Film, played · 2021
The Mauritanian
The story of Muhammad Ould Slahi; a strong entry into the topic of detention without trial, legal defence and the limits of state power.
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A growing catalogue of films, documentaries and series whose thematic connection may be direct, analytical or selected by the author. Feature films approach their subjects through dramatization and cultural perspective; documentaries also reflect authorial selection, framing and editing. Inclusion in the catalogue does not imply endorsement of a work or its claims. Historical and factual claims should therefore be considered in context and checked against primary and specialist sources.
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Filters
document · 2007
Taxi to the Dark Side
A crucial document on American interrogation practices, Bagram, Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo.
docudra · 2006
The Road to Guantanamo
The document's hybrid and the dramatic about Tipton Three; useful for the perspective of the detainees and the question of the reliability of institutions.
Film, played · 2019
The Report
A procedural drama about the CIA Detention and Interrogation investigation; very appropriate for accounting and evidence work.
document · 2008
Standard Operating Procedure
Errol Morris examines Abu Ghraib and the difference between image, interpretation, individual guilt and systemic context.
document · 2007
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
A document on the abuse of prisoners and institutional responsibility; a good addition to the legal and ethical framework.
document · 2013
Dirty Wars
Jeremy Scahill is monitoring the spread of hidden counter-terrorism operations; it is appropriate to read critically and compare with primary sources.
Film, played · 2012
Zero Dark Thirty
Material for analysis of the relationship of drama, intelligence and questionable display of the effectiveness of pressure interrogations.
document · 2014
Citizenfour
The immediate documentation of Snowden's revelations; surveillance, secrets, whistle blowing and public inspection of the security apparatus.
Film, played · 2016
Snowden
Dramatizing the same theme as Citizenfour; useful for comparing documentary and playful interpretation of one case.
document · 2003
The Fog of War
Interview with Robert McNamara about war, rationality, error and decision-making under uncertainty; mandatory to Power Patterson.
document · 2005
Why We Fight
Eugene Jarecki links Eisenhower's warning against military- industrial complex with modern American war and institutions.
document · 2002
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
A strongly critical document; suitable as one perspective for the responsibility of the high-level leaders and geopolitical realism.
document · 1992
The Panama Deception
Oscar paper critical of the American invasion of Panama and the media framework; very close topic of intervention patterns.
document · 2007
The War on Democracy
John Pilger follows American politics in Latin America; a highly authorial view, suitable for pairing with primary documents.
Film, played · 1982
Missing
Costa-Gavras film according to Charles Horman's case; a personal perspective of the American role during the Chilean coup.
Film, played · 1986
Salvador
Oliver Stone, through journalists, shows civil war, death squads and American support; media, proxy and moral ambivalence.
Film, played · 1972
State of Siege
Costa-Gavras and Dan Mitrione's case; suitable for security assistance and the border between stabilisation and repression.
Film, played · 2014
Kill the Messenger
The story of Gary Webb; suitable for the topic of intelligence, media, evidence and the difference between the core of the case and the interpretation.
Film, played · 2017
American Made
A more mitigated dramatic link-up between Barry Seal and Contras; a good entrance, not a historical source.
document · 1974
Hearts and Minds
A classic critical document about the Vietnam War; clash of official narratives, experience of soldiers and civilian consequences.
documentary series · 2017
The Vietnam War
The extensive Ken Burns and Lynn Novick series; a good basis for multiperspective conflict reconstruction.
Film, played · 2017
The Post
Dramatizing the Washington Post's decision-making; conflict of loyalty, public interest and state secrets.
document · 2009
The Most Dangerous Man in America
The documentary supplement to The Post; it allows you to compare Hollywood compression of events with documentary processing.
document · 1972
Winter Soldier
Record the testimony of veterans against war; important material suitable for verifying individual claims and broader context.
Film, played · 1986
Platoon
War from the microlevel unit; useful for the difference between the state macromodel and individual experience.
Film, played · 1987
Full Metal Jacket
Kubrick follows the transformation of man by institutions and war; the psychology of the group, obedience and role.
Film, played · 1979
Apocalypse Now
Stylized testimony, not a document; strong for the psychology of power, alienation and breakdown of rational control.
Film, played · 1989
Born on the Fourth of July
Personal trajectory from patriotism to anti-war activism; suitable for the topic of revision of the own model of reality.
a feature TV film · 2002
Path to War
The Johnson administration's political decision-making; groupthink, commitment escalation and institutional filters.
document · 2007
No End in Sight
Systematic analysis of decisions following an invasion of Iraq; excellent for institutional failure and unintended consequences.
document · 2006
Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
Critical paper on private contractors; connection to military-industrial complex and externalisation of state functions.
document · 2004
Control Room
How different media systems construct the same war; almost direct film equivalent of "a block of perspectives" and media projections.
document · 2010
Restrepo
A surveillance document from the forward base; deliberately narrow perspective of soldiers, valuable to compare with the geopolitical plane.
document · 2014
Korengal
Continuing Restrepo focused more on the psychology of soldiers and their interpretation of experience.
Film, played · 2019
Official Secrets
The Katharine Gun case and the operation around the UN RB vote; diplomacy, secret information and legitimization of war.
Film, played · 2010
Green Zone
Thriller on the search for WMD; simplifies but well opens up the problem of politicisation intelligence and confirmation bias.
Film, played · 2010
Fair Game
Dramatizing Valerie Plame; intelligence, politics and retaliation against internal critics.
Film, played · 2005
Syriana
Network film about oil, corporations, CIA and monarchies; fiction, but a useful model of interconnected systems and different points of view.
Film, played · 2008
Body of Lies
Fiscal studies of the relationship of field operator, headquarters and allied services; information asymmetry and different inputs.
document · 2014
Mad Dog: Inside the Secret World of Muammar Gaddafi
The statements of people around Gaddafi; useful to the article on Libya, but a strongly personalised framework, it is appropriate to confront institutional history.
Document / essay · 2016
HyperNormalisation
Adam Curtis links Gaddafi, Syria, finance, media and the construction of simplified realities; very close to your subject, but authorial synthesis.
document · 2013
The Square
Arab Spring from the perspective of activists; the difference between revolutionary expected change and subsequent institutional developments.
Animated document · 2010
The Green Wave
The hybrid of animation, blogs and testimony of Iranian protests; reconstruction of the event from fragmental sources.
document · 2019
For Sama
The strongly personal documentary perspective of the Aleppo War; valuable as microprojection of conflict, not as a complete model of Syrian war.
document · 2019
The Cave
The document on the underground hospital in East Ghuta; civilian perspective, IHL and protection of health facilities.
document · 2017
Last Men in Aleppo
An immediate view of the rescue workers in Aleppo; suitable for comparison with other sources in polarized information environment.
document · 2017
City of Ghosts
He follows Raqqa Is Being Slaughter Silently; information war, crime documentation and the cost of testimonies.
short document · 2016
The White Helmets
It is because of polarized acceptance that it is a good case to study how the audience frames the same images in advance.
document · 2012
The Gatekeepers
Interviews with former Shin Bet bosses; unusual insider perspective of security apparatus on violence, politics and limits of force.
documentary series · 1995
The Death of Yugoslavia
Large BBC reconstruction with many conflict actors; excellent as basic chronology and institutional perspective.
document · 2010
The Weight of Chains
A highly critical interpretation of the Western role in the break-up of Yugoslavia; suitable as contrast to BBC and mainstream historiography.
document · 2014
The Weight of Chains 2
Continuation shifts attention to the economic and institutional consequences of the transformation of the Balkans; authorial polemical.
Film, played · 2001
No Man's Land
The Satirical drama about the Bosnian War, the media and international forces; the conflict of local reality and the institutional framework.
Film, played · 2020
Quo Vadis, Aida?
Srebrenica from the perspective of the UN translator; limited mandate, responsibility and tragic information asymmetry.
Film, played · 1997
Welcome to Sarajevo
The war in Bosnia through foreign journalists; what the media sees, what they carry and what the audience understands.
Film, played · 1995
Underground
Kusturic's grotesque allegory; not a historical source, but a powerful material for national memory, myth and construction of history.
Film, played · 1994
Before the Rain
Three interconnected stories about violence, identity and media; very close to the subject of perspectives and self-strengthening conflicts.
Film, played · 2007
The Hunting Party
A fictionalized story of journalists looking for war criminals; an addition, not historical reconstruction.
document · 2009
Kosovo: Can You Imagine?
A document focused on the experience of the Serbian people in Kosovo; significantly promising, therefore useful for the multiperspective reading of Kosovo.
Film, played · 2004
Turtles Can Fly
Bahman Ghobadi is following Kurdish children to the Iraqi-Turkish border just before the invasion of Iraq; a fundamental title to the Kurdish section.
Film, played · 2000
A Time for Drunken Horses
Family in the Kurdish border of Iran and Iraq; everyday reality of borders, smuggling and marginalisation.
Film, played · 2013
My Sweet Pepperland
After Saddam's fall, the Kurdish veteran becomes a police officer in the border area; statesmanship, tradition and power of local networks.
document · 2016
Radio Kobanî
The young Kurdish reporter documends the return of the people to the destroyed Kobanou; the Kurds, the war and the role of the information witness.
Film, played · 2018
Girls of the Sun
Drama inspired by Kurdish women's units against ISIS; suitable with a note that it is fictitious processing.
Film, played · 2019
Sisters in Arms
War drama about the female unit; themically direct but less suitable as a factographic source than documents.
Film, played · 2019
The End Will Be Spectacular
Kurdish-spoken war film inspired by urban struggle; important as the cultural and political perspective of Kurdish creators.
Film, played · 2006
Half Moon
The musical road of the movie Bahman Ghobadi across the border and the limitations of Kurdish cultural identity.
Film, played · 2010
Golakani Kirkuk - The Flowers of Kirkuk
Drama set in Saddam's Iraq; relations, repression and ethnic politics in Kirkuk.
document · 2017
The Legend of the Ugly King
Portrait of Kurdish director and revolutionary YNummaz Güney; culture, state, identity and censorship.
document · 1992
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
A classic paper on Chomsky and Herman's media model; close to your topics, but the thesis is also appropriate to test against critics.
documentary series · 2002
The Century of the Self
Adam Curtis follows the relationship of psychoanalysis, public relations and political management of preferences; essential to the psychological layer of the web.
document · 2010
The War You Don't See
John Pilger on media and war from Vietnam to Iraq; strongly authorial but very relevant to media filters.
Film, played · 1976
Network
Satire of media as a system with its own intellects; conflict of information, attention and profit.
Film, played · 1997
Wag the Dog
Satira about making media reality; almost a laboratory model of the difference between the O event and the media-created projection.
Film, played · 2005
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Edward R's clash. Murrow and McCarthy; media relations, political fears and institutional courage.
Film, played · 1976
All the President's Men
A procedural film about working with information, anonymous sources and verification; good for evidence methodology.
document · 2019
The Great Hack
Data profiling, political marketing and behavioral targeting; direct link to modern information environment.
document · 2020
The Social Dilemma
Accessible introduction to algorithmic intents and polarization; some claims simplify, therefore suitable as a start.
Film, played · 2006
The Lives of Others
Strong drama about state supervision, institutional roles and the possibility of changing the observer's position.
Film, played · 1950
Rashomon
A basic film on a new topic: one event, more incompatible statements and relationship between object and projection.
Film, played · 1957
12 Angry Men
Laboratory of conformity, prejudice, status, evidence bar and review of the opinion in a small group.
Film, played · 2016
Arrival
The importance is not simply contained in words; language, mental model and translation are directly determined here by geopolitical conflict.
Film, played · 1974
The Conversation
The sound fragment changes meaning according to context; perfect illustration of how the observer designs the wrong model from the data.
Film, played · 1966
Blowup
Photographs as alleged evidence and question what actually the painting confirms; a clean epistemological study.
Film, played · 1981
Blow Out
Sound recording and visual material are composed of possible reconstruction; the chain of proof and interpretation.
Film, played · 2000
Memento
Memory limitation deforms the causal model of the world and shows how easily one completes the missing bonds.
Film, played · 2011
A Separation
Conflict in which individual actors have understandable but incomplete perspectives; no full observer.
Film, played · 2023
Anatomy of a Fall
From limited data, audio recording and relationship history, several compatible and competitive naratives are created.
Film, played · 2012
The Hunt
How uncertain information in the community can turn into conviction, norm and social reality.
Film / satire · 1964
Dr. Strangelove
Satira is aiming at institutional logic of deterrence, decision automation and the possibility of catastrophic failure.
Film, played · 1964
Fail-Safe
Serious counterpart Dr. Strangelove: technical error, doctrine, communication of powers and decision-making under time pressure.
a feature TV film · 1984
Threads
One of the hardest views of the systemic and social consequences of the nuclear war; suitable for an article on nuclear targets.
document · 1982
The Atomic Cafe
Collage of American period government and instructional materials; propaganda, risk normalisation and historical context.
document · 2016
Command and Control
The crash of the Titan II rocket; complex systems, normal incidents and the difference between paper control and real operation.
Film, played · 2000
Thirteen Days
Cuban missile crisis; diplomacy, signaling, miserception and decision-making between bad choices.
miniseries · 2013
Burning Bush
Strong Czech historical mini series about Palach, propaganda, law and the coming normalization.
document · 2008
Citizen Havel
Long-term observational document from the backstage of the presidency; the difference between public role, institution and man.
Film, played · 2010
Walking Too Fast
Dark drama of late normalization; microlevel of security apparatus, personal power, manipulation and institutional violence.
historic TV series · 2013
Czech Century
Dramatized key moments of Czechoslovak and Czech history; suitable as an entry into decision-making dilemmas with control against the sources.
Film, played · 2014
Boys of Abu Ghraib
A drama inspired by the events of Abu Ghraib. It is a perfect match for documents of torture, detention policy and command responsibility.
document · 2010
You Don't Like the Truth: Four Days Inside Guantanamo
A document built from authentic interviews of Omar Khadra; very strong material for the rights of detainees, age and reliability of interrogations.
document · 2010
The Oath
Two portraits of men associated with Al Qaeda and Guantánamo; suitable for issues of responsibility, radicalisation and the legal framework War on Terror.
Film, played · 2014
Camp X-Ray
Fiscal chamber drama about the relationship of the warden and the prisoner; useful for human microlevel detention system, not as a factographic source.
Film, played · 2007
Rendition
Political thriller on extraordinary transfer of suspects and secret interrogations; direct link to legal limits on anti-terrorist policy.
Film, played · 2015
Eye in the Sky
A precise model for deciding on a targeted drone attack, proportionality, civilian losses and divided institutional responsibilities.
Film, played · 2014
Good Kill
The psychological perspective of the drone operator; suitable for remote combat, moral distance and rules of targeted killing.
document · 2016
National Bird
A document on veterans of the American Armed Drone Program; a strong supplement to the topic of targeted kills and responsibilities.
document · 2013
The Unknown Known
Errol Morris leads Donald Rumsfeld through his own memoirs; excellent for language of power, rationalisation and decision-making under uncertainty.
document · 2013
The Kill Team
A document on the case of American soldiers accused of murdering Afghan civilians; crucial to the subject of leadership, group standards and accountability.
Film, played · 2019
The Kill Team
Dramatized version of the same case; suitable for comparing documentary and playful processing of group obedience and moral conflict.
document · 2010
Armadillo
Intensive observational document about Danish soldiers at Armadillo base in Helmand; excellent counterparts to Restrepo.
Film, played · 2007
Battle for Haditha
Dramatizing events about killing Iraqi civilians in Hadith; linking the prospects of soldiers, insurgents and civilians.
Film, played · 2007
Redacted
Brian De Palma is a story of war crime from media, cameras and fragments; he is very well placed to the topic of projections and information framework.
miniseries · 2008
Generation Kill
A ground-level view of the invasion of Iraq through a Marine reconnaissance unit, highlighting the friction between doctrine, command, terrain and the individual.
Film, played · 2008
The Hurt Locker
War as a personal habit and psychological state; a thematic probe into the experience of a soldier outside of macropolitical interpretation.
Film, played · 2020
The Outpost
Dramatizing the Battle of Combat Outpost Keating; suitable for military microlevel, location of bases and strategic planning limits.
Film, played · 2014
Kilo Two Bravo
A chamber war film, based on the actual incident of British soldiers in a minefield; it focuses on off-road reality and decision-making under pressure.
Film, played · 2007
In the Valley of Elah
An investigation drama about returning from war, violence and trauma; suitable for the consequences of war that do not fit into strategic statistics.
document · 2010
The Tillman Story
Document on the death of Pat Tillman and subsequent information management of the case; direct link to institutional reputation and public narativity.
Film, played · 2007
Charlie Wilson's War
Dramatizing American support for Afghan mujahids in the 80's. Years; suitable for proxy war, blowback and institutional memory.
Film / satire · 2017
War Machine
Satire inspired by General McChrystal's Afghan mission; it shows well the clash of strategic slogans with political and local realities.
Film, played · 2016
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
War from the perspective of foreign reporter; it suits the media, the habitation of conflict and the difference between domestic and terrain images of war.
