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7.0

♡ 3

Matt Cottingham Director

Samantha Bond as Self - Narrator

Surpassed only by the Bible and Shakespeare, Agatha Christie is the most successful writer of all time. We all know her characters and incredible plot twists, but what do we know about Agatha herself? Combining rare access to Agatha's family, her personal archive and speaking to those who know her work best, discover what made the world's most successful crime writer tick.

Finding the Funk

2013

7.3

♡ 1

71%

rhythm and blues (r&b)

sweat

vinyl record

Nelson George Director

Nile Rodgers as Self

Nelson George as Self

Sheila E. as Self

Ahmir-Khalib Thompson as Self - Narrator

Finding the Funk is a road trip in search of the past, present and future of Funk music. Starting with Funk's roots in Jazz and the James Brown bands of the '60s we travel to the Bay Area to celebrate Sly & the Family Stone, then to Dayton the birthplace of so many of Funk's originators, then onto Detroit where from the ashes of Motown, P-Funk's Mothership arose, and then to LA where a new crop of musicians are creating their own Funk history. On our journey into Funk, we talk to legends Sly Stone, Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, Nona Hendryx, Maceo Parker, Bernie Worrell, and Steve Arrington and their descendants Mike D, D'Angelo, Sheila E, Shock G and Sade's Stuart Matthewman. Narrated by Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson of the Roots.

The White Diamond

2004

7.5

♡ 4

90%

Werner Herzog Director

Michael Wilk as Self

Anthony Melville as Self

Marc Anthony Yhap as Self

Werner Herzog as Self - Narrator

This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to design and test a unique airship during its maiden flight above the jungle canopy.

Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald

2012

8.1

♡ 2

Rob L. Cohen Director

Frank Dobia as Self - Block 66 Survivor

Rolf Kralovitz as Self - Buchenwald Survivor

Avraham Ahuvia as Self - Buchenwald Survivor

Liev Schreiber as Self - Narrator

Kinderblock 66 is the story of four men who, as young boys, were imprisoned by the Nazis in the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp and who, sixty-five years later, return to commemorate the sixty-fifth anniversary of their liberation. The film tells the story of the effort undertaken by the camp's Communist-led underground to protect ad save Jewish children who were arriving in Buchenwald toward the end of the Holocaust. Kinderblock 66 also tells the story of Antonin Kalina, the head of the block who was personally responsible for saving 904 boys in Buchenwald.

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

2012

8.0

♡ 6

98%

Alex Gibney Director

John Slattery as Arthur

Chris Cooper as Gary

Ethan Hawke as Pat

Alex Gibney as Self - Narrator

Academy Award®–winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) explores the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church, following a trail from the first known protest against clerical sexual abuse in the United States and all way to the Vatican.

Life 2,000 Meters Under the Sea

2014

6.1

♡ 1

Jean-Yves Collet Director

François Lallier as Self

Jozée Sarrazin as Self

David Gasman as Self - Narrator

Bruce Shillito as Self - Oceanographer, University Pierre Et Marie Curie, Paris

Deep down at the bottom of the ocean lies the mysterious world of the abyss. In the midst of boiling, toxic geysers, a rich ecosystem flourishes. This miracle is possible thanks to bacteria, micro-organisms crucial to all living beings. How can bacteria survive in such extreme conditions?

Nationtime

1972

7.2

♡ 2

100%

William Greaves Director

Jesse Jackson as Self

Isaac Hayes as Self

Al Freeman Jr. as Self

Sidney Poitier as Self - Narrator

A report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered Black voices from across the political spectrum, among them Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory, Coretta Scott King, Richard Hatcher, Amiri Baraka, Charles Diggs, and H. Carl McCall.

The Patriot Game

1979

7.6

96%

ira (irish republican army)

History

the troubles (north ireland, 1966-98)

Arthur MacCaig Director

Winnie Marshall as Self - Narrator

Recounts Ireland's history from British colonization to the territory's division in 1922, then from 1968 details a decade of events through images and eyewitness accounts of killings and such massacres as the infamous "Bloody Sunday" as the IRA argues their cause.

Rue Daguerre in 2005

2005

French

7.1

♡ 3

Agnès Varda Director

Agnès Varda as Self - Narrator

Agnes Varda revisits the storefronts and some of the local people she interviewed 30 years earlier in Daguerréotypes (1976).

