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101. The Other Side (VIII) (2015)

Unrated | 92 min | Documentary, Drama

65 Metascore

In an invisible territory at the margins of society lives a wounded community who face the threat of being forgotten by political institutions and having their rights as citizens trampled. ... See full summary »

Director: Roberto Minervini | Stars: Mark Kelley, Lisa Allen, James Lee Miller, Austin Anderson

Votes: 1,322 | Gross: $0.01M

102. Boatman (1993)

55 min | Documentary

Boatman is Gianfranco Rosi's account of a boattrip along the Ganges river, together with his helmsman Gopal. They pass tourists and Indians who are bathing, working or meditating. In a ... See full summary »

Director: Gianfranco Rosi

Votes: 219

103. The Act of Killing (2012)

Not Rated | 117 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

92 Metascore

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: 40,810 | Gross: $0.49M

105. Thomas Harlan - Wandersplitter (2007)

96 min | Documentary

This is the content of the second disc of Wandersplitter aka Moving Shrapnel, in which Thomas Harlan revisits his film and literary work.

Director: Christoph Hübner | Stars: Thomas Harlan, Christoph Hübner, Gabriele Voss

Votes: 12

106. We Steal Secrets (2013)

R | 130 min | Documentary

76 Metascore

A documentary that details the creation of Julian Assange's controversial website, which facilitated the largest security breach in U.S. history.

Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Julian Assange, Adrian Lamo, John 'FuzzFace' McMahon, Alex Gibney

Votes: 8,178 | Gross: $0.16M

107. Cinema Futures (2016)

126 min | Documentary, History

The "digital revolution" reached the cinema late and was chiefly styled as a technological advancement. Today, in an era where analog celluloid strips are disappearing, and given the ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Palm | Stars: Lauren Alberque, Margaret Bodde, David Bordwell, Nicole Brenez

Votes: 109

108. Safari (2016)

Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary

A thought-provoking look on how white hunting tourists go to Afrika in search of excitement in killing wild animals, their backward views on humanity and the monetary reality behind this industry

Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Inge Ellinger, Marita Neemann, Markolf Schmidt, Tina Hofmann

Votes: 1,257

109. Les années déclic (1984)

65 min | Documentary, Biography

This documentary is an autobiography based on director Depardon's voice, his face and pictures from his childhood which are all mixed together on screen and contrasted with selected ... See full summary »

Director: Raymond Depardon | Star: Raymond Depardon

Votes: 50

110. Lampedusa in Winter (2015)

93 min | Documentary

The tiny community at the edge of Europe is engaged in a desperate fight for dignity, and for solidarity with those who many consider the cause of the ongoing crisis: the African boat people.

Director: Jakob Brossmann | Stars: Giacomo Mercurio, Giusi Nicolini, Paola La Rosa, Donato De Tommaso

Votes: 94

111. A Working Men's Club in Sheffield (1965 TV Movie)

41 min | Documentary

A documentary of the town of Sheffield's main pub and the people who went there.

Director: Peter Nestler

Votes: 78

112. The Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy (2009)

Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary

A hunter in a remote and idyllic forest stumbles on a make shift tent fashioned from sheets of plastic and containing the mummified remains of a corpse. A detailed journal found on site ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Liechti | Stars: Peter Mettler, Alexander Tschernek, Nikola Weisse

Votes: 581

113. Stau - Jetzt geht's los (1993)

84 min | Documentary

The title means traffic jam in German, and the documentary uses interviews to portray the rise of skinhead and Fascist elements in East Germany after the collapse of the Communist regime there.

Director: Thomas Heise

Votes: 30

114. How to Live in the German Federal Republic (1990)

83 min | Documentary

An oddity: a mock-documentary, satirizing West German life, from the perspective of a leftwing East German filmmaker.

