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1. Candyman (2021)
R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller
A sequel to the horror film Candyman (1992) that returns to the now-gentrified Chicago neighborhood where the legend began.
Director: Nia DaCosta | Stars: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo
Votes: 75,871 | Gross: $61.19M
2. Clusterf**k: Woodstock '99 (2022)
TV-MA | 47 min | Documentary, History, Music
Woodstock 1969 promised peace and music, but its '99 revival delivered days of rage, riots and real harm. Why did it go so horribly wrong?
Stars: Ananda Lewis, Heather Eason Liposky, Colin Speir, John Scher
Votes: 21,536
3. We Stand Alone Together (2001 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 78 min | Documentary
Compiled over two years, an 'on-camera oral history' of Easy Company, told by the veterans themselves. Accompanies the mini-series Band of Brothers.
Director: Mark Cowen | Stars: James Alley Jr., Roderick Bain, Lynn 'Buck' Compton, Antonio García de Pedro
Votes: 2,501
4. Daughters of the Dust (1991)
TV-PG | 113 min | Drama, History, Romance
A languid, impressionistic story of three generations of Gullah women living on the South Carolina Sea Islands in 1902.
Director: Julie Dash | Stars: Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbara O, Trula Hoosier
Votes: 3,297 | Gross: $1.64M
5. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 110 min | Drama, History
Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
Director: John Korty | Stars: Cicely Tyson, Eric Brown, Richard Dysart, Joel Fluellen
Votes: 2,506
6. 4 Little Girls (1997)
TV-14 | 102 min | Documentary, History
A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Maxine McNair, Walter Cronkite, Chris McNair, Fred Lee Shuttlesworth
Votes: 3,583 | Gross: $0.13M
7. Joe Gould's Secret (2000)
R | 104 min | Drama
Around 1940, The New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character, who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of twenty thousand conversations he's overheard.
Director: Stanley Tucci | Stars: Ian Holm, Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis, Sarah Hyland
Votes: 1,646 | Gross: $0.64M
8. Filmworker (2017)
Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentary about how English actor Leon Vitali came to work as an assistant to American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick for over 30 years.
Director: Tony Zierra | Stars: Leon Vitali, Ryan O'Neal, Brian Capron, Mike Alfreds
Votes: 3,511 | Gross: $0.10M
9. Killer Legends (2014)
TV-MA | 86 min | Documentary, Crime, History
Delving into our collective nightmares, this horror-documentary investigates the origins of our most terrifying urban legends and the true stories that may have inspired them.
Director: Joshua Zeman | Stars: Rachel Mills, Joshua Zeman, Stephen Winick, James Presley
Votes: 3,537
10. Mandie and the Secret Tunnel (2009)
G | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
In 1899, Mandie's life changes when her Cherokee friends help her escape to a mansion that holds the hidden secrets of her past and the key to her future.
Directors: Joy Chapman, Owen Smith | Stars: Dean Jones, Lexi Johnson, William Yelton, Amanda Waters
Votes: 397
11. The Last of the Unjust (2013)
PG-13 | 220 min | Documentary, History
A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann called the "model ghetto", designed to mislead the world and Jewish people regarding its real nature, to be the ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Lanzmann | Stars: Benjamin Murmelstein, Claude Lanzmann
Votes: 807 | Gross: $0.04M
12. Insert Coin (2020)
101 min | Documentary
The oral history of a team of geeks and misfits in the back of a Chicago factory creating the biggest video games (Mortal Kombat, NBA JAM, and others) of all time.
Director: Joshua Y. Tsui | Stars: Eugene Jarvis, George Petro, Jack Haeger, Mark Turmell
Votes: 540
13. Rock Hudson's Home Movies (1992)
Not Rated | 63 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentary about the career and eventual death from AIDS of actor Rock Hudson.
Director: Mark Rappaport | Stars: Eric Farr, Lauren Bacall, Cyd Charisse, Marc Christian
Votes: 526
14. Razor's Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses (2016)
130 min | Documentary, History
An examination of the work and lives of actresses in the Iranian film industry prior to the 1979 revolution, featuring myriad interviews and rare film clips.
Director: Bahman Maghsoudlou | Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Katayun Amir Ebrahimi, Mary Apick, Pouri Baneai
Votes: 20
15. Libere (2017)
75 min | Documentary
Director: Rossella Schillaci | Stars: Chiara Acciarini, Maria Airaudo, Giuliana Gadola Beltrami, Alda Bianco
Votes: 10
16. Cry Rock (2010)
29 min | Documentary, Short
The wild beauty of the Bella Coola Valley blends with vivid watercolor animation illuminating the role of the Nuxalk oral tradition and the intersection of story, place and culture.
