With Field of Vision (II) (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. American Factory (2019)
TV-14 | 110 min | Documentary
In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a factory in an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.
Directors: Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert | Stars: Junming 'Jimmy' Wang, Robert Allen, Sherrod Brown, Dave Burrows
Votes: 22,687
2. Nothing Compares (2022)
97 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Following the career of singer Sinéad O'Connor through her rise to fame and how her iconoclastic personality led to her exile from the pop mainstream.
Director: Kathryn Ferguson | Stars: Sinéad O'Connor, Gay Byrne, Aifric O'Donnell, Donncha Tynan
Votes: 1,342
3. Disclosure (2020)
TV-MA | 108 min | Documentary
An in-depth look at Hollywood's depiction of transgender people and the impact of those stories on transgender lives and American culture.
Director: Sam Feder | Stars: Laverne Cox, Bianca Leigh, Jen Richards, Alexandra Billings
Votes: 5,728
4. Riotsville, U.S.A. (2022)
91 min | Documentary
Welcome to Riotsville, a fictional town built by the US military. Using all archival footage, the film explores the militarization of the police and creates a counter-narrative to the nation's reaction to the uprisings of the late '60s.
Director: Sierra Pettengill | Stars: Charlene Modeste, Lyndon B. Johnson, Otto Kerner, Edward P. Morgan
Votes: 276
5. The Panama Papers (2018)
Not Rated | 96 min | Documentary
A documentary feature film about the biggest global corruption scandal in history, and the hundreds of journalists who risked their lives to break the story.
Director: Alex Winter | Stars: Bastian Obermayer, Katrin Langhans, Frederik Obermaier, Marnia Walker Guevara
Votes: 1,606
6. MLK/FBI (2020)
TV-PG | 104 min | Documentary, History
Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's resonant film explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Director: Sam Pollard | Stars: Shaun Bowman, Martin Luther King, J. Edgar Hoover, David Garrow
Votes: 1,622
7. Risk (I) (2016)
TV-MA | 86 min | Documentary
The story of WikiLeak's editor-in-chief Julian Assange as seen by documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras.
Director: Laura Poitras | Stars: Julian Assange, Sarah Harrison, Jacob Appelbaum, Joseph Farrell
Votes: 2,299 | Gross: $0.20M
8. Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)
Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary
A kaleidoscopic and humanistic view of the Black community in Hale County, Alabama.
Director: RaMell Ross | Stars: Latrenda 'Boosie' Ash, Karmyn Bryant, Korbyn Bryant, Kyrie Bryant
Votes: 2,047 | Gross: $0.11M
9. Do Not Split (2020)
35 min | Documentary, Short
In 2019 Hong Kong was rocked by the largest protests since Britain handed back the area to China in 1997. This is the story of the protests, told through a series of demonstrations by local... See full summary »
Director: Anders Sømme Hammer | Stars: Joey Siu, Rocky S. Tuan
Votes: 1,682
10. Relative (III) (2022)
72 min | Documentary
Unraveling a complex tapestry of vulnerability, shame, and love, the filmmaker discovers a pervasive history of multigenerational sexual abuse in her Italian-American family. As decades of ... See full summary »
Director: Tracey Arcabasso Smith
Votes: 14
11. Ghosts of Sugar Land (2019)
TV-MA | 21 min | Documentary, Short
A group of suburban Muslims attempt to reconcile the disappearance of a close friend and must learn to live with the consequences of his actions.
Director: Bassam Tariq | Stars: Jennifer Julian, Kc Okoro
Votes: 1,472
12. XY Chelsea (2019)
Not Rated | 92 min | Documentary
A look at the life and career of Chelsea Manning, a trans woman soldier in the United States Army, who was sentenced to serve 35 years at an all-male military prison for leaking information about the country's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Director: Tim Travers Hawkins | Stars: Chelsea Manning, Nancy Hollander, Vincent J. Ward, Chase Strangio
Votes: 351
13. Shooting the Mafia (2019)
94 min | Documentary
Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia spends her career documenting the life and crimes of the Mafia.
Director: Kim Longinotto | Stars: Letizia Battaglia, Mariachiara di Trapani, Eduardo Rebulla, Santi Caleca
Votes: 675
14. Project X (2016)
10 min | Documentary, Short
A top-secret handbook takes viewers on an undercover journey to TITANPOINTE, the site of a hidden partnership. Narrated by Rami Malek and Michelle Williams, and based on classified NSA ... See full summary »
Directors: Henrik Moltke, Laura Poitras | Stars: Rami Malek, Michelle Williams
Votes: 126
15. A Night at the Garden (2017)
TV-PG | 7 min | Documentary, Short, History
Archival footage of an American Nazi rally that attracted 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in 1939, shortly before the beginning of World War II.
