Joshua Oppenheimer Movies

  • 2012
    The Act of Killing

    The Act of Killing

    The Act of Killing

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    Filmmakers expose the horrifying mass executions of accused communists in Indonesia and those who are celebrated in their country for perpetrating...

    The Act of Killing
  • 2015
    The Look of Silence

    The Look of Silence

    The Look of Silence

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    An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother was exterminated.

    The Look of Silence
  • 1970
    The End

    The End

    The End

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    A post-apocalyptic story about a rich family living in a salt mine converted into a luxurious home. The earth around them has apparently been...

    The End
  • 2022
    Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

    Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

    Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

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    With exclusive behind-the-scenes access into Herzog’s everyday life, rare archive material and in-depth interviews with celebrated...

    Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
  • 2022
    2nd Chance

    2nd Chance

    2nd Chance

    7.52022HD

    In 1969, bankrupt pizzeria owner Richard Davis invented the modern-day bulletproof vest. To prove that it worked, he shot himself — point-blank...

    2nd Chance
  • 1995
    Light Test

    Light Test

    Light Test

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    An early silent short by Joshua Oppenheimer in which a figure reflects light at the camera.

    Light Test
  • 2021
    Songs of Repression

    Songs of Repression

    Songs of Repression

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    At the foot of the Andes Mountains in Chile lies an idyllic German colony called Villa Baviera. However, the beauty of the place – formerly...

    Songs of Repression
  • 2017
    A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot

    A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot

    A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot

    6.22017HD

    Five years in the making, this brave and level-headed documentary exposes paramilitary activity in present day Northern Ireland during a supposed...

    A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot
  • 1970
    Infinite

    Infinite

    Infinite

    01970HD

    Dylan Moran, who after being consumed by grief after losing his wife, begins hallucinating sinister versions of himself, lurking in the shadows. When...

    Infinite
  • 1996
    Hugh

    Hugh

    Hugh

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    Hugh is an elderly man keeping himself active in retirement. His hobbies include teaching children to play the piano, carpentry and driving into...

    Hugh
  • 2024
    A Terrible Beauty

    A Terrible Beauty

    A Terrible Beauty

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    What makes a body human? This science-fiction fable shot in China foreshows the rise of AI. Time behaves fluidly as we travel into the near future in...

    A Terrible Beauty
  • 1995
    Camera Test

    Camera Test

    Camera Test

    51995HD

    A group of flower arrangers practice their art in this second silent early short from Joshua Oppenheimer.

    Camera Test
  • 2003
    Market Update

    Market Update

    Market Update

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    Joshua Oppenheimer reimagines a sixty-second stock market update as maniacal monologue by a mumbling madman giving a bizarre play-by-play of floor...

    Market Update
  • 2003
    Muzak - A Tool of Management

    Muzak - A Tool of Management

    Muzak - A Tool of Management

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    Meditation on psychlogical warfare, shopping and paramilitary death squads.

    Muzak - A Tool of Management
  • 2000
    Land of Enchantment

    Land of Enchantment

    Land of Enchantment

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    For eighty cents an hour, prisoners in a New Mexico prison answer telephones for the state tourism hotline. Co-directed by Christine Cynn.

    Land of Enchantment
  • 2003
    A Brief History of Paradise as Told by the Cockroaches

    A Brief History of Paradise as Told by the Cockroaches

    A Brief History of Paradise as Told by the Cockroaches

    4.32003HD

    They say that when the Earth is destroyed beyond habitation, the only survivors will be the cockroaches. Filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer gives the...

    A Brief History of Paradise as Told by the Cockroaches
  • 1996
    The Challenge of Manufacturing

    The Challenge of Manufacturing

    The Challenge of Manufacturing

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    Animals are killed and processed for fast food. A man is tarred and feathered. A collage of ordinary horrors on the way to the millennium.

    The Challenge of Manufacturing
  • 2003
    The Globalisation Tapes

    The Globalisation Tapes

    The Globalisation Tapes

    6.52003HD

    Filmed by Indonesian workers during their working hours on rubber and palm oil plantations, this film exposes the devastating role of militarism and...

    The Globalisation Tapes
  • 2004
    Postcard from Sun City, Arizona

    Postcard from Sun City, Arizona

    Postcard from Sun City, Arizona

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    Joshua Oppenheimer sets images of life in a retirement community in Arizona (as seen through television commercials) to a talk radio interview with a...

    Postcard from Sun City, Arizona
  • 1998
    The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase

    The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase

    The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase

    4.61998HD

    A kaleidoscopic history of the American heartland, nuclear weapons and the Native American genocide.

    The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase