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1. Free Speech Fear Free (2016)
80 min | Documentary
Can we really be fully human without Free Speech? Is Free Speech the oxygen of our society? Without it we crumble.
Directors: Tarquin Ramsay, Jörg Altekruse | Stars: Jacob Appelbaum, Julian Assange, Diani Baretto, Niamh Barretto
Votes: 48
2. Citizenfour (2014)
R | 114 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.
Director: Laura Poitras | Stars: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney, Jacob Appelbaum
Votes: 57,989 | Gross: $2.80M
3. Inside Job (2010)
PG-13 | 109 min | Documentary, Crime
Takes a closer look at what brought about the 2008 financial meltdown.
Director: Charles Ferguson | Stars: Matt Damon, Gylfi Zoega, Andri Snær Magnason, Sigridur Benediktsdottir
Votes: 78,993 | Gross: $4.31M
4. The Corporation (2003)
Not Rated | 145 min | Documentary, History
Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.
Directors: Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott | Stars: Mikela Jay, Rob Beckwermert, Christopher Gora, Nina Jones
Votes: 21,787 | Gross: $1.88M
5. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
Not Rated | 167 min | Documentary, Biography, War
A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
Directors: Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick | Stars: Noam Chomsky, Mark Achbar, Karin Aguilar-San Juan, Paul Andrews
Votes: 4,936
6. 97% Owned (2012)
104 min | Documentary
97% owned present serious research and verifiable evidence on our economic and financial system. This is the first documentary to tackle this issue from a UK-perspective and explains the ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Oswald | Stars: Ben Dyson, Anne Belsey, Noel Longhurst, Josh Ryan-Collins
Votes: 671
7. 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: 2,527
8. The Dirty War on the National Health Service (2019)
106 min | Documentary
Veteran filmmaker John Pilger takes us through a history of threats to Britain's National Health Service ,from its 1948 founding by Labor through a privatizing push by Margaret Thatcher's bureaucrats, to challenges by new Conservatives.
Director: John Pilger | Star: John Pilger
Votes: 112
9. The New Rulers of the World (2001 TV Movie)
65 min | Documentary
The myths of globalisation have been incorporated into much of our everyday language. "Thinking globally" and "the global economy" are part of a jargon that assumes we are all part of one ... See full summary »
Directors: Alan Lowery, John Pilger | Stars: Pramoedya Ananta Toer, George Monbiot, Dita Sari
Votes: 264
10. Snowden (2016)
R | 134 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The NSA's illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency's employees, Edward Snowden, in the form of thousands of classified documents distributed to the press.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto
Votes: 163,012 | Gross: $21.59M
11. Another Way (II) (2020)
69 min | Documentary
COVID stripped the UK public of what makes us human; arts, culture, social interaction. What makes life worth living was torn apart but was there Another Way? Comedian Sean Collins and Entrepreneur Simon Dolan travel to Sweden to find out.
Director: Charlotte Fantelli | Stars: Hasse Brontén, Sean Collins, Simon Dolan, Anders Tegnell
12. The Century of the Self (2002)
59 min | Documentary
A documentary about the rise of psychoanalysis as a powerful means of persuasion for both governments and corporations.
Stars: Adam Curtis, Robert Reich, Ann Bernays, Alfred Pritz
Votes: 6,362
13. Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)
Not Rated | 161 min | Documentary
A feature length documentary work which presents a case for a needed transition out of the current socioeconomic monetary paradigm which governs the entire world society.
Director: Peter Joseph | Stars: Peter Joseph, Robert Sapolsky, Gabor Maté, Richard Wilkinson
Votes: 18,743
14. Out of Shadows (2020)
78 min | Documentary
An exposé on how Hollywood and the mainstream media manipulate the multitudes by spreading propaganda throughout their content.
Director: Mike Smith | Stars: Mike Smith, Kevin M. Shipp, Brad Martin, Liz Crokin
Votes: 1,925
15. Stealing a Nation (2004 TV Movie)
56 min | Documentary, History
This tells a story literally 'hidden from history'. In the 1960s and 70s, British governments, conspiring with American officials, tricked into leaving, then expelled the entire population ... See full summary »
Directors: John Pilger, Sean Crotty | Star: John Pilger
Votes: 408
16. The War You Don't See (2010)
97 min | Documentary, War
Thought-provoking documentary on war propaganda: how governments manipulate the facts and how most media let them get away with it.
