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Explore documentary storytelling about people, events and ideas.

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So, What's Your Price? (2007)

documentary film

The film deals with the many differences between the United States and Mexico on an economic and cultural level, interspersed with the opinions of a series of impromptu interviews in both countries. Some of the topics discussed include drugs, money, the human body, the price of living, and how people see each other. So, What's Your Price takes a humorous approach to social wealth inequality, race and social stratification in Mexico and the country's relationship to the U.S.

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The Impossible Itself (2010)

documentary film

The film documents the 1957 San Francisco Actor's Workshop production of Samuel Beckett's play Waiting For Godot which was performed live before inmates at San Quentin Prison. The film also examines a 1953 performance of Godot by inmates at the Luttringhausen Prison in Germany, providing new scholarship material on those performances.

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Journey to Everest (2009)

documentary film

Journey to Everest follows the adventures of a team of six American businessmen who travel to the Himalayas to trek to Everest Base Camp. On their way into the mountains to begin their ascent, they are bumped from a plane flight that crashes and kills 18 people. After the crash, the team begins to re-think their own lives and the time that they have now been given.

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Good Times Bad Times (1969)

documentary film

Combat footage and old photographs from extant BBC documentary footage from the First and Second World Wars is intercut with contemporary footage of First World War veterans recalling their experiences at Royal Canadian Legion halls, memorial day commemorations and veterans' hospitals. The war scenes include "some particularly brutal footage" of the Normandy landings, rest areas, WAACs dancing in slow motion with combat soldiers... "and then, the grim shaky records of the next campaigns—artillery barrage, automatic-weapons fire cutting down the distant running figures, and a final sweep of slumped corpses, obscene, rotting, flies…

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