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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 148.

Im toten Winkel (2023)

thriller film

In a remote Kurdish village, in northeastern Turkey, a documentary is shot by German film crew. They spot an old woman performing ritual to memory of her missing son. In the village, Melek, a 7-year-old Turkish girl lives, whose nanny is the Kurdish translator of the film crew.

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Home is Somewhere Else (2022)

documentary film

It tells 3 independent stories about undocumented immigrants in the United States. The first story is about Jasmine, who lives in fear that her parents will be deported; the second is about the sisters Evelyn (US citizen) and Elizabeth (undocumented immigrant) who live apart due to their different immigration statuses; and the last one tells the story of José Eduardo Aguilar "El Deportee" who was deported to Mexico at the age of 23 and since then became an activist and defender of the Mexican deportees.

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CounterPunch (2017)

documentary film

The film is a documentary about boxing, covering both the good and the bad aspects of the sport, and follows the personal growth and development of its main characters, Chis "Lil B Hop" Colbert, Cam F. Awesome, and Peter "Kid Chocolate" Quillan. The film also features commentary from established boxers like Sugar Ray Leonard, Oscar De La Hoya, Paulie Malignaggi and others.

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Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love (2008)

documentary film, Documentation

Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love is a music-driven film that explores one man's power to inspire global change. The film unfolds at a pivotal moment in the life of Youssou N’Dour—the best-selling African pop artist of all time. N'Dour has long been renowned for bringing people of diverse nations and backgrounds together through his collaborations with such musical superstars as Bono, Paul Simon, and Peter Gabriel.

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Confessions of a Superhero (2007)

documentary film, Documentation, Superhero

The film follows the lives of four main subjects through interviews with themselves, their friends, and their family members: Christopher Dennis, Jennifer Wenger, Joseph McQueen and Maxwell Allen, who portray Superman, Wonder Woman, the Hulk, and Batman, respectively. Each is an aspiring actor from a different background who earns a living posing for photographs with tourists outside of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Dennis grew up in Los Angeles as an orphan but claims to be the son of Academy Award-winning actress Sandy Dennis, whose family denies in the film that she ever had any children.

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Zombie Girl: The Movie (2009)

documentary film

The documentary chronicles the making of Emily Hagin's feature-length zombie film Pathogen. The film, which took Hagin two years to complete and screen, was met with several setbacks during its filming due to elements such as theft of property. During the filming of Zombie Girl, the directors noted Hagin's growth as a fledgling director, as she was twelve at the time Pathogen was made.

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In the Footsteps of Marco Polo (2008)

documentary film

In The Footsteps of Marco Polo begins by discussing how in the 13th century A.D., a book was written "that would change the course of history"—the author was Marco Polo, who wrote about his travels in China, Persia, Tatarstan and India. Denis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell, of Queens, New York, sought to retrace the entire 25,000 mile route of Marco Polo, eschewing aircraft and "going only by land or sea", even making a pact to return either “dead or successful”. Their main goal was to prove the validity of Marco Polo's account by capturing images of what Polo described in his Book of the Marvels of the World, or also known as, The…

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