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1. Lotta di Classe - Il cinema dei ragazzi di Emilio Sidoti (2021)

105 min | Documentary

During the late 1960s, Emilio Sidoti, an elementary school teacher in Albisola, decided to make some movies with his students in order to develop their critical gaze in a free and radical ... See full summary »

Director: Demetrio Giacomelli

2. A Distant Thud in the Jungle (2020)

85 min | Documentary

The rough highlands of Papua New Guinea have become the land of plenty for tourists in search of exoticism and foreign oil companies looking for new fields. Tribes get paid to dress up for ... See full summary »

Director: Céline Rouzet

Votes: 11

3. Calendar Girls (2022)

84 min | Documentary

Florida's most dedicated dance team for women over 60, shaking up the outdated image of "the little old lady," and calling for everyone to dance their hearts out, while they still can.

Directors: Maria Loohufvud, Love Martinsen

Votes: 181

4. Bye Bye Africa (1999)

86 min | Documentary, Drama

Semi-documentary film about a man going to his home country of Chad after many years living in exile in France.

Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Stars: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Garba Issa, Aïcha Yelena, Abakar Mahamat-Saleh

Votes: 185

5. Why Are We Creative: The Centipede's Dilemma (2018)

84 min | Documentary

A 30 years odyssey: the world's most intriguing artists and thinkers from the fields of visual art, music, filmmaking, acting, literature, philosophy, politics, business and science, are asked the same question: "Why are you creative?"

Director: Hermann Vaske | Stars: Marina Abramovic, Mariya Alyokhina, Laurie Anderson, Nobuyoshi Araki

Votes: 691

6. Tomorrow (2015)

G | 118 min | Documentary

71 Metascore

The world's climate is changing. Instead of showing the worst that can happen, this documentary focuses on the people suggesting solutions and their actions.

Directors: Cyril Dion, Mélanie Laurent | Stars: Anthony Barnosky, Olivier De Schutter, Cyril Dion, Emmanuel Druon

Votes: 3,597 | Gross: $0.04M

7. City Hall (2020)

272 min | Documentary

88 Metascore

A look at Boston's city government, covering racial justice, housing, climate action, and more.

Director: Frederick Wiseman | Star: Marty Walsh

Votes: 722

8. An Unusual Summer (2020)

80 min | Documentary

The images contain their chronology, down to the minutes and seconds: In 2006, a surveillance camera in the Arab quarter of Ramla films a car that a short while ago became the victim of ... See full summary »

Director: Kamal Aljafari | Star: Darine Dibsi

Votes: 16

9. Purple Sea (2020)

67 min | Documentary

Made from images filmed by the Syrian artist Amel Alzakout after the boat on which she was fleeing Syria sank off the coast of Lesbos, Purple Sea reports on the moment in which the ... See full summary »

Directors: Amel Alzakout, Khaled Abdulwahed | Star: Amel Alzakout

Votes: 129

10. People in White (2011)

64 min | Documentary, Drama

People in White explores the complex relationships between doctors and clients in mental health care, from the clients perspective. In a group therapy setting, nine people share their ... See full summary »

Directors: Tellervo Kalleinen, Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen | Stars: Ellen van Rossum, Conny Beyer, Ernst Dekkers, Mieke -

Votes: 20

11. Lassù (Up There) (2022)

80 min | Documentary

The story of a bricklayer from the suburbs that one day became a prophet, the story of a man who got out of the world to reveal, from up there, a different, vaster horizon, a path where man, divinity and nature return to be one.

Director: Bartolomeo Pampaloni | Star: Isravele

12. The Last Shelter (2021)

85 min | Documentary

At the southern edge of the Sahara desert stands The House of Migrants: a safe haven for those on their way to Europe, or those returning home. Here they come to terms with their individual... See full summary »

Director: Ousmane Samassekou | Star: Esther

Votes: 63

13. Dying to Divorce (2021)

82 min | Documentary

Over one in three women in Turkey experience domestic violence. Lawyer Ipek Bozkurt's clients risk their lives while fighting the culture of violence in court

Director: Chloe Fairweather

Votes: 204

14. Sarura (2022)

80 min | Documentary

At the gates of the Negev desert, a group of young Palestinians struggles using cameras and nonviolent actions to defend their villages from the Israeli military occupation, taking back the land and the caves stolen from their families.

