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Documentary films from the 1990s

418 films
427 trailers
19h 27m round
1990–1999
average 2:44

The best 100 of 418

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    Baraka

    1992TMDB 8.2IMDb 8.5Trailer 2:35

    A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life.

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    Paris Is Burning

    1991TMDB 8.0IMDb 8.2Trailer 1:40

    Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven y

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    Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

    1991TMDB 7.9IMDb 8.1Trailer 1:013 trailers

    A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Fo

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    Hoop Dreams

    1994TMDB 7.6IMDb 8.3Trailer 1:57

    Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois, a predominately white suburban school well-known for the excel

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    Buena Vista Social Club

    1999TMDB 7.5IMDb 7.6Trailer 1:57

    In this fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary, American guitarist Ry Cooder brings together a group of legendary Cuban folk musicians (some in their 90s) to record a Grammy-winning CD in their native city of Havana. The result is a specta

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    Nirvana: Unplugged In New York

    1993TMDB 8.6IMDb 9.3Trailer 3:18

    A live album by American rock band Nirvana, the album features an acoustic performance recorded at Sony Music Studios in New York City on 18 November 1993, for the television series MTV Unplugged.

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    American Movie

    1999TMDB 7.6IMDb 7.8Trailer 2:41

    American Movie documents the story of filmmaker Mark Borchardt, his mission, and his dream. Spanning over two years of intense struggle with his film, his family, financial decline, and spiritual crisis, American Movie is a portrayal of amb

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    Microcosmos

    1996TMDB 7.6IMDb 7.9Trailer 2:00

    A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle

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    When We Were Kings

    1996TMDB 7.6IMDb 7.9Trailer 1:43

    It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the world. Promoter Don King wants to make a name for himself and offers both fighters five million

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    Crumb

    1995TMDB 7.5IMDb 8.0Trailer 2:48

    This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin', Fritz the Cat, and played a major pioneering role in the genesis of underground comix. Through interviews with his mother

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    Lessons of Darkness

    1992TMDB 7.9IMDb 7.9Trailer 2:23

    Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog filmed this apocalyptic landscape with its murky skies, scorched earth and capricious flames.

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    Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

    1996TMDB 7.6IMDb 8.2Trailer 1:35

    A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.

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    Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M

    1999TMDB 8.7IMDb 8.8Trailer 3:12

    Michael Kamen conducts the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in support of metal rockers Metallica in this 1999 concert performance.

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    My Best Fiend

    1999TMDB 7.3IMDb 7.8Trailer 1:32

    A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.

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    Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

    1992TMDB 7.6IMDb 8.1Trailer 2:38

    A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.

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    Little Dieter Needs to Fly

    1997TMDB 7.5IMDb 8.0Trailer 1:58

    Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the early years of the Vietnam War. Accompanied by director Werner Herzog, Dengler describes in unusually candid detail his captivity, the friendships he made, and his daring escape. Not willing to stop there, Herzog even persuades his subject to re-enact certain tortures, with the help of some willing local villagers.

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    The Last Days

    1998TMDB 7.4IMDb 7.9Trailer 2:18

    This Oscar-winning documentary recounts the harrowing stories of five Hungarian Jews who endured the horrors of the Holocaust and Hitler's reign.

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    The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert

    1992TMDB 8.4IMDb 8.7Trailer 3:022 trailers

    A live concert in tribute to Freddie Mercury, former lead singer of Queen. Mercury died of AIDS and so some of the proceeds of this concert went to AIDS research. Features performers such as Metallica, Def Leppard, Elton John, Axl Rose, Extreme, George Michael, and many others. Performers alternate between doing their own hits, covering Queen songs, or jamming with the surviving members of Queen.

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    A Brief History of Time

    1991TMDB 7.2IMDb 7.3Trailer 3:01

    This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and unable to speak without the use of a computer. Hawking's friends, family, classmates, and peers are interviewed not only about his theories b

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    The Celluloid Closet

    1996TMDB 7.2IMDb 7.8Trailer 2:12

    Exuberant, eye-opening movie that serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Film contains fabulous footage from 120 films showing the changing face of cinema sexuality, from

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    My Voyage to Italy

    1999TMDB 7.6IMDb 8.2Trailer 1:11

    World-renowned director Martin Scorsese narrates this journey through his favorites in Italian cinema.

