1. Germany: A Summer's Fairytale (Deutschland. Ein Sommermärchen)
A documentary of the German national soccer team’s 2006 World Cup experience that changed the face of modern Germany.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
2. #monalisa
People looking at the Mona Lisa in the Louvre – or are they just looking at themselves?
3. Les yeux dans les Bleus (Les yeux dans les Bleus)
This documentary follows the French soccer team on their way to victory in the 1998 World Cup in France. Stéphane Meunier spent the whole time filming the players, the coach and some other important characters of this victory, giving us a very intimate and nice view of them, as if we were with them.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
4. Tourist Pictures
Short documentary of Stefan Nadelman's road trip across America, focusing on other tourists and their compulsions and desires to photograph.</p><p> The film won the Perrier Across America short film contest and earned a spot in the national ResFest touring digital film festival.
5. Water Trix
In this Pete Smith Specialty, cameraman Charles T. Trego films water skiing champion Preston Petersen, as he and two unnamed female skiers perform various tricks and feats of skill in their sport.
It has an average vote of 5.6 on TMDB.
6. Dezo Hoffmann – Photographer of The Beatles (Dežo Hoffmann – fotograf Beatles)
(Dežo Hoffmann – fotograf Beatles)
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
7. All the Memory in the World
Memories, mirrors, madness and Memento collide in this experimental video essay focusing on the photographs and photographers in thousands of narrative films. All the Memory in the World is a stream-of-consciousness meditation on cinema, photography, identity, memory and dreams narrated by an insomniac who obsesses over images.
8. An Old Bird Just Waiting To Die
In this short documentary-esque film, a photographer struggles to find a great photo.
9. Quicker'n a Wink
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, Dr. Harold E. Edgerton demonstrates stroboscopic photography, which he helped develop. This process allows us to see in slow motion what happens during events that occur too fast to be seen by the naked eye. Examples shown here include a bullet in flight as it shatters a light bulb, the moment of impact when a kicker kicks a football, and the motion of a hummingbird's wings as it hovers.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
10. Argentina 1978: il Mondiale desaparecido (Argentina 1978: il Mondiale desaparecido)
(Argentina 1978: il Mondiale desaparecido)
11. Skinningrove
A photographer shares unpublished images chronicling time spent among the 'fiercely independent' residents of a remote English fishing village.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
12. I Choose to Believe (Elijo creer)
It narrates the epic title obtained by the Argentine National Team in the World Cup Qatar 2022 with testimonies of the protagonists, told from the intimacy and in first person.
It has an average vote of 7.613 on TMDB.
13. France, Here We Come! (Frankreich, wir kommen)
FRANKREICH WIR KOMMEN is a highly enjoyable documentary, obviously intended for TV, but showing at film festivals. It shows us the highlights of the 1998 World Cup Championships in France through the eyes of several interesting and diverse fans of the Austrian national team. Entertaining, even for those not interested in football.
14. Das Wunder von Bern - Die wahre Geschichte
(Das Wunder von Bern - Die wahre Geschichte)
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
15. City of Photographers (La ciudad de los fotógrafos)
A film about the fearless photographers and photojournalists who documented strikes, demonstrations, protests etc during the Chilean military regime of Augusto Pinochet, sometimes risking their very lives.
It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.
16. The Faces We Lost
A documentary about how Rwandans use personal and family photographs to remember and commemorate the loved ones they lost in the 1994 genocide.
17. Fotografens hemlighet (Fotografens hemlighet)
Portrait of photographer Bengt Åke Kimbré where he narrates his own life story accompanied by his photographs.
18. Essay on color and its absence (Ensaio sobre a cor e sua ausência)
An experiment and a dialogue about recording, the act of filming and the colors available to whoever points the camera somewhere.
19. Projekt Gold (Projekt Gold)
(Projekt Gold)
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
20. Daring to Dream: England's Story at the 2018 FIFA World Cup
In the summer of 2018 the England football team defied expectations to reach the semi-finals of the FIFA World Cup™, achieving their best result in the tournament in 28 years and becoming the nation’s heroes. Following the highs and lows of the England squad’s journey, including highlights from all England matches and every goal; this is the perfect way to relieve the moment in time when a country dared to dream that football was coming home.
It has an average vote of 7.625 on TMDB.