Direction: Joshua Oppenheimer

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Joshua Oppenheimer. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Look of Silence

2014 · Documentary · 103 min. · Denmark

Direction Joshua Oppenheimer

Cast Adi Rukun · M.Y. Basrun · Amir Hasan · Inong Kemat

Plot Through Oppenheimer's footage of perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian Genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered, as well as de identities of the killers. The documentary...

7.8

2K votes

7.8

2K votes

The Act of Killing

2012 · Documentary · 117 min. · Denmark

Direction Joshua Oppenheimer · Christine Cynn

Plot A documentary that challenges former Indonesian death squad leaders to reenact their real-life mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers. Anwar...

7.8

7K votes

7.8

7K votes

The End

2024 · Movie · 148 min. · Denmark

Direction Joshua Oppenheimer

Cast Tilda Swinton · Michael Shannon · George MacKay · Moses Ingram

Plot Two decades after the end of the world, a family lives in their luxurious bunker built in a salt mine. The son, a 20-year-old who has never seen the outside...

4.9

124 votes

4.9

124 votes

These Places We've Learned to Call Home

1996 · Documentary · 32 min. · United States

Direction Joshua Oppenheimer · Jacob Silber

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

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The Globalisation Tapes

2003 · Documentary · 71 min. · Indonesia

Direction Joshua Oppenheimer · Christine Cynn

Cast Intan Sinaga · Sharman Sinaga

Plot Documentary film about oil palm plantation workers in North Sumatra.

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Land of Enchantment (S)

2000 · Documentary · 1 min. · United States

Direction Christine Cynn · Joshua Oppenheimer

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

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The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase

1998 · Documentary · 50 min. · United States

Direction Joshua Oppenheimer

Plot An enigmatic pseudo-documentary covering the stories of a woman who kills her baby in her microwave, the Native American genocide, and nuclear war.

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Postcard from Sun City, Arizona (S)

2003 · Documentary · min. · United States

Direction Joshua Oppenheimer

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

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Muzak: A Tool of Management (S)

2002 · Documentary · min. · United Kingdom

Direction Joshua Oppenheimer

Plot Prior to releasing the Academy Award® -nominated documentary THE ACT OF KILLING, American filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer spent over a decade in Indonesia interviewing members of the Death Squads that murdered...

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Market Update (S)

2002 · Documentary · min. · United States

Direction Joshua Oppenheimer

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A Brief History of Paradise as Told by the Cockroaches (S)

2002 · Documentary · min. · United States

Direction Joshua Oppenheimer

Plot They say that when the Earth is destroyed beyond habitation, the only survivors will be the cockroaches. Filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer gives the indomitable insects the floor in this perversely comic...

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