Stats & if I've watched them (Some of the posters didn't work on Blogger)
1) Fahrenheit 9/11 $119,194,771
It is a 2004 documentary that takes a close look at the presidency of George W. Bush and also the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. It starts of with President Bush talking to school children that the first plane had hit the World Trade Center towers, he told the children to carry on with their reading. It then changes to Michael Moore talking about the "complex relationship" between the U.S Government and the Bush family. It is a in-depth look at the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center
2) March of the Penguins $77,437,223
3) Justin Bieber: Never Say Never $73,013,910
The film follows the famous pop star during what is considered his biggest performance on August 31st 2010, in Madison Square Garden. It shows footage of the performances during this period from his My Performance Tour, after this footage plays some more is played showing excited female fans who Justin welcomes on stage and serenades them. The main people around Bieber (family and friends) are interviewed but not Justin himself. It also shows a visit to Bieber's home in Canada also showing Bieber reluctantly postponing a performance in Syracuse.
4) Earth $32,011,576
Earth starts of by giving the audience a glimpse of what the world looks like all year round from The North Pole in January to The South Pole in December, showing how plants and animals react to the power of the sun and also the changing seasons. The film focuses on three particular species: the polar bear, African bush elephant and the humpback whale. The documentary starts in the high Arctic in January with the darkness of winter taking over as a mother polar bear is seen emerging looking after her two cubs. She needs food for her cubs so that they can survive so she takes them to the hunting ground on the sea ice just before it breaks apart.
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The polar bear in its natural habitat
The African bush elephant5) Sicko $24,540,079
Sicko is a 2007 documentary that is about health care in America mainly focusing on health insurance and the pharmaceutical industry. It compares the differences between the health system of America and the United Kingdom, Canada, France and Cuba.
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An Inconvenient Truth $24,146,161
Is a documentary about the effects of climate and is presented by Al Gore that is aimed at alerting the public to an increasing "emergency" due to global warming, and shows re-enacted incidents from his life story which influenced his concerns about environment issues. The film uses a power-point presentation that starts off with Al Gore talking to the audience about his presidential run, he then starts his slide show on Global Warming which includes detailed graphs and flow charts.
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Bowling for Columbine $21,576,018
Is a 2002 American documentary film about the Columbine High School Massacre on April 20th, 1999. It focuses on the background and environment in which the massacre took place and some common public opinions on gun violence all across America. Micheal Moore first speaks to South Park co-creator Matt Stone and also heavy metal musician Marilyn Manson the reasons for this is because he seeks to explain why the Columbine massacre occurred and why the United States' crime rate (including those involving firearms) is much higher than of other nations.
The film's title refers to the fact that both Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had taken a bowling class the morning they launched the vicious attack on their school, later investigations show that they were both absent from school on that day also. Later investigations showed that this was based on mistaken recollections, and Glenn Moore of the Golden Police Department concluded that they were both absent from school the day of the attacks. During these investigations Moore incorporates the bowling concept in many ways for example the Detroit police use bowling pins as target practise. Also Moore interviews former classmates of Harris and Klebold he notes that they had taken a bowling class during Physical Education
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Oceans $19,422,319
Oceans is a 2009 French-American documentary film directed, produced, co-written and narrated by Jacques Perrin, with Jacques Cluzaud as co-director. The film explores the marine species of Earth's five oceans and reflects on the negative aspects of human activity on the environment, with Perrin (Pierce Brosnan in English) providing narration. It was budgeted at around $80 million, it was filmed over 50 different places and took four years to film. In North America, the film was distributed by Disney who cut out roughly 20 minutes depicting violent massacres of sea animals (recreated through visual effects) in order to have it aimed at a younger audience.
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African Cats $15,040,977
Is a 2011 nature documentary film directed by Keith Scholey and Alistair Fothergill about a pride of lions and a family of cheetahs trying to survive on the African Savannah. The documentary begins by introducing Sita, a cheetah who lives in the vast plains of the Massai Mara National Reserve located in Kenya, she has just given birth to five cubs who she now has to look after and care for. Then we see Mira, a six-month-old lion cub, with her mother Layla who both belong to the River Pride. The leader of the pack is called Fang, an old male lion who has a noticeable broken tooth from a earlier fight. A while later Mara (one of Fang's cubs) has been banished before she has been taught how to hunt and she finds her first attempts at catching meals on her own, even small animals and large ones like buffaloes are humiliatingly unsuccessful. Sita's cubs are young adults now and thriving by honing their hunting skills by testing them on a jackal and a serval. Finally they successfully hunt an antelope for food.
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Madonna: Truth or Dare $15,012,935Is a 1991 documentary chronicling the life of American singer-songwriter Madonna during her 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour. The film/documentary starts on August 6, 1990 (the day after the Blond Ambition tour) as Madonna starts cleaning up her room a voice-over is played with her saying that she isn't as emotional as the rest of her group over the end of the tour. A flashback is played from April of 1990 showing the tour kicking off in Japan which turned out to be a big problem with sound issues and Madonna not realising that during this time it is the "rainy season", with this the dancers have to get rid of their costumes for warmer attire.
In another voice-over Madonna starts talking about the only thing that is stopping her from "slashing my wrists" is the thought of returning to North America and also performing the show the way it was supposed to be. The Blond Ambition tour stops in L.A. where the sound problems continue with Madonna even shouting at her manager for people in the crowd not looking interested allowed to be in the front row. It then cuts to some footage of Madonna partying with celebrities and also different performances from the tour including one that was in Madonna's home town of Detroit.
As the tour goes on Madonna's throat problems worsen and has to cancel some of the performances with her then boyfriend Warren Beatty getting annoyed with the cameras and tells her that the atmosphere is driving everyone insane. The documentary then ends with Madonna telling the camera man to shut the camera of.
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