Best Documentaries
by rafacanoba | created - 20 Mar 2014 | updated - 06 Sep 2019 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Love Exists (1961)
21 min | Documentary, Short
A social commentary on post-war France's urban developments.
Director: Maurice Pialat | Star: Jean-Loup Reynold
Votes: 699
2. Paris Is Burning (1990)
R | 78 min | Documentary
A chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.
Director: Jennie Livingston | Stars: Brooke Xtravaganza, André Christian, Dorian Corey, Paris Duprée
Votes: 17,599 | Gross: $3.78M
3. Videograms of a Revolution (1992)
106 min | Documentary, History, War
This documentary uses news footage and amateur video to paint a vivid picture of Romania's 1989 revolution and the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
Directors: Harun Farocki, Andrei Ujica | Stars: Ion Caramitru, Elena Ceausescu, Nicolae Ceausescu, Mircea Dinescu
Votes: 655
4. The Case of the Grinning Cat (2004 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 59 min | Documentary
Paris 2002. Yellow cats appears on the walls. Chris Marker is looking for these mysterious cats and captures with his camera the political and international events of these last two years (war in Iraq...).
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Bertrand Cantat, Dieudonné, Léon Schwartzenberg, Marina Vlady
Votes: 558
5. Grey Gardens (1975)
PG | 95 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Meet a mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, reclusive cousins of Jackie O., managing to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, NY, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot.
Directors: Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer | Stars: Edith Bouvier Beale, Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale, Brooks Hyers
Votes: 15,276 | Gross: $0.03M
6. Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
Not Rated | 68 min | Documentary
A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
Director: Dziga Vertov | Stars: Mikhail Kaufman, Elizaveta Svilova
Votes: 27,977
7. Finding Vivian Maier (2013)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary, Biography, Mystery
A documentary on the late Vivian Maier, a nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs earned her a posthumous reputation as one of the most accomplished street photographers.
Directors: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel | Stars: Vivian Maier, John Maloof, Daniel Arnaud, Simon Amédé
Votes: 15,082 | Gross: $1.51M
8. Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015)
TV-MA | 132 min | Documentary, Animation, Biography
An authorized documentary on the late musician Kurt Cobain, from his early days in Aberdeen, Washington to his success and downfall with the grunge band Nirvana.
Director: Brett Morgen | Stars: Kurt Cobain, Wendy O'Connor, Don Cobain, Jenny Cobain
Votes: 32,129
9. Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, Music
A collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on the relationship between nature, humanity, and technology.
Director: Godfrey Reggio | Stars: Edward Asner, Pat Benatar, Jerry Brown, Johnny Carson
Votes: 41,469 | Gross: $1.72M
10. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)
R | 91 min | Documentary
A documentary that chronicles artist and activist Ai Weiwei as he prepares for a series of exhibitions and gets into an increasing number of clashes with the Chinese government.
Director: Alison Klayman | Stars: Ai Weiwei, Dan Ai, Lao Ai, Lee Ambrozy
Votes: 4,527 | Gross: $0.53M
11. Bixa Travesty (2018)
75 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
A documentary that follows Mc Linn Da Quebrada, a black trans woman, performer and activist living in impoverished São Paulo. Her electrifying performances (with plenty of nudity) brazenly take on Brazil's hetero-normative machismo.
Directors: Kiko Goifman, Claudia Priscilla | Stars: Linn da Quebrada, Jup do Bairro, Liniker, As Bahias e a Cozinha Mineira
Votes: 588
12. No Intenso Agora (2017)
127 min | Documentary, History
A personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China's Cultural Revolution, from the student uprisings in Paris to the end of the Prague Spring.
Director: João Moreira Salles
Votes: 609 | Gross: $0.02M
13. São Paulo in Hi-Fi (2013)
95 min | Documentary
An historical documentary about Sao Paulo's gay night life during the 60's, 70's and 80's.
Director: Lufe Steffen | Stars: Celso Curi, Darby Daniel, Kaká di Polly, Leão Lobo
Votes: 99
14. Mr. Gaga: A True Story of Love and Dance (2015)
100 min | Documentary, Biography
Mr. Gaga tells the story of Ohad Naharin, renowned choreographer and artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company, an artistic genius who redefined the language of modern dance.
Director: Tomer Heymann | Stars: Ohad Naharin, Tzofia Naharin, Eliav Naharin, Judith Brin Ingber
Votes: 954 | Gross: $0.17M
15. Waiting for B. (2015)
71 min | Documentary
A group of Beyoncé's fans camped-out for two months to be the first in line for her 2013 concert in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This film is an intimate portrait of the these fans and their day-to-day lives in camp and off.
Directors: Paulo Cesar Toledo, Abigail Spindel | Stars: Charles Angels, Bruno Brunet, Rick Caled, Richard Carter
Votes: 75
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