Champs (2014)
boxing film, documentary film
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Explore documentary storytelling about people, events and ideas.
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Hurt (2015)
documentary film
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (2005)
documentary film
Beep: A Documentary History of Game Sound (2016)
documentary film, historical film
Sounds Like Teen Spirit (2008)
documentary film, Documentation
It follows the lives of the participants of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007, specifically the entrants from Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Georgia. The film sees them proceed from the national finals that saw them crowned the representatives of their country through to the international song festival itself held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where they each compete against 16 other acts.
Challenging Impossibility (2011)
documentary film
The subject of Challenging Impossibility is the weightlifting odyssey of Sri Chinmoy, a spiritual teacher who came from India to live in New York City and began lifting weights at the age of 54. The film features news footage and interviews with bodybuilders, strongmen, olympians, and biomechanics experts. The film follows a historical narrative that builds upon a public display of strength that Sri Chinmoy performed in 2004 at York College.
Survivors Rowe (2015)
documentary film
Ghostheads (2016)
documentary film
The film documents the Ghostbusters fan community, presented mainly through the story of New Jersey resident Tom Gebhardt. In general, the documentary shows how Ghostbusters film affection helped various people through life.
Two Soft Things, Two Hard Things (2016)
documentary film, historical film, LGBTQ-related film
The film explores the small but burgeoning community of LGBT Inuit living in Nunavut, amidst the backdrop of the establishment of an LGBT Pride festival in the territorial capital of Iqaluit; the event took place just months after Iqaluit participated in the national campaign of raising and displaying the pride flag on public buildings for the duration of the 2014 Winter Olympics to protest anti-LGBT laws in Russia, which set off an extended territory-wide debate about the role of homosexuality in Inuit culture. The film explores various perspectives on the historical context of LGBT identity and sexuality among the Inuit, including the…
For Better or For Worse (1993)
documentary film
The film explores the lives and relationships of five couples married for fifty years or longer. The couples discuss the issues that inform every long-term relationship. They recount stories of their shared journeys, from living room jazz jam sessions, to the Gay Pride parade in New York, to the backwoods of Northern California.
Homo Sapiens 1900 (1998)
documentary film
Eugenics is to be the scientific credo of the 20th century. The man credited with its invention, Francis Galton, says it is based on the concept that the evolution of man is crippled by the ill-conceived - those unfit to breed. The study of eugenics thus would concern itself with distinguishing the weed from the good flowers.
Riding Solo to the Top of the World (2006)
documentary film
thumb|At Tso Kar during the filming of Riding Solo Riding Solo is a film about filmmaker Gaurav Jani's solo motorcycle journey from Mumbai to one of the remotest places in the world, the Changthang Plateau in Ladakh, bordering China. Jani was a one-man camera crew unit who loaded his Royal Enfield Bullet 350CC Motorcycle (Loner) with of equipment/supplies and set off on a journey to one of the world's most difficult terrains.
Santa Camp (2022)
documentary film, reality film
Santa Camp is set at a training camp co-founded by Dan Greenleaf, and follows his efforts to diversify the traditional portrayal of Santa Claus. Greenleaf puts it this way: "A child wants somebody who looks like them. What's the problem?" The film's director, Nick Sweeney, was attracted to the idea of documenting the Santa subculture.
Traduire (2011)
documentary film
The film, the third in a trilogy, containing Misafa Lesafa (2004) and Langue sacrée, langue parlée (2008), contains conversations with translators of Hebrew works into different languages. Among the interviewees are Brest, France-based Sandrick Le Mague, who translates theological texts into French, Boston-based professor Angel Sáenz-Badillos, who translates medieval poetry into Spanish, Acre-based Israeli-Arab novelist, screenwriter, and, journalist, Ala Hlehel, who translates the plays of Israeli playwright Hanoch Levin into Arabic, Malakoff-based professor , who compiles a Hebrew-Yiddish dictionary, Barcelona-based professor , who…
My Name Is Gulpilil (2021)
documentary film
The film covers Gulpilil's acting career, his life in Murray Bridge, the cancer, alcohol addiction, and his various marriages and relationships.
The Coronation (2018)
documentary film
Turtle: The Incredible Journey (2009)
Animal Documentary, documentary film, nature documentary
A female loggerhead sea turtle follows the path of her ancestors on one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural world. From a beach in Florida, she rides the Gulf Stream to the frozen north, swimming around the entire North Atlantic to Africa and then back to the beach where she was born. But her chance of survival is low.
Indoctrinate U (2007)
documentary film
If I Should Fall (2010)
documentary film, Drama, historical film, war film
The documentary recounts Diab's life through the accounts of his friends, family, girlfriend, and fellow soldiers from D Squadron, Royal Canadian Dragoons. Supported by an ensemble of renowned Canadian military experts, including retired Major General Lewis MacKenzie, Esprit de Corps magazine's Scott Taylor, and Major Ray Wiss, a military reservist and emergency room doctor, the film explores the conflict in Afghanistan and the tragedy of losing a loved one to war.
Shadows of Liberty (2012)
documentary film
Zaritsas: Russian Women in New York (2010)
documentary film
An Inconvenient Truth...Or Convenient Fiction? (2007)
documentary film
The fifty-minute movie was described as a "point-by-point PowerPoint rebuttal" of the Al Gore film An Inconvenient Truth. In his presentation, Hayward agrees with many of the points and issues covered in the Gore film, but shares how certain information may have been slanted by what he terms "global warming extremists," in order to create a darker image of the future. According to Hayward, "I agree that we’re warming, and I agree that we’re playing a role in it.
Derby (1971)
documentary film
With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade (1979)
documentary film