1. Marked by Darkness (Poznačení tmou)
Short, evocative documentary on the education of blind and partially sighted children.
2. Sylvia Plath: Inside The Bell Jar
The story of the making of The Bell Jar, the unique, semi-autobiographical novel written by American writer Sylvia Plath , published in February 1963, shortly before her death.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
3. Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
Stan Brakhage is a film maker whose work is shown mainly at film festivals. His work has been likened to poetry. Brakhage explains his techniques and his motivation.
4. The Legend of Boggy Creek
A documentary-style drama based on true accounts of the Fouke Monster in Arkansas.
It has an average vote of 4.977 on TMDB.
5. Begotten
Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the birth of nature on a barren earth.
It has an average vote of 5.92 on TMDB.
6. Remembering Uncle Golden
J. Golden Kimball, one of the most colorful LDS General Authorities, peppered his popular sermons with "damn" and "hell," words left over from his cowboy days. It was his candor and originality, however, that endeared him to Church members and made him a folk hero. Hear some of his best stories in a one-man show performed by his great-grandnephew, Jim Kimball.
7. Auguste Escoffier: The Birth of Haute Cuisine (Auguste Escoffier ou la naissance de la gastronomie moderne)
A succulent account of the life of French chef Auguste Escoffier who made the simple act of cooking food a true art by creating the modern concept of haute cuisine, and who also became the main reference point for many generations of future chefs.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
8. Tongpan (ทองปาน)
Tongpan is a 1977 Thai 16 mm black-and-white docudrama that re-creates a seminar that took place in Northeast Thailand in 1975 to discuss the proposed Pa-Mong Dam on the Mekong. Interwoven are sequences depicting a poor farmer, Tongpan, who had lost his land to another dam some years before, and his struggles to make ends meet.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
9. The Marvellous Spiral (La espiral maravillosa)
Spain, early 20th century. As a child, Leocadia Cantalapiedra was dazzled by a new art: cinema; but she lives in a society where directing films is something only men can do.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
10. Madrid, int. (Madrid, int.)
Madrid, Spain, March 2020. As the merciless disease that plagues the world spreads through the increasingly deserted streets of the city, people barricades themselves in their homes and move on with their lives…
It has an average vote of 4.6 on TMDB.
11. 20,000 Days on Earth
A semi-fictionalized documentary about a day in the life of Australian musician Nick Cave's persona.
It has an average vote of 7.072 on TMDB.
12. America 911: We Will Never Forget
Within minutes of the first explosion, CameraPlanet's video journalists hit the streets and began shooting videos of the tragedy as seen through the eyes of the people who were literally at "ground zero". America 911 is intended as a tribute and a memorial to the fallen and a permanent reminder so that we never forget.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
13. Anne Boleyn: Queen For A Thousand Days
Lavish documentary in which historian Dr Suzannah Lipscomb unfolds the extraordinary story of the tumultuous love affair between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, and asks: was it really love that brought them together – and was it love that tore them apart?
14. 42 Up
Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.
It has an average vote of 7.635 on TMDB.
15. Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains (Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains)
The story, told by the survivors, of a group of young men, members of a Uruguayan rugby team, who managed to survive for 72 days, at an altitude of almost 4,000 meters, in the heart of the Andes Mountains, after their plane, en route to Chile, crashed there on October 13, 1972.
It has an average vote of 7.792 on TMDB.
16. Inverosímil Jardiel Poncela (Inverosímil Jardiel Poncela)
The Spanish author Enrique Jardiel Poncela was one of the best comedy writers of all time, a novelist and newspaper columnist, misunderstood, even censored, both by the Second Republic government and Francoism, an outsider ahead of his time; also a filmmaker and screenwriter in Hollywood, architect of a revolutionary theatrical building and scenographer, cartoonist and illustrator. An implausible genius.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
17. Gino: A Child of War
An account of a young Italian boy who was taken in by a Canadian military unit during World War II.
18. First Love, Fatal Love
A docudrama telling the true story of a young woman who learns she has contracted the AIDS virus after an encounter with a fellow student while in college.
19. Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
It was one of humankind's most epic quests - a technical problem so complex that it challenged the best minds of its time, a problem so important that the nation that solved it would rule the economy of the world. The problem was navigation by sea—how to know where you were when you sailed beyond the sight of land - establishing your longitude. While the gentry of the 18th Century looked to the stars for the answer, an English clockmaker, John Harrison, toiled for decades to solve the problem. His elegant solution made him an unlikely hero and remains the basis for the most modern forms of navigation in the world today. This film will be both a celebration of Harrison's invention and an adventure story. An expedition on a period sailing vessel as it sails the open sea will demonstrate the life and death importance of finding your longitude at sea.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
20. Fortress Europe (Tvrđava Evropa)
People of different nationalities from Central Europe attempting to reach the West by crossing the controls and “European” rules.
