Documentaries
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1. Human Nature (I) (2019)
95 min | Documentary
A breakthrough called CRISPR opens the door to curing diseases, reshaping the biosphere, and designing our own children. A provocative exploration of its far-reaching implications, through the eyes of the scientists who discovered it.
Director: Adam Bolt | Stars: Jennifer Doudna, George Church, Alta Charo, Fyodor Urnov
Votes: 1,728
2. 100 Foot Wave (2021– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Documentary, Sport
Follows the decade-long odyssey of big-wave pioneer Garrett McNamara who, after visiting a small fishing village in Portugal, helped push the sport beyond the realm of imagination.
Stars: Garrett McNamara, Nicole McNamara, Andrew Cotton, Cj Macias
Votes: 2,785
3. A Fire Inside (2021)
91 min | Documentary, Biography
As the world looked on in horror at Australia's apocalyptic bushfires, the selfless acts of everyday people defined the spirit of a nation, but took an astounding toll of their own.
Directors: Justin Krook, Luke Mazzaferro | Stars: Ian Aitken, Nathan Barnden, John Brogden, Shane Fitzsimmons
Votes: 60
4. Oliver Sacks: His Own Life (2019)
111 min | Documentary, Biography
The life and career of the renowned neurologist and author, Dr. Oliver Sacks.
Director: Ric Burns | Stars: Oliver Sacks, Roberto Calasso, António Damásio, Kate Edgar
Votes: 560
5. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1987 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama, Musical
Opera singer and professor Dr P is examined both in a clinic and in his home, as he suffers from a degeneration of the occipital lobe that allows him to see details, but not wholes.
Director: Christopher Rawlence | Stars: Oliver Sacks, John Tighe, Emile Belcourt, Patricia Hooper
Votes: 43
6. The Elephant Whisperers (2022)
PG | 41 min | Documentary, Short
Bomman and Bellie, a couple in South India, devote their lives to caring for an orphaned baby elephant named Raghu, forging a family like no other that tests the barrier between the human and the animal world.
Director: Kartiki Gonsalves | Stars: Bellie, Bomman
Votes: 9,803
7. Tiger 24 (2022)
90 min | Documentary
When a wild tiger kills men who enter his territory he is declared a man-eater and locked up in a zoo. This galvanizes massive social uproar and activists take their cause to the streets, ... See full summary »
Director: Warren Pereira | Stars: Warren Pereira, Valmik Thapar, Yogesh Sahu, Aditya Singh
Votes: 453
8. End Game (2018)
TV-PG | 40 min | Documentary, Short
Filmed and edited in intimate vérité style, this movie follows visionary medical practitioners who are working on the cutting edge of life and death and are dedicated to changing our thinking about both.
Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Votes: 2,100
9. The Birth of Empire: The East India Company (2014)
60 min | Documentary, History
Dan Snow travels through India in the footsteps of the company that revolutionized the British lifestyle and laid the foundations of today's global trading systems. 400 years ago British ... See full summary »
Stars: Dan Snow, Robert Hutchinson, Zareer Masani, Nick Robins
Votes: 111
10. The Invisible Extinction (2022)
80 min | Documentary
Gloria Dominguez-Bello and Marty Blaser confront an international public health emergency, the loss of ancestral microbes, while three patients with life threatening diseases explore experimental treatments to save their lives.
Directors: Steve Lawrence, Sarah Schenck
Votes: 30
11. Take Your Pills: Xanax (2022)
TV-14 | 79 min | Documentary
A cure for some and a curse for others, widely prescribed anti-anxiety medication is examined by patients and experts in this revealing documentary.
Director: Blair Foster | Stars: Tracy Dennis-Tiwary, Phoebe Gavin, Jeff Gold, Julie Holland
Votes: 1,744
12. The Last Cruise (2021)
TV-14 | 40 min | Documentary, Short
A terrifying origin story of the pandemic, DIAMOND PRINCESS chronicles the first and largest outbreak of the novel coronavirus outside China: the Diamond Princess cruise liner. Through ... See full summary »
Director: Hannah Olson | Stars: Kent N. Frasure, Rebecca Frasure, Jerri Jorgensen, Mark Jorgensen
Votes: 1,564
13. Hell of a Cruise (2022)
TV-14 | 78 min | Documentary
Onboard at the luxury Diamond Princess cruise ship in January of 2020, people had no idea that the deadly novel coronavirus boarded the ship with them turning the floating paradise into their worst nightmare.
