Danish Documentary Productions

by ddp2007 | created - 21 Nov 2017 | updated - 31 Jan 2018 | Public

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1. The Newsroom: Off the Record (2014)

95 min | Documentary, News

A year in the newsroom of Denmark's leading tabloid newspaper, struggling to survive in a changing media climate.

Director: Mikala Krogh | Stars: Poul Madsen, Nasib Farah, Søren Lyngbjørn, Per Mathiesen

Votes: 104

2. A Year of Hope (2017)

84 min | Documentary

A Year of Hope is about life on the streets of Manila. You will hear the horrible stories of Pablo, Justin, and some of the other boys. Thankfully their lives change during their year in ... See full summary »

Director: Mikala Krogh

Votes: 35

3. Den anden side (2017)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography

A documentary about the popular Danish comedian Anders Matthesen, shot between 2012 and 2016.

Director: Pernille Rose Grønkjær | Star: Anders Matthesen

Votes: 191

4. A Modern Man (2017)

84 min | Documentary, Biography

The Norwegian-English elite violinist Charlie Siem is also a model working for the biggest fashion houses. After all measurements Siem has more success than most can dream about. He's also a perfectionist down to every little detail.

Director: Eva Mulvad | Star: Charlie Siem

Votes: 139

5. The Good Life (II) (2010)

Unrated | 83 min | Documentary

The lives of a mother and daughter who used to have it all, but now only have each other.

Director: Eva Mulvad | Stars: Annemette Beckmann, Mette Beckmann

Votes: 192

6. Amateurs in Space (2016)

TV-PG | 79 min | Documentary

Over a period of 6 years award winning director Max Kester follows two best friends and top engineers as they follow their dream to build a "DIY" rocket to travel into space. If they ... See full summary »

Director: Max Kestner | Stars: Kristian von Bengtson, Peter Madsen, Steen Andersen, Mehti

Votes: 90

7. Aquarela (I) (2018)

PG | 90 min | Documentary

80 Metascore

Water and ice are shown around the world, in all of their many powerful forms.

Director: Victor Kossakovsky

Votes: 1,631 | Gross: $0.19M

8. Bugs (2016)

73 min | Documentary

70 Metascore

In an effort to determine their sustainability as a food source, two chefs travel throughout the world tasting insects.

Director: Andreas Johnsen | Stars: Josh Evans, Roberto Flore, Ben Reade

Votes: 243 | Gross: $0.00M

9. Man Falling (2015)

111 min | Documentary

Per Kirkeby's struggle to return to art after an accident. An honest and personal portrait of a headstrong artist.

Director: Anne Wivel | Stars: Mari-Anne Duus, Per Kirkeby, Ib Michael, Morten Søkilde

Votes: 19

10. Something Better to Come (2014)

98 min | Documentary, Biography

74 Metascore

Ten-year-old Yula has but one dream: to lead a normal life. For 14 years, Hanna Polak follows Yula as she grows up in the forbidden territory of Svalka, the garbage dump located 13 miles from the Kremlin in Putin's Russia.

Director: Hanna Polak | Stars: Yula, Hanna Polak

Votes: 590

11. Good Things Await (2014)

100 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama

A farmer's determined battle for the soil we share.

Director: Phie Ambo | Star: Niels Stokholm

Votes: 134

12. Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case (2013)

Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, Drama

73 Metascore

A documentary reflects on artist Ai Weiwei's battle against the lawsuit thrust upon him by the Chinese government in an effort to silence him.

Director: Andreas Johnsen | Stars: Ai Weiwei, Andreas Johnsen, Lao Ai, Jerome A. Cohen

Votes: 336 | Gross: $0.04M

14. A Normal Life (2013)

83 min | Documentary, Drama, Family

The film examines how a mother keeps herself and her family going even though everything around her is an almost unbearable chaos with a daughter seriously ill of cancer. How she tries to ... See full summary »

Director: Mikala Krogh

15. Love Addict (2011)

Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary

Are you addicted to love? Through personal stories of love addicts and the people around them this documentary explores the nature of love addiction. It will seek to understand what happens... See full summary »

Director: Pernille Rose Grønkjær | Stars: Eliza Bichmann, Sarah Agor, Nicole Brooks, Jeffrey Colt

