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1. Above and Below (I) (2015)
Not Rated | 118 min | Documentary, Adventure, Drama
Filmmaker Nicolas Steiner documents the exploits of three homeless people in Las Vegas, a man who lives in a military bunker in the California desert and a woman at a Utah research station that simulates life on Mars.
Director: Nicolas Steiner | Stars: Edward Cardenas, Cynthia Goodwin, Richard F. Ethredge, April Davis
Votes: 460
2. Songs and Tears of Nature (1992)
54 min | Documentary
Shot in Lapland and Brazil, this film reveals Man's relationship with nature, from the indigenous people point of view. Listen to the oral culture of the Saamis from the Arctic and the ... See full summary »
Director: Cesar Paes
3. Saudade Do Futuro (2000)
92 min | Documentary, Music
Dreaming of a better life, migrants from the Northeast of Brazil speak about the city of São Paulo, and sing it in prose, songs, stories and multiple sounds.
Director: Cesar Paes | Stars: Luiza Erundina, Fábio Freire, Ezequias Lira, Thomas Rohrer
Votes: 46
4. Awara Soup (1996)
71 min | Documentary
The awara soup is a kind of stew containing all sorts of ingredients from French Guiana. People say that if someone eats that dish on Easter, he is sure never to leave Guiana. Using the ... See full summary »
Director: Cesar Paes
Votes: 8
5. Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, History, Music
Award-winning director Fatih Akin takes us on a journey through Istanbul, the city that bridges Europe and Asia, and challenges familiar notions of east and west. He looks at the vibrant ... See full summary »
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Alexander Hacke, Ahmed Ulug, Cem Yegul, Mehmed Ulug
Votes: 6,495 | Gross: $0.07M
6. Grizzly Man (2005)
R | 103 min | Documentary, Biography
A devastating and heart-rending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzly bears in Alaska.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Timothy Treadwell, Amie Huguenard, Werner Herzog, Carol Dexter
Votes: 61,855 | Gross: $3.17M
7. Half-Life in Fukushima (2016)
61 min | Documentary
Despite the danger of radioactivity, a man decides to stay in the land of his ancestors. The last protector of life in a land of death.
Directors: Mark Olexa, Francesca Scalisi | Star: Naoto Matsumura
Votes: 127
8. Amsterdam Global Village (1996)
245 min | Documentary
This four hour documentary looks for the exotic in the everyday life observed in just one city, the filmmaker's own Amsterdam.
Director: Johan van der Keuken | Star: Julika Marijn
Votes: 157
9. Someone Beside You (2007)
90 min | Documentary
Along with several courageous psychiatrists and their clients, the author sets out to film a documentary road movie that takes him to Switzerland, Europe, and the U.S. On their travels in ... See full summary »
Director: Edgar Hagen
Votes: 25
10. Un petit coin de paradis (2008)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary
This is the story of the life reborn of Ossona, a hamlet in Val d'Herens in the Valais canton, which was abandoned in the sixties and has now become the pilot project for an agro-tourism ... See full summary »
Director: Jacqueline Veuve
Votes: 7
11. Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism (2009 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary
Mutantes sheds light on a feminism that was little talked about in France. This documentary comprises of a series of interviews conducted in the USA, Paris and Barcelona, and documents from... See full summary »
Director: Virginie Despentes | Stars: Norma Jean Almodovar, Maria Beatty, Lynn Breedlove, Catherine Breillat
Votes: 120
12. The Salt of the Earth (2014)
PG-13 | 110 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.
Directors: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders | Stars: Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders, Lélia Wanick Salgado, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Votes: 23,440 | Gross: $1.34M
13. 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
14. 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: 20,514 | Gross: $7.00M
15. Father's Garden: The Love of My Parents (2013)
93 min | Documentary, Drama, Family
Director: Peter Liechti
Votes: 76
16. Winter Nomads (2012)
90 min | Documentary, History
A 600 kilometre winter trek for 800 sheep, accompanied by 3 donkeys, 4 dogs and led by two shepherds, Pascal and Carole.
Director: Manuel von Stürler | Stars: Carole Noblanc, Jean-Paul Peguiron, Pascal Éguisier
Votes: 416
17. Solutions locales pour un désordre global (2010)
113 min | Documentary
Heroic machist industrial agronomy producing heavily contaminated and modified food and arid wastelands is challenged by several world examples of sensitive organic approach to producing food.
Director: Coline Serreau | Stars: Dominique Guillet, Vandana Shiva, Ana Primavesi, Philippe Desbrosses
Votes: 339
18. Nomad's Land: In the Footsteps of Nicolas Bouvier (2008)
90 min | Documentary, Adventure
The young director, Gael Metroz, takes the road alone, camera in hand, in the footsteps of Nicolas Bouvier. He discovers that the East is no longer the almost carefree land of the Fifties ... See full summary »
Director: Gaël Métroz | Star: Eliane Bouvier
Votes: 43
19. Tosca's Kiss (1984)
Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary, Music
Meet the inhabitants of the "Casa di Riposa" in Milan, the world's first nursing home for retired opera singers, founded by composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1896. In his documentary film Tosca's ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Schmid | Stars: Giuseppe Manacchini, Leonida Bellon, Salvatore Locapo, Giovanni Puligheddu
Votes: 202 | Gross: $0.01M
20. Neuland (2013)
93 min | Documentary
Young migrants from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Serbia and Venezuela attend a Swiss integration class where they learn a new language and prepare for employment.
Director: Anna Thommen | Stars: Christian Zingg, Ehsanullah Habibi, Nazlije Aliji, Ismail Aliji
Votes: 104
21. Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
G | 99 min | Documentary
Film-maker Werner Herzog travels to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, looking to capture the continent's beauty and investigate the characters living there.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Werner Herzog, Scott Rowland, Stefan Pashov, Doug MacAyeal
Votes: 19,247 | Gross: $0.94M
22. La vallée des loups (2016)
90 min | Documentary
A man goes on a three year hike on the trail of wolves in the French Alps.
Director: Jean-Michel Bertrand | Star: Jean-Michel Bertrand
Votes: 118
23. India: Matri Bhumi (1959)
90 min | Documentary, Drama
Several stories depicting the landscapes and fauna of India are mixed with documentary footage.
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Votes: 730
24. Chris the Swiss (2018)
90 min | Documentary, Animation, Biography
Croatia, 7th of January 1992: In the middle of the war a young journalists' body is being found dressed with an uniform of the international mercenary group. 19 years later, his cousin Anja Kofmel detects his story.
Director: Anja Kofmel | Stars: Susanne-Marie Wrage, Megan Gay, Christian Würtenberg, Michael Würtenberg
Votes: 556
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