Best Documentary Movies Online
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H.M.P. (1976)
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Humane recruitment film made for the prison services, following three new recruits on a tour of a facility.
Grey Gardens (1976)
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Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.
The Legend of Bigfoot (1975)
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A documentary about the legendary creature, Bigfoot, with emphasis on him being the missing link.
Welfare (1975)
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WELFARE shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, and the elderly. These issues are presented in a context where welfare workers as well as clients struggle to cope with and interpret the laws and regulations that govern their work and life.
Savage Man Savage Beast (1975)
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A notorious mondo film depicting unbelievable and bizarre rituals, animal killing and cruelty, and people being killed and eaten, all by either animals or humans against each other or themselves.
Daguerréotypes (1975)
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An intimate portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers of the Rue Daguerre in Paris, a picturesque street that has been the filmmaker’s home for more than 50 years.
Anna (1975)
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A documentary ostensibly about Anna, a young drug addict taken off the streets by one of the filmmakers. Through her they attempt to explore the social issues from their hippie perspective, instead they create a revealing, uncomfortable self-portrait and inadvertently raise questions about documentary film-making.
Letter from Paris (1975)
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Paris is a monstrously inhuman cityscape, in which cars, buses, crowds, and unceasing noise combine to smother any decent and delicate human activity. People and flowers attempt to survive in a city that seems ready to explode from an over-heated mixture of traffic and noise.
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)
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Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
Australia After Dark (1975)
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An exotic world of eroticism, witchcraft, masochism and strange secret places.
The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975)
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This Oscar-winning documentary tells the story behind Japanese daredevil Yuichiro Miura's 1970 effort to ski down the world's tallest mountain. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
Two Solutions for One Problem (1975)
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During breaktime, Dara and Nader have a fierce argument about a torn exercise book that the former has given back to the latter. There are two possible outcomes, which the film shows one after the other. One is that Dara wants to get his own back, and the two boys start a violent fight; the other is that they work together to mend the exercise book with a little glue.
In Search of Dracula (1975)
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A documentary exploring the legends of vampires, using books, paintings and early films on the subject.
Waiting for Fidel (1975)
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This feature-length documentary from 1974 takes viewers inside Fidel Castro's Cuba. A movie-making threesome hope that Fidel himself will star in their film. The unusual crew consists of former Newfoundland premier Joseph Smallwood, radio and TV owner Geoff Stirling and NFB film director Michael Rubbo. What happens while the crew awaits its star shows a good deal of the new Cuba, and also of the three Canadians who chose to film the island. (NFB)
Notes Towards an African Orestes (1975)
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The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a black Oresteia.
General Idi Amin Dada (1974)
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Filmmaker Barbet Schroeder shows the Ugandan dictator meeting his Cabinet, reviewing his troops, explaining his ideology.
Italianamerican (1974)
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Filmmaker Martin Scorsese interviews his mother and father about their life in New York and family history back in Sicily.
Hearts and Minds (1974)
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Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people. Filmmaker Peter Davis uses Johnson's phrase in an ironic context in this anti-war documentary, filmed and released while the Vietnam War was still under way, juxtaposing interviews with military figures like U.S. Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland with shocking scenes of violence and brutality.