Roger & Me (1989)
Michael Moore's 1989 directorial debut. GM CEO Roger Smith and Flint Michigan plant closures.
1980sMichael Moore's 1989 directorial debut. GM CEO Roger Smith and Flint Michigan plant closures.
2010sAging death squad leaders reenact their killings as movie scenes. The Act of Killing is Joshua Oppenheimer's 2012 Danish-British-Norwegian documentary depicting former Indonesian death squad leaders who participated in the 1965-66 anti-communist purges that killed approximately five hundred thousand to…
2010sSimpson trial through race-and-celebrity prism. Won Oscar despite TV format.
2010sNewly discovered 65mm footage of 1969 moon landing. Apollo 11 is Todd Douglas Miller's 2019 American documentary depicting the July 1969 Apollo 11 lunar landing mission through previously unreleased seventy-millimeter footage from NASA archives combined with mission audio.
2010sArchive footage only, no talking heads. Brazilian champion's career through his 1994 death.
2010sCitizenfour is Laura Poitras's 2014 American documentary depicting Edward Snowden's June 2013 meetings with Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald in Hong Kong, when Snowden disclosed classified National Security Agency documents revealing extensive surveillance programs. Citizenfour proves how documentary could operate…
2010sCamera operators with PTSD from filming. The film was produced by National Geographic Documentary Films on a budget of approximately two million dollars and grossed approximately twenty-eight million dollars worldwide, winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
2000s
1950sThe genre's late masterpiece. Touch of Evil is Orson Welles's 1958 American film noir adapting Whit Masterson's 1956 novel Badge of Evil.
1950sKurosawa's 1958 medieval adventure. Mifune as general, two bumbling peasants.
1970s
1980sRandall Adams case in Texas. The film that freed an innocent man.
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