Movie List for "documentary"

Loving Highsmith (2022) Documentary Movie

Based on Patricia Highsmith’s personal writings and accounts of her family and lovers, the film casts new light on the famous thriller writer’s life and oeuvre, permeated by themes of love and its defining influence on identity. Year 2022.

Generes: Documentary
Director: Eva Vitija
Writer: Eva Vitija
Actors: Patricia Highsmith, Marijane Meaker, Monique Buffet

Fire of Love (2022) Documentary Movie

Intrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing the most explosive imagery ever recorded. Year 2022.

Generes: Documentary
Director: Sara Dosa
Writer: Shane Boris, Erin Casper, Jocelyne Chaput
Actors: Miranda July, Katia Krafft, Maurice Krafft

Blind Ambition (2021) Documentary Movie

Four Zimbabwean men form their country’s first Wine Tasting Olympics team. Year 2021.

Generes: Documentary
Director: Robert Coe, Warwick Ross
Writer: Robert Coe, Paul Murphy, Madeleine Ross
Actors: N/A

Unicorn Town (2022) Documentary Drama Sport Movie

With the help of a handful of American recruits, an underdog football team in a small German town attempts to keep up in a league that appears to be leaving them behind. Year 2022.

Generes: Documentary, Drama, Sport
Director: Nick Alfieri
Writer: Nick Alfieri
Actors: Nick Alfieri, Cody Pastorino, Devin Benton

The Territory (2022) Documentary Movie

When a network of Brazilian farmers seizes a protected area of the Amazon rainforest, a young Indigenous leader and his mentor must fight back in defense of the land and an uncontacted group living deep within the forest. Year 2022.

Generes: Documentary
Director: Alex Pritz
Writer: N/A
Actors: Neidinha Bandeira, Bitaté Uru Eu Wau Wau

Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down (2022) Documentary Movie

Looking at the former congresswoman’s courage and perseverance in the aftermath of the 2011 assassination attempt that left her partially paralyzed and with a language impairment, aphasia. Year 2022.

Generes: Documentary
Director: Julie Cohen, Betsy West
Writer: N/A
Actors: Barack Obama, Gabrielle Giffords, Mark Kelly

My Old School (2022) Documentary Drama Movie

In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years became the stuff of legend. Year 2022.

Generes: Documentary, Drama
Director: Jono McLeod
Writer: Jono McLeod
Actors: Alan Cumming, Lulu, Dawn Steele

Claydream (2021) Documentary Movie

The meteoric rise and dramatic fall of “Father of Claymation” Will Vinton is the subject of this fascinating portrait of one of cinema’s unheralded innovators. Year 2021.

Generes: Documentary
Director: Marq Evans
Writer: Marq Evans
Actors: Peter Lord, Will Vinton, Craig Bartlett

The Day the Music Died/American Pie (2022) Documentary Movie

50 years after its release, Don McLean shares the secrets behind his iconic song ‘American Pie’, one of the great musical touchstones of the 20th century. Year 2022.

Generes: Documentary
Director: Mark Moormann
Writer: N/A
Actors: Peter Gallagher, ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic, Jencarlos Canela

Living Wine (2022) Documentary Movie

Living Wine follows the journeys of natural winemakers in Northern California, during the largest wildfire season on record. Equal parts farmer, winemaker, and artist, they stay true to their ideals creating wines made through inn… Year 2022.

Generes: Documentary
Director: Lori Miller
Writer: N/A
Actors: N/A

Free Chol Soo Lee (2022) Documentary Movie

Asian Americans unite to free Chol Soo Lee, a Korean immigrant who was wrongly convicted of a gang murder, but once out, he self-destructs, threatening the movement’s legacy and the man himself. Year 2022.

Generes: Documentary
Director: Julie Ha, Eugene Yi
Writer: Carol Dysinger, Julie Ha, Chol Soo Lee
Actors: Chol Soo Lee, Jeff Adachi, K.W. Lee

Accepted (2021) Documentary Movie

The ambitious students of the TM Landry Prep School enjoyed a remarkable 100% acceptance rate into the country’s most elite colleges until an explosive NY Times article exposed the controversial teaching methods of its dynamic fou… Year 2021.

Generes: Documentary
Director: Dan Chen
Writer: N/A
Actors: Cathy Bui, James Dennis, Mike Landry