Documentales Colombianos
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1. Chircales (1972)
42 min | Documentary, Short
This film documents the life of a family of brick makers in the outskirts of Bogotá, using the personal experience of the Castañeda family to expose the exploitation of manual laborers. ... See full summary »
Directors: Marta Rodríguez, Jorge Silva
Votes: 169
2. Un asunto de tierras (2015)
78 min | Documentary, Drama
A Matter of Land recounts the first year of application of Colombian's Land Restitution Act from the perspective of a community who decide to engage with the process. The film explores the ... See full summary »
Director: Patricia Ayala Ruiz
Votes: 16
3. Little Voices (2010)
85 min | Documentary, Animation, Drama
This animated documentary about the vision of the Colombia war by displaced children using their original drawings and their testimonies.
Directors: Jairo Eduardo Carrillo, Oscar Andrade
Votes: 148
4. Patient (2015)
70 min | Documentary
PATIENT is the word used for those following medical instructions or for the moment we need to calmly wait. Colombia is a country where the inclement Health System obligates its users to ... See full summary »
Director: Jorge Caballero Ramos
Votes: 50
5. Ciro y yo (2018)
110 min | Documentary
Ciro Galindo was born on August 29th, 1952 in Colombia. Wherever he's gone, war has found him. After twenty years of friendship, I understood Ciro 's life sums up Colombia's history. As so ... See full summary »
Director: Miguel Salazar | Stars: Ciro Galindo, Esneider Galindo
Votes: 313
6. Señorita María, la falda de la montaña (2017)
90 min | Documentary
Love is an animal capable of adapting to the most arid mountain of hatred
Director: Rubén Mendoza | Stars: María Luisa Fuentes Burgos, María Luisa Bonilla
Votes: 238
7. Carta a una sombra (2015)
70 min | Documentary
In August 1987, Héctor Abad Gómez was murdered on the streets of downtown Medellín during the darkest moments of the dirty war against the Colombian left. Why was he killed? Who could have ... See full summary »
Directors: Daniela Abad, Miguel Salazar | Stars: Clara Abad, Maryluz Abad, Vicky Abad, Cecilia Faciolince
Votes: 122
8. Amazona (2016)
80 min | Documentary, Drama
This is the story of Val and Clare: a mother and a daughter. After the tragic death of her eldest daughter, Val left her kids and family behind and escaped into the Colombian jungle in ... See full summary »
Directors: Clare Weiskopf, Nicolas van Hemelryck | Stars: Valerie Meikle, Diego Weiskopf, Nicolas van Hemelryck, Noa Van Hemelryck Weiskopf
Votes: 311
9. Tumaco Pacifico (2008)
90 min | Documentary
Director: Samuel Córdoba | Stars: Doña Eduarda, Junior, Carmen Julia Palacio, Carlos Vivas
Votes: 17
10. Oiga vea! (1971)
27 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary about the effects of the VI Panamerican Games in the city of Cali, seen from the point of view of the people that couldn't get into the stadiums.
Directors: Carlos Mayolo, Luis Ospina | Star: Luis Alfonso Londoño
Votes: 26
11. It All Started at the End (2015)
Not Rated | 208 min | Documentary, History
A documentary made by Luis Ospina, the last one of Caliwood, the name of a group of three friends that used to make movies in Colombia in the 60-80's years.
Director: Luis Ospina | Stars: Ramiro Arbeláez, Alejandra Borrero, Beatriz Caballero, Andrés Caicedo
Votes: 308
12. Planas, testimonio de un etnocidio (1971)
50 min | Documentary, Drama
The film depicts the struggle of Rafael Jaramillo Ullua, who in the mid-60 organized a cooperative farming community in Planas. During this process were unmasked for indigenous mechanisms ... See full summary »
Directors: Marta Rodríguez, Jorge Silva
Votes: 8
14. Noche herida (2015)
86 min | Documentary
Blanca-a countrywoman displaced by violence to the outskirts of Bogota-is the mainstay of a now tiny family, looking after her three grandsons and doing her best to snatch them from an all too predictable fate.
Director: Nicolás Rincón Gille
Votes: 52
15. Birth Maternity Journal (2011)
81 min | Documentary, Drama
Every day, in the maternity rooms of the public hospitals of Bogota, hundreds of women give birth. Case to case, childbirth to childbirth, a social reality is revealed after every individual situation.
Director: Jorge Caballero Ramos
Votes: 8
16. La eterna noche de las doce lunas (2013)
87 min | Documentary
12-year-old Pili is entering womanhood, and as tradition dictates, after her first menstruation, she must be isolated from all men for 12 moon cycles. During this time, she learns to weave.
