What Documentary Shows and Movies to watch on Plex

The documentary about the life of legendary Hollywood P.R. man David Mirisch.

Documentary presents a comprehensive portrait of an iconic artist of our time.

On the High Plains of Southwest Kansas, a thriving community sustained for decades by waves of immigrants becomes the target of white nationalists intent on killing the latest arrivals: Muslims. When they attempt to recruit a local man with a conscience he infiltrates them, partnering with the FBI and risking his life to prevent the attack and bring the domestic terrorists to justice. Animated courtroom testimony of the plot is interwoven with the inspiring story of immigration and the determination of a community to welcome the world.

Early humans may have discovered wine accidentally, but now it's grown and sold just about everywhere. Jim Hodgson stops in Egypt, ancient Rome, Spain, France and other locations to trace wine's delicious history.

In present day, the Pentagon confirms an alien mothership could be sending probes to Earth. Could this be the same mothership that showed up during an event that was nine times stronger than the Carrington event? The answer to that question could be hidden deep in Arizona’s High Desert.

During the Cold War, the CIA secretly raised a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine from the depths of the Pacific Ocean. The six-year operation included an intricate cover story by billionaire Howard Hughes. Drawing on declassified documents and never-before-seen interviews, NEITHER CONFIRM NOR DENY tells one of the highest-stakes, yet least known stories of the Cold War.

The story of several families as they attempt to escape oppression in North Korea, revealing a world most of us have never seen.

The life of the former football player Diego Armando Maradona is recreated in this film, from his childhood up to his first heart attack and his firm decision of recovering himself, passing through his stage of largest football glory when he was awarded with ten titles. This helped him to be chosen, in 2000, as the best athlete in the century, in a vote promoted by the FIFA.

From the prairie fires of Kansas, through the neon glow of a carnival, to a year long journey on making a dream come true, this documentary follows The Balderson Family on their pursuit to prove that anyone can make motion pictures.

This thrilling yet, at its core, empathetic and humanist film looks at the infamous trial of Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the mass extermination of Jews during the Second World War. Depicting the events preceding Eichmann's execution, it approaches the important and much publicized Nazi criminal through the eyes of three participants in these events.

Legendary California "light and space" artist Robert Irwin investigates the value of human perception in a world that is becoming increasingly mechanized. A decade-spanning career defined by radical gestures culminates in a dazzling installation in the majestic desert town of Marfa, Texas.

Every Christmas we put up the tree, pull out the ornaments and deck the halls, but have you ever wondered where those traditions started? Germany in the late 1800's was the epicenter for craftsmen making Christmas décor and ornaments. One such craftsman was Richard Mahr. Born on St. Nicholas day December 6, 1879, it would seem he was destined to build a life around Christmas and its traditions. Born at the dawn of a new century, a time of upheaval and change. This is the story of Richard Mahr and his family and how they overcame personal tragedies while navigating their company through the Great Depression, two world wars, a devastating fire and the annexation of their homeland by the communist state. How did Richard Mahr and his family survive insurmountable odds to save his vision for keeping Christmas?

Rubber Jellyfish reveals the shocking jellyfish-like shapes that balloons burst into when they are released into the air and how sea turtles and other species mistake these items for food. We also explore the balloon industry greenwashing that kept this phenomenon a secret for decades.

The Meaning of Vanlife is an adventurous, revealing look into the Vanlife community through the eyes of nomads who have chosen to live a life of freedom on the road. A movement that exemplifies a deeper societal trend towards minimalism and authentic community building.

An edge-of-your-seat documentary that exposes the Vietnam Air War where an elite band of brothers known as Thud Pilots fought and died receiving neither the country's support nor glory.

Between faded family photographs, old video footage, and interviews collected through the years, Alvin Tsang's REUNIFICATION bears the look and feel of a documentary that's taken decades to produce. Perhaps it required all that time for Tsang to fully process his family's history and confront his own emotionally turbulent upbringing. For the audience though, that passing of time is key to the film's powerful portrayal of tireless emotional reconciliation. When his mother and two siblings first immigrated from Hong Kong to Los Angeles in the early 1980s, six-year-old Alvin was forced to stay behind with his working, and consequently absent, father. Spending the following three years often alone in an empty apartment, he longed for his family's reunification. However, upon Alvin and his father's arrival to America, that dream was utterly and permanently shattered under circumstances the filmmaker has yet to fully comprehend to this day. REUNIFICATION is Tsang's self-reflexive exploration of many unresolved years - poetic in its wonderfully-articulated narration and in its restraint as he grasps for any semblance of explanation. Backed by an achingly beautiful score, the film moves moodily across different channels and modes, bending into labor histories and Hong Kong's colonial trajectories, wading in the mire of nostalgia, grief, and confusion that is his past. And in his search for answers, Tsang turns the camera on his own family, cautiously prodding for answers, but fully acknowledging that the only closure he can get will be from deciding for himself how to move on.

In Boise, Idaho, a unique business trend is growing - literally. The town has become the unofficial surrogacy capital of America. Filmmaker Beth Aala delicately follows four surrogate mothers and the biological parents of the babies they carry. Finding purpose and power in these pregnancies, the surrogate women create life-changing opportunities for those unable to conceive.

'El Chivo' (the Mountain Goat) is what the indigenous Tarahumara Indians of Mexico's Copper Canyons call Runner Will Harlan ever since he won the Copper Canyon Ultra Marathon in 2009, a race made infamous in the bestseller 'Born to Run.' Since Harlan's first visit with the Tarahumara, who are renown for long distance running and their sustainable life-style, he's dramatically changed the way his family lives by moving to an off-the-grid farm in North Carolina, where they grow their food and run a non-profit for the Tarahumara. El Chivo chronicles what motivates Harlan to live life this deliberately by showing the physical and mental demands while also detailing the toll it takes on the family of an altruistic, elite Ultra Marathoner.

The film consists of footage Tom DiCillo shot over seven years while underground in the NYC subway system. Using a small, hand-held camera, DiCillo was able to capture moments of intimacy, violence, and beauty.

Not Black Enough is a film about class warfare and the cross-tides that African-Americans are dealing with within the black community. The film takes a sometimes humorous, always personal, brutally honest and insightful look into a seldom-explored phenomenon that is pervasive in the black culture- The ostracizing of blacks for being Not Black Enough. Not Black Enough, a feature length documentary, will explore the reasons behind this practice of fear and loathing internal to the black community.

Utilizing survivor interviews, re-enactments, and police body cameras, this documentary examines the Orlando Night Club shooting, one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history.

On the edge of Compton, California- a place notorious for gang violence-a hidden band of inner-city cowboys has persevered since the 1800's. FIRE ON THE HILL is the story of the Black Cowboys of Compton and South Central LA, and their fight to preserve their culture by resurrecting an inner city horse stable that was mysteriously burnt to the ground.

A traditional shepherd is forced to innovate in a neo-liberal world that conflicts with his idealistic views. Shepherd Stijn has chosen to live as a free man, supporting his family in an honest and sustainable way. Or so he thought. But modern neoliberal life has its demands and grinds him down bit by bit. What is left of his freedom, when he's constantly fighting to protect it? Is there a solution?