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Chris Smith has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s.
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Sicko
2007
Documentary · Comedy

Take Your Pills
2018
Documentary

Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere
2026
Documentary

Who Killed the Electric Car?
2006
Documentary

Return
2018
Documentary

Generation Wealth
2018
Documentary

The Propaganda Game
2015
Documentary

My Scientology Movie
2016
Documentary

American Movie documents the story of filmmaker Mark Borchardt, his mission, and his dream. Spanning over two years of intense struggle with his film, his family, financial decline, and spiritual crisis, American Movie is a portrayal of ambition, obsession, excess, and one man's quest for the American Dream.
Dir. Chris Smith · With Mark Borchardt, Mike Schank, Tom Schimmels

Offbeat documentarian Chris Smith provides a behind-the-scenes look at how Jim Carrey adopted the persona of idiosyncratic comedian Andy Kaufman on the set of Man on the Moon.
Dir. Chris Smith · With Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Miloš Forman

A comic, biting and revelatory documentary following a small group of prankster activists as they gain worldwide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization (WTO) on television and at business conferences around the world.
Dir. Dan Ollman, Sarah Price, Chris Smith · With Mike Bonanno, Andy Bichlbaum, Michael Moore
From the acclaimed director of American Movie, the documentary follows former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter Michael Ruppert. He recounts his career as a radical thinker and spells out his apocalyptic vision of the future, spanning the crises in economics, energy, environment and more.
Dir. Chris Smith · With Michael Ruppert

He promised supermodels and yachts, but delivered tents and cheese sandwiches. How one man engineered a music festival disaster.
Dir. Chris Smith · With Billy McFarland, Ja Rule, Jason Bell

An examination that goes beyond the celebrity-driven headlines and dives into the methods used by Rick Singer, the man at the center of the shocking 2019 college admissions scandal, to persuade his wealthy clients to cheat an educational system already designed to benefit the privileged.
Dir. Chris Smith · With Matthew Modine, Roger Rignack, Jillian Peterson