Film, played · 2007
Lions for Lambs
Three interconnected perspectives - soldiers, politicians and journalists - work directly with the difference between decision, narativo and outcome.
document · 2013
This Is What Winning Looks Like
A documentary view of Afghan security forces training and practical limits of nation-building project.
document · 1989
Roger & Me
Moore's debut on closing GM factories in Flint; directly linked to work, corporate power and deindustrialization.
document · 2002
Bowling for Columbine
An esejist document on weapons, violence and a culture of fear; authorial but very relevant to American society and the perception of threat.
document · 2004
Fahrenheit 9/11
The strong polemical document on the Bush administration, 11. September and the war in Iraq; suitable as a critical US perspective, not a neutral summary.
document · 2007
Sicko
Critics of the US health system in comparison with other countries; suitable for a wider theme of institutions and the welfare state.
document · 2009
Capitalism: A Love Story
Moore links the financial crisis, inequality, work and political power; a direct link to modern power, debt and corporations.
document · 2015
Where to Invade Next
Provocative comparison of American institutions with selected policies of other states; appropriate reading as a copyright comparative essay.
document · 2018
Fahrenheit 11/9
The critical probe for US policy and institutional environment 2010s; it also includes a return to the Flint Water Crisis.
document · 1997
The Big One
Moore's trip to the US focused on layoffs, corporate decision-making, and the difference between economic statistics and local experience.
Film / satire · 1995
Canadian Bacon
Michael Moore as the director of satire production and the campaign mobilization of the public.
Film / satire · 1979
1941
Spielberg's satire of America's panic after Pearl Harbor; a very good cultural probe for exaggerated threat perception and collective hysteria.
Film, played · 1975
Three Days of the Condor
Paranoid thriller about CIA analyst and hidden structures within the system; cultural reflection of post-war mistrust of the state.
Film, played · 1974
The Parallax View
The 70-year-old thriller on corporate-organised political violence; suitable as a cultural probe, not a reality documentation.
Film, played · 2006
The Good Shepherd
The dramatic history of CIA formation and institutional loyalty prices; it connects the personal and systemic level of the secret state.
document · 2019
Coup 53
The coup d'état in Iran in 1953; direct link to Power Pattern, Iran and the history of cover action.
document · 2012
The Act of Killing
Mass violence perpetrators are reconstructing their actions; a crucial film about memory, imputability, propaganda and state narratives.
document · 2014
The Look of Silence
The addition to the Act of Killing from the perspective of the victim's family; an extraordinary example of two inmeasurable projections of the same history.
documentary trilogy · 1975
The Battle of Chile
A monumental documentary record of the political crisis and coup d'état in Chile; a direct link to American intervention history.
Film, played · 2012
No (2012 film)
A film about the campaign against Pinochet in referendum 1988; excellent for political communication, framing and the power of advertising language.
Film, played · 2004
Machuca
A coup in Chile through the eyes of children from different social classes; a strong microprobe to polarization and class experience.
Film, played · 1989
Romero
The story of Archbishop Oscar Romero against the background of violence in El Salvador; relevant to human rights and the Cold War policy of the region.
document · 2010
Inside Job
Systematic criticism of the structural causes of the financial crisis 2008; direct link to debt, finance and institutional initiatives.
document · 2005
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Case study of corporate culture, accounting manipulation and supervisory failure.
document · 2003
The Corporation
Essay on the legal and social nature of modern corporations; suitable for the topic of power, accountability and externalised costs.
Film, played · 2015
The Big Short
Dramatized explanation of the mortgage crisis; it shows well the system in which individual actors can act rationally locally and the whole fails.
Film, played · 2019
Dark Waters
Legal drama about long-term PFAS pollution; suitable for asymmetry of information, regulation and corporate power.
document · 2014
Last Days in Vietnam
Detailed reconstruction of the last days of American presence in South Vietnam; strong conclusion of the Vietnamese branch.
document · 2005
Sir! No Sir!
A document on anti-war resistance within the US army; it complements the usual image of protests about the prospects of soldiers.
Film, played · 1978
The Deer Hunter
A heavily styled probe for war and return home; historically, it is not literal, but culturally shaped the American memory of Vietnam.
Film, played · 1989
Casualties of War
Drama according to the actual case of kidnapping and murder of Vietnamese civilian soldiers by American soldiers; relevant to command and moral responsibility.
Film, played · 1984
The Killing Fields
Cambodia's disaster through the relationship of journalists; it relates to the regional consequences of the Vietnam war and geopolitical intervention.
Film, played · 2017
First They Killed My Father
Genocida and the Khmer Red regime from a child's perspective; a strong microlevel of political violence.
document · 1999
A Cry from the Grave
Documentary reconstruction of the Srebrenica massacre; direct addition to Quo Vadis, Aida? and debate the UN mandate.
document · 2018
The Trial of Ratko Mladić
A document following the trial with Ratko Mladic; excellent for evidence, international criminal justice and competitive historical naratives.
document · 2017
The Other Side of Everything
Personal family history linked to the political history of Serbia; very good probe to memory, polarization and public space.
document · 2010
Cinema Komunisto
The history of the Yugoslav film industry as a tool for state image and cultural identity.
Film, played · 1996
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
Serbian film about the Bosnian War and the breakdown of friendship; valuable as a local cultural perspective, which must be read alongside other views.
Film, played · 2006
Grbavica
Bohemian, a post-war, through a mother and daughter; it focuses on the long-term consequences of systematic sexual violence.
Film, played · 2010
The Whistleblower
Drama inspired by the Whistleblower case in post-war Bosnia; relevant to the responsibility of international institutions.
Film, played · 1982
Yol
YNumb Güney's fundamental work on prisoners, society and the repressive system; the Kurdish issue is part of Turkey's broader criticism.
Film, played · 1999
Journey to the Sun
The friendship of Turk and Kurda against the background of police repression and conflict; a direct probe into identity and state violence.
Film, played · 2009
The Children of Diyarbakir
Kurdish children after losing parents in a political violence environment; a strong film to complete the article on Kurds.
Film, played · 2012
Bekas
Two Kurdish boys took in 90. Years trying to get to America; a lighter but culturally valuable perspective of life in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Film, played · 2000
Blackboards
Travelling teachers in the Kurdish border; connecting war, borders, migration and education.
Film, played · 2022
Kobanê
Kurdish-speaking war film on the defense of Kobanou against ISIS; direct cultural perspective from the Kurdish environment.
document · 2018
Commander Arian
The document is followed by Commander Arian and female units of the YPJ in the fight against ISIS; direct link to Rojava and Kurdish political experience.
document · 2016
Gulistan, Land of Roses
An intimate document on Kurdish fighters of the PKK; a valuable internal perspective that should be put into a broader context of the PKK and regional policy.
animated film · 2007
Persepolis
The autobiographic perspective of Iran's revolution, war and exile; an excellent cultural complement to Iran's geopolitical image.
Film, played · 1999
The Color of Paradise
Owning a humanist probe into the family, poverty and social expectations; Iran's cultural context beyond the geopolitical scheme.
Film, played · 2001
Baran
Owns a film about Afghan refugees working in Iran; links migration, work, identity and invisibility to migrants.
Film / Docufication · 2015
Taxi
Jafar Panahi uses taxis as a cross-section of companies and restrictions on public expression; a strong probe for everyday politics and censorship.
Film, played · 2020
There Is No Evil
Four stories about individual responsibility in the death penalty system; themically close obedience, moral agility and institution.
Animated document · 2008
Waltz with Bashir
Soldier memory and reconstruction of traumatic event; extremely relevant both geopolitical and unreliable memory theme.
document · 2011
5 Broken Cameras
Palestinian cameraman's personal video journal; a strong local perspective to be read as one projection of conflict.
document · 2011
The Law in These Parts
Interviews with Israeli lawyers and judges on the legal regime of occupied territories; very appropriate to international law.
document · 2014
The Green Prince
The story of the son of Hamas leader who collaborated with Shin Bet; good for loyalty, intelligence and multi-layered identity.
Film, played · 2005
Paradise Now
A dramatic probe into two men preparing a suicide attack; relevant to terrorism, motivation and human microlevel violence.
document · 2019
The Viewing Booth
Laboratory-pure film about how the viewer interprets political videos according to previous beliefs; almost direct demonstration of "a case of social reality" prospects.
document · 2024
No Other Land
Palestinian-Israeli document on the demolition of communities in the West Bank; an important current local perspective, suitable for confronting legal and historical resources.
Film, played · 1976
The Message
Classic dramatic prediction of the early days of Islam, which avoids direct depiction of the prophet; suitable as a cultural complement, not as a historical source.
document · 2002
Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet
The document links the biography of the prophet to the life of Muslims in the US; it is suitable for both religious and modern social context.
documentary series · 2000
Islam: Empire of Faith
A forward-looking series on the creation and expansion of Islamic civilization; a good entrance before detailed work with historical sources.
document · 1948
The Secret Land
A period document from the expedition Operation Highjump, filmed by military cameramen; a direct and valuable context for the article on New Switzerland and Highjump.
docudra · 2014
Grey Wolf: Hitler's Escape to Argentina
A film promoting Hitler's escape to Argentina hypothesis. To explicitly classify it as a contentious theory, not as a confirmed history.
Film, played · 2004
Downfall
Dramatizing Hitler's last days in the bunker; a strong cultural complement to the article on Hitler's end and forensic evidence.
Film, played · 2016
Denial
Legal drama according to the Irving process v. Lipstadt; extremely suited to the methodology of historical evidence and work on denial.
document · 2020
The Meaning of Hitler
An esejist paper on how Hitler's painting is used in contemporary culture and politics; suitable for reflection of work with historical analogies.
a feature TV film · 1983
The Day After
American television film about the consequences of the nuclear war; also significant as a Cold War cultural event.
Film, played · 1983
WarGames
A fiction about a computer system that can confuse simulation with reality; directly relevant to automation, false signals and nuclear command.
document / document · 2014
The Man Who Saved the World
The story of Stanislav Petrov and the incident of Soviet early warning in 1983; crucial to human judgment in an automated system.
miniseries · 2019
Chernobyl
It is not about nuclear weapons, but it illustrates the institutional pressure, information distortion, security culture and the cost of lies extremely well.
Film, played · 2023
Oppenheimer
Dramatizing the creation of an atomic bomb and a post-war security apparatus; suitable for science, power, responsibility and nuclear policy.
Film, played · 1997
Children of Heaven
Personal favorite title. Owidi's sensitive story of siblings, lost shoes, poverty, cohesion and child ingenuity.
Film, played · 2003
Travellers and Magicians
Personal favorite title. Bhutan film about the desire to leave, the path and the story in the story.
Film, played · 2015
Experimenter
Dramatizing Milgram experiments; direct link to obedience, role of the situation and limiting intuitive explanation of behavior.
Film, played · 2008
The Wave
German drama about school experiment with autocratic movement; strong probe to conformity, identity and speed of group polarization.
Film, played · 1996
Bag of Rice
Personal favorite title. A little girl and her half-blind older neighbor travel through Tehran for a bag of rice and rely on helping people around them during a seemingly ordinary journey.
Film, played · 1999
The Cup
Personal favorite title. Young Tibetan monks in an exile monastery are trying to secure television to watch the World Cup final.
documentary film · 2007
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
A document based on the testimony of survivors and archives monitors the human consequences of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
documentary film · 2010
Countdown to Zero
The document analyses the risks of proliferation of nuclear weapons and materials, security failures and political arguments for the reduction of arsenals.
Film, played · 2012
Argo
The dramatic overhaul of the operation in which the crises were hidden and brought out by American diplomats during Iran's hostage. The film is suitable to compare with historical sources and distinguish the dramatic license from the documented course.
documentary film · 2006
Occupation 101
The document presents a critical interpretation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the US support for Israel. His arguments are part of a wider comparison with primary sources and other perspectives.
documentary film · 1985
Shoah
Approximately nine and a half hours of oral testimony from survivors, witnesses and offenders without reconstructions; one of the major film works about memory, evidence and holocaust experience.
Film, played · 2015
Son of Saul
The closely subjective feature film monitors a member of sonderkommando in Auschwitz and deliberately limits the viewer's view to the immediate experience of one character.
Film, played · 1985
Come and See
The anti-war film watches a teenage boy during the Nazi occupation of Belarus and shows the destruction of civilian communities without a heroic framework.
Film, played · 2023
The Zone of Interest
The film examines the daily life of the head of Auschwitz's family alongside the extermination camp and works with contrast to the common, sound signature and hidden violence.
Film, played · 1960
Exodus
The spectacular historical drama created one of Israel's most influential film paintings. It is important for the study of the subject as a cultural founding story, not as a neutral reconstruction of 1948.
documentary series · 1998
Rebirth
The 22-piece Israeli documentary series maps the first fifty years of the state from home perspective, while opening up the disputed sites of Israeli history and the treatment of Palestinians.
documentary film · 2017
1948: Creation & Catastrophe
The document consists of 1948 memories of Israeli and Palestinian memoirs and the technical context; it examines the creation of the state and Palestinian expulsion as two interconnected experiences of the same war.
documentary film · 2022
Tantura
The Israeli document reopens the testimony of events in Palestinian Tantura in 1948 and shows a dispute over memory, testimony, archive evidence and public taboo.
documentary film · 2014
The Wanted 18
The animated passage document tells of 18 cows who, during the first intifada, became part of the Palestinian effort for local self-sufficiency and non-violent resistance.
documentary film · 2016
The Settlers
The document monitors the history and present of the Israeli settlement movement in the occupied West Bank and links ideology, everyday life and geopolitical consequences of settlements.
documentary film · 2006
Hot House
The document filmed in Israeli prisons examines Palestinian security prisoners, their political organisation and the role of prisons in shaping future leaders and other radicalisation.
documentary film · 2017
Ghost Hunting
Former Palestinian prisoners are reconstructing a detention area together and re-examining the interview experience; the film combines testimony, therapy and staged reconstruction.
Film, played · 2005
Munich
The drama inspired by the Israeli retaliation operation after the Munich Olympic Games attack opens up the issues of state violence, targeted killing, evidence and spiral retaliation.
documentary series · 1981
Pillar of Fire
This nineteen-part Israeli documentary series traces the history of Zionism from the late nineteenth century to the establishment of Israel. It presents a major Israeli historical perspective that should be compared with Palestinian sources and historiography.
documentary film · 1997
The Long Way Home
The documentary follows Jewish survivors after liberation, their lives in displaced-persons camps, continuing antisemitism and restricted opportunities for emigration through the establishment of Israel.
Film, played · 1976
Voyage of the Damned
This dramatization of the voyage of the St. Louis, carrying Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, shows how countries outside Germany refused people fleeing overt persecution.
Film, played · 1964
Sallah Shabati
The satire follows a family of new immigrants in a temporary absorption camp and criticizes bureaucracy, party patronage and the unequal position of Mizrahi Jews in the young Israeli state.
Film, played · 2005
Live and Become
The story of an Ethiopian Christian boy who passes as Jewish during the migration of Ethiopian Jews connects rescue from famine with questions of identity, acceptance and racism in Israel.
documentary film · 2005
The Forgotten Refugees
The documentary gathers memories of Jews from Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Iraq and Morocco about the dissolution of long-established communities, departure and resettlement in Israel. It was produced from a strong advocacy perspective and should be compared with the history of each country and Palestinian displacement.
documentary film · 2010
A Film Unfinished
The documentary examines an unfinished Nazi film from the Warsaw Ghetto and uses testimony to reveal how some footage was staged. It shows why even authentic archival images require scrutiny of their origin and purpose.
documentary film · 2009
Defamation
This provocative personal documentary examines how antisemitism is identified today and what role the concept plays in Jewish identity and political debate. Its deliberately polemical approach should be compared with other scholarly perspectives.
Film, played · 2019
An Officer and a Spy
This historical drama follows the exposure of the fabricated conviction of the Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus. It provides an entry point into French antisemitism, nationalism, the role of the army and the manipulation of evidence before Nazism.
Film, played · 1968
The Fixer
Adapted from Bernard Malamud's novel and inspired by the trial of Menachem Mendel Beilis, the film depicts an antisemitic blood-libel accusation, the state repressive apparatus and the political use of a fabricated prosecution.
