What Documentary Shows and Movies to watch on Crackle

On top of being one of the biggest bands in the industry, they have also become one of pop cultures biggest icons. Join us as we look at the story behind one of Britain’s biggest bands… the music giants are known as…Coldplay.

Explore the tumultuous life of the former lead singer of 70’s R&B/Funk Band Switch, also the eldest sibling of the world-famous pop group DeBarge. Despite his success in music, the iconic falsetto found his life in peril as he struggled with fame and fortune while coping with the memories of his dysfunctional childhood.

Welcome to the world of Bada$$ Mothaf**kas, a place where the fists fly fast, the kicks pack a blast, and the soul sistas take down all the mistas, honey. From the streets of Harlem, to the saloons of the Old West, this collection of the funkiest trailers and clips from flicks of the Blaxploitation era will act as a game plan for takin' down the man! Can ya dig it? Former NFL star and legendary Blaxploitation actor Fred "The Hammer" Williamson is your host with the mothaf**kin most, and if you cross his path, you're gonna have to get his boot, outta yo ass!

Bikes Over Baghdad is a team of professional action sports athletes who travel to the Middle East in support of the troops. This is the story of what happens when these athletes put their safety aside to make someones life better, and change lives.

US Marines strike back on their first attack of the Pacific War. In horrific conditions, US Marines fight a six month campaign of attrition against the seemingly invisible Japanese. It is a conflict that will decide the fates of the Pacific War. High above the 'Island of Death' fly aerial reconnaissance missions, capturing the conflict below with their cameras. Using photographs, that had been lost and forgotten after the war's end, original footage and first-hand accounts the documentary provides a unique insight into the Pacific hell that was Guadalcanal.

In the 70s and 80s, artists such as Kraftwerk, David Bowie, Brian Eno, Gianna Nannini, Ultravox and the Eurythmics queued to record in Conny Plank's studio, a farmhouse near Cologne.

Boudicca was a remarkable Celt who as leader of the Iceni Tribe, at the time of the Roman occupation of Britain. Follow in her footsteps to the historical landmarks of England’s East Anglia on a journey of discovery of the woman behind the legend.

These three brothers rose to the top of their profession. Writing all of their own hits, the harmonious family act became one of the world’s best-selling artists of all time, selling over more than 220 million records worldwide.

A film about homeless youth carrying a strong anti-system and anti-social message. Spheeris interviews groups of 'gutter punks' and street punks living on the streets and in abandoned buildings in Los Angeles-people seeking freedom but trapped by alcohol and drugs. The film also features rare footage and interviews with the bands Final Conflict, Litmus Green, Naked Aggression, and The Resistance.

A chance meeting in a parking lot in 1979 between filmmaker Trent Harris and a young man from Beaver, Utah inspired the creation of an underground film that is now known as “Beaver Trilogy”. But the film itself is only part of the story.

Comedy veterans and co-creators Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza capitalize on their insider status and invite over 100 of their closest friends--who happen to be some of the biggest names in entertainment, from George Carlin, Whoopi Goldberg and Drew Carey to Gilbert Gottfried, Bob Saget, Paul Reiser and Sarah Silverman--to reminisce, analyze, deconstruct and deliver their own versions of the world's dirtiest joke, an old burlesque too extreme to be performed in public, called "The Aristocrats."

Documentary photographer Zana Briski journeyed into Calcutta's underworld to photograph the city's prostitutes. In return, she offered to teach the prostitutes' children the basics of photography so that the kids could document their own lives on the streets of one of the world's poorest cities. The resulting photographs, often astonishing, were exhibited around the world; many of them are seen in this film, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2005.

Conquerors of the Useless follows Jeff Johnson as he retraces the epic 1968 journey of his heroes Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins to Patagonia. Along the way he gets shipwrecked off Easter Island, surfs the longest wave of his life - and prepares himself for a rare ascent of Cerro Corcovado. Jeff's life turns when he meets up in a rainy hut with Chouinard and Tompkins who, once driven purely by a love of climbing and surfing, now value above all the experience of raw nature - and have come to Patagonia to spend their fortunes to protect it.

In Saskatchewan in 2016, students are competing in the first ever province-wide First Nations Spelling Bee. The winners will travel with their families to Toronto, Ontario for the 29th Annual national championships of the Spelling Bee of Canada.

Ken Burns meets Spinal Tap in a subversive tour de force relaying the outrageous life stories of four forgotten Civil War heroes: an opium-addicted gay colonel, an aging Chinese launderer, a nerdy escaped slave, and a one-armed teenaged prostitute.

“Daddy Don’t Go” captures 2 years in the lives of 4 disadvantaged fathers in New York City as they fight to defy the odds against them. The film is a tough but tender journey that redefines what it means to be a good father for all men.

Bob Marley was without a doubt Jamaica's most famous export. In this documentary, his long-time girlfriend Esther Anderson describes in detail their life together at home in Hope Road as well as in London.

Filmmaker David Schaerf takes us on a journey into the world of "Moby-Dick". On the way he meets artists, musicians and fans who introduce him to the "Great American Novel."

At the threshold of the 20th Century, a melting pot of adventurous immigrants, creative mavericks, and freedom-seeking African Americans shaped consumerism as we now know it. The new documentary THE CITY THAT SOLD AMERICA reveals, with intriguing insights and wistful nostalgia, the confluence of Chicago's creative talent, business savvy, grit and determination that changed the country and our relationship with popular culture.

A chronicle which provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet. Roundly criticized by Cabinet members and Pentagon officials for reporting with a pro-Iraqi bias, and strongly condemned for frequently airing civilian causalities as well as footage of American POWs, the station has revealed (and continues to show the world) everything about the Iraq War that the Bush administration did not want it to see.

During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, after his daughter Margot is called to appear for transport to a Nazi labour camp. Miep Gies, Otto Frank's office assistant hides them in the attic above the office. The film tells the true story of Gies' struggle to keep the family hidden and safe, as the Nazis turn Amsterdam upside-down. Based upon Gies' memoirs and Anne Frank's famous diary.

BRITTOWN - a motorcycle documentary featuring Meatball from the Hell On Wheels bike shop in Anaheim, California. As a master mechanic, vintage Brit bike connoisseur and dirt-track racer, Meatball splits his time between family, his shop and his rock band Smiling Face Down. Brittown joins Meatball for several months as he heads to races, plays gigs and uses all his skill to turn an old 650 Triumph Bonneville motor into a 130 mph road-ready screamer.

A documentary revealing the restorative and healing powers of the ocean.

Douglas Tirola details the rise of craft beer’s popularity and follows two enthusiasts chasing their American brewing dreams.