Documentary Movies 2011 List

With Aaron Schock

Set within a century-old traveling circus, a Mexican family struggles to stay together despite mounting debt, dwindling audiences, and a simmering family conflict that threatens this once-vibrant family tradition.

With Celine Danhier

A disparate crew of renegade filmmakers who emerged from an economically bankrupt and dangerous moment in New York history.

With Morgan Freeman • David Lickley • Drew Fellman

This film documents orphaned orangutans and elephants and the extraordinary people who rescue and raise them--saving endangered species one life at a time.

With Matt Harlock • Paul Thomas

An animated documentary drama on the legendary Texas outlaw comic Bill Hicks.

With Aaron Schock

Set within a century-old traveling circus, a Mexican family struggles to stay together despite mounting debt, dwindling audiences, and a simmering family conflict that threatens this once-vibrant family tradition.

With Mark Goffman • Lindsay Goffman

A look at the Vent Haven Convention, which bills itself as the ventriloquism capital of the world.

With Janus Metz Pedersen

In February 2009, documentary filmmaker Janus Metz accompanied a group of Danish soldiers at Armadillo, an army base in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. Metz and cameraman Lars Skree spent six months following the lives of young soldiers situated less than a kilometer away from Taliban positions.

With Billy Corben • Alfred Spellman • Lindsey Snell

A documentary about Miami's pot smuggling culture in the 1970s and 1980s through three colorful stories of marijuana smugglers.

With Alastair Fothergill • Keith Scholey

Two cat families in East Africa teach survive on their power and their cunning, while they protect and teach their cubs the ways of the wild.

With Morgan Spurlock • Keith Calder • Jeremy Chilnick

Morgan Spurlock examines the world of advertising by making a film financed entirely by product placement.

With Clio Barnard • Kate Rutter • Christine Bottomley

The true story of Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar (The Arbor, Rita, Sue and Bob Too) and her daughter Lorraine.

With Werner Herzog

Documentary about the Chauvet caves in Southern France that contain the oldest known cave paintings.

With Phil Rosenthal

Follows Phil Rosenthal as he travels to Russia to meet about doing a local version of "Everybody Loves Raymond."