documentaries i wish to see someday

nimu (entretenimento edition™)

nimu (entretenimento edition™) @plushiedata

13 movies   11 tv shows  

ever-growing list of documentaries that tickled my fancy, starting with some adam curtis ones.

CineMagia: The Story of São Paulo's Video Stores (2017) [Movie] IMDb
CineMagia: A História das Videolocadoras de São Paulo
director: Alan Oliveira actor: Rubens Ewald Filho / Raphael Cubakowic
other title: CineMagia: A História das Videolocadoras de São Paulo
Before the streaming era, the video stores were the key for the beginning of home video experience in Brazil. The documentary narrates the history of São Paulo's mom-and-pop video stores from its appearance to the vanishing of this platform. Owners, employees, customers and critics talk about the experience of renting a movie.
Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City (1968) [Movie] IMDb
Brasília, Contradições de uma Cidade Nova
director: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade actor: Ferreira Gullar
other title: Brasília, Contradições de uma Cidade Nova
In 1967, de Andrade was invited by the Italian company Olivetti to produce a documentary on the new Brazilian capital city of Brasília. Constructed during the latter half of the 1950s and founded in 1960, the city was part of an effort to populate Brazil’s vast interior region and was to be the embodiment of democratic urban planning, free from the class divisions and inequalities that characterize so many metropolises. Unsurprisingly, Brasília, Contradições de uma Cidade Nova (Brasília, Contradictions of a New City, 1968) revealed Brasília to be utopic only for the wealthy, replicating the same social problems present in every Brazilian city. (Senses of Cinema)
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood (2001) [Movie] IMDb
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
director: Kevin Burns / Brent Zacky actor: Keith Baxter / Stephen Boyd
Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox's 1963 film "Cleopatra," then the most expensive film of all time.
The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011) [TV] TMDB IMDb
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
director: Mark Cousins actor: Mark Cousins / Mario Cordova
other title: The Story of Film - Die Geschichte des Kinos / La historia del cine: una odisea
A worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and the story of international cinema through the history of cinematic innovation.
Created date: July 27, 2025