Movies genre: Documentary

The universal love for fried potatoes.

It's the 1980s and the world of professional surfing is a circus of fluro colours, peroxide hair and radical male egos. GIRLS CAN'T SURF follows the journey of a band of renegade surfers who took on the male-dominated professional surfing world to achieve equality and change the sport forever. Featuring surfing greats Jodie Cooper, Frieda Zamba, Pauline Menczer, Lisa Andersen, Pam Burridge, Wendy Botha, Layne Beachley and more, GIRLS CAN'T SURF is a wild ride of clashing personalities, sexism, adventure and heartbreak, with each woman fighting against the odds to make their dreams of competing a reality.

Chilean Magnum photographer Sergio Larraín, who developed a unique and enigmatic way of constructing images, became a photographic legend. He captured the edges of reality and ended up inhabiting them.

Click through this interactive special, helping superstar Ranveer Singh and adventurer Bear Grylls brave the Serbian wilderness to find a rare flower.

Explores the creative relationship and songs from Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' last two studio albums, "Ghosteen" and "Carnage".

Tells the deeply personal and poignant stories of three Indigenous AFL players.

Mount Lawrence is a documentary film focusing on Chandler Wild, a transplanted Texan living in New York City where he has been living since his adventure seeking and outdoor loving father committed suicide in 2007. The film follows Chandler as he travels by bicycle 6,500 miles to Alaska to name a mountain after his father. Deciding to attempt this feat of will and perseverance, he engages this journey as something that his father would have been proud of and will help preserve his remembrance. Chandler must learn the ropes of life as a nomad moving along the blue line state highways of America for four and a half months. Along the way, the people that Chandler meets are asked what their purpose in life is and their answers help Chandler begin to piece together what he sees as a life purpose for himself. Mount Lawrence promises to be a physical and emotion-al ride of a boy becoming a man while traveling through the heart of the American Continent.

The comedic stylings of four sort-of famous funnymen are brought to the big screen courtesy of this 2002 documentary.

Beachcombers are people who search for treasures on shorelines. Ocean currents carry all sorts of stuff to the beaches.

A documentary about the making of "Thriller: A Cruel Picture" (1973).

A young mother's mysterious death and her son's subsequent kidnapping blow open a decades-long mystery about the woman's true identity, and the murderous federal fugitive at the center of it all.

A story of ancient lands and the spirit of the tribes that inhabit them, of rivalries and heritage; European invasions and corridor presentations, chaos, comedy and the transformative powers of the beautiful game.

Theodore Roosevelt was one of the most extraordinary Americans who lived, a larger-than-life legend whose story has to be seen to be believed. Ingeniously weaving extremely rare archive footage with meticulous recreations and the stirring music of John Philip Sousa, this film is both a moving portrait of the 26th president and a dynamic panorama of the great events of the early years of the 20th century. Among many subjects included in this cinematic mosaic are foreign policy, women's rights, Spanish-American War, aviation, conservation, the Progressive Party, and World War I. Music from the suites, operettas and marches of John Philip Sousa.

In this cult doc from 1985, director Kirby Dick (This Film Is Not Yet Rated) weaves a fascinating study of the curious role of a sex surrogate in the then-new discipline of sexual therapy. Maureen Sullivan and two of her clients agreed to have the entire progression of their therapy taped, and what emerges is a disarming and compassionate look at the struggles people face in connecting with one another. Twenty-five-year-old Kipper is a virginal grad student who gets nervous just talking to a girl, let alone touching her, and John, at 45, is newly divorced and suffering from fears of sexual inadequacy. As Maureen attempts to build up their confidence, she also exposes her own doubts in this touching film that dismisses a clinical approach to sex.

Fiercely independent, idiosyncratic and iconic. A portrait of painter Clyfford Still, one of the most influential and yet least known American Abstract Expressionists.

This film is a short documentary wich explores the male feelings territory of a city commuter.

The nearly forgotten story of Nicholas Winton, who organized the rescue of 669 children just before the outbreak of WWII.

A documentary covering the 1956 Olympic Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.

This documentary from 1970 explores all aspects of the Apollo 11 Moon mission.

Gianluca Vacchi - Mucho Más is an unprecedented journey through the secrets and fragilities of a true lifestyle pop star, a portrait that goes beyond fame, wealth and irreverence, showing the man behind the celebrity.

Frederick Wiseman observes basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky in the Vietnam era. Recruits are seen receiving instructions on everything from brushing their teeth to killing enemy soldiers in hand-to-hand combat.

Shane Meadows documents the reunion of iconic British band, The Stone Roses.

A documentary that tackles the ideological conflicts surrounding the December 21 election in the country, to the push for sovereignty and subsequent parliamentary declaration of independence and the aftermath.

In this exploration of the history of bar culture, world-renowned bartender and charismatic author Charles Schumann visits the world's best bars in New York, Havana, and Tokyo.

Ben Fogle spends a week living alone inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, gaining privileged access to the doomed Control Room 4 where the disaster first began to unfold.

As WW2 looms, Pope Pius XI calls on a humble American priest to help him challenge the evils of Nazism and anti-Semitism. But death intervenes, and Pope Pius XII now carries out a very different response to Hitler and the Holocaust.

They are hackers, programmers, developers, ministers. Their project: to make Taiwan the world laboratory of direct democracy.

China has built high speed train rail to transport from China to France in 14 days. China also built a military port and ultra modern railway to Ethiopia and invested billions into projects like these for Chinese expansionism since 2013.

The last two surviving members of the Piripkura people, a nomadic tribe in the Mato Grasso region of Brazil, struggle to maintain their indigenous way of life amidst the region's massive deforestation.

Russian Hackers: the beginning" is the author's documentary mini series of acclaimed Russian journalist Andrei Loshak. The film investigates this worldwide phenomenon of Russian hackers, it's inception in early 90s and it's growth in 2010s. The film goes through the lives of most prominent hackers of the time, following their paths of free crime, punishment and then awareness. It's a cats mice game of hackers and authorities both in Russia and the USA at the era when nobody thought internet crime existed.