1. Omega Man: A Wrestling Love Story
Tyson Smith, better known as his in-ring name Kenny Omega, took the long and unorthodox road to achieve his dream of pro wrestling stardom. Follow his journey to the top of the wrestling world as he defies not only the odds but people's preconceived ideas of what a professional wrestler can be.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
2. The Enclave
Commissioned for the Irish representation at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, The Enclave is an immersive, six-screen video art installation by Irish contemporary artist Richard Mosse. Partly inspired by Joseph Conrad’s modernist literary masterpiece Heart of Darkness, the visceral and moving work was filmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo using 16mm colour infra-red film, which captures otherwise invisible parts of the spectrum. The resulting imagery in Mosse’s work is hallucinatory and dream-like with the usual greens of jungle and forest replaced by shimmering violet. The Enclave depicts a complicated, strife-ridden place in a way that reflects its complexity, using a strategy of beauty and transfixion to combat the wider invisibility of a conflict that has claimed so many.
3. WWE: The Shawn Michaels Story - Heartbreak & Triumph
(WWE: The Shawn Michaels Story - Heartbreak & Triumph)
It has an average vote of 9.3 on TMDB.
4. Monday
Olympic gold Medalist, 3X Olympian, 3X All American. Kenny Monday is a legend in the sport of Wrestling. Though his legacy is forever cemented in history, Monday's Journey to greatness has a remained shrouded in mystery. From his start at a Youth Wrestling club at the YMCA 3 straight Olympic teams, this documentary dives deep into the life and legend that is Kenny Monday.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
5. Men of Iron
Considered to be one of the best high school wrestling dynasties of all time, "Men of Iron" tells the story of the Walsh Jesuit Warriors and the coach who led them to national dominance.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
6. Africa in Pieces: The Tragedy of the Great Lakes (L'Afrique en morceaux, la tragédie des grands lacs)
April, 1994. Genocide in Rwanda. 800,000 dead. A catastrophe that upset the balance in the entire region. The Great Lakes region of Africa ended the year with a bloodbath. This documentary shows the intrigues, the dramatic effects, the treasons, the vengeances that prevailed over those years and whose only goal was to maintain or increase each faction’s area of influence. In just ten years, the population saw all their hopes vanish: The dream of an Africa in control of its own destiny, alimentary self-sufficiency, the end of interethnic conflicts
7. Forest of the Dancing Spirits (De dansande andarnas skog)
“In the beginning, women lived apart, unaware of the existence of men. Until one day, when the first woman, Toli, who was brave and adventurous traveled deep into the forest. Toli discovered solitary creatures with big muscles who knew how to climb trees and harvest wild honey. When Toli tasted their honey, she thought they should all live together….” That is how one of the creation stories of the Aka people from the tropical rainforest of the Congo Basin goes. Akaya, Kengole, Dibota and their friends and family are hunters-gatherers who guide us through their world. They explain their origins, myths, and the very spiritual meaning of life.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
8. I Come From Away: An Immigrant in Maine
An intimate look inside the immigrant community in Portland, Maine, as told by Nyamuon Nguany Machar who arrived as refugee in 1995 and David Zwalita Mota who came as an asylum seeker in 2019.
9. Kongoveteranerna (Kongoveteranerna)
Over 6,000 men served and 19 fell in the Congo Battalion , Sweden's most dramatic and contentious UN operation. Many of the participants have borne the experience as a lifelong, well-hidden trauma. A visit to the Congo after fifty years causes some of them to finally open up and tell the things that they haven't even been able to say to their closest family.
10. Running Movie
Running Movie is a documentary film that focuses on Israeli long-distance runner Ayele Seteng , the oldest marathon runner to compete in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and his efforts to participate in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Satayin has been a long-distance runner since he was a young boy in Ethiopia, but he only became a marathon runner after immigrating to Israel in the early 1990s. Now, at the age of 55, he keeps on running. We follow him as he practices in Ethiopia, far from his wife and eight children, and witness his moments of victory and defeat, as he competes in marathons around the world—from Berlin, Germany, to Tiberias, Israel.
11. Adwa (አድዋ)
In 1896, Ethiopia, an African nation, largely armed with spears and knives, defeats a well-equipped and organized Italian military bent on colonization.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
12. Call Me Miss Cleo
Follow the rise, fall, and reinvention of controversial and revered '90s television psychic Miss Cleo. Featuring interviews with celebrities and those closest to the self-proclaimed voodoo priestess, this documentary explores the many layers behind a complicated and charismatic figure.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
13. Lords of the Forest (Les Seigneurs de la forêt)
Documentary about the inhabitants, both human and animal, of the Belgian Congo. Released in 1958.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
14. The Peacekeepers
With unprecedented access to the UN Department of Peacekeeping, The Peacekeepers provides an intimate and dramatic portrait of the struggle to save "a failed state" The film follows the determined and often desperate maneuvers to avert another Rwandan disaster, this time in the Democratic Republic of Congo . Focusing on the UN mission, the film cuts back and forth between the UN headquarters in New York and events on the ground in the DRC. We are with the peacekeepers in the "Crisis Room" as they balance the risk of loss of life on the ground with the enormous sums of money required from uncertain donor countries. We are with UN troops as the northeast Congo erupts and the future of the DRC, if not all of central Africa, hangs in the balance. In the background, but often impinging on peacekeeping decisions, are the painful memory of Rwanda, the worsening crisis in Iraq, global terrorism, and American hegemony in world affairs.
15. Team Foxcatcher
With never-before seen home video, this film recounts the paranoid downward spiral of John E. du Pont and the murder of Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz.
It has an average vote of 6.981 on TMDB.
16. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
This intimate ethnographic study of Voudoun dances and rituals was shot by Maya Deren during her years in Haiti ; she never edited the footage, so this “finished” version was made by Teiji Ito and Cherel Ito after Deren’s death.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
17. Africa Addio (Africa Addio)
A documentary about the end of the colonial era in Africa, portraying acts of animal poaching, violence, executions, and tribal slaughter.
It has an average vote of 6.306 on TMDB.
18. Hope Has A Name
In urban America, the bush of Africa, the war zone of the Congo, and in closed nations there are women who are living outside their own cultures, society, and comfort level to care for orphans, build schools, liberate addicts, feed the poor, and love the broken. These ordinary women are reaching into hopeless situations of people and creating hope.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
19. The Mortician: The Story of Paul Bearer
The documentary will profile The Undertaker’s longtime confidant and manager, looking at “how William Moody went from ordinary mortician to one of the most unique and enduring figures in WWE history.
20. Do You Remember Me?
Sara from Zurich was circumcised as a little girl in Ethiopia. This event severely traumatized her. To find her inner peace, Sara decides to look for her circumciser.