Dokumentary watchlist
by rozhlady | created - 02 Dec 2016 | updated - 05 Dec 2021 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. The True Cost (2015)
PG-13 | 92 min | Documentary, Drama, News
The True Cost is a documentary film exploring the impact of fashion on people and the planet.
Director: Andrew Morgan | Stars: Livia Giuggioli, Stella McCartney, Richard D. Wolff, Vandana Shiva
Votes: 7,292
2. Human (I) (2015)
Not Rated | 263 min | Documentary
A collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human.
Director: Yann Arthus-Bertrand | Stars: Luis Cancu, Atman, Berthony, Bruno
Votes: 8,820
3. Ethos (I) (2011)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary
Hosted by twice Oscar nominated actor Woody Harrelson, Ethos explores the mechanisms in our systems that work against democracy, the environment and our own personal liberty.
Director: Pete McGrain | Stars: Woody Harrelson, Justin Lewis, Bill Hogan, Noam Chomsky
Votes: 1,253
4. A Plastic Ocean (2016)
102 min | Documentary
Journalist Craig Leeson teams up with diver Tanya Streeter and an international team of scientists and researchers, and they travel to twenty locations around the world over the next four years to explore the fragile state of our oceans.
Director: Craig Leeson | Stars: David Attenborough, Sylvia Earle, Ben Fogle, Craig Leeson
Votes: 3,230
5. Seasons (2015)
PG | 96 min | Documentary, History
Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud return to the lush green forests, when the ice retreated, and the cycle of seasons was established. SEASONS is the awe-inspiring tale of the long shared history that binds humankind and nature.
Directors: Jacques Perrin, Alexandre Poulichot, Jacques Cluzaud | Stars: Mickaël Jachimiak-Duffner, Eyleen Schots
Votes: 1,775 | Gross: $0.12M
6. Landraub (2015)
91 min | Documentary
The world's farmland is at risk. Demand for land has soared as investors look for places to grow food for export, grow crops for biofuel or simply buy up land for profit. Land Grabbing shows how "colonialism 2.0" works.
Director: Kurt Langbein | Stars: Andreas Bardeau, Martin Häusling, Valentin Kovacs, Kurt Langbein
Votes: 44
7. Pels (2014)
57 min | Documentary, News
Exposing the true face of the fur industry
Director: Ola Waagen | Stars: Odd Harald Eidsmo, Frank Nervik, Per Arne Tøllefsen
Votes: 62
8. Deep Web (2015)
TV-MA | 90 min | Documentary
A feature documentary that explores the rise of a new Internet; decentralized, encrypted, dangerous and beyond the law; with particular focus on the FBI capture of the Tor hidden service Silk Road, and the judicial aftermath.
Director: Alex Winter | Stars: Ross Ulbricht, James Chaparro, Nicolas Christin, Cindy Cohn
Votes: 9,637
9. Walls (I) (2015)
Not Rated | 82 min | Documentary
Walls tells the story of different people that live in one side and the other of different walls all around the world.
Directors: Pablo Iraburu, Migueltxo Molina | Stars: Ghariba Bokhari, Bokhar Bricio, Al Enciso, Caren Hernández
Votes: 53
10. Plastic Planet (2009)
TV-G | 95 min | Documentary
Werner Boote presents an up-close and personal view of the controversial and fascinating material that has found its way into every facet of our daily lives: plastic. He takes us on a ... See full summary »
Director: Werner Boote | Stars: Werner Boote, John Taylor, Peter Lieberzeit, Marques Brown
Votes: 1,231 | Gross: $0.00M
11. An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)
PG | 98 min | Documentary
A decade after An Inconvenient Truth (2006) brought climate change to the heart of popular culture, the follow-up shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution.