Director: Nicola Zambelli

Votes: 7

15. The Young Observant (2019)

Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary

A fourteen-year-old boy's life in the mountains is about to end as he is soon to enroll in catering school. The institution he attends is renowned for its strict rules: the lessons on ... See full summary »

Director: Davide Maldi | Stars: Mario Burlone, Lorenzo Carpani, Enrico Colombini, Cristian Dellamora

Votes: 258

19. Framing Agnes (2022)

75 min | Documentary

69 Metascore

FRAMING AGNES turns the talk show format inside out in response to media's ongoing fascination with trans people. The film breathes life into six previously unknown stories from the archives of the UCLA Gender Clinic in the 1950s.

Director: Chase Joynt | Stars: Carmen Carrera, Katie Couric, Laverne Cox, Zackary Drucker

Votes: 220

20. Reunited (II) (2020)

78 min | Documentary

Two Syrian refugees deal with the hardships of being separated from their children.

Director: Mira Jargil | Stars: Rana Agha, Jad Alfares, Mukhles Alfares, Nidal Alfares

Votes: 33

21. The Martha Mitchell Effect (2022)

PG | 40 min | Documentary, Short, History

The Cabinet wife who spoke out during Watergate and the Nixon administration's campaign to gaslight her into silence.

Directors: Anne Alvergue, Debra McClutchy | Stars: Martha Mitchell, Dwight Chapin, Connie Chung, Piper Dankworth

Votes: 2,876

22. La mort de Danton (2011)

64 min | Documentary

A black man from the Paris suburbs seeks to escape the violence of his immediate surroundings by training to become an actor at one of France's most prestigious drama schools.

Director: Alice Diop | Star: Steve Tientcheu

Votes: 93

23. La permanence (2016)

96 min | Documentary

The daily routine of a doctor who treats refugees at a hospital in Paris.

Director: Alice Diop

Votes: 111

26. The Visit (IV) (2015)

Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary

This documentary-style film shows how government agencies try to cope with human mankind's first contact with alien life.

Director: Michael Madsen | Stars: Mazlan Othman, Paul Beaver, Janos Tisovszky, Michael Boyce

Votes: 753

27. Cathedrals of Culture (2014)

165 min | Documentary

Six directors tackle the question "If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?" by capturing iconic buildings with narration from the perspective of the buildings.

Directors: Karim Aïnouz, Michael Glawogger, Michael Madsen, Margreth Olin, Robert Redford, Wim Wenders | Stars: Meret Becker, Gennadi Vengerov, Benedicte C. Westin, Jonas Salk

Votes: 294

28. 16 Shots (2019)

TV-14 | 82 min | Documentary

79 Metascore

A documentary examining the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and the cover-up that ensued.

Director: Rick Rowley | Stars: Anita Alvarez, Dean Angelo, Alma Benitez, William Calloway

Votes: 615

29. Malditos (2020)

Documentary

The film "Malditos" is an hybrid experiment following a staged nerve-wrecking competition. Exploring the meaning of success, failure and self-realization, the film interweaves non-fiction ... See full summary »

Directors: Angel Esteban, Elena Goatelli | Stars: Guillermo Barrientos, Carmen del Conte, José Luis Ferrer, Manuel Figueiro

30. El Father Plays Himself (2020)

105 min | Documentary

A father and son return to the Amazon jungle to shoot a deeply personal film. Fiction and reality clash as father plays himself.

Director: Mo Scarpelli | Stars: Jorge Thielen Hedderich, Jorge Thielen Armand

Votes: 64

31. Beco (2019)

72 min | Documentary

A dip in Beco do Inferno, located next to the Afogados market, in Recife, where stories of lives intersect daily in an incessant movement.

Director: Camilo Cavalcante

32. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)

Not Rated | 150 min | Documentary, Crime

A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.

