2014 documentary films

Dinosaur 13

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Two years after the discovery of "Sue," the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton found to date, government officials seize the remains and claim that "Sue" was stolen from federal land...

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Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 7.2

The film explores the role of photography, since its rudimentary beginnings in the 1840s, in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present. T...

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Last of the Elephant Men

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 7.2

A people's struggle to save the animal at the heart of their culture. For centuries the Bunong indigenous people on the Cambodian-Vietnamese border lived with elephants, believing they shared the same...

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In the Turn

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 7.2

A documentary about a 10-year-old transgender girl who finds acceptance and empowerment in the company of a queer roller derby collective.

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E-Team

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 7.1

E-Team is driven by the high-stakes investigative work of four intrepid human rights workers, offering a rare look at their lives at home and their dramatic work in the field.

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The Wanted 18

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Through stop-motion animation, drawings and interviews, directors Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan recreate an astonishing true story from the First Palestinian Intifada: the Israeli army’s pursuit of eigh...

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Meet the Patels

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Finding love is never easy. For Ravi Patel, a first generation Indian-American, the odds are slim. His ideal bride is beautiful, smart, funny, family-oriented, kind and—in keeping with tradition—India...

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Iris

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 7.1

IRIS pairs legendary 87-year-old documentarian Albert Maysles with Iris Apfel, the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven who has had an outsized presence on the New York fashion s...

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My Beautiful Broken Brain

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 7.1

A profoundly personal voyage into the complexity, fragility and wonder of the human brain, after Lotje Sodderland miraculously survives a hemorrhagic stroke and finds herself starting again in an alie...

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