2021 Documentaries
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- DirectorGreg KohsStarsIoannis AntonoglouLucas BakerNick BostromGoogle's DeepMind has developed a program for playing the 3000 year old game Go using AI. They test AlphaGo on the European champion, then March 9-15, 2016, on the top player, Lee Sedol, in a best of 5 tournament in Seoul.
- StarsWill LymanFRONTLINE's "The Gulf War" is a comprehensive and critical analysis of the 1990-1991 war in which more than one million troops faced off against each other in the deserts of the Gulf states. From the Allied coalition's air war, to the ground assault, to the liberation of Kuwait, and the fallout of Saddam Hussein's retaining power, "The Gulf War" deconstructs what really happened, how it happened and why.
- DirectorRick RowleyStarsA.C. ThompsonAli WinstonJake HanrahanFRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate white supremacists and neo-Nazis involved in 2017 Charlottesville Unite Right rally.
- 1998– 1h 44mTV-PG8.9 (17)TV EpisodeStarsCharlton HestonDan QuayleJohn SununuThe top-secret planning behind the Coalition's victory over Iraq. How former CIA director President George Bush, General Norman Schwarzkopf, General Colin Powell and others gathered and analyzed the crucial information needed to develop their deceptive and overwhelming battlefield strategy in the Persian Gulf.
- DirectorRick RowleyStarsA.C. ThompsonAli WinstonJake HanrahanExposing a neo-Nazi group that has actively recruited inside the U.S. military. An investigation with ProPublica shows the group's terrorist objectives and how it gained strength after the 2017 Charlottesville rally.
- DirectorMichael KirkStarsWill LymanYamiche AlcindorMark BankstonThe trip down the conspiracies that made Donald Trump president of the USA.
- DirectorMichael KirkStarsMargaret AitkenMatt BaiJames M. BakerThis FRONTLINE episode tells the story of how crisis and tragedy prepared Joe Biden to become America's 46th president. It describes the searing moments that shaped President Biden and what those challenges reveal about how he will govern.
- DirectorJulie CohenBetsy WestStarsRuth Bader GinsburgAnn KittnerHarryette HelselThe exceptional life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon.
- DirectorSarah FournierThere are approximately 60 million evangelicals in the United States. They represent by far the largest religious group and should not be underestimated politically as voters. They take the Bible literally and believe that God created the world in six days, that the world only existed for 6,000 years, and they dismiss scientific knowledge as lies. They fear Muslims and atheists, homosexuality and permissive life. Alcohol, abortion and sex before marriage are taboo. In large parts of the United States, secularism, the separation of church and state, are being removed more and more. In the countryside, heavily armed paramilitary Christian religious warriors use rapid-fire weapons to train the martial emergency and the fight against anyone who does not fit into their retrograde worldview. At superficially harmless-looking music festivals, masses of young people, many of whom are still minors, are indoctrinated with Christian fundamentalism. The filmmakers of the documentary give a frightening insight into a strange world and show a supposedly modern country, in which large parts of the population have a level of intellectual development as in the Middle Ages and are as reactionary in their worldview as in Islamist theocracies.
- DirectorSonia AndersonStarsDaniela AlbersJulie Anderson AnkenbrandtRichard BransonDiscover the meteoric rise of Elon Musk, the man who is transforming the way we think about travel technology through electric cars, the Hyperloop, and revolutionary ideas on how we live through artificial intelligence and colonizing Mars.
- 1983– 1h 55mTV-PG7.6 (414)TV EpisodeDirectorJames JacobyStarsWill LymanJeff BezosJoshua WeinsteinAn examination of Jeff Bezos, his extraordinarily successful online business, Amazon.com, and its increasingly questionable business practices.
- DirectorCharles MillerStarsSandi ToksvigChris NorthJeff BezosThis episode follows the fortunes of the ultimate online retail success story - a business that was born in a garage twenty years ago and grew into a 100 billion pound global giant. Along the way, the Amazon phenomenon has inspired, shaped - and sometimes squeezed - the rest of the retail sector, while revolutionising attitudes to online business and transforming the way people shop. British people now do more of their shopping online than any other nation and in 2013, tens of millions of British customers used Amazon to buy 4.5 billion pounds' worth of goods. The story of the growing use of Amazon is the story of the internet age. Time and again, founder Jeff Bezos has moved the goalposts for many industries. Publishers, retailers and even the French minister of culture criticise Amazon's practices and bemoan its sheer size, but Amazon defends its record for providing customers with choice and competitive prices. Furthermore, Bezos' confidence in his mantra of 'start with the customer and work backwards' is already taking Amazon into new sectors - groceries, ebooks, film production, and cloud computing services.
- CreatorKatie BoxerPolly GreethamRachel Kay-WilliamsStarsNorman TebbitMichael HeseltineBernard InghamAn in-depth examination of Margaret Thatcher, her rise to power, and the changes brought forth by her years in leadership. Told without narration, the story uses archive film and the testimonies of those who knew her personally, and most of all, politically.
- DirectorPeter D. HutchisonKelly NyksJared P. ScottStarsNoam ChomskyAlan GreenspanMalcolm XRenowned academic and author Noam Chomsky elucidates 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power that have led to unprecedented inequality and the hollowing out of the American middle class.
- DirectorMichael KirkStarsWill LymanDonald TrumpCorey LewandowskiFRONTLINE investigates Trump's siege on his enemies, the media and even the leaders of his own party, who for years ignored the warning signs of what was to come.
- DirectorMichael MooreStarsMichael MooreWilliam BlackJimmy CarterAn examination of the social costs of corporate interests pursuing profits at the expense of the public good.
- StarsGolda MeirDavid Ben-GurionRawan DamenThe ethnic cleansing that occurred during the creation of the State of Israel is known to Palestinians as Nakba, which means "catastrophe."
- StarsKhaled HosseiniNadja BerlinghoffShukria BarakzaiLook at 40 years of war through the eyes of those who suffer most from it - the women of Afghanistan. The documentary begins in the 1960s, when peace reigns in the Kingdom of Afghanistan. When the communists take power, an endless war begins that changes the face of Afghanistan. Women become pawns in ideological battles. After September 11, 2001, Afghan women hope for the return of peace. They want to take their fate into their own hands, but the spiral of violence continues to this day.
- DirectorAlex GibneyStarsAlex GibneyBrian Keith AllenMoazzam BeggAlex Gibney exposes the haunting details of the USA's torture and interrogation practices during the War in Afghanistan.
- DirectorAlex GibneyStarsStephen GaudinChantell HigginsDaniel JonesFollows the story of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee subjected to the CIA's program, later identified as torture by those outside the agency.
- DirectorRick YoungStarsSarah ChildressRosa DeLauroDarin DetwilerFRONTLINE investigates the spread of dangerous pathogens in our meat -- particularly poultry -- and why the food-safety system isn't stopping the threat. Focusing on an outbreak of salmonella Heidelberg at one of the nation's largest poultry processors, the film shows how contaminants are evading regulators and causing more severe illnesses at a time when Americans are consuming more chicken than ever.
- CreatorCraig MazinStarsJessie BuckleyJared HarrisStellan SkarsgårdIn April 1986, the city of Chernobyl in the Soviet Union suffers one of the worst nuclear disasters in the history of mankind. Consequently, many heroes put their lives on the line in the following days, weeks and months.
- StarsMark FallonJames LaPortaMichel ParadisThis unflinching series documents the 9/11 terrorist attacks, from Al Qaeda's roots in the 1980s to America's forceful response, both at home and abroad.