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- The Booksellers. There are a lot of movies based on books, but how many movies do you know of that are actually about books? On the surface, it may not sound like the most exciting premise, but "The Booksellers" offers what amounts to a magical window into the world of rare book dealing in New York City, featuring prominent authors and personalities along the way.
- Burning. The year 2020 quickly became infamous for all manner of cataclysmic reasons, from the coronavirus pandemic (and the empty grocery shelves, lockdowns, and stock market woes that came with it) to the U.S. government releasing videos of UFOs.
- Conan O'Brien Can't Stop. This is a road comic documentary about a very famous person giving stand-up and touring a variety act his first real try — all while trying to cope with the loss of his dream job in the aftermath of a public controversy.
- Dear Mr. Watterson. Comic strips still run in hundreds of daily and Sunday newspapers around the world. However, over the last 100 years, only a handful have made a deep and profound impact on readers and popular culture alike, demonstrating that three or so hand-drawn panels of sequential art can be just as powerful and moving as a piece of literature as a novel or poem.
- Man on Wire
- Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters
- Living with Chucky
- Dior and I
- Jiro Dreams of Sushi
- The Queen of Versailles
- One Child Nation
- Nelly and Nadine
- Blackfish
- Gimme Danger
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Depicting the high wire artist Philippe Petit's mind-boggling 1974 walk on a wire between the Twin Towers in NYC, this doc from filmmaker James Marsh uses rare video footage of Petit's prep along with recreations of the event and current-day interviews with everyone involved to craft a heart-racing heist film. Winning every award within reach, up t...
The same man who gave us the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park gave us the holographic chess game in Star Wars, the killer bugs in Starship Troopers, and the terrifying Enforcement Droid in RoboCop. That man's name is Phil Tippett, and those are just four of the special effects wizard's credits that this 2019 documentary on the man features. It's all cove...
The Child's Playfranchise — meaning the slasher films starring Chucky the murderous doll that began in 1988 right up through the TV series that's currently in its third season — has been in the hands of the same people the entire time, save one spin-off reboot that we will not discuss. Namely, creator Don Mancini and his crew of delightful wackadoo...
While a look behind the scenes at the staging a fashion show can often induce terror, director Frédéric Tcheng's 2014 look at the first haute couture collection of Raf Simons for the legendary house is so awash in beauty that you hardly even notice any of that. Narrated via excerpts of Dior's autobiography, which was unpublished and only discovered...
David Gelb's 2011 doc trains its eye on sushi chef Jiro Ono, the then-85-year-old owner and sushi master behind Sukiyabashi Jiro. This tiny sushi bar only has ten seats and is based inside a subway station in Tokyo, and yet it's the first sushi restaurant to ever receive three stars from Michelin. (It's since lost its stars due to its reservation p...
Movies like Saltburn have proven that the time has definitely arrived for mid-aughts nostalgia. And there might be no better time capsule of that decade than this 2012 doc from Generation Wealth filmmaker Lauren Greenfield. Like one of the decade's celebrity-driven reality series (think The Osbournes or anything involving Paris Hilton) sharpened in...
In China between the years 1979 and 2015, the government had a one-child policy; because of the surging population, families were "encouraged" to only have a single child. In Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang's 2019 documentary, they interviewed both the enforcers of that policy and the enforced-upon, and a picture of genuine horror emerges. The propaga...
Looking for blossoms of hope within tales of the Holocaust can sometimes feel like a fool's errand, but Magnus Gertten's 2022 documentary about a love affair between two women who met in a concentration camp somehow manages that moving feat. Sylvie Bianchi spent most of her life too afraid to look into her grandmother Nelly's letters about her time...
Blackfish focuses on the awful tale of Tilikum, a male orca whale driven to extremes of aggression by his captivity at SeaWorld. Filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite's incendiary documentary paints a horrifyingly vivid portrait of the reality behind those charming tourist attractions and the cruelty of keeping these intelligent creatures in captivity. ...
Gimme Danger is the definitive document of punk rock's origin point. The Stooges were so far ahead of their time they'd made three records and broken up before anybody could even realize what they'd done. Jim Jarmusch spent about ten years working on the doc, which comes to a head with their 2010 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. And eve...
Discover 27 mesmerizing true stories on Prime Video, from movie monsters to sushi masters, from crime investigations to creative vision. Whether you're in the mood for education, emotion, or wild adventure, this list has something for everyone.
- Lucy and Desi. Rotten Tomatoes: 94% | IMDb: 7.7/10. Capturing the highs and the lows of the lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Lucy and Desi is a documentary done with care by Amy Poehler.
- Judy Blume Forever. Rotten Tomatoes: 95% | IMDb: 7.7/10. Documentary. Release Date. April 21, 2023. Cast. Judy Blume , Anna Konkle , Lena Dunham , Molly Ringwald.
- Wildcat. Rotten Tomatoes: 92% | IMDb: 8.7/10. wildcat. Documentary. Thriller. War. Release Date. April 23, 2021. Director. Jonathan W. Stokes. Cast. Georgina Campbell , Luke Benward , Ibrahim Renno Jr.
- The Sound of 007. Rotten Tomatoes: 78% | IMDb: 7.4/10. Documentary. Release Date. 2022-00-00. Director. Mat Whitecross. Cast. Michael Caine , Daniel Craig , Rami Malek , Billie Eilish.
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- Flight/Risk (2022) new. 6.6/10. pg 98m. Genre Documentary. Stars Dominic Gates, Zipporah Kuria, Justin Green. Directed by Omar Mullick, Karim Amer. watch on Amazon.
- Warriors on the Field (2022) new. 6.5/10. pg-13 50m. Genre Documentary. Directed by Larissa Behrendt. watch on Amazon. AFL legend Michael O’Loughlin takes viewers on an intimate journey into the history and experiences of Indigenous Australian people.
- A Promise to My Father (2013) new. 9.0/10. 55m. Genre Documentary. Stars Israel Arbeiter, Tom Kane. Directed by Tim Gray. watch on Amazon. Deeply touching, emotional, and heartwrenching, A Promise to My Father follows Holocaust survivor Israel “Izzy” Arbeiter, who returns to the site of the darkest moments in his life, reliving the trauma and sacrifice.
- Chicken People (2016) new. 81 % 7.0/10. 83m. Genre Documentary. Directed by Nicole Lucas Haimes. watch on Amazon. Chicken People feels like it should be a mockumentary, but it is deadly serious.
Jul 5, 2022 · Grey Gardens. This documentary centers on an upper class mother and daughter both called Edith Beale (Big and Little Edie), who, despite being aunt and the first cousin of former US first lady ...
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