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1. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
Not Rated | 150 min | Documentary, Crime
A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.
Directors: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky | Stars: Tony Brooks, Diana Davis, Terry Wood, Dick Clay
Votes: 18,155
2. Moi, un noir (1958)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama
"I, a Negro" depicts young Nigerien immigrants who left their country to find work in the Ivory Coast, in the Treichville quarter of Abidjan, the capital. These immigrants live in squalor ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Rouch | Stars: Oumarou Ganda, Gambi, Petit Touré, Alassane Maiga
Votes: 1,098
3. Chronicle of a Summer (1961)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, History
A documentary about the everyday lives of ordinary Parisians, done in the style of cinéma vérité.
Directors: Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch | Stars: Angelo, Nadine Ballot, Catherine, Céline
Votes: 3,585
4. Gates of Heaven (1978)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary
A documentary about a pet cemetery in California, and the people who have pets buried there.
Director: Errol Morris | Stars: Lucille Billingsley, Zella Graham, Cal Harberts, Dan Harberts
Votes: 6,296
5. Vernon, Florida (1981)
Not Rated | 55 min | Documentary
A documentary on the eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida.
Director: Errol Morris | Stars: Albert Bitterling, Roscoe Collins, George Harris, Joe Payne
Votes: 3,586
6. Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, Music
A collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on the relationship between nature, humanity, and technology.
Director: Godfrey Reggio | Stars: Edward Asner, Pat Benatar, Jerry Brown, Johnny Carson
Votes: 41,504 | Gross: $1.72M
7. En construcción (2001)
125 min | Documentary
An author spent a year and a half filming what happened as a new apartment building was built in the El Chino neighborhood of Barcelona. En Construccion focuses less on the practicalities ... See full summary »
Director: José Luis Guerín | Stars: Juana Rodríguez Molina, Iván Guzmán Jiménez, Juan López López, Juanma López
Votes: 852
8. A Story of Water (1961)
12 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy
A young woman is going to Paris by bus, but when she steps out of her house she discovers that her garden and the whole village is flooded with water. With a boat and a bike she succeeds to... See full summary »
Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut | Stars: Jean-Claude Brialy, Caroline Dim, Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 1,686
9. The Spanish Earth (1937)
Unrated | 52 min | Documentary, War
A documentary showing the struggle of the Spanish Republican government against a rebellion by ultra-right-wing forces led by Gen. Francisco Franco and backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
Director: Joris Ivens | Stars: Enrique Lister, Carlos Romero Giménez, José Díaz, Gustav Regler
Votes: 862
10. Mother (1926)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
A story about a family torn apart by a worker's strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but eventually she realizes that her son is right and the workers should strike.
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin | Stars: Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolay Batalov, Aleksandr Chistyakov, Anna Zemtsova
Votes: 3,069
11. Nanook of the North (1922)
Passed | 78 min | Documentary
In this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.
Director: Robert J. Flaherty | Stars: Allakariallak, Alice Nevalinga, Cunayou, Allegoo
Votes: 13,458
12. Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
Not Rated | 68 min | Documentary
A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
Director: Dziga Vertov | Stars: Mikhail Kaufman, Elizaveta Svilova
Votes: 28,002
13. The Act of Killing (2012)
Not Rated | 117 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
A documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.
Directors: Joshua Oppenheimer, Anonymous, Christine Cynn | Stars: Anwar Congo, Herman Koto, Syamsul Arifin, Ibrahim Sinik
Votes: 40,821 | Gross: $0.49M
14. La chasse au lion à l'arc (1966)
80 min | Documentary
A group of West African hunters embark on a ritual hunt, tracking a pride of lions which has been attacking their cattle.
Director: Jean Rouch | Stars: Tahirou Koro, Issiaka Moussa, Belébia Moussa, Wangari Moussa
Votes: 245
15. Felipe, vuelve (2012)
67 min | Documentary
Male travels back to the downfallen ex-hacienda of her family in the Peruvian Andes to film Felipe Valer, the last country worker (unpaid, under an old customary contract). She met him ... See full summary »
Director: Malena Martinez
16. Hermógenes Cayo (Imaginero) (1969)
68 min | Documentary
Director: Jorge Preloran | Star: Jorge Preloran
Votes: 29
17. The Last Bolshevik (1993)
Not Rated | 120 min | Documentary, Biography, History
This documentary tells the story of film director Aleksandr Medvedkin, throughout his life a sincere believer in communism, whose films were repeatedly banned in the Soviet Union. Modern ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Léonor Graser, Nikolai Izvolov, Kira Paramonova, Viktor Dyomin
Votes: 730
18. Oscar Niemeyer: A Vida é um Sopro (2009)
90 min | Documentary
A documentary on the life, works and philosophy of a genius and a human being of unique "largesse d'esprit".
