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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 215.

On a Knife Edge (2017)

documentary film

The film chronicles the coming-of-age of George Dull Knife as he grows up on the Pine Ridge Reservation. He lives with his father and extended family outside of Kyle, SD and is a freshman at Little Wound High School. He is mostly concerned with avoiding the drugs, alcohol, and gangs that permeate life on the Reservation, but soon becomes involved in social justice campaigns combatting police brutality, illegal alcohol sales, and the Keystone XL Pipeline.

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Red Trousers: The Life of the Hong Kong Stuntmen (2003)

documentary film, Martial arts

This documentary from Robin Shou—who also hosts and participates in the film—takes a behind-the-scenes glance inside the stunt industry of Hong Kong, which is known for being riskier and less trick-oriented than its American counterpart. In addition to archival and interview footage featuring some of the industry's most prominent stuntmen, Red Trousers - The Life of Hong Kong Stuntmen incorporates scenes from adventure short action film Lost Time (2001) in an effort to illustrate how stuntmen prepare for and ultimately perform in modern martial arts films.

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One Nation Under God (2009)

documentary film

Austin, Lawson, Michael, and Will are four college-aged Christians who have grown up in the bubble of Christianity. They realize that their faith is more religion and less relationship. Because they have been in a rut of mindless faith, they decide to expand their views on God, the world, and eternity by traveling by car around the United States and Canada for the summer.

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Challenger: An Industrial Romance (1980)

documentary film

The new Canadair Challenger business jet, which emerged from a moribund aviation company in the 1970s, was a risky proposition when it was first conceived. Derived from a design by American inventor and aircraft developer Bill Lear, Canadair Chief Designer Harry Halton married a wide-body fuselage with a high-performance ("supercritical") wing and state-of-the-art engines. With banks and the then federal Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce Jean Chrétien requiring 50 "firm orders," a Canadair sales team was dispatched to sell a "paper aircraft" with only sales brochures, scale models and a wooden mock-up to go on.

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War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (2013)

documentary film

War on Whistleblowers highlights recent cases where American government employees and contractors took to the media to expose fraud and abuse. In all cases the whistleblowing was to the detriment of their professional and personal lives. With President Obama's commitment to transparency and the passage of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, there was hope that whistleblowers would finally have more protection and encouragement to speak up.

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Julian Bond: Reflections from the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement (2012)

Biography, documentary film

The film is built around an in-depth interview with Julian Bond conducted by the director at the Sixth & I Synagogue. Portions of his last class's faculty in the History Department at the University of Virginia are also included. The Key interview is bolstered by a barrage of photographs and archival footage taken from multiple archival sources.

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For Ahkeem (2017)

documentary film

The film centers on 17-year-old Daje and her boyfriend, Antonio. It shows a series of events that take place in Daje's life, including her being forced to switch to an alternative school for fighting in school and the birth of her son. The directors use Daje as a voice-over narrator in addition to filming her daily life.

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In the Hour of Chaos (2016)

documentary film, Drama

Set against a backdrop of sociopolitical intrigue and anarchy spanning three generations of the King family, In the Hour of Chaos also goes behind-the-scenes of America's major domestic conflicts and takes a critical view of liberalism's effect on the black civil rights movement.

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