Tags: movies similar to The Century of the Self (2002) - full list
Mark | imdb: 4.9 |
Genre | documentary, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Interviews with family members, doctors and victims of 73-year-old Josef Fritzl, who held his daughter captive in a basement for 24 years and fathered seven children with her.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | adventure, documentary, biography, history |
Country | Canada, United Kingdom, Netherlands |
Duration | 01:56 |
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.
Mark | imdb: 8.1 |
Genre | documentary, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:53 |
With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. Charting his exceptional career as an actor and his extraordinary life away from the stage and screen with Brando himself as your guide, the film will fully explore the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely from Marlon's perspective, entirely in his own voice. No talking heads, no interviewees, just Brando on Brando and life.
Mark | imdb: 8.2 |
Genre | documentary |
Country | United Kingdom |
Biographical documentary of the war photographer Don McCullin, with sections on his upbringing, early work for the Observer and extensive war reporting for the Sunday Times until the purchase of the newspaper by Rupert Murdoch in the 1980s.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | documentary, sport |
Country | United Kingdom |
In a moving portrait of resilience, Alex Holmes chronicles the unprecedented journey of 24-year-old Tracy Edwards and the first all-female sailing crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | documentary |
Country | Italy, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:15 |
A crowd-sourced documentary with clips filmed all on the same day.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | documentary, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
Banksy, the world's most infamous street artist, whose political art, criminal stunts and daring invasions have outraged the establishment for over two decades. Featuring rare interviews with Banksy, this is the story of how an outlaw artist led a revolutionary new movement and built a multi-million dollar empire, while his identity remained shrouded in mystery.
Mark | imdb: 4.1 |
Genre | documentary |
Country | United Kingdom |
Examine the rise and fall of Hollywood media mogul Harvey Weinstein following the scandal in 2017. Learn from exclusive interviews with those who knew him in the industry, and a discussion of the start of the #MeToo movement.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | documentary, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Based on Dr. Ahron Bregman's book, this documentary examines the life and mysterious death of Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian billionaire and double agent.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | documentary |
Country | Canada, United Kingdom |
From reuse to energy generation, new innovations across five continents are explored in this documentary about building a future for sustainable water.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | documentary, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
The strange case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky — once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia — who rocketed to prosperity and prominence in the 1990s, served a decade in prison, and became an unlikely martyr for the anti-Putin movement.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | documentary, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, Japan, USA |
This is the first UK film biography of the world-renowned Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), whose print 'The Great Wave' is as globally famous as Leonardo's 'Mona Lisa'. With Andy Serkis reading the voice of Hokusai, the film features artists David Hockney and Maggi Hambling and passionate scholars who study, admire and venerate this great Japanese master.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | documentary |
Country | United Kingdom |
People You May Know follows Charles Kriel, specialist advisor to UK Parliament on disinformation, when he discovers Cambridge Analytica collaborating with a software company creating a microtargeting platform for US churches, targeting vulnerable people - the poor, the grieving, the addicted - to radicalise them for far-right politics. With US 2020 elections coming, Kriel gathers a team of whistleblowers and journalists, and journeys across America with his young family, where he discovers a powerful organisation with ties to the heart of the White House. The man who commissioned CA is a member of the most powerful secret political organisation in the United States, with an agenda to rewrite the Constitution according to Christian law. Going undercover, he risks everything to gain access where no outsider has ever set foot.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | documentary |
Country | United Kingdom |
The story of how Sicilian Mafia boss Tommaso Buscetta (1928-2000), the Godfather of Two Worlds, revealed, starting in 1984, the deepest secrets of the organization, thus helping to convict the hundreds of mafiosi who were tried in the trial held in Palermo between 1986 and 1987.
Mark | imdb: 7.9 |
Genre | documentary |
Country | United Kingdom, Russia |
Duration | 03:30 |
Born in the USSR: 28 Up follows the lives of people who grew up in the Soviet Union. They give an insight into Russian life today, aged 28.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | documentary, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:51 |
Alexander McQueen's rags-to-riches story is a modern-day fairy tale, laced with the gothic. Mirroring the savage beauty, boldness and vivacity of his design, this documentary is an intimate revelation of McQueen's own world, both tortured and inspired, which celebrates a radical and mesmerizing genius of profound influence.