10 best movies like One Child Nation (2019)

List of the best movies like One Child Nation (2019): The Kingmaker, On Meditation, Chaos on the Bridge, We Were Here, Roman Empire: Reign of Blood, The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden, Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo, Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator, Best of Enemies.

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Markimdb: 7.6
Genredocumentary, biography, history
CountryDenmark, USA

Documentary centering on the controversial political career of Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines whose behind-the-scenes influence of her husband Ferdinand's presidency rocketed her to the global political stage.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredocumentary, detective, biography, history
CountryUSA

Peter Matthiessen, David Lynch, and Russell Simmons see among the many celebrity devotees interviewed in this case of Zen Buddhist meditation.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrefantastic, documentary, biography, history
CountryCanada, USA

Canadian acting legend William Shatner takes viewers inside the creation of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the bold attempt in 1986 to recreate the success of the original television series, in which Shatner played Captain James T. Kirk.

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: 7
Genredrama, documentary, military, biography, history
CountryCanada, USA

This stylish mix of documentary and historical epic chronicles the reign of Commodus, the emperor whose rule marked the beginning of Rome's fall.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredocumentary, crime, detective, biography, history
CountryUSA, Ecuador, Germany, Norway
Duration02:00

Darwin meets Hitchcock in this documentary. Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have created a parable about the search for paradise, set in the brutal yet alluring landscape of the Galapagos Islands, which interweaves an unsolved 1930s murder mystery with stories of present day Galapagos pioneers. A gripping tale of idealistic dreams gone awry, featuring voice-over performances by Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger, and Gustaf Skarsgard.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredocumentary, history
CountryUSA, United Kingdom

At the heart of the Apollo program was the special team in Mission Control who put a man on the moon and helped create the future.

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
Genredocumentary, crime, military, history
CountryUSA, Guatemala, Spain

A story of destinies joined by Guatemala's past, and how a documentary film intertwined with a nation's turbulent history emerges as an active player in the present.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredocumentary, history, news
CountryUSA
Duration02:21

A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. Intended as commentary on the issues of their day, these vitriolic and explosive encounters came to define the modern era of public discourse in the media, marking the big bang moment of our contemporary media landscape when spectacle trumped content and argument replaced substance. Best of Enemies delves into the entangled biographies of these two great thinkers and luxuriates in the language and the theater of their debates, begging the question, 'What has television done to the way we discuss politics in our democracy today?'




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