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1. Chavela (2017)
Unrated | 93 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life of pioneering singer Chavela Vargas, from her birth in Costa Rica in 1919 to her death in Mexico in 2012.
Directors: Catherine Gund, Daresha Kyi | Stars: Eugenia León, Jesusa Rodríguez, Tania Libertad, Marcela Rodríguez
Votes: 1,165 | Gross: $0.15M
2. Tout s'accélère (2016)
80 min | Documentary
Director: Gilles Vernet | Stars: Nicole Aubert, Jean-Louis Beffa, Nicolas Hulot, Étienne Klein
Votes: 21
3. Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival (2016)
81 min | Documentary
Features Haraway in a playful and engaging exploration of her life, influences, and ideas. Best-known for her ground-breaking work on gender, cyborgs, animals and post-colonialism, Haraway ... See full summary »
Director: Fabrizio Terranova | Star: Donna Haraway
Votes: 174
4. Bjork: Biophilia Live (2014)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary, Music
Icelandic artist, Björk, performs songs from her eighth album with evocative visuals provided by designers from around the world.
Directors: Nick Fenton, Peter Strickland | Stars: David Attenborough, Björk
Votes: 499 | Gross: $0.13M
5. Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride (2009)
PG-13 | 87 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Before the 30th anniversary, Vancouver's Gay Pride Parade director examines relevance of Pride celebrations internationally. He travels to places where Pride is steeped in protest to ... See full summary »
Director: Bob Christie | Star: Ken Coolen
Votes: 142
6. Amazonas, el camino de la cocaína (I) (2015)
Documentary
Documentary about how, where and people involved in the production and distribution of cocaine, beginning farmers of coca, passing by hired porters, and drug traffickers.
Director: David Beriain
Votes: 13
8. Truth Has Fallen (2013)
60 min | Documentary, Animation
A documentary that examines the work of James McCloskey. Mr. McCloskey founded Centurion Ministries, an organization whose mission is to free prisoners who have been wrongfully convicted of... See full summary »
Director: Sheila M. Sofian | Stars: Raquel Anderson, Anthony Baker, Darnell Baldwin, Aleksandr Bible
Votes: 79
9. Apocalypse la 1ère Guerre mondiale (2014)
260 min | Documentary, History, War
Colorized historical footage in ascending order of World War 1. Not only the relatively known Flanders and France battles, but also the generally unknown Italian-Austrian, ... See full summary »
Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, François Arnaud, Vladimir Lenin, Ferdinand Foch
Votes: 3,077
10. The Death of Jaime Roldos (2013)
R | 125 min | Documentary
The yet unexplained death of Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós in 1981 leads to a reflection on how official truth determines our present.
Directors: Lisandra Rivera, Manolo Sarmiento
Votes: 58
11. Delicacy of Despair (2003)
16 min | Documentary, Short
Over half a million ducks are confined, tortured, and slaughtered in factory farms every year in the United States to produce the gourmet cruelty foie gras. Just two companies are ... See full summary »
Director: Ryan Shapiro
Votes: 31
12. The Mothers' House (2005)
76 min | Documentary
Described as astonishingly intimate, emotionally overwhelming and sometimes shocking, THE MOTHERS' HOUSE is a record of four years in the life of Miche, a charming, precocious yet troubled ... See full summary »
Director: Francois Verster | Stars: Amy Moses, Miche Moses, Valencia Moses
Votes: 11
13. Born This Way (2013)
Not Rated | 55 min | Documentary, Drama
BORN THIS WAY is a portrait of the underground gay and lesbian community in Cameroon. It follows Cedric and Gertrude, two young Cameroonians, as they move between a secret, supportive LGBT ... See full summary »
Directors: Shaun Kadlec, Deb Tullmann
Votes: 78
14. Sigo siendo (2013)
120 min | Documentary, Musical
A trip through the diversity of black and native Peruvian music.
Director: Javier Corcuera | Star: Billie Cartier
Votes: 96
15. Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
Follow the shocking, yet humorous, journey of an aspiring environmentalist, as he daringly seeks to find the real solution to the most pressing environmental issues and true path to sustainability.
