With Harvard University (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. With Honors (1994)
PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
Convinced his thesis will have him graduate with honors from Harvard University, a stuffy student finds himself at the mercy of a homeless man's demands when he holds the papers hostage.
Director: Alek Keshishian | Stars: Joe Pesci, Brendan Fraser, Moira Kelly, Patrick Dempsey
Votes: 15,281 | Gross: $20.04M
2. Three Identical Strangers (2018)
PG-13 | 96 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
In 1980 New York, three young men who were all adopted meet each other and find out they're triplets who were separated at birth. But their quest to find out why turns into a bizarre and sinister mystery.
Director: Tim Wardle | Stars: Robert Shafran, Michael Domnitz, Howard Schneider, Ellen Cervone
Votes: 37,318 | Gross: $12.32M
3. Van Gogh (1991)
R | 158 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The final sixty-seven days of Van Gogh's life are examined.
Director: Maurice Pialat | Stars: Jacques Dutronc, Alexandra London, Bernard Le Coq, Gérard Séty
Votes: 3,176 | Gross: $0.14M
4. The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017)
TV-MA | 105 min | Documentary, Biography
Victoria Cruz investigates the mysterious 1992 death of black gay rights activist and Stonewall veteran, Marsha P. Johnson. Using archival interviews with Johnson, and new interviews with Johnson's family, friends and fellow activists.
Director: David France | Stars: Kurt Wolfe, Sue Yacka, Catherine Shugrue Dos Santos, Victoria Cruz
Votes: 3,090
5. The Big One (1997)
PG-13 | 91 min | Documentary, Comedy, Crime
On his book tour, Michael Moore exposes more wrongdoing by greedy big businesses and callous politicians around America.
Director: Michael Moore | Stars: Michael Moore, Elaine Bly, Dan Burns, Chip Carter
Votes: 7,994 | Gross: $0.72M
6. Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004)
TV-PG | 214 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African-American Heavyweight boxing champion.
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Jack Johnson, Keith David, Samuel L. Jackson, Adam Arkin
Votes: 1,628
7. Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (2008)
PG | 105 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport
Critically acclaimed documentary about the 1968 football game played by two undefeated teams from Harvard and Yale.
Director: Kevin Rafferty | Stars: Don Gillis, Bruce Freeman, Ted Skowronski, Ted Livingston
Votes: 680 | Gross: $0.27M
8. Jabberwocky (1974–1978)
Family
Jabberwocky featured real actors and puppets and various interstitial cartoons.
Stars: Robert Prosky, Tucker Smallwood, JoBeth Williams, Joanne Sopko
Votes: 23
9. The Hunters (1957)
72 min | Documentary
This film follows the hunting of a giraffe by four members of the Ju/'hoansi (a !Kung Bushmen tribe) over a 13-day period in the Kalahari desert. The film consists of footage shot in 1952-53 on a Smithsonian-Harvard Peabody expedition.
Directors: Robert Gardner, John Marshall | Star: John Marshall
Votes: 102
10. Norville and Trudy (1997)
Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Director: Dianah Wynter | Stars: Tighe Swanson, Meredith Monroe, Hallee Hirsh, Carrie Preston
Votes: 15
11. Anna May Wong, Frosted Yellow Willows: Her Life, Times and Legend (2007)
50 min | Documentary, Biography
Director: Elaine Mae Woo | Stars: Philip Ahn, Kevin Brownlow, Charles Chaplin, Conrad Doerr
Votes: 21
12. Connected: The Power of Six Degrees (2008 TV Movie)
54 min | Documentary
Director: Annamaria Talas | Stars: Nyaloka Auma, Kevin Bacon, Albert-László Barabási, Lori Benson
Votes: 63
13. Position Among the Stars (2010)
115 min | Documentary, History
Position among the Stars, the final part of a trilogy, follows the award- winning documentaries Eye of the Day and Shape of the Moon (Joris Ivens Award IDFA 2004 - World Cinema Documentary ... See full summary »
Director: Leonard Retel Helmrich
Votes: 301
14. The Burning Child (2019)
113 min | Documentary
Haunted by a painting of his grandparents seated in their living room, director Joseph Koerner unearths in Vienna the remarkable story behind a vanished interior.