Directors: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky | Stars: Tony Brooks, Diana Davis, Terry Wood, Dick Clay

Votes: 18,146

33. Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000 TV Movie)

Unrated | 130 min | Documentary, Crime

The case of the West Memphis Three, its questionable circumstances and the parties involved are followed up years later.

Directors: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky | Stars: Damien Wayne Echols, Melissa Byers, Norris Deajon, Tim Sullivan

Votes: 9,653

34. Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)

Not Rated | 121 min | Documentary, Crime

85 Metascore

A further followup of the case of the West Memphis Three and the decades long fight to exonerate them that finally gained traction with new DNA evidence.

Directors: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky | Stars: Gary Gitchell, Todd Moore, Dana Moore, Pam Hobbs

Votes: 10,869

35. Ramen Heads (2017)

Not Rated | 93 min | Documentary

58 Metascore

In 'Ramen Heads,' Osamu Tomita, Japan's reigning king of ramen, takes us deep into his world, revealing every single step of his obsessive approach to creating the perfect soup and noodles,... See full summary »

Director: Koki Shigeno | Stars: Shôta Iida, Kumiko Ishida, Katsuya Kobayashi, Yûki Ohnishi

Votes: 714 | Gross: $0.06M

36. Inside the Mind of a Cat (2022)

TV-PG | 67 min | Documentary

Cat experts dive into the mind of the feline to reveal the true capabilities of the pouncing pet in this captivating and cuddly documentary.

Director: Andy Mitchell | Stars: Neil Wilson, Bruce Kornriech, Kristyn Vitale, Saho Takagi

Votes: 6,681

37. The Notes of Anna Azzori (2020)

72 min | Documentary, Biography

Pregnant young Anna Azzori is discovered in 1970s Rome and followed by two men who film her.

Director: Constanze Ruhm | Stars: Gemma Vannuzzi, Mona Abdel Baky, Kheda Durtaeva, Ljubica Jaksic

Votes: 9

38. Snow Monkey (2015)

148 min | Documentary

Snow Monkey is an epic portrait of daily life in Jalalabad, where art activist Gittoes recruited gangs of war-damaged children to shoot local, Pashto-style films: vibrant, colorful and ... See full summary »

Director: George Gittoes

Votes: 46

39. Number 387 (2019)

55 min | Documentary

This is the story of a Greek physician who collects pendants and bracelets. This is the story of an Italian woman who has been fighting for 15 years to «make bodies talk.» This is the story of those who watch over the forgotten migrants.

Director: Madeleine Leroyer | Stars: Cristina Cattaneo, Lara Olivieri, Giorgia Mirto, José Pablo Baraybar

Votes: 39

40. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (2020)

98 min | Documentary, Drama

83 Metascore

A look at the final moments of a Las Vegas dive bar called 'The Roaring 20s'.

Directors: Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross | Stars: Peter Elwell, Michael Martin, Shay Walker

Votes: 1,599

41. The last day (2014)

52 min | Documentary

A tiny school of a tiny island. A modern teacher who made it her mission. Her last three unpredictable pupils. In the outpost of the island, a unique story of the battle for education, now close to the end.

Director: Alberto Bougleux

42. Letters to Max (2014)

Not Rated | 103 min | Documentary

A record of the epistolary encounter between French artist and filmmaker Eric Baudelaire and Maxim Gvinjia, former Foreign Minister of the breakaway Caucasian state of Abkhazia, Letters to ... See full summary »

Director: Eric Baudelaire | Star: Maxim Gvinja

Votes: 75

43. The Other Side (VIII) (2015)

Unrated | 92 min | Documentary, Drama

65 Metascore

In an invisible territory at the margins of society lives a wounded community who face the threat of being forgotten by political institutions and having their rights as citizens trampled. ... See full summary »

Director: Roberto Minervini | Stars: Mark Kelley, Lisa Allen, James Lee Miller, Austin Anderson

Votes: 1,322 | Gross: $0.01M

44. The Young Fighter (1953)

29 min | Documentary, Short

Considered the first cinema verité film, it depicts the life of an aspiring boxer trying to balance his responsibilities to his family and his sport.

