Browse Movies : 2011 : Documentary

Justin Bieber will play himself in his life story. The pic will be sprinkled with performances from his current concert tour.

Mercedes Alvarez was three years old when her parents left La Aldea, a village in the barren Northern Spanish Soria region. She was the last child born in La Aldea. Now, only fourteen people live there. Soon this village, like so many other rural communities all over the world, will be deserted. Alvarez returns for the first time to her ancestral home and makes a film about memory and the terrifying passing of time.

A first person documentary of Tom Shadyac (helmer of bigscreen comedies including "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" and "Bruce Almighty") on his unusual journey of self-discovery. Film includes interviews with Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn and Desmond Tutu, among others.

This film documents orphaned orangutans and elephants and the extraordinary people who rescue and raise them--saving endangered species one life at a time.

A documentary on Sarah Palin that speaks with school friends, family and Republican colleagues of the former governor of Alaska.

Explores the alleged usage of subliminal messaging in advertising, music, film, television, anti-theft devices, political propaganda, military psychological operations, and advanced weapons development, to determine if such tactics have succeeded.

Two cat families in East Africa teach survive on their power and their cunning, while they protect and teach their cubs the ways of the wild.

An examination of a horrible crime through intimate conversations with those involved, including 28-year-old death row inmate Michael Perry, scheduled to die eight days after his interview.

Morgan Spurlock examines the world of advertising by making a film financed entirely by product placement.

Follows Phil Rosenthal as he travels to Russia to meet about doing a local version of "Everybody Loves Raymond."

Exploration of famed Mythologist Joseph Campbell’s studies and their continuing impact on our culture.

Focuses on a group of students who discover what they believe is a government conspiracy to keep the existence of trolls in the north of Norway hidden from the general public.

Documentary on a group of street musicians in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Documentary about the Chauvet caves in Southern France that contain the oldest known cave paintings.

This documentary chronicles how Hollywood writer-director producer Roger Corman created his cult film empire, one low-budget success at a time, capitalizing on undiscovered talent, and pushing the boundaries of independent filmmaking.

A 3D IMAX movie about the prehistoric world inhabited by pterosaurs -- flying vertebrates with a wingspan of up to 45 feet that lived alongside dinosaurs.

An experimental documentary that contemplates the signs of loss and change in the American South as potent metaphors of personal and collective destiny.

In the tradition of fly-on-the-wall documentaries, the film gains unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk. With the Internet surpassing print as the public's main news source and newspapers all over the country going bankrupt, Page One chronicles the transformation of the media industry at its time of greatest turmoil.

Reveals the far-flung reaches of our plastic problem with interviews with the world’s foremost experts in biology, pharmacology, and genetics shed light on the perils of plastic to our environment and expose the truth of how plastic affects our bodies and the health of future generations.