15 best movies like Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)

List of the best movies like Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013): Papa Mau, Murder to Mercy - The Cyntoia Brown Story, SOMM: Into the Bottle, Jerry Before Seinfeld, The Bleeding Edge, Newtown, Hare Krishna! The Mantra, the Movement and the Swami Who Started It All, Lust for Gold: A Race Against Time, We Were Here, Goose.

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Genredocumentary, biography
CountryUSA

A documentary that takes a retrospective look at the influence of Mau Piailug, a native from the tiny Micronesian atoll of Satawal, in reviving the art of non-instrument navigation in Polynesia. Relying solely on his knowledge of celestial bodies, oceanic currents, and natural markers, Mau guided the traditional sailing canoe Hokulea on a 1976 voyaging to Tahiti, a journey not completed in more than 600 years. For Native Hawaiians, this expedition signaled an exodus from the cultural doldrums of the previous century. Sail along on this remarkable journey and share Mau's story of reinvigoration, reconciliation, and redemption of a people as the master wayfinder and teacher that breathed life back into the sails Polynesia's voyaging tradition.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredocumentary, crime, biography
CountryUSA

After 16-year-old Cyntoia Brown is sentenced to life in prison, questions about her past, physiology and the law itself call her guilt into question.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredocumentary
CountryUSA

The curtain is raised into the seldom seen world that surrounds the wine we drink. How many people understand how wine is produced? How it is grown? What goes on in the cellar? From those questions to how many hands touch a bottle, to why wine costs what it costs, to how certain wines end up on a wine list, this is a never before seen look into the world of wine.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, documentary
CountryUSA

Jerry Seinfeld returns to the club that gave him his start in the 1970s, mixing iconic jokes with stories from his childhood and early days in comedy.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredocumentary
CountryAustralia, USA

Each year in the United States, unparalleled innovations in medical diagnostics, treatment, and technology hit the market. But when the same devices designed to save patients end up harming them, who is accountable?

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredocumentary
CountryUSA

A look at how the community of Newtown, Connecticut came together in the aftermath of the largest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history.

Markimdb: 8.6
Genredocumentary
CountryUSA

"Hare Krishna!" is a documentary on the life of Srila Prabhupada, the 70-year-old Indian Swami who arrives in America without support or money and ignites a worldwide spiritual phenomenon, now known as the Hare Krishna Movement.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genredocumentary
CountryUSA

A team of modern adventurers is on a quest for gold in the mountains of eastern Arizona.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genredocumentary, biography, history, news
CountryUSA

'We Were Here' is the first film to take a deep and reflective look back at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco, and how the City's inhabitants dealt with that unprecedented calamity. It explores what was not so easy to discern in the midst of it all - the parallel histories of suffering and loss, and of community coalescence and empowerment.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredocumentary
CountryUSA

Interspersed with interviews from luminaries including Dr. J, Oscar Robertson, Bill Cosby, Jerry West, Mannie Jackson, Marques Haynes, Ernie Banks, and Dr. Jack Ramsay, the story spans decades and shows the widespread influence of Goose on prominent sports, entertainment and business figures. Mannie Jackson presents the untold story of an American icon who changed the game of basketball forever and inspired an entire generation along the way.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredocumentary
CountryUSA

In a crime-plagued neighborhood near Miami, brutal, bare-knuckled backyard fights give young men a chance to earn money -- and self-respect.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama, documentary
CountryUSA

Desperate, broken men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor's decision to help them has extraordinary and unexpected consequences.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, documentary
CountryUSA

Fresh off the heels of appearing in movies like Superhero Movie and The 40 Year-Old Virgin, fast-talking comedian Kevin Hart stars in his second live stand-up performance in Cleveland, Ohio, where he makes fun of everything and everybody - especially himself.

Markimdb: 7
Genredocumentary, music, biography
CountryUSA

A surrealist biographical documentary about trailblazing electronic musician and animal rights activist Moby.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredrama, documentary
CountryUSA

A documentary that explores the increasing visibility of Asian Americans in pop culture since the advent of new media forms such as YouTube.




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