Director: Nick Quested | Stars: Jennifer Catron, Gordon Christoph, Phil Courtner, Simon Denyer
Votes: 229
14.
Dateline (1984– )
Episode:
Deadly Trip of a Lifetime: Part 1
(2020)
31 min | News
Dateline investigates how 128 passengers and crew aboard the Australian Greg Mortimer cruise ship became infected with COVID-19, and how Uruguay came to their rescue.
Stars: Amos Roberts, Angela Gavilan, Jeff Green, Graham Pagat
15.
Dateline (1984– )
Episode:
Deadly Trip of a Lifetime: Part 2
(2020)
31 min | News
The holiday of a lifetime quickly turned into a ship in lock down, searching for a port in a COVID-19 storm. Dateline charts the story of the MV Greg Mortimer cruise ship that left Argentina 3 days after the pandemic was declared.
Stars: Amos Roberts, Angela Gavilan, Jeff Green, Nena Lorenzo
16. Animals Up Close with Bertie Gregory (2022–2023)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary, Adventure
Bertie Gregory is back, and this time the adventures are even more epic. Bertie takes us to the most spectacular corners of our planet, in search of extraordinary animals to capture their daily lives.
Stars: Bertie Gregory, Leigh Hickmott, Diego Araya, John Shier
Votes: 236
17. Merkel (2022)
95 min | Documentary, Biography
Driven by extensive archive material and interviews with those who know her, this is the astonishing story of how a triple outsider - a woman, a scientist, and an East German - became the ... See full summary »
Director: Eva Weber | Stars: Angela Merkel, Robin Alexander, Joe Biden, Tony Blair
Votes: 652
18. Saved by a Stranger (2021)
60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Anita Rani explores the experiences of 2 people thrown together by a major event in modern history who have since become separated. The series follows them as they try to find the individual who helped them.
Stars: Anita Rani, Darryl Telles
Votes: 14
19. Beyond Utopia (2023)
PG-13 | 115 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of several families as they attempt to escape oppression in North Korea, revealing a world most of us have never seen.
Director: Madeleine Gavin | Stars: Hyeonseo Lee, Sung-eun Kim, So-yeon Lee, Sue Mi Terry
Votes: 3,407
20. American Nightmare (2024)
TV-MA | 45 min | Documentary, Crime, Mystery
After a harrowing home invasion and kidnapping in 2015, a couple is accused of staging the ordeal when the woman reappears in this true-crime docuseries.
Stars: Denise Huskins, Henry Lee, Aaron Quinn, Amy Morton
Votes: 17,524
21. Born in Gaza (2014)
54 min | Documentary
Filmed shortly after the 2014 Gaza war, this documentary examines how violence has transformed the lives of 10 Palestinian children.
Director: Hernán Zin | Stars: Walaa Eltiti, Yazeed Faruja
Votes: 2,060
22. Heaven Stood Still: The Incarnations of Willy DeVille (2022)
87 min | Documentary
The life and times of the most original American singer/ songwriter of the last 50 years.
Director: Larry Locke | Stars: Willy DeVille, Chris Frantz, Ben E. King, Jack Nitzsche
Votes: 40
23. Bad Surgeon: Love Under the Knife (2023)
TV-MA | 53 min | Documentary, Crime, History
Dr. Paolo Macchiarini is world famous for his revolutionary stem cell-infused windpipe transplants. There's just one problem: His patients keep dying.
Stars: Benita Alexander-Noel, Karl-Henrik Grinnemo, Oscar Simonson, Dorne Lyles
Votes: 4,510
24. Escaping Twin Flames (2023)
TV-MA | 58 min | Documentary, Biography
Explores the story of Jeff and Shaleia Divine, the leaders of Twin Flames Universe who sell online classes that guarantee harmonious union with your destined partner, a controversial online community that preys on people looking for love.
Stars: Janja Lalich, Arcelia, Jessi, Sarah Berman
Votes: 3,825
25. Our Father (III) (2022)
TV-MA | 97 min | Documentary, Crime
After a woman's at-home DNA test reveals multiple half-siblings, she discovers a shocking scheme involving donor sperm and a popular fertility doctor.
Director: Lucie Jourdan | Stars: Jacoba Ballard, Julie Harmon, Matt White, Heather Woock
Votes: 14,480
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