Director: Leo Hurwitz

45. Here at the Water's Edge (1961)

57 min | Documentary

A voyage of discovery among familiar things: the images and sounds of New York Harbor. This film-poem explores the edge of the shoreline, where man and nature persistently confront one another.

Directors: Leo Hurwitz, Charles Pratt

Votes: 9

46. Omnibus (1952–1961)

55 min | Drama, History, Music

Omnibus was a television program that sought to provide the best of what television could provide as the highest common denominator of intellectual curiosity and interest. This level of programing excellence has not been achieved again.

Stars: Alistair Cooke, Leonard Bernstein, Joseph N. Welch, Helen Hayes

Votes: 218

48. Soy libre (2021)

78 min | Documentary

Arnaud is my little brother. One day I realized that he had grown up. He was born where people have no choices and he is trying to be what he should have been. Free.

Director: Laure Portier | Stars: Arnaud Gomez, Jacqueline Puygrenier, Laure Portier

Votes: 60

49. Sam Now (2022)

87 min | Documentary, Adventure, Drama

93 Metascore

Sam Harkness and his half-brother Reed go on a road trip to find their missing mom. But solving the mystery of her disappearance is only the beginning of their story.

Director: Reed Harkness | Stars: Doris Harkness, Jared Harkness, Jois Harkness, Randy Harkness

Votes: 205

50. This Is Not Cricket (2020)

Documentary

In Rome's most multi-ethnic neighborhood, Fernando - a young man brought up by his aunt, a housemaid who's nostalgic for a neo-fascist party from her youth - and Shince - his best friend, a... See full summary »

Director: Jacopo de Bertoldi | Stars: Fernando Cittadini, Thomas Shince

51. Free Chol Soo Lee (2022)

PG-13 | 83 min | Documentary

73 Metascore

In 1970s San Francisco, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee is wrongly convicted of a Chinatown gang murder. After spending years fighting to survive, journalist K.W. Lee takes an interest in his case, igniting an unprecedented social movement.

Directors: Julie Ha, Eugene Yi | Stars: Chol Soo Lee, Jeff Adachi, K.W. Lee, Tony Serra

Votes: 432

52. How to Save a Dead Friend (2022)

103 min | Documentary

Together, two young lovers create an unbreakable bond within a destructive world.

Director: Marusya Syroechkovskaya | Stars: Marusya Syroechkovskaya, Kirill Morev

Votes: 330

54. The Fabric of the Human Body (2022)

115 min | Documentary

92 Metascore

Focuses on five hospitals in northern Paris neighborhoods. It reveals that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others.

Directors: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel

Votes: 656

55. Girl Gang (2022)

98 min | Documentary

The 14-year-old Leonie, a successful influencer living on the outskirts of Berlin.

Director: Susanne Regina Meures

Votes: 252

56. Inner Lines (2022)

87 min | Documentary

In military terminology, INNER LINES are parallel routes near the enemy lines, enabling evasion. Around Ararat, "the white centre" that illuminates "the darkest times", they are used by ... See full summary »

Director: Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd

Votes: 12

57. For the Lost (2014)

77 min | Documentary

Guided by the sheepbells of a flock and by the evocations of the lost, this film is a voyage through storms; those of the mountains and winter, those of bodies and souls, those which remind... See full summary »

Director: Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd

Votes: 72

58. The Super 8 Years (2022)

63 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama

82 Metascore

Home videos shot by Ernaux and her family from 1972 to 1981 and feeds into the themes of her work over the past 60 years.

Directors: Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot | Stars: Blanche Madeleine Dumenil Duchesne, Annie Ernaux, Dominique Ernaux, Éric Ernaux

Votes: 355

59. Just Don't Think I'll Scream (2019)

75 min | Documentary

January 2016. The love story that brought me to this village in Alsace where I live ended six months ago. At 45, I am now alone, without a car, a job or any real prospects, surrounded by ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Beauvais

Votes: 871

60. A Rifle and a Bag (2020)

89 min | Documentary

Somi and her husband met and fell in love while fighting alongside the Naxalites, a communist guerrilla group that has been fighting since the '60s for the rights of the tribal communities ... See full summary »

Directors: Cristina Hanes, Isabella Rinaldi, Arya Rothe

Votes: 55

61. Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011)

PG | 81 min | Documentary

77 Metascore

A documentary on 85-year-old sushi master Jiro Ono, his renowned Tokyo restaurant, and his relationship with his son and eventual heir, Yoshikazu.

