1. Into Our Own Hands (Entre nos Mains)
When confronted with their lingerie factory going bankrupt, the employees attempt to take it over by forming a cooperative. Soon questions about fundamental economic and social issues pop up amidst the bras and panties. Through this adventure together they discover a new freedom.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
2. My Name Is Salt
Year after year, just after the monsoon season has finished, thousands of families travel to a bleak desert in Gujerat, India, where they will stay for an endless eight months and extract salt from the earth, using the same painstaking, manual techniques as generations before them. Director Farida Pacha spent a season with one of these families, observing the very particular rhythms of their lives.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
3. The Decent One (Der Anständige)
Through previously undiscovered private letters, photos and diaries that were found in the Himmler family house in 1945, the "The Decent One" exposes a unique and at times uncomfortable access to the life and mind of the merciless "Architect of the Final Solution" Heinrich Himmler.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
4. Children of the Market
Documentary on Seattle's Pike Place Market, and those who have saved it from destruction over its first 100 years of existence. Covers the history of the Market, the people who live and work there, and the ghosts who still haunt it.
5. The Horror of It All
A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
6. Four Daughters (بنات ألفة)
Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters' life stories. An intimate journey of hope, rebellion, violence, transmission and sisterhood that will question the very foundations of our societies.
It has an average vote of 7.393 on TMDB.
7. Rio 2016
Gymnastics - a single common dream : The Olympic Games , Rio De Janeiro, 2016.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
8. Bim Bam Boom, Las Luchas Morenas
Bim Bam Boom Las Luchas Morenas, is about three Mexican sisters, professional wrestlers, whose lives, lived according to their own ideas, are a struggle but also a lot fun.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
9. Bukovyna, Ukrainian Land (Буковина, земля українська)
Dovzhenko and Solntseva's documentary about the Bukovina region.
It has an average vote of 3.4 on TMDB.
10. Victory on the Right Bank Ukraine (Победа на Правобережной Украине)
Dovzhenko and Solntseva's documentary about the end of the war.
It has an average vote of 4.7 on TMDB.
11. Tres instantes, un grito (Tres instantes, un grito)
(Tres instantes, un grito)
12. Ukraine in Flames (Битва за нашу Советскую Украину)
A 1943 Soviet documentary war film by Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko and Yuliya Solntseva. It is Dovzhenko's second World War II documentary, and dealt with the Battle of Kharkov. The film incorporates German footage of the invasion of Ukraine, which was later captured by the Soviets.
It has an average vote of 5.182 on TMDB.
13. Liberation (Визволення)
Wartime documentary by Dovzhenko and Solntseva.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
14. Here One Day
When filmmaker Kathy Leichter moved back into her childhood home after her mother's suicide, she discovered a hidden box of audiotapes. Sixteen years passed before she had the courage to delve into this trove, unearthing details that her mother had recorded about every aspect of her life from the challenges of her marriage to a State Senator, to her son’s estrangement, to her struggles with bipolar disorder. HERE ONE DAY is a visually arresting, emotionally candid film about a woman coping with mental illness, her relationships with her family, and the ripple effects of her suicide on those she loved.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
15. 4.1 Miles (4.1 Miles)
A coast guard captain on a small Greek island is suddenly charged with saving thousands of refugees from drowning at sea.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
16. Ultimate Christian Wrestling
Why would two New York-based filmmakers dedicate five years of their lives to following three white, Jesus-loving, spandex-clad men from the Bible Belt, particularly when the world of documentary filmmaking has generated its fair share of films concerning sensationalistic religious expression and contact sports in recent years? Because it's not about wrestling, and it's not about Jesus. Against a bizarre and entertaining backdrop, and through a motley cast of characters, we are reminded of what connects us all, lest we forget what it means to be human.
17. Vida Activa (Vida Activa)
New Opportunities were a portuguese education program with a focus on the academic certification of adults who left school early. Applicants will improve their academic degree from the re-elaboration and re-interpretation of his "life experience." These processes motivated workers to reflect on their working conditions, their training, their roots, producing a plurality of views about the school, emigration, the rural world and the universe of employment. Having its protagonists stories as a starting point, the film approches into a reflection about work in the contemporay world. This film was produced over four years work by the film director in a New Opportunities Centre.
18. The Beaches of Agnès (Les Plages d'Agnès)
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.
It has an average vote of 7.645 on TMDB.
19. Promises
Documentarians Justine Shapiro and B.Z. Goldberg traveled to Israel to interview Palestinian and Israeli kids ages 11 to 13, assembling their views on living in a society afflicted with violence, separatism and religious and political extremism. This 2002 Oscar nominee for Best Feature Documentary culminates in an astonishing day in which two Israeli children meet Palestinian youngsters at a refugee camp.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
20. Billy Wilder: Nobody's Perfect
Biography on the famous writer-director, Billy Wilder.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
