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After Porn Ends 3(2018)

1h 26min | Documentary
2.8/5 (with 45 votes)

After Porn Ends 3 continues to explore whether a career as an adult performer is inherently damaging to the balance of a perfomer's life once retired.

Feminists: What Were They Thinking?(2018)

1h 26min | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 42 votes)

In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity. This documentary revisits those photos, those women and those times and takes aim at our culture today that alarmingly shows the need for continued change.

Land Without Bread(1933)

29min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 62 votes)

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time. (Silent short, voiced in 1937 and 1996.)

Time(2020)

PG-13
| 1h 21min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 42 votes)

Fox Rich, indomitable matriarch and modern-day abolitionist, strives to keep her family together while fighting for the release of her incarcerated husband. An intimate, epic, and unconventional love story, filmed over two decades.

Directed by Garrett Bradley

Reggie(2023)

1h 44min | Documentary
2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

One of sport’s first and most influential megastars, beloved baseball icon and 5-time World Series champion Reggie Jackson contemplates his legacy as a trailblazing Black athlete fighting for dignity, respect, and a seat at the table in this intimate and revealing documentary exploring his life and barrier-busting career.

Directed by Alex Stapleton

Fuck(2006)

R
| 1h 33min | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 37 votes)

A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gained from its use.

Directed by Steve Anderson - With Steven Bochco, Pat Boone, Ben Bradlee, Drew Carey, Billy Connolly, Sam Donaldson, ...

Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary(2019)

PG-13
| 1h 27min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 15 votes)

A feature-length documentary about the film Galaxy Quest and its legacy, celebrating its milestone 20th anniversary.

Caesar Must Die(2012)

1h 16min | Drama, Documentary
3.7/5 (with 68 votes)

Inmates at a prison in Rome rehearse for a performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

Objectified(2009)

1h 15min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 49 votes)

A feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them.

Directed by Gary Hustwit

What Is a Woman?(2022)

1h 35min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 52 votes)

Political commentator Matt Walsh explores the changing concepts of sex and gender in the digital age, particularly the transgender rights movement, transphobia, and what it means to be a woman.

Directed by Justin Folk - With Matt Walsh, Rodrigo Lehtinen, Jordan Peterson, Marci Bowers

Revolution of Our Times(2021)

2h 32min | Documentary
4.3/5 (with 10 votes)

Throughout Hong Kong’s history, Hongkongers have fought for freedom and democracy but have yet to succeed. In 2019, a controversial extradition bill was introduced that would allow Hongkongers to be tried in mainland China. This decision spurred massive protests, riots, and resistance against heavy-handed Chinese rule over the City-State. Award-winning director Kiwi Chow documents the events to tell the story of the movement, with both a macro view of its historical context and footage and interviews from protestors on the front lines.

Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be(2019)

1h 45min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 23 votes)

Palermo, Sicily, Italy, 2017. Twenty-five years after the murders of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone, on May 23, 1992, and Paolo Borsellino, on July 19, 1992; and on the occasion of the tributes held in memory of both heroes, skeptical photographer Letizia Battaglia, chronicler of their titanic combat, criticizes the opportunism of shady characters who, like businessman Ciccio Mira, profit from the commemoration of both tragedies.

Directed by Franco Maresco - With Letizia Battaglia
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Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday(2020)

1h 29min | Documentary, Music
4.4/5 (with 23 votes)

Between scenes from his concert in São Paulo's oft-inaccessible Theatro Municipal, rapper and activist Emicida celebrates the rich legacy of Black Brazilian culture.

Directed by Fred Ouro Preto - With Emicida

The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On(1987)

2h 2min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 17 votes)

Kenzo Okuzaki, a 62-year-old veteran of the New Guinea campaign in World War II, sets out to conduct interviews with survivors and relatives to find the truth behind atrocities committed while the Japanese garrison was surrounded, in particular the unexplained killing of two Japanese privates in his unit.

Directed by Kazuo Hara

Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story(2020)

1h 49min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 5 votes)

An in-depth profile of the life and career of Willy T. Ribbs - the controversial Black driver who shattered the color barrier of professional auto-racing and became the first Black qualifier in the storied history of the Indy 500.

Beauties of the Night(2016)

1h 30min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 11 votes)

What happened to those vedettes who represented the mexican cabaret’s exotic beauty in the ‘70s and ‘80s? Four decades after the end of their roles, they tell their stories with dignity.

