Movies123 - DOCUMENTARY Movies

First Position (2011) First Position follows six talented young dancers (ages 9-19) from five continents as they prepare for a worldwide ballet competition that could transform their lives overnight.

Jungle Cat (1960) This documentary chronicles the life of a female spotted jaguar in the South American jungle.

Meth Storm (2017) [HBO] HD. This documentary looks at meth addiction in rural America from the perspective of dealers, users and law enforcement.

4 Little Girls (1997) This film recounts the people and events leading up to the one of the most despicable hate-crimes during the height of the civil-rights movement, the bombing of the 16th Street Church in Birmingham, Alabama. In that attack, four little African-American girls lost their lives an

Microcosmos (1996) A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uph

Visualist Those Who See Beyond 2019 From live Chemical Brothers concerts to video installations by Richie Hawtin, through eccentric projections by Gmunk, to experimental audio visual live performances by Moderat or Daito Manabe From the underground and alternative new media art scene to mainstream g

The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins (2014) A scientist tries to teach a dolphin named Peter to understand and mimic human speech in order to speak to extraterrestrial life.

A story that questions the shaming of the US through revisionist history, lies and omissions by educational institutions, political organizations, Alinsky, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other progressives to destroy America.

Risk (2016) Filmed over six years, RISK is a character study that collides with a high stakes election year and its controversial aftermath. Cornered in a tiny building for half a decade, Julian Assange is undeterred even as the legal jeopardy he faces threatens to undermine the organization he lead

Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals (2010) An exploration of the fierce rivalry between NBA superstars Larry Bird and Magic Johnson during their decade of dominance.

Spellbound (2002) This documentary follows 8 teens and pre-teens as they work their way toward the finals of the Scripps Howard national spelling bee championship in Washington D.C. All work quite hard and practice daily, first having to win their regional championship before they can move on. Inter

Last Man Standing Suge Knight and the Murders of Biggie Tupac 2021 Last Man Standing takes at look at Death Row Records and how L A s street gang culture had come to dominate its business workings, as well as an association with corrupt L A Police Officers who were also gang affiliated It would be t

The Gatekeepers (2012) A documentary featuring interviews with all surviving former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency whose activities and membership are closely held state secrets.

In Vogue: The Editors Eye (2012) Documentary film takes a look at some of the world's most influential fashion images as conceived by the magazine's iconic fashion editors.

KSI: Cant Lose Extended Cut (2019) Step into the world of KSI, one of the UK's biggest YouTube stars, as he prepares to enter into the ring for a sporting event like no other. This is the incredible story of his ...

Sympathy for the Devil (1968) Godard's documentation of late 1960s Western counter-culture, examining the Black Panthers, referring to works by LeRoi Jones and Eldridge Cleaver. Other notable subjects are the role of news media, the mediated image, a growing technocratic society, women's liberation,

From Seed to Seed 2018 When Terry and Monique left the opera to pursue their true passion ecological farming their story of community and resilience took center stage We follow their young family and a

Road (2014) Brothers addicted to speed. At any price. Motorcycle road racing is the most dangerous of all motor sports. One in which men compete at speeds of up to 200 miles per hour on closed country roads. Roads that are lined with trees, telegraph posts, stone walls. Ireland and the Isle of Man a

Frank Gehry: The Formative Years (1988) The American architect most responsible for the new image of the architect as artist is documented in this film at a point in his career when he advances from experimental, private houses to complex institutions and large-scale collaborative urban projects. Th

The Tillman Story (2010) Pat Tillman never thought of himself as a hero. His choice to leave a multimillion-dollar football contract and join the military wasn't done for any reason other than he felt it was the right thing to do. The fact that the military manipulated his tragic death in the line o

Jasper Mall (2020) A year in the life of a dying shopping mall.

Apocalypse Hitler Takes on the West 2021 May 10th, 1940, Hitler takes on the West Will he precipitate Europe into the Apocalypse

A documentary based on the honor, courage and commitment of Navy SEAL LT Michael P. Murphy, who gave his life for his men in 2005 and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in 2007.

Lost Book of Nostradamus (2007) In 1994, journalist Enza Massa visited the Italian National Library in Rome. While she was researching old texts, Enza discovered a book titled "NOSTRADAMUS VATICANICA CODE", dating back to 1629. And the author of the book, as written inside, was "Michel de Notredame"

Last Breath (2019) A deep sea diver is stranded on the seabed with 5 minutes of oxygen and no hope of rescue. With access to amazing archive this is the story of one man's impossible fight for survival.

