Looking for documentaries to stream? Don’t worry! Showmax has got you covered in August 2023 (and any other month of the year).
Here are 3 Documentaries You Can Stream on Showmax in August 2023
1. Moonage Daydream – Available to stream on Showmax already
From Oscar-nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen (Cobain: Montage of Heck), Moonage Daydream is a cinematic odyssey exploring David Bowie’s creative, spiritual, and musical journey.
Moonage Daydream is up for five 2023 Emmys, including Writing, Directing, and Editing, having already won a Cinema Eye Honors Award for its visual design, a Writers Guild of America Award for its screenplay, and a Critics Choice Documentary Award for its editing, among other accolades.
The film has a 92% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with Vogue hailing it as, “Astounding. Among the best films about any artist I’ve ever seen.” In their five star reviews,
The Guardian called it “glorious,” TimeOut “spectacular” and The Telegraph “hypnotic.”
Moonage Daydream has the full support of Bowie’s estate and features many of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement winner’s greatest tracks, as well as previously unseen concert footage.
2. The Fastest Woman on Earth – Available to stream on Showmax from 23 August 2023
Filmed over seven years, The Fastest Woman on Earth chronicles the extraordinary life of professional racer and TV personality Jessi Combs. Known as the “Fastest Woman on Four Wheels”, Combs set the women’s land-speed record at over 700 km/h.
Approached by an all-male team of aviation enthusiasts to be the lead driver of a custom car built from a repurposed fighter jet, Jessi’s dream of breaking land speed records is suddenly within reach – but at what cost?
The Max Original documentary is produced by two brothers, two-time Oscar winner Simon Chinn (Searching for Sugar Man, Man on Wire) and Oscar nominee Jonathan Chinn (Black Sheep, Tina, Whitney). Decider hails it as “superb storytelling… compelling, tragic, and fascinating.”
3. To End All War: Oppenheimer & The Atomic Bomb – Already available to stream on Showmax
Looking for something new to add to the Barbenheimer conversation? Showmax has got you covered with the feature documentary To End All War: Oppenheimer & The Atomic Bomb.
This documentary tells the true story of how one man’s brilliance, hubris and relentless drive changed the nature of war forever, led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and unleashed mass hysteria, and how, subsequently, the same man’s attempts to contain the fallout of his invention made him a pariah and led him down a path of deep despair.
J. Robert Oppenheimer was a fascinating, tragic, complex and consequential physicist. But the great achievement of his life – the atomic bomb – was a heavy cross to bear. Driven by intellectual curiosity and patriotic duty to invent the bomb, only when he succeeded did he allow himself to freely ponder its grave consequences.
It was then that this scientific genius, lauded for his technical brilliance, became a voice of moral conscience to a civilisation that suddenly had the unprecedented power to destroy itself. And when that happened, the war machine that he had helped to build turned on him.
The Manhattan Project was the defining turning point not only in Oppenheimer’s life, but arguably, in the history of the world, which can be split into two sharply contrasting periods – before and after the bomb. The narrative centrepiece of the story – and the zero hour in the history of warfare – is the Trinity test in the New Mexico desert on 16 July 1945.
For Oppenheimer, the successful detonation of the first atom bomb validates years of tireless work. But in this moment of seeming triumph – as the first mushroom cloud ever seen envelops the pre-dawn sky – Oppenheimer is struck hard by the gravity of what he has done. He sees before him a destructive power of almost supernatural magnitude. As he would say later, he feels he has “become death, the destroyer of worlds”… and life will never be the same.
Directed by Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Christopher Cassel (Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero, Rise of the Superbombs, Rome), To End All War features interviews with the likes of filmmaker Christopher Nolan, science communicator Bill Nye, grandson Charles Oppenheimer, and Hiroshima survivor Hideko Tamura.
Well, there you have it, 3 documentaries you can stream on Showmax in August 2023. If you don’t have an account yet, sign up here.
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