Directors: Kip Andersen, Keegan Kuhn | Stars: Bruce Hamilton, Kip Andersen, Al Gore, Heather Cooley
Votes: 26,572
16. Roadmap to Apartheid (2012)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary, History, News
In this award-winning documentary, the first time directors take a detailed looks at the apartheid analogy commonly used to describe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Directors: Eron Davidson, Ana Nogueira | Star: Alice Walker
Votes: 209
17. The Look of Silence (2014)
PG-13 | 103 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A family that survived the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer | Stars: Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Volker Hanisch, Amir Hasan
Votes: 13,876 | Gross: $0.11M
18. Style Wars (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 69 min | Documentary, Music
A documentary that exposes the rich growing subculture of hip-hop that was developing in New York City in the late '70s and early '80s, specifically focusing on graffiti art and breakdancing.
Director: Tony Silver | Stars: Demon, Kase 2, Eric Haze, D. 5
Votes: 3,298
19. Desmuntant Leonardo (2014)
Documentary, Comedy
Directors: Dani de la Orden, Marc Pujolar | Stars: Toni Babia, Vincenzo Bagnato, Jordi Bilbeny, Manel Capdevila
Votes: 11
20. A Jihad for Love (2007)
Unrated | 81 min | Documentary
A documentary on gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims across the Muslim and Western worlds.
Director: Parvez Sharma | Stars: Muhsin Hendricks, A.K. Hoosen, Mazen, Abdellah Taïa
Votes: 713 | Gross: $0.11M
21. Brothers of the Night (2016)
TV-14 | 88 min | Documentary
Soft boys by day, kings by night. The film follows a group of young Bulgarian Roma who come to Vienna looking for freedom and a quick buck. They sell their bodies as if that's all they had.... See full summary »
Director: Patric Chiha | Stars: Stefan, Yonko, Asen, Nikolay
Votes: 414
22. One Zero One: The Story of Cybersissy & BayBjane (2013)
90 min | Documentary, Biography, Fantasy
It is a 90-minutes documentale, a hybrid of documentary and fiction. It follows the life of 33-year-old Moroccan-German Mourad, who is 'the smallest drag queen of the world' and ... See full summary »
Director: Tim Lienhard | Stars: Antoine Timmermans, Mourad Zerhouni, Gregory Rack, Hans Timmermans
Votes: 33
23. Hacia una primavera rosa (2014)
17 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
Young members of the Arab LGBT community have to live clandestinely. They feel frustrated after the Arab Spring, so will be the moment of a Pink Spring?
Director: Mario de la Torre Espinosa
24. Surviving Friendly Fire (1997)
60 min | Documentary
In the early 90's seventy youth from a Hollywood homeless shelter started a theatre project encouraging them to tell their stories.. The youth ran the gamut of racial, cultural and sexual ... See full summary »
Director: Todd William Nelson | Star: Ian McKellen
Votes: 26
25. 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: 25,043 | Gross: $4.20M
26. Être et devenir (2014)
99 min | Documentary, Family
Being and Becoming explore the choice not to school ones children, to trust them and to let them learn freely what they are passionate about. Through four countries, the US, Germany (where ... See full summary »
Director: Clara Bellar | Star: Naomi Aldort
Votes: 138
27. Pauls Planet (2013)
90 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Pauls Planet is a portrait of the musician, singer and songwriter, Paul Fuster, who made a cycling tour around Catalonia of 60 days, 2,080 km. and 55 concerts, pedaling a bicycle made with his own hands, just like the guitar he plays.
Directors: Aleix Barba, Marc Sirisi | Stars: Xarim Aresté, Magda Bonet, Jordi 'Nore' Freixa, Paul Fuster
Votes: 8
28. Bridegroom (2013)
R | 80 min | Documentary
Shane Bitney Crone's plans to marry Tom Bridegroom in California after the same-sex marriage law is passed takes a tragic turn when his partner of six years accidentally dies and Tom's family refuses Shane from attending the funeral.
