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Explore documentary storytelling about people, events and ideas.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,608 films · Page 201.

Holy Water-Gate (2004)

documentary film

The film functions as a personal journey of filmmaker Mary Healey, who is also Catholic. Through key players in the scandal, including victims, whistle-blower priests and a senior ranking U.S. cardinal who is called upon by the Vatican to control an ever-growing storm, Holy Water-Gate describes the institutional mind of the U.S.

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Edith Walks (2017)

documentary film

The film covers the journey of Edith from Waltham Abbey directly as the crow flies to Battle, East Sussex, the approximate site of the Battle of Hastings, and to the statue of Edith and Harold at Grosvenor Gardens in St Leonards-on-Sea. This is not an actual journey by Edith but it is approximately the reverse of the journey of Harold's body from his death to its burial at the Abbey in Essex. The journey is re-enacted by a group of six people, who include Claudia Barton dressed as Edith, Kötting, Moore, Sinclair, and two musicians.

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Dive! (2010)

documentary film

The film follows director Jeremy Seifert and his friends as they dumpster dive behind several grocery stores in the Los Angeles area to demonstrate the massive amount of food that is wasted each year in America. After showing that much of the food found in dumpsters is perfectly edible, Seifert confronts the managers of the stores to question why they don't donate more of it to local food banks, especially in light of the 1996 Federal Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, which protects them from liability for such donations. The legality and ethics of dumpster diving are discussed when the stores begin locking up their dumpsters.

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Chords of Fame (1984)

documentary film

Chords of Fame features ChalkZone co-creator Bill Burnett as Ochs in re-enactments of scenes from his life, and Martha Wingate (AKA Martha Taylor) as his wife, Alice Ochs. The film includes interviews with people who had known Ochs, including Yippies Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, manager Harold Leventhal, and Mike Porco, the owner of Gerde's Folk City. Chords of Fame also includes performances of Ochs songs by folk musicians who knew him, such as Bob Gibson, Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton, Dave Van Ronk, and Eric Andersen.

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Scheme Birds (2019)

documentary film

Scheme Birds is a documentary centred on a working-class teenage girl, Gemma, living in Jerviston (Motherwell, Scotland). Her mother was a drug addict and abandoned her at birth, and she lives in grim circumstances. The title derives from the purpose-built public housing scheme where she lives in Motherwell.

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Charles Dickens's England (2009)

documentary film

Charles Dickens's England takes the viewer on a journey of important places, towns and cities that were the inspiration to some of the most famous settings in literature; Cooling Church in Kent used by Dickens in the opening chapter of Great Expectations; Miss Havisham’s house in Rochester; the London Roman Baths used by David Copperfield; Joe Gargery’s cottage in Chalk; the notorious Bowes Academy, the harshest of the Yorkshire schools now known to the world as Dotheboys Hall in Nicholas Nickleby. Over 100 locations are featured including from Portsmouth to the Isle of Wight, numerous London locations, from Chatham to Broadstairs, to…

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Sembene! (2015)

Biography, documentary film, historical film

Sembene! tells the story of the self-taught novelist and filmmaker Ousmane Sembène, provided by Gadjigo, who wrote Sembene's biography. Sembène transitioned from a laborer into a powerful spokesman for Africa.

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Romance of Celluloid (1937)

documentary film

The film starts with a brief look at cotton being picked on a plantation in the southern United States, before cutting to the Kodak plant in Rochester, New York where the raw cotton is processed into cellulose which is treated with silver and other materials to make film stock. Behind the scenes at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in Culver City, California, where sets are being constructed, we see make-up artist Jack Dawn demonstrating his Abraham Lincoln make-up, costume designer Adrian sketching a dress for Jeanette MacDonald in The Firefly (1937), composer Herbert Stothart conducting the music for Conquest (1937), Virginia Grey doing…

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