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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 163.

Orchids, My Intersex Adventure (2010)

autobiographical film, documentary film, intersex film

Phoebe Hart was told she would never menstruate nor have children, but the reasons were not discussed and the topic was taboo. Initially, her parents refused to be filmed at all. When Hart was 17 years of age, her mother told her the family secret, that Hart had testes in her abdomen.

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I, Pastafari (2019)

documentary film

The film features followers and members of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, called 'Pastafari', as they practice and campaign politically, legally and socially to obtain the same privileges and legal exemptions granted to religions. The cast include Samir Alloui, Niko Alm, Brother Spaghettus, Edward J. Larson, and Daniel Dennett.

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Blue Moon Rising (2010)

association football film, documentary film, Documentation, romance film, sport film

The film follows Manchester City in the wake of the club's takeover by Sheikh Mansour through the 2009–2010 season, capturing their emotions in victory and defeat. Whilst the documentary will also give an "access all areas" view into Manchester City Football Club including footage from the dressing room, boardroom and players' homes such as Carlos Tevez with exclusive in-depth interviews from chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak and manager Roberto Mancini. Supporters Although the film reviews the highs and lows of the 2009–10 season and the transformation of the club since September 2008, the film places heavy emphasis on the Manchester City…

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Tough Guys (2017)

documentary film

In 1979, more than a decade before the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), CV Productions created a new sport that involved an anything-goes fight league that recruited street fighters, wrestlers, martial artists, boxers and brawlers. The film chronicles the Tough Guys' first bouts and the cast of fighters who stepped into the ring. The film documents the Tough Guy vs Toughman controversy.

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Speaking in Code (2009)

documentary film

Director Amy Grill follows a series of techno community figures (including her husband, David Day). In doing so it forms six intertwined character studies, following their warehouse parties, international travel, risks, inventions, triumphs, and breakdowns. The cast includes: Modeselektor, a producer duo, jettisoned from playing a tiny room in the US to playing to 20,000 people at the Sónar festival in Barcelona.

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The End of Poverty? (2008)

documentary film

The film begins with footage depicting the condition of severe poverty faced by many people in underdeveloped countries and contrasting it with the prosperity and wealth of developed countries. The persistent inequality between countries is established to be the main theme of the film. The film then shifts to an historical perspective and describes the colonization of the Americas by European in 1492 as the start of this unequal relationship between the West and the rest of the world.

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Bombay Calling (2006)

documentary film

Bombay Calling delves into the lives of a group of young Indians working outsourced jobs at a call center in Bombay. Without focusing too much on the politics, it profiles several characters as they train for and attempt to sell phone services to clients in the UK. The film shows both sides of the impact of globalization on India - the economic benefits, but also the break with tradition and loss of innocence the characters face.

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