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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 213.

Twilight: Los Angeles (2000)

documentary film

In this film adaptation of the Broadway play, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, Anna Deavere Smith performs her one-woman show portraying various real life people involved in the aftermath of the 1992 Rodney King trial verdict riots in Los Angeles. The film is interspersed with additional footage shot in 1999 of Smith following up with some of her interviewees.

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Sea of Life (2016)

documentary film

When she was 16, Barnes watched Rob Stewart's documentary Revolution and learned about the decline of life in the oceans. She felt compelled to take action and created her own documentary, Sea of Life. The film follows her journey as she investigates the causes and solutions to some of the most pressing threats facing the oceans, including the decimation of the world's fish populations and ocean acidification.

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Ice People (2008)

documentary film

Ice People brings Anne Aghion and her crew to Antarctica where they spent four months following the lives of North Dakota State University geologist professors Allan Ashworth and Adam Lewis, as well as the McMurdo Station staff over four months. The film crew then followed the professors and two undergraduate students into the field where they camped out and shot in conditions of extreme cold and winds that ranged from -50 °C/-60 °F to 0 °C/32 °F. The film shows the scientific team scouring ancient emptied lakebeds in the hope of finding evidence of plants and insects that would prove that the world's coldest continent was once warm and…

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Limited Partnership (2014)

documentary film, LGBTQ-related film

Richard Adams, a Filipino-American, and Tony Sullivan, an Australian national, met in 1971 when Sullivan was in the United States on a tourist visa. After hearing about a county clerk in Boulder, Colorado, who was marrying same sex couples, the two were married in March 1975. However, the Immigration and Naturalization Service refused to recognize the marriage, and, in a rejection letter, used a homophobic slur.

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Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts (2011)

documentary film

The film tracks chronologically through Ellis's life, as he moves from an unruly teenager to a successful writer and internet icon. The film features numerous interludes in which Ellis reads from his works. Thematically, the film is concerned with the construction of futures, and the way that science fiction can influence reality.

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