Film, played · 1971
Fiddler on the Roof
Set in 1905, this musical story of a Jewish family connects generational change and modernization with rising antisemitism, a pogrom and the expulsion of an entire community from its home.
miniseries · 2013
Generation War
This three-part German miniseries follows five young friends from 1941 to the end of the war. It connects frontline experience, civilian life, the persecution of Jews, individual responsibility and later German memory; its dramatization should be compared with historical sources.
documentary series · 2008
Bush's War
A PBS documentary series reconstructing the George W. Bush administration's decisions from the September 11 attacks through the war in Afghanistan and the invasion of Iraq.
documentary film · 2021
America After 9/11
America After 9/11 is a 2021 television documentary film about the response of the United States government towards the September 11 attacks and the consequences which eventually led to political polarization.
documentary film · 2021
The Forever Prisoner
Alex Gibney's documentary follows Abu Zubaydah's detention in CIA black sites and the use of torture during the early War on Terror.
documentary film · 2005
The Torture Question
A PBS FRONTLINE documentary tracing how the legal and political conditions for harsh interrogation methods and detainee abuse developed after September 11.
documentary film · 2007
Cheney's Law
A PBS FRONTLINE documentary examining Vice President Dick Cheney's influence on executive power and United States security policy after September 11.
documentary film · 2006
The Dark Side
A PBS FRONTLINE documentary analysing Dick Cheney's role and disputes within the United States government over intelligence, interrogation and the War on Terror.
documentary film · 2003
Truth, War and Consequences
A PBS FRONTLINE documentary examining the preparation for the invasion of Iraq, disputed intelligence claims and the consequences of post-war planning.
documentary film · 2014
Losing Iraq
A PBS FRONTLINE documentary following Iraq after the United States invasion, the breakdown of state institutions and the conditions that enabled the rise of the so-called Islamic State.
documentary series · 2020
Once Upon a Time in Iraq
Once Upon a Time in Iraq is a 2020 British documentary television miniseries directed by James Bluemel and narrated by the British-Iraqi actor Andy Serkis. Composed of five episodes, it features interviews with Iraqi citizens, American military personnel and international journalists about the Iraqi conflict and its effects on the Iraqi people.
documentary film · 2014
The Rise of ISIS
A PBS FRONTLINE documentary tracing the rise of the so-called Islamic State through the Iraq War, the conflict in Syria and decisions made by regional and Western actors.
documentary essay · 2015
Bitter Lake
Bitter Lake is a 2015 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that Western politicians have manufactured a simplified story about militant Islam, turning it into a good vs.
documentary series · 2004
The Power of Nightmares
The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear is a BBC television documentary series by Adam Curtis. It mainly consists of archive footage, with Curtis narrating.
documentary film · 2015
(T)ERROR
(T)error – stylized as (T)ERROR – is a 2015 American documentary film directed by Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe.
documentary film · 2020
The Dissident
The Dissident is a 2020 American documentary film directed and produced by Bryan Fogel. It follows the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi and Saudi Arabia's effort to control international dissent.
documentary film · 2014
1971
A documentary about the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI, whose 1971 burglary exposed secret surveillance documents and the COINTELPRO programme.
documentary film · 2018
The Oslo Diaries
The Oslo Diaries is a 2018 Israeli-Canadian documentary directed by Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan about Middle Eastern peace talks at the Oslo Accords in the 1990s between Israel and Palestine. It featured Shimon Peres in one of his last interviews before his death.
documentary film · 2023
Israelism
Israelism is a 2023 American documentary about the portrayal of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in American Jewish institutions. The film is critical of Israel's treatment of Palestinians, and of the American Jewish community's education on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
documentary film · 2016
The Occupation of the American Mind
The Occupation of the American Mind is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp, and narrated by Roger Waters. The film seeks to show how the Israeli government and pro-Israel lobby groups use their influence in the American media to shape the views of the American people on its control of the West Bank and Gaza.
documentary film · 2009
Budrus
Budrus is a 2009 Israeli/Palestinian/American documentary film directed by Julia Bacha, produced by Ronit Avni, Rula Salameh, and Julia Bacha, and with a screenplay by Bacha. The film is about non-violent demonstrations conducted by the residents of Budrus (a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate) during the early 2000s to protest against the building of the Israeli West Bank barrier inside of the village.
documentary film · 2001
Promises
Promises is a 2001 documentary film that examines the Israeli–Palestinian conflict from the perspectives of seven children living in the Palestinian communities in the West Bank and Israeli neighborhoods of Jerusalem. The film follows Israeli-American filmmaker B.Z.
documentary film · 2015
Censored Voices
The documentary uses recordings of Israeli soldiers after the 1967 Six-Day War to recover experiences and doubts removed from public debate by contemporary censorship.
documentary film · 2019
Advocate
Advocate is a 2019 Israeli documentary film, directed by Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaïche.
documentary film · 2020
Mayor
Mayor (Arabic: العمدة, romanized: al-ʿUmda) is a 2020 documentary film produced and directed by David Osit. The film follows Musa Hadid, the mayor of Ramallah, the de facto capital of Palestine, for two years.
documentary film · 2019
Gaza
Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell's documentary observes everyday life in the Gaza Strip beyond the familiar frame of wartime news coverage.
documentary film · 2010
Tears of Gaza
Tears of Gaza is a 2010 Norwegian anti-war documentary concerning the Gaza War as seen through the eyes of a group of Palestinian children, and was directed by Vibeke Løkkeberg. The film is based on the imagery taken by people themselves in Gaza while the war continued, with some additional material from the few foreign journalists who were present while the conflict unfolded.
feature film · 2013
Omar
A Palestinian drama about a young baker who crosses the separation barrier for love and resistance, then faces pressure from Israeli security services after his arrest.
feature film · 2009
Ajami
Ajami (Arabic: عجمي, romanized: ʿAjamiyy; Hebrew: עג'מי) is a 2009 Palestinian Israeli Arab drama film directed by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani. Its plot is set in the Ajami neighborhood of Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel.
feature film · 2017
Foxtrot
Foxtrot (Hebrew: פוֹקְסטְרוֹט) is a 2017 internationally co-produced drama film written and directed by Samuel Maoz. It stars Lior Ashkenazi and Sarah Adler as a couple who are informed that their son, an IDF soldier, was killed in action.
feature film · 2009
Lebanon
Lebanon (Hebrew: לְבָנוֹן, romanized: Lvanon; called Lebanon: The Soldier's Journey in the UK) is a 2009 war drama film written and directed by Samuel Maoz. In Israel itself the film has caused some controversy.
feature film · 2009
The Time That Remains
Elia Suleiman's semi-autobiographical film combines family memories with Palestinian experience from 1948 to the present, using dry humour and observational distance.
feature film · 2002
Divine Intervention
Divine Intervention (Arabic: يد إلهية, romanized: yad ʾilāhiyya, lit. 'divine hand') is a 2002 surreal black comedy film co-produced, written and directed by Elia Suleiman.
feature film · 1996
Chronicle of a Disappearance
Chronicle of a Disappearance (Arabic: سجل اختفاء) is a 1996 drama film by Palestinian director and actor Elia Suleiman. Suleiman stars in the film along with his family members, his relatives, and other non-actors.
feature film · 2016
Junction 48
Junction 48 is a 2016 Israeli drama film directed by Udi Aloni, co-written by Oren Moverman and the film's star Tamer Nafar.
documentary short film · 1956
Night and Fog
Night and Fog (French: Nuit et brouillard) is a 1956 French documentary short film. Directed by Alain Resnais, it was made ten years after the liberation of Nazi concentration camps.
documentary film · 1969
The Sorrow and the Pity
The Sorrow and the Pity (French: Le Chagrin et la Pitié) is a two-part 1969 documentary film by Marcel Ophuls about the collaboration between the Vichy government and Nazi Germany during World War II. The film uses interviews with a German officer, collaborators, and resistance fighters from Clermont-Ferrand.
documentary film · 1998
The Last Days
The Last Days is a 1998 American documentary film directed by James Moll and produced by June Beallor and Kenneth Lipper; Steven Spielberg, in his role as founder of the Shoah Foundation, was one of the film's executive producers.
documentary short film · 1995
One Survivor Remembers
A short documentary recording Gerda Weissmann Klein's testimony of deportation, forced labour, a death march and survival of the Holocaust.
documentary film · 2000
Paragraph 175
Paragraph 175 is a 2000 documentary film, directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, and narrated by Rupert Everett. The film was produced by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, Janet Cole, Michael Ehrenzweig, Sheila Nevins and Howard Rosenman.
television film · 2001
Conspiracy
Conspiracy is a 2001 made-for-television drama film that dramatises the 1942 Wannsee Conference. Using the authentic script taken from the only surviving transcript recorded during the meeting, the film explores the psychology of Nazi officials involved in the "Final Solution of the Jewish question" during World War II.
feature film · 1990
Europa Europa
Europa Europa (released in German: Hitlerjunge Salomon, lit. 'Hitler Boy Salomon') is a 1990 historical war drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland, and starring Marco Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, Hanns Zischler, and André Wilms.
feature film · 2007
The Counterfeiters
The Counterfeiters (German: Die Fälscher) is a 2007 Austrian-German drama film written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. It fictionalizes Operation Bernhard, a secret plan by Nazi Germany during World War II to destabilize the United Kingdom by flooding its economy with forged Bank of England pound notes.
feature film · 2014
Labyrinth of Lies
A drama about a young West German prosecutor uncovering the scale of Auschwitz crimes and post-war silence surrounding their perpetrators in the late 1950s.
feature film · 2015
The People vs. Fritz Bauer
The People vs. Fritz Bauer (German: Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer) is a 2015 German biographical drama film directed by Lars Kraume, chronicling the German Jewish prosecutor Fritz Bauer's post-war capture of former Holocaust planner Adolf Eichmann.
feature film · 2014
Phoenix
Phoenix is a 2014 German melodrama war film directed by Christian Petzold. Loosely adapted from the 1961 novel Le Retour des Cendres (English: The Return from the Ashes) by French author Hubert Monteilhet, the film stars Nina Hoss and Ronald Zehrfeld as Nelly and Johnny Lenz, respectively.
feature film · 2002
Amen.
A historical drama linking SS officer Kurt Gerstein with a fictional Jesuit as they try to alert the Vatican and the wider world to the Nazi extermination of Jews.
documentary film · 2018
Who Will Write Our History
A documentary reconstructing the secret Oyneg Shabes archive through which Emanuel Ringelblum and his collaborators preserved evidence of life and destruction in the Warsaw Ghetto.
documentary essay · 2015
Austerlitz
A documentary essay inspired by W. G. Sebald's novel, exploring memory, exile, identity and the traces left by the Holocaust across Europe.
documentary film · 2016
Austerlitz
Austerlitz is a 2016 German documentary film written and directed by Sergei Loznitsa. It deals with the Holocaust by observing visitors at the Nazi concentration camps of Sachsenhausen and Dachau.
docudrama · 1966
The War Game
The War Game is a 1965 British pseudo-documentary film that depicts a nuclear war and its aftermath. Written, directed and produced by Peter Watkins for the BBC, it caused dismay within the BBC and within government and was withdrawn before the provisional screening date of 6 October 1965.
feature film · 1959
On the Beach
On the Beach is a 1959 American apocalyptic science fiction drama film, starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and Anthony Perkins. Produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, it is based on Nevil Shute's 1957 novel of the same title depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war.
documentary film · 1995
Trinity and Beyond
Using archival footage, the documentary surveys nuclear weapons development and testing from the Trinity explosion to the largest thermonuclear tests of the Cold War.
documentary film · 1988
Radio Bikini
Radio Bikini is a 1988 American documentary film directed by Robert Stone. It was later aired on the PBS series The American Experience.
documentary film · 2016
The Bomb
The Bomb is a 2015 American documentary film about the history of nuclear weapons, from theoretical scientific considerations at the very beginning, to their first use on August 6, 1945, to their global political implications in the present day.
documentary essay · 2015
Atomic, Living in Dread and Promise
Atomic, Living in Dread and Promise is a documentary film about nuclear history directed by Mark Cousins and co-produced by Heather Croall, Mark Atkin, and John Archer. It uses only archive footage to explore life and death in the Atomic Age.
documentary film · 2010
Into Eternity
Into Eternity is a 2010 Danish documentary film directed by Michael Madsen, released in 2010. It follows the construction of the Onkalo waste repository at the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant on the island of Olkiluoto, Finland.
documentary film · 2012
The Atomic States of America
A documentary exploring United States nuclear energy through communities near power plants and disputes over safety, health and energy policy.
documentary film · 2011
Nuclear Savage
A documentary recording the lasting health, social and political consequences of United States nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands.
television film · 1990
By Dawn's Early Light
By Dawn's Early Light is an HBO original movie, first aired in 1990. It is based on the 1983 novel Trinity's Child, written by William Prochnau.
feature film · 1964
Seven Days in May
Seven Days in May is a 1964 American political thriller film, directed by John Frankenheimer and written by Rod Serling, who adapted Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II's 1962 novel.
feature film · 1965
The Bedford Incident
The Bedford Incident is a 1965 British-American Cold War film starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier, with James MacArthur, Martin Balsam, Wally Cox, and Eric Portman in support. It was directed by James B.
feature film · 1965
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold is a 1965 British spy film directed and produced by Martin Ritt, adapted by Paul Dehn and Guy Trosper from the 1963 novel by John le Carré. It stars Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, and Oskar Werner, and features Sam Wanamaker, Cyril Cusack, Rupert Davies, George Voskovec, and Peter van Eyck in supporting roles.
feature film · 2011
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 2011 Cold War spy film directed by Tomas Alfredson. The screenplay was written by Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan, based on John le Carré's 1974 novel of the same name.
feature film · 2015
Bridge of Spies
Bridge of Spies is a 2015 historical drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg, written by Matt Charman and the Coen brothers, and starring Tom Hanks in the lead role, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, and Alan Alda.
feature film · 2020
The Courier
The Courier is a 2020 historical spy film directed by Dominic Cooke and written by Tom O'Connor. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Greville Wynne, and is based on the true story of a British businessman who was recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service to be a message conduit with Russian spy source Oleg Penkovsky (played by Merab Ninidze) in the 1960s.
feature film · 2005
Welcome to Dongmakgol
A poetic wartime tragicomedy bringing North Korean and South Korean soldiers and an American pilot to an isolated Korean village. Shared life gradually undermines the enemy images created by war.
feature film · 2011
The Front Line
A war drama set during the final days of the Korean War, following soldiers who repeatedly fight over the same strategic hill while secretly exchanging messages and gifts.
feature film · 2002
The Quiet American
The Quiet American is a 2002 political drama film directed by Phillip Noyce, and stars Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, and Do Thi Hai Yen. The screenplay by Christopher Hampton and Robert Schenkkan is adapted from Graham Greene's bestselling 1955 novel of the same name set in Vietnam.
documentary essay · 2013
The Missing Picture
The Missing Picture (French: L'Image manquante, Khmer: រូបភាពដែលបាត់បង់, romanized: roubpheap del batbng) is a 2013 Cambodian-French documentary film directed by Rithy Panh about the Khmer Rouge regime and Cambodian genocide.
documentary film · 2003
S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (French: S-21, la machine de mort Khmère rouge) is a 2003 documentary film directed by Rithy Panh. Rithy, himself a survivor of the Khmer Rouge, brought together two former prisoners of the regime with their former captors at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, the former Security Prison 21 (S-21) under the Khmer Rouge.
documentary film · 2011
Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell
Rithy Panh confronts former S-21 prison commander Kaing Guek Eav with documents, testimony and the machinery of Khmer Rouge violence.
documentary film · 1979
Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia is a 1979 British television documentary film written and presented by the Australian journalist John Pilger, which was produced and directed by David Munro for the ITV network by Associated Television (ATV).
feature film · 1966
The Battle of Algiers
The Battle of Algiers (French: La Bataille d'Alger; Italian: La battaglia di Algeri; Arabic: معركة الجزائر, romanized: Maʿrakat al-Jazāʾir) is a 1966 Italian-Algerian war film co-written and directed by Gillo Pontecorvo.
documentary essay · 2014
Concerning Violence
Concerning Violence is a 2014 documentary film written and directed by Göran Hugo Olsson. It is based on Frantz Fanon's essay, "Concerning Violence", from his 1961 book The Wretched of the Earth.
feature film · 2000
Lumumba
Lumumba is a 2000 biographical film directed by Raoul Peck. A co-production of France, Germany, Belgium, and Haiti filmed in French, the film depicts the rise and fall of Patrice Lumumba, and is set in the months before and after Congo-Léopoldville achieved independence from Belgium in June 1960.
documentary essay · 1990
Lumumba, la mort d'un prophète
Lumumba, la mort du prophète (Lumumba, the death of the prophet) is a 1990 documentary film by Haitian director Raoul Peck. It covers the death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
documentary series · 2021
Exterminate All the Brutes
Exterminate All the Brutes is an internationally co-produced documentary television miniseries revolving around colonization and genocide, directed and narrated by Raoul Peck. The series takes its name from Sven Lindqvist's 1992 book of the same name, on which it is partially based, a phrase which Lindqvist in turn borrowed from Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, in which the quote "Exterminate all the brutes" appears.
feature film · 1997
The Perfect Circle
The Perfect Circle (Bosnian: Savršeni krug) is a 1997 Bosnian war drama film by Ademir Kenović set in Sarajevo during the siege of 1992-1996. It was written by Kenović with Pjer Žalica and Abdulah Sidran.
feature film · 1998
Savior
Savior is a 1998 American war film starring Dennis Quaid, Stellan Skarsgård, Nastassja Kinski, and Nataša Ninković. It is about a U.S.
television film · 1998
Shot Through the Heart
Shot Through the Heart is a 1998 television film directed by David Attwood, shown on the BBC and HBO in 1998, which covers the Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War. The film is based on a true story and an article called "Anti-Sniper" by John Falk (published in the November 1995 issue of Details magazine).
television film · 2008
Resolution 819
A television drama following the investigation of evidence from the Srebrenica massacre and the difficult path from war crime to international prosecution.
feature film · 2021
The Exam
A Kurdish drama about two sisters drawn into organised cheating on an entrance examination whose result may determine access to education and an arranged marriage.
feature film · 2021
Neighbours
Neighbours (German: Nachbarn; Kurdish: Ciran) is a 2021 film written and directed by Mano Khalil. A Swiss/French co-production, the film depicts the experiences of a Kurdish boy in a small Syrian border village during the early 1980s.
animated documentary film · 2021
Flee
Flee (Danish: Flugt) is a 2021 independent adult animated documentary film directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen. An international co-production with Denmark, France, Norway, and Sweden, it follows the story of a man under the alias Amin Nawabi, Rasmussen's high school friend, who shares his hidden past of fleeing his home country of Afghanistan to Denmark for the first time.
