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1. Hurricane Bianca (2016)
TV-MA | 84 min | Comedy, Drama
A New York teacher, who moves to small town Texas where he's fired for being gay, returns disguised as a mean lady to get revenge on the nasty town.
Director: Matt Kugelman | Stars: Roy Haylock, Lola Botha, Grayson Thorne Kilpatrick, Willam Belli
Votes: 6,692
2. Independent Lens (1999– )
TV-14 | Documentary
Independent Lens is an award-winning PBS documentary series that streams on the PBS App and airs on public television. Independent Lens documentaries focus on stories of underrepresented ... See full summary »
Stars: America Ferrera, Terrence Howard, Stanley Tucci, Mary-Louise Parker
Votes: 635
3. P.O.V. (1988– )
60 min | Documentary
POV, a cinema term for "point of view," is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. Since 1988, POV has presented more than 300 of the best, boldest, and ... See full summary »
Stars: Stacey Abrams, Rashida Tlaib, Lucy McBath, Veronica Escobar
Votes: 245
4. Desire Will Set You Free (2015)
Unrated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Desire Will Set You Free is a feature film that explores life in contemporary Berlin with an often critical and sometimes humorous eye. Based on a true story, the plot follows the ... See full summary »
Director: Yony Leyser | Stars: Yony Leyser, Tim-Fabian Hoffmann, Chloe Griffin, Amber Benson
Votes: 279
5. Spaceship Earth (2020)
Not Rated | 113 min | Documentary
A look at the group of people who built the Biosphere 2, a giant replica of the earth's ecosystem, in 1991.
Director: Matt Wolf | Stars: Kathelin Gray, Marie Harding, William Dempster, John Allen
Votes: 2,157
6. Shark Week (1987– )
TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary
Documentary following sharks and shark attacks.
Stars: Andy Casagrande, Paul de Gelder, Chris Fallows, Jason Hildebrandt
Votes: 421
7. The Weather Underground (2002)
Unrated | 92 min | Documentary, History, War
The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.
Directors: Sam Green, Bill Siegel | Stars: Lili Taylor, Pamela Z, Jim Lange, Evan White
Votes: 3,770 | Gross: $0.56M
8. 32 Sounds (2022)
95 min | Documentary
Explores the elemental phenomenon of sound and its power to bend time, cross borders, and profoundly shape our perception of the world around us.
Director: Sam Green | Stars: Edgar Choueriri, Joanna Fang, Sam Green, Annea Lockwood
Votes: 138
9. The Rainbow Man/John 3:16 (1997)
41 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Remember that man in the rainbow-colored Afro wig who carried the "John 3:16" sign? During the 70s and 80s he seemed to be everywhere: at televised baseball and football games, shuttle ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Green | Star: Rollen Stewart
Votes: 94
10. Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans (2008)
Not Rated | 68 min | Documentary
Faubourg Treme documents the enduring legacy of one of the United States' oldest African American communities, an area just outside the French Quarter of New Orleans.
Director: Dawn Logsdon | Stars: Glen David Andrews, Harold Evans, Eric Foner, John Hope Franklin
Votes: 90
11. Cinéma, de notre temps (1989– )
Documentary
"Cinema of Our Time" is a documentary series about contemporary filmmakers from around the world, created by Janine Bazin and André S. Labarthe, as a follow-up to the acclaimed initial series "Filmmakers of Our Time" (1964-1972).
Stars: Jean-Claude Dauphin, André S. Labarthe, Jean-François Stévenin, Jean Douchet
Votes: 193
12. A Thousand Thoughts (2018)
86 min | Documentary, Music
Filmmaker Sam Green (The Weather Underground), in collaboration with writer and editor Joe Bini (Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, Grizzly Man), takes the stage with the legendary ... See full summary »
Directors: Joe Bini, Sam Green
Votes: 28
13. The First Rainbow Coalition (2019)
56 min | Documentary
Chicago 1969: Activists from the Black Panthers, Young Lords, and Young Patriots united African Americans, Latinos, and poor whites to confront police brutality and unfair housing practices... See full summary »
Director: Ray Santisteban | Stars: Billy Che Brooks, Kathleen Cleaver, Fred Hampton, Ericka Huggins
Votes: 57
14. The Royal Road (2015)
Not Rated | 65 min | Documentary, History
A cinematic essay in defense of remembering, The Royal Road offers up a primer on the Spanish colonization of California and the Mexican American War alongside intimate reflections on ... See full summary »
Director: Jenni Olson | Stars: Jenni Olson, Tony Kushner
Votes: 199
15. Lot 63, Grave C (2006)
Not Rated | 10 min | Short
The mystery behind the man who died at Altamont.
