My Octopus Teacher
After years of swimming every day in the freezing ocean at the tip of Africa, Craig Foster meets an unlikely teacher: a young octopus who displays remarkable curiosity.
⭐ 8.1 | 2020 | Movie | 85 min
American Factory
In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand blue-collar Americans.
⭐ 7.4 | 2019 | Movie | 110 min
Free Solo
Follow Alex Honnold as he attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite's 3,000 foot high El Capitan wall.
⭐ 8.2 | 2018 | Movie | 100 min
Icarus
While investigating the furtive world of illegal doping in sports, director Bryan Fogel connects with renegade Russian scientist Dr.
⭐ 7.9 | 2017 | Movie | 120 min
Amy
A documentary on the life of Amy Winehouse, the immensely talented yet doomed songstress.
⭐ 7.8 | 2015 | Movie | 128 min
Citizenfour
In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.
⭐ 8.0 | 2014 | Movie | 114 min
20 Feet from Stardom
Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight.
⭐ 7.4 | 2013 | Movie | 91 min
Undefeated
Set against the backdrop of a high school football season, Dan Lindsay and T.
⭐ 7.7 | 2011 | Movie | 113 min
Man on Wire
On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rigged between New York's World Trade Center twin towers, then the world's tallest buildings.
⭐ 7.7 | 2008 | Movie | 94 min
An Inconvenient Truth
A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.
⭐ 7.4 | 2006 | Movie | 96 min
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta.
⭐ 7.2 | 2004 | Movie | 85 min
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
In the nine months prior to World War II, 10.
⭐ 7.8 | 2000 | Movie | 122 min
American Dream
Chronicles the six-month strike at Hormel in Austin, Minnesota, in 1985-86.
⭐ 7.9 | 1990 | Movie | 98 min
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
On the eve of 1987's Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS prepare panels to be added to a large-scale memorial quilt project.
⭐ 8.1 | 1989 | Movie | 79 min
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
Winner of a Best Documentary Academy Award, Marcel Ophuls' riveting film details the heinous legacy of the Gestapo head dubbed "The Butcher of Lyon.
⭐ 7.7 | 1988 | Movie | 267 min
The Times of Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.
⭐ 8.3 | 1984 | Movie | 90 min
Genocide
The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism is on the rise and the events of the Holocaust could happen again.
⭐ 7.2 | 1982 | Movie | 90 min
Harlan County U.S.A.
This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973.
⭐ 8.3 | 1976 | Movie | 103 min
The Man Who Skied Down Everest
A Japanese skier tries to fulfill his dream of sking down Mount Everest.
⭐ 7.2 | 1975 | Movie | 85 min
Marjoe
Part documentary, part expose, this film follows one-time child evangelist Marjoe Gortner on the "church tent" Revivalist circuit, commenting on the showmanship of Evangelism and "the religion business", prior to the start of "televangelism".
⭐ 7.6 | 1972 | Movie | 88 min
Woodstock
An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits of the concertgoers; negative and positive aspects are shown, from drug use by performers to naked fans sliding in the mud, from the collapse of the fences by the unexpected hordes to the surreal arrival of National Guard helicopters with food and medical assistance for the impromptu city of 500,000.
⭐ 8.2 | 1970 | Movie | 184 min
Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World
The acclaimed poet is examined in this film completed just prior to his death at age 88, with his speaking engagements at Amherst and Sarah Lawrence Colleges intercut with studies of his work, as well as with scenes of his life in rural Vermont and personal reminiscences about his career.
⭐ 6.6 | 1963 | Short | 41 min
The Vanishing Prairie
Story of the American Prairie as it was when vast herds of bison and elk grazed.
⭐ 7.4 | 1954 | Movie | 71 min
The Living Desert
The Living Desert was the first feature-length film in Disney’s True-Life Adventures series of documentaries focusing on zoological studies; the previous films in the series, including the Academy Award-winning Seal Island, were short subjects.
⭐ 7.5 | 1953 | Movie | 69 min
I Was a Communist for the FBI
A fact-based story about a man who posed as an American Communist for years as part of a secret plan to infiltrate their organization.
⭐ 6.1 | 1951 | Movie | 83 min
Kon-Tiki
"Kon-Tiki" was the name of a wooden raft used by six Scandinavian scientists, led by Thor Heyerdahl, to make a 101-day journey from South America to the Polynesian Islands.
⭐ 7.9 | 1950 | Movie | 77 min
The True Glory
A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen.
⭐ 7.1 | 1945 | Movie | 87 min
Desert Victory
A featureless land fit only for war, as the narrator, J.
⭐ 6.5 | 1943 | Movie | 60 min
Why We Fight: Prelude to War
Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C.
⭐ 7.0 | 1942 | Movie | 52 min
The Battle of Midway
The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened.
⭐ 6.1 | 1942 | Short | 18 min