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    Beyond the Mat

    1999TMDB 7.3IMDb 7.6Trailer 2:23

    A heartfelt documentary focusing on the day-to-day lives of professional wrestlers, some on the rise, some on the wane, and others fighting for their lives.

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    The Best of the Martial Arts Films

    1990TMDB 8.7IMDb 6.9Trailer 2:59

    The most explosive barehanded combat sequences ever filmed. An electrifying video of martial arts mastery and mayhem. This program takes a behind-the-scenes look at the weapons, the mystical eastern philosophy, and the incredible skills that have made martial arts films one of the most popular genres in the world today.

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    One Day in September

    1999TMDB 7.3IMDb 7.8Trailer 1:53

    The full story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli revenge operation 'Wrath of God.' The 1972 Munich Olympics were interrupted by Palestinian terrorists taking Israeli athletes hostage. Besides footage taken at the time, we see interviews with the surviving terrorist, Jamal Al Gashey, and various officials detailing exactly how the police, lacking an anti-terrorist squad and turning down help from the Israelis, botched the operation.

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    Safe Journey

    1993TMDB 7.8IMDb 8.1Trailer 5:39

    Latcho Drom is a vista of the music, culture, and journey of the Romani people—from their homeland of India, to Europe and Southwest Asia.

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    Here We Are Waiting for You

    1999TMDB 8.6IMDb 8.1Trailer 5:41

    A fascinating and poetical collage of countless images from the 20th century with the purpose of revealing matters of life and death during the era and its many social, cultural and political transformations, with the director making several statements on several issues, combining fact and fiction to compose his powerful mosaic of images along with the magnificent music of Wim Mertens. A true work of art that dares to make several questions about the human condition, its contradictions and ironies.

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    Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows

    1998TMDB 7.5IMDb 8.0Trailer 1:452 trailers

    This documentary follows superstar Bret Hart during his last year in the WWF. The film documents the tensions that resulted in The Montreal Screwjob, one of the most controversial events in the history of professional wrestling, in which Vince McMahon, Shawn Micheals, and others, legitimately conspired behind the scenes to go against the script and remove Bret Hart as champion.

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    Waco: The Rules of Engagement

    1997TMDB 7.6IMDb 7.8Trailer 2:04

    In one of the most tragic face-offs in the history of law enforcement, the deadly debacle at Waco pitted the Branch Davidian sect against the FBI in an all-out war. This documentary makes the most of footage and recordings to examine how the events that led to the tragedy of April 19, 1993, unfolded, and how the FBI's unrelenting approach made what was already a bad situation much worse.

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    Looking for Richard

    1996TMDB 6.8IMDb 7.3Trailer 2:00

    Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III."

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    Black Hawk Down

    1997TMDB 7.4IMDb 7.9Trailer 3:08

    The story behind the infamous downing of an American Black Hawk helicopter by Somali gunmen.

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    Pearl Jam: MTV Unplugged

    1992TMDB 8.4IMDb 9.0Trailer 5:20

    A performance by Pearl Jam on MTV’s Unplugged. The band plays acoustic versions of songs from their debut album Ten, including 'Black' and 'Alive', plus 'State Of Love And Trust', which was not included on the original album.

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    Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie

    1995TMDB 7.2IMDb 7.9Trailer 1:27

    "Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the history of nuclear weapons development and testing between 1945-1963. Narrated by William Shatner and featuring an original score performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, this award-winning documentary reveals previously unreleased and classified government footage from several countries.

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    Alice in Chains: MTV Unplugged

    1996TMDB 8.7IMDb 9.1Trailer 3:32

    Alice In Chains returned to the stage after a three year absence with this live acoustic performance in New York on 10th April 1996. The band performed a 13-song set, including, 'Heaven Beside You', 'Rooster' and 'Would?'.

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    Dream of Light

    1992TMDB 7.3IMDb 7.6Trailer 2:46

    Filmmaker Victor Erice follows Spanish artist Antonio Lopez in his painstaking attempt to paint the image of a tree.

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    Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!

    1994TMDB 7.6IMDb 8.4Trailer 2:37

    Nirvana's frontman Kurt Cobain worked on compiling this collection of performances, interviews, and touring clips from 1991 to 1993 but did not finish it before his death in 1994. Bandmembers Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic completed it with the help of director Kevin Kerslake.

