2017 Documentary Movies

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Nude(2017)

4.7/5 (with 81 votes)

NUDE explores perceptions of nudity in art by chronicling the creative process of photographer David Bellemere as he's commissioned by NU Muses founder Steve Shaw to shoot a fine art calendar of nude photographs.

Directed by Tony Sacco

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The Dawn Wall(2017)

1h 41min | Documentary, Adventure

4.0/5 (with 157 votes)

In the middle of Yosemite National Park towers El Capitan, a huge block of granite whose smoothest side, the Dawn Wall, is said to be the most difficult rock climb in the world. Tommy Caldwell didn’t see inhospitable terrain, but rather a puzzle almost a kilometer tall. In The Dawn Wall, we follow him and Kevin Jorgeson in their historic ascent to the summit.

Directed by Peter Mortimer, Josh Lowell

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An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power(2017)

| 1h 40min | Documentary

3.3/5 (with 70 votes)

A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the heart of popular culture comes the riveting and rousing follow-up that shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution. Vice President Al Gore continues his tireless fight, traveling around the world training an army of climate champions and influencing international climate policy. Cameras follow him behind the scenes—in moments private and public, funny and poignant—as he pursues the empowering notion that while the stakes have never been higher, the perils of climate change can be overcome with human ingenuity and passion.

Directed by Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk - With Al Gore, George W. Bush, Angela Merkel, Donald Trump, Barack Obama

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Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland(2017)

1h 45min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 51 votes)

Based on the best-selling book, Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days, and told through the eyes of Jackson's trusted bodyguards, Bill Whitfield and Javon Beard. The movie will reveal firsthand the devotion Michael Jackson had to his children, and the hidden drama that took place during the last two years of his life.

Directed by Dianne Houston - With Navi

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Icarus(2017)

2h 1min | Documentary

3.8/5 (with 310 votes)

While investigating the furtive world of illegal doping in sports, director Bryan Fogel connects with renegade Russian scientist Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov—a pillar of his country’s “anti-doping” program. Over dozens of Skype calls, urine samples, and badly administered hormone injections, Fogel and Rodchenkov grow closer despite shocking allegations that place Rodchenkov at the center of Russia’s state-sponsored Olympic doping program.

Directed by Bryan Fogel

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Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond(2017)

1h 34min | Documentary, Comedy

3.8/5 (with 296 votes)

Offbeat documentarian Chris Smith provides a behind-the-scenes look at how Jim Carrey adopted the persona of idiosyncratic comedian Andy Kaufman on the set of Man on the Moon.

Directed by Chris Smith - With Jim Carrey

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Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story(2018)

1h 28min | Documentary

3.5/5 (with 44 votes)

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.

Directed by Alexandra Dean - With Hedy Lamarr, Mel Brooks, Richard Rhodes, Peter Bogdanovich, Diane Kruger

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Faces Places(2017)

1h 34min | Documentary

3.9/5 (with 170 votes)

Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

Directed by Agnès Varda, JR

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Whitney: Can I Be Me(2017)

1h 45min | Music, Documentary

3.3/5 (with 78 votes)

The life and tragic death of Whitney Houston.

Directed by Nick Broomfield, Rudi Dolezal

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Abducted in Plain Sight(2018)

1h 31min | Documentary, Crime

3.3/5 (with 147 votes)

In 1974, 12-year-old Jan Broberg is abducted from a small church-going community in Idaho by a trusted neighbour and close family friend.

Directed by Skye Borgman

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Casting JonBenet(2017)

1h 21min | Documentary, Crime, Drama

2.9/5 (with 84 votes)

Twenty years after the modern world's most notorious child murder, the legacy of the crime and its impact are explored.

Directed by Kitty Green

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Batman & Bill(2017)

1h 33min | Documentary

3.6/5 (with 32 votes)

Everyone thinks that Bob Kane created Batman, but that’s not the whole truth. One author makes it his crusade to make it known that Bill Finger, a struggling writer, actually helped invent the iconic superhero, from concept to costume to the very character we all know and love. Bruce Wayne may be Batman’s secret identity, but his creator was always a true mystery.

Directed by Don Argott, Sheena M. Joyce

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Voyeur(2017)

1h 35min | Documentary

3.0/5 (with 78 votes)

Journalism icon Gay Talese reports on Gerald Foos, the Colorado motel owner who allegedly secretly watched his guests with the aid of specially designed ceiling vents, peering down from an "observation platform" he built in the motel's attic.

Directed by Myles Kane, Josh Koury - With Gay Talese

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My Generation(2017)

1h 27min | Documentary, Music, History

3.5/5 (with 22 votes)

The vivid and inspiring story of British film icon Michael Caine's personal journey through 1960s swinging London.

Directed by David Batty - With Michael Caine

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The King(2018)

| 1h 47min | Documentary

3.0/5 (with 12 votes)

A cultural portrait of the American dream at a critical time in the nation’s history. Set against the 2016 American election, The King takes a musical road trip across the country in Elvis Presley's 1963 Rolls Royce.

Directed by Eugene Jarecki - With Alec Baldwin, Tony Brown, Chuck D, Lana Del Rey, Ethan Hawke

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Human Flow(2017)

2h 20min | Documentary

3.4/5 (with 31 votes)

More than 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war, the greatest displacement since World War II. Filmmaker Ai Weiwei examines the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact. Over the course of one year in 23 countries, Weiwei follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretch across the globe, including Afghanistan, France, Greece, Germany and Iraq.

