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Mark Monroe has 15 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Racing Extinction.
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Racing Extinction
2015 · Movie · Writer
Top 7%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Cove
2009 · Movie · Writer
Top 8%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Before the Flood
2016 · Movie · Writer
Top 14%Disney+ · Included

Icarus
2017 · Movie · Writer
Top 17%Netflix · Included

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
2016 · Movie · Writer
Top 24%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Fed Up
2014 · Movie · Writer
Top 36%Tubi · Free w/ ads

An unlikely team of activists and innovators hatches a bold mission to save endangered species.
Dir. Louie Psihoyos · With Elon Musk, Jane Goodall, Louie Psihoyos

The Cove tells the amazing true story of how an elite team of individuals, films makers and free divers embarked on a covert mission to penetrate the hidden cove in Japan, shining light on a dark and deadly secret. The shocking discoveries were only the tip of the iceberg.
Dir. Louie Psihoyos · With Hayden Panettiere, Joe Chisholm, Mandy-Rae Cruikshank

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.
Dir. Fisher Stevens · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Bill Clinton, John Kerry
While investigating the furtive world of illegal doping in sports, director Bryan Fogel connects with renegade Russian scientist Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov—a pillar of his country’s “anti-doping” program. Over dozens of Skype calls, urine samples, and badly administered hormone injections, Fogel and Rodchenkov grow closer despite shocking allegations that place Rodchenkov at the center of Russia’s state-sponsored Olympic doping program.
Dir. Bryan Fogel · With Bryan Fogel, Dave Zabriskie, Don Catlin

The Beatles stormed through Europe's music scene in 1963, and, in 1964, they conquered America. Their groundbreaking world tours changed global youth culture forever and, arguably, invented mass entertainment as we know it today. All the while, the group were composing and recording a series of extraordinarily successful singles and albums. However the relentless pressure of such unprecedented fame, that in 1966 became uncontrollable turmoil, led to the decision to stop touring. In the ensuing years The Beatles were then free to focus on a series of albums that changed the face of recorded music.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon

The successes and failures of a couple determined to live in harmony with nature on a farm outside of Los Angeles are lovingly chronicled by filmmaking farmer John Chester, in this inspiring documentary.
Dir. John Chester · With John Chester, Molly Chester, Beaudie Chester
The history of Sound City and their huge recording device; exploring how digital change has allowed 'people that have no place' in music to become stars. It follows former Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighter David Grohl as he attempts to resurrect the studio back to former glories.
Dir. Dave Grohl · With Dave Grohl, Trent Reznor, Tom Petty

When National Geographic photographer James Balog asked, “How can one take a picture of climate change?” his attention was immediately drawn to ice. Soon he was asked to do a cover story on glaciers that became the most popular and well-read piece in the magazine during the last five years. But for Balog, that story marked the beginning of a much larger and longer-term project that would reach epic proportions.
Dir. Jeff Orlowski · With James Balog, Svavar Jonatansson, Adam LeWinter
Fed Up blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public, resulting in one of the largest health epidemics in history.
Dir. Stephanie Soechtig · With Katie Couric, Michael Pollan, Bill Clinton

The Summit is a 2012 documentary film about the 2008 K2 disaster directed by Nick Ryan. It combines documentary footage with dramatized recreations of the events of the 2008 K2 disaster. On the way to and from the summit, eleven climbers died during a short time span creating one of the worst catastophes in climbing history. Much of the documentary footage was captured by Swedish mountaineer Fredrik Sträng. Sträng was planning to do a Documentary which was aborted due to the fact that he did not reach the summit. The footage was still valuable to help solving what really did happen since all the climbers had different stories about what happened.
Dir. Nick Ryan · With Christine Barnes, Christo Mitzkov, Hoselito Bite

From the UFC Octagon in Las Vegas and the anthropology lab at Dartmouth, to a strongman gym in Berlin and the bushlands of Zimbabwe, the world is introduced to elite athletes, special ops soldiers, visionary scientists, cultural icons, and everyday heroes—each on a mission to create a seismic shift in the way we eat and live.
Dir. Louie Psihoyos · With James Wilks, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Patrik Baboumian

When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world are left to piece together the clues to a brutal murder and expose a global cover up perpetrated by the very country he loved.
Dir. Bryan Fogel · With Jamal Khashoggi, Omar Abdulaziz, Prince Mohammed bin Salman al Saud

A vivid journey into the mysterious subterranean world of mycelium and its fruit— the mushroom. A story that begins 3.5 billion years ago, fungi makes the soil that supports life, connecting vast systems of roots from plants and trees all over the planet, like an underground Internet. Through the eyes of renowned mycologist Paul Stamets, professor of forest ecology Suzanne Simard, best selling author Michael Pollan, food naturalist Eugenia Bone and others, we experience the power, beauty and complexity of the fungi kingdom.
Dir. Louie Schwartzberg · With Brie Larson, Paul Stamets, Michael Pollan

OceanGate's Titan tourist submersible imploded in 2023 on a deep-sea dive to the Titanic. This documentary details how a bold vision ended in tragedy.
Dir. Mark Monroe · With Stockton Rush, Emily Hammermeister, David Lochridge

Set in the golden era of Grand Prix Racing '1' tells the story of a generation of charismatic drivers who raced on the edge, risking their lives during Formula 1's deadliest period, and the men who stood up and changed the sport forever.
Dir. Paul Crowder · With Michael Fassbender, Niki Lauda, Michael Schumacher
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