swap_horiz The Alpinist Alternatives

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Navalny

This gripping documentary meticulously investigates the poisoning and subsequent imprisonment of Russian opposition lead...

Movie Biographical Democracy United States

9.8 Brilliant

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No Other Land

No Other Land is a 2024 documentary filmed from 2019-2023 by four directors. The film documents the destruction of a Pal...

Drama Activist Historical Movie

8.9 Great

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20 Days in Mariupol

20 Days in Mariupol documents the initial period of the Russian invasion of Ukraine through video recorded by director M...

Real Time First Person Journalistic Movie

8.8 Great

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Summer of Soul

Summer of Soul is Questlove's 2021 documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, built from long-unseen concert f...

Music Archive Festival 2020S

8.7 Great

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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

The documentary explores the life of photographer Nan Goldin, focusing on her activism during the HIV/AIDS crisis in the...

Movie Biographical United States 2020S

8.6 Great

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Grey Gardens

Grey Gardens is a 1975 American documentary by Albert and David Maysles about Edith and Little Edie Beale, relatives of...

American 1970S Portrait Eccentric

8.6 Great

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Crumb

Crumb is Terry Zwigoff's 1994 documentary about cartoonist Robert Crumb and his family, noted for its intimate portrait...

Family 1990S Portrait Art

8.6 Great

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The Green Planet

The Green Planet is a 2022 BBC nature documentary series presented by David Attenborough, notable for time-lapse filming...

Nature Series Bbc 2020S

8.6 Great

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Ibelin

Ibelin is a 2024 Norwegian documentary by Benjamin Ree about gamer Mats Steen, notable for reconstructing his World of W...

Gaming Internet Netflix Disability

8.6 Great

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Welcome to Chechnya

Welcome to Chechnya is a 2020 David France documentary about activists helping LGBT Chechens flee persecution, notable f...

Russia Hbo Human Rights Lgbtq+

8.5 Great

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Salesman

Salesman is a 1969 direct cinema documentary by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, following door-to-door Bi...

American Portrait 1960S Maysles

8.4 Great

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The U.S. and the Holocaust

The U.S. and the Holocaust is a 2022 PBS documentary by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein about America's respo...

Series Holocaust America Ken Burns

8.4 Great

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Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros

Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros is a 2023 Frederick Wiseman documentary on the Troisgros family restaurants, notable for...

Food France Restaurant 2020S

8.4 Great

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Fire of Love

'Fire of Love' is a breathtaking documentary about the extraordinary love story between volcanologists Katia and Maurice...

Nature Adventure Exploration Passion

8.3 Great

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Four Daughters

Four Daughters is a 2023 documentary examining a Tunisian family impacted by two daughters’ departure to join Daesh in L...

Movie 2020S Tunisia

8.3 Great

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Flee

Flee is Jonas Poher Rasmussen's 2021 animated documentary about Afghan refugee Amin Nawabi, the first film Oscar-nominat...

Danish Animation Refugee Memoir

8.3 Great

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Dahomey

Dahomey is a 2024 documentary directed by Mati Diop that examines the return of 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of D...

Movie 2020S Senegal

8.2 Great

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The Dawn Wall

The Dawn Wall is a 2017 climbing documentary about Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson's free climb of El Capitan's Dawn W...

Adventure Climbing Yosemite 2010S

8.1 Great

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Meru

Meru is a 2015 climbing documentary by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi about repeated attempts on India's Shark...

Adventure Survival Climbing 2010S

7.9 Good

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Dick Johnson Is Dead

Dick Johnson Is Dead is Kirsten Johnson's 2020 documentary staging imagined deaths for her father while confronting deme...

Netflix Family Portrait 2020S

7.9 Good