Movie Releases by Genre

Our Nixon 1001.

Our Nixon

August 30, 2013 | Not Rated
Never before seen Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon's closest aides - and convicted Watergate conspirators - offer a surprising and intimate new look into his Presidency.
Metascore:
72
User Score:
6.5
Finders Keepers 1002.

Finders Keepers

September 25, 2015 | R
Shannon Whisnant has a nose for a bargain. But when he bought a used grill at a North Carolina auction, the severed human foot he found among its ashes was not part of the deal. Soon the gruesome discovery becomes the toast of the infotainment world, and the new owner spies a golden opportunity to cash in on the media frenzy, until struggling addict and amputee John Wood recognizes his missing member and demands his own foot back. It is the stuff of documentary legend. [Sundance]
Metascore:
80
User Score:
6.5
Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru 1003.

Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru

July 13, 2016 | Not Rated
At Date With Destiny, Tony Robbins spends six days tearing down peoples' walls in order to build them up again into their authentic selves. Witness the first-ever inside look at this monster event, the methodology behind the workshop, and the life changing, transformational experiences the attendees have under Tony's guidance. [Netflix]
Metascore:
51
User Score:
6.5
We Met in Virtual Reality 1004.

We Met in Virtual Reality

July 27, 2022
Filmed entirely inside the world of virtual reality (VR), this immersive and revealing documentary roots itself in several unique communities within VR Chat, a burgeoning virtual reality platform. Through observational scenes captured in real-time, in true documentary style, the film reveals the growing power and intimacy of several relationships formed in the virtual world, many of which began during the COVID-19 lockdown, while so many in the physical world were facing intense isolation.
Metascore:
78
User Score:
6.5
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa 1005.

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

October 25, 2013 | R
Signature Jackass character Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville) and his grandson Billy will take movie audiences along for the most insane hidden camera road trip ever captured on camera. Real people in unreal situations, making for one really messed up comedy.
Metascore:
54
User Score:
6.4
Elephant 1006.

Elephant

April 3, 2020
Narrated by Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, Disneynature’s Elephant follows African elephant Shani and her spirited son Jomo as their herd make an epic journey hundreds of miles across the vast Kalahari Desert, from the Okavango delta to the Zambezi river, just as countless generations of their ancestors have done before.
Metascore:
61
User Score:
6.4
Earth 1007.

Earth

April 22, 2009 | G
The first film in the Disneynature series, Earth, narrated by James Earl Jones, tells the remarkable story of three animal families and their amazing journey across the planet we all call home. Earth combines rare action, unimaginable scale and impossible locations by capturing the most intimate moments of our planet's wildest and most elusive creatures. (Disneynature)
Metascore:
72
User Score:
6.4
Celine: Through the Eyes of the World 1008.

Celine: Through the Eyes of the World

February 17, 2010
Celine Dion, the international superstar and best-selling female artist of all time, has toured around the world and back again, and now, Sony Pictures Releasing's special programming division, The Hot Ticket, will let audiences follow her everywhere. For a limited engagement beginning early next year in wide release, Celine: Through the Eyes of the World will bring Celine Dion's 2008-2009 Taking Chances World Tour to theaters. This special motion picture event gives Dion fans who attended the extremely popular tour – which placed Dion second only to Madonna in ticket sales in 2008 – another chance to experience the magical event, this time from a vantage point unparalleled by any ticket. (Sony Pictures)
Metascore:
52
User Score:
6.4
Ghosts of the Abyss 1009.

Ghosts of the Abyss

April 11, 2003 | G
In this immersive 3-D adventure presented in IMAX format, James Cameron journeys back to the site of his greatest inspiration -- the legendary wreck of the Titanic.
Metascore:
67
User Score:
6.4
Buck 1010.

Buck

June 17, 2011 | PG
Buck, a richly textured and visually stunning film, follows Brannaman from his abusive childhood to his phenomenally successful approach to horses. A real-life “horse-whisperer”, he eschews the violence of his upbringing and teaches people to communicate with their horses through leadership and sensitivity, not punishment. Buck possesses near magical abilities as he dramatically transforms horses – and people – with his understanding, compassion and respect. In this film, the animal-human relationship becomes a metaphor for facing the daily challenges of life. A truly American story about an unsung hero, BUCK is about an ordinary man who has made an extraordinary life despite tremendous odds. (Sundance Selects)
Metascore:
76
User Score:
6.4
49 Up 1011.

49 Up

October 6, 2006
49 UP is the seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 42 years ago when UK-based Granada's World in Action team, inspired by the Jesuit maxim "Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man," interviewed a diverse group of seven-year-old children from all over England, asking them about their lives and their dreams for the future. Michael Apted, a researcher for the original film, has returned to interview the "children" every seven years since, at ages 14, 21, 28, 35, 42 and now again at age 49. (First Run Features)
Metascore:
84
User Score:
6.4
Cropsey 1012.

Cropsey

June 4, 2010
Realizing the urban legend of their youth has actually come true, two filmmakers delve into the mystery behind five missing children and the real-life boogeyman linked to their disappearance in their hometown of Staten Island, New York. (Cinema Purgatorio)
Metascore:
73
User Score:
6.4
Janis: Little Girl Blue 1013.

Janis: Little Girl Blue

November 27, 2015 | Not Rated
Janis Joplin was one of the world’s most influential rock icons and a goddess of sound, but there was actually far more to her than that. She inspired a generation, breaking new ground for the female rock singers who followed. Through turbulent love affairs and addiction, one constant remained: she was committed to her music above all until her heartbreaking death at the age of 27. Janis serves as the narrator for her own life story through letters she wrote to her family, friends and lovers. Chan Marshall (Cat Power) lends her raspy southern voice to the film reading Janis’ achingly intimate letters. Amy Berg strips away Janis’ rock and roll persona to reveal the gentle, trusting, sensitive, but powerful woman behind the legend. [Venice]
Metascore:
74
User Score:
6.4
The Five Obstructions 1014.

