How About A Completely Different Sort Of Documentary?...
Here are some interesting / bizarre doc-shock-mock-umentaries. A wide range of subject matter keeps things interesting. Interviews! Narration! Re-enactments! Some, are full-on docudramas! Some are real. Some aren't. Some, are somewhere in between. Beware, there are some pretty shocking films sprinkled among the rest...
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- DirectorBarbara BrancaccioJoshua ZemanStarsJoshua ZemanBarbara BrancaccioBill EllisRealizing that the urban legend of their youth has actually come true, two filmmakers delve into the mystery surrounding five missing children and the real-life boogeyman linked to their disappearances.
- DirectorJoshua ZemanStarsRachel MillsJoshua ZemanStephen WinickDelving into our collective nightmares, this horror-documentary investigates the origins of our most terrifying urban legends and the true stories that may have inspired them.
- DirectorJohn Alan SchwartzStarsMichael CarrSamuel BerkowitzMary Ellen BrightonA collection of death scenes, ranging from TV material to homemade super 8 movies.
- DirectorG. Brook StanfordStarsW. Gordon AllenTrevor James ConstableJuan FavaThis documentary puts forth the theory that UFOs are actually beings from another dimension, and reviews past incidents of UFO sightings in support of that theory.
- DirectorMichael Lee NirenbergStarsPaul CambriaKenneth De MartinesGail DinesThe history of Larry Flynt and the iconoclastic adult magazine he created.
- DirectorRay LaurentStarsIsaac BonewitsAnton LaVeyDiane LaVeyA documentary that takes a look inside the "Church of Satan", founded in California in the 1960s by Anton Szandor LaVey, a former circus lion tamer.
- DirectorJohn Erick DowdleStarsStacy ChboskyBen MessmerSamantha RobsonIn an abandoned house in Poughkeepsie, New York murder investigators uncover hundreds of tapes showing decades of a serial killer's work.
- DirectorGarry GibsonMichael 'Gibbo' GibsonStarsJeffrey Burton RussellPeter H. GilmoreHarold SchechterThis documentary examines Satanism, the occult, and serial killers including Albert Fish, Andrei Chikatilo, Fred and Rosemary West, Harold Shipman, and David Berkowitz.
- DirectorWilliam ArntzBetsy ChasseMark VicenteStarsMarlee MatlinElaine HendrixJohn Ross BowieA fictional photographer's quest to spiritually rediscover herself is interspersed with documentary footage of scientists and theologians discussing the philosophical aspects of quantum physics.
- DirectorAaron AllardJames LafleurMarco PazzanoStarsDiane AdelsonRichard BrandtGeorge CavenderIn April 1966, a film called Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) was completed. By late April of that same year, critics agreed unanimously that this was to be forever regarded as one of the worst films ever made. More than 30 years later, a group of Canadian filmmakers interview Bernie Rosenblum, the last surviving crew member of Manos, to answer one question: Why?
- DirectorEdward D. Wood Jr.StarsEdward D. Wood Jr.Bela LugosiLyle TalbotA psychiatrist tells the stories of a transvestite (Glen or Glenda) and a pseudohermaphrodite (Alan or Anne).
- DirectorCharles B. PierceStarsWillie E. SmithJohn P. HixonVern StiermanA documentary-style drama about the "Fouke Monster", a Bigfoot-type creature that has been sighted in and around Fouke, Arkansas since the 1950s.
- DirectorEd RagozzinoStarsGeorge LaurisSteve BoergadineJim BradfordScientists mount an expedition to find a Bigfoot-type creature.
- DirectorCharles B. PierceStarsBen JohnsonAndrew PrineDawn WellsThe story of a hooded, berserk killer who terrorized the border town of Texarkana, Arkansas in 1946--leaving no fewer than five murder victims in his wake. He was never caught. Based on one of America's most baffling murder cases.