Director: Fabiano Maciel | Stars: Chico Buarque, Carlos Heitor Cony, Lúcio Costa, Eduardo Galeano
Votes: 244
19. Nouvelle vague: el cine sin dogmas (2000 TV Movie)
40 min
Directors: Jorge Ortiz de Landázuri Yzarduy, Pite Piñas
20. 79 primaveras (1969)
Not Rated | 25 min | Short, Documentary
An agit-prop documentary marking the death of Vietnamese nationalist leader Ho Chí Minh, using found footage to link his work to worldwide political movements including the Cuban revolution and resistance within the USA to the Vietnam war.
Director: Santiago Álvarez
Votes: 490
21. Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster (2008 Video)
13 min | Documentary, Short
Director: John Cork | Stars: Rudy Behlmer, Ingrid Bergman, Peter Bogdanovich, John Cork
Votes: 20
22. La guerra necesaria (1980)
112 min | Documentary
Director: Santiago Álvarez | Stars: Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro, Armando Hart
Votes: 11
23. De América soy hijo... y a ella me debo (1975)
195 min | Documentary
Recollections of Fidel Castro's visit to Chile on November, 1971, and of the historical imperialist exploitation of Latin America.
Director: Santiago Álvarez | Stars: Fidel Castro, Salvador Allende
Votes: 6
24. My Brother Fidel (1977)
17 min | Short
Fidel Castro visits Salustiano Leyva, who at 11 years old met José Martí when he landed on the shore of Guantánamo, to lead the liberation of Cuba from Spanish domination.
Director: Santiago Álvarez | Stars: Salustiano Leyva, Fidel Castro
Votes: 31
25. Muerte al invasor (1962)
16 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Santiago Álvarez | Stars: Fidel Castro, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
Votes: 43
26. The Hour of the Furnaces (1968)
Unrated | 260 min | Documentary, History, War
Divided into three segments, namely 1 Neocolonialism, 2 Act for liberation, 3 Violence and liberation, the documentary lasts more than 4 hours this deals with the defense of the revolution ... See full summary »
Directors: Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas | Stars: María de la Paz, Fernando E. Solanas, Edgardo Suárez, Julio Troxler
Votes: 1,189
27. Hanoi, martes 13 (1968)
Not Rated | 38 min | Short, Documentary
A short film which documents the lives of the people of Hanoi which took place on March 13.
Director: Santiago Álvarez
Votes: 183
28. El sueño del pongo (1970)
Not Rated | 11 min | Short
A child recounts a peasant's dream, while illustrative still images suggest a parable for the ages. EL SUENO DEL PONGO may be a relatively restrained entry in Santiago's Alvarez's ... See full summary »
Director: Santiago Álvarez
Votes: 40
29. Cerro Pelado (1966)
Not Rated | 34 min | Documentary, Short
Though lesser known than Leni Riefenstahl's OLYMPIA or Kon Ichikawa's TOKYO OLYMPIAD, Santiago Alvarez's tribute to Cuba's sporting triumphs is no less breathtaking. A ship of athletes ... See full summary »
Director: Santiago Álvarez
Votes: 31
30. The Architecture of Doom (1989)
Not Rated | 119 min | Documentary, History
An absorbing and chilling documentary about the National Socialist aesthetic, and how attempts to create the Aryan Ideal caused the extermination of millions. Aspects covered include: ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Cohen | Stars: Rolf Arsenius, Bruno Ganz, Sam Gray, Martin Bormann
Votes: 1,137
31.
Io e... (1972– )
Episode:
Pasolini e... la forma della città
(1974)
20 min | Documentary, Talk-Show
During the filming of Arabian Nights (1974), Pier Paolo Pasolini talks about his passion for protecting the complete form of ancient cities and shows us Orte and Sabaudia.
Director: Paolo Brunatto | Stars: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ninetto Davoli
Votes: 144
32. Antonio Gaudí (1984)
Not Rated | 72 min | Documentary
The work of Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí, as seen by Japanese New Wave director Hiroshi Teshigahara.