Director: Harun Farocki

Votes: 122

115. At elske Pia (2017)

99 min | Drama, Romance

A fictional story developed on the basis of the life of a real woman, Pia (60), who is developmentally disabled. Pia's mother (84) is getting old and Pia is worried about what will happen when her mother dies, afraid of being alone.

Director: Daniel Borgman | Stars: Pia Skovgaard, Céline Skovgaard, Jens Jensen

Votes: 49

116. Motherland (I) (2017)

94 min | Documentary

84 Metascore

Taking us into the heart of the planet's busiest maternity hospital, the viewer is dropped like an unseen outsider into the hospital's stream of activity. At first, the people are strangers... See full summary »

Director: Ramona S. Diaz

Votes: 247

117. From a Year of Non-Events (2017)

83 min | Documentary

Or is every day of life an event when one reaches 90, like the farmer, Willi Dettert, who anchors this beautiful reflective piece on the joys of life itself. Despite the impairments of age,... See full summary »

Directors: René Frölke, Ann Carolin Renninger

Votes: 13

118. City of the Sun (2017)

104 min | Documentary

The lives, dreams, and destinies of extraordinary characters unfold in this impressionist dreamscape amid the ruins of a semi-abandoned mining town.

Director: Rati Oneli | Stars: Archil Khvedelidze, Zurab Gelashvili, Mariam Pkhaladze, Irina Pkhaladze

Votes: 309

119. Sacro GRA (2013)

Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary

64 Metascore

For nearly two years of exploring the "Great Ring Road's" almost 70km of looping highway, Gianfranco Rosi brings to the foreground the daily routine of ordinary people, composing the profile of a microcosm on the outskirts of Great Rome.

Director: Gianfranco Rosi | Stars: Francesco De Santis, Gaetano Finocchi, Roberto Giuliani, Daniel Ona

Votes: 1,893

121. Of Men and War (2014)

Not Rated | 142 min | Documentary, History, War

87 Metascore

The warriors in Of Men and War have come home to the United States, but their minds remain on the battlefield. Anger consumes them long after their return from the front. Like figures from ... See full summary »

Director: Laurent Bécue-Renard

Votes: 166

122. The Salt of the Earth (2014)

PG-13 | 110 min | Documentary, Biography, History

83 Metascore

The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.

Directors: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders | Stars: Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders, Lélia Wanick Salgado, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado

Votes: 23,460 | Gross: $1.34M

124. Fire at Sea (2016)

114 min | Documentary

87 Metascore

Capturing life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis.

Director: Gianfranco Rosi | Stars: Samuele Pucillo, Mattias Cucina, Samuele Caruana, Pietro Bartolo

Votes: 6,054 | Gross: $0.12M

125. Femmefille (2014)

84 min | Documentary, Biography

The tragic story of Isabelle Caro who rose to fame from Oliviero Toscani's NO-Anorexia campaign.

Director: Kiki Huynh | Stars: Kiki Huynh, Oliviero Toscani, Christian Caro, Loretta

Votes: 44

126. Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016)

PG-13 | 98 min | Documentary

76 Metascore

Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Elon Musk, Lawrence Krauss, Lucianne Walkowicz, Kevin Mitnick

Votes: 13,409 | Gross: $0.59M

127. Leviathan (I) (2012)

Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary

81 Metascore

A documentary shot in the North Atlantic and focused on the commercial fishing industry.

Directors: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel | Stars: Brian Jannelle, Adrian Guillette, Arthur Smith, Asterias Vulgaris

Votes: 3,793 | Gross: $1.09M

128. Havarie (2016)

93 min | Documentary

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Director: Philip Scheffner

Votes: 44

129. Soldatenglück und Gottes Segen (2002)

92 min | Documentary

Documentary about the first German foreign deployment of German soldiers in Kosovo since the Second World War in 1995.

Directors: Ulrike Franke, Michael Loeken

Votes: 11

130. Homo Sapiens (2016)

Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary

84 Metascore

Homo Sapiens shows stunning images of forgotten places, buildings we constructed and then left.

Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Votes: 1,083

131. Zen for Nothing (2016)

100 min | Documentary

ZEN FOR NOTHING tells of the experiences of Sabine Timoteo from Switzerland, as a "Zen novice" in Antaiji in Autumn, Winter and Spring.

Director: Werner Penzel | Stars: Sabine Timoteo, Muho Nölke, Yudai Hirama, Steffi Laib

Votes: 111 | Gross: $0.01M

132. A German Youth (2015)

93 min | Documentary, History

72 Metascore

Film based on the rise of The Red Army Faction, German revolutionary terrorist group founded by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof.

Director: Jean-Gabriel Périot | Stars: Horst Mahler, Philip Werner Sauber, Holger Meins, Helke Sander

Votes: 548

133. Profils paysans: l'approche (2001)

88 min | Documentary

First documentary of a trilogy produced on the long term (together with Profils paysans: le quotidien (2005) and Modern Life (2008)), showing the simple lives of farmers in contemporary Southern France.

Director: Raymond Depardon | Stars: Marcelle Brès, Raymond Privat, Louis Brès, Marcel Privat

Votes: 127

134. Iraqi Odyssey (2014)

Not Rated | 162 min | Documentary

60 Metascore

Tracing the emigrations of his family over more than half a century, this riveting 3D documentary epic from acclaimed expatriate Iraqi filmmaker Samir pays moving homage to the frustrated ... See full summary »

Director: Samir | Stars: Samira Jamal Aldin, Sabah Jamal Aldin, Souhair Jamal Aldin, Jamal Al Tahir

Votes: 176

135. Vom Ordnen der Dinge (2013)

80 min | Documentary

Collectors, counters, surveyors, "self-optimisers" - they all believe in the explainability of the world. It always comes down to giving order to chaos - sometimes through something as ... See full summary »

Directors: Jürgen Brügger, Jörg Haaßengier

Votes: 16

136. Tableau noir (2013)

117 min | Documentary, Drama

Tableau noir chronicles life at a one-room school in the Swiss mountains during an academic year, giving an endearing portrait of the twelve pupils aged six to twelve who share the same ... See full summary »

Director: Yves Yersin | Stars: Gilbert Hirschi, Debora Ferrari, Sophie Jacot, Dylan Jacot

Votes: 68

137. Three Sisters (2012)

Not Rated | 153 min | Documentary

Three young sisters live and work in extreme poverty in the harsh environment of Yunnan, a province on the Sino Burmese border area of China.

Director: Wang Bing

Votes: 475

138. Und vor mir die Sterne... - Das Leben der Schlagersängerin Renate Kern (1998)

90 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

A closer look at German singer Renate Kern who started a second career as country music singer in the US.

Directors: Ulrike Franke, Michael Loeken | Stars: Renate Kern, Dieter Thomas Heck, Susanne Barth, Rosy Bercks

Votes: 25

139. Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1989)

75 min | Documentary, War

Documentary examines the 'blind spot' of the evaluators of aerial footage of the IG Farben industrial plant taken by the Americans in 1944.

Director: Harun Farocki | Stars: Ulrike Grote, Harun Farocki

Votes: 323

140. Untitled (XII) (2017)

105 min | Documentary

"I want to give a view of the world that can only emerge by not pursuing any particular theme, by refraining from passing judgment, proceeding without aim. Drifting with no direction except... See full summary »

Directors: Michael Glawogger, Monika Willi | Stars: Birgit Minichmayr, Fiona Shaw, Robin A Townsend

Votes: 350

141. Exotica, Erotica, Etc. (2015)

73 min | Documentary

" Sailors are like terrorists. They arrive in ports with a bomb called love and throw it. And do you know what happens? The bomb explodes when they go away and they never come back, ... See full summary »

Director: Evangelia Kranioti

Votes: 197

143. The Flat Jungle (1979)

90 min | Documentary

A documentary shot in the flat Dutch country, at the edge of the sea. It deals with very different themes. Animal documentary, activist, denouncing the capitalism that destroys the coast and employment in the maritime sector.

