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What Documentary Shows and Movies to watch on Plex

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Bandit

2 hrs 6 mins

After escaping a Michigan prison, a charming career criminal assumes a new identity in Canada and goes on to rob a record 59 banks and jewellery stores while being hunted by a police task force. Based on the story of The Flying Bandit.

Bandit

A Wicked Eden

1 hr 36 mins

It is an exclusive peek into the inner-world of an elite Dominatrix, Goddess Alexandra Snow. Witness a group of kinky, independent women fighting for equality in gender, sexuality and profession.

A Wicked Eden
  • 2021

The Command

1 hr 57 mins

Colin Firth stars in the unforgettable true story of the K-1412 KURSK, a Russian flagship nuclear powered submarine that sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea in August 2000. As 23 sailors fought for survival aboard the disabled sub, their families desperately battled bureaucratic obstacles and impossible odds to find answer and save them.

The Command

Hotel Mumbai

2 hrs 3 mins

A gripping true story of humanity and heroism, HOTEL MUMBAI vividly recounts the 2008 siege of the famed Taj Hotel by a group of terrorists in Mumbai, India. Among the dedicated hotel staff is the renowned chef Hemant Oberoi (Anupam Kher) and a waiter (Academy Award-Nominee Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire) who choose to risk their lives to protect their guests. As the world watches on, a desperate couple (Armie Hammer, Call Me By Your Name and Nazanin Boniadi, "Homeland") is forced to make unthinkable sacrifices to protect their newborn child.

Hotel Mumbai

Phantom

1 hr 38 mins

The Cold War has cast an ominous chill over the entire globe, and when a Soviet submarine targets the U.S. Navy's Pacific fleet for nuclear attack, it appears that the final battle has begun. But Captain Dmitri Zubov has a choice - one that could pull the world back from the brink of annihilation. Meanwhile, it begins to seem as if other forces are at work on Captain Zubov's submarine. Now, in the depths of the South Pacific, Captain Zubov will fight to reconcile his past in order to ensure that there will be a future. Not just for him, but for every man, woman, and child on the planet..

Phantom

Wish Man

1 hr 47 mins

A motorcycle cop, haunted by his separation from his father as a boy, survives a near fatal accident and is framed with police brutality. With his world falling apart, he finds hope in a terminally ill boy, who reunites him with his father after 28 years.

Wish Man
  • 2019

The Killing Fields

2 hrs 21 mins

Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist covering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with the local journalist Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the American forces leave, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind himself to help Schanberg cover the event. As an American, Schanberg won't have any trouble leaving the country, but the situation is different for Pran; he's a local, and the Khmer Rouge are moving in.

The Killing Fields

The Courier

1 hr 52 mins

Der britische Geschäftsmann Greville Wynne wird vom britischen MI-6 und der CIA-Mitarbeiterin Emily Donovan rekrutiert. Er soll in einer verdeckten Operation eine Partnerschaft mit dem sowjetischen Offizier Oleg Penkowski eingehen, um an wichtige Informationen zu gelangen, die einen nuklearen Konflikt zwischen den USA und der Sowjetunion verhindern und die Kubakrise entschärfen sollen.

The Courier

Farinelli

1 hr 51 mins

In the 18th century, during Handel's time, no man was more famous or more celebrated than the castrato, Farinelli. The incredible, true story of the world-famous opera singer - who was castrated during childhood in order to preserve his voice - comes to life in this Oscar-nominated drama of high notes and even higher passions.

Farinelli
  • 1994

Before the Wrath

1 hr 24 mins

While scholars debate the timing of the Rapture, the world has lost why this event is prophesied to occur in the first place; knowledge that was once understood by those in the first century. Today, researchers in the Middle-East have rediscovered ancient anthropological evidence from the time of Christ that reveals exactly how and why the Rapture must occur; unveiling new biblical insight that will reignite hope for believers and prepare the world for what's coming.

Before the Wrath
  • 2020

Joni

1 hr 52 mins

Based on Joni Eareckson's autobiography. She becomes paralyzed after breaking her neck in a swimming accident at age 17. Trying to cope with her new life, she learns to paint using her mouth and finds strength in her new Christian faith.

Joni
  • 1979

Hercules

1 hr 38 mins

For his enemies, the sword! For his princess, devotion! Hercules the mighty descended from the heavens, half-god and half-mortal, unleashed against the forces of evil as he quests to find the woman he loves. Lou Ferrigno is Hercules, in the epic odyssey of the gods.

Hercules
  • 1983

Honeydripper

2 hrs 4 mins

1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt to the liquor man, the chicken man, and the landlord, Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits into his juke joint, away from Touissant's, the rival joint across the way. His plan to hire a guitar legend goes awry and Tyrone is forced to take drastic action in a final scheme to save the club.

Honeydripper

Lessons of Darkness

0 hrs 54 mins

This film surveys the disaster of the Kuwaiti oil fields in flames, with little narration and scarcely any interviews. Hell on Earth is presented in such transcendent visions and music that one can only be fascinated by it.