The Five Obstructions

May 26, 2004 | Unrated
Lars von Trier has a bizarre way of showing his regard for mentor Jørgen Leth whose 1967 short film The Perfect Human, he claims to have seen 20 times. Von Trier challenges Leth to remake the film following an increasingly difficult set of obstructions.
Metascore:
79
User Score:
6.4
Hell and Back Again 1015.

Hell and Back Again

October 1, 2011 | Not Rated
In 2009, U.S. Marines launched a major helicopter assault on a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan. Within hours of being dropped deep behind enemy lines, 25-year-old Sergeant Nathan Harris’s unit is attacked from all sides. Embedded in Echo Company during the assault, photojournalist and filmmaker Danfung Dennis captures the frontline action with visceral immediacy. When Sergeant Harris returns home to North Carolina after a life-threatening injury in battle, the film evolves from stunning war reportage to the story of one man’s personal apocalypse. With the love and support of his wife, Ashley, Harris struggles to overcome the difficulties of transitioning back to civilian life. The two realities seamlessly intertwine to communicate both the extraordinary drama of war and, for a generation of soldiers, the no-less-difficult experience of returning home. An unprecedented exploration of the moving image and a film of uncommon intimacy, Hell and Back Again comes full circle as it lays bare the true cost of war. (Docurama Films)
Metascore:
81
User Score:
6.4
Mitt 1016.

Mitt

January 28, 2014 | Not Rated
Mitt provides a candid look at the private and public moments of a presidential candidate and his family.
Metascore:
64
User Score:
6.4
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics 1017.

Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics

May 11, 2020 | Not Rated
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics is a documentary featuring real-life tripping stories from A-list actors, comedians, and musicians. Star-studded reenactments and surreal animations bring their comedic hallucinations to life. The film explores the pros, cons, history, future, science, pop cultural impact, and cosmic possibilities of hallucinogens. The film also acts as an unofficial user’s guide for these consciousness altering compounds, and helps dispel the scare myths of the After School Special era. The film tackles some big questions: Can psychedelics have a role in treating mental health? Do they make us jump out of windows? Is love really all we need? Can trees talk? [Netflix]
Metascore:
44
User Score:
6.4
Oklahoma City 1018.

Oklahoma City

February 3, 2017 | Not Rated
On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh, a former soldier deeply influenced by the literature and ideas of the radical right, parked a Ryder truck with a five-ton fertilizer bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City. Moments later, 168 people were killed and 675 were injured in the blast. Oklahoma City traces the events — including the deadly encounters between American citizens and law enforcement at Ruby Ridge and Waco — that led McVeigh to commit the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history. With a virulent strain of anti-government anger still with us, the film is both a cautionary tale and an extremely timely warning. [PBS]
Metascore:
74
User Score:
6.4
First Cousin Once Removed 1019.

First Cousin Once Removed

September 20, 2013 | Not Rated
A distinguished poet, translator, critic and teacher, Edwin Honig wrote dozens of books and poems that attracted critical praise around the world. His seminal translations awakened English-speaking readers to previously overlooked literary giants, resulting in honorary knighthoods from the king of Spain and the president of Portugal.
Metascore:
94
User Score:
6.4
Score: A Film Music Documentary 1020.

Score: A Film Music Documentary

June 16, 2017 | TV-PG
This documentary brings Hollywood's premier composers together to give viewers a privileged look inside the musical challenges and creative secrecy of the world's most widely known music genre: the film score.
Metascore:
67
User Score:
6.4
Circus of Books 1021.

Circus of Books

April 22, 2020 | Not Rated
In 1976, Karen and Barry Mason had fallen on hard times and were looking for a way to support their young family when they answered an ad in the Los Angeles Times. Larry Flynt was seeking distributors for Hustler Magazine. What was expected to be a brief sideline led to their becoming fully immersed in the LGBT community as they took over a local store, Circus of Books. A decade later, they had become the biggest distributors of gay porn in the US. The film focuses on the double life they led, trying to maintain the balance of being parents at a time when LGBT culture was not yet accepted. Their many challenges included facing jail time for a federal obscenity prosecution and enabling their store to be a place of refuge at the height of the AIDS crisis. Circus of Books offers a rare glimpse into an untold chapter of queer history, and it is told through the lense of the owners' own daughter, Rachel Mason, an artist, filmmaker and musician.
Metascore:
74
User Score:
6.4
Double Dare 1022.

Double Dare

April 22, 2005
An action-packed documentary about two Hollywood stuntwomen.
Metascore:
70
User Score:
6.4
Daughter from Danang 1023.

Daughter from Danang

November 1, 2002
Through intimate and sometimes excruciating moments, Daughter from Danang profoundly shows how wide the chasms of cultural difference and how deep the wounds of war can run - even within one family. (Quad Cinema)
Metascore:
77
User Score:
6.4
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould 1024.

Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould

September 10, 2010
An enigmatic musical poet — and the most documented classical musician of the last century — world-renowned pianist Glenn Gould continues to captivate international audiences twenty-six years after his untimely death. Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould humanizes the legend, weaving together an unprecedented array of unseen footage, private home recordings and diaries, as well as compelling interviews with Gould’s most intimate friends and lovers — all exploring the incongruities between Gould’s private reality and his wider image.(Lorber Films)
Metascore:
72
User Score:
6.4
The Decline of Western Civilization 1025.

The Decline of Western Civilization

July 5, 1981 | Not Rated
The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, and X.
Metascore:
93
User Score:
6.4
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds 1026.

Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

November 13, 2020 | TV-PG
Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds explores how meteorites have impacted our planet’s landscapes and cultures.
Metascore:
72
User Score:
6.4
De Humani Corporis Fabrica 1027.