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    Frank and Ollie

    1995TMDB 7.5IMDb 7.6Trailer 1:56

    Before computer graphics, special effects wizardry, and out-of-this world technology, the magic of animation flowed from the pencils of two of the greatest animators The Walt Disney Company ever produced -- Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston.

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    Brother's Keeper

    1992TMDB 7.1IMDb 7.5Trailer 3:26

    This documentary by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky details the murder trial of Delbert Ward. Delbert was a member of a family of four elderly brothers, working as semi-literate farmers and living together in isolation from the rest of society until William's death.

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    Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

    1999TMDB 7.0IMDb 7.5Trailer 1:54

    Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris investigates the case of a man who became an authority on capital punishment, but was discredited when he got involved on the wrong side of a court case. Leuchter, a meek man whose appearance belies his grim expertise, develops what he says is a more effective electric chair. Before long he's in demand from officials who want his opinions on other kinds of execution. But when called to aid the case of an accused Holocaust denier, Leuchter's problems begin.

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    4 Little Girls

    1997TMDB 7.1IMDb 7.8Trailer 1:46

    On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a crime that shocked the nation--and a defining moment in the history of the civil-rights movem

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    Behind the Planet of the Apes

    1998TMDB 7.1IMDb 7.4Trailer 2:14

    Roddy McDowall takes you, film by film, from production meetings to make-up sessions, then right onto the movie set to see the actual filming of the science fiction masterpiece. The most comprehensive history of Planet of the Apes ever created, this fascinating 127-minute documentary explores one of the most imaginative and influential series in movie history.

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    The Curse of the Dragon

    1993TMDB 7.2IMDb 6.9Trailer 1:13

    A 1993 documentary film about Bruce Lee. The film includes interviews from some of his fellow students and opponents who worked alongside him in his movies.

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    Anne Frank Remembered

    1995TMDB 7.6IMDb 8.1Trailer 1:05

    Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this Academy Award-winning documentary tells the story of the Frank family and presents the first fully-rounded portrait of their brash and free-spirited

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    Nirvana: Live and Loud

    1993TMDB 8.9Trailer 3:50

    Just under a month after the taping of the legendary 'Unplugged', Nirvana would go on to record a concert for MTV during their 'In Utero' tour........it would be their last.

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    The War Room

    1993TMDB 6.8IMDb 7.4Trailer 2:02

    A behind-the-scenes documentary about the Clinton for President campaign, focusing on the adventures of spin doctors James Carville and George Stephanopoulos.

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    Videograms of a Revolution

    1992TMDB 7.9IMDb 8.0Trailer 1:29

    A minute-by-minute chronology of the Romanian revolution in December 1989 in Bucharest. This cinematic montage of live footage from the state television company TVR and video taken by numerous amateurs becomes a new media-based form of historiography.

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    Super Speedway

    1997TMDB 8.8IMDb 7.2Trailer 1:45

    We follow the Newman-Haas (Andretti) racing team through the process of building, testing, and racing for a season. This includes extensive race speed on-track footage, including some pre-race footage with a full squad of cars. From time to time, we check in with a small shop building/restoring one of the first roadsters Mario Andretti raced; the finale includes him taking it for a spin.

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    The Last Bolshevik

    1994TMDB 7.6IMDb 7.8Trailer 1:30

    A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the rediscovery of his masterpiece Happiness, and Russia's struggles over the course of the 20th Century.

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    The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl

    1993TMDB 7.2IMDb 8.0Trailer 1:57

    This documentary recounts the life and work of one of most famous, and yet reviled, German film directors in history, Leni Riefenstahl. The film recounts the rise of her career from a dancer, to a movie actor to the most important film director in Nazi Germany who directed such famous propaganda films as Triumph of the Will and Olympiad. The film also explores her later activities after Nazi Germany's defeat in 1945 and her disgrace for being so associated with it which includes her amazingly active life over the age of 90.

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    The Big One

    1997TMDB 6.7IMDb 7.1Trailer 1:55

    The Big One is an investigative documentary from director Michael Moore who goes around the country asking why big American corporations produce their product abroad where labor is cheaper while so many Americans are unemployed, losing their jobs, and would happily be hired by such companies as Nike.

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    That's Entertainment! III

    1994TMDB 7.0IMDb 7.5Trailer 1:29

    Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.

