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The Nineties(2017)

42min per episode | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 8 votes)

Hit rewind and explore the most iconic moments and influential people of The Nineties, the decade that gave us the Internet, DVDs, and other cultural and political milestones.

Directed by Tom Hanks

The Last Movie Stars(2022)

3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

A celebration of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward’s iconic careers and decades-long partnership. Director Ethan Hawke brings life and color to this definitive history of their love, lives, and philanthropy.

Directed by Ethan Hawke - With Joanne Woodward

The Story of Late Night(2021-)

38min per episode | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A six-part docuseries that takes viewers on a journey through late-night television’s most memorable moments. Spanning a more than 60-year history of engaging with, adapting to and influencing our rapidly changing society, late-night television has grown into a thriving entertainment phenomenon and vitally important cultural institution.

Apollo 11(2019)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 33min | Documentary, History
3.9/5 (with 275 votes)

A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin.

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine(2015)

2h 9min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 110 votes)

When Steve Jobs died the world wept. But what accounted for the grief of millions of people who didn’t know him? This evocative film navigates Jobs' path from a small house in the suburbs, to zen temples in Japan, to the CEO's office of the world's richest company, exploring how Jobs’ life and work shaped our relationship with the computer. The Man in the Machine is a provocative and sometimes startling re-evaluation of the legacy of an icon.

Directed by Alex Gibney

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain(2021)

1h 58min | Documentary

An intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon. This unflinching look at Anthony Bourdain reverberates with his presence, in his own voice and in the way he indelibly impacted the world around him.

Directed by Morgan Neville

RBG(2018)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 38min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 128 votes)

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg now 84, and still inspired by the lawyers who defended free speech during the Red Scare, Ginsburg refuses to relinquish her passionate duty, steadily fighting for equal rights for all citizens under the law. Through intimate interviews and unprecedented access to Ginsburg’s life outside the court, RBG tells the electric story of Ginsburg’s consuming love affairs with both the Constitution and her beloved husband Marty—and of a life’s work that led her to become an icon of justice in the highest court in the land.

Directed by Julie Cohen, Betsy West

Navalny(2022)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 38min | Documentary, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 28 votes)

Follows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During his months-long recovery, he makes shocking discoveries about the attempt on his life and decides to return home.

Directed by Daniel Roher - With Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, Christo Grozev, Darya Navalnaya, Zakhar Navalny, Maria Pevchikh, ...

Life Itself(2014)

2h 1min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 154 votes)

The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentious partnership with Gene Siskel, his life-altering marriage, and his brave and transcendent battle with cancer.

Lincoln: Divided We Stand(2021)

1h per episode | Documentary
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Narrated by Sterling K. Brown, this six-part docuseries takes a comprehensive look at the remarkable and unexpected story of Abraham Lincoln by exploring his complicated inner world, seamlessly interweaving his tragic personal life with his history making political career. The series uses a mix of expert interviews, cinematic recreations, rare artifacts, and never before broadcast photos and letters to take viewers on a transcendent journey into the life and times of this iconic U.S. president.

Holy Hell(2016)

1h 40min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 50 votes)

An inside look at a West Hollywood cult formed by a charismatic teacher in the 1980s that eventually imploded.

Directed by Will Allen

The Seventies(2015)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h per episode | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 8 votes)

A documentary series focusing on the ongoing Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal, evolving music industry, the Iran Hostage Crisis, the sexual revolution, and the rise of foreign and domestic terrorism.

Directed by Tom Hanks
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The Sixties(2014)

1h per episode | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

The space race, the cold war, "free love," civil rights and more: The decade of the 1960s shaped our history -- and changed the world. In collaboration with Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog, CNN explores perhaps the most transformative decade of the modern era in a 10-part documentary series and brings new insights into how those events shaped today.

Directed by Tom Hanks

The Hunting Ground(2015)

1h 44min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 61 votes)

A startling expose of rape crimes on US campuses, their institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on students and their families. The film follows the lives of several undergraduate assault survivors as they attempt to pursue—despite incredible push back, harassment and traumatic aftermath—both their education and justice.

