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Kanopy
89
8.1
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78
/1154/
79
/841/
4.4
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99
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95
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96
/22/

The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings of the Algerian War. There he faces Ali la Pointe, a former petty criminal who, as the leader of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directs terror strategies against the colonial French government occupation. As each side resorts to ever-increasing brutality, no violent act is too unthinkable.
poster
87
7.9
/20917/
78
/824/
77
/378/
4.2
/81208/
98
/198/
89
/68/
91
/33/
cc age 14+

Flee (2021)
Recounted mostly through animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his past as a child refugee from Afghanistan as he grapples with a secret he’s kept hidden for 20 years.
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Kanopy
87
8.2
/43499/
79
/1519/
76
/730/
4.4
/90196/
96
/163/
85
/536/
92
/34/
cc age 14+

The Act of Killing (2012)
In this chilling and groundbreaking documentary, former Indonesian death squad leaders reenact their real-life mass killings in the style of various film genres, from gangster epics to musicals. As they recreate their past atrocities, the line between reality and performance blurs, exposing the lingering impact of Indonesia’s 1965-66 anti-communist purge and the unsettling psychology of its perpetrators.
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Kanopy
86
8.0
/5229/
82
/144/
76
/134/
4.3
/28826/
96
/72/
88
/96/
86
/19/

The Beaches of Agnès (2008)
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.
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Kanopy
85
7.9
/8542/
78
/564/
76
/199/
4.0
/16492/
99
/101/
89
/71/
92
/22/
cc age 14+

Tower (2016)
Combining archival footage with rotoscopic animation, Tower reveals the action-packed untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors of America’s first mass school shooting, when the worst in one man brought out the best in so many others.
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Amazon Prime Video
85
7.7
/60631/
76
/1803/
73
/925/
3.9
/44359/
100
/159/
87
/3529/
89
/31/
cc age 13+

Man on Wire (2008)
On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rigged between New York's World Trade Center twin towers, then the world's tallest buildings. After nearly an hour of performing on the wire, 1,350 feet above the sidewalks of Manhattan, he was arrested. This fun and spellbinding documentary chronicles Philippe Petit's "highest" achievement.
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Apple TV
84
8.1
/17565/
80
/1347/
77
/206/
4.0
/31468/
99
/156/
95
/101/
78
/35/
cc age 15+

STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023)
A short kid from a Canadian army base becomes the international pop culture darling of the 1980s—only to find the course of his life altered by a stunning diagnosis. What happens when an incurable optimist confronts an incurable disease?
poster
84
7.9
/1079/
65
/17/
84
/11/
3.9
/1379/
100
/23/
100
/6/
79
/6/

Aurora's Sunrise (2023)
The story of how Aurora Mardiganian (1901-94), a survivor of the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire (1915-17), became a Hollywood silent film star.
poster
84
7.9
/2033/
74
/33/
71
/27/
3.7
/1311/
100
/14/
92
/61/

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987)
Real-life letters written by American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines during the Vietnam War to their families and friends back home. Archive footage of the war and news coverage thereof augment the first-person "narrative" by men and women who were in the war, some of whom did not survive it.
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Kanopy
84
7.9
/39544/
78
/1191/
75
/435/
3.9
/18178/
93
/135/
92
/928/
82
/34/
cc age 16+

Touching the Void (2003)
The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
poster
84
8.0
/62252/
77
/1258/
77
/1021/
4.0
/53708/
97
/152/
91
/2622/
91
/33/
cc age 17+

Waltz with Bashir (2008)
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
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Disney Plus
83
8.3
/22919/
81
/1446/
79
/246/
4.1
/42133/
96
/104/
99
/58/
84
/19/
cc age 11+

The Rescue (2021)
The enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
83
8.0
/4239/
80
/142/
72
/63/
3.9
/2790/
98
/49/
90
/118/

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012)
Academy Award®–winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) explores the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church, following a trail from the first known protest against clerical sexual abuse in the United States and all way to the Vatican.
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Kanopy
83
7.8
/16646/
75
/570/
75
/362/
3.9
/25942/
98
/203/
88
/485/
87
/35/
cc age 15+

