Movies like The Salt of the Earth

20 movies like The Salt of the Earth, ordered by similarity : What Is Democracy?(2018), The 11th Hour(2007), Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang(2016), Two Trains Runnin'(2016), National Bird(2016), Waste Land(2010), Shirkers(2018), Bill Cunningham New York(2010), The Life of Reilly(2006), Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda(2017), The Celluloid Closet(1996), Cameraman: The Life & Work of Jack Cardiff(2010) ...

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The Salt of the Earth

The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting deprived societies in hidden corners of the world.

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What Is Democracy?

This reflection on democracy spans millennia and continents, from ancient Athens' groundbreaking experiment in self-government to capitalism's roots in medieval Italy.

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The 11th Hour

A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet's ecosystems.

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Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang

Trace the rise of contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang from childhood in Mao's China to global art world superstar, and join his quest to realize his lifelong obsession: Sky Ladder.

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Two Trains Runnin'

In June of 1964, two groups of young men travel to Mississippi. Though neither group was aware of the other, each had come on the same errand: to find an old blues singer and coax him out of retirement.

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National Bird

Drone whistleblower interviewed about borderless information gathering by the government.

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Waste Land

On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro is Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill, where men and women sift through garbage for a living. Artist Vik Muniz produces portraits of the workers and learns about their lives.

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Shirkers

A woman explores the events surrounding a film she and her friends began making with a mysterious stranger decades ago.

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Bill Cunningham New York

A profile of the noted and extraordinarily cheerful veteran New York City fashion photographer.

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The Life of Reilly

If, in 1940, you had a lobotomized aunt, an institutionalized father, a racist mother, and were the only gay kid on the block, what do you think the odds would be that you'd end up a Tony ... See full summary »

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Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda

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The Celluloid Closet

A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.

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Cameraman: The Life & Work of Jack Cardiff

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette ... See full summary »

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Free Solo

Alex Honnold attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb El Capitan.

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Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

An exploration of the history and emotional power of cinema sound, as revealed by legendary sound designers and visionary directors, via interviews, clips from movies, and a look at their actual process of creation and discovery.

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Finding Vivian Maier

A documentary on the late Vivian Maier, a nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs earned her a posthumous reputation as one of the most accomplished street photographers.

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The Lovely Month of May

Actors Yves Montand and Simone Signoret narrate an introduction to springtime in Paris, as described by its citizens.

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Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art

Set in the desolate desert spaces of the American southwest, the film unearths the history of land art during the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s. Troublemakers is ultimately a story ... See full summary »

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Western Stars

Live concert performance of Bruce Springsteen singing songs from his album 'Western Stars'.

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An Inconvenient Truth

Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim follows Al Gore on the lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment.

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The British Guide to Showing Off

British artist and living legend Andrew Logan, loved the world over by celebrities and misfits alike, takes us under his glittering wing and inside his outrageous, anarchic and spectacular ... See full summary »

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