Lessons of Darkness
  • 1992

Across the Universe

2 hrs 13 mins

Across The Universe is a fictional love story set in the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, the struggle for free speech and civil rights, mind exploration and rock and roll. At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, the story moves from high schools and universities in Massachusetts, Princeton and Ohio to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Detroit riots, Vietnam and the dockyards of Liverpool. A combination of live action and animation, the film is paired with many songs by The Beatles that defined the time.

Across the Universe

Prozac Nation

1 hr 35 mins

Based on the best selling novel, set in the mid 1980's before the prevalence of anti-depressants, it follows a young working class woman's (Christina Ricci) bout with depression during her first year at Harvard. The film explores this generation's struggle to navigate the effects of divorce, drugs, sex, and an overbearing mother (Jessica Lange).

Prozac Nation
  • 2001

Marjoe

1 hr 28 mins

Part documentary, part expose, this film follows one-time child evangelist Marjoe Gortner on the "church tent" Revivalist circuit, commenting on the showmanship of Evangelism and "the religion business", prior to the start of "televangelism".

Marjoe
  • 1972

Robert the Bruce

2 hrs 4 mins

After assisting William Wallace in the freedom struggle depicted in "Braveheart", Robert the Bruce has crowned himself King of Free Scotland. But the English are determined to regain their lost territory. Battle after battle, Robert is defeated, and the Scottish nobility turns their backs on him. From nothing, with freedom as the only driving force, the king rises once again to fight for his country.

Robert the Bruce

Killing Patient Zero

1 hr 40 mins

Gaetan Dugas, who grew up in Quebec City, was a Quebec flight attendant, who was openly and proudly gay, and he liked to wear makeup. In the early 1980s after he contracted what was initially called "gay cancer" in the media, he provided his blood samples and the names of seventy two (72) of his former sex partners. Gaetan Dugas was initially demonized because of his promiscuity, being openly gay, and he was wrongfully identified as patient zero, therefore being wrongfully identified for quite some time as the initial person responsible for introducing the AIDS virus into North America. Dugas's assistance with a subsequent medical study and his providing his sexual history played a key role in contributing to a study that helped prove HIV/AIDS was sexually transmitted.

Killing Patient Zero
  • 2019

Stripper

1 hr 30 mins

The background: A strippers' convention and a major contest. The movie focuses on a few strippers, each with her own strong motive to win.

Stripper
  • 1985

Amy

2 hrs 8 mins

From BAFTA award­-winning director Asif Kapadia (SENNA), AMY is the incredible story of six-­time Grammy® award winner Amy Winehouse - in her own words. Featuring extensive never-before-seen archival footage and previously unheard tracks, this strikingly modern, moving, and vital film shines a light on the world we live in, in a way that very few can.

Amy

Foxcatcher

2 hrs 14 mins

Based on true events, Foxcatcher tells the dark and fascinating story of the unlikely and ultimately tragic relationship between an eccentric multi-millionaire and two champion wrestlers. When Olympic Gold Medal winning wrestler Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) is invited by wealthy heir John Du Pont (Steve Carell) to move on to the Du Pont estate and help form a team to train for the 1988 Seoul Olympics at his new state-of-the-art training facility, Schultz jumps at the opportunity, hoping to focus on his training and finally step out of the poverty stricken situation Olympic caliber athletes like he and his revered brother, Dave (Mark Ruffalo). Driven by hidden needs, Du Pont sees backing Schultz's bid for Gold and the chance to "coach" a world-class wrestling team as an opportunity to gain the elusive respect of his peers and, more importantly, his disapproving mother (Vanessa Redgrave). Trapped in Du Pont's majestic but suffocating world, Mark comes to see his benefactor as an egotistical, arrogant, and selfish megalomaniac and grows increasingly contemptuous. Though initially supportive, Du Pont's mercurial personality turns and he begins to lure Mark into an unhealthy lifestyle that threatens to undermine his training. Soon Du Pont's erratic behavior and threatening psychological game-play begin to erode the athlete's environment, stability, and motivation. Meanwhile Du Pont becomes fixated on Dave, who exudes the confidence Du Pont lacks. Du Pont eventually realizes he is unable to buy the respect he so desperately desires from the world's greatest wrestlers. Fueled by Du Pont's increasing paranoia and alienation from the brothers, the trio is propelled towards a tragedy no one could have foreseen.

Foxcatcher

England Is Mine

1 hr 34 mins

A portrait of Steven Patrick Morrissey and his early life in 1970's Manchester before he went on to become lead singer of seminal 80's band The Smiths.

England Is Mine

Red Dog

1 hr 32 mins

This is the story of a legendary, lovable red dog who roamed the outback looking for his original master, finding his way into the hearts of everyone he meets, bringing people and communities together, some who find love, and others who find themselves. Based on true events.

Red Dog
  • 2011
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