21st Century Film & Television (To Watch)
This is a random list of films, documentaries, tv shows, sporting events, etc., all of which were released from CE 2000-, that I am to watch at some, yet to be determined, point in the future. Once an item on this list has been seen by myself, it will be removed and will feature in my watched and rating lists.
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- DirectorMarielle HellerStarsMatthew RhysTom HanksChris CooperBased on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Lloyd Vogel.
- DirectorMatthew WattsStarsTalon BeesonKevin D. BentonGigi GustinRobert Peernock is a man on a mission to expose government corruption. But his plan takes a shocking turn when his wife, Claire Lawrence Peernock, turns up dead and his daughter, Natasha, is found clinging to life after what appears to be a terrible car accident. Authorities are puzzled by the scene of the accident; until Natasha recovers and recalls that she and her mother were beaten and tortured prior to the car crash.
- DirectorRobert BilheimerStarsGlenn CloseWill SmithKofi AnnanThis documentary examines the world AIDS crisis. The camera travels to Africa, where infections overwhelm the public health system and orphans face their own deaths, central Europe, where drug users spread the disease via shared needles, India, where husbands infect wives, and to the U.S., where grass-roots efforts in places like Kansas City confront cultural stereotypes. Interviews include patients, doctors, nurses, the Dalai Lama, and Kofi Annan. The film's tone is compassionate and urgent, the statistics overwhelming. The message: the AIDS epidemic, history's worst, continues.
- DirectorPhilip GardinerStarsRazor KeevesCharles ThompsonThere is a sinister group that controls the world. They hide behind a system they have created, that they control from within other organizations that have a global reach. They are not presidents and politicians; they are the ones who manipulate such people like puppet masters. Are you prepared for the truth? Then join us on our journey into the heart of the Illuminati. A World Ruled by Evil: Through manipulation, marketing, propaganda and force, the Illuminati control the world, but they aren't the politicians you're thinking of because most often the politicians are pawns themselves. The ruling elite are members of a long line through history that stretches back thousands of years and can be traced through their bloodline. A Conspiracy To Rule: Investigate how the Global Elite who comprise the New World Order, strive relentlessly to form a One World Government, pulling the strings of deception through manipulation of the media and mechanisms that control our very thoughts and actions. COMPREHENSIVE MULTI DVD SET. OVER TWO HOURS OF THE DARKEST CONSPIRACY AND CORRUPTION EXPOSED.
- DirectorNancy BuirskiStarsGary DuncanRichard SobolLolis Eric ElieWashington, D.C. attorney Richard Sobol stands up to a racist legal system to defend Gary Duncan, a Black teenager wrongfully accused of assaulting a boy in 1966 New Orleans.
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsMichael FassbenderKeira KnightleyViggo MortensenA look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis.
- DirectorLiz GarbusStarsTony BelizCreigh DeedsThomas InselDocumentary following three families each coping with a child affected by serious emotional or mental illness. The families explore treatment opportunities and grapple with the struggle of living with their child's condition.
- DirectorTed DemmeRichard LaGraveneseStarsFrancis Ford CoppolaWilliam FriedkinRobert AltmanA documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of today's best filmmakers interview the influential directors of that time.
- StarsMatthew GoodeTeresa PalmerAlex KingstonDiana Bishop, historian and witch, accesses Ashmole 782 and knows she must solve its mysteries. She is offered help by the enigmatic Matthew Clairmont, but he's a vampire and witches should never trust vampires.
- DirectorBen WheatleyStarsJulian BarrattPeter FerdinandoRichard GloverAmid the Civil War in 17th-century England, a group of deserters flee from battle through an overgrown field. Captured by an alchemist, the men are forced to help him search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field.
- DirectorYael HersonskiStarsHanna AvrutzkiAlexander BeyerAmerica FerreraA film about an unfinished film which portrays the people behind and before the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto, exposing the extent of the cinematic manipulation forever changing the way we look at historic images.
- DirectorAnn FesslerA GIRL LIKE HER is the real story of 'sex and the single girl'. It reveals the hidden history of over a million young women who became pregnant in the 1950s and 60s and were banished to maternity homes to give birth and surrender their babies for adoption. They were told to keep their secret, move on and forget. But, does a woman forget her child? Hear what they have to say now about the long-term impact of surrender and silence on their lives.
- DirectorMike BarkerStarsHelen HuntScarlett JohanssonTom WilkinsonA 1930s American socialite creates a scandal in the expatriate high society of the Amalfi Coast of Italy when she forms a secretive relationship with a wealthy American unbeknownst to his young wife.
