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1970s Documentary Movies

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Woodstock(1970)

FSK: 12+ years
| 3h 45min | Documentary, History, Music
3.7/5 (with 112 votes)

An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits of the concertgoers; negative and positive aspects are shown, from drug use by performers to naked fans sliding in the mud, from the collapse of the fences by the unexpected hordes to the surreal arrival of National Guard helicopters with food and medical assistance for the impromptu city of 500,000.

Directed by Michael Wadleigh, Thelma Schoonmaker, Martin Scorsese - With Richie Havens, Joan Baez, The Who, Joe Cocker, Country Joe and the Fish, Arlo Guthrie, ...

Gimme Shelter(1970)

1h 30min | Documentary, Music
3.7/5 (with 71 votes)

A detailed chronicle of the famous 1969 tour of the United States by the British rock band The Rolling Stones, which culminated with the disastrous and tragic concert held on December 6 at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival, an event of historical significance, as it marked the end of an era: the generation of peace and love suddenly became the generation of disillusionment.

Faces of Death(1978)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 45min | Horror
2.1/5 (with 67 votes)

A collection of death scenes, ranging from TV-material to home-made super-8 movies. The common factor is death by some means.

Directed by John Alan Schwartz

The Song Remains the Same(1976)

2h 17min | Music, Documentary
3.9/5 (with 50 votes)

The best of Led Zeppelin's legendary 1973 appearances at Madison Square Garden. Interspersed throughout the concert footage are behind-the-scenes moments with the band. The Song Remains the Same is Led Zeppelin at Madison Square Garden in NYC concert footage colorfully enhanced by sequences which are supposed to reflect each band member's individual fantasies and hallucinations. Includes blistering live renditions of "Black Dog," "Dazed and Confused," "Stairway to Heaven," "Whole Lotta Love," "The Song Remains the Same," and "Rain Song" among others.

Elvis: That's the Way It Is(1970)

1h 49min | Documentary, Music
4.0/5 (with 31 votes)

On July 31, 1970, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Elvis Presley staged a triumphant return to the concert stage from which he had been absent for almost a decade. His series of concerts broke all box office records and completely reenergized the career of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.

Directed by Denis Sanders - With Elvis Presley, James Burton, Richard Davis

Pumping Iron(1977)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 26min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 187 votes)

Amateur and professional bodybuilders prepare for the 1975 Mr. Olympia and Mr. Universe contests as five-time champion Arnold Schwarzenegger defends his Mr. Olympia title against Serge Nubret and the shy young deaf Lou Ferrigno.

Cocksucker Blues(1972)

1h 33min | Documentary, Music
2.9/5 (with 10 votes)

This fly-on-the-wall documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their 1972 North American Tour, their first return to the States since the tragedy at Altamont.

Directed by Robert Frank - With Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, The Rolling Stones, ...

Let It Be(1970)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 21min | Documentary, Music
3.8/5 (with 50 votes)

The filmed account of The Beatles' attempt to recapture their old group spirit by making a back to basics album, which instead drove them further apart.

Grey Gardens(1976)

1h 35min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 91 votes)

Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.

Land of Silence and Darkness(1971)

1h 25min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 27 votes)

Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, this film shows how the deaf-blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.

Directed by Werner Herzog

F for Fake(1973)

1h 29min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 137 votes)

Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.

WR: Mysteries of the Organism(1971)

1h 24min | Drama, Fantasy, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 36 votes)

What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision WR: Mysteries of the Organism begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl’s sexual liberation.

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That's Entertainment!(1974)

3.6/5 (with 25 votes)

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.

A Bigger Splash(1973)

1h 46min | Drama, Documentary
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

A fictionalised biopic about the end of David Hockney's relationship with Peter Schlesinger which was named after Hockney's pop-art painting 'A Bigger Splash'.

Directed by Jack Hazan - With David Hockney

ABBA: The Movie(1977)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 35min | Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Music
3.2/5 (with 32 votes)

A radio DJ in pursuit of an exclusive interview follows ABBA during their mega-successful tour of Australia.

Hearts and Minds(1974)

1h 52min | Documentary, War
4.0/5 (with 36 votes)

Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people. Filmmaker Peter Davis uses Johnson's phrase in an ironic context in this anti-war documentary, filmed and released while the Vietnam War was still under way, juxtaposing interviews with military figures like U.S. Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland with shocking scenes of violence and brutality.

