What Documentary Movies to watch on Tubi

Presents a profile of the Z Channel, one of the US's first and at the time most successful pay cable stations launched in 1974, this one serving much of Los Angeles, and of its programming director in the 1980s, Jerry Harvey, who is credited with much of its success. A highly knowledgeable cinephile, Harvey programmed an eclectic mix of movies in an era where access to films in general was limited to cinemas or traditional television just as home video was emerging. His programming was much like film festivals, thus opening up such to larger audiences than could access movies at traditional festivals. He provided viewers access to hard to find movies, many unknown to the general public until he programmed them. He also championed certain, often previously panned movies and filmmakers, many who became his friends. Many of those movies were what was then emerging of director's cuts in he wanting to show a film as a director had envisioned as opposed to what a movie studio had dictated. The most famous in that category is Michael Cimino's highly derided Heaven's Gate (1980), that derision until it was shown on Z in its extended cut as Cimino had intended. Much of what Harvey was able to achieve at Z is overshadowed by his personal life, in he, having mental health issues which ran in his family - his largely associated with obsessive behavior - committing a murder (of who was his second and then current wife, Deri Rudulph)/suicide just before the demise of Z itself for other reasons.

This movie is based on the true life story of a Korean fighter named Choi Bae-dal (who later changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama), the founder of Kyokushin Karate in Japan.

In 1987, Sudan's Muslim government pronounced death to all males in the Christian south: 27,000 boys fled to Ethiopia on foot. In 1991, they were forced to flee to Kenya; 12,000 survived to live in a U.N. camp in Kakuma. Archival footage documents the 1,000 mile flight; we see life in the camp. We follow three young men who repatriate to the U.S. John Bul Dau goes to Syracuse, and by the film's end, becomes a spokesperson for the Lost Boys and Lost Girls of Sudan; Daniel Abol Pach and Panther Bior go to Pittsburgh. All work several jobs, send money back to the camp, search for relatives lost in the civil war, acclimatize to the U.S., seek an education, and miss their homeland.

The bizarre true story of Linda Riss and Burt Pugach.

Bill Maher interviews some of religion's oddest adherents. Muslims, Jews and Christians of many kinds pass before his jaundiced eye. Maher goes to a Creationist Museum in Kentucky, which shows that dinosaurs and people lived at the same time 5000 years ago. He talks to truckers at a Truckers' Chapel. (Sign outside: "Jesus love you.") He goes to a theme park called Holy Land in Florida. He speaks to a rabbi in league with Holocaust deniers. He talks to a Muslim musician who preaches hatred of Jews. Maher finds the unlikeliest of believers and, in a certain Vatican priest, he even finds an unlikely skeptic.

The true-life story of Darby Crash, who became an L.A. punk icon before taking his own life in 1980. After getting kicked out of high school, Darby forms The Germs with a collection of friends who have little experience with their instruments or playing music; Pat Smear, Lorna Doom and Don Bolles. After a few disastrous gigs, the band begins to click and Darby and The Germs soon find themselves the talk of the L.A. punk scene. When hard drugs enter the picture, Darby starts alienating those closest to him and when The Germs collapse, he's at a loss to figure out what comes next.

In Vancouver, black professional basketball star Tyler 'Ty' Rivers has an adulterous affair with white "party animal" Nicole Alpern. When she announces the pill failed, he questions his paternity and dumps her. A few months after Noah's birth Ty demands his rights as a father, supported by his black wife, Beverly, with whom he raises two daughters. Only her remarried father stands by Nicole after her lawyer, Henry Wong, dumps her as an impossibly unpredictable, incorrigible client. No one offers to step in, except brilliant young attorney, Peter Marcheson, who wants the high-profile exposure and agrees to take the case pro bono. Marcheson wins the case, but Ty's lawyer, Daniel Gibson, takes it to the British Columbia court of Appeal, where he wins based on a racial prejudice experience argumentation. Now only the Supreme Court of Canada could set a precedent and reverse the decision.

A music documentary showcasing how DJ's are becoming more popular through social media, serving as record producers, brand ambassadors and how rappers use social media to show off shooting up nightclubs to enhance their likes and sales.

