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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,599 films · Page 141.

Intersexion (2012)

documentary film, intersex film

Mani Mitchell and Grant Lahood set out to "de-mystify" intersex, looking "beyond the shame and secrecy that defines many intersex births". Interviewing intersex people around the world, the film explores how they "navigate their way through childhood, adolescence, relationships and adulthood, when they don’t fit the binary model of a solely male and female world". The film follows Mitchell on a tour, visiting intersex people in America, Ireland, Germany, South Africa and Australia.

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Rango (1931)

Adventure, Arranged Documentary, documentary film

The frame story is narrated by a white father, who has recently returned from India, to his son. He explains that man's closest relative in nature is the orangutan, which translates literally as "man of the forest." He then tells the story of Ali and his son Bin, natives of Sumatra, who hunt in a jungle village. Ali wants to shoot a marauding tiger, but the orangutans Tua and his baby Rango get in the way, and Rango is almost grabbed by the tiger.

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Remember Me This Way (1974)

documentary film

The documentary follows Glitter through a routine of press conferences, radio interviews, photo shoots and concert rehearsals. It also includes his audition to star in an unproduced feature film. The picture also documents the people working behind the scenes of Glitter's career.

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The Tiger Next Door (2009)

documentary film

The film is a character-driven documentary, which also reveals and explores a subculture of large wild animal keeping and breeding across the United States. The film starts from the premise that there are more tigers in private hands in the United States than there are roaming wild in the world. And, that it is legal in half of the United States to keep a tiger or other big cat.

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El Capitan (1978)

documentary film, sport film

The film follows three climbers as they do the 3000-feet (900 m) vertical ascent of The Nose, the classic first big-wall climb on El Capitan. A fourth climber follows the group and films their ascent but is never seen in the movie. The climbers need three days to reach the summit, which means they have to spend two nights sleeping on steep ledges, waking to magnificent views.

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Milestones (1975)

documentary film, Drama

"A many-faceted portrait of those individuals who sought radical solutions to social problems in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. It cuts back and forth between six major story lines and more than fifty characters, and across a vast landscape, to explore the lifestyles and attitudes of the American left who faced both personal and historical transitions in the period following the Vietnam War." said Laurence Kardish, curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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