Documentary movies

Roger & Me (1989)

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Genres: Documentary
Countries: USA
Actors: Blanchard, James | Bond, James | Boone, Pat | Eubanks, Bob | Hamper, Ben | Jackson, Timothy | Kay, Tom | Koppel, Ted | Lennox, Correy | MacDonald, Brian | Rather, Dan | Reagan, Ronald | Ross, Fred | Sawdon, Richard Earl
Directors: Moore, Michael
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A documentary about the closure of General Motors’ plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.

Naqoyqatsi: Life as War (2002)

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Genres: Documentary | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Aikman, Troy | Beatles, The | Bin Laden, Osama | Brando, Marlon | Castro, Fidel | Christopher, Warren | Clinton, Bill | Edison, Thomas A. | Einstein, Albert | Hitler, Adolf | John, Elton | Khrushchev, Nikita | King, Martin Luther | Kissinger, Henry | Lama, Dalai
Directors: Reggio, Godfrey
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In this cinematic concert, mesmerizing images are plucked from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques. The result is a chronicle of the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology, the synthetic and the virtual. Extremes of intimacy and spectacle, tragedy and hope fuse in a tidal wave of visuals and music, giving rise to a unique, artistic experience that reflects the vision of a brave new globalized world.

Pumping Iron (1977)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Documentary | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Barnes, Mark F. | Callard, Roger | Columbu, Franco | Corney, Ed | Cort, Bud | Ferrigno, Lou | Ferrigno, Matty | Katz, Mike | Nubret, Serge | Reynolds, Patrick | Riedmeier, Helmut | Robinson, Robbie | Schwarzenegger, Arnold | Waller, Ken | Weider, Joe
Directors: Butler, George
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From Gold’s Gym in Venice Beach California to the showdown in Pretoria, amateur and professional bodybuilders prepare for the 1975 Mr. Olympia and Mr. Universe contests in this part-scripted, part-documentary film. Five-time champion Arnold Schwarzenegger defends his Mr. Olympia title against Serge Nubret and the shy young deaf Lou Ferrigno, whose father is his coach; the ruthless champ psyches out the young lion. Sardinian Franco Columbu competes in the lightweight class; at home in Italy he solves a tight parking problem by lifting the car into place. Joe Weider is the marketer; Mike Katz and Ken Waller go for the title of Mr. Universe. Bodybuilding and a celebrity-to-be go mainstream.

Chances of the World Changing, The (2006)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Genres: Documentary
Countries: USA
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Directors: Metzgar, Eric Daniel
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An artist abandons his life’s work to build an ark filled with hundreds of endangered animals. A story about time, death, art, love, and turtles.

Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation (2001)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Documentary | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Robinson, Andrew | Kirby, Grace | Laurence, Ashley | Bradley, Doug | Vince, Nicholas | Bamford, Simon | Wyss, Amanda | Garcia, Jsu | Englund, Robert | Langenkamp, Heather | Divoff, Andrew | Klugman, Brian | Burns, Marilyn | Neal, Edwin | Hansen, Gunnar
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Boogeymen brings together 17 great horror-flick baddies of the last 40 years, ranging from Norman Bates to Leatherface to Freddy Krueger to Chuckie. Accompanying the clips of their dastardly deeds are optional FlixFacts trivia bits and an optional commentary soundtrack from Robert Englund.

Arctic Tale (2007)

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Documentary
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Directors: Robertson, Sarah
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This documentary chronicles the lives of two youngsters in one of the coldest places on Earth. Watch as Seela the walrus and Nanu the polar bear grow from newborns to teenagers and what it takes to survive in an environment that’s rapidly shrinking thanks to climate change.

Sicko (2007)

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Genres: Documentary
Countries: USA
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Directors: Moore, Michael
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A documentary comparing the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations, and HMO horror stories.

Road to Guantanamo, The (2006)

Monday, November 12th, 2007
Genres: Documentary | Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Ahmed, Riz | Harun, Farhad | Siddiqui, Waqar | Usman, Afran | Iqbal, Shahid | Khan, Sher | Salkey, Jason | Gaffney, Jacob | Holden, Mark | Henry, Duane | Meredith, William | Bina, Payman | James, Adam | Hughes, Ian | Buller, James
Directors: Whitecross, Mat
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In 2001, four Pakistani Britons, Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul and another friend, Monir, travel to Pakistan for a wedding and in a urge of idealism, decide to see the situation of war torn Afganistan which is being bombed by the American forces in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Once there, with the loss of Monir in the wartime chaos, they are captured by Northern Alliance fighters. They are then handed them over the American forces who transport them to the prison camps at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba. What follows is three years of relentless imprisonment, interrogations and torture to make them submit to blatantly wrong confessions to being terrorists. In the midst of this abuse, the three struggle to keep their spirits up in that face of this grave injustice.

Look, Up in the Sky: The Amazing Story of Superman (2006)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Documentary | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Ackerman, Forrest J | Adler, Gilbert | Bender, Stephan | Brando, Marlon | Dean Cain | Carlin, Mike | Christopher, Gerard | Cooper, Jackie | Didio, Dan | Donner, Richard | Dougherty, Michael | Fishler, Stephen | Gough, Alfred | Grossman, Gary H. | Hamill, Mark
Directors: Burns, Kevin
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In 1938, two aspiring comic strip talents, Jerry Siegal and Joe Shuster, published a character that would create a new genre of fantasy, Superman, the first superhero. This film explores the creation of the character and his subsequent evolution over the decades through various media. With various interviews of noted creative luminaries, the film shows how the character has adapted to the times and bounced back from times when he felt irrelevant to always regain his prominence as one of the great heroes of popular culture.

Jackass Number Two (2006)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Documentary
Countries: USA
Actors: Knoxville, Johnny | Margera, Bam | (person unknown) | Chris Pontius | Dunn, Ryan | Acuña, Jason | Preston Lacy | England, Dave | McGhehey, Ehren | Margera, Jess | Dicamillo, Brandon | Hoffman, Mat | Hawk, Tony | Zupan, Mark
Directors: Jeff Tremaine
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Chris Pontius, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera, and the whole crew return to the screen to raise the stakes higher than ever before.