Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore documentary storytelling about people, events and ideas.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,607 films · Page 189.
documentary film, LGBTQ-related film
According to the documentary film, prisoners in the United States are incarcerated in men's or women's prisons depending on their genitals and not their gender identity. As a result, transgender women who have not had bottom surgery are incarcerated in men's prisons, and trans men in women's prisons. The documentary focuses on five trans women, three incarcerated and two recently released from prison.
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Donna Read narrates the movie, which centers around her friends in Montreal discussing Paganism and the Goddess religions. This documentary focuses on the present as it meditates on the questions of climate change and what that means for future generations. The film is interspersed with interviews that help guide the story.
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In the mid-1940s, a tenant farmer named Gonzalo Mendez moved his family to the predominantly white Westminster district in Orange County and his children were denied admission to the public school on Seventeenth Street. The Mendez family move was prompted by the opportunity to lease a farm in Westminster from the Munemitsus, a Japanese family who had been relocated to a Japanese internment camp during World War II. The income the Mendez family earned from the farm enabled them to hire attorney David Marcus and pursue litigation.
documentary film, Documentation
In 1979, during the height of apartheid, 17-year old Afrikaner Marius van Niekerk joined the South African Defence Force (SADF), serving with some distinction during the South African Border War. By 1985, he had emigrated to Sweden, but remained haunted by post-traumatic stress disorder. The documentary's narrative follows van Niekerk as he returns to Angola for the first time since the end of the war to make peace with his past, accompanied by three other veterans of various conflicts in that country: Samuel Machado Amaru, Patrick Johannes, and Mario Mahonga.
documentary film, Documentation
The documentary focuses on the plight of the Ukrainians and it has been portrayed through the lives of five teenagers namely Andriy, Ruslan, Ilya, Lisa and Lera who are living in the conflict-ridden Donbas region of Ukraine. The documentary dates back to 2019 where bombings can be heard in the background. However, things take swift turnaround as the teenagers receive a golden opportunity to embark on a journey to Nepal for the Himalayan expedition which eventually provides them a sigh of relief and also a sign of positive distraction for them in order to escape from the harsh reality.
documentary film, Documentation, Investigative Documentary
The film attempts to expose how the American government over 50 years has tried to strum up war effort using the media as a tool. "War Made Easy gives special attention to parallels between the Vietnam war and the war in Iraq."
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The film examines the 109th United States Congress. When it convened, there were fourteen women in the Senate: Barbara Boxer, Maria Cantwell, Hillary Clinton, Susan Collins, Elizabeth Dole, Dianne Feinstein, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln (Lambert’s sister), Barbara Mikulski, Lisa Murkowski, Patty Murray, Olympia Snowe, and Debbie Stabenow. The documentary features interviews with several people, including the Senators' family members, Delaware Senator Joe Biden, and singer Alanis Morissette.
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thumb|Irvine Arditti, leader of the Arditti Quartet, who premiered and made the first recordings of the Helikopter-Streichquartett thumb|upright=1.4|Dutch aerobatics team, flying the Alouette helicopters they used in the world premiere of the Helikopter-Streichquartett The film, produced by , documents the preparations and rehearsals in 1995 for the world-premiere performance by the Arditti Quartet of the 1993 composition Helikopter-Streichquartett (English: Helicopter String Quartet) by Karlheinz Stockhausen. This piece requires four separate helicopters (provided for the 1995 performances by the Royal Netherlands Air Force). Within it,…
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Sgt. Haane focuses on Sergeant Haane Manahi and his Māori Battalion unit B company's efforts to capture an enemy-held pinnacle in Takrouna during the Battle of the Mareth Line in March 1943. Interviews with the descendants of Haane and his comrades are interspersed with dramatised footage featuring several actors including Alex Tarrant as Haane Manahi, along with Niwa Whatuira, Vinnie Bennett, Matu Ngaropo, Poroaki Merritt-McDonald and Rihari Te Are as B Company soldiers.
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The pinball industry made more money than the American film industry during the 1950s through the 1970s. Special When Lit explores the former pop icon of the pinball machine, and through interviews with fans, collectors, designers and champion players from across the globe, traces pinball's history through to the present day.
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The documentary features footage of cave diving to document the path of water. Its purpose is to educate on water conservation.
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Jeb Berrier is exploring the effects of plastic bags, opting to stop using them as his wife enters pregnancy. After conducting research with the help of an environmental scientist, Berrier analyzes environmental problems such as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Plastic fragments are found to outnumber plankton 60:1, and contributes to around 100,000 marine animal deaths, including birds, every year.
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documentary film, propaganda film
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A look at different matters of the world such as immigration, global warming and capitalism through the eyes of scientists and philosophers.
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The documentary investigates the 2015 killing by a robot of an assembly line manager in a Volkswagen factory in Germany, a driverless Tesla car that hit a white truck ahead of it, and the use of drones by the police in the USA (especially in Dallas) to drop bombs on snipers and suspects. It also follows the use of artificial intelligence in facial tracking, use of robots in Japan including hotels staffed by them, Geminoids in Japan, and the use of facial recognition for targeted marketing. The film uses Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics", first proposed by him in his 1942 short story Runaround, and describes how human beings have in…