This 2018 documentary film by French director Julien Faraut is set at the final of the 1984 French Open between John McEnroe and Ivan Lendl at a time when McEnroe was the world’s top-ranked player. Vogue called it the best film about tennis that was ever made and it really makes for an very interesting […]
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Diese Woche kommt der exzellente Dokumentarfilm Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse von Maria Speth in die Kinos. Der Film handelt von einer sechsten Schulklasse in Mittelhessen und ihrem Lehrer Herr Bachmann, der kurz vor der Rente steht und mit einer ganz besonderen Art unterrichtet. Er nimmt jedes einzelne Kind wahr, fördert gezielt die Kreativität z.B.
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Take a first look at the internationally co-produced documentary film The Lost Leonardo directed by Andreas Koefoed. The film follows the mystery behind the Salvator Mundi, an allegedly lost painting done by Leonardo Da Vinci, and the discussions surrounding its authenticity.
The 2018 French documentary film L’Isle au Tresor (Treasure Island) by Guillaume Brac is a beautiful authentic portrait of a water park in Paris. It shows natural everyday moments of the people going and working there and features some great scenes of witnessing the pure joy of youth and childhood, while also giving insight into
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The 1955 artistic French documentary short film Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog) by Alain Resnais is showing on Mubi. The film deals with the holocaust, detailing the progress from the rise of the Nazis, the deportation process, the construction of concentration camps and the life of the prisoners in contrast to the camps staff
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Chinese-born American documentary filmmaker Nanfu Wang (One Child Nation, 2019) is back with her new documentary film In the Same Breath about the beginnings of the COVID-Pandemic in China and the U.S and how the governments reacted to it. It was released in the United States on HBO recently and will hopefully be available elsewhere
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Moscow, March 1953: in the days following the death of Joseph Stalin, countless citizens flooded the Red Square to mourn their leader’s loss and witness his burial. Though the procession was captured in detail by hundreds of cameramen, their footage has remained largely unseen until now. Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa uses excellently shot archival footage
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The American-Norwegian documentary film Gunda, directed, co-written and co-edited by Russian director Viktor Kossakovsky is now showing in cinemas. The nonverbal film observes the life of pigs, chicken and cows on rural farms in an aesthetic style. It gained broader attention when Joaquin Phoenix stepped in as executive producer. It is interesting to get so
Senna is a 2010 British-French documentary film by the very talented director Asif Kapadia depicting the life and death of Brazilian Formula One Race Driver Ayrton Senna. It focues on his career in Racing from 1984 until his death in 1994. It is the first film in Kapadia’s excellent documentary trilogy about young prodigies rising
Here are six great Documentary Films you should check out on Mubi.
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