Documentary (Real-life) movies on DVD, Blu-Ray and Stream Online

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«A ground-breaking documentary...»

They were soldiers. And young. They were not lucky: World War I — their first global catastrophe of the 20th century, which Western historians called the Great War — devoured their best years. But their faces and smiles remained in the frames of the chronicle. Jackson’s film is not just a documentary. On the one hand, it consists only of film, photo, and audio ...

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2018

De Palma

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«Being a director is being a watcher»

De Palma is a 2015 American documentary film directed by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow about the director and screenwriter Brian De Palma. It had its world premiere at the 72nd edition of the Venice Film Festival, where it screened out of competition. The documentary has the archive footage presences of various De Palma’s collaborators like Al Pacino, John Lithgow, Tom Cruise, Sean Penn, Nicolas Cage, ...

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2015

Citizenfour

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«Witness the event that changed history: The Edward Snowden revelations»

Snowden worked for the American intelligence services, becoming a witness, as he will later say, of a lot of things that dispelled his illusions about the height of the government’s actions and allowed him to think about the real motives for their actions. In 2013, he began to act – having contacted an American journalist, he said that he had sensational data that would reveal a number of government ...

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2014

George Harrison: Living in the Material World

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«I was in a funny position from different points of view ...»

George Harrison is a talented guitarist of the legendary Liverpool four who conquered the whole world with his work. The documentary contains a unique selection of archival materials from interviews with The Beatles themselves, their friends, relatives and colleagues. Many materials were not previously shown to the public, so the film immediately gained considerable popularity among fans of the Liverpool group ...

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2011

Inside Job

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«The film that cost $20,000,000,000,000 to make»

Many remember the financial crisis that began in September 2008. It was during this period that there was a significant recession in the economies of many countries. The damage from this event is estimated at more than $ 20 trillion. In those days, many people suddenly lost their homes, work, or any means of subsistence. The store shelves were empty, the enterprises stopped. What really happened then? After a ...

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2010

Chelsea on the Rocks

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«It's already over»

Chelsea on the Rocks is a documentary film directed by Abel Ferrara about the Hotel Chelsea. It premiered out of competition at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. The film features Ferrara interviewing people who have and had lived at the hotel, intercut with dramatized footage of some famous events that took place there. During the film’s interviews and docudrama Gaby Hoffmann, Dennis Hopper, Robert Crumb, ...

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2008

Shine a Light

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«Anthem of life»

Rock and roll is when you live to the fullest and always stay young – this is the meaning of the Scorsese film. He showed Jagger, Richards, Watts not aging at their usual concert, one can say their usual day in this frantic world. Personally, I love this band for their huge contribution to rock music. These melodies, these verses, this. .. magic. Keith Richards is already an old man, but his fingers ...

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2008

Man vs. Wild

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«Are you looking for Superman? He's here!»

Going on a dangerous, unpredictable journey through the corners of our planet where a person’s foot has not yet set foot is a big risk. However, fearless, former commando Bear Grylls, and now one of the presenters on the Discovery Channel, still decided to show the world how to survive in the most difficult, dangerous situations in the wilderness. Under his feet stretch mountain open spaces, rivers and ...

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2006 — 2012

Aliens of the Deep

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«They lived millions of years before us. And will live millions of years after»

Cameron joins up aboard the Russian research vessel Akademik Mstislav Keldysh with a group of NASA scientists, as well as some American marine biologists, to investigate ten hydrothermal vents in both the Atlantic and Pacific. The vents have their own unique ecosystem, which support diverse organisms such as giant tube worms, swarms of blind white crabs, and vast amounts of shrimp which are capable of ...

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2005

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

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«I never aspired to fame. It just so happened»

Before us is a story about the life of Bob Dylan – an outstanding personality without exaggeration. Spit on the fact that he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, spit on the fact that he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature – Bob is appreciated by others. Than? Everyone will determine for themselves. For me, his name means a lot. Even with an eye on the principle of “do not ...

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2005

Ghosts of the Abyss

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«A legend that no one can forget»

Director James Cameron returns to the site of the 1912 wreck of the RMS Titanic, aboard the Russian research vessel Akademik Mstislav Keldysh. With a team of history and marine experts, and his friend Bill Paxton, he embarks on an adventure back to the final grave of 1,517 people killed in 1912. Using technology developed for this expedition, Cameron and his crew are able to explore virtually all of the ...

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2003

The Blues

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«The Blues don't change»

“Blues” is a television film in seven parts, shot by eminent directors, each of which offered its own, deeply personal and felt look at the traditional music of “black” America. All project participants – Wim Wenders, Richard Pierce, Charles Barnett, Mike Figgis, Clint Eastwood and, of course, his mastermind and leader Martin Scorsese – are not just interested in ...

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2003