New documentaries
A collection of new documentaries added to Docur. Last update January 20, 2018 @ 08:56 PM
I Am Heath Ledger
I Am Heath Ledger, a documentary celebrating the life and work of the American actor Heath Ledger through friends family and people who knew the star. It is an intimate story that in-part is shown through the lens of his own camera which provides a seld-seen view of the icon who is globall[...]
Science And Islam
Educator, professor and documentary film guru Jim Al-Khalili explains the fascinating history of science and Islam in this feature-length documentary. To begin this journey you have to go back a very long time to the 8th century where the language of science was born in[...]
Revolution OS
Revolution OS, directed by J. T. S. Moore takes a look back over the last twenty years of the open source operating systems Linux and GNU and how they came to lead the charge in this software revolution. When we say “revolution” these platforms have never been[...]
Blood Diamonds
This Blood Diamonds documentary explores the brutal conflicts that surround this small rock which represents wealth and glamour. In many African countries, diamonds are a way to obtain power through a largely untraceable material which can be found in the ground for free if you have the me[...]
You dont know Hitler
Intro by director James K. Lambert: This is the final version of my Masters Thesis film, a documentary about Nazi Germany composed mostly from propaganda footage. I chose the title to reflect the fact that so many people today call their political opponents, "a Hitler" or "N[...]
The Truth About Alcohol
The Truth About Alcohol documentary presented by Javid Abdelmoneim as part of his 2016 series “Trust Me I’m a Doctor”. Government guidelines and media coverage around the world provide massively contrasting opinions and facts in regards to how much alc[...]
The Story of Marjoe
“The Story of Marjoe”, a feature-length documentary directed by Howard Smith and Sarah Kernochan which tells the life story of evangelist Marjoe Gortner. It won the 1972 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Plot Summary from http://www.imdb.com/tit[...]
Crack House
Ex-crack-head Carl John revisits his home city of Liverpool to make a documentary about how this terrible drug is destroying the lives of people he knows. In the “Crack House” BBC documentary one is given a unique insight into the lives of crack addicts in the UK and how this p[...]
Earthships
A documentary about the environmentally friendly “Earthship” houses built by architect Mike Reynolds. The Film shows the struggles Reynolds faces with building code laws in states such as New Mexico in his crusade to make sustainable buildings entirely from discarded mater[...]
Sex in Strange Places - Russia
British documentary filmmaker Stacey Dooley travels to Russia for the final episode in the series “Sex in Strange Places”. Braving the cold she heads to the opulent city of St Petersburg and speaks to people who work on two completely different sides of the countries sex industry to[...]
Sex In Strange Places - Brazil
Brazil is one of the most sexually liberated countries in the world as Brtish investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker Stacey Dooley reveals in the second episode of her 2016 series “Sex in Strange Places”. While there are about 1 million transgender people who l[...]
Sex in Strange Places - Turkey
In the first episode of “Sex in Strange Places”, British investigative journalist Stacey Dooley explores the taboo of sex in Turkey where Prostitution is legal and there are even state-run brothels. In the documentary, she speaks to sex workers who reveal intimate details about[...]
RiP: A Remix Manifesto
Synopsis from https://vimeo.com/8040182 Immerse yourself in the energetic, innovative and potentially illegal world of mash-up media with RiP: A Remix Manifesto. Let web activist Brett Gaylor and musician Greg Gillis, better known as Girl Talk, serve as your digital tour guides on a probin[...]
Freedom Downtime: The Kevin Mitnick Story
This is the story of Kevin Mitnick, ex-hacker, author and computer security consultant who is known for his famous 1995 computer crimes arrest and subsequent jailing for 5 years. Before this, he had been arrested and jailed for 12 months in 1988 for taking software from the DEC&r[...]
Dark Days
Brtish filmmaker Mark Singer decided to make the documentary “Dark Days” in the mid-nineties after moving to Manhatten from his home city of London and seeing the huge number of homeless people there. After living on-and-off with the homeless community for a while he decid[...]
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
In the 2005 Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald investigates the cost of retail chains offering goods and services we need to live at very low prices for the working family. Greenwald asks a very simple a very simple question in this Wal[...]
The Hacker Wars
The Hacker Wars, a documentary about hacktivists who are using online technologies to bring about social change and are a target for the US government. The film follows the so-called “information warriors” and takes us to the front-line for “the war for our mind[...]
Banking on Bitcoin
Banking on Bitcoin, a documentary about one of the most disruptive technologies to come about since the internet was first invented. This open source software started out with a few pioneers who wanted to blur the lines of sovereignty by making a new electronic currency which has now caugh[...]