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What Documentary Movies to watch on Tubi

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Barabbas

2 hrs 17 mins

Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was spared crucifixion when the Jews chose Christ in his place. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the gladiator arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons.

Barabbas
  • 1961

Break of Day

1 hr 52 mins

Tom Cooper, a married man recently returned from WWI, falls in love with an artist visiting his country town, but he has misgivings after meeting her city friends.

Break of Day
  • 1976

Constantine and the Cross

2 hrs 0 mins

Somewhat fictionalized dramatic account of Late Roman Emperor Constantine, his rise to power, and his establishment of religious tolerance among Roman subjects. Constantine's adoption of Christianity allowed this small persecuted religion to sweep throughout Europe as the empire's power waned.

Constantine and the Cross
  • 1961

Fanny Crosby

1 hr 30 mins

Already famous for her secular songs, blind lyricist Fanny Crosby (1820-1915) volunteers as a nurse during New York's cholera epidemic, undergoes a spiritual transformation, and starts to write Christian hymns.

Fanny Crosby
  • 1984

Heritage

1 hr 34 mins

Follows the life experiences of the Morrison and Parry families as they establish themselves within a new and challenging colony in Sydney. Facing the many trials and tribulations of settlement life, their actions would go toward shaping the nation. Along with progress and burgeoning offspring their story continues into the next century, where the tale of a new generation is told - a tale of descendants on a Northern outback cattle station facing their own challenges and of a high flying and impressionable young heroine.

Heritage
  • 1935

Hollywood on Trial

1 hr 45 mins

The documentary analyzes a dark period in Hollywood's history due to the Red Scare of the 1940's and 1950's, when actors, writers and directors were persecuted and investigated by the House of Un-American Activities Committee after being considered suspects of committing Anti-American acts by preaching the Communism in their films and television shows.

Hollywood on Trial
  • 1976

Manganinnie

1 hr 30 mins

Through lyrical images, Manganinnie journeys across mountains towards the coast with Joanna, a white girl, in search of Manganinnie's vanished tribe. The poignancy of this film derives from the Aboriginal woman's gradual realization that her people and the tribal way of life are forever gone. It is the story of the Black Drive of 1830, the near-genocide of the Tasmanian Aborigines.

Manganinnie
  • 1980

Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker

1 hr 35 mins

"Manhunt" vividly tells the terrifying story of the pursuit and capture of Richard Ramirez, "the Night Stalker" - a serial killer who terrorized California in mid 1980s.

Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker
  • 1989

Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films

1 hr 31 mins

This film covers the early history of post World War II educational films, especially those involving traffic safety by the Highway Safety Foundation under direction of Richard Wayman. In the name of promoting safe driving in teenagers, these films became notorious for their gory depiction of accidents to shock their audiences to make their point. The film also covers the role of safety films of this era, their effect on North American teenage culture, the struggle between idealism and lurid exploitation and how they reflected the larger society concerns of the time that adults projected onto their youth.

Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films
  • 2003

Wheel of Time

1 hr 20 mins

Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog's photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India.

Wheel of Time

The Origins of AIDS

1 hr 32 mins

From the hyphotesis of British journalist Edward Hoope, the film reopens the explosively controversial subject of the origins of AIDS, zeroing in specifically on his fiercely contested proposition that the HIV virus was first transmitted to children in the Belgian Congo via contaminated polio vaccine.

The Origins of AIDS
  • 2004

Amália

2 hrs 7 mins

The story of singing legend Amália Rodrigues who ruled the famous Portuguese acoustic guitar and vocals based music genre called fado.

Amália
  • 2008

The Forgiveness

1 hr 4 mins

In 1994, Andrés Rabadán gave himself up to the police after derailing three trains and killing his father with a crossbow. They declared him not guilty and diagnosed him with paranoid delirious schizophrenia. He is sentenced to spend 20 years in a penitentiary psychiatric. He goes to hell and back and starts to pick up the pieces of his life, using painting as a way to exorcize his own demons.

The Forgiveness
  • 2009

Red Cliff

2 hrs 28 mins

RED CLIFF is the third film in Magnet Releasing’s “Six Shooter Film Series V2,” a series of six films focusing specifically on action cinema, featuring some of the most exciting action films available today from around the globe.

Red Cliff

Everyday Rebellion

1 hr 58 mins

Everyday Rebellion is a documentary and cross-media project celebrating the power of creative nonviolent protest and civil disobedience.

Everyday Rebellion
  • 2013

Artists of Hell's Kitchen

0 hrs 58 mins

Hell's Kitchen: A New York Neighborhood is a time capsule visit to one of the big Apple's most notorious parts, made famous in movies for decades.

Artists of Hell's Kitchen
  • 2000

Arna's Children

1 hr 24 mins

Juliano Mer Khamis' documentary on his mother, Arna, an activist against the Israeli occupation who founded an alternative education system for Palestinian children.

Arna's Children

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism

1 hr 18 mins

Documentary on reported Conservative bias of the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News Channel (FNC), which promotes itself as "Fair and Balanced". Material includes interviews with former FNC employees and the inter-office memos they provided.

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism

Unsupersize Me

1 hr 16 mins

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Unsupersize Me
  • 2013

Finding Happiness

1 hr 36 mins

While visiting a spiritual community in northern California called Ananda (meaning "Joy") an investigative journalist armed with a fair amount of skepticism and a dash of curiosity discovers that the key to finding happiness comes from within and that when you change, everything changes.

Finding Happiness
  • 2014

The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made

1 hr 0 mins

There are some movies that are so bad they're good. And there are some movies that are so bad- that they're just bad! Really bad! And there are people out there who love these horribly bad films, like us! Welcome to The Fifty Worst Films Of All Time. From armless kung-fu fighters, ear-eating midgets, and crawling hands to just about everything Ed Wood did. This is the finest collection of bad films ever compiled. The budgets are cheap, the acting is terrible, and the plots are nowhere to be seen. It's The Fifty Worst Films Of All Time!

The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
  • 2004

A Wall in Jerusalem

1 hr 31 mins

A brilliant documentary about the growth of Israel into the Jewish homeland. Seventy-three years of struggle for religious freedom is vividly recorded using rare archive film footage and photographs of historic events in the development of 20th century Israel. Beginning with the Dreyfus Affair in 1894, the film covers Theodor Herzl, founder of modern Zionism; the earliest immigration and settlements; the formation of kibbutzim; the Balfour Declaration; the rise of European anti-Semitism; the British occupation of Palestine; Arab confrontations; the United Nations resolution; the "Exodus" incident, and the Six Day War.

A Wall in Jerusalem
  • 1968

The Barefoot Artist

1 hr 23 mins

Lily Yeh is a global artist who is fueled by a belief that art is a human right, and that artists can create a foundation for profound social change. Slight of frame, but large in spirit and vision, the 70-year-old artist was born in China, lives in Philadelphia, and now, as constant traveler, the world is her canvas. Our film explores two sides of Lily's life that are connected parts of the same journey: her international ventures helping to heal weakened spirits in communities around the world and a personal journey within, to repair her own fractured family.

The Barefoot Artist

The Brain That Sings

1 hr 2 mins

The Brain that Sings follows the lives of six year old Khalifa and eighteen year old Mohammed, two boys with autism in the United Arab Emirates through 3 months of music therapy.

The Brain That Sings
  • 2013
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