What Documentary Shows and Movies to watch on Plex

An intense docudrama that tells the history of Absinthe and the mystical creature that possess it starting in the 1700s. It delves into the lives of the famous artists and how it changed them. The trail it blazed is covered in great detail, right up to the point when it was banned around the world.

Hunger in America is a powerful documentary tackling the hunger epidemic in America. Narrated by James Denton. What does the face of hunger look like? Is it a child in Ethiopia? An aging man in Somalia? Or a family in poverty-stricken India? This eye-opening documentary will change your whole perception on what hunger looks like. In America today, one in six people, including hard-working men and women, suburban families and children are struggling with hunger. Tonight, over 50 million Americans won't have enough food to eat by day's end. The face of hunger in America is not just the homeless, like everyone thinks. As it turns out, the face of hunger in America is the single mom, it's grandparents raising babies, it's the elderly, it's the infirm. This is their story...

For a predominately visual medium like cinema, its musical component plays a vital role as well, especially its score. In that essential musical accompaniment, the soul of the film is expressed whether it be sweepingly majestic fanfares or delicate lyrical pieces. This documentary explores the artistic role of this special musical discipline that completes the cinematic artistic creation process and the artists who have devoted their careers to this contribution. We explore the form's history and examine the masters who defined it with their own distinctive artistic vision. In doing so, the various components of this delicate creative process are revealed as they create a musical compositional work that has inspired a popular appreciation of music in all its forms, which gave some old musical ways their own new lease on life.

Comedian Roseanne Barr embarks on the most off-the-rails presidential campaign in U.S. history. 25 years after bringing working-class struggles to the pinnacle of show business, Roseanne is uniquely qualified to fix everything. What begins as a political journey becomes a raw and revealing portrait of a comedic icon.

EL CRAZY CHE is a documentary about the most amazing case of industrial espionage: the unbelievable true life of an Argentine engineer who became a cold war spy. While he was working at AMD and INTEL in the United States, Gaede delivered technical information about semiconductor industry to the Soviet Union through the Cuban government. Later on disappointed with communist revolution, Gaede turned himself over to the CIA and the FBI and began working in a counter espionage operation which lead him to unthinkable consequences.

In 1930, Germany was awarded the privilege of hosting the 1936 Olympic Games. However, that gesture to bring Germany back into the world community became problematic when the Nazis took over the nation in 1933, both domestically and internationally. However, a reticent Hitler was persuaded to let the event proceed for his own purposes even as the international sporting world wrestled with the moral choice of attending. What followed from those moral struggles was a tournament originally intended to foster international brotherhood being twisted into a nationalistic celebration of supposed German Aryan superiority that even the legendary athletic triumphs of African-American Olympic great Jesse Owens could not puncture completely.

In 2008, two best friends stepped into their very first crop circle in southern England. This is story of what happened next.

THE DIVINE PLAN: The Divine Plan: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Dramatic End of the Cold War/ A film by Robert Orlando It remains the least-known story of the twentieth century - A president and a pope; an unlikely pair who combine deep faith with political acumen and high-octane star power. A plot that involves two assassination attempts, KGB scheming, CIA intrigue and the final act to topple the Soviet Empire.

'GENERATION 'A' : Portraits of Autism & the Arts' is a documentary about youths on the autism spectrum using the arts to reach their highest potential. Creative programs and therapies featured include dance, music, painting, and animation. In the film, we witness that autism comes with its 'gifts' as well as its 'challenges.' Through these gifts, autistic individuals are able to connect with others and create pathways into their communities. Ultimately, the film is about encouraging society to embrace diversity and to create opportunities that promote happy, productive, and fulfilling lives for this growing population. In 1989, one in 10,000 children were diagnosed with autism, today the statistic is one in 88 (CDC, 2012). Featuring Temple Grandin and Ed Asner.

Journey back through the golden era of arcade and pinball to where it all began, in this nostalgic adventure around Australia. A first of its kind Australian documentary film, Still Standing peels back the curtain on what it truly takes to create and run iconic arcades, past and present.

A female reporter does a documentary after saying the men's rights movement on the internet. At first she's given a lot of misinformation through the internet, but eventually after meeting some of the people involved and doing research finds that it's not so black and white. At the end of the movie she tells us that she no longer considers herself a feminist because of the things she's discovered.

For the first time ever, explore the myths behind this controversial film with the all new and only feature-length documentary on the movie, Growing Up With I Spit On Your Grave. Five years in the making, Terry Zarchi's exhaustive analysis of the history of the film, packed with never before seen before footage and exclusive interviews, is what every I Spit On Your Grave fan has been waiting for. As director Meir Zarchi himself once said of I Spit On Your Grave - this movie is indestructible.