- DirectorJeff GillenAlan OrmsbyStarsRoberts BlossomCosette LeeLeslie CarlsonA deranged rural farmer becomes a grave robber and murderer after the death of his possessive mother, whose corpse he keeps, among others, as his companion in a decaying farmhouse.
- DirectorRicky KennedyStarsStephen AdamiKrista AlesValerie BlackA fictional documentary about the creation of the worlds first time machine, the men who created it, and the unintended ramifications it has on world events.
- DirectorKevin WillmottStarsGreg KirschRenee PatrickMolly GrahamThrough the eyes of a British "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America where the South won the Civil War.
- DirectorScott GlossermanStarsNathan BaeselAngela GoethalsZelda RubinsteinThe next great killer and psychopath has given a documentary film crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the quiet town of Glen Echo.
- DirectorJemaine ClementTaika WaititiStarsJemaine ClementTaika WaititiCori Gonzalez-MacuerViago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires who are struggling with the mundane aspects of modern life, like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts.
- DirectorFabien DelageStarsAlexandre AjaDave AlexanderJean-Jacques BernardA documentary investigation on the rarest and most controversial French movie in the history of early cinema: a fascinating, lost and dangerous short film which causes violent reactions to those who watch it.
- DirectorAndrey IskanovStarsTetsuro SakagamiTomoya OkamotoYukari FujimotoA graphic docu-drama detailing the history of Unit 731, where thousands of innocent Chinese prisoners of war were fatally experimented on.
- DirectorJohn BorowskiStarsTony JayEd BertagnoliCary CallisonTorture chambers, acid vats, greased chutes and gassing rooms were just some of the devices of death designed by the Torture Doctor, H.H. Holmes in his castle of horrors. Follows Holmes' entire life as a criminal mastermind.
- DirectorJosh JohnsonStarsBen JousanDavid GregoryMicah MatthewsHome video changed the world. The cultural and historical impact of the VHS tape was enormous. This film traces the ripples of that impact by examining the myriad aspects of society that were altered by the creation of videotape.
- DirectorSeth BreedloveStarsRoger BartleyHowe CaytonScott FinneganIn August 1978, a small town in Ohio was thrust into the spotlight when a local family sighted a "monster" in the woods behind their home. Minerva Monster tells the real story through witness interviews, in the words of those who lived it.
- DirectorDonald F. GlutStarsDonald F. GlutJulia B. GlutForrest J. AckermanA collection of Donald F. Glut's (The Empire Strikes Back) amateur short films including: Captain America Vs. The Mutant, Spider-Man, Batman & Robin and Tor, King Of Beasts. A companion piece to the documentary I Was A Teenage Moviemaker.
- DirectorRay GreeneStarsMaila NurmiGloria PallRay GreeneWhen Maila Nurmi took to the TV airwaves in 1954 as the prototypal gothic scream queen Vampira, a national craze was set off.
- DirectorDominic H. WhiteStarsDaniel ChouinardChristopher CacciacarneAdam GazzaleyA groundbreaking exploration into how mobile devices, virtual worlds, social media and the Internet are reshaping face-to face human interactions - for the good and the bad.
- DirectorAdam GreenStarsRay WiseAdam GreenWill BarrattA documentary exploring genre based monster art takes an odd turn when the filmmakers are contacted by a man who claims he can prove that monsters are indeed real.
- StarsMike McMahonMichael MorrisEach terrorist attack has led to an increase in security: new laws, surveillance of individuals, trade and financial transactions, more cameras, biometric scanning, ever-expanding security architecture. In New York the attacks came by air, in London by subway and bus, in Madrid by train, in Oslo by car and boat. When will the next attack take place? Where and how will it happen?