animated feature film · 2017
The Breadwinner
The Breadwinner is a 2017 adult animated drama film directed by Nora Twomey, and written by Anita Doron and Deborah Ellis, based on the 2001 novel by Ellis. The film was an international co-production between Canada, the Republic of Ireland and Luxembourg.
feature film · 1999
The Insider
The Insider is a 1999 American biographical thriller film directed by Michael Mann and written by Mann and Eric Roth, based on Marie Brenner's 1996 Vanity Fair article "The Man Who Knew Too Much". The film stars Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Bruce McGill, Diane Venora and Michael Gambon.
feature film · 2011
Margin Call
A drama set inside an investment bank over one night as employees discover unsustainable portfolio risk and executives decide who will bear the consequences.
television film · 2011
Too Big to Fail
Too Big to Fail is a 2011 American biographical drama television film directed by Curtis Hanson and written by Peter Gould, based on Andrew Ross Sorkin's 2009 non-fiction book Too Big to Fail. The cast includes William Hurt, Edward Asner, Billy Crudup, Paul Giamatti, Topher Grace, Cynthia Nixon, Bill Pullman, Tony Shalhoub, and James Woods.
television film · 2017
The Wizard of Lies
The Wizard of Lies is a 2017 American television biopic film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Sam Levinson, Sam Baum, and John Burnham Schwartz, based on the 2011 non-fiction book of the same name by Diana B. Henriques.
documentary film · 2019
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley is a 2019 American documentary film, directed and produced by Alex Gibney. The film revolves around Elizabeth Holmes and her former company Theranos.
documentary film · 2017
The China Hustle
The China Hustle is a 2017 financial documentary film produced by Magnolia Pictures and directed by Jed Rothstein. It reveals systematic and formulaic decades-long securities fraud by Chinese companies listed on the US stock market.
feature film · 2019
The Laundromat
The Laundromat is a 2019 American comedy-drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh with a screenplay by Scott Z. Burns.
documentary film · 2020
The New Corporation
A sequel to The Corporation examining how large companies present themselves as socially responsible actors while expanding their political and economic influence.
documentary film · 2009
The Yes Men Fix the World
The Yes Men Fix the World is a 2009 documentary film about the culture jamming exploits of The Yes Men. cities beginning on October 30.
documentary film · 2009
The Shock Doctrine
Inspired by Naomi Klein's book, the documentary presents the thesis that wars, coups and economic crises are used to impose radical economic change.
documentary film · 2004
The Take
The Take is a Canadian documentary film released in 2004 by the wife and husband team of Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis. It tells the story of workers in Buenos Aires, Argentina, who reclaim control of a closed Forja auto plant where they once worked and turn it into a worker cooperative.
documentary film · 2011
Debtocracy
Debtocracy (Greek: Χρεοκρατία Chreokratía) is a 2011 left-wing documentary film by Katerina Kitidi and Aris Chatzistefanou. The documentary examines the causes of the Greek government-debt crisis in 2010 and advocates for the default of "odious debt".
documentary film · 2012
Catastroika
A documentary comparing privatisation of public services and assets across several countries with Greece's debt crisis and austerity policies.
documentary film · 2014
The Price We Pay
The Price We Pay is a 2014 Canadian documentary film. Directed by Harold Crooks and based on Brigitte Alepin's book La Crise fiscale qui vient, the film profiles the use of tax havens by large corporations as a dodge from having to pay corporate taxes.
documentary film · 2019
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
A documentary adaptation of Thomas Piketty's book tracing long-term wealth concentration and the relationship between inequality and political power.
documentary film · 2011
Page One: Inside the New York Times
Page One: Inside the New York Times is an American documentary film by Andrew Rossi, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media jointly acquired the U.S.
documentary film · 2019
Collective
Collective (Romanian: Colectiv, also known as Collective: Unravelling a Scandal) is a 2019 documentary film directed, written, produced, shot, and edited by Alexander Nanau. It centers on the 2016 public health scandal in Romania following the Colectiv nightclub fire.
documentary film · 2020
A Thousand Cuts
A Thousand Cuts is a 2020 Philippine-American documentary film about Maria Ressa, the founder of the online news site Rappler. Directed by Ramona Diaz, it explores the conflicts between the press and the Filipino government under President Rodrigo Duterte.
documentary film · 2018
Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World
Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World is a 2018 documentary film that explores the investigative journalism work published of Bellingcat, including the Skripal poisoning and the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.
documentary film · 2023
Total Trust
A documentary following people affected by digital surveillance in China and examining the links among cameras, data, policing systems and social control.
documentary film · 2016
All Governments Lie
A documentary about independent investigative journalism and the need to scrutinise government power regardless of party affiliation.
documentary film · 2018
The Cleaners
A documentary following workers who decide what global internet platforms remove, raising questions about moderation, trauma and private control over public debate.
documentary film · 2013
Terms and Conditions May Apply
Terms and Conditions May Apply is a 2013 documentary film that addresses how corporations and the government utilize the information that users provide when agreeing to browse a website, install an application, or purchase goods online.
documentary film · 2016
Zero Days
Alex Gibney's documentary reconstructs the creation and deployment of Stuxnet against Iran's nuclear programme and the broader risks of state cyberweapons.
documentary film · 2013
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks is a 2013 American independent documentary film about the organization established by Julian Assange, and people involved in the collection and distribution of secret information and media by whistleblowers.
documentary film · 2006
Hacking Democracy
Hacking Democracy is a 2006 Emmy nominated documentary film broadcast on HBO and created by producer Robert Carrillo Cohen with producer / directors Russell Michaels and Simon Ardizzone, and executive producers Sarah Teale, Sian Edwards & Earl Katz.
documentary film · 2020
Coded Bias
Coded Bias is an American documentary film directed by Shalini Kantayya that premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. The film includes contributions from researchers Joy Buolamwini, Deborah Raji, Meredith Broussard, Cathy O’Neil, Zeynep Tufekci, Safiya Noble, Timnit Gebru, Virginia Eubanks, and Silkie Carlo, and others.
documentary film · 2019
In the Age of AI
A PBS FRONTLINE documentary examining the effects of artificial intelligence and automation on work, privacy, economic power and competition between the United States and China.
documentary film · 2014
The Internet's Own Boy
A documentary portrait of Aaron Swartz connecting the open internet, access to information, digital activism and disputes over proportional prosecution.
documentary film · 2022
TikTok, BOOM.
A documentary tracing TikTok's rapid rise and its effects on culture, politics, user data and relations between the United States and China.
documentary film · 2016
The Coming War on China
John Pilger's documentary essay critically examines the military, political and media framing of growing rivalry between the United States and China.
documentary film · 2019
American Factory
American Factory (Chinese: 美国工厂) is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, about Chinese company Fuyao's factory in Moraine, a city near Dayton, Ohio, that occupies Moraine Assembly, a shuttered General Motors plant.
documentary film · 2021
Ascension
Ascension (Chinese: 登楼叹; pinyin: Dēnglóu tàn) is a 2021 American documentary film directed and produced by Jessica Kingdon. It follows the pursuit of the Chinese dream through the social classes, prioritizing productivity and innovation.
documentary film · 2005
China Blue
A documentary following seventeen-year-old factory worker Jasmine Li and using her experience to reveal labour conditions in the global garment industry.
documentary film · 2009
Last Train Home
Last Train Home (Chinese: 归途列车) is a 2009 Canadian documentary film directed by Lixin Fan and produced by Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin of EyeSteelFilm. It won the Best Documentary Feature at 2009 IDFA and has been distributed by Zeitgeist Films in the US.
documentary film · 2019
One Child Nation
One Child Nation is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang about the fallout of China's one-child policy that lasted from 1979 to 2015. The documentary is made up of various interviews with former village chiefs, state officials, ex-human traffickers, artists, midwives, journalists, researchers, and victims of the one-child policy.
documentary film · 2012
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (in Chinese 艾未未：道歉你妹; official title in Taiwan 艾未未：草泥馬) is a 2012 documentary film about Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, directed by American filmmaker Alison Klayman.
documentary film · 2020
Coronation
Coronation is a 2020 documentary film directed by Chinese activist Ai Weiwei. The film documents happenings in the city of Wuhan, China during the global COVID-19 pandemic, and how the country's government and citizens have responded to and been impacted by the outbreak.
documentary film · 2015
Under the Dome
Journalist Chai Jing's independent documentary explains the causes and health effects of air pollution in China and the political obstacles to addressing it.
documentary film · 1995
The Gate of Heavenly Peace
The Gate of Heavenly Peace (Chinese: 天安门; pinyin: Tiānānmén) is a 1995 documentary film, produced by Richard Gordon and Carma Hinton, about the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
feature film · 2012
Compliance
Compliance is a 2012 American thriller film written and directed by Craig Zobel and starring Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy, and Bill Camp. The plot of the movie is closely based upon the series of strip search phone call scams that took place in Mount Washington, Kentucky in 2004, although the names of the real-life figures were changed.
feature film · 2015
The Stanford Prison Experiment
The Stanford Prison Experiment is a 2015 American docudrama psychological thriller film directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez, written by Tim Talbott, and starring Billy Crudup, Michael Angarano, Ezra Miller, Tye Sheridan, Keir Gilchrist, Olivia Thirlby, and Nelsan Ellis.
feature film · 2001
Das Experiment
Das Experiment (English: The Experiment) is a 2001 German drama thriller film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. It is based on Mario Giordano's novel Black Box and deals with a social experiment which resembles Philip Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment of 1971.
feature film · 1998
The Truman Show
The Truman Show is a 1998 American comedy-drama film directed by Peter Weir, and written and co-produced by Andrew Niccol. It stars Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, a man who is unaware that he is living on a colossal soundstage, and that his life is the subject of a reality television show.
feature film · 2007
The Man from Earth
The Man from Earth is a 2007 American science fiction drama film directed by Richard Schenkman. It was written by Jerome Bixby, who conceived the screenplay in the early 1960s and completed it on his deathbed in April 1998.
feature film · 1981
My Dinner with Andre
My Dinner with Andre is a 1981 American comedy-drama film directed by Louis Malle, and written by and starring André Gregory and Wallace Shawn as fictionalized versions of themselves sharing a conversation at Café des Artistes in Manhattan.
animated feature film · 2001
Waking Life
Waking Life is a 2001 American adult animated surrealist drama film written and directed by Richard Linklater. The film explores a wide range of philosophical issues, including the nature of reality, dreams and lucid dreams, consciousness, the meaning of life, free will, and existentialism.
television film · 2011
The Sunset Limited
The Sunset Limited is a 2011 American drama television film directed by Tommy Lee Jones, who also stars with Samuel L. Jackson.
television miniseries · 1973
World on a Wire
World on a Wire (German: Welt am Draht) is a 1973 West German science fiction television serial, starring Klaus Löwitsch and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Shot in 16 mm, it was made for West German television and originally aired in 1973 in ARD as a two-part miniseries.
feature film · 2021
After Yang
After Yang is a 2021 American science fiction drama film written, directed, and edited by Kogonada. It stars Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Justin H.
feature film · 2013
Her
Her is a 2013 American science fiction romantic drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Spike Jonze. It follows Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), a man who develops a relationship with Samantha (Scarlett Johansson), an artificially intelligent operating system personified through a female voice.
documentary film · 2017
AlphaGo
AlphaGo is a 2017 documentary directed by Greg Kohs about the Google DeepMind Challenge Match with top-ranked Go player Lee Sedol.
documentary film · 2016
Lo & Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Werner Herzog. In it, Herzog ponders the existential impact of such things as the Internet, robotics, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of things on modern human life.
documentary film · 2001
Revolution OS
Revolution OS is a 2001 documentary film that traces the twenty-year history of GNU, Linux, open source, and the free software movement. Directed by J.
documentary film · 2018
General Magic
A documentary about the 1990s technology company General Magic, whose work anticipated smartphones, personal communicators and many later digital services.
documentary film · 2012
We Are Legion
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists is a 2012 documentary film about the workings and beliefs of the self-described "hacktivist" collective, Anonymous.
documentary film · 2019
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 is a 2019 American documentary film edited, produced, and directed by Todd Douglas Miller. It focuses on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, the first spaceflight to land humans on the Moon.
documentary film · 2013
Particle Fever
Particle Fever is a 2013 American documentary film tracking the first round of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland. The film follows the experimental physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) who run the experiments, as well as the theoretical physicists who attempt to provide a conceptual framework for the LHC's results.
documentary film · 2017
The Farthest
The Farthest (The Farthest - Voyager in Space in the United States on PBS) is an Irish documentary film that chronicles the history of the Voyager program and its two space probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, launched in 1977.
documentary film · 2020
Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know
Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know is a 2020 documentary about the journey of scientists around the world to better understand black holes. The film mainly discusses the Event Horizon Telescope's mission to take the first picture of a black hole and the work of Stephen Hawking, Andrew Strominger, Malcolm Perry and Sasha Haco to resolve the black hole information paradox.
documentary film · 2019
Human Nature
Human Nature is a 2001 comedy drama film written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Michel Gondry in his directorial debut. The film stars Tim Robbins, Patricia Arquette, Rhys Ifans, Miranda Otto, and Rosie Perez.
documentary film · 2018
The Serengeti Rules
The Serengeti Rules is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Nicolas Brown and based on the book by Sean B. Carroll.
documentary film · 2026
Ghost in the Machine
Ghost in the Machine is a 2026 American documentary film produced, written, and directed by Valerie Veatch. The film explores artificial intelligence through the history of human advancement in technology.
feature film · 2006
Bamako
Bamako is a 2006 docudrama film written and directed by Abderrahmane Sissako. It depicts a fictional trial in a backyard, in the outskirts of Bamako, about the role of the World Bank and the IMF in Africa's poverty.
feature film · 2006
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a 2006 war drama film directed by Ken Loach, set during the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921) and the Irish Civil War (1922–1923).
feature film · 1982
Gandhi
Gandhi is a 1982 biographical film directed and produced by Richard Attenborough and written by John Briley. It is based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi (portrayed by Ben Kingsley), a major leader in the Indian independence movement against the British Empire during the 20th century.
feature film · 2006
The Last King of Scotland
The Last King of Scotland is a 2006 historical drama film directed by Kevin Macdonald from a screenplay by Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock. Based on Giles Foden's 1998 novel, its plot depicts the dictatorship of Ugandan President Idi Amin through the perspective of Nicholas Garrigan, a fictional Scottish doctor.
feature film · 2005
The Constant Gardener
The Constant Gardener is a 2005 drama thriller film directed by Fernando Meirelles. The screenplay by Jeffrey Caine is based on John le Carré's 2001 novel.
documentary film · 2017
The Congo Tribunal
Milo Rau stages a public tribunal on the war in eastern Congo. Witnesses, lawyers and officials examine links between armed violence, mineral extraction and the responsibility of states and corporations.
feature film · 1966
Black Girl
Ousmane Sembène follows a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a family. The promise of a better life turns into isolation, humiliation and an experience of colonial racism.
feature film · 1975
Xala
Xala (pronounced [ˈxɐlɐ], Wolof for "temporary sexual impotence") is a 1975 Senegalese satirical comedy film written and directed by Ousmane Sembène, an adaptation of Sembène's 1973 novel of the same name. It stars Thierno Leye, Seune Samb, Douta Seck, Younousse Sèye, Fatim Diagne, and Myriam Niang.
television film · 2005
Sometimes in April
Sometimes in April is a 2005 American made-for-television historical drama film about the Rwandan Genocide, written and directed by the Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck. The ensemble cast includes Idris Elba, Oris Erhuero, Carole Karemera, and Debra Winger.
feature film · 2004
Hotel Rwanda
Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 biographical historical drama film co-written and directed by Terry George. It was adapted from a screenplay by George and Keir Pearson, and stars Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo as hotelier Paul Rusesabagina and his wife Tatiana.
feature film · 2010
Even the Rain
Even the Rain (Spanish: También la lluvia) is a 2010 drama film directed by Icíar Bollaín and written by Paul Laverty. It is one of Icíar Bollaín's most ambitious films, internationally co-produced film by companies from Spain, Mexico and France.
documentary film · 1968
The Hour of the Furnaces
The Hour of the Furnaces (Spanish: La hora de los hornos) is a 1968 Argentine political documentary film directed by Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas. 'The paradigm of revolutionary activist cinema', it addresses the politics of the 'Third worldist' films and Latin-American manifesto of the late 1960s.
feature film · 1985
The Official Story
The Official Story (Spanish: La historia oficial) is a 1985 Argentine historical political drama film directed by Luis Puenzo and written by Puenzo and Aída Bortnik. It stars Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Chunchuna Villafañe and Hugo Arana.
documentary film · 2008
The Judge and the General
The Judge and the General is a 2008 Chilean-American documentary film about Juan Guzmán's attempts to bring Augusto Pinochet to justice for human rights crimes.
documentary film · 2015
The Pearl Button
The Pearl Button (Spanish: El botón de nácar) is a 2015 Chilean documentary film directed by Patricio Guzmán. Guzmán has described the work as part of a trilogy with Nostalgia for the Light and third film The Cordillera of Dreams focusing on the Andes.
documentary film · 2010
Nostalgia for the Light
Nostalgia for the Light (Spanish: Nostalgia de la luz) is a 2010 documentary film by Patricio Guzmán to address the lasting impacts of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. Guzmán focuses on the similarities between astronomers researching humanity's past, in an astronomical sense, and the struggle of many Chilean women who still search, after decades, for the remains of their relatives murdered during the dictatorship.
documentary film · 2017
Cuba and the Cameraman
Cuba and the Cameraman is a 2017 American documentary film written, directed and co-produced by Jon Alpert.
television film · 2003
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Spanish: La revolución no será transmitida), also known as Chávez: Inside the Coup, is a 2003 Irish documentary film. It focuses on events in Venezuela leading up to and during the April 2002 coup d'état attempt, which saw President Hugo Chávez removed from office for two days.
feature film · 1969
Z
Z is a 1969 political thriller film directed by Costa-Gavras, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jorge Semprún, adapted from the 1967 novel by Vassilis Vassilikos. The film presents a thinly fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of democratic Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963.
feature film · 1969
Burn!
