Documentary Movies

A Different Kind of Chinese War Film: Tony Rayns on Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain

17 Fouad Street

A portrait for Nubar in his shop. An Armenian-Alexandrian who belongs to a fading community.

Enemy of the State

The story of the complex man and 75-year-old writer named Paul Gratzik, who worked as a Stasi informant in the GDR and was known as a “man of extremes”. However, after spying on friends and colleagues for more than 20 years, Gratzik decided to voluntarily expose himself in the 1980s.

All About "All About Lily Chou-Chou"

The making of 'All About Lily Chou-Chou' starting from its conception as an interactive story that played out on a BBS

Troll Wall

"Today, 50 years ago, Leif-Norman Patterson, Ole Daniel Enersen, Jon Teigland and Odd Eliassen reached the top and became the first to overcome the mighty Trollveggen. See the unique photos from the Day View, which were featured with movie cameras and documented parts of the two-week expedition."

Inside Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer

A look behind the scenes of Christopher Nolan's film "Oppenheimer" about an American scientist and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

The City

A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay of industrialized inner cities.

Svenska livstycken

Eleven short films - by eleven different directors - edited together as a feature film.

The Alabama Solution

Incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in one of America’s deadliest prison systems.

Időt töltök

Santiago Pantoja

Crisis of a development project due to not respecting popular culture.

Monument

On America’s 250th anniversary, with attacks on libraries, archives, universities, and commemorative landmarks, the story of a nation’s history hangs in the balance. MONUMENT asks how looking and listening to one’s personal environment can help us understand our foundations. MONUMENT is centered on the history of Rhode Island, weaving statues, plaques, and place names together with the routine movements of everyday life.

Unwilling Sex

They gave in. Or capitulated. They didn't want to have sex. They couldn't push back, to make them understand that no, they didn't want to. Some consider it part of the unpleasant yet inevitable experiences of youth. Others don't. For the first time, a film addresses this "gray" area of sexuality without consent.

Baderna

Baderna is a city in a countryside region of Brazil. Founded in 1871, it was built by black enslaved people and today it remains emancipated from the Brazilian state. With its mundane conflicts and its historical resistance, the city also maintains an intense relationship with nature. The movie narrates the day when Baderna receives 'Obaluaê', the 'Orixá' lord of the Earth, in a search for the cure of the 21st century.

Rebel Royals: An Unlikely Love Story

This exclusive documentary goes behind the scenes with Märtha Louise and Shaman Durek Verrett in the lead-up to their divisive wedding in Norway.

La presa

Liblikapüüdja

The story of two artists - Aino Bach and Kaarel Liimand, creative and life partners. The film began with material captured for "Maised ihad". Moments from the life of one of our most famous graphic artists Aino Bach were filmed by Mark Soosaar between 1975 and 1978.

Necrobusiness

The Polish government issued a burial fund to the relatives of any deceased citizen. Now the undertakers of Lodz in Poland have figured out a way to lay their greedy hands on those funds. By paying ambulance drivers to get the information where the unfortunate relatives live, they went there with contracts to get the relatives to sign over the burial funds to the undertakers. The idea was that while the relatives was still struck with grief and sorrow, they wouldn't want to read through a thick contract and just sign it instead. Things really went ugly when the ambulance drivers figured out that they would make more money if more people died.

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From the Academy Award-winning director of When We Were Kings comes this enthralling tribute to the timeless power and magic of basketball.