Directors: Christian D. Bruun, Joseph Koerner | Stars: Joseph Koerner, Marcus Scheer, Wolf-Erich Eckstein, Otto Kapfinger
Votes: 5
15. Just for the Ride (1995)
53 min | Documentary
Director: Amanda Micheli | Stars: Fern Sawyer, Jan Youren
Votes: 7
16. Lady Dior Web Documentary (2012)
16 min | Documentary, Short
In 2012, French fashion house Dior launched a web documentary on the latest Lady Dior campaigns starring Marion Cotillard.
Director: Eliott Bliss | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Christian Dior, Catherine Rivière, Florence Chehet
18. A Matter of Fat (1970)
99 min | Documentary
Director: William Weintraub | Stars: Gilles Lorrain, Lorne Greene
19. Clay or the Origin of Species (1965)
Not Rated | 9 min | Animation, Short
Traces the rise of life on earth from primordial ooze to the present.
Director: Eli Noyes
Votes: 110
20. Girl (1967)
12 min | Short
Director: Paul Williams | Stars: Sue Kingsford, David Collins, Berbie Brown, Tony Cassidy
21. Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery (2022)
Documentary, Short
Harvard's sobering indictment of its own long-standing relationship with chattel slavery and anti-Black discrimination. In recent years, scholars have documented extensive relationships ... See full summary »
Director: Graham Judd
23. Jake on the Box (2006 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
An appreciation and retrospective look at the songs and humour of Leeds folk singer/songwriter Jake Thackray, including performances of some of his songs.
Director: John Warburton | Stars: Nigel Forde, Jake Thackray, Danny Baker, Ian Watson
Votes: 6
24. The Changing Ape (2010 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary
Anthropologist Jill Pruetz follows the chimpanzees of the Fongoli, a woodland area in Senegal, West Africa, to study their behavior. It is their unique behavior, in this unique place, that ... See full summary »
Stars: Jack Harris, Kevin Hunt, Lance Lewman, Jill Pruetz
26.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Midnight Ramble
(1994)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary about the history of African American race films during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Directors: Pearl Bowser, Bestor Cram | Stars: Toni Cade Bambara, Robert Hall, Elton Fax, Pearl Bowser
Votes: 41
28.
Economics U$A (1985– )
Episode:
John Maynard Keynes: What Did We Learn from the Great Depression?
Director: Frank Nesbitt | Stars: David Schoumacher, Richard T. Gill, Eric Sevareid, Robert Heilbroner
29.
Murder, Mystery and My Family (2018– )
Episode:
Thomas
(2020)
44 min | Documentary, Crime, History
The barristers revisit their investigation (from S.3 Ep.1) of the 1839 drowning of a female passenger aboard a narrowboat in Staffordshire. They learn how some high profile supporters have been enlisted in the campaign for a Royal Pardon.
Directors: David McConnell, Gary John Senior, Emily Wallis | Stars: Tony Hirst, Sasha Wass, Jeremy Dein, David Radford
30.
The Universe (2007–2015)
Episode:
Light Speed
(2008)
TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History
Physical behavior that results from having a constant speed of light are described.
Director: Darryl Rehr | Stars: Erik Thompson, Amy Mainzer, Michio Kaku, Alex Filippenko
Votes: 83
31.
The Universe (2007–2015)
Episode:
Alien Faces
(2008)
TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History
Scientists speculate on what higher life forms might look like on planets with environments different from earth.
Director: John Greenewald Jr. | Stars: Erik Thompson, David A. Aguilar, Craig C. Freudenrich, Lynn Rothschild
Votes: 62
32.
Egypt Unwrapped (2008– )
Episode:
Alexander's Tomb
(2009)
Documentary
Director: Ian A. Hunt | Stars: Mark Halliley, Robert Steven Bianchi, Andrew Chugg, Zahi Hawass
Votes: 13
33.
Universe (2021)
Episode:
The Big Bang: Before the Dawn
(2021)
59 min | Documentary
It's the ultimate question: why are we here? Cutting-edge space missions take us back 13.8 billion years to the very beginning - the origin of the Universe.
