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20 Days in Mariupol

8.5 | 2023 | Movie | 95min

Director: Mstyslav Chernov

Stars: Mstyslav Chernov • Evgeniy Maloletka • Liudmyla Amelkina

Navalny

7.7 | 2022 | Movie | 99min

Director: Daniel Roher

Stars: Alexei Navalny • Yulia Navalnaya • Dasha Navalnaya

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

8.0 | 2021 | Movie | 118min

Director: Questlove

Stars: Stevie Wonder • Lin-Manuel Miranda • Chris Rock

Free Solo

8.1 | 2018 | Movie | 100min

Directors: Jimmy Chin • Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Stars: Alex Honnold • Tommy Caldwell • Jimmy Chin

Amy

7.8 | 2015 | Movie | 128min

Director: Asif Kapadia

Stars: Amy Winehouse • Mark Ronson • Tony Bennett

Citizenfour

8.0 | 2014 | Movie | 114min

Director: Laura Poitras

Stars: Edward Snowden • Glenn Greenwald • Laura Poitras

20 Feet from Stardom

7.4 | 2013 | Movie | 91min

Director: Morgan Neville

Stars: Darlene Love • Lisa Fischer • Merry Clayton

Searching for Sugar Man

8.2 | 2012 | Movie | 86min

Director: Malik Bendjelloul

Stars: Stephen Segerman • Rodriguez • Regan Rodriguez

Undefeated

7.7 | 2011 | Movie | 113min

Directors: Daniel Lindsay • T.J. Martin

Stars: O.C. Brown • Bill Courtney • Chavis Daniels

Inside Job

8.2 | 2010 | Movie | 109min

Director: Charles Ferguson

Stars: Matt Damon • William Ackman • Barack Obama

The Cove

8.4 | 2009 | Movie | 92min

Director: Louie Psihoyos

Stars: Hayden Panettiere • Joe Chisholm • Mandy-Rae Cruikshank

Taxi to the Dark Side

7.5 | 2007 | Movie | 106min

Director: Alex Gibney

Stars: Brian Keith Allen • Moazzam Begg • Christopher Beiring

An Inconvenient Truth

7.4 | 2006 | Movie | 96min

Director: Davis Guggenheim

Stars: Al Gore • Billy West • Ronald Reagan

March of the Penguins

7.5 | 2005 | Movie | 80min

Director: Luc Jacquet

Stars: Charles Berling • Romane Bohringer • Jules Sitruk

Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids

7.2 | 2004 | Movie | 85min

Directors: Zana Briski • Ross Kauffman

Stars: Zana Briski • Avijit • Geeta Masi

The Fog of War

8.0 | 2003 | Movie | 107min

Director: Errol Morris

Stars: Robert McNamara • Errol Morris • Fidel Castro

Bowling for Columbine

8.0 | 2002 | Movie | 120min

Director: Michael Moore

Stars: Michael Moore • George H. W. Bush • George W. Bush

Murder on a Sunday Morning

7.9 | 2001 | Movie | 111min

Director: Jean-Xavier de Lestrade

Stars: Ann Finnell • Patrick McGuinness • James Williams

One Day in September

7.8 | 1999 | Movie | 94min

Director: Kevin Macdonald

Stars: Michael Douglas • Ankie Spitzer • Jamal Al Gashey

The Long Way Home

7.6 | 1997 | Movie | 120min

Director: Mark Jonathan Harris

Stars: Morgan Freeman • Ed Asner • Sean Astin

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

8.1 | 1989 | Movie | 79min

Directors: Rob Epstein • Jeffrey Friedman

Stars: Dustin Hoffman • Sara Lewinstein • David Mandell

Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

7.6 | 1988 | Movie | 267min

Director: Marcel Ophüls

Stars: Klaus Barbie • Marcel Ophüls • Serge Klarsfeld

Down and Out in America

7.2 | 1985 | Movie | 57min

Director: Lee Grant

Stars: Lee Grant

Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got

7.1 | 1985 | Movie | 114min

Director: Brigitte Berman

The Times of Harvey Milk

8.2 | 1984 | Movie | 90min

Director: Rob Epstein

Stars: Harvey Milk • Harvey Fierstein • Anne Kronenberg

Genocide

7.3 | 1982 | Movie | 90min

Director: Arnold Schwartzman

Stars: Elizabeth Taylor • Orson Welles • Simon Wiesenthal

From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China

7.4 | 1979 | Movie | 84min

Director: Murray Lerner

Stars: Isaac Stern

Best Boy

7.8 | 1979 | Movie | 111min

Director: Ira Wohl

Stars: Philly Wohl • Pearl Wohl • Max Wohl

Harlan County U.S.A.

8.2 | 1976 | Movie | 103min

Director: Barbara Kopple

Stars: Norman Yarborough • Houston Elmore • Phil Sparks

The Man Who Skied Down Everest

7.1 | 1975 | Movie | 86min

Directors: Bruce Nyznik • Lawrence Schiller

Stars: Yūichirō Miura • Douglas Rain

Hearts and Minds

8.2 | 1974 | Movie | 112min

Director: Peter Davis

Stars: Clark Clifford • John Foster Dulles • Georges Bidault

Marjoe

7.4 | 1972 | Movie | 88min

Directors: Howard Smith • Sarah Kernochan

Stars: Marjoe Gortner • Sarah Kernochan

Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World

6.5 | 1963 | Short | 41min

Director: Shirley Clarke

Stars: Robert Frost • John F. Kennedy

Sky Above and Mud Beneath

7.1 | 1961 | Movie | 92min

Director: Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau

Serengeti Shall Not Die

7.8 | 1959 | Movie | 85min

Director: Bernhard Grzimek

Stars: Hermann Rockmann • Bernhard Grzimek • Holger Hagen

The Unconquered

7.0 | 1954 | Movie | 55min

Director: Nancy Hamilton

Stars: Katharine Cornell • Helen Keller

The Vanishing Prairie

7.1 | 1954 | Movie | 71min

Director: James Algar

Stars: Winston Hibler

The Living Desert

7.3 | 1953 | Movie | 69min

Director: James Algar

Stars: Winston Hibler

I Was a Communist for the FBI

6.1 | 1951 | Movie | 83min

Director: Gordon Douglas

Stars: Frank Lovejoy • Dorothy Hart • Philip Carey

Kon-Tiki

7.9 | 1950 | Movie | 77min

Director: Thor Heyerdahl

Stars: Thor Heyerdahl • Herman Watzinger • Erik Hesselberg

The True Glory

7.0 | 1945 | Movie | 87min

Directors: Garson Kanin • Carol Reed

Stars: Leslie Banks • Robert Harris • Sam Levene

The Fighting Lady

7.2 | 1944 | Movie | 61min

Directors: Edward Steichen • William Wyler

Stars: Charles Boyer • Robert Taylor • John S. McCain

Desert Victory

6.3 | 1943 | Movie | 62min

Directors: David MacDonald • Roy Boulting

Stars: Harold Alexander • Winston Churchill • Adolf Hitler

Why We Fight: Prelude to War

7.0 | 1942 | Movie | 52min

Directors: Frank Capra • Anatole Litvak

Stars: Walter Huston • Max Schmeling

The Battle of Midway

6.1 | 1942 | Short | 18min

Director: John Ford

Stars: Henry Fonda • Jane Darwell • Donald Crisp