Director: Priscilla Padilla
Votes: 82
17. Ati y Mindiwa (2014)
70 min | Documentary, Family
Two sisters Ati and Mindhiva; They are part of the Arhuaca tribe, a Colombian indigenous culture. Their dream is to continue with their university studies. They have no money and it is ... See full summary »
Director: Claudia Fischer | Stars: Ati Villafana, Mindiwa Villafana
Votes: 12
18. Apaporis: In Search of One River (2010)
72 min | Documentary, Biography
This mystical journey takes us through the untrodden, war-locked Northwest Amazon, where we discover the secret knowledge of of Cabiyari and Cubeo indigenous cultures and their insight into... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Dorado
Votes: 60
19. Campesinos (1975)
50 min | Documentary
A Colombian documentary that expose the context of the indigenous-farmer movement in the early 70s.
Directors: Marta Rodríguez, Jorge Silva
Votes: 13
20. Nuestra voz de tierra, memoria y futuro (1982)
110 min | Documentary
The struggles of the community of the Coconuco indigenous reservation in Cauca, which by the eighteenth-century royal card is entitled to 10,000 hectares, and in 1971 it barely has 1,500.
Directors: Marta Rodríguez, Jorge Silva | Stars: Fernando Vélez, Eulogio Gurrute, Julian Avirama
Votes: 63
22. Meandros (2010)
94 min | Documentary, Drama
Meanders is a visual and narrative journey along the Guaviare, a social and cultural mosaic, a stage on which the armed conflict and the drug trade unfold, revealing the perception of the ... See full summary »
Directors: Manuel Ruiz Montealegre, Hector Ulloque Franco
Votes: 6
23. Home: The Country of Illusion (2016)
85 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Portugal is Lilia's last home, a 67-year old woman, whose life is marked by continuous migration. Lilia has lived in 8 countries and hasn't been back to her native Colombia in almost 40 ... See full summary »
Director: Josephine Landertinger Forero | Star: Lilia Forero Arenas
Votes: 32
24. Amor, mujeres y flores (1988)
58 min | Documentary
The documentary outlines the social features of workers at flowers plantation at Bogotá, Colombia and his claim for a better lifestyle and health conditions among the females stories of life and love.
Directors: Marta Rodríguez, Jorge Silva
Votes: 34
26. Andrés Caicedo: unos pocos buenos amigos (1986)
82 min | Documentary, Biography
Director: Luis Ospina | Stars: Julio Ardila, Ani Aristizábal, Carmiña Lago
Votes: 22
27. El páramo de Cumanday (1965)
18 min | Documentary, Short
A picturesque portrait of the memory of a man, now with a group, of his first trip all alone, a 12 year old mule driver, climbing higher and higher through foggy mountains and encountering a deserted house and a ghost who speaks to him.
Directors: Gabriela Samper, Ray Witlin | Star: Felipe Gonzalez
Votes: 12
28. Marímbula (2016)
72 min | Documentary
Andris Gabriel and travel to Africa for Fulfill Their ancestors' dream of returning to Their homeland. Diana follows them with her camera, wants to witness that moment and making her film. ... See full summary »
Director: Diana Kuellar
Votes: 5
29. Alias Yineth (2018)
70 min | Documentary
A guerrilla girl, a middle-class mom, a government executive compose the portrait and the transformations of a woman that is built over forgotten names.
Directors: Daniela Castro Valencia, Nicolas Ordoñez
Votes: 12
30. El río que se robaron (2016)
53 min | Documentary
Documentary film about the water crisis that is leading to the extermination of the Wayúu Nation of La Guajira, Colombia.
Director: Gonzalo Guillén | Star: Javier Rojas Uriana
31. Buscando al Animal (2017)
76 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Searching for the Animal unveils a profound secret about gender violence during the past five decades in Colombia, through Victor Gaviria's creative process in making the fictional film The Animal's Wife.
Director: Dani Goggel | Stars: Ricardo Duque, Víctor Gaviria, Erwin Goggel, Tito Alexander Gomez
Votes: 10
32. The Supreme Uneasiness: Incessant Portrait of Fernando Vallejo (2003)
90 min | Documentary
Vallejo is an author from Colombia, living in exile, his most famous work is the novel Our Lady of the Assassins .
Director: Luis Ospina | Stars: Fernando Vallejo, Antonio Caballero, Carlos Monsivåis, William Ospina
Votes: 79
33. De Cartagena a Cumaná (1945)
37 min | Short, Documentary
Directors: Gonzalo Acevedo Bernal, Álvaro Acevedo Bernal
34. Quijote (I) (2012)
79 min | Documentary
This is the story of Jairo William Gutiérrez, a peasant who travels in the midst of dramaturgy and staging, a man who as a child exchanged a handful of onions for a ticket to the circus and... See full summary »
Director: Juan Pablo Ríos | Star: Jairo William Gutierrez
36. Gamín (1977)
90 min | Documentary
Documentary of 1977 that talks about the life of the gamines in the city of Bogotá.
