Documentary filmmaking can help us examine issues or events in greater detail, as well as preserve them for the historic record. Welcome to Chechnya does both with heartbreaking heroism, urging western audiences to at the very least acknowledge the genocide that continues to this day.— A.F. ...
Dig Deeper Behind The Scenes Of 'This Is Spinal Tap,' The Fake Documentary That Was Actually All Too Real Also ranks #5 on The Best Movies About Music Also ranks #7 on Great Movies About Starting a Band 19 Big Fat Liar Frankie Muniz, Paul Giamatti, Amanda Bynes 28 votes Who's...
Tokyo Olympiad is a 1965 documentary film directed by Kon Ichikawa which documents the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Like Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia, which documented the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Ichikawa's film was considered a milestone in documentary filmmaking. However, Tokyo Ol...
What It's About: This pseudo-documentary is all about a serial killer in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, and is basically his snuff films compiled into one long feature mixed in with interviews. Why It's One Of The Best Free Movies Streaming: This film can be gross as heck, which...
Over the course of this documentary, Swift comes into her own as she refuses to let anyone else define who she is or what she stands for. Swift is more than just a musician, she’s a woman who is willing to use her stage and her celebrity to fight for LGBT rights and other social...
Documentary, Animation Stars Amin Nawabi, Daniel Karimyar, Fardin Mijdzadeh Directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen Watch on Hulu Fleeis one of those movies that fully commands the power of documentary filmmaking to tell an unbelievable true story. With jaw-dropping animation as our visual medium of ch...
On this list of the greatest Japanese movies of all time, you’ll find them all, alongside, of course, Kurosawa’s epics, Miyazaki’s soulful animations and Ozu’s powerful domestic dramas – oh, and Godzilla too. You’ll trace Japan’s unique filmmaking history, moving from the silent ...
Jiayan Shi directed and produced this heartbreaking documentary about the disappearance and death of Yingying Zhang in 2017. Shi has unique access to the story in that she knew Yingying, and so her film has an incredible you-are-there quality as Shi captures the investigation and grief that wo...
This now almost mythical, found footage horror follows three young documentary makers as they journey to Burkittsville in Maryland. Heather, Mike, and Josh start off interviewing the locals about the local legend of The Blair Witch, a particularly nasty tale you’d hope was just to keep ...
Director Bassam Tariq recently got replaced onMarvel’s upcomingBlademovie, and it’s as good a reason as any to catch up with his masterful 2019 short. Best known for the hip-hop dramaMogul Mowglistarring Riz Ahmed, Tariq’s previous movie is an enthralling documentary well worth the 21-mi...