- DirectorDaniel JonesStarsPhilip GardinerO.H. KrillAmerica, a land of extremes, where wealth and poverty walk side by side. Thousands of amazing cities of light, full of multi-ethnic individuals all chasing the dream. Wild frontiers of natural beauty and danger. The world's biggest, smallest, loudest and fastest of everything. Incredible landscapes, incredible people, incredible history. A place where freedom of speech, thought, religion and politics are espoused and held dear. But is America truly the home of the brave and the land of the free? John F. Kennedy once said: "The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings." But is this really the truth? Is America the nation, the result of just a series of events or is it part of some grand design from some even grander architect? In "A Secret History," we uncover the true origin of the United States of America and explore the occult origins of its signs and symbols - discovering that Freemasonic and Illuminati secret societies are responsible for how we live our daily lives in this modern world. Discover the ruling elite who have been orchestrating the world we know for centuries and who sparked a global revolution and created the most powerful nation on the planet - a grand design put into action and still present today.
- DirectorWilliam LewisStarsGeorge W. BushDick CheneyRudy GiulianiWhat "In Plane Site" accomplishes that no other video expose' on September 11th has to date, is it exposes the viewer to a barrage of news clips from a majority of the mainstream news outlets. The official story of that day was told on live TV by reporters, policemen, firefighters, and other on-the-scene eyewitnesses, however, that footage was shown only once on live television broadcasts in the first hours of the attacks and then... it was never repeated. The stories changed, information was enigmatically omitted, and what can only be described as officially prescribed propaganda took the place of indisputable reality.
- DirectorJeff HerbergerStarsJane AdamsKathleen BurkeLon Chaney Jr.Frankenstein, Dracula, the Mummy, and the Wolf Man helped build a golden age for horror movies at Universal Studios. With talented directors, iconic actors, and shocking scares, Universal changed the world of horror forever, with an impact that still resonates today. Here's the story of the Universal monsters.
- DirectorJeff HerbergerStarsForrest J. AckermanSamuel Z. ArkoffAaron ChristensenFrom THINGS to BODY SNATCHERS to CREATURES FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, sci-fi monsters dominated 1950s horror. Take a ride to an era of drive-ins, Red Scares, low budgets and big bugs with SPACE INVADERS AND DRIVE INS.
- DirectorJeff HerbergerStarsAaron ChristensenDwight KemperJon KitleyPart three of a multi-part documentary series with distinguished actors, directors, writers, composers and special effects mavens examining the history of the horror, fantasy and science fiction films from the groundbreaking silent 1920s through the Golden Age of Universal, the Silver Age of Hammer and up through the 1980s and beyond.
- DirectorCameron BarrettStarsEd HarrisExperts agree that the chances of a major earthquake ripping through Southern California in the coming 30 years may be as high as 90%. If you and your family are to survive, you'll need to know what to do to prepare you home for an earthquake, how to drop, cover, and hold on during an earthquake, and how to live without electricity, running water, or emergency first responders for up to three days afterward.
- DirectorBrian StillmanStarsTom BeaumontTom BergesJohn BoothPlastic Galaxy explores the groundbreaking world of Star Wars toys. Through interviews with former Kenner employees, toy experts, and collectors, it looks at the toys' history, their influence, and the feelings they elicit today.
- DirectorJon BokenkampStarsJon BokenkampMatt KenagyValerian BennettA video documentary/road trip that celebrates the drive-in movie theater's impact on the United States, and pays homage to the people who keep the few remaining ones fully operational. Features interviews with horror movie maker John Carpenter, movie critic John I. Bloom (aka "Joe Bob Briggs"), Michael Wallis, author of "Route 66: The Mother Road," and others.
- DirectorKurt KuenneStarsLeonard MaltinJohn BloomSamuel Z. ArkoffThis film chronicles the drive-in's birth and development, its phenomenal popularity with audiences of all ages, its tragic decline, and its inevitable comeback as a classic form of Americana.
- DirectorTim FerranteStarsJames KarenBobbie BreseeForrest J. AckermanA compilation of trailers and previews from classic low-budget sci-fi and horror films.
- DirectorMichael WatchulonisStarsDavid HuNathan MlotSanford D. PorterFire ants are one of the most destructive species on earth. This documentary explores the secrets of their success and asks whether they can be stopped.