Volcanic UFO Mysteries

2021

6.0

♡ 2

Sci-Fi

Darcy Weir Director

Jaime Maussan as

Stephen Bassett as Self

Lee Lustig as Self - Narrator

Volcanic UFO Mysteries (2021) Darcy Weir UFO sightings have been a regular world wide phenomenon for decades. Researchers of UFOs have noticed a connection with UFO sightings around Volcanic hot spots across Latin America. Join Stephen Bassett and Jaime Maussan as they discuss a history of sightings. Jaime has been a news journalist in Mexico for over 25 years and Stephen Bassett has been fighting for political disclosure UFOs

The Boy Who Sees the World Upside Down

2016

7.5

♡ 1

Joyce Trozzo Director

Mahendra Ahirwar as Self

Sophie Black as Self - Narrator

With remarkable insight into the human condition, join 13 year old Mahendra Ahirwar who suffers from a rare condition that makes his head hang from his body in a 180 degree angle. Unable to stand or walk by himself, Mahendra sees the world upside down and longs to be able to see things as his brothers and sisters do.

Natascha Kampusch: The Whole Story

5.8

Alina Teodorescu Director

Ernst Holzapfel as Self - Friend of Wolfgang Priklopil

Natascha Kampusch as Self - Kidnapping Victim

Brigitta Sirny-Kampusch as Self - Mother of Natascha Kampusch

Andrew Solomon as Self - Narrator

At the age of 10, Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped and held captive for eight years by a deranged man. In 2006, she managed to escape, and the world discovered an astonishingly articulate and intelligent young woman. Not only did Peter Reichard film 14 hours of conversations with Kampusch, but he was also the very first filmmaker to obtain exclusive access to the house where she was imprisoned. This is the most complete, explicit and revealing documentary in which Kampusch has participated.

Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games

1999

7.6

♡ 2

George Roy Director

Rafer Johnson as Self

Tommie Smith as Self

George Foreman as Self

Liev Schreiber as Self - Narrator

Fists of Freedom examines one of the 20th century’s most memorable moments — the dramatic “Black Power” demonstration of American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the victory stand at the 1968 Summer games in Mexico City. Using rare footage, archival photos and interviews with key figures from the era, revisit a pivotal event in American history.

A Fool's World

1964

Italian

4.2

♡ 2

mondo

Roberto Bianchi Montero Director

Federico Boido as German Student Watching Duel

Brad Harris as Hercules

Boris Karloff as Self - Narrator

Ugo Fangareggi as (uncredited)

Documentary showing perverse and aberrant behavior from around the globe, including such things as sex slavery, dwarf love, Asian brothels and lesbians.

Lotus: A New Dawn

2021

6.8

♡ 2

Stephen Mizelas Director

Matt Windle as Self - Lotus Managing Director

Claire Moxon as Self - Lotus Manufacturing Supervisor

Kristy Aaron as Self - Lotus Noise and Vibration Engineer

Bill Nighy as Self - Narrator

This short documentary follows the fortunes of iconic car manufacturer Lotus. Once famous for its championship-winning race cars and iconic sports cars, Lotus has struggled to remain in profit. A new investor and managing director set out to build the first new Lotus road cars in over a decade: their final petrol-powered car Emira and their first pure electric British hypercar, the 2000bhp Evija.

Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends

2021

6.6

♡ 4

John Hillcoat Director

Bob Dylan as Self

Darius Rucker as Self

Jeff Bridges as Self - Narrator

Penn Jillette as Self - Narrator

Bob Dylan "Odds and Ends" is composed of archival interviews, promotional videos and documentary shorts. It tells the story of some of the most important moments in the legendary artist's career.

Visual Acoustics

2008

7.4

♡ 4

Eric Bricker Director

Kelly Lynch as Self

Dante Spinotti as Self

Tom Ford as Self

Dustin Hoffman as Self - Narrator

Visual Acoustics celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world's greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman, who passed away this year, captured the work of nearly every modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Frank Gehry. His images epitomized the singular beauty of Southern California's modernist movement and brought its iconic structures to the attention of the general public. This unique film is both a testament to the evolution of modern architecture and a joyful portrait of the magnetic, whip-smart gentleman who chronicled it with his unforgettable images.

Hunting the KGB Killers

2017

7.3

♡ 2

Chris Malone Director

Andrew Byron as Alexander Litvinenko

Hubert Hanovich as Andrey Lugovoy

Deborah Parrington as Russian photographer

Eddie Marsan as Self - Narrator

The inside story of Alexander Litvinenko's murder in London and the subsequent international manhunt that led to the Kremlin, told in full for the first time, with exclusive access to key individuals.

Brothers in Blood: The Lions of Sabi Sand

2015

8.5

♡ 9

Daniel Huertas Director

Willem Botha as Self - Assistant Game Warden, Sabi Sand 2005-2009

Chris Renshaw as Self - Field Guide, Singita Game Reserved

Phillip Andrew as Self - Field Guide, Ulusaba Game Reserve

Luke Allen-Gale as Self - Narrator

This is a powerful documentary, filmed over a 16 year span, about the rise of a Coalition of six lions, branded The Mapogo Lions, and their takeover of the largest territory by a pride.

Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Suspense

2020