Director: Johan van der Keuken

Votes: 38

144. Werner Nekes - Der Wandler zwischen den Bildern (2017)

87 min | Documentary, Biography

Werner Nekes is a leading contemporary experimental film maker. His work includes numerous avant-garde films that received many awards and distinctions. Closely related to his ... See full summary »

Director: Ulrike Pfeiffer | Stars: Hannelore Hoger, Daniel Kothenschulte, Werner Nekes, Helge Schneider

Votes: 19

145. CHoisir à vingt ans (2017)

100 min | Documentary, History, War

During the Algerian War between 1954-1962 few young Frenchmen defaulted on military service. These draft dodgers believed in non-violence. Some fled to Switzerland where they received help from Swiss citizens.

Director: Villi Hermann | Stars: Nils Andersson, Jacques Baynac, Anita Bernard, André Bernard

Votes: 14

146. What the wind took away (2017)

75 min | Documentary

Although most Yazidi women have lost everything they had, they're still alive. After they've been massacred and displaced from their home land, they found protection in a refugee camp, ... See full summary »

Directors: Helin Celik, Martin Klingenböck

149. Europe, She Loves (2016)

PG-13 | 100 min | Documentary

Europe on the verge of social and economic change. A close up into the shaken vision of four couples, daily struggles, fights, kids, sex and passion. A movie about the politics of love. Le cinéma politique fait l'amour.

Director: Jan Gassmann | Star: Penny Eleftheriadou

Votes: 366

150. Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (2009)

Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary

Henri-Georges Clouzot's unfinished masterpiece, Inferno (1964), is reconstructed in this film which is part drama and part documentary.

Directors: Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea | Stars: Romy Schneider, Bérénice Bejo, Serge Reggiani, Jacques Gamblin

Votes: 2,002 | Gross: $0.02M

151. Happy (VII) (2016)

85 min | Documentary

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Director: Carolin Genreith

Votes: 80

152. Cameraperson (2016)

Not Rated | 102 min | Documentary, Biography, History

89 Metascore

Exposing her role behind the camera, Kirsten Johnson reaches into the vast trove of footage she has shot over decades around the world. What emerges is a visually bold memoir and a revelatory interrogation of the power of the camera.

Director: Kirsten Johnson | Stars: Kirsten Johnson, Aisha Bukar, Eric W. Davis, Jacques Derrida

Votes: 3,240 | Gross: $0.10M

153. Cahier africain (2016)

118 min | Documentary

It all started with a small exercise book. Its page were checkered with the courageous testimonies of 300 Central African women, girls and men. They reveal what Congolese mercenaries did to... See full summary »

Director: Heidi Specogna | Star: Salena Godden

Votes: 37

154. Braguino (2017)

Not Rated | 49 min | Documentary

In the Siberian forest, away from any civilization, a feud is opposing two families whose houses are separated by a river. In the middle of the river stands an island where the kids of the two families are meeting on their own.

Director: Clément Cogitore

Votes: 423

155. In Sarmatien (2013)

120 min | Documentary

Volker Koepp revisits locations and people from his earlier documentaries in the wide Eastern European region of Sarmatia.

Director: Volker Koepp

Votes: 18

156. Into the Inferno (2016)

104 min | Documentary

76 Metascore

An exploration of active volcanoes around the world.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Werner Herzog, Katia Krafft, Maurice Krafft, Clive Oppenheimer

Votes: 9,967

157. Einmannland (2017)

28 min | Short

23 year old Killian finds himself by chance living in a container in the Northern Sea. Here he spends his days as a bird warden, keeping stock of 30,000 migratory birds. Alone and many ... See full summary »

Director: Kilian Helmbrecht

159. HORST (2018)

72 min | Documentary

HORST. is a very personal film, which deals with an essential human desire in life: How to find acceptance and love? Can love between partners, between a person and his family be strong ... See full summary »

Director: Lisa Bühl

160. Brother Jakob (2016)

92 min | Documentary

I lost my brother to a God named Allah. While Jakob searches for the truth, I search for Jakob. Will we ever find each other?

