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6.0

♡ 4

98%

Sabaah Folayan Director

Lezley McSpadden as Herself - Mother of Mike Brown Jr.

Barack Obama as Himself

Brian Williams as Himself

Michael Brown Sr. as Himself - Father of Mike Brown Jr.

A nonfiction account of the Ferguson uprising told by the people who lived it, this is an unflinching look at how the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown inspired a community to fight back—and sparked a global movement.

For Love & Life: No Ordinary Campaign

2022

8.5

♡ 2

100%

Christopher Burke Director

Barack Obama as

Lou Gehrig as Self

Joe Biden as Self - 46th President of the United States

Sheldon Whitehouse as Self - Senator, Rhode Island

Brian Wallach was diagnosed with ALS at 37. He and his wife’s fight to reclaim their future from a brutal disease has snowballed into a movement with resounding ramifications not only for the ALS community, but for millions of patients seeking to find their voice in our broken healthcare system.

Notes from Dunblane: Lesson from a School Shooting

2018

post traumatic stress disorder

6.1

♡ 4

78%

post-traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)

sandy hook

school shooting

Kim A. Snyder Director

Barack Obama as Self - 44th U.S. President

Basil O'Sullivan as Self - Pastor

Bob Weiss as Self - Pastor

Luisa Ciccu as Self - Teacher

In the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that took the lives of 20 first graders and their teachers, local clergymen Father Bob Weiss receives a letter from a fellow priest in Dunblane, Scotland, whose community suffered an eerily similar fate in 1996. From across the Atlantic, the two priests forge a poignant bond through the shared experience of trauma and healing.

A Year in Space

2016

7.3

♡ 9

Jonathan Halperin Director

Barack Obama as Himself

Scott Kelly as Himself

Mark Kelly as Himself

Follow astronaut Scott Kelly's 12-month mission on the International Space Station, from launch to landing, as NASA charts the effects of long-duration spaceflight by comparing him to his identical twin on Earth, astronaut Mark Kelly.

2016: Obama's America

2012

4.8

♡ 3

27%

73%

conservative propaganda

political documentary

political propaganda

pro republican

Dinesh D'Souza Director

Zackary Steven Graham as Dartmouth College Student

Joe Biden as Self

Barack Obama as Self

Dinesh D'Souza as Self

"If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in 2016?" Across the globe and in America, people in 2008 hungered for a leader who would unite and lift us from economic turmoil and war. True to Americas ideals, they invested their hope in a new kind of president, Barack Obama. What they didn't know is that Obama is a man with a past, and in powerful ways that past defines him--who he is, how he thinks, and where he intends to take America and the world.

TrustWho

2016

German

6.8

♡ 7

Lilian Franck Director

Barack Obama as Self

George W. Bush as Self

Bill Gates as Self

Vladimir Putin as Self

Is the WHO sick? The filmmaker and mother Lilian Franck reveals clandestine influences by the tobacco, pharmaceutical and nuclear industries on the organization. She shows a frightening portrayal of our present society, in which governmental politics is becoming obsolete. "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." - Martin Luther King

THE END: Inside the Last Days of the Obama White House

2017

6.5

♡ 3

Toby Oppenheimer Director

Barack Obama as Self

Michelle Obama as Self

Jen Psaki as Self

Tina Tchen as Self - Assistant to the President

An inside view of Barack Obama's last days as the first African-American President, and the legacy he leaves behind.

RUTH - Justice Ginsburg in her own Words

2019

7.8

♡ 1

94%

biography

supreme court justice

Freida Lee Mock Director

Erwin Chemerinsky as Self

Joe Biden as Self

Barack Obama as Self

Goodwin Liu as Self

How does some one with three strikes against her, rise to the highest court in the land, the U. S. Supreme Court?

Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream

2012

7.3

81%

Alex Gibney Director

Alex Gibney as Narrator

Barack Obama as Self

George W. Bush as Self

Rod Stewart as Self

If income inequality were a sport, the residents of 740 Park Avenue in Manhattan would all be medalists. This address boasts the highest number of billionaires in the United States.

Julian Assange: Revolution Now

2020

7.5

♡ 10

Piers Garland Director

Barack Obama as Self

Noam Chomsky as Self

Ai Weiwei as Self

Vivienne Westwood as Self

Some see a terrorist - some see a journalist. This is an unparalleled look at the journey of how one man and his mission to empower the world with information became the target of the most powerful government in the world.

