Here are the top ten best documentaries of the modern era which have inspired, influenced and charmed their way into the memories of many.
This is one of 2010‘s best Documentaries. It explores the journey of how one french film enthusiast enters the world of underground street art from it’s grass roots until today. A fascinating look at the most notorious street artist’s and the man who captured the best street art footage from the very beginning.
Incredibly insightful and sometimes laugh out loud funny.
Cocaine Cowboys is a critically acclaimed film about the true life story of a young man coming up in the cocaine business from the amateur leagues to the big leagues meeting one of the biggest unknown exporters of cocaine in history, ‘The Godmother’.
MIchael Moore’s latest hit documentary is an inside look into the social system that governs most of the world. The pros and cons of Capitalism are explored by Moore and his team. He compares the way man has organized society throughout the centuries and brings up some enlightening and eye opening issues.
Morgan Freeman narrates one of science’s best modern documentaries about the life long questions of existence, time travel and space.
You’ll come out feeling more educated about physics and the surprising nature of space and reality. Anything is truly possible.
Morgan Spurlock takes a journey of binge eating for a month. He sets out to document his journey of consuming fast food amongst the growing epidemic of obesity in the USA.
Supervised by a hand full of medical professional, the results at the end of his journey are are surprising to say the least.
This documentary is a wonderful example of what happens when we take a new look at the rituals we have done aimlessly throughout our lives.
This documentary inspires perspective and a good look at what we do during our life time, what we take for granted and what we sometimes might not realize.
It’s a beautiful heart felt documentation of a group of people trying to bring out the good in human nature.
Food inc. is a vision of the crude reality of how our food is prepared before we buy them at the supermarket.
The stark contrast of slicing meat at a dinner table in a dignified manner whilst that same piece of meat was so undignifiably gutted out of a screaming, trembling animal days prior, becomes very apparent.
Some say this film is so powerful it has totally turned them off from meat consumption all together. If you are fond of your meats watch this documentary at your own risk.
This documentary was one of morgan Spurlock’s most under rated endeavors. At the height of the chase for Osama, he seeks to chase him himself, going around the middle east asking people where he was.
With tinges of comical humor and serious issues interlaced throughout the film, his journey takes him on life long reflections of the similarities we all share, which is a suiting conclusion to this eye opening documentary.
Chronicling the activities of the top tobacco company representatives at the height of the smoking boom. Heated by critics, we see some of the best marketing experts at the top of their game using ingenious tactics to keep the consumers smoking.
‘Stop Smoking’ now a widely accepted idea, was a concept which was contained expertly by the tobacco companies for a long time, and here it’s revealed how it was done, with a complete disregard for creating one of the most poisonous pass times in modern history.
This story follows a brave french stunt man’s obsession with ‘marrying’ the Twin towers using his walk wire. The great thing about this documentary is that one of the destroyed land marks that has changed the modern world was the focus of this man’s obsession.
It has flashes of the great escape with amateur plans to evade security set up rigs and walk between the north and south towers 110 stories above the ground with no safety net. He was able to become the only man brave enough to attempt this stunt on the now infamous manhattan buildings. Just for that fact alone, it has become a must see film.
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