Director: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason | Stars: Cindy Bitney, David Crone, Jessica Mitchell, Lizzy Mohl
Votes: 4,630
29. Avicii: True Stories (2017)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Focuses on the incredible rise, fall and rebirth of one of the worlds most successful electronic music artists of all time, Avicii.
Director: Levan Tsikurishvili | Stars: Salem Al Fakir, Avicii, Johan Bjerkelund, Aloe Blacc
Votes: 6,977
30. Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Not Rated | 125 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.
Director: Ciro Guerra | Stars: Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet, Antonio Bolívar, Brionne Davis
Votes: 24,452 | Gross: $1.33M
31. The Forgotten Space (2010)
Not Rated | 112 min | Documentary
Details the catastrophic effects globalization has wrought on the ship, truck and train industries. We visit displaced farmers and villagers in Holland and Belgium, underpaid truck drivers ... See full summary »
Directors: Noël Burch, Allan Sekula
Votes: 157
32. Shootball (2017)
99 min | Documentary, Family
Manuel Barbero, father of a sexual abuse victim, and Joaquin Benitez, the pederast who abuse the son of Manuel and 20 more children, are the main characters of this documentary. The ... See full summary »
Director: Fèlix Colomer Vallès | Stars: Manuel Barbero, Toni Barbero, Jep Barceló, Joaquín Benítez
Votes: 34
33. Commander Arian, a Story of Women, War and Freedom (2018)
85 min | Documentary
Hit by 5 bullets, commander Arian experiences the cost of war in the flesh as she is forced to redefine her role in the struggle for women's freedom.
Director: Alba Sotorra
Votes: 92
34. Leaving Neverland (2019)
TV-MA | 240 min | Documentary
At the height of his stardom, the world's biggest pop star, Michael Jackson, began long-running relationships with two young boys, aged between seven and ten, along their families. They now allege that he sexually abused them.
Director: Dan Reed | Stars: Michael Jackson, Wade Robson, Joy Robson, Chantal Robson
Votes: 31,117
35. Hijos de la guerra (2007)
90 min | Documentary
Hijos de la Guerra ("Children of the War") is a feature-length documentary film about the world's largest and most violent street gang: the Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13. The MS-13 ... See full summary »
Directors: Alexandre Fuchs, Samantha Belmont, Jeremy Fourteau
Votes: 96
36. Lucio (2007)
93 min | Documentary
Lucio Urtubia dedicated anarchist participated in notorious kidnappings, he collaborated with Che Guevara, he swindled Citibank of 3,000 million pesetas. And did it all without missing a day's work as a building laborer.
Directors: Aitor Arregi, Jose Mari Goenaga | Stars: Lucio Urtubia, Ramón Agirre, Roland Dumas, Antonio Martín
Votes: 250
37. Songs of Redemption (2013)
78 min | Documentary
A group of inmates at the General Penitentiary in Kingston, Jamaica, are involved in a rehabilitation program based in music.
Directors: Miquel Galofré, Amanda Sans Pantling
Votes: 22
38. Tanger Gool (2015)
85 min | Documentary
A brand new portrait of Arab youth
Director: Juan Gautier
Votes: 7
39. La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)
345 min | Drama, History, War
In this war drama blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, the working class and the bourgeoisie of 19th century Paris are interviewed and covered on television, before and during a tragic workers' class revolt.
Director: Peter Watkins | Stars: Eliane Annie Adalto, Pierre Barbieux, Bernard Bombeau, Maylis Bouffartigue
Votes: 1,335
40. Autism: The Musical (2007)
TV-14 | 94 min | Documentary, Music
Follows five autistic children as they work together to create and perform a live musical production.
Director: Tricia Regan | Stars: Hillary Aaron, Joe Aaron, Lexi Aaron, Adam
Votes: 764
41. The Whole Gritty City (2013)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary, Music
Young members of 3 New Orleans school marching bands grow up in America's most musical city, and one of its most dangerous. Their band directors get them ready to perform in the Mardi Gras parades, and teach them to succeed and to survive.
Directors: Richard Barber, Andre Lambertson | Stars: Bruce Davenport Jr., Kirk Dugar Jr., Brandon Franklin, Jazz Henry
Votes: 70
43. The House I Live In (2012)
Not Rated | 108 min | Documentary
From the dealer to the narcotics officer, the inmate to the federal judge, a penetrating look inside America's criminal justice system, revealing the profound human rights implications of U.S. drug policy.