Director: David Gelb | Stars: Jiro Ono, Yoshikazu Ono, Masuhiro Yamamoto, Daisuke Nakazama

Votes: 38,018 | Gross: $2.55M

62. Nascondino (2021)

85 min | Documentary

Among the narrow streets of contemporary Naples, 'Hide and Seek' ('Nascondino') follows four years in the life of nine-year-old Entoni and his grandmother Dora during a critical state ... See full summary »

Director: Victoria Fiore

Votes: 55

63. Fortuna Granda (2022)

73 min | Documentary

In the Po river delta, a group of teenagers enrolled in a vocational school fight between their fathers waiting for them in the lagoon and the school trying to hold them.

Directors: Alberto Gottardo, Francesca Sironi

64. Story for an Empty Theatre (2016)

57 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama

I live in the place where lonely men are afraid to enter, at dusk. My room, when the sun is at its height, is the room of God.

Directors: Aleksandr Balagura, Cesare Bedognè | Stars: Francesco Carraro, Emanuele Ferrari, Maria Frepoli, Pietro Mareggini

65. In Her Hands (2022)

PG-13 | 92 min | Documentary

46 Metascore

At 26, Zarifa Ghafari became one of Afghanistan's first female mayors and the youngest to ever hold the position. Filmed over two turbulent years, the film documents her personal battle for survival as her country unravels.

Directors: Tamana Ayazi, Marcel Mettelsiefen | Star: Zarifa Ghafari

Votes: 472

66. Surfwise (2007)

R | 93 min | Documentary, Sport

72 Metascore

Doug Pray explores the life of surfer Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz.

Director: Doug Pray | Stars: Juliette Paskowitz, David Paskowitz, Jonathan Paskowitz, Abraham Paskowitz

Votes: 1,640 | Gross: $0.27M

67. Time (I) (2020)

PG-13 | 81 min | Documentary, Biography

91 Metascore

Fox Rich fights for the release of her husband, Rob, who is serving a 60-year sentence in prison.

Director: Garrett Bradley | Stars: Sibil Fox Richardson, Robert G. Richardson, Mahlik Richardson, Remington B. Richardson

Votes: 6,295

68. Joy of Man's Desiring (2014)

70 min | Documentary, News

72 Metascore

An open-ended exploration of the energies and rituals of various workplaces. From one worker to another and one machine to the next; hands, faces, breaks, toil: what kind of absurdist, ... See full summary »

Director: Denis Côté | Stars: Olivier Aubin, Ted Pluviose, Hamidou Savadogo, Emilie Sigouin

Votes: 172

69. The Society of the Spectacle (1974)

91 min | Documentary

Guy Debord's cinematic analysis of consumer society based on his influential book "La société du spectacle" (1967).

Director: Guy Debord | Stars: Guy Debord, Leonid Brezhnev, Fidel Castro, Jacques Duclos

Votes: 662

70. Il Ponte di Genova Cronologia di un Disastro (2019 TV Movie)

44 min | Documentary

On August 14, 2018 the Morandi Bridge in Genoa, Liguria, Italy collapsed, claiming 43 lives. Watch archival footage and hear witness testimony of both bystanders and survivors of this ... See full summary »

Director: Marco Visalberghi

Votes: 23

71. Little Girl (2020)

88 min | Documentary

80 Metascore

The touching portrait of eight-year-old Sasha, who questions her gender and in doing so, evokes the sometimes disturbing reactions of a society that is still invested in a biological boy-girl way of thinking.

