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Shoah

Shoah

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 8.7

Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witn...

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Senna

Senna

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Film Age rating: 8 Year: 2010 IMDB Rating: 8.5

The remarkable story of Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna, charting his physical and spiritual achievements on the track and off, his quest for perfection, and the mythical status he has since atta...

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Paper & Glue

Paper & Glue

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2021 IMDB Rating: 8.3

A documentary following JR's artwork giving a global voice to everyday people.

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Shoah: Four Sisters

Shoah: Four Sisters

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Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 8.2

Paula Biren, Ruth Elias, Ada Lichtman, Hanna Marton: Four Jewish women, witnesses and survivors of the most insane and pitiless barbarism, and who, for that reason alone, but for many others also, des...

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Little Dieter Needs to Fly

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1997 IMDB Rating: 8

In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. Barefoot, surviving monsoons, leeches, and machete-wielding villagers, he was rescued. Now, near 60, living...

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The Beaches of Agnès

The Beaches of Agnès

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Film Age rating: 11 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 8

Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed...

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Lessons of Darkness

Lessons of Darkness

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1992 IMDB Rating: 8

Shot in documentary style from the perspective of an almost alien observer, the film is an exploration of the ravaged oil fields of post-Gulf War Kuwait. An effective companion to his earlier film Fat...

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Why We Fight

Why We Fight

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 8

Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmati...

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Jodorowsky's Dune

Jodorowsky's Dune

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Film Age rating: 10 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 8

Shot in France, England, Switzerland and the United States, this documentary covers director Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre) and his 1974 Quixotic attempt to adapt the semi...

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I Am Not Your Negro

I Am Not Your Negro

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2017 IMDB Rating: 7.9

Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.

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