Director: Eugene Jarecki | Stars: Eugene Jarecki, David Simon, Shanequa Benitez, William Julius Wilson
Votes: 5,394 | Gross: $0.21M
44. B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 (2015)
92 min | Documentary, Music
Music, art and chaos in the wild West-Berlin of the 1980s. The walled-in city became the creative melting pot for sub- and pop-culture. Before the iron curtain fell, everything and anything... See full summary »
Directors: Jörg A. Hoppe, Heiko Lange, Klaus Maeck | Stars: Andi, Bela B., Blixa Bargeld, Ben Becker
Votes: 2,194
45. Freightened: The Real Price of Shipping (2016)
90 min | Documentary
In an audacious investigation, Freightened reveals the mechanics and perils of freight shipment; an all-but-visible industry that holds the key to our economy, our environment and the very model of our civilisation.
Director: Denis Delestrac | Stars: Trevor Hayes, Eric Wiberg
Votes: 274
46. Cabale à Kaboul (2006)
87 min | Documentary
The movie Cabal in Kabul tells the story of the last two Jews in Afghanistan. All the other Jews, from a community that once numbered more than 50,000 have left a long time ago. Isaac and ... See full summary »
Director: Dan Alexe | Stars: Isaac Lévy, Zabulon Simantov
Votes: 66
47. Life Is Sacred (2014)
106 min | Documentary, Biography, News
Violence is a fact of everyday life in Colombia, where the drug cartels have kept the country in an armed conflict for decades, and where almost all families have lost a loved one.
Directors: Andreas Dalsgaard, Vivana Gomez, Viviana Gómez Echeverry, Nicolás Nørgaard Staffolani
Votes: 83
48. Kisangani Diary (1998)
45 min | Documentary
Along a railroad in the south of the former Zaire UN troups discover a few thousand refugees from Rwanda. The camps for the survivors are being massacred a little later on April 25th 1997 ... See full summary »
Director: Hubert Sauper
Votes: 84
49. En el mundo a cada rato (2004)
116 min | Documentary, Family
Five documentary shorts about various children from the third world.
Directors: Javier Corcuera, Patricia Ferreira, Javier Fesser, Chus Gutiérrez, Pere Joan Ventura | Star: Vicenta N'Dongo
Votes: 97
50. Mònica del Raval (2009)
108 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentary, sometimes hard and sometimes fun, which pretends to be the self-portrait of Mónica, a peculiar quirky-looking woman who, for more than twenty years, has practiced street prostitution in the Raval district of Barcelona.
Director: Francesc Betriu | Stars: Mónica Coronado, Mariona Millà, Carles Rexach
Votes: 82
51. Archipels, granites dénudés (2015)
26 min | Documentary, Short
Athens 2014. Between bereaved desires and lost hopes, a film diary bangs against the walls of the city. The daily life of a country in crisis, the inertia of revolution, the individual ... See full summary »
Director: Daphné Hérétakis
Votes: 20
52. Killing Us Softly (1979)
30 min | Documentary, Short
Jean Kilbourne lectures an audience about the misogynistic portrayal of women in advertising and its role in shaping women's self-image.
Directors: Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich | Star: Jean Kilbourne
Votes: 66
53. Broken Song (2013)
66 min | Documentary, Music
Git, Costello and Willa Lee are street poets, hip-hop artists and songwriters from north Dublin. For these young men self-expression in the form of poetry, rap and song has become a ... See full summary »
Director: Claire Dix | Stars: Willa Lee, James Costello, G.I., Dean Scurry
Votes: 19
54. Paco de Lucía: A Journey (2014)
95 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Documentary about guitar genius Paco de Lucía and his contributions to flamenco music.
