Requiem for the American Dream (2015)

Vice (2018)

Summary: The story of Dick Cheney, an unassuming bureaucratic Washington insider, who quietly wielded immense power as Vice President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that are still felt today.

Release Date: December 25, 2018

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Director: Adam McKay

Writer: Adam McKay

Runtime: 2 h 12 min

MPAA: R

Production: Annapurna Pictures, Gary Sanchez Productions, Plan B Entertainment, The Third Floor

Distributor: Annapurna Distribution, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 60,000,000

Domestic: $ 47,836,282

International: $ 28,237,206

This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)

Summary: Kirby Dick's exposé about the American movie ratings board.

Release Date: September 01, 2006

Genre: Documentary

Director: Kirby Dick

Writers: Kirby Dick

, Eddie Schmidt

, Matt Patterson

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: NC-17

Production: Independent Film Channel (IFC), Netflix, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Distributor: Genius Products, Independent Film Channel (IFC)

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 306,845

International: $ 40,395

13th (2016)

Summary: An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

Release Date: October 07, 2016

Genres: Crime, Documentary, History

Director: Ava DuVernay

Writers: Spencer Averick

, Ava DuVernay

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Forward Movement, Kandoo Films, Netflix

Country: United States

Language: English

Da 5 Bloods (2020)

Summary: Four black veterans battle the forces of man and nature when they return to Vietnam seeking the remains of their fallen squad leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide.

Release Date: June 12, 2020

Genres: Adventure, Drama, War

Director: Spike Lee

Writers: Danny Bilson

, Paul De Meo

, Kevin Willmott

Runtime: 2 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, Rahway Road Productions

Distributor: Netflix

Country: United States

Language: English

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The Cockettes (2002)

Summary: Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.

Release Date: January 16, 2002

Genre: Documentary

Directors: Bill Weber

, David Weissman

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: Grandelusion

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 300,000

Domestic: $ 220,165

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J. Edgar (2011)

Summary: J. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the F.B.I. for nearly fifty years, looks back on his professional and personal life.

Release Date: November 11, 2011

Genres: Drama, Romance, Biography

Director: Clint Eastwood

Writer: Dustin Lance Black

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

MPAA: R

Production: Imagine Entertainment, Malpaso Productions, Wintergreen Productions

Distributor: Warner Bros., HBO Max, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000

Domestic: $ 37,306,030

International: $ 47,614,509

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The House I Live In (2012)

Summary: From the dealer to the narcotics officer, the inmate to the federal judge, a penetrating look inside America's criminal justice system, revealing the profound human rights implications of U.S. drug policy.

Release Date: October 05, 2012

Genre: Documentary

Director: Eugene Jarecki

Writers: Eugene Jarecki

, Christopher St. John

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Charlotte Street Films, Louverture Films, NHK Enterprises, Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep (VPRO), Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Countries: Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Australia, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 210,752

International: $ 8,407

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Nerve (2016)

Summary: A high school senior finds herself immersed in an online game of truth or dare, where her every move starts to become manipulated by an anonymous community of "watchers."

Release Date: July 27, 2016

Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime

Directors: Henry Joost

, Ariel Schulman

Writers: Jessica Sharzer

, Jeanne Ryan

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Lionsgate, TIK Films, Allison Shearmur Productions, Lionsgate Productions

Countries: United States, Hong Kong

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 19,000,000

Domestic: $ 38,583,626

International: $ 46,667,799

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011)

Summary: Footage shot by a group of Swedish journalists documenting the Black Power Movement in the United States is edited together by a contemporary Swedish filmmaker.

Release Date: April 01, 2011

Genres: Documentary, History

Director: Göran Hugo Olsson

Writer: Göran Hugo Olsson

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Story AB, Sveriges Television (SVT), Louverture Films, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Nordisk Film & TV-Fond, Norsk Rikskringkasting (NRK), Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS), Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI), Swedish Arts Grants Committee, YLE Teema

Distributor: Sundance Selects

Countries: Sweden, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,500,000

Domestic: $ 273,749

International: $ 6,507

Dolores (2017)

Summary: In the 1950's, a working-class wife and mother of eleven children helps to establish a farmer's union, which later develops into a platform for feminism and gender equality.

Release Date: January 20, 2017

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Director: Peter Bratt

Writers: Jessica Congdon

, Peter Bratt

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: 5 Stick Films, Artemis Rising Foundation

Distributor: PBS Distribution

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 555,309

First They Killed My Father (2017)

Summary: Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung recounts the horrors she suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge.

Release Date: September 15, 2017

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Angelina Jolie

Writers: Loung Ung

, Angelina Jolie

Runtime: 2 h 16 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Netflix, Bophana Production, Jolie Pas Productions

Distributor: Netflix

Countries: Cambodia, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 24,000,000

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)

Summary: Documentary about the legendary 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival which celebrated African-American music and culture and promoted Black pride and unity.

Release Date: July 02, 2021

Genres: Music, Documentary

Director: Questlove

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Mass Distraction Media, RadicalMedia, Vulcan Productions, LarryBilly Productions

Distributor: Onyx Collective, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Disney+

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 2,320,649

International: $ 1,375,420

Our Nixon (2013)

Summary: Never before seen Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon's closest aides - and convicted Watergate conspirators - offer a surprising and intimate new look into his Presidency.

Release Date: March 09, 2013

Genres: Crime, Documentary, Biography

Director: Penny Lane

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: CoPilot Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 20,584

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Summary: A newly-engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must seek shelter at the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-n-Furter.

Release Date: August 31, 1975

Genres: Comedy, Musical

Director: Jim Sharman

Writers: Richard O'Brien

, Jim Sharman

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: R

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, Michael White Productions

Distributor: CBS/Fox, Fox Video, Fox Network, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Cinémax, Home Box Office (HBO), Buena Vista Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,200,000

Domestic: $ 112,892,319

International: $ 2,430,438

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015)

Summary: This documentary tells the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20th century's most alluring and controversial organizations that captivated the world's attention for nearly 50 years.

Release Date: October 23, 2015

Genres: Documentary, History

Director: Stanley Nelson

Writer: Stanley Nelson

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Firelight Films, ITVS International

Distributor: The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 516,893

International: $ 67,216