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75
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4.1
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cc age 6+

Microcosmos (1996)
A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in, and a mosquito hatching.
84
8.5
/42911/
84
/1310/
82
/665/
4.3
/39352/
81
/26/
96
/21691/

Baraka (1992)
A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life.
83
8.2
/44302/
80
/1188/
78
/753/
4.3
/85110/
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/23/
91
/1147/

Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.
82
8.4
/39733/
81
/1433/
80
/669/
4.2
/37155/
75
/77/
87
/439/
65
/24/

Samsara (2011)
Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.
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78
7.7
/12970/
76
/296/
74
/260/
4.2
/43933/
88
/16/
86
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Sans Soleil (1983)
A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.
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72
7.6
/15760/
74
/417/
72
/245/
3.7
/5911/
79
/76/
79
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58
/18/
cc age 12+

Life in a Day (2011)
A documentary shot by filmmakers all over the world that serves as a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010.
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69
7.7
/4034/
76
/170/
75
/84/
3.9
/3293/
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Chronos (1985)
Carefully picked scenes of nature and civilization are viewed at high speed using time-lapse cinematography in an effort to demonstrate the history of various regions.
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7.6
/5112/
75
/116/
75
/125/
3.7
/8764/
86
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81
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Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927)
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.
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7.7
/5678/
73
/116/
68
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3.7
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85
/35/

Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938)
Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, Riefenstahl covers twenty-one athletic events in the first half of this two-part love letter to the human body and spirit, culminating with the marathon, where Jesse Owens became the first track and field athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympics.
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7.2
/9327/
72
/279/
72
/177/
3.7
/10191/
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/9/
81
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57
/13/

Powaqqatsi (1988)
An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.
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62
6.4
/6516/
62
/233/
61
/152/
3.1
/7230/
48
/52/
70
/148/
59
/23/

Naqoyqatsi (2002)
A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
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60
7.3
/4925/
65
/105/
68
/142/
3.7
/9813/
74
/37/

À propos de Nice (1930)
What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Côte d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.
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58
7.2
/2057/
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/45/
74
/77/
3.7
/6096/
92
/143/

Rain (1929)
A lyrical portrait of Amsterdam and its changing appearance during a rain-shower.
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57
7.6
/4661/
73
/85/
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/78/
3.8
/3929/
80
/5/
86
/10/

Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938)
Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave the main stadium and venture into the many halls and fields deployed for such sports as fencing, polo, cycling, and the modern pentathlon, which was won by American Glenn Morris.
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56
6.7
/4363/
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/58/
66
/81/
3.5
/7664/
72
/1282/

Fata Morgana (1972)
Shot under extreme conditions and inspired by Mayan creation theory, the film contemplates the illusion of reality and the possibility of capturing for the camera something which is not there. It is about the mirages of nature—and the nature of mirage.
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48
7.8
/1238/
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/47/
75
/39/
4.1
/4250/

Glass (1958)
This short documentary, shot in the glass factories of Leerdam and Schiedam, demonstrates how glass blowers do their work. But thanks to the superbly edited ballet of working hands and the sequence of mechanical motions of the engines, is it especially a cinematic tour de force. That the industry can’t do without man’s involvement is shown in the scene where we hear the voice of Haanstra himself counting the bottles on the conveyor belt, until one bottle breaks…
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6.6
/1753/
60
/45/
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/76/
3.5
/3626/
56
/106/

Manhatta (1921)
Morning reveals New York harbor, the wharves, the Brooklyn Bridge. A ferry boat docks, disgorging its huddled mass. People move briskly along Wall St. or stroll more languorously through a cemetery. Ranks of skyscrapers extrude columns of smoke and steam. In plain view. Or framed, as through a balustrade. A crane promotes the city's upward progress, as an ironworker balances on a high beam. A locomotive in a railway yard prepares to depart, while an arriving ocean liner jostles with attentive tugboats. Fading sunlight is reflected in the waters of the harbor. The imagery is interspersed with quotations from Walt Whitman, who is left unnamed.
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45
7.1
/1619/
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/37/
65
/51/
3.7
/3348/

The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra (1928)
This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by the number 9413 written on his forehead.
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43
7.5
/495/
64
/14/
60
/2/
3.4
/1272/
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/17/
90
/38/
64
/5/