- DirectorErik NelsonStarsDavid CrowleyDanny August MasonAlex JonesA documentary about the mysterious death of fringe political filmmaker David Crowley, who was found dead alongside members of his family in their suburban Minnesota home in January of 2015.
- StarsNeil OliverScott GlynnJames FlemingA documentary charting the birth and growth of the Scottish nation.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsHaley Joel OsmentJude LawFrances O'ConnorA highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.
- DirectorSteven BognarJulia ReichertStarsJustin AshcraftAdam AshcraftDale AshcraftFive families struggle with the ups and downs of cancer treatment over the course of six years.
- DirectorBaltasar KormákurStarsMaría Fernández AcheKharl Anton LeighPeter CoyoteA husband and wife tangle with an investigator over her dead brother's million-dollar insurance policy.
- DirectorGaspar GonzálezA Long Way from Home chronicles the struggles and triumphs of the African-American and Latino players who followed Jackie Robinson into white professional baseball. Playing their minor-league ball in small, remote towns where racial segregation remained a fact of life well into the 1960s, these were the men who, before they could live their big-league dreams, first had to beat Jim Crow. Featuring original, revealing interviews with James "Mudcat" Grant, Grover "Deacon" Jones, Jimmy Wynn, J.R. Richard, Tony Pérez, and Orlando Cepeda, among others.
- DirectorJ.C. ChandorStarsOscar IsaacJessica ChastainDavid OyelowoIn New York City 1981, an ambitious immigrant fights to protect his business and family during the most dangerous year in the city's history.
- DirectorAnton CorbijnStarsPhilip Seymour HoffmanRachel McAdamsDaniel BrühlA Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror.
- DirectorMichael JordanStarsPeter ThomasCaitlin AtwaterFreda BlackIn December 2001, Emergency Dispatch in Durham, North Carolina received a frantic call from a man who said his wife fell down the stairs; she was unconscious but still breathing. When paramedics arrived, they could do little more than pronounce the woman dead. The number and volume of bloodstains at the scene was greater than usual. Forensic scientists had to find out why. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 22.
- DirectorPhilip GardinerStarsCraig WildeHugh MontgomeryThere is an elite group that controls the world. They run governments, companies and religions - This is the story of the world's most powerful secret and sacred order.
- StarsDavid AttenboroughToby NowlanChadden HunterPerfect Planet analyzes, in five episodes, how the forces of nature, including the power of the Sun or even humans, drive and shape life on Earth.
- DirectorKristi JacobsonLori SilverbushStarsJeff BridgesTom ColicchioKen CookA documentary that investigates incidents of hunger experienced by millions of Americans, and proposed solutions to the problem.
- DirectorCraig LeesonStarsDavid AttenboroughSylvia EarleBen FogleJournalist Craig Leeson teams up with diver Tanya Streeter and an international team of scientists and researchers, and they travel to twenty locations around the world over the next four years to explore the fragile state of our oceans.
- DirectorRichard LinklaterStarsKeanu ReevesWinona RyderRobert Downey Jr.An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
- DirectorEthan CoenJoel CoenStarsMichael StuhlbargRichard KindSari LennickLarry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking.
- DirectorMichael CorrenteStarsRobert DuvallMichael KeatonAndy GrayA soccer coach must lead his Scottish team to victory in the Cup despite tensions between his star player and daughter. The owner threatens to move the team to Dublin if they lose.
- StarsLucy WorsleyMichael KirkMathew PrichardThis documentary takes a look at some of the most horrible and despicable murders in modern British history. From Jack the Ripper in the 1880's to Agatha Christie's best known stories.
- DirectorRainer CvillinkJosh HayesStarsPaul BodenNoam ChomskyGabor MatéA WALK THROUGH THE TENDERLOIN is a short film out of THE INVISIBLE CLASS, a feature length documentary about America's homeless population, our perceptions of it, and the devastating effects of a lack of affordable housing on modern society.
- 'A Wise Fool' is a 56-minute Documentary about four teens who chose to kidnap, rob, and bury a couple alive. Death Row inmate, Michael Jackson, the master mind, is on death row. Our cameras captured his "exclusive" first time confession. The Victims daughter shared a powerful story concerning her mother's faith that encouraged her to forgive, but the consequences remain...They are fatal and irreversible.
- StarsTom WardDominic SelwoodRob BellStructures of steel and iron eerily stand unfinished after they were abandoned midway in construction, covered in weeds, moss and rust, the show explores what they could have been.