Directors: Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk | Stars: Al Gore, Cory Booker, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton
Votes: 8,352 | Gross: $3.50M
12. Young and Alive (2018)
94 min | Documentary
In the months following the terrorist attacks in Paris, the youth has taken the night. A community has risen, that looks for belonging in a world they don't understand and seek to change ... See full summary »
Director: Matthieu Bareyre
Votes: 101
13. The Revelation of the Pyramids (2010)
PG | 106 min | Documentary
A view of Jacques Grimault's controversial, unpublished and unscientific works about the construction of Egyptian pyramids and other ancient archaeological sites around the world.
Director: Patrice Pooyard | Stars: Alika Del Sol, Jean-Pierre Adam, Guillemette Andreu, Arlan Andrews
Votes: 1,767
14. Harvest of Empire (2012)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, History
A powerful documentary that exposes the direct connection between the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the immigration crisis we face today. From the territorial ... See full summary »
Directors: Peter Getzels, Eduardo Lopez | Stars: Junot Diaz, Luis Enrique, Juan Gonzalez, Maria Hinojosa
Votes: 165 | Gross: $0.06M
15. Condor (2007)
103 min | Documentary
Operation Condor was a secret agreement between the military dictatorships of the Southern Cone in the 1970s, with the knowledge of the CIA. These governments to shared information and violently repressed suspected left-wing subversives.
Director: Roberto Mader
Votes: 35
16. The Kill Team (2013)
R | 79 min | Documentary
This provocative, bold, and deeply moving documentary profiles Adam Winfield, a soldier-turned-whistleblower who returns from the battlefield to expose shocking war crimes that the U.S. Army will do anything to cover up.
Director: Dan Krauss | Stars: Adam Winfield, Christopher Winfield, Emma Winfield, Alaina Winfield
Votes: 1,352
17. The Devil We Know (2018)
95 min | Documentary
A group of citizens in West Virginia challenges a powerful corporation to be more environmentally responsible.
Directors: Stephanie Soechtig, Jeremy Seifert | Stars: Sue Bailey, Bucky Bailey, Ken Wamsley, Wilbur Tennant
Votes: 1,302
18. The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (2009)
Not Rated | 92 min | Documentary
An exploration of the life and work of Dr. Daniel Ellsberg, former Marine and military strategist, who was responsible for the publication of secret government documents that revealed the truth behind America's involvement in Vietnam.
Directors: Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith | Stars: Peter Arnett, Ben Bagdikian, Ann Beeson, John Dean
Votes: 2,420 | Gross: $0.45M
19. We Steal Secrets (2013)
R | 130 min | Documentary
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: 8,176 | Gross: $0.16M
20. Le monde selon Monsanto (2008 TV Movie)
108 min | Documentary
You do not have to believe that God exists, but you will after this movie know that the devil poster! Monsanto is the largest global company that produces agricultural products: pesticides,... See full summary »
Director: Marie-Monique Robin | Stars: David Baker, Ken Cook, David Carpenter, Robert Bellé
Votes: 1,847
21. Aquarela (I) (2018)
PG | 90 min | Documentary
Water and ice are shown around the world, in all of their many powerful forms.
Director: Victor Kossakovsky
Votes: 1,628 | Gross: $0.19M
22. The Work (2017)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary
Set inside a single room in Folsom Prison, three men from the outside participate in a four-day group-therapy retreat with a group of incarcerated men for a real look at the challenges of rehabilitation.
Directors: Jairus McLeary, Gethin Aldous | Stars: Brian Nazarof, Alvin 'Bud' Wheeler, Richard 'Rick' Misener, Dante Granville
Votes: 2,415 | Gross: $0.01M
23. The War on Democracy (2007)
Not Rated | 96 min | Documentary
Venezuela, Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, Salvador, Bolivia: people's struggle for democracy versus US imperialism in Latin America since the 1950s, backing coups and supporting dictatorships.
Directors: Chris Martin, John Pilger, Sean Crotty | Stars: John Pilger, Philip Agee, Salvador Allende, George Bush
Votes: 2,524
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