Director: Marshall Curry | Star: Fritz Kuhn
Votes: 1,553
16. Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press (2017)
TV-14 | 95 min | Documentary
The trial between Hulk Hogan and Gawker Media pitted privacy rights against freedom of the press, and raised important questions about how big money can silence media. This film is an ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Knappenberger | Stars: A.J. Daulerio, Hulk Hogan, Charles Harder, David Folkenflik
Votes: 4,265
17. Crime + Punishment (2018)
112 min | Documentary
A group of brave NYPD officers risk it all to expose the truth about illegal quota practices in police departments.
Director: Stephen T. Maing | Stars: Manuel 'Manny' Gomez, Sandy Gonzales, Rukia Lumumba, Edwin Raymond
Votes: 678 | Gross: $0.02M
18. The Proposal (II) (2018)
86 min | Documentary
An artist fights to make the archives of Mexico's most famous architect available to the public.
Director: Jill Magid | Stars: Luis Barragán, Jill Magid, Federica Zanco
Votes: 139 | Gross: $0.05M
19. Landfall (2020)
91 min | Documentary
Documentary chronicles the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and the fraught relationship between the US and Puerto Rico.
Director: Cecilia Aldarondo
Votes: 50
20. How to Have an American Baby (2023)
117 min | Documentary
An intimate and kaleidoscopic voyage behind the closed doors of the Chinese birth tourism industry in the U.S.
Director: Leslie Tai
21. In the Absence (2018)
28 min | Documentary, Short
Documents the sinking of a South Korean Ferry. As a result of the ineptitude of the first response to the emerging situation, hundreds of people, mostly children lost their lives.
Director: Seung-jun Yi
Votes: 1,307
22. The Art of Making Money (2019)
Short
What if the best way to make more money - is to create it yourself? In this new documentary series from filmmaker Nathan Truesdell and Field of Vision, we follow folks who decided to take ... See full summary »
23. After Sherman (2022)
88 min | Documentary
A story of inheritance and the tension that defines our collective American history which explores coastal South Carolina as a site of pride and racial trauma through Gullah cultural retention and land preservation.
Director: Jon Sesrie Goff | Star: Norvel Goff Sr.
Votes: 11
24. Between Earth & Sky (2023)
26 min | Documentary, Short
After surviving a life-threatening fall from a tree, renowned rainforest ecologist Nalini Nadkarni must turn her research question of "what grows back" in the canopy onto herself, exploring disturbance and recovery throughout her life.
Director: Andrew Nadkarni | Star: Nalini Nadkarni
25. North by Current (2021)
86 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his home town after the mysterious death of his two-year-old niece and the arrest of his brother-in-law as the culprit.
Director: Angelo Madsen Minax | Star: Angelo Madsen Minax
Votes: 127
26. Scenes from a Dry City (2018)
13 min | Documentary, Short
Gripped by a fear of drought, 'SCENES FROM A DRY CITY' uses the lens of water to reveal cracks in Cape Town's complex social fabric.
Directors: Francois Verster, Simon Wood
Votes: 34
27. Our New President (2018)
77 min | Documentary
The story of Donald Trump's election told entirely through Russian propaganda, including Youtube videos by common Russians and Russia Today, the most popular and unashamedly manipulative TV news network.
Director: Maxim Pozdorovkin | Stars: Emin Agalarov, Dmitry Butuzov, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton
Votes: 479 | Gross: $0.04M
28. Trump's Lobby (2017)
Documentary, Short
Since the election of Donald Trump, there has been a continual flow of high level visitors to the penthouse apartment in Trump Tower. Their arrivals were turned into a media spectacle.
Director: Alex Winter
Votes: 47
29. The Rifleman (2021)
18 min | Short
An all-archival excavation of the links between gun culture, the National Rifle Association, and the U.S. Border Patrol across five decades.
Director: Sierra Pettengill
Votes: 23
30. The Facility (2021)
26 min | Documentary, Short
A group of immigrants detained inside an infamous American detention center as the pandemic spreads, organize in protest to demand protections and their release. Separated from their ... See full summary »
Director: Seth Freed Wessler | Star: Seth Freed Wessler
Votes: 69
31. Seeking Mavis Beacon (II)
Documentary | Filming
Investigates the disappearance and reexamines the legacy of one of the most influential Black women in technology.
Director: Jazmin Jones
32. American Carnage (II) (2017)
9 min | Short
See how alt-right icon Steve Bannon's years as a documentary filmmaker catapulted him to Breitbart News and the Trump White House.