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

April 14, 2023 | NR
Five centuries ago, anatomist André Vésale opened up the human body to science for the first time in history. Today, De Humani Corporis Fabrica opens the human body to the cinema. It reveals that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others. As places of care, suffering and hope, hospitals are laboratories that connect every body in the world.
Metascore:
92
User Score:
6.4
Grass 1028.

Grass

June 2, 2000 | R
Excellent documentary on the ever-changing series of official truths regarding the horrors caused by the drug.
Metascore:
64
User Score:
6.4
Pelican Dreams 1029.

Pelican Dreams

November 7, 2014 | Not Rated
Judy Irving (The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill) follows Gigi, a wayward California brown pelican, from her "arrest" on the Golden Gate Bridge into care at a rehab facility, while exploring nesting grounds, Pacific coast migration and survival challenges.
Metascore:
66
User Score:
6.4
Woodstock 1030.

Woodstock

March 26, 1970 | R
It happened on a small farm in upstate New York, for three remarkable days of mud and happiness in 1969, when over half a million people came together to celebrate life, love, and music--Woodstock. One camera crew was there, in the middle of everything, recording the live performances of many of the greatest singers and musicians of the era, and the joy, peace and rock 'n' roll experienced by hundreds of thousands.
Metascore:
95
User Score:
6.4
The Fifth Estate 1031.

The Fifth Estate

October 18, 2013 | R
Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, The Fifth Estate reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st centuryâ
Metascore:
49
User Score:
6.3
This Is Not a Film 1032.

This Is Not a Film

March 2, 2012 | Not Rated
This clandestine documentary, shot partially on an iPhone and smuggled into France in a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, depicts the day-to-day life of acclaimed director Jafar Panahi during his house arrest in his Tehran apartment. While appealing his sentence – six years in prison and a 20 year ban from filmmaking – Panahi is seen talking to his family and lawyer on the phone, discussing his plight with Mirtahmasb and reflecting on the meaning of the art of filmmaking. (Palisades Tartan)
Metascore:
90
User Score:
6.3
The Unbelievers 1033.

The Unbelievers

November 29, 2013 | Not Rated
Renowned scientists Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss cross the globe as they speak publicly about the importance of science and reason in the modern world.
Metascore:
32
User Score:
6.3
Into Great Silence 1034.

Into Great Silence

February 28, 2007
This documentary about an ascetic monastery is one of the most mesmerizing and poetic chronicles of spirituality ever created. More meditation than documentary, it's a rare, transformative theatrical experience for all. (Zeitgeist Films)
Metascore:
78
User Score:
6.3
My Date with Drew 1035.

My Date with Drew

August 5, 2005 | PG
Ever since the second grade when he first saw her in "E.T. The Extraterrestrial," Brian Herzlinger has had a crush on Drew Barrymore. Now, 20 years later he’s decided to try to fulfill his lifelong dream by asking her for a date. There's one small problem: She's Drew Barrymore and he's, well, Brian Herzlinger, a broke 27-year-old aspiring filmmaker from New Jersey. But that doesn't stop Brian and his film school pals from doing everything they can think of to convince Barrymore to go out with him – and documenting their quest along the way. (DEJ Productions)
Metascore:
51
User Score:
6.3
42: Forty Two Up 1036.

42: Forty Two Up

November 17, 1999
Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. One of the most interesting film experiments ever. This time the group is 42, with eleven of the original fourteen still being documented.
Metascore:
86
User Score:
6.3
America's Heart and Soul 1037.

America's Heart and Soul

July 2, 2004
A celebration of a nation told through the voices of its people. (Walt Disney Pictures)
Metascore:
55
User Score:
6.3
South of the Border 1038.

South of the Border

June 25, 2010 | Not Rated
In January 2009, Oliver Stone travelled to Venezuela to interview President Hugo Chavez, and examine the way Chavez has been portrayed in the U.S. media. Was Chavez really the “anti-American” force the media claimed he was? Once the journey began, however, Stone and his crew found themselves going beyond Venezuela to several other countries, and interviewing seven Presidents in the region, telling a larger and even more compelling story. In casual conversation, Stone sits down with Presidents Chavez, Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Nestor Kirchner, Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raul Castro (Cuba). (Good Apple Productions)
Metascore:
45
User Score:
6.3
Casting JonBenét 1039.

Casting JonBenét

April 28, 2017 | TV-14
In 1996, Boulder, Colorado was rocked by the mysterious death of six-year-old pageant queen, JonBenet Ramsey. Two decades later, director Kitty Green returns to audition local actors, unpacking how each remembers and relates to the ill-fated Ramsey family. [Netflix]
Metascore:
74
User Score:
6.3
The Eyes of Tammy Faye 1040.

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

July 21, 2000 | PG-13
A documentary about the life and times of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker Messner.
Metascore:
69
User Score:
6.3
Procession 1041.

Procession

November 19, 2021 | R
Six midwestern men — all survivors of childhood sexual assault at the hands of Catholic priests and clergy — come together to direct a drama therapy-inspired experiment designed to collectively work through their trauma. As part of a radically collaborative filmmaking process, they create fictional scenes based on memories, dreams and experiences, meant to explore the church rituals, culture and hierarchies that enabled silence around their abuse. In the face of a failed legal system, we watch these men reclaim the spaces that allowed their assault, revealing the possibility for catharsis and redemption through a new-found fraternity.
Metascore:
90
User Score:
6.3
Maidentrip 1042.

Maidentrip

January 17, 2014 | Not Rated
14-year-old Laura Dekker sets out—camera in hand—on a two-year voyage in pursuit of her dream to be the youngest person ever to sail around the world alone. In the wake of a year-long battle with Dutch authorities that sparked a global storm of media scrutiny, Laura now finds herself far from land, family and unwanted attention, exploring the world in search of freedom, adventure, and distant dreams of her early youth at sea. [First Run Features]
Metascore:
70
User Score:
6.3
Lucy and Desi 1043.

