20 Awesome 90s Movies The World Forgot

Baraka is one of the most visually stunning films you'll ever watch, and it's a completely unique viewing experience as documentaries go. 

This one has no voiceover or narration; rather, it's a compilation of footage from over 150 locations all over the world and as for what it's saying, it's likely that each viewer will come away from it with a different interpretation. It touches on a bit of everything: spirituality, religion, industry, mortality, suffering, modernity and man's general place in the world. 

The late, great Roger Ebert once wrote that "If man sends another Voyager to the distant stars and it can only carry one film on-board, that film might be Baraka." It couldn't really be put better than that. In just 100 minutes, Baraka says so much about the world we live in and it does this without a single line of dialogue. 

Baraka is, of course, a visual feast and you could hang most of its shots in an art gallery, but it's also memorable for its tremendous use of music, including its memorable deployment of Dead Can Dance's The Host of Seraphim (which was later, more famously, used in The Mist) during a montage depicting human suffering. It's a strange, wonderful and uniquely captivating experience, one that'll make viewers ponder their place in the world... and maybe leave them a little misty-eyed too.