Director: Ashley Gething | Stars: Brian Cox, Kimberly Arcand, Larry Gladney, Carole Haswell
Votes: 50
34.
Naked Science (2004– )
Episode:
Expedition Apocalypse
(2010)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, Adventure
In 1908 something felled millions of trees over 1000 square miles in Siberia, without leaving a trace. Many believe an asteroid was responsible. New evidence could at last solve the Tunguska mystery.
Director: Rick Beyer | Stars: Mark Boslough, Marco Cocchi, Luca Gasperini, Walter H. Haas
Votes: 7
35.
Through the Wormhole (2010–2017)
Episode:
Can We Live Forever?
(2011)
TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary
This program reviews current thinking about what causes death and aging. Then it examines increasingly bizarre ideas about how to prevent them.
Stars: Morgan Freeman, Aubrey de Grey, Greg Fahy, Michio Kaku
Votes: 151
36.
Through the Wormhole (2010–2017)
Episode:
What Do Aliens Look Like?
(2011)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary
This program gives serious consideration to what life forms on other planets might look like founded on the vast diversity of life on earth now and in the past and what is now known about ... See full summary »
Stars: Morgan Freeman, William Bains, John DiPrima, Sheila Doran-Sasselov
Votes: 133
37.
Nova (1974– )
Episode:
Finding Life Beyond Earth: Are We Alone?
(2011)
TV-G | 106 min | Documentary
Scientists are on the verge of answering one of the greatest questions in history: Are we alone? Finding Life Beyond Earth immerses audiences in the sights and sounds of alien worlds, while... See full summary »
Director: Oliver Twinch | Stars: Ashley Davies, Jennifer Eigenbrode, Josh Eisner, Danny Glavin
Votes: 87
38.
Through the Wormhole (2010–2017)
Episode:
Is There a Superior Race?
(2012)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary
Are races different on the inside as well as the outside? Is there such a thing as race at all? Or, could advances in technology create a superior race? The answers to these questions may tell us where humanity is headed.
Director: Geoffrey Sharp | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Andy Brower, Bill Clinton, Stanley Coren
Votes: 125
39.
Through the Wormhole (2010–2017)
Episode:
Can We Resurrect the Dead?
(2012)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary
What if death wasn't the end? Resurrecting bodies isn't enough. To truly live again, we must also resurrect our minds. Scientists are developing ways to digitally preserve the contents of ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Sayenga | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Lance Becker, John Elefteriades, Cathal Gurrin
Votes: 100
40.
Alien Encounters (2012–2014)
Episode:
The Invasion
(2013)
TV-PG | 60 min | Sci-Fi
The Arrival has ended. A swarm of small spacecraft depart their huge mothership, and hover in our atmosphere. The ships open their hatches, and deposit thousands of mysterious pods on the ... See full summary »
Director: Emre Sahin | Stars: Anthony D. Call, Hakeem Oluseyi, Sean Carroll, Seth Shostak
Votes: 18
41.
Stargazing Live (2011– )
Episode:
Episode #4.3
(2014)
Family, Reality-TV
Brian Cox and Dara O Briain raise the stakes in the final night of their astronomy extravaganza, and reveal the results of their viewers' challenge to find undiscovered galaxies at the edge of space.
Directors: Ian Russell, Tom Hewitson, Alice Jones, Penny Palmer | Stars: Brian Cox, Dara O Briain, Liz Bonnin, Mark Thompson
42.
Stargazing Live: Back to Earth (2012– )
Episode:
Episode #3.3
(2014)
Talk-Show
Director: Ian Russell | Stars: Dara O Briain, Brian Cox, Mark Thompson, Maggie Aderin-Pocock
43.
The Nature of Things (1960– )
Episode:
Stay-at-Home Animal Dads
(2018)
Documentary
The mysteries and secrets of nature's single dads.
Directors: Ari A. Cohen, Chris Goldade | Stars: David Suzuki, Sigal Balshine, Penny Henley, Charlotta Kvarnemo