The best Oprah Winfrey’s documentary movies on Apple iTunes

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey

29/01/1954 (70 años)
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Oprah Winfrey’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Oprah Winfrey.
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Before the Flood

Before the Flood
8.2/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 21/10/2016
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
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.

TINA

TINA
7.9/10
Tina Turner overcame impossible odds to become one of the first female African American artists to reach a mainstream international audience. Her road to superstardom is an undeniable story of triumph over adversity. It’s the ultimate story of survival – and an inspirational story of our times.

Spielberg

Spielberg
7.7/10
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.

Whitney: Can I Be Me

Whitney: Can I Be Me
6.8/10
  • Genre: DocumentaryMusic
  • Release: 24/04/2017
  • Character: Herself (Archive Footage) (uncredited)
The life and tragic death of Whitney Houston.

Life Itself

Life Itself
7.8/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 04/07/2014
  • Character: Self - TV Host (archive footage)
The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentious partnership with Gene Siskel, his life-altering marriage, and his brave and transcendent battle with cancer.

Val

Val
7.6/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 23/07/2021
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever. This raw, wildly original and unflinching documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled, sometimes hilarious look at what it means to be an artist and a complex man.

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
7.8/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 14/10/2016
  • Character: Herself
A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her exuberant life during some of America’s most defining civil rights moments. From her upbringing in the Depression-era South to her swinging soirees with Malcolm X in Ghana to her inaugural speech for President Bill Clinton, we are given special access to interviews with Dr. Angelou whose indelible charm and quick wit make it easy to love her.

Uncle Tom

Uncle Tom
8.2/10
In a collection of intimate interviews with some of America's most provocative black conservative thinkers, Uncle Tom takes a unique look at being black in America. Featuring media personalities, ministers, civil rights activists, veterans, and a self-employed plumber, the film explores their personal journeys of navigating the world as one of America's most misunderstood political and cultural groups: The American Black Conservative. In this eye-opening film from Director Justin Malone and Executive Producer Larry Elder, Uncle Tom examines self-empowerment, individualism and rejecting the victim narrative. Uncle Tom shows us a different perspective of American History from this often ignored and ridiculed group.

You Cannot Kill David Arquette

You Cannot Kill David Arquette
7.2/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 21/08/2020
  • Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Following his infamous championship as part of a marketing stunt for the film Ready to Rumble, David Arquette is widely known as the most hated man in pro-wrestling worldwide. Nearly 20 years after he "won" the initial title, through ups and downs in his career, with his family, and with his struggles with addiction, David Arquette seeks redemption by returning to the ring...for real this time.

Mike Wallace Is Here

Mike Wallace Is Here
7.4/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 26/07/2019
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
For over half a century, 60 Minutes' fearsome newsman Mike Wallace went head-to-head with the world's most influential figures. Relying exclusively on archival footage, the film interrogates the interrogator, tracking Wallace's storied career and troubled personal life while unpacking how broadcast journalism evolved to today’s precarious tipping point.

Between the World and Me

Between the World and Me
7.4/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 21/11/2020
  • Character: Self
Based on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ #1 New York Times bestseller and originally adapted and staged by the Apollo Theater, this special combines elements of that production - including powerful readings from Coates’ book - with documentary footage from the actors’ home life, archival footage, and animation.

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
7.7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 27/01/2019
  • Character: Herself
This artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller examines her life, her works, and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career. Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics, and colleagues on an exploration of race, history, the United States, and the human condition.

Enlighten Us: The Rise and Fall of James Arthur Ray

Enlighten Us: The Rise and Fall of James Arthur Ray
6.2/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 15/04/2016
  • Character: Herself (archive footage)
The self-help industry is worth $11 billion dollars a year. It’s an industry that captivates those seeking happiness, release from suffering and those longing for a path and a leader to follow. James Arthur Ray for many who followed him was that leader to guide his flock. But as the story unfolds, as told by Ray himself and also by his followers, we learn that that path was fraught with danger and perhaps even greater suffering.

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