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    Cirque du Soleil: Quidam

    1999TMDB 7.5IMDb 8.3Trailer 1:31

    A young girl has already seen everything there is to see and her world has lost all meaning. Her anger shatters her world and she finds herself in the universe of QUIDAM, where she is joined by a playful companion, as well as another mysterious character who attempts to seduce her with the marvelous, the unsettling and the terrifying.

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    The Decline of Western Civilization Part III

    1998TMDB 6.9IMDb 7.2Trailer 2:24

    A musical study of Los Angeles in the late 90s, where homeless teens roam the streets and profess to live a punk lifestyle of music, drugs, and flouting authority.

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    Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer

    1992TMDB 6.7IMDb 6.9Trailer 1:43

    In this documentary, filmmaker Nick Broomfield follows the saga of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who has been accused of committing a brutal series of murders. Broomfield conducts interviews with Wuornos herself, and his crew films her trial

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    The Cruise

    1998TMDB 7.1IMDb 7.5Trailer 1:35

    Affectionate portrait of Timothy "Speed" Levitch, a tour guide for Manhattan's Gray Line double-decker buses.

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    Nico Icon

    1995TMDB 7.9IMDb 7.2Trailer 2:08

    A look into the many lives of Christa Päffgen, otherwise known as Nico; from cutie German mädchen to the first of the supermodels, to glamorous diva of the Velvet Underground, to cult item, junkie and hag. Many faces for the same woman, whom, you realize, just couldn't bring herself to care enough to live.

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    Cirque du Soleil: Saltimbanco

    1997TMDB 7.2IMDb 7.5Trailer 2:16

    From the Italian 'saltare in banco' – which literally means 'to jump on a bench' – Saltimbanco explores the urban experience in all its myriad forms. Between whirlwind and lull, prowess and poetry, it takes spectators on an allegorical and acrobatic journey into the heart and soul of the modern city.

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    Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch

    1997TMDB 7.2IMDb 7.3Trailer 3:03

    An in-depth look at artist/filmmaker David Lynch's movies, paintings, drawings, photographs, and various other works of art. Features interview footage and commentary by family members, friends, fans, and people he's worked with, as well as behind-the-scenes antics of some of his most critically praised efforts.

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    Rhyme & Reason

    1997TMDB 7.2IMDb 7.4Trailer 1:19

    A study in the world of hip-hop, done mostly with interviews, in order to see why it is as popular as it is today and what the future holds.

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    Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

    1997TMDB 6.8IMDb 7.1Trailer 4:38

    Errol Morris’s Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of four men, each driven to create eccentric worlds from their unique obsessions, all of which involve animals. There’s a lion tamer who shares his theories on the mental processes of wild animals; a topiary gardener who has devoted a lifetime to shaping bears and giraffes out of hedges and trees; a man fascinated with hairless mole rats; and an MIT scientist who has designed complex, autonomous robots that can crawl like bugs.

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    Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance

    1993TMDB 7.5IMDb 7.9Trailer 2:43

    In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, sets the stage for a historic confrontation that would grab international headlines and sear itself into the Canadian consciousness.

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    Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist

    1997TMDB 7.0IMDb 7.5Trailer 2:01

    The story of Robert Flanagan, a man who was born with cystic fibrosis and told he wouldn't live past 20, who through a unique odyssey of masochism, art and love found a way to live decades past his expiration date.

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    Landspeed presents: CKY

    1999TMDB 6.8IMDb 7.1Trailer 1:51

    The first entry in the CKY series of skateboarding programs and extreme stunts, directed by Bam Margera and featuring Margera, Brandon DiCamillo, Ryan Dunn, Chris Raab and Rake Yohn.

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    Everest

    1998TMDB 6.6IMDb 7.0Trailer 1:50

    An international team of climbers ascends Mt. Everest in the spring of 1996. The film depicts their lengthy preparations for the climb, their trek to the summit, and their successful return to Base Camp. It also shows many of the challenges the group faced, including avalanches, lack of oxygen, treacherous ice walls, and a deadly blizzard.

