Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and unity.
โญ 8.0 | 2021 | Movie | 118 minMy 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.
โญ 8.1 | 2020 | Movie | 85 minAmerican 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.
โญ 7.4 | 2019 | Movie | 110 minFree 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.
โญ 8.1 | 2018 | Movie | 100 minIcarus
While investigating the furtive world of illegal doping in sports, director Bryan Fogel connects with renegade Russian scientist Dr.
โญ 7.9 | 2017 | Movie | 120 minAmy
A documentary on the life of Amy Winehouse, the immensely talented yet doomed songstress.
โญ 7.8 | 2015 | Movie | 128 min20 Feet from Stardom
Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight.
โญ 7.4 | 2013 | Movie | 91 minUndefeated
Set against the backdrop of a high school football season, Dan Lindsay and T.
โญ 7.7 | 2011 | Movie | 113 minMan 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.
โญ 7.7 | 2008 | Movie | 94 minTaxi to the Dark Side
An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.
โญ 7.5 | 2007 | Movie | 106 minAn Inconvenient Truth
A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.
โญ 7.4 | 2006 | Movie | 96 minBorn Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta.
โญ 7.2 | 2004 | Movie | 85 minMurder on a Sunday Morning
2001 French documentary about the murder trial of a 15 year old black teen accused of murder in Jacksonville, Florida.
โญ 8.0 | 2001 | Movie | 111 minInto the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
In the nine months prior to World War II, 10.
โญ 7.8 | 2000 | Movie | 122 minOne Day in September
The full story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli revenge operation 'Wrath of God.
โญ 7.8 | 1999 | Movie | 94 minThe Long Way Home
The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.
โญ 7.6 | 1997 | Movie | 120 minAmerican Dream
When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota are asked to take a substantial pay cut in a highly profitable year, the local labor union decides to go on strike and fight for a wage they believe is fair.
โญ 7.8 | 1990 | Movie | 98 minCommon 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.
โญ 8.1 | 1989 | Movie | 79 minHรดtel 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.
โญ 7.6 | 1988 | Movie | 267 minDown and Out in America
Three sectors of American society hit by recession in the mid-1980s: heartland farms, factory workers out of a job, and the new homeless.
โญ 7.2 | 1986 | Movie | 57 minThe Times of Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.
โญ 8.2 | 1984 | Movie | 90 minGenocide
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.
โญ 7.3 | 1982 | Movie | 90 minFrom Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China
A beautiful expression of two differing cultures brought together by the warmth and dedication of a great musician and humanitarian.
โญ 7.5 | 1979 | Movie | 84 minBest Boy
In this documentary, the director follows the day-to-day activities of his retarded, middle-aged cousin Philly, over a three-year period.
โญ 7.8 | 1979 | Movie | 111 minHarlan 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.
โญ 8.2 | 1976 | Movie | 103 minThe Man Who Skied Down Everest
A Japanese skier tries to fulfill his dream of sking down Mount Everest.
โญ 7.2 | 1975 | Movie | 85 minMarjoe
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".
โญ 7.5 | 1972 | Movie | 88 minWoodstock
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.
โญ 8.1 | 1970 | Movie | 184 minRobert 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.
โญ 6.5 | 1963 | Short | 41 minHelen Keller in Her Story
Narrated by actress Katharine Cornell and filmed in black and white, it spends the first 24 minutes introducing viewers, through newsreels, interviews, and old photographs, to the story of the deaf and blind disabled-rights pioneer.
โญ 7.7 | 1954 | Movie | 55 minThe Vanishing Prairie
Story of the American Prairie as it was when vast herds of bison and elk grazed.
โญ 7.3 | 1954 | Movie | 71 minThe Living Desert
The Living Desert was the first feature-length film in Disneyโs 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.
โญ 7.4 | 1953 | Movie | 69 minI 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.
โญ 6.1 | 1951 | Movie | 83 minKon-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.
โญ 7.9 | 1950 | Movie | 77 minThe True Glory
A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen.
โญ 7.1 | 1945 | Movie | 87 minDesert Victory
A featureless land fit only for war, as the narrator, J.
โญ 6.4 | 1943 | Movie | 60 minWhy 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.
โญ 7.0 | 1942 | Movie | 52 minThe Battle of Midway
The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened.
โญ 6.1 | 1942 | Short | 18 min