Got the rainy day blues? Let an inspiring and upbeat documentary be your umbrella. Here's a list of fine nonfiction films that will entertain you, enrich your life and make you feel better, in general. Enjoy!
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•A Man Named Pearl
A Man Named Pearl is a documentary about self-taught topiary gardener Pearl Fryar who transformed his three and a half acre yard in Bishopville, South Carolina, into a wonderland worthy of Alice, and became a local hero by attracting tourism to his impoverished community and county.More »
•A Small Act
Jennifer Arnold's inspiring documentary follows Chris Mburu, a United Nations human rights advocate who grew up in an impoverished household in rural Kenya, and who, after graduating from Harvard, established the Hilde Back Education Fund to pay for high school for deserving Kenyan children, as a way of paying forward the kindness of a Swedish woman who sponsored his education.More »
•Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Anvil! The Story of Anvil documents the amazing careers of heavy metal musicians Steve 'Lips' Kudlow and Robb Reiner as they survive day jobs to rock for ages.More »
•Autism: The Musical
Director Tricia Regan presents Elaine Hall who creates the Miracle Project to help her adopted autistic child. In the project, autistic kids (and their parents) create a musical, but the film focuses on the interaction of the kids with each other and with Elaine, whose patience and commitment are extraordinary.More »
•Beaches of Agnes
French filmmaker Agnes Varda focuses on herself in stylish mix of verite and reenactment in which she examines her childhood on the beach, her marriage to Jacques Demy and her career among cinematic greats such as Jane Birkin, Catherine Deneuve, Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Harrison Ford, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jim Morrison and Philippe Noiret, among others.More »
•Bomb It!
Before there was Banksy, filmmaker Jon Reiss traveled around the world documenting graffiti artists who risk censure, arrest and their lives to decorate public property with what some call freely expressed and colorful art work and others call vandalism.More »
•Circus
Circus is a six hours, six episodes epic documentary that follows the famous, highly acclaimed Big Apple Circus and its personnel on its 2008 touring season around the U.S. Highly entertaining. Amazing cinematography!More »
•Eleven Minutes
Eleven Minutes covers the real life fashion runway debut of Jay McCarroll, the designer who won the first season of Project Runway, the fashion biz reality TV show.More »
•Every Little Step
In Every Little Step, directors James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo chronicle the audition process for the 2006 Broadway revival of A Chorus Line, Michael Bennett’s legendary musical that shows a group of talented young ‘gypsies’ who are auditioning for a new musical show. Behind-the-scenes glimpses at Broadway's audition process are fascinating, and the talented performers are superbly entertaining.More »
•Young@Heart
A chorus of telented and very spunky senior citizens belts punk, R and B and rock classics to sold-out audiences in concert halls in their home town of Northampton, Massachusetts, and around the world. This documentary film is their story, their well-deserved moment of glory.More »•and there are more:
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