Burn! (original Italian title: Queimada, Portuguese and Spanish for "Burnt" or "Burned") is a 1969 historical war drama film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo.
feature film · 2013
Bethlehem
Bethlehem (Hebrew: בית לחם Bet Lehem) is a 2013 Israeli drama film directed by Yuval Adler. The screenplay was written by the director, Yuval Adler, and veteran journalist Ali Waked, following years of in-depth research.
documentary film · 2002
Jenin, Jenin
Jenin, Jenin is a 2002 Palestinian documentary film directed by Mohammad Bakri. It portrays what the director called "the Palestinian truth" about the Battle of Jenin, between the Israeli army and Palestinians in April 2002.
documentary film · 2012
A World Not Ours
Mahdi Fleifel builds a personal family portrait of the Palestinian refugee camp Ain al-Hilweh in Lebanon, using home movies and return visits to show everyday life, humour and prolonged exile.
feature film · 2012
The Attack
The Attack is a 2012 French/Belgian/Qatari/Egyptian drama film directed by Ziad Doueiri, who is also one of the script writers.
feature film · 2020
The Present
The Present (Arabic: الهدية, romanized: Al Hadiya, lit. 'The Gift') is a 2020 short film directed by Farah Nabulsi and co-written by Nabulsi and Hind Shoufani, about a father and daughter in the Palestinian enclaves of the Israeli-occupied West Bank trying to buy a wedding anniversary gift.
feature film · 2012
The Other Son
The Other Son (original title: Le Fils de l'Autre) is a 2012 French drama film directed by Lorraine Lévy.
feature film · 2008
Salt of this Sea
Salt of this Sea (Arabic: ملح هذا البحر, romanized: Milh hadha al-bahr) is a 2008 Palestinian film directed by Annemarie Jacir and was an Official Selection of the Cannes International Film Festival in 2008. The film stars Palestinian-American poet Suheir Hammad as Soraya, an American-born Palestinian woman, who heads to Israel and Palestine on a quest to reclaim her family's home and money that were taken during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
feature film · 2021
Farha
Farha (Arabic: فرحة, romanized: Farḥa) is a 2021 internationally co-produced historical drama film written and directed by Darin J. Sallam.
film or documentary · 2008
Lemon Tree
A Palestinian widow fights a legal order to cut down her lemon grove after it is deemed a security risk to the neighbouring home of Israel’s defence minister. The intimate drama links personal loss with the power of occupation.
feature film · 2020
200 Meters
200 Meters (Arabic: 200 متر) is a 2020 adventure drama film written and directed by Ameen Nayfeh in his feature-length debut.
feature film · 2017
Wajib
Wajib (Arabic: واجب Wājib, "Duty") is a 2017 Palestinian drama film directed as well as written by Annemarie Jacir.
documentary film · 2021
The Other Side of the River
The documentary follows Hala, a young Syrian Kurdish woman who escapes an arranged marriage and joins the Women’s Protection Units, raising questions about emancipation, war and life inside an armed movement.
feature film · 2006
Offside
Young women disguise themselves as men to enter a football match in Tehran, where women are barred from the stadium. Jafar Panahi uses humour to expose the absurdity of the ban and its effect on everyday life.
feature film · 2000
The Circle
The Circle (Persian: دایره, romanized: Dâyere) is a 2000 Iranian drama film produced and directed by Jafar Panahi that criticizes the treatment of women in Iran.
feature film · 2013
Manuscripts Don't Burn
Manuscripts Don't Burn (Persian: دستنوشتهها نمیسوزند, translit. Dast-Neveshtehaa Nemisoozand) is a 2013 Iranian drama film written and directed by Mohammad Rasoulof, about a failed attempt to kill a busload of Iranian writers in 1996.
feature film · 2024
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Persian: دانهی انجیر معابد, romanized: Dāne-ye anjīr-e ma'ābed) is a 2024 political drama film written, co-produced and directed by Mohammad Rasoulof. Its plot centers on Iman, an investigating judge in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, who grapples with paranoia as nationwide political protests, caused by the death of a young woman, intensify and his gun mysteriously disappears, making him distrust his wife and daughters.
feature film · 2021
A Hero
A Hero (Persian: قهرمان, romanized: Qahremaan) is a 2021 drama film written, co-produced and directed by Asghar Farhadi, starring Amir Jadidi, Mohsen Tanabandeh and Sahar Goldoost.
feature film · 2016
The Salesman
The Salesman (Persian: فروشنده, romanized: Forušande, released in France as Le Client) is a 2016 drama film written and directed by Asghar Farhadi and starring Taraneh Alidoosti and Shahab Hosseini. It is about a married couple who perform Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman on stage.
feature film · 2009
Son of Babylon
Son of Babylon (Arabic: ابن بابل) is a 2010 Iraqi drama film directed, co-produced and co-written by Mohamed Al-Daradji, Variety's Middle Eastern Filmmaker of the year 2010.
feature film · 2007
The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner is a 2007 American drama film directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by David Benioff and based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Khaled Hosseini. It tells the story of Amir, a well-to-do boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul who is tormented by the guilt of abandoning his friend Hassan.
documentary film · 2016
The Land of the Enlightened
Blending documentary observation with staged passages, the film follows Afghan children surviving through trade, smuggling and the remains of war, contrasting their dreams with a landscape shaped by prolonged military presence.
documentary film · 2018
A Thousand Girls Like Me
Khatera publicly accuses the father who abused her for years and seeks protection through police, courts and the media despite family pressure, exposing both personal courage and institutional failure toward women.
feature film · 2015
Taxi Tehran
Jafar Panahi drives a taxi through Tehran and uses conversations with passengers to portray Iranian society. The docufiction combines humour, everyday conflict, censorship and the restrictions under which he filmed.
feature film · 2003
Osama
Osama (Dari: اُسامه, romanized: Osamah) is a 2003 drama film made in Afghanistan by Siddiq Barmak. The film follows a preteen girl living in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime who disguises herself as a boy, Osama, to support her family.
feature film · 2001
Kandahar
An Afghan-Canadian journalist returns to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan to find a sister who has announced her intention to die by suicide. Her journey reveals a country broken by war and the severe constraints imposed on women.
feature film · 2009
No One Knows About Persian Cats
No One Knows About Persian Cats (Persian: کسی از گربههای ایرانی خبر نداره, romanized: Kasi az Gorbehaye Irani Khabar Nadareh) is a 2009 Iranian film directed by Bahman Ghobadi produced by Wild Bunch. The film offers the perspective of Iran as it explores its underground rock scene.
feature film · 1969
Battle of Neretva
Battle of Neretva (Serbo-Croatian: Bitka na Neretvi, Битка на Неретви) is a 1969 Yugoslavian epic partisan film. Written by Stevan Bulajić and Veljko Bulajić, and directed by Veljko Bulajić, it is based on the true events of World War II.
feature film · 2011
In the Land of Blood and Honey
In the Land of Blood and Honey (Bosnian: U zemlji krvi i meda) is a 2011 war drama film written, produced, and directed by Angelina Jolie, and starring Zana Marjanović, Goran Kostić and Rade Šerbedžija. The film, Jolie's first commercial release as a director, depicts a love story set against the background of the Bosnian War.
feature film · 2003
Remake
Remake is a 2003 Bosnian war film directed by Dino Mustafić, and produced by Enes Cviko and Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre. The film is a Turkish-French co-production.
feature film · 2018
The Load
The Load (Serbian: Терет, romanized: Teret) is a 2018 Serbian war drama film directed by Ognjen Glavonić.
feature film · 2019
The Diary of Diana B
The Diary of Diana B. (Croatian: Dnevnik Diane Budisavljević) is a 2019 biographical film directed by Dana Budisavljević.
feature film · 2015
The High Sun
The High Sun (Croatian: Zvizdan) is a 2015 anthology drama film directed by Dalibor Matanić. A co-production of Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia, the film tells three stories about forbidden love between a Serb woman (Tihana Lazović) and a Croat man (Goran Marković) in the Dalmatian Hinterland, set in 1991, 2001 and 2011.
documentary film · 2018
Srbenka
The documentary observes rehearsals for a play about the 1991 murder of Serbian girl Aleksandra Zec in Zagreb, revealing persistent Croatian-Serbian tensions, childhood fear and the difficulty of public remembrance.
feature film · 2013
An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker
Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (Bosnian: Epizoda u životu berača željeza) is 2013 drama film written and directed by Danis Tanović.
feature film · 2009
Ordinary People
Young soldiers during the Yugoslav wars are ordered to guard and execute civilian prisoners. The austere drama examines how routine, obedience and group pressure turn ordinary people into participants in mass violence.
film or documentary · 2008
Snow
In a post-war Bosnian village populated mainly by women whose men disappeared during the war, an offer to buy their land forces the community to weigh economic survival against memory and attachment to home.
feature film · 2011
The Parade
The Parade (Serbian: Парада, Parada) is a 2011 Serbian comedy-drama film, written and directed by Srđan Dragojević and released on 31 October 2011. The film, which deals with LGBT rights issues in Serbia, features footage of the 2010 Belgrade gay pride parade.
feature film · 1970
The Ear
The Ear (Czech: Ucho) is a Czech language film by Karel Kachyňa, completed in 1969. This film was banned by the nation's ruling Communist party (who were supported by the occupying Soviet forces).
feature film · 1969
The Cremator
The Cremator (Czech: Spalovač mrtvol) is a 1969 Czechoslovak dark comedy horror film directed by Juraj Herz, based on a novel by Ladislav Fuks. The screenplay was written by Herz and Fuks.
film or documentary · 1966
O slavnosti a hostech
A group of picnickers is drawn into a celebration run by a polite but increasingly authoritarian host. Jan Němec’s absurdist allegory explores conformity, coercion and the willingness to accept power as social normality.
feature film · 1969
The Joke
The Joke (Czech: Žert) is a 1969 Czechoslovak film by director Jaromil Jireš. It is considered one of the last films of the Czech New Wave movement.
feature film · 1999
Cosy Dens
Cosy Dens (Czech: Pelíšky) is a 1999 Czech film directed by Jan Hřebejk. It is loosely based on the novel Hovno Hoří ("shit burns") by Petr Šabach.
feature film · 2016
The Teacher
The Teacher (Slovak: Učiteľka) is a 2016 Slovak-Czech black comedy film directed by Jan Hřebejk which premiered at the 2016 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where Zuzana Mauréry received an award for best actress.
feature film · 2018
Jan Palach
Jan Palach is a Czech biographical film directed by Robert Sedláček. The film follows Jan Palach during 1968 and 1969 and shows the final 6 months of his life.
feature film · 1970
The Confession
The Confession (French: L'aveu) is a 1970 French-Italian film directed by Costa-Gavras starring Yves Montand and Simone Signoret. It is based on the true story of the Czechoslovak communist committed leftist Artur London, a defendant in the Slánský trial.
feature film · 1988
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a 1988 American romantic drama film, an adaptation of the 1984 novel by Milan Kundera. It was directed by Philip Kaufman, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jean-Claude Carrière, and stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche and Lena Olin.
feature film · 1965
The Shop on Main Street
The Shop on Main Street (Czech/Slovak: Obchod na korze; in the UK The Shop on the High Street) is a 1965 Czechoslovak film about the Aryanization program during World War II in the Slovak Republic. The film was written by Ladislav Grosman and directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos.
feature film · 1967
The Fireman's Ball
The Firemen's Ball (or Fireman's Ball; Czech: Hoří, Má Panenko: "Fire, My Lady") is a 1967 Czechoslovak New Wave satirical comedy directed by Miloš Forman. It is set at the annual ball of a small town's volunteer fire department, and the plot portrays a series of disasters that occur during the evening.
feature film · 1960
Vyšší princip
Higher Principle (Czech: Vyšší princip) is a Czech drama film based on the eponymous short story from the book Silent Barricade (Czech: Němá barikáda) written by Jan Drda in 1946. The movie was released in 1960 and was temporarily banned in West Germany as the "anti-German film".
feature film · 1964
Atentát
Atentát (English title: The Assassination) is a 1964 black-and-white Czechoslovak war film directed by Jiří Sequens. The film depicts events before and after the World War II assassination of top German leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague (Operation Anthropoid).
feature film · 2016
Anthropoid
Anthropoid is a 2016 war film directed by Sean Ellis and starring Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan, Charlotte Le Bon, Anna Geislerová, Harry Lloyd, Toby Jones and Marcin Dorocinski, It was written by Ellis and Anthony Frewin.
film or documentary · 2011
Lidice
The historical drama reconstructs the lives of Lidice residents before and during the Nazi destruction of the village in June 1942, presenting the event through relationships, guilt, chance and collective reprisal.
feature film · 2018
Toman
Toman, Zdeněk Toman, is a 2018 Czech historical film by Ondřej Trojan. It focuses on Zdeněk Toman, who led Czechoslovak intelligence from 1945 to 1948.
feature film · 2012
In the Shadows
A detective investigating an apparently ordinary robbery in early-1950s Czechoslovakia uncovers a politically engineered case in which a fabricated crime is meant to serve state propaganda.
feature film · 1996
Kolya
Kolya (Czech: Kolja) is a 1996 Czech drama film about a man whose life is reshaped in an unexpected way. The film was directed by Jan Svěrák and stars his father, Zdeněk Svěrák, who also wrote the script from a story by Pavel Taussig.
feature film · 2009
Kawasaki's Rose
Kawasaki's Rose (Czech: Kawasakiho růže) is a 2009 Czech drama film directed by Jan Hřebejk. The film is a study of memory, the repressive Communist era, and reconciliation.
feature film · 2003
Good Bye Lenin!
After the Berlin Wall falls, a young man hides the collapse of East Germany from his ill mother and constructs an increasingly elaborate socialist reality inside their flat, blending family deception, memory and rapid social change.
feature film · 2002
The Pianist
The Pianist is a 2002 epic biographical historical drama film co-produced and directed by Roman Polanski, with a script by Ronald Harwood, and starring Adrien Brody. It is based on the autobiographical book The Pianist (1946), a memoir by the Polish-Jewish pianist, composer and Holocaust survivor Władysław Szpilman.
feature film · 2007
Katyń
Katyń (Polish pronunciation: [ˈkatɨɲ]) is a 2007 Polish historical drama film about the 1940 Katyn massacre, directed by Andrzej Wajda. It is based on the book Post Mortem: The Story of Katyn by Andrzej Mularczyk.
feature film · 1977
Man of Marble
Man of Marble (Polish: Człowiek z marmuru) is a 1977 Polish film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It chronicles the fall from grace of a fictional heroic Polish bricklayer, Mateusz Birkut (played by Jerzy Radziwiłowicz), who became the Stakhanovite symbol of an over-achieving worker, in Nowa Huta, a new (real-life) socialist city near Kraków.
feature film · 1981
Man of Iron
During the Gdańsk shipyard strikes, a journalist is ordered to discredit a worker linked to Solidarity. His investigation forces him to confront his own compromises and the machinery of state propaganda.
feature film · 2018
Cold War
Cold War (Polish: Zimna wojna [ʑimna vojna]) is a 2018 historical romantic drama film directed by Paweł Pawlikowski, who co-wrote the screenplay with Janusz Głowacki and Piotr Borkowski. It is an international co-production by producers in Poland, France and the United Kingdom.
feature film · 2007
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Romanian: 4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile) is a 2007 Romanian art film written and directed by Cristian Mungiu and starring Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, and Vlad Ivanov. The film is set in Communist Romania in the final years of the Nicolae Ceaușescu era.
feature film · 2002
The Sum of All Fears
The Sum of All Fears is a 2002 American spy thriller film directed by Phil Alden Robinson, based on Tom Clancy's 1991 novel of the same name. The film, which is set in the Jack Ryan franchise, is a reboot taking place in 2002.
television film · 1974
The Missiles of October
The Missiles of October is a 1974 television docudrama about the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. The title evokes the 1962 book The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman, about the missteps amongst the great powers and the failed chances to give an opponent a graceful way out, which led to World War I.
feature film · 2017
The Death of Stalin
The Death of Stalin is a 2017 British-French-Belgian political satire black comedy film directed by Armando Iannucci and written by Iannucci, David Schneider and Ian Martin with Peter Fellows. Based on the French graphic novel La Mort de Staline (2010–2012), the film depicts the internal social and political power struggle among the members of the Soviet Politburo following the death of leader Joseph Stalin in 1953.
television series · 2020
The Mole – Undercover in North Korea
The Mole: Undercover in North Korea is a 2020 documentary miniseries written and directed by Mads Brügger that managed to record plans of large-scale illegal weapon distributions, methamphetamine laboratories, and money laundering.