Directors: Jeff Reichert, Farihah Zaman
Votes: 7
33. The Moderators (2017)
22 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Ciaran Cassidy, Adrian Chen
Votes: 32
34. Life Without Dreams (2022)
13 min | Short
Set in the outer space of consciousness, where the surfaces of far-out planetary bodies form the terrain for an exploration of 24/7 capitalism, insomnia, and the disappearance of darkness.
Director: Jessica Bardsley
Votes: 23
35. We Were There to Be There (2021)
Short, Documentary
On June 13, 1978, the punk bands the Cramps and the Mutants played a free show for psychiatric patients at the Napa State Hospital in California.
Directors: Mike Plante, Jason Willis
Votes: 9
36. The Above (2015)
8 min | Documentary, Short
In Kirsten Johnson's The Above, a U.S. military surveillance balloon floats on a tether high above Kabul, Afghanistan. Its capacities are both highly classified and deeply mysterious.
Director: Kirsten Johnson
Votes: 106
37. Graven Image (2017)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Using over 100 years of archival footage, director Sierra Pettengill explores the history of the largest Confederate monument, Georgia's Stone Mountain.
Director: Sierra Pettengill
Votes: 15
38. CamperForce (2017)
Documentary, Short
For nearly a decade, Amazon has recruited thousands of RVers for a seasonal labor unit called CamperForce.
Director: Brett Story
Votes: 17
39. The Surrender (2015)
23 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
In August 2010, Stephen Kim, a highly-regarded State Department intelligence analyst, was indicted under the Espionage Act for jeopardizing national security by allegedly divulging ... See full summary »
Director: Stephen T. Maing | Star: Stephen Kim
Votes: 13
40. When We Fight (2022)
34 min | Documentary, Short
In the second largest school district in the United States, 98% of teachers vote to strike. Watch as the Los Angeles teachers' strike unfolds in real-time, highlighting the stories and leadership of some of the women who led it.
Directors: Yael Bridge, Yoni Golijov
41. Days of Black and Yellow (2019)
11 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Ray Levé, Willie Miesmer, Lotfy Nathan
Votes: 9
42. Gatekeeper (2016)
39 min | Documentary, Short
Patrolling a popular tourist destination of steep cliffs that plummet into the Sea of Japan, a retired police officer vigilantly intercepts troubled souls looking to jump, his count of lives saved now over 500.
Director: Yung Chang | Stars: Misako Kawagoshi, Kenji Morioka, Yukio Shige
Votes: 67
43. Captured in Sudan (2017)
Short
In 2004 Phil Cox and Daoud Hari were the first video journalists to cover the bitter Darfur conflict that drew the attention of the worlds media and was labelled a genocide. But more than a... See full synopsis »
Directors: Philip Cox, Daoud Hari, Giovanna Stopponi
44. Crooked Lines (2018)
Short
Directors: Monica Berra, Jacqueline Olive, Yoruba Richen | Stars: Val Applewhite, Moon Duchin
45. Nuuca (2017)
12 min | Documentary, Short
This evocative meditation draws a disturbing link between the industrial exploitation of Canadian land and violence inflicted on Indigenous women.
Director: Michelle Latimer
Votes: 17
46. The Earth is Humming (2018)
13 min | Documentary, Short
In Japan, earthquake preparedness is a way of life and a full-blown industry.
Director: Garrett Bradley
Votes: 25
47. Personal Truth (2018)
18 min | Documentary, Short
The 'Pizzagate' conspiracy theory of 2016 claimed that Hillary Clinton and other high-ranking US Democratic Party officials were operating a child sex-trafficking ring from a popular ... See full summary »
Director: Charlie Shackleton | Stars: Alex Jones, Edgar Maddison Welch
Votes: 18
48. In the Wake of Ghost Ship (2017)
Short
Following the deadly Ghost Ship fire in Oakland, California, DIY and live/work spaces across the country came under immense scrutiny. In nearby Richmond, members of the punk collective ... See full summary »
Director: Jason Blalock
49. The Black Belt (2016)
10 min | Documentary, Short
In September 2015, the State of Alabama closed 31 DMVs, which largely impacted voters in Alabama's Black Belt. To combat these closures, the Secretary of State issued a Mobile Voter ... See full summary »
Directors: Margaret Brown, Jeff Peixoto | Star: Greg Maluma
Votes: 10
50. Relatively Free (2016)
19 min | Documentary, Short
A short film following the release of journalist and activist Barrett Brown from prison, and his drive across Texas to a halfway house. 'Relatively Free' is an examination of Brown's return to a very different world, post the election.
Director: Alex Winter | Stars: Barrett Brown, Robert Brown, Marlo Cadeddu, Ahmed Ghappour
Votes: 20