Director: Curro Sánchez | Stars: Paco de Lucía, Pepe de Lucía, Alberto Gavira, Ed Sullivan
Votes: 276
55. Checkpoint rock: Canciones desde Palestina (2009)
73 min | Documentary
Come on an incredible journey through Palestine, guided by some of its best-known, most inspiring musicians! From singers Habib Al Deek and Muthana Sha'baan, to rappers DAM and Safaa ... See full summary »
Directors: Javier Corcuera, Fermín Muguruza
Votes: 36
56. Garden (2003)
90 min | Documentary
A look into the lives of teenage male prostitutes working the area known as the "Electricity Garden" in Tel Aviv.
Directors: Adi Barash, Ruthie Shatz | Stars: Dudu, Nino
Votes: 329
57. Pina (2011)
PG | 103 min | Documentary, Music
A tribute to the late German choreographer Pina Bausch, as her dancers perform her most famous creations.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Pina Bausch, Regina Advento, Malou Airaudo, Ruth Amarante
Votes: 15,940 | Gross: $3.52M
58. Nefarious: Merchant of Souls (2011)
Not Rated | 96 min | Documentary
A documentary exploring the sex-trade.
Directors: Benjamin Nolot, Matt Dickey | Stars: Christian Simpson, Jon Morgan Woodward, Chad T. Wood, Sarah Agor
Votes: 550
59. Redlight (2009)
72 min | Documentary
A powerful feature documentary about child sexploitation, an epidemic happening in every country around the world. Filmed over a four year period, REDLIGHT focuses on the personal stories ... See full summary »
Directors: Adi Ezroni, Guy Jacobson, Charles Kiselyak | Stars: Somaly Mam, Reena, Sokha, Srey Peuv
Votes: 76
60. Tomorrow (2015)
G | 118 min | Documentary
The world's climate is changing. Instead of showing the worst that can happen, this documentary focuses on the people suggesting solutions and their actions.
Directors: Cyril Dion, Mélanie Laurent | Stars: Anthony Barnosky, Olivier De Schutter, Cyril Dion, Emmanuel Druon
Votes: 3,597 | Gross: $0.04M
61. El Pepe: A Supreme Life (2018)
74 min | Documentary, Biography
An examination of the life, times, and legacy of Uruguay's last president, José "Pepe" Mujica.
Director: Emir Kusturica | Star: Pepe Mujica
Votes: 2,130
62. Dancing Beethoven (2016)
80 min | Documentary
A journey through the preparation and hardworking process of ballet dancers and musicians for a unique spectacle in Tokio that Béjart choreographed with the Ninth symphony of Beethoven. ... See full summary »
Director: Arantxa Aguirre | Stars: Óscar Chacón, Julien Favreau, Zubin Mehta, Gil Roman
Votes: 67
63. El Alcalde (2012)
81 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
In a Mexican municipality besieged by drug trafficking, a mayor uses controversial methods to maintain order in one of the richest and safest areas in Latin America.
Directors: Emiliano Altuna, Diego Enrique Osorno, Carlos Rossini | Star: Mauricio Fernandez
Votes: 107
64. Approved for Adoption (2012)
Not Rated | 70 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
Comic-book artist Jung returns to Seoul for the first time since he was abandoned at the age of 5.
Directors: Laurent Boileau, Jung Henin | Stars: Maxym Anciaux, Mahé Collet, Christelle Cornil, William Coryn
Votes: 628 | Gross: $0.00M
65. El que la lleva la entiende (2020)
82 min | Documentary, Music
Follows José Luis García Cossio, better known as "Selu", who has been dedicated to the Cádiz Carnival for more than thirty years.
Directors: Rocío Martín, José Luis García Cossío | Stars: Sara Baras, El Gran Wyoming, Edu Galán, Luis García Montero
Votes: 5
66. 13. Miguel Poveda (2015)
Documentary
Director: Paco Ortiz | Stars: Joan Albert Amargós, Ana Belén, Manuel Carrasco, Chicuelo
Votes: 9
67. Economia col·lectiva. L'última revolució d'Europa (2014)
67 min | Documentary, History
'Collective Economy. Europe's last revolution' is a documentary that takes an depht look into a recent and almost unknown historical episode: the seizure and collective management by the ... See full summary »
Director: Eulàlia Comas | Star: Joel Valverde
Votes: 7
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