8 best movies like Captains of Za'atari (2021)

List of the best movies like Captains of Za'atari (2021): Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb, The Square, Patton Oswalt: Talking for Clapping, How to Change the World, Beautiful Darling, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, Mitt, Abducted in Plain Sight.

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Markimdb: 7.2
Genredocumentary, history
CountryUSA, Egypt

This documentary follows a team of local archaeologists excavating never before explored passageways, shafts, and tombs, piecing together the secrets of Egypt’s most significant find in almost 50 years in Saqqara.

Markimdb: 8
Genredrama, documentary, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, Egypt, USA
Duration01:35

The Square looks at the hard realities faced day-to-day by people working to build Egypt’s new democracy. Cairo’s Tahrir Square is the heart and soul of the film, which follows several young activists. Armed with values, determination, music, humor, an abundance of social media, and sheer obstinacy, they know that the thorny path to democracy only began with Hosni Mubarek’s fall. The life-and-death struggle between the people and the power of the state is still playing out.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, documentary
CountryUSA

Patton Oswalt delivers a fresh hour plus of stand-up, covering everything from misery to defeat to hopelessness. It's his most upbeat special to date.

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: 7.6
Genredocumentary
CountryUSA

James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-brief life and career, with a combination of current and vintage interview material, rarely seen archival photos and footage, and extracts from Darling's movies.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredocumentary, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:53

With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, her 10-billion-dollar company dissolved. The rise and fall of Theranos is a window into the psychology of fraud.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrefamily, documentary, biography
CountryUSA

A filmmaker is granted unprecedented access to a political candidate and his family as he runs for President.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredocumentary, crime
CountryUSA

In 1974, 12-year-old Jan Broberg is abducted from a small church-going community in Idaho by a trusted neighbour and close family friend.




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