Dancer (2016) Sergei Polunin is a breathtaking ballet talent who questions his existence and his commitment to dance just as he is about to become a legend.

Coded Bias (2020) When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, she embarks on a journey to push for the first-ever U.S. legislation against bias in algorithms that impact us all.

The Sunshine Makers (2015) The story of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, the unlikely duo at the heart of 1960s American drug counter-culture.

We Are Blood (2015) Mountain Dew Green Label Films in association with Brain Farm presents... We Are Blood is a modern day skate epic featuring Paul Rodriguez and other top skateboarders as they travel the globe pushing the limits of what's possible on a board and four wheels while celebrating the u

Micky Flanagan: Peeping Behind the Curtain (2020) A backstage pass to Micky Flanagan's career, from early raw material in the East End to staging the world's biggest comedy tour in 2017.

The Price of Freedom 2021 A look into the inner workings of the NRA and its influence, featuring interviews with government leaders, NRA representatives and people whose lives have been personally touched by gun violence

I am Jane Doe (2017) The epic battle that several American mothers are waging on behalf of their middle-school daughters, victims of sex trafficking on Backpage.com, the adult classifieds section that for years was part of the iconic Village Voice. Narrated by Academy Award-nominee Jessica Chastain

Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary (2014) Dying to Know is an intimate portrait celebrating two very complex controversial characters in an epic friendship that shaped a generation. In the early 1960s Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert began probing the edges of cons

Hermanos/Siblings (2017) HERMANOS/SIBLINGS tells in parallel the story of two Mexican brothers that want to go back to the US after being deported for life, with the story of an American woman who lost her house ...

Beginning in 1997 with a few thousand revelers in Los Angeles, the Electric Daisy Carnival has become the largest dance music event in North America. Known for its over the top displays of ...

'I find that the most inexplicable behavior is motivated by very relatable human impulses,' comments Louis Therous as he heads to Los Angeles for his feature documentary, in collaboration with director John Dower and double Academy Award winning producer Simon Chinn, exploring the Church of Scientol

India's biggest match-fixing scandal, the icons caught in its web and the journalists who uncovered the corruption.

"Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)" examines the early DIY punk scene in the Nation's Capital. It was a decade when seminal bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Government Issue, Scream, Void, Faith, Rites of Spring, Marginal Man, Fugazi, and others released their own records

Unstoppable (2013) The death of his 15-year-old friend sparks Kirk Cameron to address the question of why bad things happen to good people. Through storytelling and dramatizations, Cameron goes back to the Book of Genesis to uncover the origins of evil and sin.

The 90s Greatest 2018 When the 90s kicked off, the Berlin Wall has just fallen down, and soon other walls were coming downtown between public and private, news and entertainment, reality and fantasy The winds of change brought new voices speaking hard truth and thrust sex and celebrity into the lime

Neanderthals Meet Your Ancestors 2018 Archaeologist Ella Al Shamahi and actor Andy Serkis bring the prehistoric hominids back to life through animation, uncovering some surprising similarities to modern humans

The Unknown Known (2013) Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Thunderbirds 1965 (2016) The crew behind three new episodes of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's classic series Thunderbirds discuss the challenges of bringing the show back with puppets after five decades.

Shalom Italia (2016) Three Italian Jewish brothers set off on a journey through Tuscany, in search of a cave where they hid as children to escape the Nazis. Their quest, full of humor, food and Tuscan landscapes, straddles the boundary between history and myth, and the result of which is a profound

Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking (2010) Hollywood icon Carrie Fisher tells her raw and intoxicating true story in this documentary based on her hit stage production. Touching on stardom, mental illness, addiction and more, the actress recounts her peaks and valleys with candor and humor.

Web Junkie (2013) The Chinese government is the first to classify internet addiction as a clinical disorder. 'Web Junkie' identifies internet addiction and focuses on the treatment used in Chinese rehabilitation centres. The film delves into a Beijing treatment centre and explores the cases of three

Make or Break 2022 From pure elation to devastating heartbreak, follow the worlds best surfers as they fight for the championship title

Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton (2017) A behind-the-scenes look at how Jim Carrey adopted the persona of idiosyncratic comedian Andy Kaufman on the set of Man on the Moon (1999).