Lucy and Desi

March 4, 2022 | Not Rated
Lucy and Desi explores the unlikely partnership and enduring legacy of one of the most prolific power couples in entertainment history. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz risked everything to be together. Their love for each other led to the most influential show in the history of television, I Love Lucy. Desi – an immigrant from Cuba who lost everything in exile, became a band leader, and eventually a brilliant producer and technical pioneer. Lucille came from nothing and, with an unrivaled work ethic, built a career as a model, chorus girl and eventually as an actor in the studio system. She found her calling in comedy, first in radio. When Lucille was finally granted the opportunity to have her own television show, she insisted that her real-life spouse, Desi, be cast as her husband. Defying the odds, they re-invented the medium, on the screen and behind the cameras. The foundation of I Love Lucy was the constant rupture and repair of unconditional love. What Lucy and Desi couldn’t make work with each other, they gave to the rest of the world. Lucy and Desi is an insightful and intimate peek behind the curtain of these two remarkable trailblazers – featuring interviews with Lucie Arnaz Luckinbill, Norman Lear, Desi Arnaz Jr, Carol Burnett and Bette Midler.
Metascore:
73
User Score:
6.3
Attica 1044.

Attica

October 29, 2021 | Not Rated
Survivors, observers, and expert government officials recount the 1971 uprising at the Attica Correctional Facility. The violent five-day standoff between mostly Black and Latino inmates and law enforcement gripped America then, and highlights the urgent, ongoing need for reform 50 years later.
Metascore:
87
User Score:
6.3
Darfur Now 1045.

Darfur Now

November 2, 2007 | PG
Darfur Now is a story of hope in the midst of one of humanity's darkest hours--a call to action for people everywhere to end the catastrophe unfolding in Darfur, Sudan. In this documentary, the struggles and achievements of six different individuals from inside Darfur and around the world bring to light the tragedy in Sudan and show how the actions of one person can make a difference to millions. (Warner Independent Pictures)
Metascore:
66
User Score:
6.3
The Original Kings of Comedy 1046.

The Original Kings of Comedy

August 18, 2000 | R
February 26 and 27, 2000, the Original Kings of Comedy play Charlotte, NC. The themes are Blacks and Whites, men and women, old-school and hip-hop. Steve Harvey emcees, celebrates '70s music and lyrics of love, and pokes at folks in the front row. D.L. Hughley mines racial differences and talks about his marriage. Cedric the Entertainer riffs on a Black president and on being grown up. Bernie Mac, who says he expresses what's in the back of our minds, closes with reflections on being 42 (new aspects to his sex life and his attitude toward children). Spike Lee's camera takes us backstage and off-stage with the Kings and into the crowd where everyone's laughing.
Metascore:
73
User Score:
6.3
Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine 1047.

Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine

December 3, 2004 | PG
This documentary captures the drama and history surrounding the precedent shattering chess match where, Garry Kasparov - arguably the greatest human player ever - lost to IBM computer Deep Blue. (ThinkFilm)
Metascore:
66
User Score:
6.3
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 1048.

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

September 9, 2011 | Not Rated
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 mobilizes a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the US drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Gaining access to many of the leaders of the Black Power Movement—Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver among them—the filmmakers captured them in intimate moments and remarkably unguarded interviews. Thirty years later, this lush collection was found languishing in the basement of Swedish Television. Director Göran Olsson and co-producer Danny Glover bring this footage to light in a mosaic of images, music and narration chronicling the evolution one of our nation's most indelible turning points, the Black Power movement. Music by Questlove and Om'Mas Keith, and commentary from prominent African- American artists and activists who were influenced by the struggle -- including Erykah Badu, Harry Belafonte, Talib Kweli, and Melvin Van Peebles -- give the historical footage a fresh, contemporary resonance and makes the film an exhilarating, unprecedented account of an American revolution. [Sundance Selects]
Metascore:
73
User Score:
6.3
Dreamcatcher 1049.

Dreamcatcher

March 20, 2015 | TV-MA
For twenty-five years Brenda Myers-Powell called herself Breezy and she dominated her world, or that's what she thought. It was a world that had turned her into a teenage, drug-addicted prostitute. After a violent encounter with a john, Brenda woke up in the hospital and decided to change her life. Today she is a beacon of hope and a pillar of strength for hundreds of women and girls as young as fourteen who want to change their own lives.
Metascore:
86
User Score:
6.3
You're Gonna Miss Me 1050.

You're Gonna Miss Me

June 8, 2007
The story of Roky Erickson: the manic singer and front man for the legendary band, The 13th Floor Elevators, You’re Gonna Miss Me, is a disturbingly intimate portrait of an imploding family and the struggle between modernized medicine and religion. (Palm Pictures)
Metascore:
64
User Score:
6.3
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me 1051.

Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me

July 3, 2013 | PG-13
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me is a feature-length documentary film about the dismal commercial failure, subsequent massive critical acclaim, and enduring legacy of pop music's greatest cult phenomenon, Big Star.
Metascore:
69
User Score:
6.3
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction 1052.

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

September 13, 2013 | Not Rated
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction is an impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his own heart-breaking renditions of American folk songs. The film explores the actor's enigmatic outlook on his life, his unexploited talents as a musician, and includes candid reminiscences by David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Sam Shepard, Kris Kristofferson and Debbie Harry.
Metascore:
75
User Score:
6.3
Code Black 1053.

