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1. Sour Grapes (2016)
TV-14 | 85 min | Documentary, Crime
Documentary about the fine and rare wine auction market centering around a counterfeiter who befriended the rich and powerful and sold millions of dollars of fraudulent wine through the top auction houses.
Directors: Reuben Atlas, Jerry Rothwell | Stars: Laurent Ponsot, Jay McInerney, Jefery Levy, Maureen Downey
Votes: 5,998
2. My Beautiful Broken Brain (2014)
TV-14 | 86 min | Documentary, Biography
After suffering a stroke at age 34, a woman documents her struggles, setbacks and eventual breakthrough as she relearns to speak, read and write.
Directors: Sophie Robinson, Lotje Sodderland | Stars: David Lynch, Sophie Robinson, Hente Sodderland, Jan Sodderland
Votes: 2,454
3. How to Change the World (2015)
Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
In 1971, a group of friends sail into a nuclear test zone, and their protest captures the world's imagination. Using never before seen archive that brings their extraordinary world to life,... See full summary »
Director: Jerry Rothwell | Stars: Robert Hunter, Patrick Moore, Paul Watson, Rex Weyler
Votes: 1,299
4. The Surgeon's Cut (2020)
TV-14 | Documentary
The Surgeon's Cut profiles four ground-breaking surgeons from around the world, each with a visionary approach to their craft.
Star: Lin Gallagher
Votes: 1,250
5. The Reason I Jump (2020)
82 min | Documentary, Drama
Based on the book by Naoki Higashida, this immersive film explores the experiences of non-speaking autistic people around the world.
Director: Jerry Rothwell | Stars: Donna Budway, Emma Budway, Jeremy Dear, Joss Dear
Votes: 1,137
6. The Great Hip Hop Hoax (2013)
Not Rated | 93 min | Documentary, Comedy, Music
Scottish rappers Billy Boyd and Gavin Bain reinvent themselves as West Coast Homeboys after they were signed by Sony.
Director: Jeanie Finlay | Stars: Gavin Bain, Billy Boyd
Votes: 629
7. Orion: The Man Who Would Be King (2015)
Unrated | 86 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
The story of Jimmy Ellis, an unknown singer plucked from obscurity and thrust into the spotlight as part of a crazy scheme that had him masquerade as Elvis, back from the grave.
Director: Jeanie Finlay | Stars: Jerry Adams, Sharon Attaway Nettleton, Gail Brewer-Giorgio, Boomer Castleman
Votes: 480
8. The Man Whose Mind Exploded (2012)
77 min | Documentary, Biography, Romance
In this "beautifully intimate and utterly unique piece of cinema", Toby Amies crosses the line between filmmaker and carer, trying to cope with the strange and hilarious world view of the fragile eccentric, Drako Zarharzar. A love story.
Director: Toby Amies | Star: Tony Banwell
Votes: 288
9. The Search for Weng Weng (2007)
92 min | Documentary
The bizarre history of Filipino B-films, as told through filmmaker Andrew Leavold's personal quest to find the truth behind its midget James Bond superstar Weng Weng.
Director: Andrew Leavold | Stars: Tikoy Aguiluz, Roy Arabejo, Tilman Baumgaertel, Don Gordon Bell
Votes: 249
10. The Penalty (2018)
90 min | Documentary
America's death penalty is in crisis. Botched executions, spiralling costs and shrinking public support has put capital punishment under more scrutiny than ever before. The Penalty goes ... See full summary »
Directors: Will Francome, Mark Pizzey
Votes: 185
11. A Time to Kill (2020– )
Documentary, Crime
Determined investigators must piece together a crime scene to reconstruct the timeline, unlock the motive and ultimately get closer to the killer.
Stars: Tish Iceton, Michael Arntfield, Keira Stockdale, Lori Anne Thomas
Votes: 137
12.
The Surgeon's Cut (2020)
Episode:
Living Donor
(2020)
TV-14 | Documentary
Shaped by horror films, feminism and an intellectually rigorous family, Dr. Nancy Asher makes history as the first woman to perform a liver transplant.