Directors: Alan Lowery, John Pilger | Stars: John Pilger, Stuart Ewen, Melvin Goodman, Dan Rather
Votes: 1,526
17. The War You Don't See (2010)
97 min | Documentary, War
Thought-provoking documentary on war propaganda: how governments manipulate the facts and how most media let them get away with it.
Directors: Alan Lowery, John Pilger | Stars: John Pilger, Stuart Ewen, Melvin Goodman, Dan Rather
Votes: 1,526
18. HyperNormalisation (2016)
166 min | Documentary
Adam Curtis explains how, at a time of confusing and inexplicable world events, politicians and the people they represent have retreated in to a damaging over-simplified version of what is happening.
Director: Adam Curtis | Stars: Adam Curtis, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Victor Gotbaum
Votes: 7,376
19. The Power of Nightmares (2004)
60 min | Documentary, History
A series of three documentaries about the use of fear for political gain.
Stars: Gilles Kepel, William Kristol, Melvin Goodman, Richard Perle
Votes: 4,545
20. Inequality for All (2013)
PG | 89 min | Documentary
A documentary that follows former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich as he looks to raise awareness of the country's widening economic gap.
Director: Jacob Kornbluth | Stars: Robert Reich, Conan O'Brien, Candice Bergen, Lily Tomlin
Votes: 7,019 | Gross: $1.21M
21. The Money Masters (1996)
210 min | Documentary
The Money Masters is a 1996 documentary film that discusses the concepts of money, debt, taxes, and describes their development from biblical times onward.
Director: William T. Still | Star: William T. Still
Votes: 754
22. Four Horsemen (2012)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary, News
The modern day Four Horsemen continue to ride roughshod over the people who can least afford it. Crises are converging when governments, religion and mainstream economists have stalled. 23 ... See full summary »
Director: Ross Ashcroft | Stars: Dominic Frisby, Gillian Tett, Lawrence Wilkerson, David Morgan
Votes: 2,919
23. Human Resources: Social Engineering in the 20th Century (2010)
119 min | Documentary
Human Resources is a documentary about Social Control, examining the history, the philosophy and ultimately the pathology of elite power.
Director: Scott Noble | Stars: Michael Albert, Morris Bermann, Noam Chomsky, John Taylor Gatto
Votes: 176
24. Requiem for the American Dream (2015)
Not Rated | 73 min | Documentary, Biography, News
Renowned academic and author Noam Chomsky elucidates 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power that have led to unprecedented inequality and the hollowing out of the American middle class.
Directors: Peter D. Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, Jared P. Scott | Stars: Noam Chomsky, Alan Greenspan, Malcolm X, Richard Nixon
Votes: 9,889 | Gross: $0.13M
25. Europa: The Last Battle (2017)
746 min | Documentary, History, War
World War II revisionist film that claims Jews deliberately caused both World Wars--and that Hitler was only trying to save Germany from the Jews--as part of a plot to found the nation of Israel.
Director: Tobias B. | Stars: Muhammad Ali, Winston Churchill, Henry Ford, Joseph Goebbels
Votes: 2,351
26. We Are Columbine (2018)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary
Nearly 20 years after one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history, four survivors return to Columbine High School to share their experiences and journeys toward healing.
Director: Laura Farber | Stars: Gustavo D'Arthenay, Jaimi Norden, Amy Staley, Zach Martin
Votes: 383
27. Died Suddenly (2022)
69 min | Documentary, Musical
5 billion vaccinated worldwide, and many are dying suddenly. Is this the greatest orchestrated die-off in the history of the world?
Directors: Matthew Miller Skow, Nicholas Stumphauzer | Stars: Mice Army, Kevin Bass, Luther Cyrus Bass, Joe Biden
Votes: 2,030
28. Billion Dollar Heist (2023)
84 min | Documentary, Crime
The story of one of the most daring cyber heists of all time, the Bangladeshi Central Bank theft. Tracing the origins of cyber-crime, from basic turn of the millennium credit card fraud by individuals to global criminal organizations.
Directors: Daniel Gordon, Brendan Donovan, Bryn Evans | Stars: Eric Chien, Mikko Hyppönen, Misha Glenny, E.J. Hilbert II
Votes: 586
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