1. Black I Am (Negra soy)
The women of the first Garífuna community in Honduras work hard for the future of their daughters. Surrounded by a dazzling landscape, they celebrate their identity and the importance of maternal figures.
2. Men with Cameras - Capture the Great Kanto Earthquake (キャメラを持った男たち ―関東大震災を撮る―)
The film is set on September 1th, 1923 , when a huge earthquake hits Tokyo . The quake caused buildings to collapse, and the city was reduced to ashes by fire. The Great Kanto Earthquake killed more than 105,000 people. 100-year-old films recording this catastrophe have been found all over the country.But who filmed the turmoil of Tokyo, chased by raging fires?After investigating, I come across three cameramen. They turned the hand-cranked camera in a trance without being ordered by anyone.
3. Sharkwater Extinction
Discovering that sharks are being hunted to extinction, and with them the destruction of our life support system - activist and filmmaker Rob Stewart embarks on a dangerous quest to stop the slaughter. Following the sharks - and the money - into the elusive pirate fishing industry, Stewart uncovers a multi-billion dollar scandal that makes us all accomplices in the greatest wildlife massacre ever known.
It has an average vote of 6.942 on TMDB.
4. Scars Of Nanking
During the brutal invasion of China in 1937 by Imperial Japanese forces, tens of thousands of civilians and prisoners of war are murdered and women raped in what is known simply as "The Rape of Nanking." This docudrama is a stirring account of a small band of courageous American missionaries who choose to stay in Nanking to try and protect a quarter million vulnerable Chinese civilians who are trapped in a city ruled by a savage, out of control army. Their stories are brought vividly to life through actual real-time letters and diaries as they bear witness to one of the worst wartime atrocities in history.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
5. Hidden Scars: The Great Kanto Earthquake Korean Massacre, A Documentary (隠された爪跡 関東大震災朝鮮人虐殺記録映画)
In the wake of the Great Kanto Earthquake , which killed nearly 100,000 people, more than 6,500 Koreans were murdered by the military, the police and civilians. This film uses evidence and testimony to examine the history behind this massacre.
6. Waltz with Bashir (Vals Im Bashir)
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
It has an average vote of 7.704 on TMDB.
7. What the Fields Remember
On the 1983 killings of 1800 Muslims in Nellie and surrounding villages of Assam.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
8. One, the Story of a Goal (Uno, la historia de un gol)
In the early 1980s, at the beginning of what would become a 12-year-long civil war, El Salvador's talented football team was one national institution upon which both the left and the right could agree. When the team pulled off a stunning 1-0 upset against Mexico and qualified to compete in the 1982 World Cup, it was a high point for the tiny country's national pride. Unfortunately, the team's Cinderella story devolved into a nightmarish farce.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
9. Mayan Renaissance
Mayan Renaissance is a feature length film which documents the glory of the ancient Maya civilization, the Spanish conquest in 1519, 500 years of oppression, and the courageous fight of the Maya to reclaim their voice and determine their own future, in Guatemala and throughout Central America. The film stars 1992 Nobel Peace Laureate and Maya Leader Rigoberta Mencu Tum. All of the images, voices, expert commentary and music in the film come directly from Central America, the heart of the Mayan World.
10. Topiltzin (Topiltzin)
An experimental short film about a day in the life of a barefoot boy who sells newspapers in San Salvador.
11. Return to El Salvador
Return to El Salvador explores the reconstruction of El Salvador, post-civil war. The film revisits the struggles of the nation and examines what drives over 700 Salvadorans to flee their homeland each day, often risking their lives to illegally enter countries in search of a better life for their families. The film also profiles a number of Salvadorans effected by the civil war. One couple, who fled death threats in the 1980s, finds asylum and a political platform in the United States. The film also follows a different couple who, after escaping the war, returned to El Salvador to work with churches and poor communities.
12. Maria's Story
It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Maria Serrano, wife, mother, and guerrilla leader is on the front lines of the battle for her people and her country. With unprecedented access to FMLN guerrilla camps, the filmmakers dramatically chronicle Maria's daily life in the war.
13. The Hungerford Massacre
A re-enactment-documentary of the Murder-Suicide rampage by Michael Ryan, carried out on the 19th August 1987, which left 17 dead and 15 injured in the town of Hungerford, Berkshire.
14. Mazar Sharif (مزار شریف)
An Iranian diplomat who miraculously survived Taliban's raid on the Iranian consulate in Mazar E Sharif narrates his 19 days of hide and escape to reach Iran's borders meanwhile on the other side, the Iranian troops are preparing for retaliation.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
15. Mystery of the Maya
Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeologist and asks her to tell him about his ancestors. The crew travelled to over 15 locations in Mexico and Guatemala, including Tulum and Chichén Itzá.
It has an average vote of 4.1 on TMDB.
16. Spell Your Name
Survivors tell the story of the Babyn Yar massacre from WWII, where some 100,000 people were massacred by German forces.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
17. When the Mountains Tremble (When the Mountains Tremble)
A documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with first hand accounts by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú.
It has an average vote of 9.5 on TMDB.
18. 38 (38)
Documentary on the massacres commited in the Dersim region in Turkey in 1937/38.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
19. The Crazy Life (La vida loca)
Reflects a depressing and hopeless reality by following some of the members of "la dieciocho", the so-called 18th Street gang in a poor San Salvador neighborhood.
It has an average vote of 6.357 on TMDB.
20. The Houses Are Full of Smoke
A powerful three-part documentary studying the US involvement in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. The differing factions - Sandinista leaders, Guatemalan campesinos, CIA operatives, Contras and US government apologists - are interviewed and, in the absence of a controlling narration, the audience is encouraged to draw its own conclusions.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