Completed in 2018, NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL is a uniquely poetic and truthful documentary about one of the darkest and most seminal political historical events of the start of the 21st century: the founding of a zone of exclusion within the Eurozone. The end of March 2018 marks the second anniversary of the ruling body of the Eurozone radically revising its policy regarding undocumented migrants arriving on the Aegean shores of Greece. At that time the European Commission declared undocumented migrants arriving on the Aegean islands would be sent back to Turkey. We were there a few weeks later with our camera on Lesvos-the main point of entry-interviewing people experiencing for the first time camps that had been constructed for the purpose of processing people transformed into concentration camps where people are held today indefinitely. Europe was where the formulation les droits de l'homme et du citoyen, "the rights of the human being and of the citizen" was first declared. The long history and breakdown of this formulation witnessed by NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL, the incredible compassion of the volunteers, the conflicting responses of the people living on the island-many of them descended themselves from refugees-and the refugees themselves, all of whom are interviewed individually or as part of their families, create a uniquely profound film that will remain a vital record of this major confrontation between the principles on which Europe was founded and its current choices.

A behind-the-scenes look at the David Bowie film Labyrinth (1986), also featuring director Jim Henson and co-star Jennifer Connelly.

Explores the experiences of the first Black astronauts through decades of archive film and interviews in a reflective illumination on the burden of breaking barriers.

In his second comedy special for EPIX, Craig Ferguson puts his sometimes cheeky, always irreverent spin on universal topics from sex and drugs to rock & roll-including his hilarious experiences with Mick Jagger and Kenny G.

The Divine Divas are the icons of the first generation of Brazilian transvestite artists in the 1960's. One of the first stages to host men dressed as women was the Rival Theatre, ran by Américo Leal, the director's grandfather. The film shows the intimacy, the talent and the stories of a generation that revolutionized the sexual behavior and defied the moral of a time.

On the night of April 14, 1912, the most famous ship in history, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg. Within 3 hours she succumbed to her damage and one of history's most intriguing mysteries was born. The tales of greed, arrogance, conspiracy, heroism and romance, have captivated the world for over a century. What has been largely untold are the days immediately following the disaster. Unsinkable is a live-action, incredible true story of the rushed investigation, political interference, corporate accountability, and the heart wrenching personal moments of the disaster itself. With fascinating testimony, back-alley investigation, and riveting flashbacks to that fateful night, Unsinkable shines a light on why the Titanic disaster has endured for over 100 years.

In a corner of Victoria exists a link to an ancient culture, unlike anywhere else in Australia. A place of astounding beauty and rare archaeological and environmental significance, it is being degraded on an annual basis. As the clock ticks, an unlikely partnership could see it saved for future generations, while providing a moving example of reconciliation between white and black Australians. The film is a portrait of a hidden facet of Australian history and environment and a musing on what reconciliation can look like. While exploring the mysterious scarred trees, middens and stone scatters left at one remarkable site, we meet the people who are working against the clock - and the odds - to preserve what they can of the site. With organic relics at its heart - hundred year old scarred and dying trees - the film examines the preservation of culture and environment.

The incredible journey of Harvey, one of the youngest hikers, at four years old, to hike the entire Appalachian Trail. Traveling with his parents, they must overcome the challenges of the elements while embarking on the family adventure of a lifetime.

Retrospective documentary charting the rise and fall of Muhammad Ali.

Dennis Andrew Nilsen was a Scottish serial killer and necrophile who murdered at least twelve young men and boys between 1978 and 1983 in London. We delve into the psychology of Dennis to try and understand what turned him into such a cruel necrophile and murderer.

From early on in his career, Andy Warhol had an extraordinary ability to find the sacred in the profane. Like so many successful Americans, he was a product of Eastern European immigrant experience, who himself became an icon - a shy, gay, working-class man who became the court painter of the 1960s and 70s. He was the most glamorous figure of 20th Century American Art. He surrounded himself with the elite of New York City - people who all give compelling yet competing commentaries of their time with him. Warhol was certainly an enigma, and yet, ironically, he is one of the world's most well-known artists and a cult figure. Popular culture inspired his art; Warhol used instantly accessible images to reach mass audiences. He gave Americans what was already theirs, both critiquing and glorifying American culture and the American way of life. Above all, Warhol was a chronicler of modern life. He redefined art and what art can be, what it can mean, who has access to art, who can make art, and whose voice matters. His artwork still resonates with the public decades after they were created. His impact has most definitely lasted much longer than fifteen minutes.

Every three days, a woman is killed in the UK. These women could be sisters, daughters and friends. Although there is a lead that breaks open the case - what comes in light of the investigation, is one that leaves an everlasting scar on the families.

60 years since his directorial debut, Martin Scorsese's life has been dedicated to the past, present and future of cinema. 26 feature films later, the aptly named Caretaker of Cinema continues to push the boundaries of moviemaking.

In 1945, the world was ushered into the atomic age. With his role as the Father of the Bomb solidified, Oppenheimer became increasingly worried about the potential danger that scientific inventions could pose to humanity.