- DirectorJohn A. RussoStarsDavid WaszakConrad BrooksLori CardilleA documentary on the Zombie Jamboree, the 25th Anniversary of Night of the Living Dead convention that took place in 1993. Guests included numerous cast and crew of the Romero Living Dead movies as well as cast from Russo's spin-off series, Return of the Living Dead. Other guests included horror icons Kane Hodder, Gunnar Hansen, and Tom Savini as well as sci-fi/fantasy favorites, Adam West, Dave Prowse, and Suzie Owens among others. Documentary includes interviews with celebrities and fans and includes clips from events of the convention.
- DirectorBret WoodStarsRichard AndersonSonny BonoJohn F. ButlerThe history of traffic safety educational films and their notoriously lurid content.
- DirectorMorgan SpurlockStarsMorgan SpurlockDaryl IsaacsChemeeka WalkerWhile examining the influence of the fast food industry, Morgan Spurlock personally explores the consequences on his health of a diet of solely McDonald's food for one month.
- DirectorMicah SmithStarsRaheel RazaRaquel Evita SaraswatiJuliana TaimoorazySeveral Muslim women activists discuss their stories and the state of women's rights in Muslim-majority nations.
- DirectorTariq JalilStarsTariq JalilRoger CormanJames DuvalA cross country exploration into the forces that attracts so many to the Star Wars mythos.
- DirectorAntonio ClimatiMario MorraStarsGiuseppe RinaldiPit DernitzIlona StallerA notorious mondo film depicting unbelievable and bizarre rituals, animal killing and cruelty, and people being killed and eaten, all by either animals or humans against each other or themselves.
- DirectorArnold L. MillerStarsDavid GellMacDonald HobleyBilly J. KramerExploitation film documentary on 'Swinging London' as it actually happened. Arnold Louis Miller, the director of 'Nudist Memories', interviews mods, rockers and beatniks. Wife Swapping, an overworked stripper, child birth, the killing of chickens and an interview with Billy J. Kramer also feature.
- DirectorLarry CharlesStarsBill MaherTal BachmanJonathan BouldenBill Maher's take on the current state of world religion.
- DirectorHarry WinerStarsIvan MarxPeggy MarxYukon FridaA documentary about the legendary creature, Bigfoot, with emphasis on him being the missing link.
- DirectorJoel AndersonStarsRosie TraynorDavid PledgerMartin SharpeStrange things start happening after a girl is found drowned in a lake.
- DirectorJ.T. PettyStarsElizabeth CartierCarol J. CloverDebbie DAn exploration of voyeurism in cinema, from Psycho and Peeping Tom in 1960 to the low-budget underground genre films of recent years.
- DirectorPaul SaltzmanStarsDelay de la BeckwithJim IngramDonna LaddIn 1965, 21-year-old Torontonian, Paul Saltzman drove to Mississippi, volunteering as a civil rights worker with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. He was arrested, spending 10 days in jail. He smuggled letters out of jail to the Toronto Star. Canadian Foreign Affairs requested his release but Saltzman declined. Posted to one of the toughest segregationist towns, Greenwood, he helped disadvantaged sharecroppers register to vote. He was assaulted by a young Klansman. In 2007, Saltzman returned to find the KKK member who had punched him in the head, to explore if individual reconciliation was possible. He found him and a 5 year dialogue has ensued. His assailant was, Byron de la Beckwith Jr., whose father, Byron de la Beckwith Sr. murdered NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers.
- DirectorMike DorseyStarsRon HaleCraig HarveyNikki Medlin"The Six Degrees of Helter Skelter" walks in the footsteps of the Manson Family, visiting over 40 locations related to the infamous Tate/LaBianca murders, and tying together the dozens of odd connections between Charles Manson and the Hollywood elite. Entertainingly led by famous Hollywood historian Scott Michaels (E!'s 20 Most Horrifying Hollywood Murders, Dearly Departed: Vol. 1, FindADeath.com), this epic documentary employs never-before-seen autopsy reports (analyzed with the help of the Los Angeles Department of the Coroner), dozens of rare photographs, original Manson Family music recordings, and modern-day visits to the locations where the action went down, in the most complete retelling of the Manson Murders ever put on film.