The Lost Weekend: A Love Story (2023)
May Pang lovingly recounts her life in rock & roll and the whirlwind 18 months spent as friend, lover, and confidante to one of the towering figures of popular culture, John Lennon, in this funny, touching, and vibrant portrait of first love.
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39
7.2
/825/
70
/53/
80
/16/
3.6
/1495/
70
/23/
cc age 13+

Life in a Day 2020 (2021)
On July 25th, 2020, Ridley Scott and Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald invite you to be part of Life in a Day—a historic, global documentary capturing a single day on Earth. Videos from around the world are woven into a feature film.
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28
7.4
/603/
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/34/
69
/17/
3.9
/1421/

Zoo (1961)
A perfect, fast and hilarious montage. Using images from Artis (Amsterdam Zoo), Bert Haanstra shows that a couple of similarities can be discovered between human and animal. Particularly the manner in which human and ape are confronted with each other, is significant. The images speak for themselves, human voices or commentary is absent. The ironic music of Pim Jacobs does add an extra dimension to the whole. With regards to human and animal Haanstra limits himself for the time being to this short film, recorded with a hidden camera. Later on, in several big films, he would return to this subject.
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24
6.4
/471/
64
/24/
56
/13/
3.5
/1789/

End of Summer (2014)
A hypnotic and slow-burning journey through the austere landscapes of the island of South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsula. Shot on black and white super 8 film as a series of mostly static tableaux over a period of 20 days during the waning days of the Antarctic Summer, the film is a startling look at life at the edge of the world.
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23
7.3
/433/
58
/11/
62
/24/
3.8
/865/

Mirror of Holland (1950)
In this short film Bert Haanstra gives his vision - from the water – of a tranquil Holland. During filming he held the camera upside down and afterwards put the images ‘up right’ again in the film. By doing this, we see the ‘usual’ waterfront, but transformed by the rippling of the water. In this way Mirror of Holland became a modern looking experimental film. However this did not devalue the Dutch sentiment regarding waterfronts that are so trusted to so many.
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21
6.3
/503/
50
/20/
57
/26/
3.5
/780/

Necrology (1970)
The faces of a 5:00 PM crowd descending via the Pan Am building escalators in one continuous shot. In old-fashioned black and white, these faces stare into the empty space, in the 5:00 PM tiredness and mechanical impersonality, like faces from the grave.
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7.2
/343/
62
/14/
62
/16/
3.7
/820/

Faces of November (1964)
Robert Drew shows the sights and sounds from the funeral of President John F. Kennedy in November, 1963. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2002.
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5.8
/367/
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/7/
58
/20/
3.3
/550/

Skyscraper Symphony (1929)
A montage of the skyscrapers of Manhattan opens with a succession of stationary views of the upper portions of numerous buildings. This is followed by a wide variety of fluid shots, which also begin to show more and more of the surrounding city, in addition to the skyscrapers themselves.
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5.3
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40
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51
/19/
3.3
/537/

Recreation (1956)
Featuring a commentary by Noël Burch (in nonsense French), Recreation's rapid-fire montage of single-frame images of incredible density and intensity has been compared to contemporary Beat poetry.
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11
6.4
/201/
70
/2/
51
/13/
3.4
/481/

A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray (1930)
This short film made by László Moholy-Nagy is based on the shadow patterns created by his Light-Space Modulator, an early kinetic sculpture consisting of a variety of curved objects in a carefully choreographed cycle of movements. Created in 1930, the film was originally planned as the sixth and final part of a much longer work depicting the new space-time.
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11
7.6
/143/
70
/3/
64
/11/
3.6
/496/

Pickle (2016)
An ode to man's capacity to care for all creatures throughout their sometimes greatly protracted existence, displayed through the homegrown remedies Tom and Debbie Nicholson create for disabled animals.
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9
6.6
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100
/1/
72
/2/
3.6
/573/