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | Stars: Isidro Puig Boada, Antoni Gaudí, Seiji Miyaguchi
Votes: 1,743
35. Brutality in Stone (1961)
12 min | Documentary, Short
In his experimental short film 'Brutalitaet in Stein' (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of inhuman and super-human scale to bolster ... See full summary »
Directors: Alexander Kluge, Peter Schamoni | Stars: Hans Clarin, Christian Marschall
Votes: 278
36. Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City (1968)
23 min | Documentary, Short
Images of Brasilia in its sixth year and interviews with different categories of people living in the capital. One question structures the documentary: could a fully planned city, created ... See full summary »
Director: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade | Star: Ferreira Gullar
Votes: 153
37. No Intenso Agora (2017)
127 min | Documentary, History
A personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China's Cultural Revolution, from the student uprisings in Paris to the end of the Prague Spring.
Director: João Moreira Salles
Votes: 609 | Gross: $0.02M
38. Daybreak Express (1953)
5 min | Documentary, Short, Music
Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording of "Daybreak Expresa" this is a five-minute short on the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated train line in Manhattan, New York City.
Director: D.A. Pennebaker
Votes: 1,335
39. Heaven Adores You (2014)
104 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Heaven Adores You is an intimate, meditative inquiry into the life and music of Elliott Smith. By threading the music of Elliott Smith through the dense, yet often isolating landscapes of ... See full summary »
Director: Nickolas Dylan Rossi | Stars: Conan O'Brien, Madonna, Gus Van Sant, Rossie Harris
Votes: 1,435
40. La espalda del mundo (2000)
89 min | Documentary
This documentary looks at "the back of the world": small children working as quarrymen in Peru, Kurdish political refugees from Turkey, and families and inmates awaiting the end on Mississippi's Death Row.
Director: Javier Corcuera | Stars: Guinder Rodríguez, Mehdi Zana, Thomas Miller-El, George W. Bush
Votes: 202
41. LBJ (1968)
Not Rated | 18 min | Short, Documentary
A montage of 1960s America, all focused on the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson.
Director: Santiago Álvarez | Star: Lyndon B. Johnson
Votes: 322
42. American Factory (2019)
TV-14 | 110 min | Documentary
In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a factory in an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.
Directors: Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert | Stars: Junming 'Jimmy' Wang, Robert Allen, Sherrod Brown, Dave Burrows
Votes: 23,881
43. The Cave (I) (2019)
PG-13 | 107 min | Documentary, War
Amidst air strikes and bombings, a group of female doctors in Ghouta, Syria struggle with systemic sexism while trying to care for the injured using limited resources.
Director: Feras Fayyad | Stars: Amani Ballour, Salim Namour, Alaa, Samaher
Votes: 2,947
44. Honeyland (2019)
Unrated | 89 min | Documentary, Drama
The last female bee-hunter in Europe must save the bees and return the natural balance in Honeyland, when a family of nomadic beekeepers invade her land and threaten her livelihood.
Directors: Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov | Stars: Hatidze Muratova, Nazife Muratova, Hussein Sam, Ljutvie Sam
Votes: 19,418 | Gross: $0.82M
45. Periferias Interiores (2009)
19 min | Documentary, Short, Musical
Suburbs of Downtown is a group of postcards in motion of the city of Lima by the sight of a self exilied filmmaker who feels the city far from him but remaining in the memories with a melancholic feeling.
Directors: Mauricio Franco, Sergio García Locatelli
46. Surface Tension (1968)
10 min | Short
An experimental film by Hollis Frampton documenting a man talking while a telephone rings, a tour of New York, and a goldfish.
Director: Hollis Frampton | Star: Kasper König
Votes: 443
47. Spacy (1981)
10 min | Short
Set of rapid telescopic images of a gym, in fast forward, traveling through itself, space and time.
Director: Takashi Itô
Votes: 426
50. Neighbours (1952)
Not Rated | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A surreal story of two neighbours' destructive feud over a flower.
Director: Norman McLaren | Stars: Grant Munro, Jean Paul Ladouceur
Votes: 3,885
51. Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary, History, News
Governor George Wallace will not let two black students into an Alabama school, against the wishes of President Kennedy. Loud shouts come from both sides of the issue as JFK stands by his decisions.