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    Two Billion Hearts

    1995TMDB 7.6IMDb 7.6Trailer 2:12

    For just over an hour and a half, Two Billion Hearts takes the viewer back to the adventure of the world cup of the United States and packs the audience on a journey through emotion, the expressions of their protagonists, fans in the stadiums and in the streets to the stars on the lawns, the cameras walk an uneven and vibrant path to world history. Two Billion Hearts is much more than the official World Cup film in the United States, it is a journey, for the passion of football, for the soul of the fans, for the feat of their idols. The film shows the best moments of the Cup and accompanies the Show of the fans of 24 countries in the United States, where more than 300 thousand football lovers traveled around the world

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    1991: The Year Punk Broke

    1992TMDB 6.8IMDb 7.3Trailer 2:15

    David Markey's documentary of life on the road with Sonic Youth and Nirvana during their tour of Europe in late 1991. Also featuring live performances by Dinosaur Jr, Babes in Toyland, The Ramones and Gumball.

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    Incident at Oglala

    1992TMDB 7.2IMDb 7.5Trailer 1:13

    On June 26, 1975, during a period of high tensions on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, two FBI agents were killed in a shootout with a group of Indians. Although several men were charged with killing the agents, only one, Leonard Peltier, was found guilty. This film describes the events surrounding the shootout and suggests that Peltier was unjustly convicted.

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    Modulations

    1998TMDB 7.2IMDb 7.3Trailer 1:49

    Less a documentary than a primer on all electronic music. Featuring interviews with nearly every major player past and present, as well as a few energetic live clips, Modulations delves into one of electronica's forgotten facets: the human element. Lee travels the globe from the American Midwest to Europe to Japan to try to express the appeal of music often dismissed as soulless. Modulations shows that behind even the most foreign or alien electronic composition lies a real human being, and Lee lets many of these Frankenstein-like creators express and expound upon their personal philosophies and tech-heavy theories. Lee understands that a cultural movement as massive and diverse as dance music can't be contained.

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    American Dream

    1990TMDB 7.3IMDb 7.7Trailer 2:01

    When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota are asked to take a substantial pay cut in a highly profitable year, the local labor union decides to go on strike and fight for a wage they believe is fair. But as the work stoppage drags on and the strikers face losing everything, friends become enemies, families are divided and the very future of this typical mid American town is threatened.

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    Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember

    1997TMDB 7.6IMDb 7.8Trailer 1:58

    In 1996, Marcello Mastroianni talks about life as an actor. It's an anecdotal and philosophical memoir, moving from topic to topic, fully conscious of a man "of a certain age" looking back. He tells stories about Fellini and De Sica's direction, of using irony in performances, of constantly working (an actor tries to find himself in characters). He's diffident about prizes, celebrates Rome and Paris, salutes Naples and its people. He answers the question, why make bad films; recalls his father and grandfather, carpenters, his mother, deaf in her old age, and his brother, a film editor; he's modest about his looks. In repose, time's swift passage holds Mastroianni inward gaze.

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    U2: Popmart - Live from Mexico City

    1997TMDB 7.5IMDb 8.3Trailer 2:24

    U2 performs live in Mexico City in support of their 1997 album Pop.

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    The Living Sea

    1995TMDB 7.1IMDb 7.1Trailer 2:11

    The Living Sea celebrates the beauty and power of the ocean as it explores our relationship with this complex and fragile environment. Using beautiful images of unspoiled healthy waters, The Living Sea offers hope for recovery engendered by productive scientific efforts. Oceanographers studying humpback whales, jellyfish, and deep-sea life show us that the more we understand the ocean and its inhabitants, the more we will know how to protect them. The film also highlights the Central Pacific islands of Palau, one of the most spectacular underwater habitats in the world, to show the beauty and potential of a healthy ocean.

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    Family Values Tour '98

    1999TMDB 9.2IMDb 7.6Trailer 4:27

    This program captures some of the highlights from "The Family Values Tour '98," the rock excursion that includes headliners Korn, Rammstein, Ice Cube, Limp Bizkit and Orgy. The tour was seen live by more than 400,000 hard-core fans, and this video diary gives viewers the chance to experience all the excitement of the in-person show, including some sick stage diving along with captivating behind-the-scenes footage.

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    Salaam Cinema

    1995TMDB 6.7IMDb 7.6Trailer 1:01

    Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors.

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    Instrument

    1999TMDB 6.9IMDb 7.8Trailer 1:52

    The band Fugazi is documented over a period of more than ten years (1987-1998) through performance footage and interviews with the band and their fans. Director Jem Cohen's relationship with band member Ian MacKaye extends back to the 1970s when the two met in high school in Washington, D.C.. The film takes its title from the Fugazi song of the same name, from their 1993 album, In on the Kill Taker. Editing of the film was done by both Cohen and the members of the band over the course of five years. It was shot from 1987 through 1998 on super 8, 16mm and video and is composed mainly of footage of concerts, interviews with the band members, practices, tours and time spent in the studio recording their 1995 album, Red Medicine. The film also includes portraits of fans as well as interviews with them at various Fugazi shows around the United States throughout the years.