Avant-Drag! (2024)
Avant-Drag! paints portraits of ten drag artists of varying gender expressions and sexualities who take to the streets of Athens to query, problematise and (yes, please!) undermine social strictures. Employing wildly imagined personas – like riot housewives and Albanian turbo-folk girls – who perform acts as revolutionary as praising abortion and as charming as drawing childish pictures, these artists call for social justice by taking aim at conservatism, patriarchy, patriotism, racism and sexism.
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90
/1/

The Art of Living (2025)
What is the Art of Living ? A few weeks ago, I asked myself this question, as silly in its formality as it is complicated in its complexity. In this video, I'll try to give you my definition and my vision of what the art of living is !
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100
/1/

Entre Puntos (2025)
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6.4
/38/
3.5
/640/

Hair, Paper, Water... (2026)
She was born in a cave, more than 60 years ago. Now she lives in a village, with many children and grandchildren to look after. Sometimes, she dreams of her dead mother calling her home – to the cave.
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7.9
/23/

Vud, You Won (2025)
The rise and fall of Yugoslavian filmmaker Dušan Vukotić - the only Yugoslav Oscar-winner and one of the founding members of the Zagreb School of Animation - uncannily mirrors the tragic fate of his multiethnic country.
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100
/1/

White Mountains (2024)
The filmmaker, Alexandros Papathanasiou, travels to Crete to meet Lefteris Eliakis, a guerrilla fighter during the Greek Civil War and a political prisoner for two decades. This insightful portrait conjures the ghosts of the Greek Civil War – the maverick people, revolutionary politics, and breathtaking events that have shaped today’s Greece.
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90
/1/

Eternity Interrupted (2020)
The personal collaboration between Kiran Acharya and Clint Mansell is an early combination of documentary film and augmented reality.
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100
/1/

Routine (2025)
An experimental half-documentary half-fiction about a young person’s routine of getting to sleep and waking up.
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7.8
/12/

Messengers (2025)
A poetic exploration of three subterranean telescopes in remote regions of Canada, Japan, and Antarctica that reveal a new way of perceiving the universe from within. Underground, we are dreaming into the earth.
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100
/1/

Lessons In Solitude (2024)
A restless spirit embraces solitude both before and after having loved, and life goes on.
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100
/1/

Ensaio (2023)
N/A
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80
/1/

A Gentle Glow (2017)
The camera floats quietly to capture the beauty that emerges from the mundane. Accompanied by Ryuichi Sakamoto's composition, Arseny Tarkovsky's poem celebrates life.
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62
/2/

Kujang Sasaka Bwaga Sunda (2024)
Kang Aries and Kang Oca are two cultural observers of Kujang who try to provide a justification perspective on the Kujang Philosophy made by one of the blacksmiths named Abah Jajang, where the general public often considers that Kujang is a sharp weapon. The two of them "Kang Aris & Kang Oca" entered the realm of the trial to defend the essence of Kujang, so as not to be considered misunderstood by the general public.
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100
/2/

Sol de Mayo (2024)
N/A
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100
/1/

Cine Dunas (2024)
N/A
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7.5
/9/

The Crying of the Sea (2023)
Cosme and Monica live with their children and grandchildren in Bahia de Kino, a fishing town in the northern State of Sonora, Mexico. They used to call themselves predators of the sea until one day they became unable to kill a sea turtle. Submerged in a crisis, they embark on a journey to try to save their way of life and of their fishing town through the creation of an environmental community group in charge of protecting sea turtles.
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20
/1/

Kitchen Dialogue (2025)
A generational trauma through the lens of an Asian American teenager through food and poetry.
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9.1
/8/
60
/1/

The Boy of The Fish (2024)
"The Boy Of The Fish" follows Noon, a young boy living in a Syrian refugee camp, who finds solace and a sense of freedom in a whale-shaped doll he names "Bahr." Set against the challenging realities of camp life, Noon’s journey is both a story of resilience and a testament to the boundless imagination of childhood. Through vivid symbolism and a unique soundscape, the film explores themes of loss, hope, and the longing for freedom amidst confinement. Shot entirely on an iPhone due to restrictions in the conflict zone, the film combines raw authenticity with poetic depth to capture the emotional landscape of a young soul navigating adversity.
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100
/1/

Sharing (2024)
Sharing is a documentary that will show the process of building a video dance performed by four female artists who have a connection not only with blood, but also with dance.


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