Director: Robert Drew | Stars: James Lipscomb, John F. Kennedy, George Wallace, Robert F. Kennedy
Votes: 845
52. A Chairy Tale (1957)
Not Rated | 12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
An ordinary-looking chair refuses to be sat upon.
Directors: Claude Jutra, Norman McLaren | Star: Claude Jutra
Votes: 1,190
53. Pas de deux (1968)
G | 13 min | Animation, Short, Musical
Two ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal multi and after-image effect visuals.
Director: Norman McLaren | Stars: Margaret Mercier, Vincent Warren
Votes: 1,765
54. Sunday in Peking (1956)
22 min | Documentary, Short
Director Chris Marker begins by recounting his childhood dream of visiting the city of Peking, a city he was once only able to admire in books. The viewer is taken on a journey through this... See full summary »
Director: Chris Marker | Star: Gilles Quéant
Votes: 534
55. Statues also Die (1953)
30 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary of black art.
Directors: Ghislain Cloquet, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais | Stars: Jean Négroni, François Mitterrand, Pope Pius XII, Sugar Ray Robinson
Votes: 1,374
56. Guernica (1951)
13 min | Documentary, Short
On April 26 1937 the small Basque town of Guernica was bombed without warning by the German aviation. Two thousand people, all civilians, got killed. Like millions all over the world, Pablo... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Hessens, Alain Resnais | Stars: María Casares, Jacques Pruvost
Votes: 1,042
57. Letter from Siberia (1958)
62 min | Documentary
A witty examination of life and culture in Siberia.
Director: Chris Marker | Star: Georges Rouquier
Votes: 844
58. The Song of Styrene (1958)
13 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Poetic and aesthetic visit of a large polystyrene factory.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Pierre Dux, Sacha Vierny
Votes: 1,114
59. Van Gogh (1948)
20 min | Documentary, Short
The biography of Dutch artist Van Gogh, illustrated only with images of his paintings and drawings, or details of those, and according dramatic musical score.
Director: Alain Resnais | Star: Claude Dauphin
Votes: 492
60. Night and Fog (1956)
TV-14 | 32 min | Documentary, Short, History
The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 21,475
61. Third Side of the Coin (1960)
60 min | Documentary
A documentary about the then only twelve year old country of Israel, caught amidst the tensions of the Middle East and the ongoing Cold War.
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Ali, Père Gauthier, Monsieur Klein, Yaakov Malkin
Votes: 232
62. Remembrance of Things to Come (2001 Video)
Not Rated | 42 min | Documentary, Short
Through photos made by the French photographer Denise Bellon, a personnal history of France.
Directors: Yannick Bellon, Chris Marker | Star: Pierre Arditi
Votes: 291
63. ¡Cuba Sí! (1961)
53 min | Documentary
The hour long documentary by the master of the essay film examines the country of Cuba under the dictatorship of Batista and then the seizure of power in a revolution by Castro.
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Nicolas Yumatov, Étienne Lalou, Igor Barrère, Ignacio Biain
Votes: 109
64. The Case of the Grinning Cat (2004 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 59 min | Documentary
Paris 2002. Yellow cats appears on the walls. Chris Marker is looking for these mysterious cats and captures with his camera the political and international events of these last two years (war in Iraq...).
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Bertrand Cantat, Dieudonné, Léon Schwartzenberg, Marina Vlady
Votes: 558
65. Kashima Paradise (1973)
110 min | Documentary
Directors: Bénie Deswarte, Yann Le Masson | Star: Chris Marker
Votes: 35
66. 2084: Video clip pour une réflexion syndicale et pour le plaisir (1984)
10 min | Documentary, Short
A computer generates conflicting hypotheses about the future of trade unions.
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: François Périer, Sophie Garnier, Bibiane Kirby, Atika Tahiri
Votes: 280
67. Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner (2008)
91 min | Documentary
Renowned architectural filmmaker Murray Grigor explores John Lautner's dramatic spaces with choreographed camera moves, as Lautner himself provides the commentary, speaking with insight and wit in recordings culled from archival sources.
Director: Murray Grigor | Stars: Sean Connery, Karol Lautner Peterson, Frank Gehry, Julia Strickland
Votes: 78
68. A Linguagem da Persuasão (1970)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Short documentary about the ideology of publicity and mass medias.
