Secrets of the Neanderthals

6.6

2024

80 mins

DocumentaryMysteryHistory

This documentary delves into the mysteries surrounding the Neanderthals and what their fossil record tells us about their lives and disappearance.

Misha and the Wolves

Year : 2021Rating : ⭐ 6.9

A woman’s Holocaust memoir takes the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher-turned-detective reveals her story as an audacious deception created to hide a darker truth.

Red Army

Year : 2015Rating : ⭐ 7.4

A documentary highlighting the Soviet Union's legendary and enigmatic hockey training culture and world-dominating team through the eyes of the team's Captain Slava Fetisov, following his shift from hockey star and celebrated national hero to political enemy.

The Accountant of Auschwitz

Year : 2018Rating : ⭐ 6.9

Oskar Gröning, known as the "Accountant of Auschwitz," was charged with the murder of 300,000 Jews. When he took the stand in 2015, at the age of 94, his trial made headlines worldwide.

Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

Year : 2020Rating : ⭐ 6.5

This remarkable journey across our planet and universe explores how meteorites, shooting stars, and deep impacts have awoken our wonder about other realms—and make us rethink our destinies.

Apollo: Missions to the Moon

Year : 2019Rating : ⭐ 7.3

National Geographic's riveting effort recounts all 12 crewed missions using only archival footage, photos and audio.

The Princess

Year : 2022Rating : ⭐ 6.5

Decades after her untimely death, Princess Diana continues to evoke mystery, glamour, and the quintessential modern fairy tale gone wrong. As a symbol of both the widening fissures weakening the British monarchy and the destructive machinery of the press, the Princess of Wales navigated an unparalleled rise to fame and the corrosive challenges that came alongside it. Crafted entirely from immersive archival footage and free from the distraction of retrospective voices, this hypnotic and audaciously revealing documentary takes a distinctive formal approach, allowing the story of the People’s Princess to unfold before us like never before.

In the Shadow of the Moon

Year : 2007Rating : ⭐ 7.6

Archival material from the original NASA film footage – much of it seen for the first time – plus interviews with the surviving astronauts, including Jim Lovell, Dave Scott, John Young, Gene Cernan, Mike Collins, Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, Edgar Mitchell, Charlie Duke and Harrison Schmitt.

Capitalism: A Love Story

Year : 2009Rating : ⭐ 7.1

Michael Moore comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world).

9/11: Inside the President's War Room

Year : 2021Rating : ⭐ 6.9

Experience the events of September 11, 2001 through the eyes of President Bush and his closest advisors as they personally detail the crucial hours and key decisions from that historic day.

The Untold History Of The United States

Year : 2012Rating : ⭐ 8.2

Oliver Stone charts the history of the United States from the Second World War to the present.

Best of Enemies

Year : 2015Rating : ⭐ 7.2

A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. Intended as commentary on the issues of their day, these vitriolic and explosive encounters came to define the modern era of public discourse in the media, marking the big bang moment of our contemporary media landscape when spectacle trumped content and argument replaced substance. Best of Enemies delves into the entangled biographies of these two great thinkers, and luxuriates in the language and the theater of their debates, begging the question, "What has television done to the way we discuss politics in our democracy today?"

Titanic: 20 Years Later with James Cameron

Year : 2017Rating : ⭐ 6.6

For the 20th anniversary of "Titanic," James Cameron reopens the file on the disaster.

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

Year : 2019Rating : ⭐ 6.9

The history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers.

The Martha Mitchell Effect

Year : 2022Rating : ⭐ 6.4

She was once as famous as Jackie O—and then she tried to take down a President. Martha Mitchell was the unlikeliest of whistleblowers: a Republican wife who was discredited by Nixon to keep her quiet. Until now.

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front

Year : 2011Rating : ⭐ 6.5

Filmmaker Marshall Curry explores the inner workings of the Earth Liberation Front, a revolutionary movement devoted to crippling facilities involved in deforestation, while simultaneously offering a profile of Oregon ELF member Daniel McGowan, who was brought up on terrorism charges for his involvement with the radical group.

Reel Injun

Year : 2010Rating : ⭐ 7.0

The evolution of the depiction of the various Native American peoples in cinema, from the silent era to the present day: how their image on the screen has changed the way to understand their history and culture.

Zeitgeist: The Movie

Year : 2007Rating : ⭐ 7.0

A documentary examining possible historical and modern conspiracies surrounding Christianity, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the Federal Reserve bank.

The War Room

Year : 1993Rating : ⭐ 6.8

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the Clinton for President campaign, focusing on the adventures of spin doctors James Carville and George Stephanopoulos.

Alone in the Wilderness

Year : 2004Rating : ⭐ 7.9

Dick Proenneke retired at age 50 in 1967 and decided to build his own cabin in the wilderness at the base of the Aleutian Peninsula, in what is now Lake Clark National Park. Using color footage he shot himself, Proenneke traces how he came to this remote area, selected a homestead site and built his log cabin completely by himself. The documentary covers his first year in-country, showing his day-to-day activities and the passing of the seasons as he sought to scratch out a living alone in the wilderness.

Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know

Year : 2020Rating : ⭐ 6.6

Black holes stand at the limit of what we can know. To explore that edge of knowledge, the Event Horizon Telescope links observatories across the world to simulate an earth-sized instrument. With this tool the team pursues the first-ever picture of a black hole, resulting in an image seen by billions of people in April 2019. Meanwhile, Hawking and his team attack the black hole paradox at the heart of theoretical physics—Do predictive laws still function, even in these massive distortions of space and time? Weaving them together is a third strand, philosophical and exploratory using expressive animation. “Edge” is about practicing science at the highest level, a film where observation, theory, and philosophy combine to grasp these most mysterious objects.