him and we discover their lives.
Director: Marc Isaacs | Star: Marc Isaacs
Votes: 451
17. The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver's Wife (1991)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary
From the award-winning Director Nick Broomfield, The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver's Wife portrays the sinister and comic sides of Eugene Terre'Blanche, leader of the neo-Nazi AWB Afrikaner Party in South Africa.
Director: Nick Broomfield | Stars: Nick Broomfield, Eugene Terre'Blanche, J.P. Meyer, Anita Meyer
Votes: 447
18. Lost in the Muqam (2009)
36 min | Documentary, Short, Music
Mahmut Mehmut, a Uyghur musician in China's Xinjing province, struggles to find an audience for his music. The Uyghurs are one of Chinas Muslim ethnic minorities and are losing many ... See full summary »
Director: Camilla French | Star: Mahmut Mehmet
19. The Passenger (1975)
PG-13 | 126 min | Drama, Thriller
Unable to find the war he's been asked to cover, a frustrated war correspondent takes the risky path of co-opting the identity of a dead arms-deal acquaintance.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry
Votes: 26,193 | Gross: $0.62M
21. We Are Northern Lights (2013)
98 min | Documentary, Adventure
How do you capture the essence of Scotland in just one film? You invite people from all across the country to submit their unique visions in a mass participation project and combine them ... See full summary »
Directors: Nick Higgins, David Graham Scott
Votes: 48
22. Life in a Day (2011)
PG-13 | 95 min | Documentary, Drama
A documentary shot by film-makers all over the world that serves as a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the twenty-fourth of July, 2010.
Directors: Tegan Bukowski, Loressa Clisby, Kevin Macdonald, Hiroaki Aikawa, Natalia Andreadis, Jack Attridge, Cristina Bocchialini, Zillah Bowes, Andrea Dalla Costa, Lisa Cottrell-Bentley, Alejo Crisóstomo, Sócrates Cuadri, Ayman El Gazwy, Shawn Gadberry, Seth Grant, Jane Haubrich, Soma Helmi, Jennifer M. Howd, Clementine Isaac, Aditya Kolli, Gabor Kukucska, Francesco La Regina, Frederic Lumiere, Marek Mackovic, Zuqy Cruz Marquez, Linda Matarasso, Kevin McMahon, Joseph Michael, Joaquin Montalvan, Lilit Movsisyan, Emmanuelle Pickett, Christopher Redmond, Alejandro Romeo, Alaa Sheikh Hassan, Marcus Tedenryd | Stars: Hiroaki Aikawa, Cindy Baer, Teagan Bentley, Ester Brym
Votes: 15,567 | Gross: $0.25M
24. The Other Final (2003)
79 min | Documentary, Sport
Disappointed with the failure of his country's football team on their 2002 World Cup campaign, a Dutch fan decides to organize a football match between the two lowest FIFA-ranking teams - ... See full summary »
Director: Johan Kramer | Stars: Matthijs de Jongh, Stephen Bennett, Dinesh Chhetri, Wangay Dorji
Votes: 580
25. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (2004)
R | 85 min | Documentary, Biography, News
Two documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district.
Directors: Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman | Stars: Kochi, Avijit Halder, Shanti Das, Manik
Votes: 18,009 | Gross: $3.41M
26. Der Weg nach Mekka - Die Reise des Muhammad Asad (2008)
92 min | Documentary
In the early 1920s the Austrian Leopold Weiss left his Jewish roots behind, converted to Islam and changed his name to Muhammad Asad. He became one of the most important Muslims of the 20th... See full summary »
Director: Georg Misch | Stars: Muhammad Asad, Samuel Honigman, Martin Goldenberg, Adnan Ibrahim
Votes: 94
27. Bowling for Columbine (2002)
R | 120 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama
Filmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence.
Director: Michael Moore | Stars: Michael Moore, Charlton Heston, Marilyn Manson, Salvador Allende
Votes: 148,763 | Gross: $21.58M
29. Amar (2011 Video)
10 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Amar is 14 and top of his class. Someday he'd like to be a professional cricketer, but for now he's the family's main breadwinner, working two jobs six and a half days a week on top of ... See full summary »
Director: Andrew Hinton
Votes: 25
30. Tashi and the Monk (2014)
TV-PG | 39 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
A man creates a remarkable community for abandoned children, with no higher purpose than giving its young members the joys of childhood.
Directors: Johnny Burke, Andrew Hinton | Stars: Lobsang Phuntsok, Tashi Drolma, Tenzin Drolma, Jhamtse Gatsal
Votes: 472
32. S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003)
Unrated | 101 min | Documentary, History, War
A unique documentary on the notorious S-21 prison, today the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with testimony by the only surviving prisoners and former Khmer Rouge guards.
Director: Rithy Panh | Stars: Khieu 'Poev' Ches, Yeay Cheu, Nhem En, Houy Him
Votes: 1,163 | Gross: $0.02M
33. Game Over (2003)
PG | 90 min | Documentary
In 1997, chess champion Garry Kasparov goes head-to-head against IBM's computer, Deep Blue, and accuses IBM of cheating its way to victory. Interviews with Kasparov, his manager and members of the Deep Blue team illuminate the controversy.
Director: Vikram Jayanti | Stars: Marc Ghannoum, Joel Benjamin, Michael Greengard, Anatoli Karpov
Votes: 1,395
34. Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel (2003)
PG | 93 min | Documentary, Drama, Family
When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed for a ritual to change her mind.
Directors: Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni | Stars: Janchiv Ayurzana, Chimed Ohin, Amgaabazar Gonson, Zeveljamz Nyam
Votes: 6,414 | Gross: $1.74M
35. Mom & Me (I) (2015)
77 min | Documentary
In this compelling portrait of the love between tough guys and their mothers, the only people stronger than the men are the women who raised them.
Director: Ken Wardrop
Votes: 44
36. Part of the Weekend Never Dies (2008)
60 min | Documentary, Music
Rockumentary about the brothers Dewaele. They became a worldwide phenomenon through Soulwax and 2manydj's.
Directors: Saam Farahmand, Soulwax | Stars: David Dewaele, Stephen Dewaele, Soulwax
Votes: 418
37. All These Sleepless Nights (2016)
R | 100 min | Documentary, Drama
A new era is coming, and Warsaw stands uncomfortably at its edge. Art school classmates Christopher and Michal, on the precipice of their own coming of age, restlessly roam their city's ... See full summary »
Director: Michal Marczak | Stars: Krzysztof Baginski, Michal Huszcza, Eva Lebuef, Natalia Atmanska
Votes: 1,860 | Gross: $0.02M
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