Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.
← Find more movies

Documentaries movies

Explore documentary storytelling about people, events and ideas.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,599 films · Page 109.

Miley: The Movement (2013)

documentary film

Miley: The Movement commences with Cyrus stating "I don't apologize for anything." Shortly after, she comments that "For me, the movement needs to be something bigger than just a record. For me, a movement is something that represents, like, taking over the world." Cyrus notably avoids specifically naming her former television series Hannah Montana, instead calling it "my show" when flashback pictures of her earlier career was shown, presumably to distance herself from the franchise. However, she commented that after its conclusion "I made one movie, and I never wanted to do it again.

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

Wild Karnataka (2019)

documentary film

Wild Karnataka displays the varied habitats and species across Karnataka. The film is story driven. Subjects include Bengal tigers and Indian elephants, along with lesser-known species like lion-tailed macaques, Indian leopards, birds, amphibians and reptiles.

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

Darius Goes West (2007)

documentary film

The film revolves around Darius Weems, a teenager with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, who, because of his disease, had never left his hometown of Athens, Georgia. In the summer of 2005, with the help of eleven young friends, 15-year-old Darius embarked on a road trip across the United States, with the goal of reaching Los Angeles in the hopes of appearing on MTV's show Pimp My Ride in order that Darius's old and worn-out wheelchair might be customized on the hit show. The group traveled in an RV and tested wheelchair-accessibility across America during the course of their trip.

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

Hooligan Sparrow (2016)

Crime, documentary film, Drama

The documentary is about a child rape case in China (involving a government official) and the protests against it by activists Ye Haiyan, Shan Lihua, Tang Jitian, Wang Jianfen, Jia Lingmin, Wang Yu, and Huang. A photograph of Ye holding a sign that says "Principal, get a room with me and leave the schoolgirls alone" goes viral on Chinese social media, thus raising awareness about the case. Subsequently, Ye is the victim of severe harassment by policemen and thugs (who, the succession of events imply, act on behalf of Chinese authorities).

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

Bill Cunningham New York (2011)

Cultural Film, documentary film, Documentation

"We all get dressed for Bill", says Vogue editor Anna Wintour. The Bill in question is The New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high-society charity soirées for the Timess Style section in his columns "On the Street" and "Evening Hours".

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

Beyond Citizen Kane (1993)

documentary film

The documentary tracks Globo's involvement with and support of the Brazilian military government; its illegal partnership of the 1960s with the American group Time-Life; Marinho's political connections (notably its owner's connections with Antonio Carlos Magalhães, Minister of Telecommunications) and manoeuvres (such as airing in Jornal Nacional, the network's prime time news programme since 1969, highlights of a 1989 presidential debate edited in a way as to favour Fernando Collor de Mello); and a controversial deal involving shares of NEC Corporation and government contracts. It features interviews with 21 people, including noted…

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

The Save the Children Fund Film (1971)

documentary film

The film is about the work of Save the Children, a British-based charity working for children around the world. This film looks at examples of the charity's work in England and Africa – the Starehe Boys Centre and School in Kenya. According to Garnett's biographer Stephen Lacey, the film-makers objected to what they saw as the charity's "neo-colonial attitude towards indigenous cultures".

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

Elián (2017)

documentary film

González's mother, Elizabeth Brotons Rodríguez, drowned in November 1999 while attempting to leave Cuba with González and her boyfriend to get to the United States. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) initially placed González with paternal relatives in Miami, who sought to keep him in the United States against his father's demands that González be returned to Cuba.

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

Trance and Dance in Bali (1952)

documentary film, Documentation

thumb|upright=1.35|The women dance ecstatically, stabbing themselves with their razor-sharp kris daggers, and coming to no harm.|alt=Film still showing women dancers bending and writhing The film describes and illustrates a single performance of the Kris Dance, a ritual dance on the Indonesian island of Bali. The dance portrays the struggle of good, in the shape of dragons, against evil, in the shape of masked Tjalonarang witches. The dancers are young women.

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence