20 movies like Canal Zone, ordered by similarity : This Is Congo(2017), The September Issue(2009), The Trials of Henry Kissinger(2002), The Man Who Saved the World(2014), National Bird(2016), Knock Down the House(2019), Burden(2016), What Is Democracy?(2018), Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer(2010), Fahrenheit 11/9(2018), On the Map(2016), Dinosaur 13(2014) ...
7.5/10
Documentary
USA
1977
175 Minutes
officer government official military officer young man pilot engaging fascinating striking panama house office ship panama canal society community culture politics quest discovery 1970s
On the one hand, you have the Panamians, but Frederick Wiseman shows them as the Americans see them: from a distance. They are poor and of no particular interest to them even if Panama is ... See full summary »
7.7/10
Documentary, War, Drama, History
USA|Congo
2017
93 Minutes
Mamadou Ndala
merchant poor person villager government official military officer bleak brutal uneasy tense intricate disheartening congo village plains office road market political corruption political unrest military occupation
An unfiltered look in to the lives of 3 characters surviving amongst the most recent cycle of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, otherwise known as the M23 rebellion.
7.1/10
Documentary
USA
2009
90 Minutes
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A documentary chronicling Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour's preparations for the 2007 fall-fashion issue.
7.6/10
Documentary
USA|UK|Denmark|France|Canada|Australia
2002
80 Minutes
journalist government official diplomat lawyer christopher hitchens secretary of state fascinating somber powerful office government building cambodia vietnam united states henry kissinger diplomacy vietnam war human rights war crime politics
A film about the war crimes of the American diplomat, Henry Kissinger.
7.6/10
Documentary
Denmark|Latvia|Russia|USA
2014
110 Minutes
Sergey Shnyryov
officer military officer soldier fascinating intricate intense suspenseful soviet union saving the day saving the world nuclear war war rescue quest
Retired Soviet Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov, who saved the world from WW3, talks about his life as retiree and shares his opinions on the Cold War with actor Kevin Costner in this melancholic mixture of documentary and reenacted footage.
7.0/10
Documentary
USA
2016
92 Minutes
Jesselyn Radack
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Drone whistleblower interviewed about borderless information gathering by the government.
7.1/10
Documentary
USA
2019
86 Minutes
nurse daughter bartender mother candidate politician fascinating confident cool incredible inspiring patriotic television studio new york city washington, d.c. office politics winning social change women
A look at the people involved with various political campaigns during the 2018 U.S. congressional election.
Documentary
2016
88 Minutes
Richard Dewey
artist expert curator critic friend narrator fascinating creative intense museum apartment warehouse office street art gallery art masochism criticism creative process passion
The life of the always provocative artist Chris Burden, whose work consistently challenged ideas about the limits and nature of modern art, from his notorious performances in the 1970s to his later works.
Documentary
2018
107 Minutes
Astra Taylor Cornel West Angela Davis Eleni Perdikouri William Barber
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This reflection on democracy spans millennia and continents, from ancient Athens' groundbreaking experiment in self-government to capitalism's roots in medieval Italy.
7.4/10
Documentary
USA
2010
117 Minutes
Eliot Spitzer Wrenn Schmidt Roger Stone Kim Allen Karen Finley
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An in-depth look at the rise and fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, including interviews with the scandalized, former politician.
7.0/10
Documentary
USA
2018
128 Minutes
michael moore documentarian political activist politician citizen u.s. president bleak disheartening uneasy tense unrestrained passionate united states restaurant protest office government building american culture social injustice politics
Filmmaker Michael Moore examines the current state of American politics, particularly the Donald Trump presidency and gun violence, while highlighting the power of grassroots democratic movements.
7.8/10
Documentary
USA|Israel
2016
85 Minutes
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ON THE MAP tells the against-all-odds story of Maccabi Tel Aviv's 1977 European Championship, which took place at a time when the Middle East was still reeling from the 1973 Yom Kippur War,... See full summary »
7.2/10
Documentary
USA
2014
106 Minutes
dinosaur documentarian archaeologist tyrannosaurus rex skeleton government official fascinating engaging gripping intense powerful united states archaeological dig museum archaeology documentaries documentary filmmaking paleontology dinosaurs discovery
A documentary about the discovery of the largest Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil ever found.
7.1/10
Documentary
Spain
2003
110 Minutes
Xabier Arzalluz Bernardo Atxaga Txiki Benegas Txetxo Bengoetxea Julen De Madariaga Odón Elorza Iñaki Gabilondo Juan José Ibarretxe
politician novelist musician nationalist spaniard tense gripping spain office basque nationalism government politics culture clash violence discovery rivalry 2000s
Documentary about the Basque nationalist movement in Spain.
6.8/10
Biography, Documentary
UK|USA
1990
85 Minutes
John Cage Emile de Antonio
federal agent documentarian government official fbi director brooding dense profound fascinating studio new york city kitchen united states office j. edgar hoover politics security wrongfully accused power struggle communism transformation
7.4/10
Documentary
USA|UK
2018
96 Minutes
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A woman explores the events surrounding a film she and her friends began making with a mysterious stranger decades ago.
6.9/10
Documentary
Germany|Israel|Canada|USA
2016
90 Minutes
Shaul Schwarz
birth mother man brother father canadian israeli emotional fascinating intense israel canada airport nursing home car house separation secrets reunion questioning doubt
Family secrets, lies, high drama and generations of contemporary history unspool in this international story that begins with World War II and concludes with an emotional 21st-century ... See full summary »
7.7/10
Documentary
UK|USA
2008
90 Minutes
high-wire artist police officer girlfriend friend fascinating suspenseful incredible france new york city skyscraper world trade center daunting task aspirations friendship crime quest underdog 1970s
A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century".
7.4/10
Documentary
Denmark|Finland|Sweden|Italy
2010
75 Minutes
scientist inspector architect government official bleak profound somber finland bunker laboratory office nuclear power plant nuclear energy nuclear safety future nuclear waste construction energy discovery mystery
A documentary on the safety of nuclear storage.
7.3/10
Documentary
France
1978
85 Minutes
Penny Patterson Karl H. Pribram
researcher gorilla scientist charming engaging house trailer california stanford university sign language human-animal friendship wild animals animal rights education emotion transformation discovery quest 1970s
A documentary that follows Dr. Penny Patterson's current scientific study of Koko, a gorilla who communicates through American Sign Language.
8.0/10
Documentary
USA|Germany|UK
2014
114 Minutes
reporter hacker fugitive defector government official director brooding emotional fascinating hong kong hotel office street airplane cab surveillance covert operations defection hiding travel
A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.
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