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10 Best Movies Like Surviving Columbus

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

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#1
Baraka

Baraka

1992★ 8.2

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

A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life....

#2
Princess Protection Program

Princess Protection Program

2009★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Surviving Columbus for fans of TV Movie. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When her nation is invaded, a young princess is taken into the Princess Protection Program. She is relocated to Louisiana, where she stays with a covert agent and his tomboyish dau...

#3
Powaqqatsi

Powaqqatsi

1988★ 7.3

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

An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them....

#4
Waiting for "Superman"

Waiting for "Superman"

2010★ 6.9

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

Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenhei...

#5
Deliver Us from Evil

Deliver Us from Evil

2006★ 7.1

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

Documentary filmmaker Amy Berg investigates the life of 30-year pedophile Father Oliver O'Grady and exposes the corruption inside the Catholic Church that allowed him to abuse coun...

#6
Geek Charming

Geek Charming

2011★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Surviving Columbus for fans of TV Movie. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Film geek Josh is looking for the subject of his new documentary when a chance meeting puts the perfect star in his sights—Dylan, his school's most popular junior. But Dylan's hope...

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