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10 Best Movies Like Ascension

If you loved Ascension, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
American Factory

American Factory

2019★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ascension for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand blue-collar Americans. Early days of hope a...

#2
Requiem for the American Dream

Requiem for the American Dream

2015★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ascension for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Through interviews filmed over four years, Noam Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality – tracing a half-cent...

#3
The True Cost

The True Cost

2015★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ascension for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Film from Andrew Morgan. The True Cost is a documentary film exploring the impact of fashion on people and the planet....

#4
Roger & Me

Roger & Me

1989★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ascension for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an in...

#5
Heart of a Dog

Heart of a Dog

2015★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ascension for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse subjects as family memories, surveilla...

#6
Waking Sleeping Beauty

Waking Sleeping Beauty

2009★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ascension for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet ready...

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