Code Black

June 20, 2014 | Not Rated
In his vivid and thought-provoking filmmaking debut, physician Ryan McGarry gives us unprecedented access to America’s busiest Emergency Department. Amidst real life-and-death situations, McGarry follows a dedicated team of charismatic, young doctors-in-training as they wrestle openly with both their ideals and with the realities of saving lives in a complex and overburdened system. Their training ground and source of inspiration is “C-Booth,” Los Angeles County Hospital’s legendary trauma bay, the birthplace of Emergency Medicine, where “more people have died and more people have been saved than in any other square footage in the United States.” Code Black offers a tense, doctor’s-eye view, right into the heart of the healthcare debate – bringing us face to face with America’s only 24/7 safety net.
Metascore:
77
User Score:
6.3
Audrey 1054.

Audrey

December 15, 2020 | Not Rated
Audrey Hepburn won her first Academy Award at the age of 24, and went on to become one of the world’s greatest cultural icons: a once-in-a-generation beauty, and legendary star of Hollywood’s Golden Age, whose style and pioneering collaboration with Hubert de Givenchy continues to inspire. But who was the real Audrey Hepburn? Malnourished as a child, abandoned by her father, and growing up under Nazi occupation in Holland, Hepburn faced a life-long battle with the traumas of her past, which thwarted her dreams of becoming a ballet dancer, and cast a shadow over her personal life. Yet she found inner peace, using her superstardom for good as a global ambassador for UNICEF, and bringing her life full circle: first a victim of war, then a source of relief to millions. A hybrid of rare archive, cinematic dance sequences, and intimate interviews with those who knew her best, this film brings a truly extraordinary woman to life, who stands as testament to the power of love and forgiveness.
Metascore:
66
User Score:
6.3
Misha and the Wolves 1055.

Misha and the Wolves

August 11, 2021 | Not Rated
A young orphaned girl survives the Holocaust by fleeing her home in search of her parents, escaping Nazis by sticking to the woods and living with wolves. Author Misha Defonseca’s story is an incredible one, and not just because of the wolves. Her memoir took the world by storm, but fallout with her publisher-turned-detective exposes the shocking truth beneath Misha’s deception. A real-life mystery unfolds, with a slate of characters individually revealing pieces of the puzzle in this stranger-than-fiction revelation. [Sundance]
Metascore:
63
User Score:
6.3
War Photographer 1056.

War Photographer

June 19, 2002
A film about the American photographer James Nachtwey -- his motivation, his fears and his daily routine as a war photographer.
Metascore:
79
User Score:
6.3
Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski 1057.

Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski

November 5, 1999
Werner Herzog's documentary profiles his turbulent relationship with the actor Klaus Kinski over the course of the five feature films they made together.
Metascore:
70
User Score:
6.3
Kate Plays Christine 1058.

Kate Plays Christine

August 24, 2016 | Not Rated
Actress Kate Lyn Sheil prepares to portray the role of Christine Chubbuck, a real-life news reporter who killed herself on national television in 1974.
Metascore:
75
User Score:
6.3
Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind 1059.

Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind

April 10, 2020 | Not Rated
Dr. Steven Greer examines details surrounding his alien-visitation "disclosure" movement.
Metascore:
27
User Score:
6.3
Bright Leaves 1060.

Bright Leaves

August 25, 2004
This documentary is a subjective, autobiographical meditation on the allure of cigarettes and their troubling legacy for the state of North Carolina. [First Run Features]
Metascore:
79
User Score:
6.3
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession 1061.

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

October 15, 2004 | R
This documentary chronicles Jerry Harvey's emergence as a brilliant programmer at Z Channel, one of the country's first pay cable stations. It also explores Harvey's emotional and psychological descent, which eventually resulted in a shocking murder/suicide and the eventual demise of Z Channel itself. (IFCTV)
Metascore:
85
User Score:
6.3
War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death 1062.

War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death

March 14, 2008
War Made Easy brings to the screen Norman Solomon's insightful analysis of the strategies used by administrations, both Democratic and Republican, to promote their agendas for war, from Vietnam to Iraq. By familiarizing viewers with the techniques of war propaganda, War Made Easy encourages viewers to think critically about the messages put out by today's spin doctors--messages that are designed to promote and prolong a policy of militarism under the guise of a "war on terror." War Made Easy is based on the book by the same title. (Media Education Foundation)
Metascore:
57
User Score:
6.3
Programming the Nation? 1063.

Programming the Nation?

August 19, 2011 | Not Rated
Media, politics and pop-culture. PROGRAMMING THE NATION? takes an encompassing look at the history of subliminal messaging in America. According to many authorities, since the late 1950s subliminal content has been tested and delivered through all forms of mass-media including Hollywood filmmakers Alfred Hitchcock and William Friedkin. Even our modern military has been accused of these practices in the "war on terror" against soldiers and civilians both abroad and at home. With eye-opening footage, revealing interviews, humorous anecdotes, and an array of visual effects, the film categorically explores the alleged usage of subliminals in advertising, music, film, television, anti-theft devices, political propaganda, military psychological operations, and advanced weapons development. Director Jeff Warrick makes it his personal mission to determine if these manipulative tactics have succeeded in Programming the Nation? Or, if subliminal messaging belongs in the category of what many consider urban legend. (International Film Circuit, Inc.)
Metascore:
33
User Score:
6.3
Butterfly Girl 1064.

Butterfly Girl

August 28, 2015 | Not Rated
At first glance, it is not obvious that Abbie Evans lives with a life-threatening skin disease. She is a typical teenager: moody, rebellious, irreverent, and is also strikingly beautiful. But her life is the antithesis of normal. Abbie grew up in hospitals, cared for by her protective mother and father. She then came into her own in honky tonks, selling merchandise for her father’s band. But just like any other 18 year-old, Abbie yearns for a life of her own. [Indican Pictures]
Metascore:
85
User Score:
6.3
The Rachel Divide 1065.