Directed by Kirby Dick

Tricky Dick(2019)

43min per episode | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Explore Richard Nixon’s life and times; tracking his rise, fall, incredible comeback and political destruction during some of America’s most tumultuous decades. From his early political maneuvers in California, to the game-changing Kennedy-Nixon debates through his disgraceful Watergate exit, featuring never-before-seen footage this fully archive based series offers fresh insight into a riveting story of politics, power and scandal.

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice(2019)

1h 35min | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 11 votes)

With one of the most memorably stunning voices that has ever hit the airwaves, Linda Ronstadt burst onto the 1960s folk rock music scene in her early twenties.

Directed by Rob Epstein

Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger(2014)

1h 47min | Crime, Documentary
3.3/5 (with 34 votes)

A documentary that captures the sensational trial of infamous gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger, using the legal proceedings as a springboard to explore allegations of corruption within the highest levels of law enforcement. Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger examines Bulger's relationship with the FBI and Department of Justice that allowed him to reign over a criminal empire in Boston for decades.

Directed by Joe Berlinger

Ivory Tower(2014)

1h 37min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 16 votes)

As tuition spirals upward and student debt passes a trillion dollars, students and parents ask, "Is college worth it?" From the halls of Harvard to public and private colleges in financial crisis to education startups in Silicon Valley, an urgent portrait emerges of a great American institution at the breaking point.

Directed by Andrew Rossi

On the Trail: Inside the 2020 Primaries(2020)

1h 34min | Documentary
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

CNN's team of female journalists and embeds pack up and leave their families to fan out across the country and report on the president and his would-be rivals as the candidates launch campaigns and contend for voters.

Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story(2021)

1h 36min | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

In 1968, Jackie Collins published her first novel The World Is Full of Married Men to remarkable success and immediate scandal. Over the next decades, Collins would go on to build an empire writing books where female agency came first. Jackie Collins’ women were unapologetic about their needs and their sexual desire, and to her devoted readers, Collins became a symbol of the effortless power that defined her heroines.

Trophy(2017)

1h 48min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 8 votes)

This in-depth look into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Africa unravels the complex consequences of treating animals as commodities.

Directed by Shaul Schwarz, Christina Clusiau

Unseen Enemy(2017)

1h 37min | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 3 votes)

A documentary focused on infectious disease outbreaks.

The Reagan Show(2017)

1h 15min | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

Comprised entirely of archival footage taken during those pre-reality-television years, The Reagan Show looks at how Ronald Reagan redefined the look and feel of what it means to be the POTUS.

Little Richard: I Am Everything(2023)

1h 38min | Documentary, Music
4.0/5 (with 3 votes)

The story of the Black queer origins of rock n' roll. It explodes the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator – Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Richard's complicated inner world, the film unspools the icon's life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions.

Directed by Lisa Cortes

Persona: The Dark Truth Behind Personality Tests(2021)

1h 25min | Documentary
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

A documentary exploring the history and growing dangers surrounding the seemingly innocuous Myers–Briggs personality test.

Legion of Brothers(2017)

1h 19min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

Afghanistan, immediately post-9/11: Small teams of Green Berets arrive on a series of secret missions to overthrow the Taliban. What happens next is equal parts war origin story and cautionary tale, illuminating the nature and impact of 15 years of constant combat, with unprecedented access to U.S. Special Forces.

Enlighten Us: The Rise and Fall of James Arthur Ray(2016)

1h 33min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

The self-help industry is worth $11 billion dollars a year. It’s an industry that captivates those seeking happiness, release from suffering and those longing for a path and a leader to follow. James Arthur Ray for many who followed him was that leader to guide his flock. But as the story unfolds, as told by Ray himself and also by his followers, we learn that that path was fraught with danger and perhaps even greater suffering.

Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street(2021)

1h 38min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

This documentary celebrates the Black cultural renaissance that existed in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, OK, and investigates the 100-year-old race massacre that left an indelible, though hidden stain on American history.

Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent(2016)

3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

The life of Jeremiah Tower, one of the most controversial, outrageous, and influential figures in the history of American gastronomy.

Directed by Lydia Tenaglia, Morgan Fallon

The Force(2017)

1h 20min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

The Force presents a cinema vérité look deep inside the long-troubled Oakland Police Department as it struggles to confront federal demands for reform, a popular uprising following events in Ferguson, MO, and an explosive scandal.

Directed by Peter Nicks - With Sean Whent
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