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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 156.

Between Hitler and Stalin (2003)

documentary film

In a chronological manner, Nowytski's film unfolds during the years of Soviet–Nazi collaboration recounting the losses and Ukrainian people suffering; the documentary shifts to the destruction wrought by Joseph Stalin's scorched earth policy as the Soviet Union's Red Army retreated, and shows the ruins left behind by the German and then the Soviet offensives.

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To Be Takei (2014)

documentary film, LGBTQ-related film

Known for his role as the helmsman of the U.S.S. Enterprise, Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu, on Star Trek: The Original Series, To Be Takei narrates the life and journey of actor, author and activist George Takei, featuring interviews with fellow Star Trek actors William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, and John Cho.

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Blue Suede Shoes (1980)

documentary film

The documentary includes archive material from the 1950s plus later concert footage from Gene Vincent (1970). The film includes footage from a revival weekend at a holiday camp in Great Yarmouth, England. The weekend footage includes footage of shows by various bands of the period and after.

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Bearing Witness (2005)

documentary film

It follows five women reporters and the challenges they face as they work in Iraq during the Second Gulf War. Molly Bingham is an experienced photographer who was held for several days at Abu Ghraib prison at the start of the war. Marie Colvin was a reporter who lost her eye to a grenade while working in Sri Lanka.

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Jig (2011)

documentary film, Documentation

The film follows eight dancers from across the world as they prepare for and compete at Oireachtas Rince Na Cruinne (the Irish Dancing World Championships), held in Glasgow in 2010 by An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha. One dancer, Julia O'Rourke, wins her first world title in the course of the documentary.

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Ahead of the Curve (2020)

documentary film

The film tells the story about the founder of Curve Magazine, and its rise in the 1990s and its uncertain future today. When Franco was 23 years old, she funded the magazine with a bunch of credit cards. She took the borrowed money from the cards to the race track, where her bets resulted in her continual winning, and that's how Curve was born.

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Our Disappeared (2008)

documentary film

Our Disappeared / Nuestros Desaparecidos is director Juan Mandelbaum’s personal search for friends and loved ones who were caught in the vise of the military and “disappeared” in his native Argentina during the 1976–1983 military dictatorship. The film is a personal journey into the past to reflect on the political and personal contexts that led so many young people to fight for a more just Argentina. After finding out that Patricia, a long lost girlfriend, is among the “desaparecidos” Mandelbaum returns to Argentina to find out what happened to her and others he knew who also disappeared.

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