1. The Book of the Sea (Книга Моря)
In the frigid waters off of Russia’s Bering Strait, Inuit and Chukchi hunters today still seek out the giant sea mammals that have provided their people with food since time immemorial. It is known, that the whale hunting today is controversial and subject to international criticism and regulations. But the Inuit and Chukchi hunt is permitted by international law because of the whaling is the foundation of their culture and their life.</p><p> The contemporary story of elders Aleksandr and Aleksei blends seamlessly with that of “the woman who gave birth to a whale” and other ancient myths, told here in vivid animation, in this ongoing struggle for survival and preservation of a traditional lifestyle in one of the most remote places on earth.
2. The Real Nancy Botwin From 'Weeds'
(The Real Nancy Botwin From 'Weeds')
3. Tragic Jungle (Selva Trágica)
In a company trading maté, workers are treated as slaves. Some of them try to escape, but those who are caught suffer severe punishments.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
4. Raízes: Voltando ao Passado (Raízes: Voltando ao Passado)
(Raízes: Voltando ao Passado)
5. The Adventures of Brooklyn Barnes
On the quest of a lifetime, hotshot adventurer Brooklyn Barnes fights through uncharted jungles and underground caverns in a race for a supernatural treasure. In hot pursuit, Brooklyn’s psychotic nemesis leads an unstoppable military force hellbent on arriving first and using the artifact for evil.
6. Contrasts of Peru (Contrasts of Peru)
Peru is a country of many contrasts. From the cold waters of the Coast over the 6000 m high Andes to the unique biodiversity of the Amazon Jungle. Peru isn't only Machu Picchu. It's much more.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
7. Portraits and Dreams
Revisit photographs created by Kentucky school children in the 1970s and the place where their photos were made. Photographer and artist Wendy Ewald, who guided the students in making their visionary photographs, returns to Kentucky and learns how the lives and visions of her former students have changed.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
8. Tigress of King River (สาบเสือที่ลำน้ำกษัตริย์)
British soldier Peter Bain is busted for trying to sell defective firearms to influential Chinese merchant Yang. Forced to hunt wild game with these firearms along with Yang's men, Bain links up with ex-monk Wan and Karen-American hunter Julia, who he meets on the way to the jungle. The group sets off to hunt an elephant, said to be protected by a ghostly tigress that can transform itself into a woman.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
9. I Know a Place (Sé de un lugar)
Young people who decide to leave their home to seek opportunities for the future face different difficulties on a daily basis. The inevitable estrangement with family and lifelong friends. The constant lack of understanding, the coldness and individualism of the new city. The stress and even the feeling of being a stranger back home. This journey to the future sets out issues about identity, nostalgia and courage, while they fight to find their place in a changeable world.
10. La Nuit Nomade (La Nuit Nomade)
At an altitude of 4500 meters, on the highest plateaus of Karnak in the Himalayan région of Ladakh, in a lunar setting where the sky blends with the mineral immensity, director Marianne Chaud filmed the movements of these last nomads. Immersed for months in their community, speaking their language, she placed her camera as close as possible to their voices and gestures, offering viewers encounters of a rare intimacy. As much as the splendor of the landscapes, the extreme harshness of the living conditions or the emotion shared with these nomads, it is this closeness that creates the magic of the film.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
11. Temple of the White Elephant (Sandok, il Maciste della giungla)
In British colonial India, Lt. Dick Ramsay is charged with secretly rescuing the kidnapped daughter of the British viceroy of India and her fiancée, a fellow British officer from a cult of murderers who worship a white elephant. While on his mission he meets Princess Dhara and her man servant and protector, Parvati Sandok. Princess Dhara's brother has also been taken captive by the Cult of the White Elephant. Princess Dhara and Parvati Sandok aid Lt. Ramsay in his mission to free the captives and put an end to the cult's reign of terror.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
12. Píseň jižních Čech (Píseň jižních Čech)
(Píseň jižních Čech)
13. Booloo
White hunters in a Malayan jungle stalk a white tiger and bait their trap with a native girl. Captain Rogers to the rescue but falls for the Colonel's daughter.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
14. Once ... Agadir
This short-length documentary takes us to Agadir, a city in Morocco that was struck by an earthquake in 1960. The film, made by an expatriate Moroccan who lost family and friends in the disaster, is a memorial to that tragedy and to the past he left behind when he came to North America. Partly allegorical, it employs varying techniques to offset reality from fantasy sequences.
15. King Kong vs. Godzilla (キングコング対ゴジラ)
The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approach. He orders his staff to Faro Island to capture King Kong for exploitation. As Godzilla re-emerges, a media frenzy generates with Pacific looking to capitalize off of the ultimate battle.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
16. King of the Congo
An Air Force captain is assigned to find some missing top-secret microfilm.
17. Jungle Moon Men
Priestess Oma is forever young in this Jungle Jim knockoff of "She" or the La of Opar stories from "Tarzan". The Jungle Jim-type character is played by Weissmuller using his own name.
It has an average vote of 4.7 on TMDB.
18. Surviving Columbus
This Peabody Award-winning documentary from New Mexico PBS looks at the European arrival in the Americas from the perspective of the Pueblo Peoples.
19. The Professional (Le Professionnel)
French secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala. But when his assignment is canceled, he's shocked to learn that his government is surrendering him to local authorities. He is given a mock trial and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor. But Beaumont escapes from prison and vows not only to avenge himself against his betrayers but also to finish his original assignment.
It has an average vote of 7.242 on TMDB.
20. Caixa D'Água: Qui-Lombo é Esse? (Caixa D'Água: Qui-Lombo é Esse?)
The documentary "Caixa D'água: Qui-lombo is this?" It reports, through testimonies from former residents and photographic collections, the importance in the cultural and historical scope of the Getúlio Vargas neighborhood located in Aracaju, capital of Sergipe. Emphasis is placed on black culture and the presence of black slaves and their descendants, with the rescue of issues related to their origin, orality, geographical location and awareness of their racial identity, showing that, although this community exists in an urban area, it still maintains many aspects of the quilombo life of the former black slaves in Brazil.