11 best movies like Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country (2008)

List of the best movies like Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country (2008): The Cleaners, TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay - Away from Keyboard, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream, PressPausePlay, It's All About Love, Back in Time, How to Change the World, Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records, Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films.

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Markimdb: 7.2
Genredocumentary
CountryGermany, Denmark, Luxembourg, Austria, Sweden, United Kingdom, Japan, USA, Italy, Netherlands, Brazil, Canada

A deep dive into the hidden industry of digital cleaning, which rids the Internet of unwanted violence, porn and political content.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredocumentary
CountrySweden, Denmark, Norway, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany
Duration01:22

TPB AFK is a documentary about three computer addicts who redefined the world of media distribution with their hobby homepage The Pirate Bay. How did Tiamo, a beer crazy hardware fanatic, Brokep a tree hugging eco activist and Anakata – a paranoid hacker libertarian – get the White House to threaten the Swedish government with trade sanctions? TPB AFK explores what Hollywood’s most hated pirates go through on a personal level.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredocumentary, history
CountryCanada, USA, France, Germany, United Kingdom
Duration01:30

Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredocumentary, history
CountryCanada, USA, United Kingdom, Germany

This film discusses the effect on how major American films in Hollywood were influenced by the Eastern European Jewish culture that most of the major movie moguls who controlled the studios shared. Through clips of various films, the filmmakers illustrate the dominant themes like that of the outsider, the outspoken American patriotism, and rooting for the underdog in society.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredocumentary, music
CountrySweden, Norway, Spain, Germany, Japan, Iceland, USA, France, Australia, United Kingdom
Duration01:20

The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunites. But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture? Is it cultural democracy or mediocrity? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world’s most influential creators of the digital era.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama
CountryDenmark, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Sweden, Japan, USA, Spain, Canada, France, Netherlands
Duration01:44

The story of two lovers and their attempts to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse. John, and world-famous ice skating star, Elena, are about to sign divorce papers when they realise that, in spite of everything happening around them, their love is worth fighting for. It's All About Love is a fresh take on modern love and future life as two lovers struggle in a conspiracy of epic proportions.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrefamily, documentary, history
CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom
Duration02:32

Cast, crew, and fans explore the classic Back to the Future time-travel trilogy's resonance throughout our culture 30 years after Marty went back in time.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genreadventure, documentary, biography, history
CountryCanada, United Kingdom, Netherlands
Duration01:56

In 1971, a group of friends sail into a nuclear test zone, and their protest captures the world's imagination. Using never before seen archive that brings their extraordinary world to life, How To Change The World is the story of the pioneers who founded Greenpeace and defined the modern green movement.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredocumentary, music, biography, history
CountryUSA, Belgium, Canada, Germany

The true story of punks, queers, & criminals on a ride with two men who accidentally changed music along the way.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredocumentary, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, Israel, Australia, USA
Duration01:46

Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus were two movie-obsessed cousins from Israel who became Hollywood’s ultimate gate-crashers. Following their own skewed version of the Great American Dream, they bought an already low-rent brand – Cannon Films – and ratcheted up its production to become so synonymous with schlock that the very sight of its iconic logo made audiences boo throughout the 1980s. And yet who could have foreseen how close they came to nearly taking over Hollywood and the UK film industry?

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, adventure, biography, history
CountryNorway, United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany, Sweden
Duration01:49

The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.




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