Director: Sébastien Lifshitz

Votes: 1,445

72. Becoming Warren Buffett (2017)

TV-PG | 90 min | Documentary, Biography

The legendary investor started out as an ambitious, numbers-obsessed boy from Nebraska and ended up becoming one of the richest and most respected men in the world.

Director: Peter W. Kunhardt | Stars: Kenan Akansel, Saul Bisht, Susie Buffet Jr., Bertie Buffet

Votes: 5,371

73. Tempestad (2016)

105 min | Documentary

78 Metascore

The emotional journeys of two women victimized by corruption and injustice in Mexico and of the love, dignity and resistance that allowed them to survive.

Director: Tatiana Huezo

Votes: 887

74. Scenes with My Father (2022)

47 min | Documentary

Journey through family history while interrogating the construct of Europe.

Director: Biserka Suran | Stars: Biserka Suran, Vinko Suran, Lino Suran, Dolinda Erkens

Votes: 17

75. Il cerchio (2022)

108 min | Documentary

Add a Plot

Director: Sophie Chiarello

Votes: 32

76. Pryvoz (2021)

72 min | Documentary

Pryvoz is one of the oldest and largest European markets. Everyone goes there, everyone finds something. Those searching for miracles or change-in destiny, human soul, time-will not leave with empty-handed.

Director: Eva Neymann

Votes: 12

77. Fragile memory (2022)

85 min | Documentary

A young filmmaker Ihor finds a hidden and unpublished photo archive of his grandfather Leonid Burlaka, a famous Soviet cinematographer. Discovering a man that he never knew well enough ... See full summary »

Director: Ihor Ivanko

Votes: 70

78. The Plains (2022)

180 min | Drama

84 Metascore

Every evening a man in his late 50s commutes home at the end of the working day in the outer suburbs of Melbourne.

Director: David Easteal | Stars: Andrew Rakowski, David Easteal, Cheri LeCornu, Inga Rakowski

Votes: 297

79. Le mura di Bergamo (2023)

137 min | Documentary

A huge swathes of Northern Italy were hit by a new virus.

Director: Stefano Savona

Votes: 20

80. Fantastic Machine (2023)

88 min | Documentary

47 Metascore

From the first camera to 45 billion cameras worldwide today, the visual sociologist filmmakers widen their lens to expose both humanity's unique obsession with the camera's image and the social consequences that lay ahead.

Directors: Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck | Stars: Chris Anderson, Felix Bergsson, Ulrika Bergsten, Sidney Bernstein

Votes: 594

81. Kokomo City (2023)

R | 73 min | Documentary

79 Metascore

A raw depiction of the lives of four black trans sex workers as they confront the dichotomy between the black community and themselves.

Director: D. Smith | Stars: Daniella Carter, Dominique Silver, Koko Da Doll, Liyah Mitchell

Votes: 980

82. The Echo (2023)

102 min | Documentary

91 Metascore

In the remote Mexican village of El Eco, life is rich in privation, work and children. Here, granddaughters movingly take care of grandmothers until they die.

Director: Tatiana Huezo | Stars: Montserrat Hernandez, María de los Ángeles Pacheco Tapia, Luz María Vázquez González, Sarahí Rojas Hernández

Votes: 239

83. AI: African Intelligence (2023)

110 min | Documentary

It showcases the contact zones between African rituals of possession within traditional fishing villages and the emergence of new technological frontiers known as Artificial Intelligence.

Director: Manthia Diawara | Stars: Jean-Paul Colleyn, Manthia Diawara, Raoul Frese

Votes: 9

84. A Bolu (2019 TV Movie)

Documentary

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Director: Davide Melis

Votes: 17

85. Poselenie (2002)

77 min | Documentary

A colony that houses patients, apparently with psychiatric problems. Work and life in the countryside, away from us. And yet the pulse still pulses.

Director: Sergey Loznitsa

Votes: 209

86. Letter (2013)

Not Rated | 21 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure

A remote village in the North-West of Russia. A mental asylum is located in an old wooden house. The place and its inhabitants seem to be untouched by civilization. In this pristine setting... See full summary »

Director: Sergey Loznitsa

Votes: 195

87. I Am the Revolution (2018)

74 min | Documentary, Biography

The inspiring story of three women risking their lives to incite political, activist, and armed uprisings in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq.

