Joshua Oppenheimer Movies

After befriending documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer, former Indonesian death squad leaders reenact their real-life mass killings in the style of...

Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, where they...

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

An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the "Communist" purge occurred in 1965. His remaining family...

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

In minimalist villas that already resemble film sets, we meet a community of aging citizens. With the help of technology, they plan to have...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Experimental video and performance meditating on militias, American fundamentalism, and the opening of the American West.

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.

Meditation on psychlogical warfare, shopping and paramilitary death squads.

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

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

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

The Academy Award-winning director of the heavy documentary 'The Act of Killing' discusses his philosophies in documentary filmmaking, the horrors of...

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