The Rachel Divide

April 27, 2018 | TV-MA
Rachel Dolezal ignited an unprecedented media storm when a local news station in Spokane, WA outed her as a white woman who had been living as the black president of the NAACP. Since the controversy erupted, director Laura Brownson and team exclusively filmed with Rachel, her sons and her adopted sister Esther, capturing the intimate, vérité life story of a damaged character who lands squarely in the cross-hairs of race and identity politics in America — and exploring how that character still provokes negative reactions from millions who see her as the ultimate example of white privilege. [Netflix]
Metascore:
59
User Score:
6.3
Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins 1066.

Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins

August 30, 2019 | Not Rated
Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins tells the story of media firebrand Molly Ivins, six feet of Texas trouble who took on the Good Old Boy corruption wherever she found it. Her razor sharp wit left both sides of the aisle laughing, and craving ink in her columns. She knew the Bill of Rights was in peril, and said "Polarizing people is a good way to win an election and a good way to wreck a country." Molly's words have proved prescient. Now it's up to us to raise hell!
Metascore:
74
User Score:
6.3
Fahrenheit 9/11 1067.

Fahrenheit 9/11

June 23, 2004 | R
Michael Moore's searing examination of the Bush administration's actions in the wake of the tragic events of 9/11.
Metascore:
67
User Score:
6.2
Room 237 1068.

Room 237

March 29, 2013 | Not Rated
A documentary that explores the numerous theories about the hidden meanings within Stanley Kubrick's The Shining which continues to inspire debate, speculation, and mystery more than thirty years after its release. Using voice over, film clips, animation and dramatic reenactments, Room 237 investigates five very different points of view drawing the audience into a new maze, one with many ways in, but no way out.
Metascore:
80
User Score:
6.2
2016: Obama's America 1069.

2016: Obama's America

July 13, 2012 | PG
2016 Obama's America takes audiences on a visual journey into the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the struggle of whether one man's past will redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, "If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in 2016?" Across the globe and in America, people in 2008 hungered for a leader who would unite and lift us from economic turmoil and war. True to America’s ideals, they invested their hope in a new kind of president, Barack Obama. What they didn't know is that Obama is a man with a past, and in powerful ways that past defines him--who he is, how he thinks, and where he intends to take America and the world. Immersed in exotic locales across four continents, best selling author Dinesh D’Souza races against time to find answers to Obama’s past and reveal where America will be in 2016. During this journey he discovers how Hope and Change became radically misunderstood, and identifies new flashpoints for hot wars in mankind’s greatest struggle. The journey moves quickly over the arc of the old colonial empires, into America’s empire of liberty, and we see the unfolding realignment of nations and the shape of the global future. [OAF LLC]
Metascore:
26
User Score:
6.2
Video Games: The Movie 1070.

Video Games: The Movie

July 18, 2014 | Not Rated
Video Games: The Movie chronicles the meteoric rise of video games from nerd niche to multi-billion dollar industry. Featuring in-depth interviews with the godfathers who started it all, the icons of game design, and the geek gurus who are leading us into the future, Video Games: The Movie is a celebration of gaming from Atari to Xbox, and an eye-opening look at what lies ahead.
Metascore:
40
User Score:
6.2
Racing Extinction 1071.

Racing Extinction

September 18, 2015
A team of artists and activists expose the hidden world of extinction with never-before-seen images that will change the way we see the planet.
Metascore:
81
User Score:
6.2
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? 1072.

Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?

April 18, 2008 | PG-13
If Morgan Spurlock has learned anything from more than 30 years of movie-watching, it's that if the world needs saving, it's best done by one lonely guy willing to face danger head-on and take it down, action hero style. In Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker takes on a franchise even more lethal than McDonald's--Al Qaeda. And after this real-life action thriller is over, the world may never be the same. So, with no military experience, knowledge, or expertise, he sets off to do what the CIA, FBI, and US military have all failed to do: find the world's most wanted man. Why take on such a seemingly impossible mission? Simple--he wants to make the world safe for his soon-to-be-born child. But before he finds bin Laden, he first needs to learn where he came from and the environment and influences that shaped him. Following bin Laden's trail through some of the most dangerous places in the world, Spurlock encounters both the rational and the radical faces of the Middle East. He interviews many people who embrace him on the streets and welcome him into their homes, often experiencing their cultures in ways that sharply contrast with the conventional media images of the region. Spurlock finds they're not that different from American families, sharing the same hopes and fears for their children that he has for his own. Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? goes beyond shedding light on the one man that has shaped the world's perception of a region and its people. Spurlock risks life and limb to uncover the truth about bin Laden, and in doing so explores the lines that divide, those that unite, and the countless shades of grey between. (Weinstein Company)
Metascore:
45
User Score:
6.2
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain 1073.

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain

July 16, 2021 | Not Rated
It’s not where you go. It’s what you leave behind . . . Chef, writer, adventurer, provocateur: Anthony Bourdain lived his life unabashedly. Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain is an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon.
Metascore:
78
User Score:
6.2
The Kingmaker 1074.

The Kingmaker

November 8, 2019 | R
Centred on the indomitable character of Imelda Marcos, The Kingmaker examines, with intimate access, the Marcos family’s improbable return to power in the Philippines. The film explores the disturbing legacy of the Marcos regime and chronicles Imelda’s present-day push to help her son, Bongbong, win the vice-presidency. To this end, Imelda confidently rewrites her family’s history of corruption, replacing it with a narrative of a matriarch’s extravagant love for her country.
Metascore:
76
User Score:
6.2
Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War 1075.

Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War

March 15, 2002 | Unrated
A documentary which traces how crucial mistakes made by the West helped lead to the unnecessary breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991, culminating in the devastating NATO bombing campaign in 1999. (Frontier Theatre and Film Inc.)
Metascore:
55
User Score:
6.2
Ascension 1076.