Directed by Peter Davis

Street Scenes(1970)

1h 15min | Documentary
2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

In the late spring of 1970, nationwide protests against the war in Vietnam focused in the Wall Street area of New York City and ultimately in a major anti-war demonstration in Washington, D.C.. A group of New York University film students documented the demonstrations as they happened in both cities. Later, in New York, the massive amount of black and white and color 16mm footage was edited into this important record of the day-by-day events. The extended final scene, shot by Edward Summer in a hotel room in Washington, D.C., is a spontaneous conversation among Martin Scorsese, Harvey Keitel, Jay Cocks and Verna Bloom who, along with a large group of NYU students, found themselves frustrated and perplexed by the events and hopeful that the protests would result in change.

Harlan County U.S.A.(1977)

1h 43min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 41 votes)

This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between gun-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving us some background on the historical plight of the miners and some history of the UMWA.

Directed by Barbara Kopple - With John O'Leary

Animals Are Beautiful People(1974)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 32min | Comedy, Documentary, Kids & Family
3.9/5 (with 28 votes)

Animals Are Beautiful People (aka Beautiful People) is a 1974 nature documentary about the wildlife in Southern Africa. It was filmed in the Namib Desert, the Kalahari Desert and the Okavango River and Okavango Delta. It was produced for cinema and has a length of slightly more than 90 minutes.

Directed by Jamie Uys - With Holger Hagen

General Idi Amin Dada(1974)

1h 30min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 14 votes)

Filmmaker Barbet Schroeder shows the Ugandan dictator meeting his Cabinet, reviewing his troops, explaining his ideology.

Directed by Barbet Schroeder

Fata Morgana(1971)

1h 16min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 31 votes)

Shot under extreme conditions and inspired by Mayan creation theory, the film contemplates the illusion of reality and the possibility of capturing for the camera something which is not there. It is about the mirages of nature—and the nature of mirage.

Directed by Werner Herzog - With Lotte H. Eisner

The Legend of Boggy Creek(1972)

1h 27min | Mystery, Horror, Drama
2.5/5 (with 27 votes)

A documentary-style drama based on true accounts of the Fouke Monster in Arkansas, Boggy Creek focuses on the lives of back country people and their culture while chronicling sightings of the monster.

Directed by Charles B. Pierce

Italianamerican(1974)

49min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 30 votes)

Filmmaker Martin Scorsese interviews his mother and father about their life in New York and family history back in Sicily.

Weekend of a Champion(1972)

1h 20min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

An entertaining vérité look at world champion driver Sir Jackie Stewart as Roman Polanski follows his attempt to win the Monaco Grand Prix in 1971.

Directed by Roman Polanski, Frank Simon - With Jackie Stewart

Elvis on Tour(1972)

1h 33min | Documentary, Music
3.5/5 (with 10 votes)

This documentary captures Elvis Presley on his 1972 American tour and includes rehearsals, interviews, archival television appearances and backstage moments. With Elvis at his most flamboyant, the film features well-known hits and cover songs showcasing his country, gospel and rhythm-and-blues influences.

Directed by Robert Abel - With Elvis Presley

Bugs Bunny: Superstar(1975)

3.8/5 (with 15 votes)

Animator Robert Clampett presents a history of "Termite Terrace," the little shack on the Warner Brothers studio lot which in the 1930's and 1940's housed the animation unit which gave birth to Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny. Includes color and black-and-white home-movie-type footage shot at the time showing such animation greats as Clampett, Tex Avery and Chuck Jones. Also featured are nine complete Warner cartoons.

On Any Sunday(1971)

1h 36min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 9 votes)

Documentary on motorcycle racing featuring stars of the sport, including film star Steve McQueen, a racer in his own right.

Directed by Bruce Brown - With Steve McQueen

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner(1974)

44min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 25 votes)

A study of the psychology of a champion ski-flyer, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.

Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown(2024-)

1h per episode | Documentary
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown is a TV documentary that celebrates 25 years of the Peanuts comic strip. The special first aired January 9, 1976. Carl Reiner hosted.

Directed by Phil Roman

Filming Othello(1978)

1h 24min | Documentary, TV Movie
3.6/5 (with 5 votes)

Filming Othello is a 1978 documentary film directed by and starring Orson Welles about the making of his award-winning 1952 production Othello. The film, which was produced for West German television, was the last completed feature film directed by Welles.

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