Director: Banchi Hanuse | Stars: Alvin Mack, Deborah Nelson, Qwatsinas, Clyde Tallio
Votes: 9
17. Inlaws & Outlaws (2005)
Unrated | 100 min | Documentary
With remarkable honesty, good humor, great music and real heart, Inlaws & Outlaws weaves together true stories of couples and singles, gay and straight, to embrace what we all have in common: we love.
Director: Drew Emery | Star: Felicia Loud
Votes: 108
18. Desire (1989)
88 min | Documentary, History, Romance
Stuart Marshall's forceful new film (separately commissioned, but screened in Britain as part of - and the most-watched episode of - Channel Four's lesbian and gay magazine series) isn't ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Marshall
Votes: 32
20. Smokes & Lollies (1976)
25 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
First in a Seven Up! (1964) like series examining the lives of three teenage girls in South Australia during the 1970s. A sort of 14Up Australia, the series has spawned three more ... See full summary »
Director: Gillian Armstrong | Stars: Kerry Carlson, Diana Doman, Josie Petersen
Votes: 19
21. The Mountains Will Wait for You (2013)
44 min | Documentary, Short
Grace Hudowalski had a deep influence on climbers of the Adirondack Mountains. As the first woman to summit the range's 46 High Peaks, her passion for climbing was lifelong, and her ... See full summary »
Director: Fredrick T. Schwoebel | Stars: Johnny Cash, Grace Hudowalski
22. George Marshall & the American Century (1994 TV Movie)
89 min | Documentary, Biography, History
He built the mightiest army in history and selected its leaders. Eisenhower, MacArthur and Patton all obeyed his commands. George Marshall was the only soldier ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
Directors: Kenneth Levis, Kenneth Mandel | Stars: George C. Marshall, E.G. Marshall
Votes: 43
23. The Inner Tour (2001)
97 min | Documentary, History
Documentarian Ra'anan Alexandrowicz accompanies a Palestinian tour group on a three-day sight-seeing trip to Israel.
Director: Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
Votes: 123
24. River Voices: A Portrait of an American River Community (2002 Video)
56 min | Documentary, History
Survivors recall both the devastation and the outpouring of community strength caused by the great 1937 Ohio River flood in Portsmouth, Ohio.
Director: Nathan Lorentz | Star: Noah Adams
Votes: 12
25. Shanghai Queer (2019)
90 min | Documentary
Shanghai Queer documents LGBTQ communities' pursuit of equality and freedom in Shanghai, China.
Director: Xiangqi Chen
26. Enemy of the People (1998)
Documentary
The smallest of the Soviet republics, Armenia was a microcosm of the Great Terror that swept the entire USSR between the 1930s and Stalin's death in 1953. Finally, after a lifetime of ... See full summary »
Director: Zareh Tjeknavorian | Stars: Eric Bogosian, Joseph Stalin
27. O Caldeirão da Santa Cruz do Deserto (1986)
78 min | Documentary
Director: Rosemberg Cariry | Stars: Antônio de Alencar Araripe, Banda Cabaçal dos Irmãos Aniceto, José Góes de Campos Barros, Maria das Dores Bernardo
Votes: 17
28. Julian Bond (2012)
32 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
As Julian Bond traces his roots back to slavery, the audience is confronted with a unique opportunity to observe the 20th century through the eyes of one of its key witnesses. Now in his ... See full summary »
Director: Eduardo Montes-Bradley | Star: Julian Bond
29. The Typist (I) (2015)
8 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
A gay Korean War Vet reflects on his time as the office clerk tasked with writing the discharges of outed gay seamen.
Director: Kristine Stolakis | Stars: Dana Edwards, Monterey Morrissey, Matt Nixon, Tulio Ospina
Votes: 25
30. Cães Sem Coleira (1999)
60 min | Biography, Drama, History
Director: Rosa Coutinho Cabral | Stars: Marco António, João Cabral, Vasco Campos, Camacho Costa
Votes: 6
31. The Closed Schools of Marion (2011 Video)
60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
From 1987 to 2009 four of the six secondary schools and five of the twelve primary schools on the plains of Marion, South Australia were closed due to changing demographics and the ... See full summary »
Director: Ashley Starkey | Stars: Bob Donley, Lukas Balnaves, Ivan Baylis, Jennifer Crawford
32. Celtic Legends: Irish Legends (1999 Video)
50 min | Documentary
This revealing program shows that the search for the Celtic Gods of Britian is an extremely difficult task. Their origins are shrouded in mystery, but they are kept alive in a series of ... See full summary »
Stars: Christina Harrison, Paul Jackson, Richard Marsh, Daithi O'Hagain
Votes: 11
33. Buskin' Blues (2015)
61 min | Documentary, Music
In the small mountain town of Asheville, North Carolina, a mysterious subculture of world-class street musicians reveal their troubles and triumphs in using public performance to disrupt ... See full summary »
Director: Erin Derham | Stars: Andrew J. Fletcher, Abby Roach, Chris Rodrigues
Votes: 39
34. Remosam (2019)
35 min | Documentary, Short
Far up on the Bonda hills, the Remos are met with dysfunctional governance that fails to feed or keep their language alive.