Directed by Maria Jose Cuevas - With Olga Breeskin, Lyn May, Rossy Mendoza, Wanda Seux, Princesa Yamal

Porno Unplugged(2009)

1h 45min | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 18 votes)

Journalist Fabian Burstein looks behind the curtains of the porn industry. Starting in Budapest he heads westwards to explore a new world on its victory march rooted deeply in Austria. On this journey he meets the heroes and leading actors of this story: Austrians Mick Blue, Renee Pornero and Thomas Janisch. Porno Unplugged follows its native porn stars to where their lives happen. From east to west...

By The Way, Woody Allen Is Innocent(2020)

2h 35min | Documentary

Cartoonist Rick Worley's in-depth and unapologetic analysis of the 1992 Woody Allen / Mia Farrow custody hearing and its (factually muddled) online reevaluation amidst the #MeToo movement.

Cam Girlz(2015)

R
| 1h 8min | Documentary
2.8/5 (with 7 votes)

A look at the world of webcam workers who find economic freedom, empowerment, intimacy and creative self expression from the comfort of their own homes.

Directed by Sean Dunne - With Lily Madison, Natalia Grey

Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)(2019)

39min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 18 votes)

The story of young Afghan girls learning to read, write and skateboard in Kabul.

Directed by Carol Dysinger, John Haptas

A Cam Life(2018)

1h 17min | Documentary
2.3/5 (with 3 votes)

An undaunted look into the cam business from performers and clients to website and studio owners.

How Did We Get Here?(2022)

5.0/5 (with 0 votes)

HOW DID WE GET HERE? is an intimate reflection on life in the digital age and follows Sean's journey through the highest highs - chanting crowds, sold out shows, and marriage proposals - and lowest lows - grappling with loneliness in the harsh Irish winter - and the life and wonder in between.

Gimme the Power(2012)

1h 41min | Documentary, Music
4.1/5 (with 17 votes)

A rock documentary, about the Mexican band Molotov, that focuses more in the political and musical context of Mexico rather than in the actual story of the band.

Directed by Olallo Rubio - With Molotov, Luis de Llano Macedo

Le Jeu de la mort(2010)

1h 30min | Documentary
3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

The Game of Death is a documentary co-produced by France Télévisions and Radio Television Switzerland1 in 2009 and staging a fake game show (The Xtreme Zone) during which a candidate must send electric shocks increasingly strong candidate to another until voltages that can cause death. The staging reproduces the Milgram experiment carried out initially in the United States in 1960 to study the influence of authority on obedience: electric shocks are fictitious, an actor pretending to suffer, and objective is to test the ability to disobey the candidate who inflicts this treatment and who is not aware of the experiment. The notable difference with the original experience is that scientific authority is replaced by a television presenter, Tania Young.

Directed by Alain-Michel Blanc, Thomas Bornot, Gilles Amado - With Tania Young

Civil: Ben Crump(2022)

PG-13
| 1h 41min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

Crump's mission to raise the value of Black life as the civil lawyer for the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Black farmers and banking while Black victims, Crump challenges America to come to terms with what it owes his clients.

One Book at a Time(2020)

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Sarah Kamya is a school counselor in New York City. She began the project Little Diverse Libraries on June 3rd and has already raised over $13,000, supported black owned bookstores, and has distributed 775 books to Little Free Libraries across all 50 states. Sarah is helping educate communities while most importantly amplifying and empowering black voices.

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time(2021)

2h 7min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 5 votes)

A documentary 33 years in the making, director and friend of Kurt Vonnegut seeks through his archives to create the first film featuring the revolutionary late writer.

Directed by Robert B. Weide

Searching for Debra Winger(2002)

1h 39min | Documentary
3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.

Twenty Two(2017)

NR
| 1h 40min | History, Documentary
3.6/5 (with 7 votes)

Follow the lives of the elderly survivors who were forced into sex slavery as “Comfort Women” by the Japanese during World War II. At the time of filming, only 22 of these women were still alive to tell their story. Through their own personal histories and perspectives, they tell a tale that should never be forgotten to generations unaware of the brutalization that occurred.

Sex, Love, Misery: New New York(2022)

1h 8min | Documentary, Comedy
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Swiping. Dating. Ghosting. Have you wondered what was really going on in your date's head? "Sex, Love, Misery" reveals candid thoughts and encounters between diverse singles looking to mingle or marry, from initial texts to hook ups and beyond.

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