The gamines are children who have fled their homes in remote areas of the city or living in neighbouring ... See full synopsis »
Director: Ciro Durán | Star: Carlos Muñoz
Votes: 34
37. Camilo, el cura guerrillero (1974)
96 min | Documentary
The story of Camilo Torres, a Catholic priest belonging to the Colombian bourgeoisie who died in 1966, in a confrontation between the guerrillas and the army.
Director: Francisco Norden | Stars: María Arango, Joe Broderick, Antonio Bustos, Enrique Santos Calderón
Votes: 27
39. Un tigre de papel (2008)
Not Rated | 112 min | Documentary
The life of Pedro Manrique Figueroa, a pioneer of collage in Colombia. Taking his life and work as a pretext, this mockumentary takes the viewer on a journey through history from the year ... See full summary »
Director: Luis Ospina | Stars: Arturo Alape, Jotamario Arbeláez, Joe Broderick, Carlos Mayolo
Votes: 207
40. El hombre de la sal (1969)
12 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary short subject on the conflict between traditional artistry and newer technology as seen in the process of salt extraction from the earth.
Director: Gabriela Samper | Star: Marcos Olaya
Votes: 6
41. The Inflated Jungle (2015)
70 min | Documentary
A series of suicides among youths who had to travel far from home to go to school, shocked their indigenous community in the Colombian Amazon. THE INFLATED JUNGLE is a poetic and ... See full summary »
Director: Alejandro Naranjo
Votes: 101
42. Manizales City (1925)
52 min
We see different buildings gracing a bustling Andes town, called as the documentary says "the Chicago of Colombia, "on its 75th anniversary, followed by a Spanish bullfight, a colorful carnival, and a funeral procession with dance.
Director: Félix R. Restrepo | Stars: Guillermo Valencia, Jose Ignacio Vernaza
Votes: 14
44. Los santísimos hermanos (1969)
12 min | Documentary, Short
As violence grew in 1960s Colombia, a religious sect withdraws into the Tolima mountains to do penance and to find peace there.
Directors: Rebecca Puche, Hernando Sabogal, Gabriela Samper
Votes: 7
45. Réquiem NN (2013)
68 min | Documentary, History
Requiem NN is a film about a ritual of resistance of the people of Puerto Berrio, Colombia, who have lived continuous cycles of violence for many decades. The recovery of the bodies from ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Manuel Echavarría Olano
Votes: 14
48. Memorias Del Calavero (2014)
93 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
The last days of an old man who wants to tell the camera a secret of his life.
Director: Rubén Mendoza | Stars: Antonio Reyes El Cucho, Edson Velandia
Votes: 25
49. Buenaventura, no me dejes (2014)
Documentary
His stage name, refers to a port of the Colombian pacific named Buenaventura, where Yuri Bedoya was born and raised, a 46 years old mulatto, who in spite of being rather short and thin, ... See full summary »
Director: Marcela Gómez Montoya
50. Neo nato: El principio de todo está en lo más pequeño (2011)
104 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Having a child in Colombia? Its madness! But on the day the pregnancy test came in positive, we had to start looking for new answers. from that moment we became newcomers to this asylum, ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Camilo Ramírez Escobar | Stars: Nicna Camargo Salazar, Juan Camilo Ramírez Escobar
51. Pizarro (2017 TV Movie)
81 min | Documentary, Biography
This film follows María's quest in her process to recover her identity. Her father Carlos Pizarro dedicated his life to war in search of a revolution in Colombia. Now after 25 years of his ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Hernandez | Stars: Antonio Navarro Wolff, Carlos Pizarro, Maria Jose Pizarro, Myriam Rodríguez
Votes: 68
53. The Negotiation (IV) (2018)
89 min | Documentary, History, War
This is the story of the tortuous, and ultimately successful negotiations between the Colombian government and the hemisphere's oldest guerrilla movement in Havana, Cuba. But after decades ... See full summary »
Director: Margarita Martinez
Votes: 54
54. My Way or the Highway (2017)
70 min | Documentary, Animation, Adventure
Giorgio undertakes a new adventure: a motorcycle trip from Colombia to Argentina. After 15 years apart from her father, Silvia decides to go with him with the intention of rebuilding her unusual family story.
Director: Silvia Lorenzini
Votes: 12
55. The Tower (II) (2018)
76 min | Documentary, Drama, Mystery
On March 17, 2004, an explosive device was activated at the Piloto Public Library in Medellin, a place that preserves much of the photographic archive of Colombian history. A photograph is the only evidence of such barbarism...
Director: Sebastián Múnera | Stars: Neyder Gallego, Jorge Ortiz, Gloria González Roldan
Votes: 17
56. The Smiling Lombana (2018)
87 min | Documentary
What seemed like a promising young artist, Tito Lombana, and the romance with an intelligent Italian liberal, begins to drape itself in shadows.
Director: Daniela Abad
Votes: 101
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