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 190.
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The programme features palaeontologists and other scientists as they try to find clues to the great extinction. In the programme, it is argued that the Permian extinction came in 3 stages; the first was caused by volcanic activity in the great Siberian Traps. This is proposed to have caused global warming, which in turn killed much of the life on land.
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Narrated by Oprah Winfrey, the documentary follows Yeboah's work to change the political and societal norms around disability in his home country of Ghana. Yeboah was born with a deformed right leg and witnessed firsthand the poor treatment of disabled people in Ghana. His father abandoned his family after learning of Yeboah's disability, and Emmanuel grew up in a small home with his mother.
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A Woman Like Me is a documentary about co-director Alex Sichel's navigation through having terminal breast cancer and how it has inspired her to try and embrace death as mentioned in Buddhist philosophy. The film is composed of home videos, one on one sit downs with Alex's family; husband, parents, sisters, doctors, and healers. Although a documentary, half of the movie shows Alex's current film project about Anna, a woman with the same diagnosis as Alex except she looks at the glass as half full.
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Plan C focuses on efforts by the grassroots organization of the same name to expand access to abortion across the United States via the distribution of at-home abortion pills through mail and the internet.
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The film argues that the phenomenon originated in the United States Postal Service as a result of hostile work environment following the Postal Reorganization Act of 1971 and then spread to the rest of society. Filmmaker Emil Chiaberi presents a point of view that spree killings became widespread in the United States as a result of a major socio-economic shift that began during the Reagan era. The film identifies corporate greed, income inequality, diminished job security, excessive consumerism and nearly total indebtedness as contributing factors to the sense of injustice that fuels murderous rage of some individuals.
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The Roosevelt Story opens with newsreel footage of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's funeral procession along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., following his death on April 12, 1945, before tracing his life from his birthplace and family home at Hyde Park, New York. The film covers Roosevelt's education through his graduation from Harvard University and his marriage to Eleanor Roosevelt, then follows his entry into politics, his work on Woodrow Wilson's 1912 presidential campaign, and his service as Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
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Biography, Biographical documentary, documentary film
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Up to Snuff follows Walden's experience in the music industry in the 1960s and 1970s, immersed in the "sex, drugs and rock and roll" lifestyle of touring musicians. Walden became sober and transitioned into a composer, scoring music for television programs. The film looks at that his transition, with interviews with Walden's colleagues and collaborators, including Aaron Sorkin, Martin Sheen, Tom Arnold, Timothy Busfield, Lawrence O'Donnell, Joshua Malina, Fred Savage, Ed Asner, and musicians Eric Burdon, Steve Lukather, Tris Imboden, and Mike Post.
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Funt employs a hidden camera to record the reaction of people in New York, Kansas City, Boston, Miami and Switzerland who are placed in bizarre situations relating to money. The scenarios include: A public pay-for-use restroom is outfitted with a sign announcing that penalties will be charged for those staying longer than five minutes A bowl of dollars with a sign stating "Take One" is placed on a busy city street, with most bystanders obeying the admonition. A man at a lunch counter salts his dollar bills and then eats them.
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At the City Hospital a young intern witnesses the death of a young mother in a maternity hospital delivery room. Very worried about having overlooked a fact that could have prevented death, he began to frequent a maternity clinic in a poor neighborhood of Chicago to learn more about maternity mortality and find new ways to avoid it.
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The 2004 film tells the story of how the farmers create an animal sanctuary farm called "Farm Sanctuary" where they rescue injured animals, half dead, abandoned, and rejected by the farm industry for not being productive. A few examples are a cow with mastitis or newborn chicks unfit for production.
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Director Michealene Cristini Risley traveled to Zimbabwe to explore the rape and AIDS crisis in the country. She had previously befriended Betty Makoni, a born and raised Zimbabwean, and got to know about Makoni's organization, The Girl Child Network, which aims to empower the girls in Zimbabwe to stand up for their rights and also to provide a network as protection for these girls. The stories were told by the girls of Zimbabwe and Makoni was the main cast for this film.