Ascension

October 8, 2021 | Not Rated
Ascension explores the pursuit of the "Chinese Dream." This observational documentary presents a contemporary vision of China that prioritizes productivity and innovation above all.
Metascore:
84
User Score:
6.2
City Hall 1077.

City Hall

October 28, 2020 | Not Rated
City government touches almost every aspect of our lives. Most of us are unaware of or take for granted these necessary services such as police, fire, sanitation, veterans affairs, elder support, parks, licensing of various professional activities, record keeping of birth, marriage and death as wells as hundreds of other activities that support Boston residents and visitors. City Hall, by Frederick Wiseman, shows the efforts by Boston city government to provide these services. The film also illustrates the variety of ways the city administration enters into civil discourse with the citizens of Boston. Mayor Walsh and his administration are presented addressing a number of their policy priorities which include racial justice, affordable housing, climate action, and homeless. City Hall shows a city government successfully offering a wide variety of services to a diverse population.
Metascore:
88
User Score:
6.2
Visitors 1078.

Visitors

January 24, 2014 | Not Rated
Director Godfrey Reggio reveals humanity's trance-like relationship with technology, which, when commandeered by extreme emotional states, produces massive effects far beyond the human species.
Metascore:
62
User Score:
6.2
Audrie & Daisy 1079.

Audrie & Daisy

September 23, 2016 | TV-14
Two different girls sexually assaulted on two different nights, in two different towns. Audrie & Daisy takes a hard look at the issues faced by America's teenagers who are coming of age in the new world of social media bullying, spun wildly out of control.
Metascore:
73
User Score:
6.2
Studio 54 1080.

Studio 54

October 5, 2018 | NR
For 33 months, from 1978 to 1980, the nightclub Studio 54 was the place to be seen in Manhattan. A haven of hedonism, tolerance, glitz and glamor, Studio was very hard to gain entrance to and impossible to ignore, with news of who was there filling the gossip columns daily. Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, two college friends from Brooklyn, succeeded in creating the ultimate escapist fantasy in the heart of the theater district. Rubell was the outgoing party-boy who wanted to be everybody’s friend and was photographed with every celebrity du jour who entered the club and Schrager was the quiet, behind-the-scenes workhorse who shunned the limelight. Studio 54 was an instant success and a cash cow, but the drug-and-sex-fueled dream soon imploded in financial scandal and the club’s demise. [Zeitgeist Films]
Metascore:
70
User Score:
6.2
Under the Sea 3D 1081.

Under the Sea 3D

February 13, 2009 | G
Under the Sea 3D, a new IMAX adventure, transports moviegoers to some of the most exotic and isolated undersea locations on Earth, including Southern Australia, New Guinea and others in the Indo-Pacific region, allowing them to experience face-to-face encounters with some of the most mysterious and stunning creatures of the sea. It offers a uniquely inspirational and entertaining way to explore the beauty and natural wonder of the oceans, as well as the impact of global climate change. In IMAX 3D, the images will literally leap off the screen and float around the theatre, putting the audience in the movie. (Warner Bros.)
Metascore:
77
User Score:
6.2
He Named Me Malala 1082.

He Named Me Malala

October 2, 2015 | PG-13
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai was targeted by the Taliban and severely wounded by a gunshot when returning home on her school bus in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. The then 15-year-old (she turned 18 this July) was singled out, along with her father, for advocating for girls’ education, and the attack on her sparked an outcry from supporters around the world. She miraculously survived and is now a leading campaigner for girls’ education globally as co-founder of the Malala Fund.
Metascore:
61
User Score:
6.2
Everything's Cool 1083.

Everything's Cool

November 23, 2007
Everything's Cool is a film about America finally “getting” global warming in the wake of the most dangerous chasm ever to emerge between scientific understanding and political action. While industry funded nay-sayers sing what just might be their swan song of pseudo-scientific deception, a group of self-appointed global warming messengers are on a high stakes quest to find the iconic image, the magic language, the points of leverage that will finally create the political will to move the United States from its reliance on fossil fuels to the new clean energy economy--AND FAST. Hold on... this is bigger than changing your light bulbs. (Working Films)
Metascore:
54
User Score:
6.2
Return to Homs 1084.

Return to Homs

June 13, 2014 | Not Rated
A look behind the barricades of the besieged city of Homs, where for nineteen-year-old Basset and his ragtag group of comrades, the audacious hope of revolution is crumbling like the buildings around them.
Metascore:
85
User Score:
6.2
DamNation 1085.

DamNation

May 9, 2014 | Not Rated
This powerful film odyssey across America explores the sea change in our national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of our rivers. Dam removal has moved beyond the fictional Monkey Wrench Gang to go mainstream. Where obsolete dams come down, rivers bound back to life, giving salmon and other wild fish the right of return to primeval spawning grounds, after decades without access. DamNation’s majestic cinematography and unexpected discoveries move through rivers and landscapes altered by dams, but also through a metamorphosis in values, from conquest of the natural world to knowing ourselves as part of nature.
Metascore:
52
User Score:
6.2
What Now? Remind Me 1086.

What Now? Remind Me

August 8, 2014 | Not Rated
Joaquim Pinto has been living with HIV for almost twenty years. What Now? Remind Me chronicles a year of clinical studies with experimental, toxic, mind altering drugs. It is an open and eclectic reflection on time and memory, on epidemics and globalization, on survival beyond all expectations, on dissent and absolute love.
Metascore:
86
User Score:
6.2
Capital in the Twenty-First Century 1087.

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

May 1, 2020 | Not Rated
Based on the international bestseller by economist Thomas Piketty, this documentary is an eye-opening journey through wealth and power, a film that breaks the popular assumption that the accumulation of capital runs hand in hand with social progress, and shines a new light on today’s growing inequalities. Traveling through time, the film assembles accessible pop-culture references coupled with interviews of some of the world’s most influential experts delivering an insightful and empowering journey through the past and into our future. [Kino Lorber]
Metascore:
70
User Score:
6.2
Julia 1088.

