1. Rose Street
The minutiae of daily life on Edinburgh's Rose Street in the fifties is presented in this impressionistic documentary piece.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
2. Pine Ridge
19 year old Bert sits in the shade of a tree in Yo Park. Cassandra Warrior feeds her daughter Diamond Rose. Daniel Runs Close sweats under the sun at Wounded Knee Memorial site. Kassel Sky Little puts his boots on at the Waters Rodeo. Vanessa Piper is alone in the middle of Badlands. Lance Red Cloud hangs out behind the gas station at night. It is summer and they all live here, at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, USA.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
3. Gowanus Canal
Sarah J. Christman continues her 16mm ecological studies with Gowanus Canal, in which contamination and compression of refuse intimate a stultifying state for one of the most polluted bodies of water in the United States.
4. The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
What led Arthur Conan Doyle to create, and then destroy the world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes? This compelling drama explores the dark secrets that surround the author and his creation.
It has an average vote of 6.125 on TMDB.
5. The Story of the Weeping Camel (Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel)
When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed for a ritual to change her mind.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
6. The Gnomist
Deep in the forest of Overland Park, Kansas little gnomes made a home. But how did they get there? Experience the feel-good story of paying it forward, one tiny magical house at a time.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
7. Who is Oda Jaune? (Wer ist Oda Jaune?)
Documentary about the German painter Oda Jaune.
8. Hilton! (Hilton!)
A roughly beautiful Hilton! gives the viewer a glimpse of life in a modern society, a life that young persons lead.
It has an average vote of 4.714 on TMDB.
9. Strike a Pose (Strike a Pose)
In 1990, seven young male dancers joined Madonna on her most controversial world tour. Their journey was captured in Truth or Dare. As a self-proclaimed 'mother' to her six gay dancers plus straight Oliver, Madonna used the film to make a stand on gay rights and freedom of expression. The dancers became paragons of pride, inspiring people all over the world to dare to be who you are. 25 years later, the dancers share their own stories about life during and after the tour. What does it really take to express yourself?
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
10. Power In Our Hands
Unseen footage from the British Deaf Association archives is used to tell the story of the Deaf community's fight for civil rights.
11. Eva Hesse
German American artist Eva Hesse created her innovative art in latex and fiberglass in the whirling aesthetic vortex of 1960s New York. Her flowing forms were in part a reaction to the rigid structures of then-popular minimalism, a male-dominated movement. Hesse’s complicated personal life encompassed not only a chaotic 1930s Germany, but also illness and the immigrant culture of New York in the 1940s. One of the twentieth century’s most intriguing artists, she finally receives her due in this film, an emotionally gripping journey with a gifted woman of great courage.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
12. Last Harvest (Last Harvest)
Last Harvest follows the journey of an elderly Chinese farming couple as they are being relocated by the government's mammoth and controversial South-to-North Water Diversion Project.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
13. Birth Control Your Own Adventure
A darkly comedic, personal testimony about birth control side effects and navigating the inadequacies of women’s healthcare.
14. How to Cook Your Life
A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday life.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
15. Money & Life
Money & Life is an inspirational essay-style documentary that asks a provocative question: can we see the economic crisis not as a disaster, but as a tremendous opportunity? This cinematic odyssey connects the dots on our current economic pains and offers a new story of money based on an emerging paradigm of planetary well-being that understands all of life as profoundly interconnected.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
16. They Called Us "Les Filles du Roy" (Les Filles du Roy)
The history of the roles of women in Quebec society, beginning with the women shipped from France to the New World by the King to populate the colony with the men already there, and ending with the modern career woman.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
17. Artificial Paradise
Aztec romance and the dream of love. The anthropologist’s most human desire, the ultimate contact with the informant. The denial of intellectualism and the acceptance of the romantic heart, and a soul without innocence. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
18. I Am Thalente
Homeless since the age of nine, South African skateboarder Thalente Biyela travels to the US to pursue his dream of becoming a professional skateboarder. Through his eyes, we experience what it takes to rise up out of circumstance and escape a lifetime on the streets.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
19. The Models of 'Pickpocket' (Les modèles de 'Pickpocket')
A documentary that follows up on what happened to the three principle actors in Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket."
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
20. The United States of America
A conceptual bicentennial film dealing with spatial and temporal relationships between two travelers, their car, and the geographic, political, and social changes from NY to Los Angeles.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
