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Explore documentary storytelling about people, events and ideas.

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Hollywood on Trial (1976)

documentary film

The film chronicles the 1947 hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee, with a focus on the Hollywood Ten directors, screenwriters and producers cited for contempt of Congress and blacklisted by the movie industry after refusing to answer questions about their alleged involvement with the Communist Party. The documentary is narrated by John Huston and includes archival footage from the hearings and interviews with key participants in the hearings and studio figures affected by those events.

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Le dernier trappeur (2004)

Adventure, Arranged Documentary, documentary film

In the heart of the Rocky Mountains of the Canadian Yukon, in the depths of the high altitude, Norman is a musher trapper who lives in the most solitary, traditional way possible, with Nebraska, a Nahanni Native American, her two horses and her seven hitching dogs. Husky. He gives himself the role of monitoring nature and regulating species.

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The Union: The Business Behind Getting High (2007)

documentary film, Documentation

The film explores the growth, sale and trafficking of cannabis. The documentary examines the underground market by interviewing growers, police officers, criminologists, psychologists, economists, doctors, politicians and pop culture icons, revealing how the trade is booming despite being a criminal enterprise. The history of cannabis and the reasons for its present prohibition are discussed, often comparing it to the prohibition of alcohol in the United States in the 1920s, suggesting that gang drug warfare and other negative aspects associated with cannabis are a result of prohibition, not the drug itself.

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Crazy Sexy Cancer (2007)

documentary film

Crazy Sexy Cancer documents Kris Carr's personal experience with cancer. The film depicts Carr's journey after being diagnosed with epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE). Initially believing her symptoms were related to an injury after a yoga class, Carr learns she has a rare form of cancer.

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The Augustas (1930)

documentary film, Documentation, Long Term Documentary, Travel documentary

The Weight of Chains 2 (2014)

documentary film, historical film

The film starts with events that led to the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević on 5 October 2000. It analyzes the National Endowment for Democracy's financing of the Otpor! resistance movement, together with the West's training of Serbian activists and politicians in Budapest and discusses the row between the government and the opposition concerning electoral fraud accusations.

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