Race Against Time: The CIA and 9/11

2021

5.7

♡ 5

Matthew DeVoe Director

Barack Obama as Self

George W. Bush as Self

John McCain as Self

Tracy Walder as Self - Former Staff Operations Officer

Follows former top officials and elite operatives inside the CIA as they share accounts of their efforts to stop Osama bin Laden and the catastrophic attack they knew was coming.

Unmasking Jihadi John: Anatomy of a Terrorist

2019

7.0

♡ 1

86%

Anthony Wonke Director

Neil Attridge as

Luke Dixey as

Barack Obama as Self

David Cameron as Self

The inside story behind the hunt for ISIS poster boy "Jihadi John" by the US and British military and intelligence services. An interrogation of the twisted worldview espoused by ISIS and its propaganda machine which was operated by "Jihadi millennials" who turned social media sites such as Twitter and YouTube into recruitment platforms.

Manhunt: The Inside Story of the Hunt for Bin Laden

2013

6.7

♡ 5

Greg Barker Director

Barack Obama as Self

Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi as Self

Susan Hasler as Self

Barbara Sude as Self

An espionage tale from inside the CIA's long conflict against Al Qaeda, as revealed by the remarkable women and men whose secret war against Osama bin Laden started nearly a decade before most of us even knew his name.

137 Shots

2021

6.5

♡ 3

42%

Crime

Michael Milano Director

Barack Obama as Self - 44th President of the United States

Donald Trump as Self - 45th President of the United States

Martin Luther King as Self - Civil Rights Leader

LeBron James as Self - NBA Player, Cleveland Cavaliers

In this documentary, law enforcement faces scrutiny as Americans demand justice after police violence claims multiple Black lives in Cleveland.

Gasland Part II

2013

7.6

♡ 1

73%

Josh Fox Director

Bill Clinton as Self

Hillary Clinton as Self

Barack Obama as Self

Naomi Oreskes as Self - Author, Merchants of Doubt

Two years ago, Josh Fox introduced us to hydraulic fracturing with his Oscar®-nominated exposé Gasland. Now this once-touted energy source has become a widely discussed, contentious topic. In his follow-up, Fox reveals the extreme circumstances facing those affected by fracking, from earthquakes to the use of federal anti-terror psychological operations tactics. Gasland Part II is the definitive proof that issues raised by fracking cannot be ignored for long.

Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down

2022

7.4

♡ 1

100%

Julie Cohen Director

Barack Obama as Self

Mark Kelly as Self

Gabrielle Giffords as Self

Ron Barber as Self

The extraordinary story of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords: her relentless fight to recover following an assassination attempt in 2011, and her new life as one of the most effective activists in the battle against gun violence.

Paris to Pittsburgh

2018

6.4

♡ 10

climate

climate change

climate change activism

environmentalism

politics

Michael Bonfiglio Director

Rachel Brosnahan as Narrator

Barack Obama as Self - 44th President of the United States

Donald Trump as Self - 45th President of the United States

Michael Bloomberg as Self - U.N. Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Climate Change

Paris to Pittsburgh brings to life the impassioned efforts of individuals who are battling the most severe threats of climate change in their own backyards. Set against the national debate over the United States' energy future - and the Trump administration's explosive decision to exit the Paris Climate Agreement - the film captures what's at stake for communities around the country and the inspiring ways Americans are responding.

Flight/Risk

2022

6.4

♡ 9

Karim Amer Director

Donald Trump as (archive footage)

Ted Cruz as (archive footage)

Barack Obama as (archive footage)

Peter A. DeFazio as Self - Congressman

Everyday people find themselves in the midst of a global tragedy when two Boeing 737 Max planes crashed only five months apart in 2018 and 2019. This powerful documentary is told through the perspective of affected family members, their legal teams, whistleblowers, and Pulitzer-winning Seattle Times journalist, Dominic Gates.

9 Days in Raqqa

2020

French

6.5

♡ 1

Xavier de Lauzanne Director

Gulistan Sido as Self

Angela Merkel as Self - chancelière de l République fédérale allemande

Donald Trump as Self - président des Etats-Unis

Barack Obama as Self - président des Etats-Unis

Leila Mustapha is Kurdish and Syrian. Her battle was Raqqa, the former capital of the Islamic State with 300,000 inhabitants, reduced to a field of ruin after the war. An engineer by training, mayor at just 30, immersed in a world of men, her mission is to rebuild her city, to reconcile, and to establish democracy there. An extraordinary mission. A French writer crosses Iraq and Syria to meet her. In this still dangerous city, she has 9 days to live with Leila and tell her story in a book.

National Bird

2016