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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,599 films · Page 123.

Sunshine Superman (2014)

documentary film

Sunshine Superman follows Carl Boenish's career as a freefall cinematographer and BASE jumper, beginning with his early work as a skydiver in the 1960s until his final jump off the Troll Wall in the mountains of Norway in 1984. Director Marah Strauch uses a combination of aerial footage shot by Boenish himself on his 16mm camera, archival footage from films and television shows, modern reenactments, and interviews with friends, family, and other BASE jumping colleagues. Footage from Boenish's 1978 jump off of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park and his successful Guinness World Record-setting double jump (with wife, Jean Boenish) off the…

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Girls & Gods (2025)

documentary film, Documentation

This film asks the question, can feminism and religion coexist? Girls and Gods is a journey led by Inna Shevchenko - the project's author and initiator - to answer this question. Shevchenko is known for leading FEMEN's topless protests against patriarchal power structures.

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Hillsong: Let Hope Rise (2016)

documentary film, family film

The film chronicles the unlikely rise to prominence of the Australia-based Christian band Hillsong United. Their music is so popular it is estimated that on any given Sunday, more than 50 million churchgoers around the world are singing their songs. The film follows an event that took place on 23 October 2014 at the Forum arena in Los Angeles with 17,000 people attending, and moments preceding the concert with the creation of new songs featured on Empires (2015).

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The F Word (2005)

documentary film, Fake Documentary

Joe Pace is a radio personality whose program, The F Word, is being shut down by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after racking up over $1 million in unpaid indecency fines. On his last day on the air, which coincides with the last day of the 2004 Republican National Convention, Joe sets off to broadcast his own one-man march through Manhattan.

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The Story of 1 (2005)

documentary film, documentary television film

Terry Jones first journeys to Africa, where bones have been discovered with notches in them. However, there is no way of knowing if they were used for counting. Jones then discusses the Ishango bone, which must have been used for counting, because there are 60 scratches on each side of the bone.

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Madu (2024)

Biography, documentary film

Madu features Anthony Madu, whose ballet dance video went viral in 2020 after he was captured dancing in the rain and earned a scholarship at Elmhurst Ballet School. The more-than-an-hour documentary film shines light on Anthony Madu's journey from his home in Ajangbadi, Lagos state, to the United Kingdom. The film highlights Anthony Madu's experiences in the United Kingdom as he navigates his new environment and the new culture he is living in, in the United Kingdom.

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The Muslims Are Coming! (2013)

Comedy, documentary film

The film opens with a montage of television and radio clips of comments from figures such as Frank Gaffney, Herman Cain, Ann Coulter, Bryan Fischer, Pat Robertson, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Bill Maher, and Donald Trump expressing fear of Islam, or mistrust of Muslims. Farsad and Obeidallah explain what motivated them to attempt to change the negative perception of Muslims in America: for Farsad it was claims that Obama was a secret Muslim (with its implication that being Muslim was in itself something negative); and for Obeidallah it was the virulence of the opposition to the "Ground Zero Mosque". In Columbus, Georgia, they visit a gun…

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Brexit: The Movie (2016)

documentary film

The film argued it was in the interest for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, due to lack of accountability of its institutions and that Britain should follow the Swiss economic model and strike new trade deals with the rest of the world. The film explains that the United Kingdom will not require a trade deal with the European Union after leaving, but it will likely get one because "the Union is desperate to keep it goods flowing into the UK". Meanwhile, the percentage of trade from the UK into the rest of the European Union is declining.

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