Director: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade | Star: Ferreira Gullar
Votes: 45
69. Edifício Master (2002)
110 min | Documentary
The daily lives and routine of 37 families living in a huge 12-story building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: their drama, aspirations, intimate revelations, loneliness, dreams...
Director: Eduardo Coutinho | Star: Fernando José
Votes: 1,685
70. Baukunst (2001–2017)
28 min | Documentary
23 episode documentary, each focusing on one distinguished building and its architect, from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Stars: François Marthouret, Guy Chapellier, Jean Nouvel, Peter Zumthor
Votes: 92
71. New Urban Cowboy: Toward a New Pedestrianism (2007)
83 min | Documentary
On a sweltering day in August 2001, a stranger appeared in a crime-ridden Florida neighborhood known as "Cracktown." Armed only with his big ideas and determination, artist/urban designer/... See full summary »
Directors: Michael E. Arth, Blake Wiers | Stars: Maya Petkova Arth, Michael E. Arth, Sophia E. Arth
Votes: 12
72. Habana - Arte nuevo de hacer ruinas (2006)
86 min | Documentary
The final moments of Havana's buildings seen through the eyes of their inhabitants: before they are renovated - or collapsed altogether.
Director: Florian Borchmeyer
Votes: 67
73. Berlin: Symphony of Metropolis (1927)
Not Rated | 65 min | Documentary
This movie shows us one day in Berlin, the rhythm of that time, starting at the earliest morning and ends in the deepest night.
Director: Walter Ruttmann | Star: Paul von Hindenburg
Votes: 4,798
74. Lagos/Koolhaas (2002)
Not Rated | 55 min | Documentary
Architect Rem Koolhaas and a team of students from The Harvard Project on the City, went to Lagos regularly to research the type of urbanity that is produced by uncontrolled, explosive ... See full summary »
Director: Bregtje van der Haak | Star: Rem Koolhaas
Votes: 17
75. Construcción de una ciudad (2007)
87 min | Documentary
The story of the rebirth of Federacion, Argentina that in 1974 was flooded by the waters of the Uruguay River and subsequently destroyed by the government to be relocated and rebuild.
Director: Nestor Frenkel
Votes: 75
76. Aquí se construye (o Ya no existe el lugar donde nací) (2000)
77 min | Documentary
Ignacio Agüero follows the demolition and development in a neighborhood in the Chilean capital Santiago. Agüero contrasts the destruction and the tearing down of walls by monstrous grabs with a calm camera that glides along the houses.
Director: Ignacio Agüero
Votes: 63
77. Visual Acoustics (2008)
Unrated | 83 min | Documentary
Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, VISUAL ACOUSTICS celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the worldÕs greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream.
Director: Eric Bricker | Stars: Frances Anderton, Wim de Wit, Beth Edwards Harris, Frank Escher
Votes: 689 | Gross: $0.10M
78. The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream (2004)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, War
The modern suburbs have ultimately become an unsustainable way of living. They were originally developed in an era of cheap oil, when the automobile became the center of the way people ... See full summary »
Director: Gregory Greene | Stars: Barrie Zwicker, James Howard Kunstler, Peter Calthorpe, Michael Klare
Votes: 1,028
79. Eames: The Architect & The Painter (2011)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Biography
The relationship between Charles Eames and his wife Ray ignited a burst of design ingenuity whose impact on the world can still be felt over half a century later.
Directors: Jason Cohn, Bill Jersey | Stars: Charles Eames, Ray Eames, James Franco, Jeannine Oppewall
Votes: 1,148 | Gross: $0.15M
80. Gehry's Vertigo (2013)
48 min | Documentary
A rare trip on the top roofs of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Through the portrait of the climbing team, their ascensions, their techniques and difficulties, this film observes the complexity and virtuosity of Frank Gehry's architecture.
Directors: Ila Bêka, Louise Lemoine
Votes: 12
81. Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio (2010 TV Movie)
57 min | Documentary, Biography, History
In rural Alabama, architecture students cross the threshold of poverty to build communities, not just structures, and leave snakebit to make a better world.
Director: Sam Wainwright Douglas
Votes: 59
82. First Person Singular: I.M. Pei (1997 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, History
90-minute special on the architect. Filmed throughout the world over a two-year period.