Life Itself (2014)
The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): 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.
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Kanopy
83
7.9
/27342/
76
/897/
76
/398/
4.1
/43111/
100
/19/
90
/558/
79
/12/

The Thin Blue Line (1988)
Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas.
poster
82
7.6
/114741/
72
/2727/
71
/1576/
3.7
/57019/
90
/209/
83
/6637/
90
/40/
cc age 16+

United 93 (2006)
A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
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AMC+
82
7.5
/5957/
71
/102/
69
/65/
3.8
/3862/
100
/41/
87
/180/
78
/25/

Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)
A portrait of the life and career of the infamous American execution device designer Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. Mr. Leuchter was an engineer who became an expert on execution devices and was later hired by holocaust revisionist historian Ernst Zundel to "prove" that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. Leuchter published a controversial report confirming Zundel's position, which ultimately ruined his own career. Most of the footage is of Leuchter, working in and around execution facilities or chipping away at the walls of Auschwitz, but Morris also interviews various historians, associates, and neighbors.
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Amazon Prime Video
82
7.4
/17507/
72
/320/
69
/244/
3.8
/4204/
100
/93/
90
/751/
82
/25/

Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)
An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.
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Kanopy
82
7.5
/14545/
74
/415/
71
/225/
3.9
/26123/
94
/145/
79
/374/
91
/36/

Stories We Tell (2012)
Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends whose reliability varies depending of their implication in the events, which are remembered in different ways; so a trail of questions remains to be answered, because memory is always changing and the discovery of truth often depends on who is telling the tale.
poster
Kanopy
82
8.0
/42215/
77
/2946/
75
/843/
3.8
/40121/
95
/93/
90
/361/
80
/11/
cc age 13+

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015)
GOING CLEAR intimately profiles eight former members of the Church of Scientology, shining a light on how they attract true believers and the things they do in the name of religion.
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Kanopy
81
7.4
/4300/
74
/164/
74
/102/
4.0
/27713/
96
/83/
87
/17/
80
/21/

Four Daughters (2023)
Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters' life stories. An intimate journey of hope, rebellion, violence, transmission and sisterhood that will question the very foundations of our societies.
poster
Netflix
81
7.1
/1468/
72
/75/
66
/28/
3.8
/4382/
98
/48/
82
/8/
90
/13/
cc age 15+

Procession (2021)
Six men who were sexually abused by Catholic clergy as boys find empowerment by creating short films inspired by their trauma.
poster
81
7.8
/788/
80
/56/
79
/13/
3.8
/1092/
100
/44/
87
/8/
80
/12/

Coup 53 (2019)
Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed tyrant Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, have conspired with agents of the British MI6 and the US CIA, manage to put an end to the democratic government led by Mohammad Mosaddegh, a dramatic event that will begin the tragic era of coups d'état that, orchestrated by the CIA, will take place, over the following decades, in dozens of countries around the world.
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Kanopy
81
7.4
/562/
70
/31/
72
/13/
3.7
/2355/
96
/28/
88
/1/
78
/7/

Beyond The Visible - Hilma af Klint (2019)
How can an artist discover abstraction by the beginning of the 20th century and nobody is noticing? A woman, misjudged and concealed, rocks the art world with her mind-blowing oeuvre. Hilma af Klint was a pioneer creating her first abstract painting in 1906, four years before Vassily Kandinsky. But why was she ignored? Why are her paintings not available on the market? This first film on her is about her life and work, the role of women in art history and the discovery of an art scandal. Her quest for meaning in life and a boundless thinking led into a timeless, outstanding oeuvre.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
7.5
/5949/
73
/157/
68
/107/
4.0
/14902/
94
/90/
77
/417/
84
/25/

My Winnipeg (2008)
The geographical dead center of North America and the beloved birthplace of Guy Maddin, Winnipeg, is the frosty and mysterious star of Maddin’s film. Fact, fantasy and memory are woven seamlessly together in this work, conjuring a city as delightful as it is fearsome.
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Amazon Prime Video
81
7.5
/21008/
76
/1130/
71
/285/
3.7
/15775/
97
/117/
87
/981/
82
/37/