- DirectorMike LordiStarsKane HodderMarcin PaluchEd BergtoldKane Hodder stars in this anthology film comprised of 4 short horror/suspense stories seamlessly connected to one another through gripping real life conflict and extreme tension.
- DirectorJenny AbelJeff HockettStarsAlan AbelJeanne AbelFrank MurgaloFilmmaker Jenny Abel explores the life and career of her father Alan Abel, known to many as "the world's greatest hoaxer."
- DirectorHans Petter MolandStarsStellan SkarsgårdLena HeadeyJean JohanssonA mom dying in Aberdeen, Scotland, asks her coke snorting, nympho, London lawyer daughter to get her estranged, alcoholic dad in Oslo, Norway, to Aberdeen. He's drunk at the airport, so they travel together by car and ferry.
- StarsAlys HarteAlys Harte investigates the abortion issue and how it divides the young people of Ireland.
- DirectorTracy Droz TragosThis documentary gives women a voice in the choices they've had to make regarding their pregnancies.
- DirectorChris WeitzPaul WeitzStarsHugh GrantNicholas HoultToni ColletteWill, who attends single parent meetings to woo women, meets Marcus, a troubled 12-year-old boy. As they become friends, Will learns to be responsible while he helps Marcus with his studies.
- DirectorAlexander PayneStarsJack NicholsonHope DavisDermot MulroneyA recently retired man embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter's wedding, only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected.
- DirectorTimur BekmambetovStarsBenjamin WalkerRufus SewellDominic CooperAbraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, discovers vampires are planning to take over the United States. He makes it his mission to eliminate them.
- DirectorMike FlanaganStarsKatie ParkerCourtney BellDave LevineA woman and her sister begin to link a mysterious tunnel to a series of disappearances, including that of her own husband.
- DirectorBrannon HowseMike LindellStarsMike LindellPhil WaldronRuss RamslandMyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's film claiming a Chinese cyberattack 'flipped' the 2020 election.
- DirectorTerry JonesStarsSimon PeggKate BeckinsaleSanjeev BhaskarA group of eccentric aliens confers a human being with the power to do absolutely anything, as an experiment.
- CreatorTracy NewmanJonathan StarkStarsJim BelushiCourtney Thorne-SmithLarry Joe CampbellA television show centered around a macho everyman, his loving wife, and their three precocious children.
- DirectorPascale LamcheStarsFresh SkiwaneGeorge BizosIlse Fischer
- StarsEric HarrisWill BeckGeorge BrauchlerFirst hand accounts of mass shootings occurring in everyday settings ranging from office buildings to movie theaters but most tragic of all: schools.
- DirectorBrett DonowhoStarsBruce WillisCole HauserShawn AshmoreAt a bachelorette party in a nightclub, the bride tells 2 guys offering blow to go away. They abduct her. The groom's 2 big brothers looked after their kid brother as kids and do so now again as veterans, "looking" for her and the 2 guys.
- DirectorJames GrayStarsBrad PittTommy Lee JonesRuth NeggaAstronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe.
- DirectorSpike JonzeStarsNicolas CageMeryl StreepChris CooperA lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.
- DirectorJustin HuntStarsJames HetfieldLike it or not, porn is here and it is harmful. In this controversial film, award-winning filmmaker Justin Hunt dissects the impact of pornography on societies around the globe, from how it affects the brain of the individual, to how modern technology leads to greater exposure to youth, to watching it literally tear a family apart. In what may well be one of the most devastating issues in modern culture, this film will break down the damage that porn is doing to us a human race and leave you thinking that it's clearly time that we start taking porn addiction a bit more seriously.
- DirectorSébastien LifshitzStarsAnaïsEmmaAnaïs and Emma have been best friends since childhood. It's a friendship is filmed over the years, during a period when their physical, emotional and intellectual development is dramatic.
- DirectorDennis WiseStarsEva BraunWinston ChurchillCharles de GaulleAdolf Hitler, born in Braunau, a man who will forever change the history of the world.
- DirectorScott CoffeyStarsEmma RobertsEvan PetersJohn CusackA naive college graduate, Amy, who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a job in a shop while she pursues a mentorship with reclusive writer Rat Billings.
- DirectorNoel ClarkeStarsNoel ClarkeScarlett Alice JohnsonAdam DeaconThe story revolves around Sam who is released from prison and has to face the people he hurt on a daily basis.
- DirectorJennifer PhangStarsJacqueline KimJames UrbaniakFreya AdamsIn a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship, Gwen and her daughter Jules do all they can to hold on to their joy together, despite the instability surfacing in their world.