Directed by Ai Weiwei - With Peter Bouckaert, Hanan Ashrawi, Filippo Grandi

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Gilbert(2017)

1h 36min | Documentary

3.4/5 (with 23 votes)

The life and career of one of comedy's most inimitable modern voices, Mr. Gilbert Gottfried.

With Gilbert Gottfried

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The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson(2017)

1h 45min | Documentary

3.7/5 (with 43 votes)

Describing herself as a 'street queen,' Johnson was a legendary fixture in New York City’s gay ghetto and a tireless voice for LGBT pride since the days of Stonewall, who along with fellow trans icon Sylvia Rivera, founded Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.), a trans activist group based in the heart of NYC’s Greenwich Village. Her death in 1992 was declared a suicide by the NYPD, but friends never accepted that version of events. Structured as a whodunit, with activist Victoria Cruz cast as detective and audience surrogate, The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson celebrates the lasting political legacy of Johnson, while seeking to finally solve the mystery of her unexplained death.

Directed by David France - With Victoria Cruz, Taylor Mead

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I Am Heath Ledger(2017)

1h 30min | Documentary

3.8/5 (with 95 votes)

The life and career of an actor, artist, and icon. His own journey through his own camera.

Directed by Derik Murray - With Heath Ledger

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Unrest(2017)

1h 37min | Documentary

3.6/5 (with 21 votes)

When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s "all in her head." Determined to live, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story—and four other families' stories—fighting a disease medicine forgot.

Directed by Jennifer Brea - With Jennifer Brea, Whitney Dafoe

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AlphaGo(2017)

1h 30min | Documentary

3.9/5 (with 57 votes)

The ancient Chinese game of Go has long been considered a grand challenge for artificial intelligence. Yet in 2016, Google's DeepMind team announced that they would be taking on Lee Sedol, the world's most elite Go champion. AlphaGo chronicles the team as it prepares to test the limits of its rapidly-evolving AI technology. The film pits man against machine, and reveals as much about the workings of the human mind as it does the future of AI.

Directed by Greg Kohs

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Heal(2017)

1h 48min | Documentary

3.5/5 (with 25 votes)

A documentary film that takes us on a scientific and spiritual journey where we discover that by changing one's perceptions, the human body can heal itself from any disease.

Directed by Kelly Noonan Gores

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The Invisibles(2017)

1h 50min | Drama, History

3.5/5 (with 26 votes)

Four young Jews survive the Third Reich in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become "invisible.".

Directed by Claus Räfle - With Alice Dwyer, Aaron Altaras, Ruby O. Fee, Victoria Schulz, Maximilian Mauff

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Get Me Roger Stone(2017)

1h 40min | Documentary

3.5/5 (with 56 votes)

From his days of testifying at the Watergate hearings to advising recent presidential candidate Donald Trump, Roger Stone has long offended people on both sides of the political fence as a force in conservative America. Outspoken author, pundit, ahead of his time election strategist, this is his story.

Directed by Dylan Bank, Daniel DiMauro, Morgan Pehme - With Roger Stone

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LA 92(2017)

1h 54min | Documentary, History

3.9/5 (with 48 votes)

Twenty-five years after the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked several days of protests, violence and looting in Los Angeles, LA 92 immerses viewers in that tumultuous period through stunning and rarely seen archival footage.

Directed by Daniel Lindsay, T. J. Martin

McLaren(2016)

1h 34min | Documentary

4.0/5 (with 39 votes)

The story of New Zealander Bruce McLaren, who founded the McLaren Motor Racing team, showing the world that a man of humble beginnings could take on the elite of motor racing and win.

Directed by Roger Donaldson

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78/52(2017)

1h 31min | Documentary

3.6/5 (with 65 votes)

The most famous murder scene in movie history comprises 78 camera settings and 52 cuts: the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. 78/52 tells the story of the man behind the curtain and his greatest obsession.

Directed by Alexandre O. Philippe

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What the Health(2017)

1h 37min | Documentary

3.5/5 (with 154 votes)

Filmmaker Kip Andersen uncovers the secret to preventing and even reversing chronic diseases, and he investigates why the nation's leading health organizations doesn't want people to know about it.

Directed by Kip Andersen, Keegan Kuhn

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American Epic(2017)

TV-PG

| Documentary

3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

Travel the country in search of unknown 1920s artists, when the music of ordinary Americans was recorded for the first time, transforming music forever, in a three-part film narrated by Robert Redford, featuring Jack White, Nas, Taj Mahal and others.

Directed by Bernard MacMahon

Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!(2019)

1h 33min | Documentary

3.5/5 (with 65 votes)

Muckraking filmmaker Morgan Spurlock reignites his battle with the food industry — this time from behind the register — as he opens his own fast food restaurant.

Directed by Morgan Spurlock

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2017 Documentary Movies

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Nude(2017)

The Dawn Wall(2017)

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power(2017)

Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland(2017)

Icarus(2017)

Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond(2017)

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story(2018)

Faces Places(2017)

Whitney: Can I Be Me(2017)

Abducted in Plain Sight(2018)

Casting JonBenet(2017)

Batman & Bill(2017)

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Voyeur(2017)

My Generation(2017)

The King(2018)

Human Flow(2017)

Gilbert(2017)

The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson(2017)

I Am Heath Ledger(2017)

Unrest(2017)

AlphaGo(2017)

Heal(2017)

The Invisibles(2017)

Get Me Roger Stone(2017)

LA 92(2017)

McLaren(2016)

78/52(2017)

What the Health(2017)

American Epic(2017)

Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!(2019)

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