Director: Benedetta Argentieri | Stars: Rojda Felat, Selay Ghaffar, Yanar Mohammed

Votes: 28

88. Pasolini - Cronologia di un delitto politico (2022)

120 min | Documentary

An investigation into the life of Pier Paolo Pasolini and the political background of his murder.

Director: Paolo Fiore Angelini | Stars: Carla Benedetti, Vincenzo Calia, Guido Calvi, Roberto Cannavò

Votes: 5

89. Allensworth (2022)

65 min | Documentary

It centers on Allensworth, the first self-administered African-American municipality in California, showcasing the buildings of the now-abandoned town and looking for the traces of a Black cultural history.

Director: James Benning

Votes: 42

90. Cipria (2021)

55 min | Documentary

1941: a cosmetics company launches an advertising contest that invites Italian women to send the true story of their life, in order to adapt them for the big screen. Meanwhile Italy is ... See full summary »

Director: Giovanni Piperno

91. Feminists: What Were They Thinking? (2018)

86 min | Documentary

Feminists: What Were They Thinking? takes aim at our current culture revealing all too vividly the urgent need for continued change.

Director: Johanna Demetrakas | Stars: Bella Abzug, Laurie Anderson, Phyllis Chesler, Judy Chicago

Votes: 2,478

92. Money Shot: The Pornhub Story (2023)

TV-MA | 94 min | Documentary

63 Metascore

Follow the rise of the most famous adult entertainment platform and the recent backlash it has received.

Director: Suzanne Hillinger | Stars: Noelle Perdue, Michael Stabile, Wolf Hudson, Siri Dahl

Votes: 4,987

93. Southern Rites (2015)

TV-14 | 87 min | Documentary

One year after the town merges its segregated proms, photographer Gillian Laub documents a divisive murder case in a small Georgia town.

Director: Gillian Laub

Votes: 509

94. True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality (2019)

TV-MA | 102 min | Documentary

A look at how Alabama attorney Bryan Stevenson struggles to create more fairness in the legal system.

Directors: George Kunhardt, Peter W. Kunhardt, Teddy Kunhardt | Stars: Bryan Stevenson, Christy Stevenson, Howard Stevenson

Votes: 353

96. Kufid (2021)

First, the idea of a movie about the gentrification of old Fes. Then the pandemic struck.

Director: Elia Mouatamid | Star: Elia Moutamid

97. iSola (2020)

95 min | Documentary

A personal documentary shot on a mobile phone during lockdown, in which the director reflects on her own illness and isolation, and on how storytelling can be a way of overcoming one's own fears.

Director: Elisa Fuksas | Stars: Alessia Correani, Elisa Fuksas, Lavinia Fuksas

Votes: 27

98. Life in a Day 2020 (2021)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Drama

54 Metascore

Life In A Day 2020 will call on millions of people around the world to film their lives on July 25.

Directors: Kevin Macdonald, Howard Hong, Danica Jensen, Despina Mirou, Mário Filipe Neves, Ferhat Sendag | Stars: Olivia Castanho, Despina Mirou, Shaira Yasmin Berg, Mário Filipe Neves

Votes: 784

99. Fuori era primavera: Viaggio nell'Italia del lockdown (2020)

75 min | Documentary

This documentary takes a close look at what happened when the covid-19 pandemic made Italy one of the most affected countries having to make a complete lock-down and put everyone from nurses to the pope in quarantine.

Director: Gabriele Salvatores | Stars: Giulio Cagnazzo, Roberta De Santis, Luigi Tuccillo

Votes: 74

100. Isolation (IV) (2021)

75 min | Documentary, Drama

Five directors recount the effects- economic, psychological and social- of the COVID pandemic on their respective countries, in this anthology documentary.

Directors: Olivier Guerpillon, Michele Placido, Jaco Van Dormael, Julia von Heinz, Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Andrea Bocelli, Roberto Bolle, Michèle-Anne De Mey, Michele Placido

Votes: 20



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