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Explore documentary storytelling about people, events and ideas.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,599 films · Page 115.

The River (1938)

Animal Documentary, Documentation

The film shows the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States, and how farming and timber practices had caused topsoil to be swept down the river and into the Gulf of Mexico, leading to catastrophic floods and impoverishing farmers. It ends by briefly describing how the Tennessee Valley Authority project was beginning to reverse these problems.

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Comic Book Confidential (1988)

documentary film

The film includes profiles of twenty-two notable and influential talents in the comics field, such as Charles Burns, Art Spiegelman, Françoise Mouly, Frank Miller, Stan Lee, Will Eisner, Robert Crumb, Harvey Pekar and William M. Gaines. In interviews, the creators discuss their contributions and history, and read passages from their works over filmograph animations.

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Generation Iron 2 (2017)

documentary film

Generation Iron 2 is the sequel to the 2013 documentary film Generation Iron. The follow-up film, directed by Vlad Yudin, follows the top five bodybuilding and fitness mega-stars on the journey to build the ultimate physique. Exploring the world of social media and internet, the film depicts how the rules have changed as to what makes a successful "mass monster" bodybuilder.

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Best Kept Secret (2013)

documentary film

thumb|left|(l-r) Samantha Buck (director), Danielle DiGiacomo (producer), and Janet Mino (primary subject) addressing the audience at the world premiere of Best Kept Secret, at the Boston International Film Festival, April 2013. The documentary follows one of the classes attending JFK High School in Newark, New Jersey, as they prepare for graduation. In a year and a half, they will graduate from the public school system and go on to their next stage of life.

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Flunked (2008)

documentary film

Flunked studies the relatively poor position of the United States public education system; in the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment, the country's mean performance was merely average among the OECD member states tested, and according to a 2015 survey of members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, just 16% of them called American K-12 STEM education above average or best. The film also, though, explores some of the system's successes. The first 20 minutes review many of the system's problems, as well as schools nationwide that prepared students well for college in the 2000s.

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