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    The Panama Deception

    1992TMDB 7.0IMDb 7.5Trailer 3:37

    This winner of the 1993 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature details the case that the 1989 invasion of Panama by the US was motivated not by the need to protect American soldiers, restore democracy or even capture Noriega. It was to force Panama to submit the will of the United States after Noriega had exhausted his usefulness.

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    One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich

    1999TMDB 7.5IMDb 7.8Trailer 2:47

    Chris Marker’s portrait of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky documents the director at work on his final film, The Sacrifice, during the last year of his life. Interweaving behind-the-scenes footage with excerpts from Tarkovsky’s earlier works, Marker crafts a moving reflection on the artist’s vision, methods, and enduring legacy.

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    Africa: The Serengeti

    1994TMDB 7.0IMDb 7.3Trailer 1:40

    Africa the Serengeti takes you on an extraordinary journey to view a spectacle few humans have ever witnessed: The Great Migration. Journey with more than two million wildebeests, zebras and antelopes as in their annual 500 mile trek across the Serengeti plains.

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    Tongues Untied

    1990TMDB 6.6IMDb 7.1Trailer 1:07

    Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act. The film intercuts footage of Hemphill reciting his poetry, Riggs telling the story of his

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    Mouse

    1997TMDB 7.9IMDb 7.6Trailer 2:45

    Girl Skateboard's video Mouse starred Eric Koston, Tony Ferguson, Jeron Wilson, Mike Carroll, Rick Howard, Rudy Johnson, Guy Mariano, Sean Sheffey, Jovontae Turner and Tim Gavin and co-starred the Chocolate team.

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    Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press

    1996TMDB 8.0IMDb 7.7Trailer 3:44

    This documentary examines the 80 year career of journalist George Seldes, his encounters with Lenin and J. Edgar Hoover, his long battle against press censorship, the tobacco lobby, and his eventual blacklisting.With Ben Bagdikian, Jeff Cohen, Daliel Ellsberg, Ralph Nader, and Marian Seldes

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    Deckname Dennis

    1997TMDB 8.5IMDb 7.7Trailer 1:27

    Dennis, an American private eye, is sent to Germany to find out as much as possible about typical Germans and typically German behaviour. Disguised as a TV reporter he sets sail for Germany where we follow him interviewing a wide variety of people, from politicians and intellectuals to policemen, demonstrants and ordinary people in the street. All this, however, is not what the film is really about, for "Deckname Dennis" is actually a satirical documentary about all those extremely odd people, groups and societies whose attitudes and behaviour are far too outrageous for anybody to take seriously. Therefore ALL the documentary bits are real, i.e. the people really thought they were being interviewed by an American reporter, and so they gladly presented an insight into their beliefs, ideas and goals.

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    The Long Way Home

    1997TMDB 7.1IMDb 7.6Trailer 2:03

    The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.

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    A Place Called Chiapas

    1998TMDB 7.2IMDb 7.4Trailer 2:19

    In 1994, the Zapatista National Liberation Army, made up of impoverished Mayan Indians from the state of Chiapas, took over five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico. The government deployed its troops and at least 145 people died in the ensuing battle. Filmmaker Nettie Wild travelled to the country's jungle canyons to film the elusive and fragile life of this uprising.

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    Wild Man Blues

    1997TMDB 6.7IMDb 6.9Trailer 1:562 trailers

    Wild Man Blues is a 1998 documentary film directed by Barbara Kopple, about the musical avocation of actor/director/comic Woody Allen. The film takes its name from a jazz composition sometimes attributed to Jelly Roll Morton and sometimes to Louis Armstrong and recorded by both (among others). Allen's love of early 20th century New Orleans music is depicted through his 1996 tour of Europe with his New Orleans Jazz Band. Allen has played clarinet with this band for over 25 years. Although Allen's European tour is the film's primary focus, it was also notable as the first major public showcase for Allen's relationship with Soon-Yi Previn.

