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10 Best Movies Like Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

If you loved Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Salt of the Earth

The Salt of the Earth

2014★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ernest Cole: Lost and Found for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed the majo...

#2
Finding Vivian Maier

Finding Vivian Maier

2014★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ernest Cole: Lost and Found for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Vivian Maier's photos were seemingly destined for obscurity, lost among the clutter of the countless objects she'd collected throughout her life. Instead these images have shaken t...

#3
Cameraperson

Cameraperson

2016★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ernest Cole: Lost and Found for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations th...

#4
Cold Case Hammarskjöld

Cold Case Hammarskjöld

2019★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ernest Cole: Lost and Found for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18, 1961. Swedish economist and diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the UN, dies mysteriously in a plane crash. D...

#5
I Am Not Your Negro

I Am Not Your Negro

2017★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ernest Cole: Lost and Found for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States....

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Dahomey

Dahomey

2024★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ernest Cole: Lost and Found for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Thousands of royal artifacts of Dahomey, a West African kingdom, were taken by French colonists in the 19th century for collection and display in Paris. Centuries later, a fraction...

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