Director: Sophie Robinson | Star: Lin Gallagher
Votes: 97
13. A Curious Life (2014)
78 min | Documentary, Music
Borne out of the anarcho-squatting free-festival scene of the eighties the Levellers have survived over 25 years of music press vitriol, drink and drug addictions as well as many barren ... See full summary »
Director: Dunstan Bruce | Stars: Stephen Boakes, Mark Chadwick, Brian Cunningham, Jeremy Cunningham
Votes: 74
14. I Get Knocked Down (2021)
88 min | Documentary, Music
Dunstan Bruce is 59 and he's struggling with the fact that the world seems to be going to hell in a handcart. He is angry and frustrated. How does a middle-aged, retired radical, who feels invisible get back up again?
Directors: Dunstan Bruce, Sophie Robinson | Star: Dunstan Bruce
Votes: 55
15. A Story of Bones (2022)
95 min
It tells the story of Annina van Neel's as she works to reclaim and honor the neglected history of St. Helena after the remains of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans are uncovered on the remote island.
Directors: Joseph Curran, Dominic Aubrey de Vere | Stars: Peggy King Jorde, Annina Van Neel
Votes: 52
16. Love Bite: Laurie Lipton and Her Disturbing Black & White Drawings (2016)
34 min | Documentary, Short
Sundance award winning editor James Scotts documentary directorial debut Love Bite chronicles Laurie Liptons life and prolific body of black & white work spanning over fifty years. Largely ... See full synopsis »
Director: James Scott | Stars: Laurie Lipton, Terry Gilliam, Sean Sorensen
Votes: 42
17. After A Revolution (2021)
121 min | Documentary, Drama, War
In Libya, two siblings put their heart and soul into the future of their country during the 2011 revolution, but each on a different side: he supported Gaddafi, she was one of the "rebels".... See full summary »
Director: Giovanni Buccomino
Votes: 17
18. The School in the Cloud (2018)
85 min | Documentary
What is the future of education in a networked world? Indian professor Sugata Mitra sets up an unmanned internet kiosk in a remote Bengali village to pioneer the "School in the Cloud". The ... See full summary »
Directors: Jerry Rothwell, Ranu Ghosh
Votes: 11
19.
A Time to Kill (2020– )
Episode:
Betrayed
(2020)
TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary, Crime
When newlyweds Joe and Olga Connell are gunned down outside their Wilmington, Delaware home, police must investigate a sibling rivalry, a business partnership plagued by drugs, and an outlaw motorcycle gang.
Directors: Fab Filippo, Tara Hughes, Victor Kushmaniuk | Stars: Michael Arntfield, Cris Barrish, Justin Breslin, Joe Connell
Votes: 11
20.
A Time to Kill (2020– )
Episode:
A Miami Murder Mystery
(2020)
Documentary, Crime
In 2004, savvy businessman Henry Diaz goes missing in Miami. In a neighboring city, his abandoned car is found covered in blood. Then Henry's body surfaces in the Everglades mutilated by ... See full summary »
Directors: Fab Filippo, Shannon McDonough | Stars: Tish Iceton, Henry Diaz, Yosvani Fernandez, Michael Arntfield
Votes: 10
21.
A Time to Kill (2020– )
Episode:
She Called 911
(2021)
Documentary, Crime
When a 42-year-old woman is strangled to death and posed in an unusual way in her bedroom, detectives are on the hunt for someone who would have wanted to humiliate her after murdering her. A hidden 911 call turns the case on its head.
Directors: Fab Filippo, Victor Kushmaniuk | Stars: Tish Iceton, Chanin Starbuck, Clay Starbuck, Michael Arntfield
Votes: 10
23. This Band Is So Gorgeous (2012)
64 min | Documentary, Music
Ray Yao is the 'best organiser of the China for punk rock bands!' and Sham 69 are a bunch of middle-aged punks, the first British punk band to ever tour China. A 14 day slog across the ... See full summary »
Director: Dunstan Bruce | Star: Sham 69
24. The Mortician of Manila (2019)
25 min | Documentary, Short
Orly Fernandez manages and lives at a 24-hr funeral parlor in Manila. His relationships with clients and the journalists he meets color the empathy and contempt he holds for Philippine drug war victims who, like him, struggle to survive.
Director: Leah Borromeo
25.
The Guardian: Documentaries (2019– )
Episode:
Untold Chaos
(2021)
Documentary
Director: Giovanni Buccomino