feature film · 2019
The Coldest Game
The Coldest Game (Polish: Ukryta gra) is a 2019 English-language Polish spy film. It is directed by Łukasz Kośmicki and stars Bill Pullman as Joshua Mansky, an American alcoholic former chess champion who becomes involved in a Cold War confrontation between nuclear superpowers.
television series · 2019
The Spy
The Spy is a French English-language espionage television miniseries, created and directed by Gideon Raff, based on the life of Israel's top Mossad spy Eli Cohen, who is portrayed by Sacha Baron Cohen (no relation). The series is a production by French company Légende Entreprises for Canal+ and Netflix.
documentary film · 2019
Korea: The Never-Ending War
The PBS documentary places the Korean War within the longer history of colonialism, partition and US foreign policy, following the conflict from 1950 to an armistice that was never replaced by a peace treaty.
documentary film · 2010
Nuclear Tipping Point
Nuclear Tipping Point is a 2010 documentary film produced by the Nuclear Threat Initiative. It features interviews with four American government officials who were in office during the Cold War period, but are now advocating for the elimination of nuclear weapons: Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, Sam Nunn, and William Perry.
television series · 2015
Deutschland 83
Deutschland 83 is a 2015 German spy thriller television series starring Jonas Nay as a 24-year-old native of East Germany who is sent to West Germany in 1983 as an undercover spy for the HVA, the foreign intelligence agency of the Stasi.
documentary film · 2017
Atomic Homefront
Atomic Homefront is a 2017 documentary film about the effects of radioactive waste stored in West Lake Landfill in St. Louis County, Missouri.
documentary film · 2007
White Light/Black Rain
The documentary brings together survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Americans involved in the missions, using testimony and archives to show the immediate and lifelong consequences of nuclear weapons.
television film · 2005
Hiroshima: BBC History of World War II
Hiroshima is a BBC docudrama that premiered as a television special on 5 August 2005, marking the eve of the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The programme was aired on the Discovery Channel and BBC America in the United States.
feature film · 2013
The East
The East is a 2013 thriller film directed by Zal Batmanglij and starring Brit Marling, Alexander Skarsgård, and Elliot Page. Writers Batmanglij and Marling spent two months in 2009 practicing freeganism and co-wrote a screenplay inspired by their experiences and drawing on thrillers from the 1970s.
feature film · 2013
The Fifth Estate
The Fifth Estate is a 2013 biographical thriller film directed by Bill Condon about the news-leaking website WikiLeaks. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as its editor-in-chief and founder Julian Assange and Daniel Brühl as its former spokesperson Daniel Domscheit-Berg.
documentary film · 2018
The Panama Papers
Alex Winter reconstructs the Mossack Fonseca leak and the work of an international journalism network, explaining how offshore companies can hide wealth, avoid taxation and obscure ownership.
feature film · 2012
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a 2013 American political thriller drama film directed by Mira Nair and starring Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, and Liev Schreiber. It is based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Mohsin Hamid.
feature film · 1998
The Siege
The Siege is a 1998 American action thriller film directed and produced by Edward Zwick, who co-wrote the screenplay with Lawrence Wright and Menno Meyjes, from a story by Wright. Starring Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Tony Shalhoub, and Bruce Willis, the film concerns terrorist cells making several attacks in New York City and the police attempts to stop them.
feature film · 2014
A Most Wanted Man
A Most Wanted Man is a 2014 espionage thriller film based on the 2008 novel by John le Carré, directed by Anton Corbijn and written by Andrew Bovell. The film stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe, Robin Wright, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Homayoun Ershadi, Daniel Brühl and Nina Hoss.
feature film · 2009
The International
The International is a 2009 action thriller film directed by Tom Tykwer and written by Eric Warren Singer. Starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts, the film follows an Interpol agent and an American district attorney who jointly investigate corruption within the IBBC, a fictional merchant bank based in Luxembourg.
feature film · 2010
The Ghost Writer
The Ghost Writer (released as The Ghost in the United Kingdom and Ireland) is a 2010 neo-noir political thriller film directed by Roman Polanski. The film is an adaptation of the 2007 novel, The Ghost, by Robert Harris with the screenplay written by Polanski and Harris.
documentary film · 1987
The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis
Bill Moyers examines the Iran-Contra affair and the wider growth of a hidden US national-security apparatus, asking how covert operations and executive power evade democratic oversight.
documentary film · 2011
The Man Nobody Knew
Carl Colby portrays his father William Colby, an intelligence officer and later CIA director, combining family history with covert operations, Vietnam and disputes over intelligence accountability.
television series · 2017
Wormwood
Wormwood (styled as 'WORMWO0D') is a 2017 American six-part docudrama miniseries directed by Errol Morris and released on Netflix on December 15, 2017. The series is based on the life of a scientist, Frank Olson, who worked for a secret government biological warfare program (the USBWL) at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
television miniseries · 2018
The Looming Tower
The Looming Tower is an American drama television miniseries, based on Lawrence Wright's 2006 book of the same name, which premiered on Hulu on February 28, 2018. The 10-episode drama series was created and executive produced by Dan Futterman, Alex Gibney, and Wright.
feature film · 1992
Dien Bien Phu
Diên Biên Phu (French for Điện Biên Phủ) is a French 1992 epic war film written and directed by French veteran Pierre Schoendoerffer. With its huge budget, all-star cast, and realistic war scenes produced with the cooperation of both the French and Vietnamese armed forces, Dîen Bîen Phu is regarded by many as one of the more important war movies produced in French filmmaking history.
feature film · 1992
Indochine
Indochine (French pronunciation: [ɛ̃dɔʃin]) is a 1992 French period drama film set in colonial French Indochina from the 1930s to the 1950s. It is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnamese daughter, Camille, set against the backdrop of the rising Vietnamese nationalist movement.
feature film · 1993
The Scent of Green Papaya
The Scent of Green Papaya (Vietnamese: Mùi đu đủ xanh, French: L'Odeur de la papaye verte) is a 1993 Vietnamese-French drama film written and directed by Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung, and starring Tran Nu Yên-Khê, Man San Lu, and Thi Loc Truong.
documentary film · 2009
Enemies of the People
Enemies of the People is a 2009 British-Cambodian documentary film written and directed by Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath. The film depicts the 10-year quest of co-director Sambath to find truth and closure in the Killing Fields of Cambodia.
feature film · 1982
The Year of Living Dangerously
The Year of Living Dangerously is a 1982 romantic drama film directed by Peter Weir and co-written by Weir and David Williamson. It was adapted from Christopher Koch's 1978 novel The Year of Living Dangerously.
feature film · 2011
The Lady
The Lady is a 2011 British biographical film directed by Luc Besson, starring Michelle Yeoh as Aung San Suu Kyi and David Thewlis as her late husband Michael Aris. Yeoh called the film "a labour of love" but also confessed it had felt intimidating for her to play the Nobel laureate.
documentary film · 2008
Burma VJ
Burmese video journalists secretly record the 2007 monk-led protests against the military junta. Footage smuggled out of the country documents civil resistance, repression and the importance of independent images.
feature film · 2013
The Railway Man
The Railway Man is a 2013 war film directed by Jonathan Teplitzky. It is an adaptation of the 1995 autobiography of the same name by Eric Lomax, and stars Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, and Stellan Skarsgård.
feature film · 2008
The Sea Wall
The Sea Wall (French: Un barrage contre le Pacifique) is a 2008 film by Cambodian director Rithy Panh in a French/Cambodian/Belgian co-production. The film opened on 7 January 2009 in France.
feature film · 2014
The Last Reel
The Last Reel (Khmer: ដុំហ្វីលចុងក្រោយ, Dom Fil Chongkraoy) is a 2014 Cambodian drama film co-produced and directed by Kulikar Sotho and written by Ian Masters.
television film · 2003
The Pentagon Papers
The Pentagon Papers is a 2003 American historical drama television film about Daniel Ellsberg and the events leading up to the publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971. The film documents Ellsberg's life starting with his work for RAND Corporation and ending with the day on which the judge declared a mistrial in Ellsberg's espionage case.
animated film · 2018
Funan
Funan is a 2018 period drama animated film directed by Denis Do and written by Do and Magali Pouzol with the participation of Elise Trinh, about a Cambodian woman's search for her son, who was separated from her during a chaotic forced relocation at the beginning of the Khmer Rouge revolution in April 1975.
feature film · 2014
The Gate
The Gate (French: Le Temps des aveux) is a 2014 French-Belgian-Cambodian drama film directed by Régis Wargnier, based on the books by François Bizot.
feature film · 1940
The Great Dictator
The Great Dictator is a 1940 American political satire black comedy film written, directed, produced by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. Having been the only major Hollywood filmmaker to continue to make silent films well into the period of sound films, Chaplin made this his first true sound film.
feature film · 2010
The Social Network
The Social Network is a 2010 American biographical drama film directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin. Based on the 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich, the film portrays the founding of the social networking website Facebook.
documentary film · 2015
The Brainwashing of My Dad
The Brainwashing of My Dad is a 2015 American documentary film directed by Jen Senko. Inspired by what she viewed as her father’s radicalization by right-wing media, Senko explores forces she argues are behind a rise in such media, the deliberate strategies that fueled its influence, its impact on families including her own, and its perceived role in deepening political divisions across the nation.
documentary film · 2014
Merchants of Doubt
Merchants of Doubt is a 2014 American documentary film directed by Robert Kenner and inspired by the 2010 book of the same name by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway.
documentary film · 2003
The Yes Men
The Yes Men is a 2003 American documentary film about the early culture jamming exploits of The Yes Men.
documentary film · 2014
The Yes Men Are Revolting
The Yes Men Are Revolting is a 2014 documentary film directed by Laura Nix and The Yes Men, a culture jamming duo who use the aliases Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno. Adam McKay executive produced.
documentary film · 2019
Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies
Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies is a 2019 Canadian documentary film, directed by Larry Weinstein. The film examines the nature and history of propaganda, particularly the use of visual art to promote both positive and negative social messaging.
documentary film · 2004
The Persuaders
This PBS Frontline documentary follows advertising and political consultants who study emotion, identity and values, showing how marketing techniques move from selling products into elections and public debate.
documentary series · 2018
The Facebook Dilemma
The two-part PBS Frontline investigation traces Facebook’s growth and the conflict between its business model, privacy, content moderation and political abuse, using former employees and cases from several countries.
documentary film · 2017
Nothing to Hide
A volunteer who says he has nothing to hide undergoes weeks of digital surveillance. The experiment shows what ordinary data can reveal and why privacy protects more than personal secrets.
documentary film · 1992
Manufacturing Consent
This portrait of Noam Chomsky presents his critique of mass media and the manufacture of consent, linking ownership, news selection and the boundaries of acceptable debate through lectures and case studies.
documentary film · 2018
The Creepy Line
The Creepy Line is a 2018 American documentary exploring the influence Google and Facebook have on public opinion, and the power the companies have that is not regulated or controlled by national government legislation. The title is taken from a quote by Eric Schmidt, who when describing Google's use of personal information stated that the company did not cross the line that an ordinary user would find unacceptable.
feature film · 2017
The Truth About Lies
The Truth About Lies is an American romantic comedy film directed, produced and written by Phil Allocco and stars Fran Kranz, Odette Annable, Mary Elizabeth Ellis and Chris Diamantopoulos.
documentary film · 2008
The End of Poverty?
The documentary traces global poverty through colonialism, unequal trade, debt and the concentration of land and resources, comparing expert arguments with experiences from communities in several countries.
documentary film · 2001
Life and Debt
Life and Debt is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Stephanie Black. It examines the economic and social situation in Jamaica after globalization, and specifically how the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank's structural adjustment policies have impacted the island.
documentary film · 2012
Stealing Africa
The documentary follows copper extraction in Zambia and the tax arrangements of multinational Glencore, showing why a resource-rich country may receive little corresponding public revenue.
documentary film · 2015
The True Cost
The True Cost is a 2015 documentary film directed by Andrew Morgan that focuses on fast fashion. It discusses several aspects of the garment industry from production—mainly exploring the life of low-wage workers in developing countries—to its after-effects such as river and soil pollution, pesticide contamination, disease and death.
documentary film · 2007
The Big Sellout
Four stories from different countries examine the privatisation of water, electricity, health care and railways, comparing promises of efficiency with access to essential services and democratic accountability.
documentary film · 2015
The Divide
Katharine Round follows people in the United States and Britain whose lives are shaped by growing income inequality, connecting personal stories with work, housing, health and social mobility.
documentary film · 2012
Four Horsemen
Four Horsemen is a 2012 British documentary film directed by Ross Ashcroft. The film criticises the system of fractional reserve banking, debt-based economy and political lobbying by banks, which it regards as a serious threat to Western civilisation.
documentary film · 2011
The Flaw
The documentary examines the 2008 financial crisis through stagnant wages, household debt, housing prices and deregulation, combining economic arguments with the experiences of people hit by the collapse.
documentary film · 2001
The New Rulers of the World
John Pilger examines globalised production in Indonesia and the links among Western brands, local labour, financial institutions and political power in an explicitly critical documentary essay.
feature film · 2014
99 Homes
99 Homes is a 2014 American independent drama film directed by Ramin Bahrani, written by Bahrani and Amir Naderi, and starring Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon, Tim Guinee, and Laura Dern.
feature film · 2016
I, Daniel Blake
I, Daniel Blake is a 2016 British drama film written by Paul Laverty and directed by Ken Loach. The film stars Dave Johns as Daniel Blake, a middle-aged man who is denied Employment and Support Allowance despite being declared unfit to work by his doctor.
feature film · 2019
Sorry We Missed You
Sorry We Missed You is a 2019 drama film written by Paul Laverty and directed by Ken Loach, shot in Newcastle upon Tyne and surrounding areas. Shortly after the 2008 financial crisis Ricky Turner, hopes self-employment as a UK delivery driver through the gig economy will solve the financial difficulties, he and his wife struggle with, to raise their family, but they get trapped in the vicious circle of labour exploitation.
feature film · 2020
De Oost
A young Dutch soldier is deployed to the Indonesian war of independence after the Second World War. He becomes entangled in counter-insurgency violence and must choose among obedience, conscience and loyalty to his unit.
documentary film · 2006
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 American documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former vice president of the United States Al Gore's campaign to educate people about global warming. The film features a slide show that, by Gore's own estimate, he has presented over 1,000 times to audiences worldwide.
documentary film · 2016
Before the Flood
Before the Flood is a 2016 documentary film about climate change directed by Fisher Stevens. The film was produced as a collaboration between Stevens, Leonardo DiCaprio, James Packer, Brett Ratner, Trevor Davidoski, and Jennifer Davisson Killoran.
documentary film · 2012
Chasing Ice
Chasing Ice is a 2012 documentary film about the efforts of nature photographer James Balog and his insane Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) to publicize the effects of climate change. The film was directed by Jeff Orlowski.
documentary film · 2017
Chasing Coral
Chasing Coral is a 2017 American documentary film about a team of divers, scientists and photographers around the world who document the disappearance of coral reefs. Chasing Coral was produced by Exposure Labs and directed by Jeff Orlowski.
feature film · 2000
Erin Brockovich
Erin Brockovich is a 2000 American biographical legal drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Susannah Grant. The film is a dramatization of the true story of Erin Brockovich, portrayed by Julia Roberts, who initiated a legal case against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company over its culpability for the Hinkley groundwater contamination incident.
documentary film · 2010
Gasland
Gasland is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Josh Fox. It focuses on communities in the United States where natural gas drilling activity was a concern and, specifically, on hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), a method of stimulating production in otherwise impermeable rock.
documentary film · 2018
The Devil We Know
The Devil We Know is a 2018 investigative documentary film by director Stephanie Soechtig regarding allegations of health hazards from perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA, also known as C8), a key ingredient used in manufacturing Teflon, and DuPont's potential responsibility.
documentary film · 2022
The Territory
The Territory is a 2022 internationally co-produced documentary film directed by Alex Pritz. It follows a young Indigenous leader of the Uru-eu-wau-wau people fighting back against farmers, colonizers and settlers who encroach on a protected area of the Amazon rainforest.
documentary film · 2018
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch is a 2018 Canadian documentary film made by Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier and Edward Burtynsky. It explores the emerging concept of a geological epoch called the Anthropocene, defined by the impact of humanity on natural development.
documentary film · 2007
The Story of Stuff
The Story of Stuff is a short animated documentary about the lifecycle of material goods. The documentary is critical of excessive consumerism and promotes sustainability.
documentary film · 2016
Plastic China
Plastic China (simplified Chinese: 塑料王国; traditional Chinese: 塑料王國) is a 2016 Chinese documentary film depicting the lives of two families who make their living recycling plastic waste imported from developed countries.
documentary film · 2016
The Age of Consequences
The documentary frames climate change as a security risk that can intensify resource scarcity, migration and political instability, with military officers, analysts and veterans discussing prevention and adaptation.
dokumentární série · 2019
The Age of A.I.