Director: Elí Roland Sachs

Votes: 28

162. The North Calotte (1991 TV Movie)

90 min | Documentary

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Director: Peter Nestler

Votes: 25

163. Atemwege: Abseits des Selbstverständlichen (2013)

74 min | Documentary, Biography

A young man breathes in and out deeply. Twenty-six floors, as deep as the sea, he plunges through normally. He is in an elevator and goes up and down with one breath before he can finally breathe again.

Director: Elí Roland Sachs

Votes: 12

164. Wild Plants (2016)

Not Rated | 108 min | Documentary

People's associations with flora goes back a long way, taking us back to our own roots as well as to new ways of life and creative potential that reveal themselves as we deal with plants. '... See full summary »

Director: Nicolas Humbert | Stars: Milo Yellow Hair, Kinga Osz, Andrew Kemp, Maurice Maggi

Votes: 78

165. Outside (2018)

80 min | Documentary

The film explores the turbulent lives of homeless persons in Cologne, Germany. Through their personal belongings the homeless share with the viewer their memories and emotions, and provide ... See full summary »

Directors: Johanna Sunder-Plassman, Tama Tobias-Macht

Votes: 43

166. Far. The Story of a Journey Around the World (2017)

128 min | Documentary, Adventure

Two young Germans spend three and a half years traveling around the world just by hitchhiking, bus, train and ship. They travel almost 100,000 kilometers through Europe, Asia, North and Central America.

Directors: Patrick Allgaier, Gwendolin Weisser | Stars: Patrick Allgaier, Gwendolin Weisser

Votes: 1,238

167. Signers Koffer - Unterwegs mit Roman Signer (1995)

84 min | Documentary

A road movie with Roman Signer who travels in the grooves of magically charged landscapes across Europe. From the Swiss Alps to eastern Poland, from Stromboli to Iceland, it's a large-scale performance art piece at an ideal cruising speed.

Director: Peter Liechti | Stars: Roman Signer, Christoph M. Ohrt

Votes: 86

168. Sofia's Last Ambulance (2012)

75 min | Documentary

In a city where 13 ambulances struggle to serve 2 million people, Krassi, Mila and Plamen are our unlikely heroes: chain-smoking, filled with humour, relentlessly saving lives against all ... See full summary »

Director: Ilian Metev | Stars: Krassimir Yordanov, Mila Mikhailova, Plamen Slavkov

Votes: 396

169. Ícaros (2014)

56 min | Documentary

Thirty years have passed since Marcel left Spain to escape military service. He relocated in the heart of the Costa Rican forest. A naked man living among the howling monkeys, in the shadow... See full summary »

Director: Pedro González-Rubio

Votes: 22

170. Ohne diese Welt (2017)

115 min | Documentary

About a group of old colonial Mennonites in northern Argentina - women, men and children who, as the descendants of Germans who emigrated 500 years ago, live in a strictly conservative religious community that rejects modernity.

Director: Nora Fingscheidt

Votes: 25

171. Chosen and Excluded: The Hate on Jews in Europe (2017)

90 min | Documentary

The docu explains us about anti semitism in modern times until today

Directors: Sophie Hafner, Joachim Schroeder | Stars: Rafi Eitan, Sammy Ghozlan, Moishe Postone, Monika Schwarz-Friesel

Votes: 43

172. 12 Days (2017)

87 min | Documentary

81 Metascore

By French law, anyone admitted into the hospital without their consent must be seen by a judge within 12 days. That judge must decide whether these psychiatric hospital patients can be allowed back into society.