Votes: 138

16. Cities on Speed: Cairo Garbage (2009)

TV-PG | 55 min | Documentary

Once upon a time there was a city that was neat and tidy, and which was home to only 12 million people. Today, however, Cairo has a population estimated at 20 million. Garbage is piling up ... See full summary »

Director: Mikala Krogh

Votes: 18

17. Mechanical Love (2007)

79 min | Documentary

"Mechanical Love" is a documentary on the interrelationship between robots and humans. The film portrays people who have a close relationship with a robot, and it takes us from the high ... See full summary »

Director: Phie Ambo | Star: Hiroshi Ishiguro

Votes: 136

18. I Am Breathing (2013)

72 min | Documentary, Biography

71 Metascore

A documentary follows the last months of Neil Platt, a young father with terminal and debilitating motor neuron disease (MND).

Directors: Emma Davie, Morag McKinnon | Star: Neil Platt

Votes: 193

20. Svend (2011)

110 min | Documentary

For two years, director Anne Wivel and her camera followed her husband, the prominent Danish politician Svend Auken. The initial aim was to portray a modern, idealistic politician with ... See full summary »

Director: Anne Wivel | Star: Svend Auken

Votes: 83

21. The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun (2006)

Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary

66 Metascore

The story about the 82-year-old bachelor Mr. Vig, who has never known love, and Sister Amvrosija, a young Russian nun, who by chance, or destiny, becomes part of his life.

Director: Pernille Rose Grønkjær | Stars: Sister Ambrosija, Mr. Vig

Votes: 451

22. Ballroom Dancer (2011)

78 min | Documentary, Drama

Slavik (34) from Ukraine, former world champion in Latin American dancing is making a last and final comeback with Anna, his new dance partner and girlfriend. Slavik is addicted to the ... See full summary »

Directors: Christian Bonke, Andreas Koefoed | Star: Vyacheslav 'Slavik' Kryklyvyy

Votes: 182

23. Free the Mind (2012)

Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary, Adventure

51 Metascore

In 1992 Professor Richard Davidson, one of the world's leading neuroscientists, met the Dalai Lama, who encouraged him to apply the same rigorous methods he used to study depression and ... See full summary »

Director: Phie Ambo | Stars: Richard Davidson, Emma Seppala, John Osborne, Deborah Alagna

Votes: 415 | Gross: $0.16M

24. Vores lykkes fjender (2006)

58 min | Documentary

The first Afghan woman ever to enter parliament, Malalai Joya is followed during her campaign to introduce democracy to a country long ruled by warlords and Taliban.

Director: Eva Mulvad | Star: Malalai Joya

Votes: 124

25. Gambler (2006)

78 min | Documentary

A documentary about director Nicolas Winding Refn and his efforts to pay a 5.5 million crowns debt from his film Fear X (2003).

Director: Phie Ambo | Stars: Liv Corfixen, Søren Høy, Nicolas Winding Refn

Votes: 309

26. Free the Mind (2012)

Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary, Adventure

51 Metascore

In 1992 Professor Richard Davidson, one of the world's leading neuroscientists, met the Dalai Lama, who encouraged him to apply the same rigorous methods he used to study depression and ... See full summary »

Director: Phie Ambo | Stars: Richard Davidson, Emma Seppala, John Osborne, Deborah Alagna

Votes: 415 | Gross: $0.16M

27. Fever (2010)

15 min | Documentary, Short

Fever guides us into the incredibly detailed universe of illustrator Julie Nord, where small girls in pretty dresses have houses in their bellies, and where chimney smoke turns into ... See full summary »

Director: Phie Ambo

28. The Home Front (2010)

Not Rated | 40 min | Documentary, Short

All over the world neighbours are at war with each other. In Denmark the government employs an army of officials to break up the backyard slagging matches and this doc joins them for the hilarious ride.

Director: Phie Ambo

Votes: 9

29. Family (I) (2001)

90 min | Documentary, Drama

The directors, who are also partners, take a journey in pursuit of Sami's father, who abandoned his Danish family when Sami was very young. Before this ambitious film project started, ... See full summary »

Directors: Phie Ambo, Sami Saif | Stars: Phie Ambo, Sami Saif, Walid Khalil Kaid Saif

Votes: 180



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