In the California apple country, 900 migratory workers rise up "in dubious battle" against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own - stronger than its individual members and more frightening. Led by the doomed Jim Nolan (Nat Wolff), the strike is founded on his tragic idealism - on the "courage never to submit or yield." Published in 1936, the novel "In Dubious Battle" is considered the first major work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck.

The Sultana was a river boat that exploded in 1865 killing many passengers, mostly Union Soldiers.

This is the story of a brutal and blood-thirsty fighting bull named "El Toron", known to have gored two matadors during an epic bull fight in Old Mexico. Though a famous matador eventually felled the mighty beast, El Toron's story of blood, blades and freedom has become legend. Born and bred for his aggression, the once wild and true native Spanish bull bloodline found in El Toro'n lives on today in his offspring, who still battle merciless matadors in bull fighting arenas throughout Mexico. In a strange paradox, this ferocious bloodline can also be found in the tranquil mountain regions of the interior where direct descendants of EL Toron now roam in wild herds. News of El Toron's death caused such a distraction that the ranch hands left the herd unattended. The bulls escaped from captivity in the late 1930's only to re- establish themselves as the feral, free and majestic creatures they were created to be. His story of blood, blades and freedom will now be told!

Renowned wine importer Martine Saunier returns as our guide in the second installment in a trilogy of wine films. Here we get a rare glimpse behind the scenes into the real Champagne through six houses, from small independent producers to the illustrious houses of Gosset and Bollinger. In the vineyard, 2012 threatened to be 'the year of all our fears.' But most Champagne is not just the product of a specific year and its weather. Signature house styles are creations that happen behind closed doors and in the miles of cellars beneath Champagne. Pull back the curtain and see how the people of a cold, tough land with a grim history triumph in producing the drink of joy, seduction and celebration.

The film is based on the life of scientist Shivkar Bapuji Talpade who is credited to have constructed India's first unmanned plane. The movie is set in Bombay in the year 1895 and stars Ayushmann Khurrana in the lead role.

Dennis Rodman is on a mission. After forging an unlikely friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, he wants to improve relations between North Korea and the US by staging a historic basketball game between the two countries. But the North Korean team isn't the only opposition he'll face... Condemned by the NBA and The Whitehouse, and hounded every step of the way by the press, can Dennis keep it together and make the game happen? Or will it go up in a mushroom cloud of smoke? For the first time, discover the true story of what happened when Dennis Rodman took a team of former-NBA players to North Korea and staged the most controversial game of basketball the world has never seen.

Recently discovered footage reveals the secret history of NASA's first landing on the moon, and using this brand-new evidence, former astronauts and experts challenge everything we know about the Apollo missions.

Over a 4 day period, a fierce battle takes place between Korean independence militias and imperialist Japanese forces in Manchuria, China. The militia includes a master swordsman and an expert marksman.

One man's soul searching decision on whether or not he should join Facebook sets him off on an epic journey of self-discovery as he weighs the pros and cons of becoming a member of the world's largest social networking site. Along the way he talks with family, friends, total strangers and even celebrities whose lives have all been touched in one way or another by Facebook. From the long lost high school friend who uses it to stay in touch with classmates, to the pick-up artist who trolls the site to score with women, to the criminal who tracks your every movement to know when to rob your house, the best and the worst of Facebook is on display.

In March of 2013, actress Karen Black revealed publicly that she had been battling cancer for several years. A few months earlier, in January, the Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner sat with director Russell Brown to share 40 years' worth of insight into the craft of acting. In 75 minutes, this in-depth interview covers everything from perfecting regional accents to finding a character's inner needs from one of the most respected performers of her generation.

I Dream Of Wires: Hardcore Edition is an extended, lengthy historical primer exploring the early development of modular synthesizers from pioneering companies Moog Music Inc. and Buchla & Associates. Interview subjects include musicians and producers Morton Subotnick, Bernie Krause, Gary Numan, Chris Carter, Daniel Miller, Flood, Trent Reznor, Carl Craig, cEvin Key, James Holden, Factory and more!

An aging Bolivian General, suffers a heart attack, and hopes for redemption by writing an account of his dark secrets to be shared with his son. He recalls his role in 'Operation Condor," a U.S.-backed campaign of political repression and state terror begun in 1975 by the right-wing dictatorships of Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay, that saw many innocent people, "disappeared."