- DirectorRémy BelvauxAndré BonzelBenoît PoelvoordeStarsBenoît PoelvoordeJacqueline Poelvoorde-PappaertNelly PappaertA film crew follows a ruthless thief and heartless killer as he goes about his daily routine. But complications set in when the film crew lose their objectivity and begin lending a hand.
- DirectorJeff FisherStarsPaul WesleyKaley CuocoGloria VotsisA reality TV director copes with a spoiled celebutante and a show gone haywire when a masked killer starts bumping off the crew in this slasher-movie satire.
- DirectorJayne LoaderKevin RaffertyPierce RaffertyStarsPaul TibbetsHarry S. TrumanW.H.P. BlandyDisturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety.
- DirectorLawrence CrowleyWilliam F. MillerJ.H. MossStarsJ. English SmithPhil TonkenRene DahindenPeople go and search for the legendary Bigfoot creature.
- A compilation of educational anti-drug and anti-alcohol short films from the 1960s and the 1970s.
- DirectorEllen HovdeAlbert MayslesDavid MayslesStarsEdith Bouvier BealeEdith 'Little Edie' Bouvier BealeBrooks HyersMeet a mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, reclusive cousins of Jackie O., managing to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, NY, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot.
- DirectorWilliam TempletonStarsPaul NewmanVernon HannJack HurstThis short films traces the history of opium and examines contemporary heroin trade and addiction in the United States.
- DirectorWilliam TempletonStarsRobert MitchumC. Mason HarveyJ. Thomas UngerleiderAn educational short film that examines illicit drug use by disenchanted youth and the hippy counterculture around the world during the 1960s.
- DirectorFelipe BelalcazarStarsSteve DiGiorgioGene HoglanBobby KoelbleThe story of the influential American death metal band 'Death' from Orlando, Florida, founded in 1983 by the late guitarist and vocalist Chuck Schuldiner.
- DirectorPenelope SpheerisStarsEugene TatuAlice Bag BandBlack FlagA look into the Los Angeles punk rock scene, that was largely ignored by the rock music press of the time.
- DirectorPhil GuidrySimon HerbertDavid WhelanStarsHeather MooreLars NielsenJ.C. CarlosWhen a small town near the Arizona-Mexico border is wiped out overnight, suspicion falls on the lone survivor. But a roll of photos the survivor took that night tells a different story.
- DirectorShannon HouchinsStarsJosefina BoneoMark CabusJeremy ChildsAn abandoned piece of farmland in rural Tennessee may hold the key to multiple missing person cases spanning over 40 years.
- DirectorErik Kristopher MyersStarsRachel ArmigerReed DeLisleMatt LakeA filmmaker discovers a box of video tapes depicting two students' disturbing film project featuring a local horror legend, The Peeping Tom. As he sets out to prove this story is real and release it as a work of his own, he loses himself and the film crew following him into his project.
- DirectorLehr BeidelschiesDimitri SimakisNic MaierStarsMaryjean BallnerHal DouglasJohn HageeThe found footage collective, Everything is Terrible! Has taken over 2,000 forgotten VHS tapes and re-contextualized them in order to tell the tale of The Dark Lord himself, Lucifer.
- DirectorFrank PavichStarsAlejandro JodorowskyMichel SeydouxH.R. GigerThe story of cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky's ambitious but ultimately doomed film adaptation of the seminal science fiction novel.
- DirectorMichael MazzolaStarsFred DurstSteven M. GreerA century of illegal UFO secrecy has cost humanity hundreds of years of spiritual, cultural and technological development.