Movies like Koyaanisqatsi
Koyaanisqatsi (1983) is a documentary movie directed by Godfrey Reggio. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
★ 6.9 · 1,009 votes · Documentary
A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.
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2. Seaspiracy (2021)
★ 7.8 · 480 votes · Documentary, Crime
Passionate about ocean life, a filmmaker sets out to document the harm that humans do to marine species — and uncovers an alarming global conspiracy.
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3. The Salt of the Earth (2014)
★ 8.1 · 698 votes · Documentary
During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of our recent history: international conflicts, starvations and exodus… He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of the wild fauna and flora, of grandiose landscapes: a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty. Salgado's life and work are revealed to us by his son, Juliano, who went with him during his last journeys, and by Wim Wenders, a photographer himself.
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4. Baraka (1992)
★ 8.2 · 726 votes · Documentary
A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life.
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5. Before the Flood (2016)
★ 7.7 · 834 votes · Documentary
A look at how climate change affects our environment and what society can do to prevent the demise of endangered species, ecosystems, and native communities across the planet.
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6. Home (2009)
★ 7.8 · 577 votes · Documentary, Drama, Family
In 200,000 years of existence, man has upset the balance on which the Earth had lived for 4 billion years. Global warming, resource depletion, species extinction: man has endangered his own home. But it is too late to be pessimistic: humanity has barely ten years left to reverse the trend, become aware of its excessive exploitation of the Earth's riches, and change its consumption pattern.
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7. March of the Penguins (2005)
★ 7.1 · 1,253 votes · Documentary, Family
Every year, thousands of Antarctica's emperor penguins make an astonishing journey to breed their young. They walk, marching day and night in single file 70 miles into the darkest, driest and coldest continent on Earth. This amazing, true-life tale is touched with humour and alive with thrills. Breathtaking photography captures the transcendent beauty and staggering drama of devoted parent penguins who, in the fierce polar winter, take turns guarding their egg and trekking to the ocean in search of food. Predators hunt them, storms lash them. But the safety of their adorable chicks makes it all worthwhile. So follow the leader... to adventure!!
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8. Blackfish (2013)
★ 7.9 · 1,220 votes · Documentary
Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. Blackfish shows the sometimes devastating consequences of keeping such intelligent and sentient creatures in captivity.
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9. 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible (2021)
★ 7.3 · 408 votes · Documentary
In 2019, Nepalese mountain climber Nirmal “Nims” Purja set out to do the unthinkable by climbing the world’s fourteen highest summits in less than seven months. (The previous record was eight years). He called the effort “Project Possible 14/7” and saw it as a way to inspire others to strive for greater heights in any pursuit. The film follows his team as they seek to defy naysayers and push the limits of human endurance.
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