Documentary

The Sparks Brothers | United States of America| United Kingdom
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7.8 (5234 votes)
Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your favorite band’s favorite band.

Missing Pictures Episode 2: Tsai Ming-liang | France| United Kingdom| Taiwan| Luxembourg
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Hard times, bad luck, tight spots, destiny… Some films become recipes for misfortune. Missing Pictures is a documentary series that gives some of the greatest directors a chance to tell the story they were never able to bring to the screen. After meeting Abel Ferrara in the first episode, join Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang on a journey through the heart of his untold story set in the memories of his childhood.

Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story | United States of America| United Kingdom
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6.8 (441 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.

Martin Margiela: In His Own Words | Germany| Belgium
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7.3 (315 votes)
In 2008, after a show celebrating the 20th anniversary of his fashion house, Maison Margiela, visionary designer Martin Margiela left the fashion world for good. Throughout his career, the Belgian designer remained anonymous, refusing interviews and never being photographed, leading some to call him the fashion world’s answer to Banksy. Now, more than a decade after his departure, Margiela digs into his meticulous and idiosyncratic personal archives to reflect on his revolutionary career and legacy.

City of Ali | United States of America
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7.6 (9 votes)
City of Ali is a feature-length documentary that tells the story of how the death of Muhammad Ali brought the people of his Kentucky hometown - and the world - together for one unforgettable week.

All Light, Everywhere | United States of America
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6.9 (737 votes)
The film explores the past, present, and future relationships between technology, vision, and power. From arcane theories of sight to the emergence of virtual reality and police body camera programs, the film takes a kaleidoscopic investigation into how the reality of what we see is constructed through the tools that we use to see.

Workhorse Queen | United States of America| Australia
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7.3 (97 votes)
After an unlikely casting onto a reality television show, 47-year old suburban telemarketer Ed Popil leaves his job to pursue a full-time entertainment industry career as his drag queen alter ego, 1960’s era housewife Mrs. Kasha Davis.

The Other Side of the Ring
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7.2 (15 votes)
Budget
50,000.00$
4 amazing women take us behind the scenes of the mostly male dominated world of professional wrestling.

Buck Breaking | United States of America
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2.6 (946 votes)
Buck Breaking is a documentary film about the historic sexual exploitation of Black people globally. The film shows the correlation between the historic exploitation of Black men during slavery and the Jim Crow era, to the Buck Breaking tactics used today.

Witness Underground
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Punk rock, B-movies, and Jehovah’s Witnesses unite in this heartfelt documentary. As members of Jehovah’s Witness start to explore culture outside of their religion, they have to wrestle with the possibility of being excommunicated from friends and family. Featuring in-depth interviews and extensive home video footage, Witness Underground tells the story of punk rocker Witnesses pushing against the highly controlling Jehovah’s Witnesses religion as they build their own community through music and art. This prolific community of Witness musicians create their own record label, Nuclear Gopher, and become early adopters of promoting their music through the internet, including what may have been the first album to ever be livestreamed. This community’s history is well documented through archival footage of their home movies and self-produced music videos, all with a very charming energy.

Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
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7.8 (9 votes)
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos interweaves Emily Levine’s live performance with animation, appearances by scientists, and animated characters. The film uses physics, which explains how the universe works, to explain our metaphysics – the story of our values, our institutions, our interactions. Using her own experience and a custom blend of insight and humor, provocation and inspiration, personal story and social commentary, Emily takes her audience through its own paradigm shift: from the Fear of Change to the Edge of Chaos.

Workhorse Queen | United States of America| Australia
Genre
IMDB
7.3 (97 votes)
After an unlikely casting onto a reality television show, 47-year old suburban telemarketer Ed Popil leaves his job to pursue a full-time entertainment industry career as his drag queen alter ego, 1960’s era housewife Mrs. Kasha Davis.

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