Movies123 - DOCUMENTARY Movies

Bare Knuckle Fight Club (2017) Uncovering the hidden world of underground bare-knuckle fighting in Britain. With access to a fight club where men from all walks of life compete against each other in brutal and bloody battles.

Last Call at the Oasis (2011) A documentary on the world's water crisis.

Obit. (2016) How do you put a life into 500 words? Ask the staff obituary writers at the New York Times. OBIT is a first-ever glimpse into the daily rituals, joys and existential angst of the Times obit writers, as they chronicle life after death on the front lines of history.

Who Wants to Live Forever, the Wisdom of Aging. (2016) Who Wants to Live Forever, the Wisdom of Aging is a one hour documentary film about the myths, facts and contradictions in the never-ending battle for both longevity and healthy aging.

Two Billion Hearts (1995) A movie about the 1994 FIFA World Cup, played in the USA for the first time in history.

He Named Me Malala (2015) A look at the events leading up to the Taliban's attack on Pakistani schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai, for speaking out on girls' education followed by the aftermath, including her speech to the United Nations.

Behind the Curve 2018 Flat Earthers, a term synonymous with conspiracy theorists who wear tinfoil hats Meet real Flat Earthers, a small but growing contingent of people who firmly believe in a conspiracy to suppress the truth that the Earth is flat One of the most prominent Flat Earthers is Mark Sar

Patience (After Sebald) (2012) Using the late WG Sebald's book "The Rings of Saturn" as its template, this documentary traces the immensely respected author's account of a walk through Suffolk; a tour which prompted tangential musings.

Sonic Sea (2016) Sonic Sea is a 60-minute documentary about the devastating impact of industrial and military ocean noise on whales and other marine life. The film begins with a mystery: the unexplained stranding and mass mortality of several species of whales in the Bahamas in March 2000. As the my

A German Life (2016) Brunhilde Pomsel describes herself as an "apolitical girl" and a "figure on the margins," but she got closer to one of the worst criminals in world history than anyone else left alive. Today aged 104, Pomsel served as Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels'

The FBIs War on Black America (1990) The FBI's War on Black America looks at a dark period in our country's history. The film is a documentary exploration of the lives and deaths of people targeted by the US government's COINTELPRO program, an FBI launched program aimed against organized efforts by

Wow Signal 2017 On a late summer evening in 1977, Ohio radio astronomers discovered a strong, interstellar signal that is believed by many to be the best evidence of communication from an extraterrestrial civilization Famously known as the Wow Signal, its origins remain a mystery, and continue to in

California Dreams (2017) A journey into the hallucination of cinema.

Fatherless (2017) Baron Vaughn (Grace & Frankie, Mystery Science 3000) sets out to meet his father for the first time. On this journey he explores what it means to be a black man who grew up without a father and the importance of the village that raised him while cracking a few jokes along the way.

Make Believe (2010) Six of the world's best young magicians battle for the title of Teen World Champion.

Gladbeck The Hostage Crisis 2022, In August 1988, two armed bank robbers keep German police at bay for 54 hours during a hostage-taking drama that ends in a shootout and three deaths.

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Crash and Burn (2016) The story of Irishman Tommy Byrne, the greatest racing driver you never saw.

Once Is Enough (2016) After losing his mother to obesity, a thirty-two year old chubby ginger comedian and vegan son-of-a-pig-farmer sets out to avoid the same fate by running one hundred miles through the mountains of Colorado in one of the world's most difficult ultra trail marathons...and lives t

Pick It Up! Ska in the 90s (2019) Chronicles the rise and fall of Third Wave Ska music in the US of the 1990s.

The Children of Leningradsky (2005) Since the fall of the Iron Curtain an estimated four million children have found themselves living on the streets in the former countries of the Soviet Union. In the streets of Moscow alone there are over 30,000 surviving in this manner at the present time. The ma

Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden 2008 When Morgan Spurlock and his wife find out they are expecting a child in an unsafe world that faces multiple terrorist and environmental threats, Morgan decides to track down the worlds most wanted and dangerous terrorist, Osama Bin Laden, undergoes self de

The Hidden Lives of Pets (2022), Bow wows and purr-fect pets. Meet amazing creatures from around the world and dig into the latest science on our animal friends' senses and skills.