The Age of A.I. is an eight-episode American science documentary television series narrated and hosted by American actor Robert Downey Jr.
documentary film · 2023
Unknown: Killer Robots
The documentary follows military systems that use artificial intelligence, from autonomous navigation to target selection, while developers, soldiers and critics debate speed, accountability and the limits of human control.
documentary film · 1989
For All Mankind
For All Mankind is a 1989 documentary film made of original footage from NASA's Apollo program, which successfully prepared and landed the first humans on the Moon from 1968 to 1972. It was directed by Al Reinert, with music by Brian Eno.
documentary film · 2018
The Most Unknown
The Most Unknown is a 2018 documentary film, directed by Ian Cheney, that introduces nine researchers from diverse scientific backgrounds to areas of scientific field work new to them. The film has had mixed reviews, with some reviewers focused on the participants' contagious fascination with research on life's biggest mysteries ("the most unknown"), while other reviewers criticised the film's coverage of difficult technical concepts as lacking depth.
feature film · 1961
Judgment at Nuremberg
Judgment at Nuremberg is a 1961 American epic legal drama film directed and produced by Stanley Kramer, and written by Abby Mann. It features Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell, Werner Klemperer, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, William Shatner, and Montgomery Clift.
feature film · 2020
The Trial of the Chicago 7
The Trial of the Chicago 7 is a 2020 American historical legal drama film written and directed by Aaron Sorkin. The film follows the Chicago Seven, a group of anti–Vietnam War protesters charged with conspiracy and crossing state lines with the intention of inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
feature film · 2015
Spotlight
Spotlight is a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer. The film follows The Boston Globe's "Spotlight" team, the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative journalist unit in the United States, and its investigation into a decades-long coverup of widespread and systemic child sex abuse by numerous priests of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.
documentary film · 2016
I Am Not Your Negro
I Am Not Your Negro is a 2016 documentary film and social critique film essay directed by Raoul Peck, based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript Remember This House. Narrated by actor Samuel L.
documentary film · 2016
The 13th
13th is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Ava DuVernay. It explores the prison–industrial complex, and the "intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States".
television miniseries · 2019
When They See Us
When They See Us is a 2019 American crime drama television miniseries created, co-written, and directed by Ava DuVernay for Netflix, that premiered in four parts on May 31, 2019. It is based on events of the 1989 Central Park jogger case and explores the lives and families of the five Black and Latino male suspects who were falsely accused then prosecuted on charges related to the rape and assault of a White woman in Central Park, Manhattan, New York City.
documentary film · 2020
Crip Camp
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution is a 2020 American documentary film directed, written, and co-produced by Nicole Newnham and James LeBrecht. Barack and Michelle Obama served as executive producers under their Higher Ground Productions banner.
feature film · 1962
The Trial
Orson Welles adapts Kafka’s The Trial as a labyrinth of offices, courts and anonymous power. Josef K. is accused without explanation and searches in vain for the rules of the system judging him.
television miniseries · 2016
The Night Of
The Night Of is a 2016 American eight-part crime drama miniseries based on the first series of Criminal Justice, a 2008 British series. The miniseries was written by Richard Price and Steven Zaillian (based on the original Criminal Justice plot by Peter Moffat), and directed by Zaillian and James Marsh.
documentary film · 2012
The Central Park Five
The Central Park Five is a 2012 documentary film about the Central Park jogger case, directed by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns, and her husband David McMahon. It covers the arrests, interrogations, trials, convictions and vacating the convictions of the five men who were teenagers in 1989 at the time of the case.
documentary film · 1988
The Thin Blue Line
The Thin Blue Line is a 1988 American documentary film by Errol Morris, about the trial and conviction of Randall Dale Adams for the 1976 shooting of Dallas police officer Robert W. Wood.
television series · 2020
The Innocence Files
The Innocence Files is a 2020 American true crime documentary miniseries about wrongful convictions, and how they can affect the lives of the involved. The series is based upon the work of the Innocence Project, which is committed to exonerating individuals who it believes to have been wrongfully convicted.
documentary film · 2012
The Human Scale
The documentary follows Jan Gehl’s urban-planning ideas and projects that return city space to pedestrians and public life, contrasting car-centred development with planning at a human scale.
television series · 1973
The World at War
The World at War is a 26-episode British documentary television series that chronicles the events of the Second World War and aired between 31 October 1973 – 8 May 1974 on ITV. Produced by Thames Television in collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, it took four years to make at a cost of around £880,000 (equivalent to £12,900,000 in 2025), making it the most expensive factual series ever made at the time.
feature film · 2008
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (released as The Boy in the Striped Pajamas in North America) is a 2008 Holocaust historical drama film written and directed by Mark Herman. It is based on the 2006 novel of the same name by John Boyne.
feature film · 2001
The Grey Zone
The Grey Zone is a 2001 American historical tragedy film written and directed by Tim Blake Nelson and starring David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, and Daniel Benzali. It is based on the book Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account written by Miklós Nyiszli.
television film · 2015
The Eichmann Show
The Eichmann Show is a 2015 British BBC TV drama film produced by Laurence Bowen and Ken Marshall and directed by Paul Andrew Williams. It is based on the true story of how American TV producer Milton Fruchtman and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz came to broadcast the trial of one of World War II's most notorious Nazis, Adolf Eichmann, in 1961.
television film · 1984
The Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference (German: Die Wannseekonferenz) is a 1984 West German - Austrian TV film portraying the events of the Wannsee Conference, held in Berlin in January 1942. The script is derived from the minutes of the meeting.
feature film · 2005
Sophie Scholl – The Final Days
Sophie Scholl – The Final Days (German: Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage) is a 2005 German historical drama film directed by Marc Rothemund and written by Fred Breinersdorfer. It is about the last days in the life of Sophie Scholl, a 21-year-old member of the anti-Nazi non-violent student resistance group the White Rose, part of the German Resistance movement.
feature film · 2009
The White Ribbon
The White Ribbon (German: Das Weiße Band - Eine Deutsche Kindergeschichte, lit. 'The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story') is a 2009 German mystery drama film written and directed by Michael Haneke.
documentary film · 2011
The Ambassador
The Ambassador (Danish: Ambassadøren) is a 2011 Danish documentary film created and directed by Danish filmmaker and journalist Mads Brügger.
feature film · 2016
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After political upheaval, an Eritrean ambassador’s wife loses her privileged position and becomes a refugee in south Tel Aviv. The short drama follows the loss of identity, status and state protection.
feature film · 2017
The Nile Hilton Incident
The Nile Hilton Incident (Arabic: حادث النيل هيلتون Hadith Alnayl Hiylton) is a 2017 Swedish thriller film directed by Tarik Saleh. The film discusses the corruption of Egyptian police before the 25 January Revolution.
feature film · 2006
The Yacoubian Building
The Yacoubian Building (Arabic: عمارة يعقوبيان, transliterated: ʿImārat Yaʿqūbīān or Omaret Yakobean) is a 2006 Egyptian film based on the novel of the same title by author Alaa Al Aswany. It has been reported to be the highest-budgeted film in the history of Egyptian cinema.
feature film · 2014
The President
The President (Persian: پرزیدنت) is a film by Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf following the themes of his previous film The Gardener.
feature film · 2017
The Insult
A quarrel between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee grows into a nationally watched court case, exposing civil-war memories, collective grievance and political tension in Lebanon.
documentary film · 2018
Capernaum
Capernaum (Arabic: كفرناحوم, romanized: Kafr nāħūm) is a 2018 Lebanese drama film directed by Nadine Labaki and produced by Khaled Mouzanar. The screenplay was written by Labaki, Jihad Hojaily and Michelle Keserwany from a story by Labaki, Hojaily, Keserwany, Georges Khabbaz and Khaled Mouzanar.
feature film · 2014
Theeb
Theeb (Arabic: ذيب, romanized: dhīb, lit. 'wolf' [ðiːb]) is a 2014 co-produced by Bassel Ghandour period drama thriller film co-written with Bassel Ghandour and directed by Naji Abu Nowar.
feature film · 2017
The Other Side of Hope
The Other Side of Hope (Finnish: Toivon tuolla puolen) is a 2017 Finnish comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by Aki Kaurismäki. The film was produced by Kaurismäki's Finnish company Sputnik.
documentary film · 2016
Fire at Sea
Fire at Sea (Italian: Fuocoammare) is a 2016 documentary film written and directed by Gianfranco Rosi. Filmed for almost a year in the Italian island of Lampedusa, it follows the 2015 European migrant crisis through the eyes of the people of the island.
documentary film · 2017
Human Flow
Human Flow is a 2017 German documentary film co-produced and directed by Ai Weiwei about the current global refugee crisis. In the film the viewer is taken to over 20 countries to understand both the scale and the personal impact of this massive human migration.
feature film · 2015
Mediterranea
Mediterranea (Italian: [mediterˈraːnea]) is a 2015 Italian drama film written and directed by Jonas Carpignano. The film stars Koudous Seihon and Alassane Sy as friends who cross the Mediterranean Sea to immigrate to Italy, where they experience unexpected hostility from locals.
feature film · 2014
The Good Lie
The Good Lie is a 2014 drama film written by Margaret Nagle and directed by Philippe Falardeau. The film stars Reese Witherspoon in the lead role, alongside Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany, Emmanuel Jal, and Corey Stoll.
feature film · 2019
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is a 2019 drama film written, directed by and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor in his feature directorial debut. The film is based on the memoir of the same name by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer.
feature film · 2018
The Nightingale
The Nightingale is a 2018 Australian historical psychological thriller film written and directed by Jennifer Kent. The film stars Aisling Franciosi, Sam Claflin, Baykali Ganambarr, Damon Herriman, Harry Greenwood, Ewen Leslie, Charlie Shotwell, Michael Sheasby, and Magnolia Maymuru.
feature film · 2015
Beasts of No Nation
Beasts of No Nation is a 2015 American war drama film written, co-produced, shot, and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. It follows a young boy who becomes a child soldier as his country experiences a horrific civil war.
feature film · 2012
War Witch
War Witch (French: Rebelle, lit. 'Rebel') is a 2012 Canadian war drama written and directed by Kim Nguyen and starring Rachel Mwanza, Alain Lino Mic Eli Bastien and Serge Kanyinda.
feature film · 2014
Timbuktu
Timbuktu is a 2014 drama film directed and co-written by Abderrahmane Sissako. The film centres on the brief occupation of Timbuktu, Mali by Ansar Dine, and is partially influenced by the 2012 public stoning of an unmarried couple in Aguelhok.
feature film · 1982
The State of Things
The State of Things (German: Der Stand der Dinge) is a 1982 West German road film directed by Wim Wenders. It tells the story of a film crew stuck in Portugal after the production runs out of film stock and money.
feature film · 2005
Shooting Dogs
Shooting Dogs, released in the United States as Beyond the Gates, is a 2005 film directed by Michael Caton-Jones and starring John Hurt, Hugh Dancy and Clare-Hope Ashitey. It is based on the experiences of BBC news producer David Belton, who worked in Rwanda during the Rwandan genocide.
feature film · 2007
Shake Hands with the Devil
Shake Hands with the Devil is a 2007 Canadian biographical war drama film starring Roy Dupuis as Roméo Dallaire, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in August 2007.
documentary film · 2015
The Hunting Ground
The Hunting Ground is a 2015 American documentary film about the incidence of sexual assault on college campuses in the United States and the reported failure of college administrations to deal with it adequately. The film was released on February 27, 2015, an edited version aired on CNN on November 22, 2015, and was released on DVD the week of December 1, 2015.
documentary film · 2013
Inequality for All
Inequality for All is a 2013 documentary film directed by Jacob Kornbluth and narrated by American economist, author and professor Robert Reich. Based on Reich's 2010 book Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, the film examines widening income inequality in the United States.
documentary film · 2017
Saving Capitalism
Saving Capitalism is a 2017 documentary film directed by Jacob Kornbluth and Sari Gilman, following former Secretary of Labor and Professor Robert Reich, speaking about the current state of the American economic system, and presents ideas how to "save capitalism".
documentary film · 2014
The Overnighters
The Overnighters is a 2014 American documentary film written, directed, and produced by Jesse Moss.
documentary film · 1976
Harlan County, USA
Harlan County USA (variously written with and without a comma) is a 1976 American documentary film covering the "Brookside Strike", a 1973 effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company-owned Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky.
documentary film · 1990
American Dream
Barbara Kopple follows a long strike by Hormel meatpacking workers in Minnesota. A dispute over wage cuts divides unions and the local community while revealing changes in American labour during the 1980s.
television film · 2009
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant (also known as The Last Truck) is a 2009 documentary film, directed by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert and produced for HBO Films. The film follows the closure of the Moraine Assembly plant, a General Motors automobile factory in Moraine, Ohio, on December 23, 2008.
documentary film · 2005
The Devil's Miner
The Devil's Miner is a 2005 documentary film directed by independent film directors Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani. The film follows a fourteen-year-old Bolivian boy named Basilio Vargas who along with his twelve-year-old brother Bernardino work in the mines near the city of Potosí.
documentary film · 2014
The Salt of the Earth
The Salt of the Earth (also released under the French title Le sel de la terre) is a 2014 internationally co-produced biographical documentary film directed by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado. It portrays the works of Salgado's father, the Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado.
television series · 2012
The Untold History of the United States
The Untold History of the United States (also known as Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States) is a 2012 documentary television series created, directed, produced, and narrated by Oliver Stone about the reasons behind the Cold War, the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan, and changes in America's global role since the fall of Communism.
documentary film · 2009
South of the Border
South of the Border is a 2009 American documentary film directed by Oliver Stone. Writer for the project Tariq Ali calls the documentary "a political road movie".
documentary film · 2006
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
The documentary follows John Lennon’s anti-war activism and the Nixon administration’s effort to deport him, connecting popular culture, FBI surveillance and political dissent through archival material.
documentary film · 2015
Requiem for the American Dream
Noam Chomsky outlines ten mechanisms through which wealth and political influence concentrate in the United States, linking inequality, political finance, labour and the shaping of public opinion.
television film · 1998
The Pentagon Wars
The Pentagon Wars is a 1998 HBO comedy film directed by Richard Benjamin based on The Pentagon Wars: Reformers Challenge the Old Guard, a book written by retired United States Air Force Colonel James G. Burton about the development of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
feature film · 2009
The Men Who Stare at Goats
The Men Who Stare at Goats is a 2009 satirical black comedy war film directed by Grant Heslov and written by Peter Straughan. It is loosely based on the 2004 book by Jon Ronson, about an investigation into attempts by the U.S.
documentary film · 2015
The Good American
The documentary profiles former NSA analyst William Binney and ThinThread, a system intended to find security threats while limiting privacy intrusion, opening questions about surveillance before and after 9/11.
feature film · 2015
Truth
The drama reconstructs the 60 Minutes crisis after a report on George W. Bush’s military service, as producer Mary Mapes and anchor Dan Rather face doubts about documents, political pressure and collapsing trust.
feature film · 2004
Team America: World Police
Team America: World Police is a 2004 American puppet comedy film directed by Trey Parker, who co-wrote it with Matt Stone and Pam Brady. Parker and Stone also star alongside Kristen Miller, Masasa Moyo, Daran Norris, Phil Hendrie, Maurice LaMarche, Jeremy Shada, and Fred Tatasciore.
feature film · 1962
The War Lover
The War Lover is a 1962 British war film directed by Philip Leacock and written by Howard Koch, loosely based on the 1959 novel by John Hersey, altering the names of characters and events but retaining its basic framework.
feature film · 1955
I Live in Fear
I Live in Fear (Japanese: 生きものの記録, Hepburn: Ikimono no Kiroku; lit. 'Record of a Living Being') is a 1955 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, produced by Sōjirō Motoki, and co-written by Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, and Hideo Oguni.
feature film · 1991
Rhapsody in August
Rhapsody in August (Japanese: 八月の狂詩曲, Hepburn: Hachigatsu no Rapusodī) is a 1991 Japanese drama film by Akira Kurosawa based on the novel Nabe no Naka by Kiyoko Murata. Starring Sachiko Murase, Hidetaka Yoshioka, and Richard Gere, the story centers on an elderly hibakusha, who lost her husband in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, as she cares for her four grandchildren over the summer.
feature film · 1990
Dreams
Dreams (Japanese: 夢, Hepburn: Yume), also known as Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, is a 1990 magical realist anthology film of eight vignettes written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. Inspired by actual recurring dreams that Kurosawa had, it stars Akira Terao, Martin Scorsese, Chishū Ryū, Mieko Harada and Mitsuko Baisho.
feature film · 1960
The Bad Sleep Well
The Bad Sleep Well (Japanese: 悪い奴ほどよく眠る, Hepburn: Warui Yatsu Hodo Yoku Nemuru; lit. 'The worse they are, the better they sleep') is a 1960 Japanese neo-noir crime mystery film directed by Akira Kurosawa.
feature film · 1963
High and Low
High and Low (Japanese: 天国と地獄, Hepburn: Tengoku to Jigoku; lit. 'Heaven and Hell') is a 1963 Japanese police procedural film directed by Akira Kurosawa.
feature film · 1952
Ikiru
Ikiru (Japanese: 生きる; 'To Live') is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. The film examines the struggles of a terminally ill Tokyo bureaucrat (played by Takashi Shimura) and his final quest for meaning.
feature film · 1975
Dersu Uzala
Dersu Uzala (Russian: Дерсу Узала; Japanese: デルス·ウザーラ, romanized: Derusu Uzāra; alternative U.S. title: Dersu Uzala: The Hunter) is a 1975 epic biographical film directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa.
feature film · 1946
No Regrets for Our Youth
No Regrets for Our Youth (Japanese: わが青春に悔なし, Hepburn: Waga Seishun ni Kuinashi) is a 1946 Japanese film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. It is based on the 1933 Takigawa incident, and is considered a quintessential "democratization film", taking up many themes associated with social policy under the early Occupation of Japan.