- DirectorMarc MorgensternStarsRobin LeachDave NavarroTheresa FlyntDocumentary looking at the infamous Ashley Madison Agency, a site for married people wanting to cheat on their spouses.
- DirectorDemetrius 'Mete' JonesStarsShannon MurrayDamian JonesBenjamin WattsTwo years after the murder of her husband and daughter, Laura still has trouble sleeping. When she discovers a man is watching her from the bedroom closet with a gun, Laura's sleepless nights take a turn for the worse.
- DirectorSamuel Lampaert
- DirectorKeith ScholeyAlastair FothergillStarsSamuel L. JacksonPatrick StewartMeet Mara, an endearing lion cub striving to be like her mother; Sita, a cheetah and single mother of five; and Fang, a proud leader of the pride who must defend his family from a rival lion.
- DirectorDaisy AsquithAfter the Dance is a deeply personal film, by award-winning documentary maker Daisy Asquith, who unlocks a family secret that is still causing shame and outrage in an insulated village in County Clare, Ireland.
- StarsDiane HolikPatrick RussoLester HoltTexas, 2001: Diane Holik is strangled in her home. Family and friends are slowly eliminated until it is likely a stranger murder. Then multiple women report a man behaving strangely while looking at properties for sale or rent.
- DirectorPaul WittenbergerStarsSteven L. AndersonRoger JimenezKent HovindEschatological documentary exposing the false teachings the pre-tribulation rapture.
- DirectorAndrew RossiStarsJack BurkmanElizabeth WilliamsonMolly McKewA look at the ongoing threat caused by the phenomenon of "fake news" in the U.S., focusing on the real-life consequences that disinformation, conspiracy theories and false news stories have on the average citizen.
- DirectorElliott LesterStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerScoot McNairyMaggie GraceTwo strangers' lives become inextricably bound together after a devastating plane crash.
- StarsReg E. CatheyEver wondered what the world would be like without any humans?
- DirectorPaula EiseltTonya Lewis LeeStarsHelena GrantTwila MilesNeel ShahFollowing the deaths of two young women due to childbirth complications, two bereaved families galvanize activists, birth-workers and physicians to reckon with one of the most pressing American crises today: the US maternal health crisis.
- DirectorBob HerbertStarsBob HerbertA documentary about the extraordinary difficulty African-Americans have faced in their efforts to establish and maintain a middle class standard of living. Nearly 40 percent of all black children are poor. And the black middle class remains proportionally much smaller and far less healthy than the white middle class. With a compelling narrative, dramatic historical footage and a series of deeply personal interviews, Bob Herbert shows why this is still the case a half century after the heyday of the civil rights movement.
- DirectorCurtis BowersStarsCurtis BowersAgenda is the most powerful expose of the communist, socialist, progressive attempt to take over America produced so far." Dr. Ted Baehr, Movieguide. Winner of the $101,000 grand prize for Best of Festival at the SAICFF.
- CreatorChristopher MarkusStephen McFeelyStarsHayley AtwellJames D'ArcyEnver GjokajIn 1946, Peggy Carter is relegated to secretarial duties in the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR). When Howard Stark is accused of treason, he secretly recruits Peggy to clear his name with the help of his butler, Edwin Jarvis.
- StarsAlex GibneyJohn PodestaMargarita SimonyanWas there Russian interference in the 2016 election? This two-part documentary directed by Emmy(R) and Academy Award(R) Winner Alex Gibney is a product of years of reporting on that disturbing question. With never-before-seen footage inside Russian troll farms, and videos unearthed from the Russian deep web, the film digs into the sophisticated plans to undermine democracy.
- DirectorAlejandro AmenábarStarsRachel WeiszMax MinghellaOscar IsaacA historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria.
- DirectorSteven L. AndersonStarsSteven L. AndersonRobert BazellMichael BowersSmall town pastor, Steven starts a journey of discover when he meets sultry, country boy, Michael. Soon, Steven begins to question it all as he and Michael careen toward ecstasy and danger.
- DirectorTom BrisleyStarsAileen WuornosTaylor DavidBrian JarvisAmerica's first female serial killer wrote down her darkest secrets for her best friend while on Florida's death row. Now, for the first time, those secrets are revealed in detail as the written words of Aileen Wuornos tell us what really happened.
- CreatorBernard VaillotAndre BarroGreg GransdenStarsJonathan ArisStephen BogaertJohn CoxDramatized reconstruction of real-life air disasters, along with interviews with aviation experts and eyewitnesses.
- DirectorRoel van DalenStarsAFC AjaxNordin AmrabatDanny BlindDocumentary of the Amsterdam football club Ajax during the 1999-2000 season.