Director: Raymond Depardon

Votes: 518 | Gross: $0.00M

173. A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013)

Not Rated | 98 min | Documentary, Music

70 Metascore

A man in search for the creation of utopia in the present. First, as a member of a commune on an Estonian island, then alone in the majestic wilderness of Northern Finland and later as the singer of a neo-pagan, black metal band in Norway.

Directors: Ben Rivers, Ben Russell | Stars: Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, Nick McMaster, Weasel Walter

Votes: 608

174. France (2016)

84 min | Documentary

Documentarist Raymond Depardon travels around France and gathers conversations with very different people.

Director: Raymond Depardon

Votes: 153

175. Chasseurs et chamans (2003)

32 min | Documentary, Short

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Director: Raymond Depardon

Votes: 6

176. Letter from Siberia (1958)

62 min | Documentary

A witty examination of life and culture in Siberia.

Director: Chris Marker | Star: Georges Rouquier

Votes: 844

177. Profils paysans: le quotidien (2005)

83 min | Documentary

Second documentary of a trilogy produced on the long term (together with Profils paysans: l'approche (2001) and Modern Life (2008)), showing the simple lives of farmers in contemporary Southern France.

Director: Raymond Depardon | Stars: Marcel Privat, Raymond Privat, Alain Rouvière, Monique Rouvière

Votes: 133

178. The Cleaners (2018)

88 min | Documentary

70 Metascore

A look at the shadowy underworld of the Internet where questionable content is removed.

Directors: Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck | Stars: Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump, Nicole Wong, Sarah T. Roberts

Votes: 1,829

180. La sixième face du pentagone (1968)

Not Rated | 28 min | Documentary, Short

On October 21, 1967, over 100,000 protestors gathered in Washington, D.C., for the Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. It was the largest protest gathering yet, and it brought together ... See full summary »

Directors: Chris Marker, François Reichenbach | Stars: William Sloane Coffin, N. Paul Stookey, Mary Travers, John Wilson

Votes: 343

181. L'ambassade (1973)

Not Rated | 20 min | Drama, Short

An unexpected response to Pinochet's 1973 coup d'etat in Chile. A Super-8 film apparently found in an embassy -as it's written in the original title-, where political activists had taken ... See full summary »

Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Florence Delay, Roberto Matta, Carole Roussopoulos, Paul Roussopoulos

Votes: 310

182. El Manguito (2017)

19 min | Documentary, Short

El Manguito is a small village in the inaccessible woodlands of Sierra Maestra in Cuba. Twelve people live there, cut off from the outside world, without electricity supply and drivable ... See full summary »

Director: Laurentia Genske

Votes: 8

183. Blockade (I) (2006)

Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

70 Metascore

The city of Leningrad and the blockade during the Second World War. No words. No music. Only sounds and black and white images of a dying city.

Director: Sergey Loznitsa

Votes: 712

184. Seestück (2018)

135 min | Documentary

Travelling to the island of Usedom, the beaches of Poland, the Baltic coasts, and the northern archipelago of Sweden, the director shows the impressive natural landscapes and the different ... See full summary »

Director: Volker Koepp

Votes: 10

185. The Other Side of Everything (2017)

100 min | Documentary, Biography

83 Metascore

For Serbian filmmaker Mila Turajlic, a locked door in her mother's apartment in Belgrade provides the gateway to both her remarkable family history and her country's tumultuous political inheritance.

Director: Mila Turajlic | Stars: Srbijanka Turajlic, Mila Turajlic, Mira Boskic, Mladen Kostic

Votes: 1,262 | Gross: $0.00M

186. The Woman with the 5 Elephants (2009)

Not Rated | 93 min | Documentary

66 Metascore

First her father ends up in one of Stalin's prison camps, then young Svetlana herself experiences the German invasion. In order to survive she learns German at home in Kiev. She is good and... See full summary »

Director: Vadim Jendreyko | Stars: Svetlana Geier, Anna Götte, Hannelore Hagen, Jürgen Klodt

Votes: 329 | Gross: $0.01M

188. Beuys (2017)

107 min | Documentary, Biography, History

58 Metascore

A documentary about the 20th century German sculptor and performance artist Joseph Beuys.