Julia

November 12, 2021 | PG-13
Julia brings to life the legendary cookbook author and television superstar who changed the way Americans think about food, television, and even about women. Using never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos, first-person narratives, and cutting-edge, mouth-watering food cinematography, the film traces Julia Child's 12 year struggle to create and publish the revolutionary Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) which has sold more than 2.5 million copies to date, and her rapid ascent to become the country’s most unlikely television star. It’s the empowering story of a woman who found her purpose – and her fame – at 50, and took America along on the whole delicious journey. [Sony Pictures Classics]
Metascore:
69
User Score:
6.2
Tell Them Who You Are 1089.

Tell Them Who You Are

May 13, 2005 | R
Mark Wexler's cinematic blend of biography and autobiography centers on his relationship with his father, legendary cinematographer and filmmaker Haskell Wexler, whose long and illutrious career is a virtual catalogue of 20th century classics. (ThinkFilm)
Metascore:
72
User Score:
6.2
Festival Express 1090.

Festival Express

July 30, 2004 | R
A rousing record of a little-known, but monumental, moment in rock n roll history. Set in 1970, Festival Express was a multi-band, multi-day extravaganza that captured the spirit and imagination of a generation and a nation. (ThinkFilm)
Metascore:
85
User Score:
6.2
Jane's Journey 1091.

Jane's Journey

September 16, 2011 | Not Rated
More than 20 years ago, Dr. Jane Goodall, now 75, decided to give up her career as a primatologist, as well as her private life, in order to devote her entire energy to saving our endangered planet. Since then she’s been spending 300 days a year scouring the globe on her mission to spread hope for future generations. She has taken on the responsibilities of a UN Messenger of Peace, has been honoured with countless awards, was appointed “Dame of the British Empire” and was even admitted to the “Légion d’Honneur”, the highest decoration of France. In Jane’s Journey, we accompany her on her travels across several continents, with unprecedented access to her intense and exciting past. From her childhood home in Bournemouth, England, we embark to ‘Gombe National Park’ on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, in Tanzania, her second home. This is where she began her groundbreaking research nearly half a century ago, and where to this day she still returns every year to enjoy the company of the chimpanzees that made her the internationally recognized activist so loved and deeply respected. (Bavaria Film)
Metascore:
49
User Score:
6.2
After Tiller 1092.

After Tiller

September 20, 2013 | PG-13
After the assassination of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in 2009, there are a limited number of doctors left in the country who provide third-trimester abortions for women. After Tiller moves between the rapidly unfolding stories of these doctors, all of whom were close colleagues of Dr. Tiller, and are fighting to keep this service available in the wake of his death. These four people have become the new number-one targets of the pro-life movement, yet continue to risk their lives every day to do work that many believe is murder, but which they believe is profoundly important for their patients' lives. After Tiller shows them confronting harassment from protesters, challenges in their personal lives, and a series of tough ethical decisions.
Metascore:
74
User Score:
6.2
Father Soldier Son 1093.

Father Soldier Son

July 17, 2020 | R
This intimate documentary from The New York Times follows one military family over the course of ten years, becoming an intergenerational exploration of the meaning of sacrifice, purpose and American manhood in the aftermath of war.
Metascore:
74
User Score:
6.2
Crazy, Not Insane 1094.

Crazy, Not Insane

November 18, 2020 | Not Rated
Crazy, Not Insane follows Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis, a psychiatrist who has dedicated her career to studying murderers and seeking answers as to why people kill. The film explores her lifelong attempts to look beyond the grisly details of homicides and into the hearts and minds of the killers themselves.
Metascore:
78
User Score:
6.2
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom 1095.

Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom

October 9, 2015 | Not Rated
A documentary on the unrest in Ukraine during 2013 and 2014, as student demonstrations supporting European integration grew into a violent revolution calling for the resignation of President Viktor F. Yanukovich.
Metascore:
79
User Score:
6.1
Glee: The 3D Concert Movie 1096.

Glee: The 3D Concert Movie

August 12, 2011 | Not Rated
The multi-generational phenomenon that has inspired millions to embrace their inner-Gleek will soon bring them together to experience Glee a whole new way. (20th Century Fox)
Metascore:
48
User Score:
6.1
I'm Still Here 1097.

I'm Still Here

September 10, 2010 | R
The directorial debut of Oscar-nominated actor Casey Affleck, I'm Still Here is a striking portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of internationally acclaimed actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, I'm Still Here follows the Oscar-nominee as he announces his retirement from a successful film career in the fall of 2008 and sets off to reinvent himself as a hip hop musician. Sometimes funny, sometimes shocking, and always riveting, the film is a portrait of an artist at a crossroads. Defying expectations, it deftly explores notions of courage and creative reinvention, as well as the ramifications of a life spent in the public eye. (Magnolia Pictures)
Metascore:
48
User Score:
6.1
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power 1098.

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

July 28, 2017 | Not Rated
A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the heart of popular culture, comes the riveting and rousing follow-up that shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution. Vice President Al Gore continues his tireless fight traveling around the world training an army of climate champions and influencing international climate policy. Cameras follow him behind the scenes – in moments both private and public, funny and poignant -- as he pursues the inspirational idea that while the stakes have never been higher, the perils of climate change can be overcome with human ingenuity and passion. [Paramount Pictures]
Metascore:
68
User Score:
6.1
Born in China 1099.

Born in China

April 21, 2017 | G
A wildlife drama that follows the families of endangered animals in China.
Metascore:
57
User Score:
6.1
NASCAR: The IMAX Experience 1100.

NASCAR: The IMAX Experience

March 12, 2004 | PG
This IMAX film transports fans into the driver's seat of America's most popular spectator sport.
Metascore:
58
User Score:
6.1
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