Director: Subhashish Panigrahi | Stars: Buda Dhangdamajhi, Kinker Dhangdamajhi, Manguli Dhangdamajhi, Sukru Dhangda Majhi
35. California State of Mind: The Legacy of Pat Brown (2011)
86 min | Documentary, Biography
CALIFORNIA STATE OF MIND tells the story of how one man rose against seemingly insurmountable obstacles and shaped the future of modern California. Rather than lionizing Brown as "the ... See full summary »
Director: Sascha Rice | Stars: Tom Brokaw, Jerry Brown, Willie Brown, Warren Christopher
Votes: 29
36. Living Los Sures (2014)
Documentary
Produced over 5 years by 60 artists at UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art, LIVING LOS SURES is an expansive project about the Southside of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Known by its long-term ... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Allen
37. A Parcel of Time (2021)
87 min | Documentary
A portrait of a village at a time of change, an exploration of a rural community.
Director: Ian Lewis
38. Germans in the Woods (2008)
3 min | Animation, Short, History
World War II veteran Joseph Robertson remembers a German soldier he killed at the Battle of the Bulge; a story from the archives of America's national oral history project StoryCorps.
Director: Tim Rauch | Star: Joseph Robertson
Votes: 23
39. National Library of China: An Oral History (2019)
106 min | Documentary
Through personal views of NLC's retired librarians, it portrays the library's historical progress, from the establishment of the National Peiping Library in the 1930s, to the modernization at the end of the 20th century.
Directors: Shiyuan Liu, Meng-ou Mao, Tian Miao | Stars: Yu Cao, Ren Jiyu, Yang Li, Sophie Volpp
40. Gold Lost in Siberia (1994)
72 min | Documentary
Eyewitnesses (i.e. former prisoners, idealists, survivors) accounts of their/or others ordeal during the 40's and 50's of the 20th century, being convicted as 'peoples enemies' by the ... See full summary »
Director: Theo Uittenbogaard | Stars: Stepania Fjodorovna, Vadim Kozin, Olga Lisenko, Ivan Lukin
Votes: 5
41. Project Bolo (2011 Video)
Short, Biography
For the first time in India, 20 LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) persons in four cities open up in a candid manner to offer an inside view into their lives, views and ... See full summary »
Director: Sridhar Rangayan
43. Where I Come From (2020 Video)
3 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Native American Barnie Botone is descended from Guipago, a Kiowa chief. In 1875 Guipago was transported by train to prison. Almost a century later, a young Barnie takes a job as a ... See full summary »
Director: Natalie Greene | Star: Barnie Botone
44. Blood Oath: Ambon POWs Remember (2002 Video)
12 min | Short, Biography, History
Stars: Bob Allen, Vernon Ball, Tom Pledger, Jack Serant
45. Voices on the Page: David Williamson, Compulsive Playwright (1986 Video)
27 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Directors: Ian Walker, Ian Warren | Stars: David Williamson, Betty Burstall, Brian Kiernan, Alan Cassell
46. Q. & A. (2009)
4 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Twelve-year-old Joshua Littman, who has Asperger's Syndrome, interviews his mother Sarah on everything from animals to her feelings about him as a son.
Directors: Mike Rauch, Tim Rauch | Stars: Joshua Littman, Sarah Littman
Votes: 22
47. Cosi: Extract of Oral History with Film Buff Paul Harris and Richard Brennan (2006 Video)
22 min | Short, Biography, History
Stars: Paul Harris, Richard Brennan
48. Common Sense Printing (2009)
23 min | Documentary, Short
"Common Sense Printing" is a short documentary about a mom and pop company in the process of going green. The film discusses the importance of fostering resource management in a profession ... See full summary »
Director: Jessica Renslow
49. Un'altra Italia nelle bandiere dei lavoratori (1980)
18 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Paolo Gobetti
50. Zanderology (2014)
Not Rated | 42 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
An illustrated film, based on the oral histories of Zander Keig.
Director: Megan Rohrer | Star: Zander Keig