Wicked Mike's 150 Best Documentaries 2022
Good documentaries, and there are many this year, have the ability to improve our world and personal lives.
Modern documentaries are so well created that they risk becoming entertainment only. We should never forget that they teach us. Understanding foreign cultures, social issues, world events beyond propaganda, and celebrities beyond gossip, is essential to our personal development as responsible, caring human beings.
Modern documentaries are so well created that they risk becoming entertainment only. We should never forget that they teach us. Understanding foreign cultures, social issues, world events beyond propaganda, and celebrities beyond gossip, is essential to our personal development as responsible, caring human beings.
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- DirectorKiwi ChowStarsGwyneth HoBenny TaiDue to political restrictions in Hong Kong, this documentary following protestors since 2019, is broken into pieces, each containing interviews and historical context of the conflict.Hong Kong, China
- DirectorHogir HiroriStarsMahmud ReshoSihamZahraFilm follows a group into Syria's Al-Hol, a dangerous camp in the Middle East, as they risk their lives to save a women being held by ISIS as abducted sex slaves.Syria/Kurdistan, Iraq
- DirectorLaura PoitrasStarsNan GoldinDavid VelascoMegan KaplerFollows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.USA
- DirectorChloe FairweatherOver one in three women in Turkey experience domestic violence. Lawyer Ipek Bozkurt's clients risk their lives while fighting the culture of violence in courtTurkey
- DirectorSara DosaStarsMiranda JulyKatia KrafftMaurice KrafftIntrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing the most explosive imagery ever recorded.USA
- DirectorSushmit GhoshRintu ThomasStarsMeera DeviShyamkali DeviSuneeta PrajapatiIn a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India's only newspaper run by Dalit women. Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions, redefining what it means to be powerful.India
- DirectorMichael WebberStarsCarole BaskinHoward BaskinKeith GadRetired Ohio police officer, Tim Harrison, stumbles upon a bombshell discovery when he suspects that the world's most famous celebrity conservationists may be secretly connected to the exotic big cat trade.USA
- DirectorChoi Jin-sungStarsChang Eun-joNicole GoseMoon Hyung-wookAnonymous and exploitative, a network of online chat rooms ran rampant with sex crimes. The hunt to take down its operators required guts and tenacity.Korea
- DirectorMarie AmiguetVincent MunierStarsVincent MunierSylvain TessonTwo men explore the high-altitude wilderness of Tibet with many cameras, filming wildlife from a respectful distance and searching for the rare snow leopard.France/Himalayas
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsEnnio MorriconeSilvano AgostiAlessandro AlessandroniA documentary on the legendary film composer Ennio Morricone.Italy
- DirectorAbdallah Al-KhatibStarsAbdallah Al-KhatibAfter the Syrian Revolution, Al-Assad's regime besieges the district of Yarmouk, largest Palestinian refugee camp in the world. Yarmouk is cut off. The director records the daily deprivations while celebrating the people's courage.Palestine/Syria
- DirectorWill BattersbyBased on Mallory Smith's posthumously published memoir, Salt In My Soul offers a look inside the mind of a young woman trying to live while dying. Diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, Mallory turned to a secret diary to record her thoughts.USA
- DirectorValerie BlankenbylThe Bubble examines often-surreal senior citizen life within The Villages, America's largest retirement community. Retired life beneath the Floridian sunshine however, is not perhaps as idyllic, or as welcomed, as one may imagine.Austria but set USA
- DirectorDon ArgottDemian FentonStarsRonnie James DioWendy DioMick WallThe first career spanning documentary on the heavy metal vocalist to be authorized by the artist's estate includes scenes with peers, family and friends; never before seen footage; personal photos.USA
- DirectorSimon Lereng WilmontStarsMarharyta BurlutskaAnjelika StolyarovaOlga TronovaChildren and staff in a special kind of home: an institution for children who have been removed from their homes while awaiting court custody decisions. Staff do their best to make the time children have there safe and supportive.Ukraine
- DirectorEd PerkinsStarsPrincess DianaKing Charles IIIQueen Elizabeth IIPrincess Diana's story is told exclusively through contemporaneous archive creating a bold and immersive narrative of her life and death. It also illuminates how the public's attitude to the monarchy was, and still is.UK
- DirectorMatt SarneckiStarsRobert FicoRobert KalinakAndrej KiskaIn Slovakia, a young investigative journalist is brutally murdered. When the police files of the murder investigation are leaked to the reporter's colleagues, they uncover vast corruption reaching the highest levels of Slovak society.Slovakia
- DirectorDavid A. WeinerStarsSean YoungClancy BrownVernon WellsA nostalgic journey through '80s sci-fi films, exploring their impact and relevance today, told by the artists who made them and by those who were inspired to turn their visions into reality.USA
- DirectorHa Le DiemIn the misty mountains of northern Vietnam, a Hmong teenage girl faces the challenges of growing up. In Di's traditional culture, girls marry as early as 14. But at school she learns there are alternatives.Vietnam
- DirectorHanna PolakHanifa and Saeed barely survived the hell that ISIS inflicted on them and their people. Hanifa escaped kidnapping, but her younger sisters were enslaved by the Islamic State. Hanifa embarks on a mission to find them and bring them home.Poland set Kurdistan, Iraq
- DirectorFazila AmiriStarsAryana SayeedZahra ElhamSadiqa MadadgarUnder the mentorship of controversial pop star Aryana Sayeed, two young singers vie to become the first-ever female winners of Afghan Star. As their dreams are within grasp, their lives are changed when the Taliban returns to power.Afghanistan
- DirectorMaura AndersonClay TweelStarsHassan Al-ThawadiPhaedra AlmajidJens Sejer AndersenKickback is the decades-long crusade of one eccentric investigative journalist, Andrew Jennings, to expose corruption inside football's sole governing body and the largest sports organization in the world, FIFA.USA
- DirectorMichael KranzStarsShyamal AdhikaryBondhu-KidsHafezaExploration of Bangladeshi Brothels and Syndicates, when a victim in same brothel raised few question of life, fate and cost of redemption in another documentary filmed by another German Director on Same topic.Germany set India
- DirectorJames ErskineStarsFlorian ToncarLena KampfMartin OsterlohUpstart payment firm Wirecard wowed the financial industry with its runaway success — until a tenacious team of journalists exposed massive fraud.Germany