documentaries i wish to see someday

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

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.
Ways of Seeing (1972) [TV] Douban TMDB
Ways of Seeing Season 1 part of TV Series: Ways of Seeing
director: Mike Dibb actor: John Berger
John Berger's Ways of Seeing changed the way people think about painting and art criticism. This watershed work shows, through word and image, how what we see is always influenced by a whole hose of assumptions concerning that nature of beauty, truth, civilization, form, taste, class and gender. Exploring the layers of meaning within oil paintings, photographs and graphic art, Berger argues that when we see, we are not just looking - we are reading the language of images.
The Co-op Wars (2021) [Movie] TMDB
The Co-op Wars
director: Deacon Warner actor: Peter Coyote
Today, co-ops are multi-million dollar businesses, so successful they’ve prompted mainstream grocery stores to stock organic food. But in the 1970s, it almost ended before it began, as internecine battles and even hostile takeovers threatened this burgeoning movement.
The One Percent (2006) [Movie] TMDB
The One Percent
director: Jamie Johnson actor: Nicole Buffet / Chuck Collins
Jamie Johnson takes the exploration of wealth that he began in Born Rich one step further. The One Percent, refers to the tiny percentage of Americans who control nearly half the wealth of the U.S. Johnson's thesis is that this wealth in the hands of so few people is a danger to our very way of life.
The Great Amazon Heist (2023) [Movie] IMDb
The Great Amazon Heist
director: Daniel Lucchesi actor: Oobah Butler
Oobah Butler, a writer and filmmaker with a history of pulling elaborate pranks and gaming the system to advance his career, has his sights set on challenging Amazon.
Letter from Siberia (1957) [Movie] IMDb
Lettre de Sibérie
director: Chris Marker actor: Georges Rouquier / Chris Marker
other title: Lettre de Sibérie
A faceless traveller takes a journey through the barren reaches of a Siberia caught between tradition and modernity, imparting his philosophical musings on its people and places, wildlife and culture.
Eight Postcards from Utopia (2024) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb
Opt ilustrate din lumea ideală
director: Christian Ferencz-Flatz / Radu Jude actor: Nicolae Ceaușescu / Gheorghe Hagi
other title: 낙원에서 온 여덟 장의 엽서
A found-footage documentary assembled exclusively out of post-socialist Romanian advertisements, this brings together these documents of Romania’s long transition period, they are made to speak about life, love and death, about the body and human frailty, about nature and the supernatural, about recent history, and, of course, about socialism and capitalism.
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (2020) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
director: Nicole Newnham / James Lebrecht actor: James Lebrecht / Lionel Je'Woodyard
other title: Crip Camp - Disabilità rivoluzionarie / Sommer der Krüppelbewegung
Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp for disabled teenagers, transforming their young lives and igniting a landmark movement.
Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And Legendary Tapes (2020) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And Legendary Tapes
director: Caroline Catz actor: Delia Derbyshire / Caroline Catz
A true pioneer in audio exploration and psycho-acoustics, Delia Derbyshire conceived one of the most familiar compositions in science fiction, the Doctor Who theme, while working in a BBC basement. Her soundscapes felt like they connected to another realm. Kicking off with the discovery of 267 tapes in an attic, along with a treasure trove of journals hidden in her childhood bedroom, this film tunes in to Derbyshire’s frequency; that of a life-long non-conformist, whose peals of laughter in an archive interview tickle with delight and eccentricity. Featuring a rich archive, interviews, fictional embodiment and Cosey Fanni Tutti’s psycho-sonic channelling, director Caroline Catz traces acoustic pathways on her archeological dig into Derbyshire’s resonant life.
I Am Not Your Negro (2017) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
I Am Not Your Negro
director: Raoul Peck actor: Samuel L. Jackson / JoeyStarr
other title: No soy un negrata / No soy tu negro
Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.
Hardcore 90 (2025) [Movie] TMDB
Hardcore 90
director: Marcelo Fonseca / George Ferreira
At the end of the 1980s, the first generation of Brazilian punk rock lived a cycle of violence and self-destruction. In the opposite direction, the beginning of the next decade sees the emergence of a powerful and tuned in generation that amplifies the echoes of punk, coming up with new subgenres. More politicized, united and socially conscious, the 1990s crop came along to put an end to the conflicts of the "old-timers" and bring new life to an engaged and active scene, ushering in new talent to the Brazilian music landscape, with important names such as No Violence, Agrotóxico, Ação Direta, Garage Fuzz, Dominatrix, among others.
Report (1967) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData TMDB Douban IMDb
Report
director: Bruce Conner actor: John F. Kennedy / Jacqueline Kennedy
Bruce Conner’s most celebrated film for a reason: it takes historical moments that were replayed over and over on television—chilling repetition of Kennedy assassination coverage—and repurposes them into a meditation on how the media tries to exert authority and apply a sense of order to the anarchic. And though it may sound perverse to say so, the film is also—not incidentally—a thrill to watch.
F for Fake (1973) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Vérités et Mensonges
director: Orson Welles actor: Orson Welles / Oja Kodar
other title: F come Falso / F wie Fälschung
Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.
Created date: July 27, 2025