feature film · 1949
Stray Dog
Stray Dog (Japanese: 野良犬, Hepburn: Nora Inu) is a 1949 Japanese crime drama noir film directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura. It was Kurosawa's second film of 1949 produced by the Film Art Association and released by Shintoho.
feature film · 1965
Red Beard
Red Beard (Japanese: 赤ひげ, Hepburn: Akahige) is a 1965 Japanese period drama film co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa, in his last collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune. Based on Shūgorō Yamamoto's 1959 short story collection, Akahige Shinryōtan, the film takes place in Koishikawa, a district of Edo, towards the end of the Tokugawa period (i.e.
feature film · 1954
Seven Samurai
Seven Samurai (Japanese: 七人の侍, Hepburn: Shichinin no Samurai) is a 1954 Japanese epic jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. Starring Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima and Yukiko Shimazaki, it tells the story of a village of peasants who hire seven samurai to help defend their village from bandits who will return after the harvest to steal their crops.
feature film · 1948
Drunken Angel
Drunken Angel (Japanese: 醉いどれ天使, Hepburn: Yoidore Tenshi) is a 1948 Japanese yakuza film directed by Akira Kurosawa and co-written by Kurosawa and Keinosuke Uekusa. Produced by Toho and starring Takashi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune, it tells the story of the alcoholic doctor Sanada and his yakuza patient Matsunaga.
feature film · 2019
Kesari
Kesari (transl. Saffron) is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language historical war film starring Akshay Kumar and directed by Anurag Singh.
feature film · 2004
Lakshya
Lakshya (transl. Aim) is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age war drama film directed by Farhan Akhtar, written by his father Javed Akhtar and produced by Ritesh Sidhwani under the banner of Excel Entertainment, with Ronnie Screwvala serving as co-producer under distributor UTV Motion Pictures.
feature film · 2013
Madras Cafe
Madras Cafe is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language political action thriller film directed by Shoojit Sircar and produced by John Abraham and Ronnie Lahiri under the banners JA Entertainment and Rising Sun Films. The film stars John Abraham, Nargis Fakhri and Raashii Khanna (in her film debut) in the lead roles.
feature film · 2000
Mission Kashmir
Mission Kashmir is a 2000 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. The film stars Sanjay Dutt, Hrithik Roshan, Jackie Shroff, Preity Zinta, and Sonali Kulkarni.
feature film · 2016
Saheb Bibi Golaam
Shaheb Bibi Golaam is an Indian Bengali Psychological thriller film directed by Pratim D. Gupta and stars Anjan Dutt, Swastika Mukherjee and Ritwick Chakraborty in the lead roles.
feature film · 1988
Salaam Bombay!
Salaam Bombay! is a 1988 Indian Hindi-language drama film, produced and directed by Mira Nair, in her feature directorial debut.
feature film · 2001
Samsara
Samsara is a 2001 independent film directed and co-written by Pan Nalin. An international co-production of India, Germany, France, Italy, and Switzerland, the film tells the story of a Buddhist monk's quest to find Enlightenment.
feature film · 1955
Shree 420
Naive Raj arrives in Bombay believing in honest work, but poverty and the lure of quick success draw him into fraud. Raj Kapoor’s social melodrama sets solidarity against corruption and class inequality.
feature film · 2008
Tahaan
Tahaan – A Boy With a Grenade is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language drama film written and directed by Santosh Sivan. The film is based on the life of a young boy and his pet donkey.
feature film · 2018
Thugs of Hindostan
Thugs of Hindostan is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language period action adventure film directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya and produced by Aditya Chopra under Yash Raj Films. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Katrina Kaif (in an extended cameo), Fatima Sana Shaikh, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Ronit Roy and Lloyd Owen.
feature film · 2017
Toilet - Ek Prem Katha
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha (transl. Toilet: A Love Story) or simply Toilet, is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Shree Narayan Singh.
feature film · 2019
Uri: The Surgical Strike
Uri: The Surgical Strike is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language war action film written and directed by debutant Aditya Dhar and produced by Ronnie Screwvala under the RSVP Movies banner.
feature film · 2006
Valley of Flowers
Valley of Flowers (French: La Vallée des fleurs) is a 2006 French-German-Indian independent film directed by Indian director Pan Nalin starring Indian actors Milind Soman, Naseeruddin Shah and French actress Mylene Jampanoi in the leading roles.
feature film · 2014
Highway
Highway is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language road drama film written and directed by Imtiaz Ali and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala. The film stars Alia Bhatt and Randeep Hooda.
feature film · 2012
Kahaani
Kahaani (IPA: [kəˈɦaːni]; transl. Story) is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language thriller film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Sujoy Ghosh.
feature film · 2020
Angrezi Medium
Angrezi Medium (transl. English Medium) is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language comedy drama film directed by Homi Adajania and produced under the production banner Maddock Films.
feature film · 2018
Daana Paani
Daana Paani is a 2018 Indian-Punjabi family drama film directed by Tarnvir Singh Jagpal and stars Jimmy Sheirgill and Simi Chahal in lead roles. The film is written by Jass Grewal and is produced by Nanokey Studios and GK Entertainment in association with Tarn Jagpal films and Cam Art Films.
feature film · 1999
Himalaya
Himalaya: Caravan (French: Himalaya: L'Enfance d'un chef) is a 1999 Nepali film directed by Éric Valli and was funded by corporations based in France. The film is a narrative on both the traditions and the impermanent nature of human struggle to retain and express power in the face of the gods.
feature film · 2017
Hindi Medium
Hindi Medium is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film written and directed by Saket Chaudhary, and produced by Dinesh Vijan and Bhushan Kumar under their respective banners Maddock Films and T-Series. It stars Irrfan Khan, Saba Qamar, Dishita Sehgal, Deepak Dobriyal and Amrita Singh.
feature film · 2008
Berlin Calling
Berlin Calling is a 2008 German tragicomedy film directed by Hannes Stöhr. The film depicts the events following DJ and producer Ickarus's (Paul Kalkbrenner) institutionalization for drug abuse.
feature film · 2012
La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser
The Legend of Kaspar Hauser (Italian: La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser) is a 2012 Italian drama film written and directed by Davide Manuli, based on "the legend" of Kaspar Hauser. In this modern western-like re-interpretation featuring Vincent Gallo, a music-obsessive Kaspar washes up on a Mediterranean beach, where half a dozen protagonists try to make sense of who he is.
feature film · 2018
22 July
22 July is a 2018 English-language Norwegian-British crime drama film about the 2011 Norway attacks and their aftermath, based on the book One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway — and Its Aftermath by Åsne Seierstad.
television miniseries · 2020
22. juli
The Norwegian miniseries follows the 22 July 2011 attacks through journalists, police, health workers, teachers and bereaved families, focusing on institutional response and long-term social consequences rather than spectacle.
feature film · 1997
Kundun
Kundun is a 1997 American epic biographical film written by Melissa Mathison and directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the life and writings of the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso (known also as Kundun), the exiled political and spiritual leader of Tibet.
feature film · 1995
Nixon
Nixon is a 1995 American epic historical drama film directed by Oliver Stone, produced by Stone, Clayton Townsend, and Andrew G. Vajna, and written by Stone, Christopher Wilkinson, and Stephen J.
feature film · 2016
Elvis & Nixon
Elvis & Nixon is a 2016 American comedy-drama film directed by Liza Johnson and written by Joey Sagal, Hanala Sagal, and Cary Elwes. The film stars Michael Shannon as singer Elvis Presley and Kevin Spacey as President Richard Nixon, and focuses on the December 21, 1970, meeting between the two men at the White House.
feature film · 2018
Vox Lux
Vox Lux is a 2018 American musical drama film written and directed by Brady Corbet, from a story by Corbet and Mona Fastvold. The film stars Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin and Jennifer Ehle.
feature film · 2000
Requiem for a Dream
Requiem for a Dream is a 2000 American psychological drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky and written by Aronofsky and Hubert Selby Jr., based on Selby's 1978 novel. It stars Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher McDonald and Marlon Wayans.
feature film · 1995
Leaving Las Vegas
Leaving Las Vegas is a 1995 romantic drama film written and directed by Mike Figgis and based on the 1990 semi-autobiographical novel by John O'Brien. Nicolas Cage stars as a suicidal alcoholic in Los Angeles who, having lost his family and been recently fired, has decided to move to Las Vegas and drink himself to death.
feature film · 2003
21 Grams
21 Grams is a 2003 American crime thriller film co-produced and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga. The film stars Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Danny Huston, and Benicio Del Toro.
television film · 1988
Grave of the Fireflies
Siblings Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive bombing, hunger and the collapse of family support in Japan during the final months of the Second World War, showing war through the experience of civilian children.
feature film · 2000
Dancer in the Dark
Dancer in the Dark is a 2000 psychological tragedy musical film written and directed by Lars von Trier. It stars Icelandic musician Björk as a factory worker who has a degenerative eye condition and is saving for an operation to prevent her young son from suffering the same fate.
feature film · 1996
Breaking the Waves
Breaking the Waves is a 1996 psychological romantic melodrama film directed and co-written by Lars von Trier and starring Emily Watson in her feature film acting debut, and with Stellan Skarsgård, a frequent collaborator with von Trier.
feature film · 1998
Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl
Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (Chinese: 天浴; pinyin: Tiān Yù; lit. 'Celestial Bath') is a 1998 Chinese drama film directed by Joan Chen in her directorial debut, who co-wrote the screenplay with Geling Yan.
television series · 2018
Deutschland 86
Deutschland 86 (German pronunciation: [ˈdɔʏtʃlant ˌzɛksʔʊntˈʔaxtsɪç]) is a 2018 German spy thriller television series starring Jonas Nay as an agent of East Germany in 1986, in relation to the Angolan Civil War. It is a sequel to the 2015 series Deutschland 83 and precedes the 2020 series Deutschland 89.
television series · 2020
Deutschland 89
Deutschland 89 is a 2020 German spy thriller television series, starring Jonas Nay as Martin Rauch, an agent of East Germany following the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Similarly to its two predecessors, the season received positive reception from critics, who mostly saw it as a fitting end to the series.
feature film · 2004
Mountain Patrol: Kekexili
Mountain Patrol: Kekexili (Chinese: 可可西里; Standard Tibetan: ཨ་ཆེན་གངས་རྒྱབ།) is a 2004 Chinese film directed by Lu Chuan that depicts the struggle between vigilante rangers and bands of poachers in the remote Tibetan region of Kekexili.
feature film · 1987
The Last Emperor
The Last Emperor (Italian: L'ultimo imperatore) is a 1987 epic biographical drama film about the life of Puyi, the last Emperor of China. It is directed by Bernardo Bertolucci from a screenplay he co-wrote with Mark Peploe, which was adapted from Puyi's 1964 autobiography, and independently produced by Jeremy Thomas.
feature film · 2003
The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai is a 2003 American epic period action drama film directed and produced by Edward Zwick, who also co-wrote the screenplay with John Logan and Marshall Herskovitz from a story devised by Logan. The film stars Tom Cruise, who also produced, along with Timothy Spall, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly, Tony Goldwyn, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Koyuki Kato in supporting roles.
feature film · 2003
Fat Pizza
This Australian comedy brings the Fat Pizza television characters into a feature-length story about pizza delivery, suburban clashes and deliberately exaggerated humour.
feature film · 2010
New Kids Turbo
Five unemployed friends from the Dutch village of Maaskantje stop paying their bills. The crude satire builds on their bad taste, loyalty and the increasingly absurd consequences of their revolt.
feature film · 2011
New Kids Nitro
The Dutch comedy sequel returns the Maaskantje gang to a feud with a neighbouring village, before an even more absurd common threat overtakes the local rivalry.
feature film · 2007
Promise Me This
Emir Kusturica's comedy follows a young man sent from the countryside to the city to fulfil several promises, including finding a future wife. The Balkan grotesque mixes family, tradition and modern chaos.
feature film · 1990
Air America
Set in Laos during the Vietnam War, this adventure satire follows pilots of a covert airline linked to the CIA. Its fictional plot raises questions about secret operations, logistics and moral compromise.
feature film · 1987
Good Morning, Vietnam
The story of an army radio host in Saigon sets his improvised humour against censorship and the official image of the war, linking entertainment for troops with growing awareness of the conflict's civilian consequences.
feature film · 2020
Da 5 Bloods
Four African-American veterans return to Vietnam to find their commander's remains and hidden gold. Spike Lee connects war trauma, racial experience, memory and what society truly carried away from the conflict.
feature film · 2017
Detroit
The drama reconstructs the Algiers Motel incident during the 1967 Detroit uprising, focusing on police brutality, racism, failed investigation and the unequal position of victims before institutions.
feature film · 2014
The Giver
In an orderly society without pain or conflict, a young man gains access to humanity's suppressed memories. The dystopia examines the price of stability, managed conformity and the role of personal memory in free choice.
feature film · 2007
Kid Svensk
Teenager Kirsi spends a summer in her family's Finland and searches for a relationship to language, home and identity. The intimate story captures the experience of growing up between two cultures.
feature film · 2013
Gagarin: First in Space
The biographical drama follows the selection and training of the first Soviet cosmonaut group and Yuri Gagarin's flight, recalling its technical achievement, personal risk and propaganda value.
feature film · 1987
Hamburger Hill
The war drama follows a US unit through repeated assaults on a heavily defended hill in Vietnam, emphasising exhaustion, casualties and the soldiers' experience inside a battle of attrition.
feature film · 2006
Flags of Our Fathers
The film follows the servicemen in the famous Iwo Jima flag-raising photograph and how the image became a tool of wartime mobilisation, contrasting personal experience with publicly manufactured heroism.
television miniseries · 2008
We Are from the Future
A group of young wartime relic hunters inexplicably find themselves on the Second World War's Eastern Front. The fantasy premise confronts a careless relationship to history with direct experience of combat.
feature film · 2010
We Are from the Future 2
The sequel again sends contemporary young men into Second World War combat, this time amid tensions between Russian and Ukrainian memory. Its adventure plot asks how the present rewrites the past.
feature film · 2004
The Passion of the Christ
This dramatisation of the final hours of Jesus focuses on arrest, trial and crucifixion. Its intensely physical treatment uses Catholic iconography, Aramaic and Latin and prompted extensive debate about screen violence.
feature film · 2003
Evil
The Swedish drama follows teenager Erik from domestic violence into a boarding school ruled by bullying and hierarchy, asking whether a violent system can be resisted without reproducing its methods.
feature film · 2007
The Class
The Estonian drama depicts escalating bullying and the failure of classmates and adults who ignore it, tracing group pressure and the destructive consequences of sustained humiliation.
television film · 2008
Summerhill
This British television drama is based on Summerhill School's dispute with state inspectors and the threat of closure, presenting a debate about children's freedom, responsibility and self-government in education.
feature film · 2011
1911
The historical drama depicts the Xinhai Revolution that brought down the Qing dynasty and created the Republic of China, following military clashes and the political work of revolutionaries around Sun Yat-sen.
television film · 2010
Temple Grandin
The biographical television film follows Temple Grandin, her experience of autism and work that changed livestock-facility design, emphasising visual thinking, education and practical support.
feature film · 2012
Wadjda
A Saudi girl wants to buy a green bicycle and seeks a way to earn the money despite social restrictions. The intimate story observes everyday rules, family, school and a child's persistence in claiming her own space.
television film · 2003
Soldier’s Girl
Based on a real case, this television drama follows the relationship between soldier Barry Winchell and transgender performer Calpernia Addams, focusing on prejudice, violence and the institutional environment of the US military.
feature film · 2011
War Horse
The story of Joey the horse runs from the English countryside through the First World War front and a succession of human owners, using his journey to view soldiers and civilians on different sides of the conflict.
feature film · 2013
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
A shy photo editor escapes into fantasy until a missing negative sends him into the real world. The adventure comedy connects personal courage, image-making and the search for meaning beyond routine.
feature film · 1997
The Postman
In post-apocalyptic America, a drifter begins delivering old letters and unintentionally revives the idea of a common state. The adventure uses communication, trust and institutional renewal as central symbols.
feature film · 1995
Waterworld
After the continents are flooded, people survive on floating settlements and search for legendary dry land. The adventure dystopia builds its world around scarce resources, trade, violent power and adaptation.
feature film · 2012
Süskind
The drama recalls Walter Süskind, a member of Amsterdam's Jewish Council who helped save children from deportation, portraying risky action from inside the machinery of Nazi persecution.
television film · 2010
Sisters of War
The Australian television drama draws on nurse Lorna Whyte and Catholic sister Berenice Twohill under the Japanese occupation of New Britain, following captivity, faith and women's survival in war.
feature film · 2006
Salvador (Puig Antich)
The biographical drama reconstructs the final period of Catalan anarchist Salvador Puig Antich, tried and executed by the Franco regime, connecting political resistance, judicial process and family perspective.
feature film · 2012
Robot & Frank
An ageing former burglar receives a care robot that helps with daily routines and eventually with a return to old skills. The intimate science fiction story explores autonomy, memory and machine care.
feature film · 2017
Destiny: Kamakura Monogatari
A gentle fantasy about newlyweds in Kamakura, where spirits and other beings live alongside humans. A personal pick for its poetic blend of everyday life, Japanese folklore and a devotion that crosses the boundary between worlds.