Director: Andres Veiel | Stars: Joseph Beuys, Caroline Tisdall, Rhea Thönges-Stringaris, Franz von der Grinten

Votes: 505 | Gross: $0.07M

189. A Woman Captured (2017)

89 min | Documentary

A European woman has been kept by a family as a domestic slave for 10 years. Drawing courage from the filmmaker's presence, she decides to escape the unbearable oppression and become a free person.

Director: Bernadett Tuza-Ritter | Stars: Marish, Bernadett Tuza-Ritter

Votes: 544

190. Faces Places (2017)

PG | 94 min | Documentary, Adventure

94 Metascore

Director Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist J.R. journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

Directors: JR, Agnès Varda | Stars: Agnès Varda, JR, Jeannine Carpentier, Clemens Van Dungern

Votes: 13,609 | Gross: $0.95M

191. Man of Aran (1934)

Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary, Drama

In this blend of documentary and fictional narrative from pioneering filmmaker Robert Flaherty, the everyday trials of life on Ireland's unforgiving Aran Islands are captured with attention to naturalistic beauty and historical detail.

Director: Robert J. Flaherty | Stars: Colman 'Tiger' King, Maggie Dirrane, Michael Dirrane, Pat Mullin

Votes: 2,323

194. Episode of the Sea (2014)

Not Rated | 63 min | Documentary, Action

The film documents contemporary North Sea fishery and the fishermen's struggle with a changed public perception, fluctuating regulations, and excessive global competition, while parallels are drawn between fishing and filming.

Directors: Siebren de Haan, Lonnie van Brummelen | Stars: Femmy Brands, Tinie De Boer, Hennie De Bruijne, Cees De Vries

Votes: 74

195. The Gleaners & I (2000)

Not Rated | 82 min | Documentary

86 Metascore

Varda films and interviews gleaners in France in all forms, from those picking fields after the harvest to those scouring the dumpsters of Paris.

Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: François Wertheimer, Agnès Varda, Jean La Planche, Bodan Litnanski

Votes: 8,800 | Gross: $0.15M

196. Becoming Animal (2018)

78 min | Documentary

A palpably rendered audiovisual essay draws together the distinct sensibilities of filmmakers Peter Mettler (The End of Time) and Emma Davie (I am Breathing) and philosopher David Abram (... See full summary »

Directors: Emma Davie, Peter Mettler | Stars: David Abram, Peter Mettler

Votes: 101

197. Aggregat (2018)

94 min | Documentary

Images from Germany today. Guided tours in the Reichstag. SPD parliamentarians attend a workshop to practice strategies for dealing with right-wing populist topics. A crowd chants: close the borders.

Director: Marie Wilke | Star: Jeremy Rudd

Votes: 21

198. Drifters (1929)

49 min | Documentary

A silent documentary film by John Grierson telling the story of Britain's North Sea herring fishery.

Director: John Grierson

Votes: 477

199. Shut Up and Play the Piano (2018)

Not Rated | 82 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

Chilly Gonzales is a Grammy-winning composer, virtuoso pianist and entertainer. Criss-crossing between rap, electro and solo piano music, he became the outrageous pop performer who invited ... See full summary »

Director: Philipp Jedicke | Stars: Chilly Gonzales, Peaches, Leslie Feist, Sibylle Berg

Votes: 301

200. Nieuwe gronden (1933)

36 min | Documentary, Short

The film is a documentary portraying a struggle as man tries to subdue nature. To prevent flooding and for purposes of land reclamation, the people of the Netherlands struggle and succeed ... See full summary »

Director: Joris Ivens | Star: Joris Ivens

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