Director: Sam Green
Votes: 69
16. And With Him Came The West (2019)
77 min | Documentary
Famous for winning a gunfight at the OK Corral, Wyatt Earp desperately wanted to write his own legend in his old age. So he went to Hollywood in the 1920s and asked filmmakers to make a movie about him. And it freaking worked.
Director: Mike Plante
Votes: 55
18. Annea Lockwood/A Film About Listening (2021)
33 min | Documentary, Short
Sam Green's intimate portrait of pioneering experimental composer and musician Annea Lockwood gives a glimpse into the enthralling world of sound that she has been creating and exploring for many years.
Director: Sam Green | Star: Annea Lockwood
Votes: 12
19. The Universal Language (2011)
Not Rated | 31 min | Documentary, Short
Directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sam Green, THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE traces the history of Esperanto, an artificial language that was created in the late 1800s by a Polish eye ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Green
Votes: 19
20. The Measure of All Things (2014)
65 min | Documentary
Documentarian Sam Green interprets our collective fascination with the Guinness Book of World Records as a profound need to try and make some sense of who we are by calibrating human ... See full summary »
Directors: Hideaki Aomori, Cj Camerieri, Sam Green, Clarice Jensen, Rob Moose, Nadia Sirota, Alex Sopp, Ymusic
Votes: 19
21. Pie Fight '69 (2000)
7 min | Documentary, Short
Independent filmmakers raid the 1969 San Francisco International Film Festival's fur and tuxedo-clad crowd on opening night.
Directors: Christian Bruno, Sam Green
Votes: 30
22. N Judah 5:30 (2004)
3 min | Short
A melancholy train ride filled with small, rich moments.
Director: Sam Green
Votes: 28
23. Cinemad: Almanac 2009 Curated by Mike Plante (2009 Video)
77 min
Directors: Cam Archer, Stephanie Barber, Kevin Jerome Everson, James Fotopoulos, Sam Green, Jake Mahaffy, Bill Morrison, Leighton Pierce
Votes: 9
24. National Disintegrations (2017)
11 min | Short
In his latest film, Braden King ponders the Geneva Freeport, a warehouse complex in Switzerland that is said to house over 1 million works of art. A high-security tax haven for ... See full summary »
Director: Braden King
25. The Pagan Angel (1998 Video)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Director: George Kuchar | Stars: Craig Baldwin, Dan Carbone, Bruce Conner, Sandra Davis
26. Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery (2018)
TV-PG | 4 min | Documentary, Short
Sharing the afterlife with Mickey Mouse, Bette Davis, Spot, and, of course, Satan.
Director: Sam Green
Votes: 5
27. Utopia in Four Movements (2010)
75 min | Documentary
Throughout human history, people have had giddy dreams and fantastic notions about what the future would bring. Today the future has become more of a threat than a promise-a knot of ... See full summary »
Directors: David Cerf, Sam Green
Votes: 46
28. Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall (2009)
Not Rated | 20 min | Documentary, Short
A tour of the world's largest shopping mall, located near Guangzhou, China.
Directors: Sam Green, Carrie Lozano
Votes: 48
29.
Shark Week (1987– )
Episode:
The Ultimate Guide: Sharks
(1996)
TV-14 | 53 min | Documentary
A Discovery Channel documentary about sharks, from small bottom dwellers to massive man eaters. Details the shark's physiology, communication, and vital roles.
Directors: Clarita Berger, Nick Caloyianis | Star: Stephen M. Kajiura
Votes: 22
30.
Independent Lens (1999– )
Episode:
The Weather Underground
(2004)
TV-14 | Documentary
Directors: Sam Green, Bill Siegel | Stars: Jim Lange, Lili Taylor, Evan White, Pamela Z
Votes: 6
31.
P.O.V. (1988– )
Episode:
P.O.V. Shorts Program
(2009)
Documentary
Directors: Nicholas Berger, Jesse Erica Epstein, Sam Green, Carrie Lozano, Eva Weber | Stars: Rupert Bertram Mitford, Veronica Carnell, Fred Chesney, Richard Foster
Votes: 18
32.
Cinéma, de notre temps (1989– )
Episode:
Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater
(2013)
Not Rated | 70 min | Documentary
In 1985, filmmaker Richard Linklater began a film screening society in Austin, Texas, that aimed to show classic art-house and experimental films to a budding community of cinephiles and ... See full summary »
Director: Gabe Klinger | Stars: Sandra Adair, James Benning, Richard Linklater
Votes: 182