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    Amazon

    1997TMDB 7.0IMDb 6.8Trailer 1:41

    Explore the mysterious Amazon through the amazing IMAX experience. Amazon celebrates the beauty, vitality and wonder of the rapidly disappearing rain forest.

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    Shinjuku Boys

    1995TMDB 6.9IMDb 7.2Trailer 2:41

    This documentary is set in the New Marilyn night club in Tokyo, Japan - where the hosts are transgender men. They can only make their living as hosts in a nightclub with other wannabes like them. The young women who come there often have re

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    Gallivant

    1996TMDB 7.2IMDb 6.9Trailer 1:20

    Part home movie, part road movie, Kötting's riveting and eccentric film stars his 85-year-old grandmother Gladys - opinionated, bursting with anecdotes and contradictory reminiscences – and Eden, his eight-year-old daughter with Joubert syndrome, as they take a zig-zagging 6,000 mile trip in their campervan around Britain's coastline.

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    Grass

    1999TMDB 6.6IMDb 7.2Trailer 2:12

    Marijuana is the most controversial drug of the 20th Century. Smoked by generations to little discernible ill effect, it continues to be reviled by many governments on Earth. In this Genie Award-winning documentary veteran Canadian director

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    Alaska: Spirit of the Wild

    1998TMDB 6.8IMDb 7.0Trailer 1:44

    Alaska... Here, in this vast and spectacularly beautiful land teeming with abundant wildlife, discover the "Spirit of the Wild." Experience it in the explosive calving of glaciers, the celestial fires of the Aurora Borealis. Witness it in t

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    The Show

    1995TMDB 7.0IMDb 6.9Trailer 4:05

    A documentary about the culture of hip-hop. Through interviews with some of hip-hops biggest names, the film makers attempt to find out why it has become so popular.

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    The Magic of Flight

    1996TMDB 7.0IMDb 7.1Trailer 1:34

    Take a technological thrill ride The Magic of Flight takes you on a technological thrill ride faster, higher and wider than modern science or even your imagination! Relive the first flight of the Wright Brothers, then soar with the Blue Angels as they defy the laws of gravity. Narrated by Tom Selleck.

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    Dalekmania

    1995TMDB 7.6IMDb 6.3Trailer 1:34

    1995 documentary film that examines that 60's craze and focuses in particular on the two 1960's Doctor Who films starring Peter Cushing (the Cushing Doctor) -- Doctor Who and the Daleks and Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD which both feature

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    State of Dogs

    1998TMDB 7.5IMDb 7.3Trailer 2:20

    In Ulan Bator, Mongolia, the cur Baatar is shot by a hunter hired by the authorities to get rid off the dogs in the city...

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    Sonic Outlaws

    1995TMDB 7.5IMDb 7.4Trailer 2:07

    Within days of the release of Negativland's clever parody of U2 and Casey Kasem, recording industry giant Island Records descended upon the band with a battery of lawyers intent on erasing the piece from the history of rock music. Craig "T

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    Color Adjustment

    1992TMDB 6.9IMDb 7.4Trailer 2:11

    From Amos 'n' Andy to Nat King Cole, from Roots to The Cosby Show, black people have played many roles on primetime television. Brilliantly weaving clips from classic TV shows with commentary from TV producers, black actors and scholars, Ma

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    Blue Eyed

    1996TMDB 6.9IMDb 8.2Trailer 6:35

    In BLUE-EYED, we join a group of 40 teachers, police, school administrators and social workers in Kansas City - blacks, Hispanics, whites, women and men. The blue-eyed members are subjected to pseudo-scientific explanations of their inferio

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    Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives

    1992TMDB 6.8IMDb 7.3Trailer 1:23

    Ten women in Canada talk about being lesbian in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: discovering the pulp fiction of the day about women in love, their own first affairs, the pain of breaking up, frequenting gay bars, facing police raids, men's responses, and the etiquette of butch and femme roles. Interspersed among the interviews and archival footage are four dramatized chapters from a pulp novel, "Forbidden Love".

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    Picture of Light

    1994TMDB 6.8IMDb 7.1Trailer 1:21

    A documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba to film the Northern Lights.

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    Megacities

    1998TMDB 6.7IMDb 7.4Trailer 2:58

    Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.

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    Freedom on My Mind

    1994TMDB 7.1IMDb 7.9Trailer 2:18

    Chronicles the Mississippi voter registration drive from 1961-1964.

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