- DirectorTheo LoveStarsGlenn SummerfordDarlene SummerfordThomas G. BurtonExplores the story of a Pentecostal minister, accused of attempting to murder his wife with a rattlesnake. Based on true events!
- DirectorPeter YostNowhere is the battle to find oil more intense than in Alaska - source of nearly 15% of America's domestic production, and home to the nation's largest wildlife preserve, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, where companies are pushing to drill. National Geographic travels back millions of years to see how oil was created, and looks to the future to ask how far we'll go to find every last barrel and at what cost.
- CreatorSteven LilienElizabeth SarnoffBryan WynbrandtStarsSarah JonesJorge GarciaJonny CoyneIn 1963, all the prisoners and guards mysteriously disappear from Alcatraz. In the present day, they resurface and a secret agency are tasked with re-capturing them.
- DirectorLucas PavettoStarsBill MoseleyJohn RobinsonLloyd KaufmanAn alcoholic spends all his time spying on his neighbor, waiting for the right moment to kill him.
- DirectorLeon IchasoStarsDavid RamseyClarence Williams IIIJoe MortonInterprets Cassius Clay's life, his Muslim transformation into Muhammad Ali and his 1974 fight with George Foreman for the heavyweight championship.
- StarsDes LynamBarry McGuiganLeon SpinksDes Lynam and Barry McGuigan look back at some of Muhammad Ali's greatest fights.
- StarsJoe FrazierMuhammad AliLiev SchreiberA look at the events leading up to and including the legendary March 1971 bout between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. The film also looks at the political and social factors that helped to make this fight more than just an ordinary boxing match between two of the greatest heavyweight champions that ever lived as Ali was a symbol for liberals, militant blacks and hippies and Frazier was a symbol for the more conservative elements for society.
- DirectorBrin-Jonathan ButlerStarsGeorge ForemanLeon GastLarry MerchantA short film directed by Brin-Jonathan Butler exploring the Muhammad Ali and Teofilo Stevenson's matchup, one of the great mythical "what-if" fights in heavyweight history. The film contains the last known interview of Stevenson before his death.
- DirectorRobert S. BaderStarsDick CavettMuhammad AliWoody AllenThe life and times of Muhammad Ali, as shown through the lens of his numerous appearances on The Dick Cavett Show (1968).
- DirectorMark MylodStarsSacha Baron CohenEmilio RiveraGina La PianaAli G unwittingly becomes a pawn in the Chancellor's plot to overthrow the Prime Minister of Great Britain. However, Ali is embraced by the nation as a voice of the youth, making the PM and his government more popular than ever.
- DirectorJaime Eliezer KarasStarsAli WongAli Wong's stand up special delves into her sexual adventures, hoarding, the rocky road to pregnancy, and why feminism is terrible.
- CreatorJ.J. AbramsStarsJennifer GarnerRon RifkinCarl LumblySydney Bristow is an international spy recruited out of college, trained for espionage and self-defense.
- DirectorTim BurtonStarsMia WasikowskaJohnny DeppHelena Bonham CarterNineteen-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror.
- DirectorJames BobinStarsMia WasikowskaJohnny DeppHelena Bonham CarterAlice is appointed to save her beloved Mad Hatter from deadly grief by travelling back to the past, but this means fatally harming Time himself, the noble clockwork man with the device needed to save the Hatter's family from the Red Queen.
- DirectorO.H. KrillStarsLloyd PyeLloyd Pye is at the forefront of research into human origins from alien sources. His Intervention Theory proposes that human DNA is not of this world.
- DirectorJames CameronSteven QualeStarsJames CameronAnatoly M. SagalevitchGenya ChernaievJames Cameron teams up with NASA scientists to explore the Mid-Ocean Ridge, a submerged chain of mountains that band the Earth and are home to some of the planet's most unique life forms.
- DirectorLisa CortesLiz GarbusStarsCarolyn AbramsRobert AbramsStacey AbramsThe documentary takes a look at the history, and current activism against voter suppression; barriers to voting that most people don't even know is a threat to their basic rights as citizens of the United States.
- DirectorJ.C. ChandorStarsRobert RedfordAfter a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face.
- DirectorJonathan LevineStarsAmber HeardAnson MountWhitney AbleA group of high-schoolers invite Mandy Lane, an innocent, desirable girl, to a weekend party on a secluded ranch. While the festivities rage on, the number of revelers begins to drop mysteriously.
- DirectorSteven ZaillianStarsSean PennJude LawKate WinsletBased on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana.