1. The Seven Ages of Elvis
Documentary about the life and career of Elvis Presley produced for Sky Arts. Includes rarely seen clips and photos from throughout Elvis' career as well as comments from music historians and musicians, songwriters, producers, actors, etc. who worked with him. Narrated by producer/director David Upshal.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
2. The Men's Room (For vi er gutta)
Every Tuesday twenty-five tattooed middle-aged men take a break from their everyday lives to meet and drink beer, tell bad jokes and sing dirty rock songs. They have landed their biggest gig ever – warming up for Black Sabbath. But one of them confides he’s got little time left to live. This summer becomes a race against time and death.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
3. Noch hier. Schon da (Noch hier. Schon da)
(Noch hier. Schon da)
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
4. Drugs in the Tenderloin
Drugs in the Tenderloin is a documentary shot guerilla style by Robert Zagone in 1966; It captures the Tenderloin as it transformed into a center for young queers and drug users.
5. Requiem for Eternity (Réquiem por la Eternidad)
In August 2007, after some medical studies, I was diagnosed with bone cancer. This movie is based on my memories of those days.
6. Black Angels (Black Angels)
(Black Angels)
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
7. Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed
Bob Ross brought joy to millions as the world's most famous art instructor. But a battle for his business empire cast a shadow over his happy trees.
It has an average vote of 6.813 on TMDB.
8. Young @ Heart
Documents the true story of the final weeks of rehearsal for the Young at Heart Chorus in Northampton, MA, and many of whom must overcome health adversities to participate. Their music goes against the stereotype of their age group. Although they have toured Europe and sang for royalty, this account focuses on preparing new songs for a concert in their hometown.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
9. Life Itself
The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert : his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentious partnership with Gene Siskel, his life-altering marriage, and his brave and transcendent battle with cancer.
It has an average vote of 7.505 on TMDB.
10. Re-enactment (Reconstituirea)
In 1959, in Romania, six former members of the nomenclature and the secret police organize a hold up of the National Bank. After their arrest, the state forces them to play themselves in a film which reconstitutes the crime and the investigation. At the end of their trial, filmed live, they are sentenced to death and executed. except the women, Monica Sevianu that due to the fact that she had 2 children she was punished to do hard work for life.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
11. The Distant Drummer: A Movable Scene
Robert Mitchum narrates an anti drug propaganda film.
It has an average vote of 3.5 on TMDB.
12. Breakthrough
Breakthrough tells the story of a renegade scientist’s quest to find a cure for cancer, the disease that killed his mother. Texan Jim Allison is a 2018 Nobel Prize winner for discovering how to prompt a cancer patient’s own immune system into defeating their disease, but for decades he waged an often-lonely struggle against the painful skepticism of the medical establishment.
13. They Call Us Greasers (Dom Kallar Oss Raggare)
A Swedish documentary about greasers. It's Swedens first teenage culture which started in Stockholm in the 1950s.
14. Welcome to the Club: The Women of Rockabilly
Sure, Elvis was the King, but who was the Queen? The Women Of Rockabilly – Welcome To The Club is a documentary search for the "Female Elvis", as we meet the women of rockabilly music and explore the "what-if’s?" and "what-now’s" of their careers. Brenda Lee, Wanda Jackson, Janis Martin and a sassy cast of lesser but no less colorful pretenders to the throne describe their trailblazing days when they were the embodiment of exuberance, sexuality and defiance in a world that wasn’t quite ready for them. A rockin’ feature documentary by Beth Harrington.
15. Before I'm Gone
After being diagnosed with Stage 4 Cancer, racecar driver Dave Smith gets back behind the wheel. At 70 years old, he sets out to win his home town’s race, the infamous Canada 200.
16. The Tragically Hip - A National Celebration
When it was announced in May of 2016 that lead singer Gord Downie had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, the band decided that they would do one final run of 15 dates across Canada. A National Celebration was the final show of the Tragically Hip's Man Machine Poem Tour recorded on August 20th, 2016 at the K-Rock Centre in their home town of Kingston Ontario. Originally aired live by CBC across all platforms, the concert was experienced by an estimated one-third of Canadians, among the biggest events in the country's broadcast history.
It has an average vote of 9.8 on TMDB.
17. 13th
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
It has an average vote of 7.912 on TMDB.
18. Glory Daze: The Life and Times of Michael Alig
A review of the wild New York City nightlife of the 90s. The cast of characters who made up the infamous Club Kids speak candidly about that era, culminating with Alig's release from incarceration.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
19. Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom (追臆のダンス)
Kazuo Nishii, renowned editor and photography critic, died in 2001 of stomach cancer. Two months earlier he contacted Naomi Kawase, whose works he admired, to document the remaining weeks of his life. Kawase visits him in the hospital and films the progression of his sickness and the conversations between the two.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
20. Tom Parker: Inside My Head
This moving film for Stand Up To Cancer follows The Wanted's Tom Parker as he and his family learn to live with Tom's brain tumour diagnosis and Tom arranges a star-studded charity concert.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