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.
poster
Kanopy
80
7.0
/5357/
68
/227/
69
/73/
3.6
/18380/
99
/88/
82
/38/
87
/19/
cc age 14+

All That Breathes (2022)
Against the darkening backdrop of New Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protecting one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the black kite.
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Kanopy
80
7.6
/18758/
74
/539/
76
/420/
4.0
/56073/
93
/29/
81
/287/

Häxan (1922)
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.
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Amazon Prime Video
80
7.7
/10896/
78
/1441/
73
/247/
3.7
/4729/
90
/73/
75
/51/
77
/23/

Zero Days (2016)
Alex Gibney explores the phenomenon of Stuxnet, a self-replicating computer virus discovered in 2010 by international IT experts. Evidently commissioned by the US and Israeli governments, this malware was designed to specifically sabotage Iran’s nuclear programme. However, the complex computer worm ended up not only infecting its intended target but also spreading uncontrollably.
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Netflix
79
7.3
/10497/
76
/1306/
73
/140/
3.8
/77098/
100
/12/
81
/46/

Cunk on Life (2024)
Pioneering documentary maker Philomena Cunk returns with her most ambitious quest to date: venturing right up the universe and everything to examine life and existence in an attempt to find out the point of it all. Along the way, she interrogates experts on subjects from the big bang to biology and art to artificial intelligence. Really get to the nub of it.
poster
79
7.5
/61777/
74
/1944/
70
/1178/
3.6
/44421/
94
/181/
81
/4307/
79
/39/
cc age 6+

March of the Penguins (2005)
Every year, thousands of Antarctica's emperor penguins make an astonishing journey to breed their young. They walk, marching day and night in single file 70 miles into the darkest, driest and coldest continent on Earth. This amazing, true-life tale is touched with humour and alive with thrills. Breathtaking photography captures the transcendent beauty and staggering drama of devoted parent penguins who, in the fierce polar winter, take turns guarding their egg and trekking to the ocean in search of food. Predators hunt them, storms lash them. But the safety of their adorable chicks makes it all worthwhile. So follow the leader... to adventure!!
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Kanopy
79
7.6
/44549/
76
/2457/
73
/773/
3.7
/107682/
96
/190/
88
/265/
81
/30/
cc age 11+

Three Identical Strangers (2018)
New York, 1980. Three complete strangers accidentally discover that they're identical triplets, separated at birth. The 19-year-olds' joyous reunion catapults them to international fame, but also unlocks an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes beyond their own lives – and could transform our understanding of human nature forever.
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Kanopy
79
7.4
/8721/
72
/255/
68
/140/
3.7
/4941/
97
/143/
84
/434/
83
/33/
cc age 14+

Project Nim (2011)
From the team behind Man on Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.
poster
80
79
7.6
/7751/
76
/441/
74
/138/
3.7
/3338/
94
/16/
86
/54/

The Fear of 13 (2015)
After 23 years on Death Row a convicted murderer petitions the court asking to be executed, but as his story unfolds, it becomes clear that nothing is what it seems.
poster
Netflix
78
7.6
/19286/
74
/806/
73
/247/
3.7
/32224/
97
/36/
86
/38/
69
/11/
cc age 16+

Tell Me Who I Am (2019)
In this documentary, Alex trusts his twin, Marcus, to tell him about his past after he loses his memory. But Marcus is hiding a dark family secret.
poster
78
7.8
/3978/
77
/92/
69
/45/
3.8
/1448/
91
/91/
89
/193/
76
/30/

Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002)
In 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. gathered the best musicians from Detroit's thriving jazz and blues scene to begin cutting songs for his new record company. Over a fourteen year period they were the heartbeat on every hit from Motown's Detroit era. By the end of their phenomenal run, this unheralded group of musicians had played on more number ones hits than the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, Elvis and the Beatles combined - which makes them the greatest hit machine in the history of popular music. They called themselves the Funk Brothers. Forty-one years after they played their first note on a Motown record and three decades since they were all together, the Funk Brothers reunited back in Detroit to play their music and tell their unforgettable story, with the help of archival footage, still photos, narration, interviews, re-creation scenes, 20 Motown master tracks, and twelve new live performances of Motown classics with the Brothers backing up contemporary performers.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
78
7.7
/8871/
76
/617/
75
/298/
3.8
/25129/
91
/34/
90
/31/