Who Killed Nancy 2009 On October 12th 1978 New York Police discovered the lifeless body of a 20 year old woman, slumped under the bathroom sink in a hotel room She was dressed in her underwear and had bled to death from a stab wound The woman was Nancy Spungen, an ex prostitute, sometimes stripper,

Loudmouth 2022 It tells the story of Rev Al Sharpton, painting an intimate portrait of a tireless warrior who has never ducked a fight in his mission to transform the status quo

Wont Back Down (2014) From his humble beginnings in his hometown of Sheffield, England, Steve Peat has established himself as one of the worlds most iconic cyclists. Peaty has been competing at the top level in his chosen sport of downhill mountain bike racing for the past 23 years, longer than the

Sermon on the Mount (2019) Jerrod Carmichael explores aspects of the black experience through interviews.

This documentary fills in the backstories of the making of Elvira Mistress of the Dark 1988, as well as much of Cassandra Petersons career It also provides a lot of insight into the workings of Hollywood production

Russell Brand: End the Drugs War (2014) In this personal journey for BBC Three, Russell Brand sets out to find out how other countries are tackling their problems of drug abuse and to explore how the framework of criminalization implicit in the 'war on drugs' produces enormous harm in the treatment

Station to Station (2015) A train travels 4,000 miles across North America with a revolving community of artists and musicians who collaborate on recordings, artworks, films, and 10 "happenings" across the country.

The GrownUps (2016) A group of friends with Down Syndrome have been attending the same school for 40 years, they have passed all the courses, all the teachers and, even their parents who were with them, are now gone. They must now fight to get a better job, to make money like any other person, to le

Casting By (2012) This documentary focuses on the role of the casting director in movie making and particularly on Marion Dougherty. She began work in the late 1940s sending up and coming young actors to be cast in the then new medium of television. It wasn't until the 1970s that the contribution on

Get a Life! (2012) An EPIX Original documentary directed by William Shatner, based on his hugely popular book, in which he examines the cultural phenomena of STAR TREK, its fan-following and his own role within it. In HD.

The G Word with Adam Conover 2022 Follows Conover introducing the civil servants who make it work and take a satirical look at its shortcomings

Deadlocked How America Shaped the Supreme Court 2023 Follow the modern history of the Supreme Court, the decisions and battles that have shaped the US

We Are Not Done Yet (2018) Profiles a group of veterans and active-duty service members as they come together to combat past and current traumas through the written word, sharing their experiences in a United Service Organizations (USO) writing workshop.

Spelling the Dream (2020) "Breaking the Bee" explores the near two decade trend of Indian American students dominating the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Since 1999, 19 out of the 23 winners have been of South-Asian...

An Aboriginal Womens Choir travels to Germany to perform German hymns in their traditional language

Bill Russell Legend 2023 Features interviews and personal archives from the life and career of NBA legend Bill Russell

The Forbidden Reel 2019 Afghan filmmakers gave birth to an extraordinary national cinema and protected it from extremists Afghan Canadian director Ariel Nasr crafts a thrilling and utterly original story of modern Afghanistan

Chronological look at the life and career of Johnny Carson (19252005), with commentary from an exwife and more than 30 fellow comedians, friends, employees, and biographers. The biography...

A Time to Speak (2014) The freedom of religious expression was chief among America's founding principles. However, today there is an unprecedented effort to deny this most basic of human rights in almost every area of American life. A Time to Speak is a 60-minute film from the American Family Associ

The Last Race (2018) THE LAST RACE is the portrait of a small-town stock car racetrack and the tribe of blue-collar drivers that call it home, struggling to hold onto an American racing tradition as the world ...

The Iceman and the Psychiatrist (2003) For the third time, HBO cameras go inside Trenton State Maximum Security Prison--and inside the mind of one of the most prolific killers in U.S. history--in this gripping documentary. Mafia hit man Richard Kuklinski freely admits to killing more than 100 people

WHY Horror? is a feature length documentary following horror fan Tal Zimerman as he looks at the psychology of horror around the world in order to understand why we love to be scared. Horror is a global phenomenon. Millions of people love it, yet horror fans are often misunderstood. Tal Zimerman sho

Ride Around the World (2006) Journey across Morocco, Spain, Argentina, Patagonia, Mexico, Texas and British Columbia, to meet vaqueros, gauchos, baqueanos and cowboys - all part of a single global horse culture, an unbroken trail stretching back 1,500 years. A film for IMAX� and other giant scr

Chernobyls café (2016) Three decades on from the disaster, Chernobyl shows signs of life again.

The Legend of Cocaine Island (2018) A desperate man goes on a buried treasure hunt for $2 million worth of cocaine.