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Under General Documentaries be all those diverse subjects that are not about Filmmaking, Sport, War, Natural History, Queer Doco's, New Zealand Doco's or Art on Film. This is a fascinating area to scroll....

Mistaken for Strangers: On the Road with The National (2013)

7.3/10
Director: Tom Berninger
Starring: The National

Hailed by Michael Moore as "one of the best documentaries about a band that I've ever seen" and by Pitchfork as "the funniest, most meta music movie s... Read more

Modify (2005)

7.1/10

When does body modification become mutilation? How do we all modify ourselves to become more of what we want to be? The filmmakers travelled the US... Read more

Modulations - Cinema For The Ear (1998)

Director: Iara Lee
Starring: Moby, Orbital, Prodigy, Carl Cox, Cold Cut

Focuses on modern music-rave parties, techno dance music, and the history of electronic music (John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Robert Moog), moving... Read more

Mondo Balordo (1964)

Director: Roberto Bianchi Montero
Starring: Narrated by, Boris Karloff

Boris Karloff narrates this superbly anachronistic addition to the Mondo movie genre. There is a midget rock and roll star, Japanese bondage, an Asian... Read more

Mondovino (2004)

7.1/10
Director: Jonathan Nossiter

An epic and fascinating documentary tracing the effects of globalisation on the world's wine regions, from France to Argentina to the Napa Valley. Fi... Read more

Mondovino: The Series (2004)

7.1/10
Director: Jonathan Nossiter

Filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter is a serious wine connoisseur as well as a practicing sommelier when he isn't busy behind the camera, and he's combined hi... Read more

Monster In A Box (1992)

7.5/10
Director: Nick Broomfield
Starring: Spalding Gray

In this, Spalding Gray's second filmed stage performance, he discusses his brushes with life and death as he wrote his pseudo-autobiographical novel '... Read more

Moog - A Documentary (2005)

Director: Hans Fjellestad
Starring: Robert Moog, Rick Wakeman

Growing up in New York City, Robert Moog began by selling kit-set theremins in the '60s and his obsession with electronic music led him to invent the... Read more

More Than Honey (2012)

7.6/10
Director: Markus Imhoof

"If bees were to disappear from the globe, mankind would only have four years left to live." - Albert Einstein. In "More Than Honey", director Markus... Read more

Moro No Brasil (2002)

6.6/10
Director: Mika Kaurismaki
Starring: Walter Alfaiate, Grupo Fethxa, Grupo Gleetwtxya, Children Fulni-o

To many of us Brazilian music and the Bossa Nova are one, but in this wonderful documentary Mika Kaurismaki pretty much ignores this genre in favour o... Read more