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Explore documentary storytelling about people, events and ideas.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,603 films · Page 142.

Strange Culture (2007)

documentary film

The film examines the case of artist and professor Steve Kurtz, a member of the Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). The work of Kurtz and other CAE members dealt with genetically modified food and other issues of science and public policy. After his wife, Hope, died of heart failure, paramedics arrived and became suspicious when they noticed petri dishes and other scientific equipment related to Kurtz's art in his home.

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A Life in the Death of Joe Meek (2008)

documentary film

Joe Meek was one of Britain's premier independent record producers of the late fifties and early sixties, renowned for his pioneering recording techniques and for the futuristic sound of the records he produced, but notorious for his eccentric personality. His biggest success was the production of the Tornados' 1962 worldwide #1 hit "Telstar". After a long struggle with debt, paranoia and depression, he killed his landlady Violet Shenton and shot himself on February 3, 1967.

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It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School (1996)

documentary film

Directed by Chasnoff and Cohen, the film was described by the book Voices of Transgender Children in Early Childhood Education as "the first of its kind" to provide educators with information on how to prevent discrimination against people who are gay. It focuses on the education of elementary schoolchildren to not be intolerant of those who are gay or lesbian. In the film, first-grade through eighth-grade students talk about LGBTQ subjects.

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Being Osama (2004)

documentary film

The documentary details the lives of six Montreal Arab men, all with the first name "Osama": Osama (Sam) Shalabi, of Egyptian origin, a music composer who grew up in Atlantic Canada. He is a leading member of the Montreal-based instrumental band, Shalabi Effect. He composed the soundtrack for Being Osama.

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Ivory Tower (2014)

documentary film

The film questions the value of higher education in an era when the price of college has increased more than any other service in the United States. It explores the different types of higher education around the nation. These include: community colleges, four year universities, vocational schools, online courses, and less traditional forms of education.

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Austerlitz (2016)

documentary film, Documentation

The plot of the movie is a black-and-white footage of tourists on the territory of museum complexes, former concentration camps that function as museums (Dachau, Ravensbrück, Sachsenhausen and Dora-Mittelbau). The tape is shot in a webcam format with medium close-ups - the camera is fixed at chest height and camouflaged so that people don't pay attention to it. Each scene lasts at least 5 minutes, with almost no museum exhibits in the frame, German, English, French, Spanish, Italian speech is heard.

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