Spielberg (2017)
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
78
7.4
/52381/
73
/2384/
73
/764/
3.8
/40927/
95
/119/
78
/1067/
77
/27/

The Imposter (2012)
In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later he is found alive thousands of miles away in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems.
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Netflix
77
7.5
/1164/
73
/72/
69
/15/
3.7
/1521/
100
/13/
97
/17/
71
/5/
cc age 14+

The Saint of Second Chances (2023)
Mike Veeck, son of MLB franchise owner Bill Veeck, blows up his father's career. Exiled from the game he loves, the younger Veeck spends the next few decades clawing his way up from rock bottom, determined to redeem himself.
poster
77
8.1
/47174/
76
/1277/
68
/245/
75
/8/
86
/4646/

What Is a Woman? (2022)
Matt Walsh's controversial doc challenges radical gender ideology through provocative interviews and humor.
poster
Kanopy
77
7.1
/787/
71
/47/
67
/16/
3.5
/2855/
98
/56/
89
82
/9/

Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché (2021)
The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey through her mother's archives in this intimate documentary.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
79
77
7.8
/16259/
77
/337/
73
/172/
3.8
/4564/
92
/15164/

Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982)
Monty Python perform many of their greatest sketches at the Hollywood Bowl, including several from pre-Python days.
poster
Kanopy
77
7.5
/91107/
75
/2677/
75
/1794/
4.0
/177229/
76
/87/
87
/3250/
75
/23/

Lady Vengeance (2005)
Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.
poster
Kanopy
77
7.8
/2381/
72
/61/
68
/41/
3.7
/958/
85
/23/

The Endurance (2000)
Documentary on the Shackleton Antartic expedition. A retelling of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in and the crew of his vessel 'The Endurance', which was trapped in the ice floes and frigid open ocean of the Antarctic in 1914. Shackleton decided, with many of his crew injured and weak from exposure and starvation, to take a team of his fittest men and attempt to find help. Setting out in appalling conditions with hopelessly inadequate equipment, they endured all weather and terrain and finally reached safety. Persuading a local team of his confidence that the abandoned team would still be alive, he set out again to find them. After almost 2 years trapped on the ice, all members of the crew were finally rescued.
poster
77
7.3
/5575/
71
/110/
65
/88/
3.8
/6208/
89
/35/
79
/66/

Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' plays out by a company of actors. The setting: their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props and scenery is soon forgotten.
poster
Kanopy
77
7.4
/2205/
74
/190/
70
/61/
3.8
/3937/
92
/65/
71
/28/
79
/20/

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015)
The story of the Black Panthers is often told in a scatter of repackaged parts, often depicting tragic, mythic accounts of violence and criminal activity; but this is an essential story, vibrant, human; a living and breathing chronicle of a pivotal movement that birthed a new revolutionary culture in America.
poster
83
77
8.5
/8938/
79
/232/
79
/117/
4.2
/5550/
88
/12664/

9/11 (2002)
An on-the-scene documentary following the events of September 11, 2001 from an insider's view, through the lens of two French filmmakers who simply set out to make a movie about a rookie NYC fireman and ended up filming the tragic event that changed our lives forever.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.8
/362/
74
/18/
68
/8/
78
/18/
85
/21/

Bill W. (2012)
William G. Wilson is co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, a man included in TIME Magazine's "100 Persons of the 20th Century." Interviews, recreations, and rare archival material reveal how Bill Wilson, a hopeless drunk near death from his alcoholism, found a way out of his own addiction and then forged a path for countless others to follow. With Bill as its driving force, A.A. grew from a handful of men to a worldwide fellowship of over 2 million men and women - a success that made him an icon within A.A., but also an alcoholic unable to be a member of the very society he had created. A reluctant hero, Bill Wilson lived a life of sacrifice and service, and left a legacy that continues every day, all around the world.


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