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Explore documentary storytelling about people, events and ideas.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,596 films · Page 17.

4 Little Girls (1997)

Documentation, biographical film, documentary film, independent film

A local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan placed bombs at the 16th Street Baptist Church and set them off as Sunday services prepared to commence on the morning of September 15, 1963. Four young girls, ranging in age from 11 to 14, were killed i…

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Indie Game: The Movie (2012)

Documentation, documentary film

The film shows the high level of personal expression that typically goes into independent games, through the story of three games: Braid was released in 2008, Super Meat Boy was preparing for its 2011 release (which would actually occur in…

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Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003)

Documentation, Event Documentary, Investigative Documentary, crime film, documentary film

The film focuses on an evidentiary hearing held in February 2003 in Marion County, Florida, which was the site of some but not all of Wuornos' murders for which she was convicted and sentenced to death. It shows the work of the Office of C…

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Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)

Documentation, docudrama, documentary film

Werner Herzog found a kindred spirit in the German-American Navy pilot and Vietnam War veteran Dieter Dengler. Like Herzog, Dengler grew up in a Germany reduced to rubble by World War II, and Dengler's stories of hunger and deprivation in …

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The Sweatbox (2002)

Making-Of Documentary, documentary film

In 1997, director Roger Allers asks British singer-songwriter Sting to help write the music to a new Disney animated feature titled Kingdom of the Sun, which is intended to be an exploration of the culture of the Incas. Sting is excited ab…

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Feels Good Man (2020)

Documentation, documentary film

Pepe the Frog, a character created by Matt Furie and first featured in a comic on MySpace called Boy's Club, is one of four vicenarian postcollegiate slacker friends who live together. In one installment, Pepe is caught by one of his house…

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My Scientology Movie (2015)

Documentation, documentary film

After the Church of Scientology refuses to cooperate in making a documentary, Louis Theroux teams up with former senior church official Mark Rathbun to create dramatic reconstructions of incidents within the church witnessed by Rathbun and…

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One More Time with Feeling (2016)

Documentation, Musical, documentary film

One More Time with Feeling documents the final production process of Skeleton Tree, in the aftermath of the death of Nick Cave's son Arthur. The film includes 35 minutes of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds performing at Air Studios in London in…

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Snow on tha Bluff (2011)

found footage film, hood film

Three college students drive to the Bluff, a westside Atlanta neighborhood, intending to buy some drugs from a dealer. Clearly naive, they joke about flirting in hopes of getting free drugs, and reassure one another that they have nothing …

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Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015)

Biographical documentary, biographical film, documentary film

Kurt Cobain is born in 1967 to car mechanic Donald Cobain and waitress Wendy Cobain. In 1970, shortly after his sister Kim is born, the family moves to Aberdeen, Washington. Kurt lives a normal childhood, although Donald occasionally picks…

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The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012)

Documentation, documentary film

Žižek appears transplanted into the scenes of various movies, exploring and exposing how they reinforce prevailing ideologies. As the ideologies undergirding cinematic fantasies are revealed, striking associations emerge: from nuns advisin…

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Wild Style (1983)

Drama, Musical, docudrama, documentary film, drama film, musical film

Wild Style centers around a Bronx teenager named Raymond (Lee Quiñones), who under the pseudonym "Zoro" is a celebrated but anonymous graffiti artist. Raymond scorns a group of graffiti artists, known as the Union Crew, who have turned the…

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Overnight (2003)

Documentation, documentary film

In 1997, bartender, musician, and aspiring screenwriter Troy Duffy successfully sells his script for The Boondock Saints to Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein for 300,000 and is taken on by the William Morris Agency. Though Duffy has never mad…

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Seaspiracy (2021)

Documentation, documentary film

alt=Underwater photo of marine organisms intertwined in a ghost net within the Maldives|thumb|Marine organisms entangled in a ghost net within the Maldives Tabrizi acts as both the narrator and protagonist of the film, discovering key piec…

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Square One: Michael Jackson (2019)

documentary film

Square One is an independent investigative documentary that examines the original child sexual abuse allegations by Evan Chandler and his son, 13-year-old Jordan Chandler, against pop star Michael Jackson. Evan Chandler initially asked for…

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