Director: Peter Rosen | Star: I.M. Pei
Votes: 82
83. Regular or Super: Views on Mies van der Rohe (2004)
Not Rated | 56 min | Documentary
REGULAR OR SUPER is a fascinating and informative introduction to the work of Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), one of the 20th century's most influential architects, and a thought-provoking ... See full summary »
Directors: Patrick Demers, Joseph Hillel
Votes: 48
84. Loos Ornamental (2008)
72 min | Documentary
Austrian architect Adolf Loos was one of the pioneers of European Modernist Architecture. Here, twenty-seven of his still existing building are explored.
Director: Heinz Emigholz
Votes: 73
85. Unfinished Spaces (2011)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary
Cuba's ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of Castro's Revolution, is neglected, nearly forgotten, then ultimately rediscovered as a visionary architectural masterpiece.
Directors: Benjamin Murray, Alysa Nahmias | Stars: Vittorio Garatti, Roberto Gottardi, Ricardo Porro
Votes: 98
86. Great Expectations (2007 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary
This film takes the viewer on a journey through possible and impossible architecture projects - from the beginning of the 20th century to today. From concrete illusions of grandeur to round... See full summary »
Director: Jesper Wachtmeister | Stars: Peter Cook, Jacque Fresco, Buckminster Fuller, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris
Votes: 56
87. American Masters (1985– )
TV-14 | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary series focusing on great American artists and personalities.
Stars: Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Tony Bennett, Dick Cavett
Votes: 1,171
88. Objectified (2009)
Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary
A feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them.
Director: Gary Hustwit | Stars: Paola Antonelli, Chris Bangle, Andrew Blauvelt, Erwan Bouroullec
Votes: 3,723 | Gross: $0.01M
89. Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight (2008)
Not Rated | 73 min | Documentary, Biography
Profiles Milton Glaser (1929- ), America's foremost graphic designer: designer of the iconic "I [heart] N.Y." logo, teacher, and humanitarian. Interviews with Glaser are arranged to take ... See full summary »
Director: Wendy Keys
Votes: 241
90. Cathedrals of Culture (2014)
165 min | Documentary
Six directors tackle the question "If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?" by capturing iconic buildings with narration from the perspective of the buildings.
Directors: Karim Aïnouz, Michael Glawogger, Michael Madsen, Margreth Olin, Robert Redford, Wim Wenders | Stars: Meret Becker, Gennadi Vengerov, Benedicte C. Westin, Jonas Salk
Votes: 295
91. Design Is One: The Vignellis (2012)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentary on two of the world's most influential designers -- Lella and Massimo Vignelli.
Directors: Kathy Brew, Roberto Guerra | Stars: Paola Antonelli, Barry Bergdoll, Michael Bierut, Peter Eisenman
Votes: 158 | Gross: $0.02M
92. The New Bauhaus (2019)
89 min | Documentary
The life, ideas and impact of Hungarian artist László Moholy-Nagy.
Director: Alysa Nahmias | Stars: Oliver Botar, Barbara Crane, Ólafur Eliasson, Andreas Hug
Votes: 59
93. Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect (2017)
82 min | Documentary, Biography
Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect is a feature documentary film that considers many of the key architectural questions through the 70 year career of Pritzker Prize winning Irish-American ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Noonan
Votes: 25
94. Sense of Architecture (2009)
168 min | Documentary
Forty-two architecture projects with Austrian origins.
Director: Heinz Emigholz
Votes: 9
95. Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality (2004)
59 min | Documentary
In "Álvaro Siza Transforming Reality", Portugal's renowned architect discusses his work and tours 15 projects with architectural historian Kenneth Frampton, who has referred to Siza as "one... See full summary »
Director: Michael Blackwood | Stars: Álvaro Siza Vieira, Kenneth Frampton
97. All the Memory in the World (1956)
21 min | Documentary, Short
This documentary explores the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, its priceless treasures, and how humanity remembers itself.
Director: Alain Resnais | Star: Jacques Dumesnil
Votes: 1,584
98. Gauguin (1949)
14 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Alain Resnais | Star: Jean Servais
Votes: 204
99. Tango (1981)
8 min | Animation, Short
Subsequent characters appear in a poorly-decorated room, intertwining but never colliding, all possessed by never-ending rituals.
Director: Zbigniew Rybczynski
Votes: 3,038
100. The Mystery of Picasso (1956)
PG | 78 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A filmed record of Pablo Picasso painting numerous canvases for the camera, allowing us to see his creative process at work.
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Pablo Picasso, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Claude Renoir
Votes: 2,701 | Gross: $0.27M
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