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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 134.

Bitter Jester (2003)

Comedy drama, documentary film

Maija DiGiorgio is a naive New York comic whose therapist recommends a video diary as a means of examining herself. Maija's ex-boxer boyfriend, Kenny Simmons, and director of photography, Jody Del Giorno see a means to instant stardom. Maija is searching for answers to the meaning of life and art as well as the answers for art and artifice.

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Resolved (2007)

documentary film

Resolved begins by focusing on the careers of Matt Andrews, Sam Iola, one a stand-out rising sophomore, one a rising senior famous within the policy debate community, respectively. The team of Iola and Andrews hails from Highland Park High School, a recognized national debate power from Texas and located in one of the state's wealthiest communities, where students are expected to attend college after graduation. From there, Whiteley shifts his focus to Louis Blackwell and Richard Funches of Jordan High School in Long Beach, California.

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Why We Bang (2006)

Why We Bang starts by depicting a short history of African-American organizations and communities during the 1960s and 1970s such as the Black Panthers. It is then suggested that these organizations were "infiltrated by the CIA", eventually leading to the division of the then more unified African-American community, and again leading to the establishment of new violent street gangs. After this interviews with several current and former members, and relatives, of the Los Angeles street gangs the Crips and Bloods are shown, with changing contexts.

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David Bowie: Finding Fame (2019)

documentary film, Documentation

The film is the final installment in a trilogy of Bowie documentaries. It examines a period of Bowie's early career from 1965 through 1973. It features archival footage of interviews with Bowie; commentary from his collaborators in the early days; exclusive interviews with two of his former girlfriends; and unseen footage from the BBC.

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The Heroes of Desert Storm (1991)

documentary film, Drama

Rather than a single overarching plotline, the film depicts a series of vignettes featuring various American service members and their families, all of which play out against the backdrop of the Gulf War. Throughout the film, several of the service members are interviewed by the filmmakers regarding their personal feelings about the war and how it has affected their lives and the lives of their families. Guy Hunter, Jr., Steven Shaefer, Steve Tate, Beverly Clark, Phoebe Jeter, Jonathan Alston, Ben Pennington, Mary Rhoads, Gary Buckholz, Devon Jones and Lawrence Slade are activated for Desert Shield.

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I Am Ali (2014)

Biography, boxing film, documentary film, Documentation, sport film

A Family Underground (2009)

The film loosely follows an English couple that travels to Cave-In-Rock, Illinois, United States to attend the ninth annual Gathering of the Juggalos. The 2008 event is the first Gathering that the couple has attended. While the couple explores the festival grounds, clips from the multiple events occurring are captured, including professional wrestling from Juggalo Championship Wrestling.

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