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Explore documentary storytelling about people, events and ideas.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,613 films · Page 243.

50 Feet from Syria (2015)

documentary film

50 feet from Syria follows Syrian-American surgeon Hisham Bismar as he travels to the Turkish/Syrian border to volunteer for operating on victims from the Syrian Civil War. The film follows Hisham Bismar, a Syrian-American orthopedic surgeon, as he travels to the Turkish-Syrian border to provide medical treatment to people injured during the Syrian civil war. Bismar, who had left Syria before the conflict, returned to the region as a volunteer surgeon after becoming concerned about the shortage of specialized medical care available to wounded civilians.

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Pawtucket Rising (2008)

documentary film

Using firsthand discussions with the primary proponents of the revitalization of Pawtucket, the film shows a community coming together behind the arts. The film shows new uses for historic mills, now being used as artists work and living spaces. An historic national guard armory is saved from decades of decay by a small theater company called the Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre.

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The Saved (1998)

documentary film

thumb|275px|Barneveld Castle, 2020 The Saved portrays the true story of about 600 Jews from the Netherlands and uncovers the shame that haunts them decades after their experience. This group of individuals was specially selected to live through the Holocaust since they were regarded as beneficial to their nation. Conversely, almost a hundred thousand Jews living in the Netherlands were expelled from the country and murdered by the Nazis.

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My Old School (2013)

documentary film

The film traces in history of the largest abandoned school in New England, located in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The historic building, constructed in 1914, housed thousands of students over the years as Woonsocket High School, then as Woonsocket Middle School. My Old School features a series of interviews with former teachers, faculty, and city officials along with historical photographs and footage from inside the abandoned school.

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Status Quo? The Unfinished Business of Feminism in Canada (2012)

documentary film

The documentary combines archival material with contemporary stories, juxtaposing scenes from the 1967 Royal Commission on the Status of Women with the 2nd Pan-Canadian Young Feminist Gathering in 2011 in Winnipeg, organized by the rebELLEs movement. It explores the progress made on concerns raised 45 years ago: universal childcare, violence against women and abortion access. The documentary uses video recordings from the past to justify the arguments being made about present day.

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Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon (2015)

documentary film

The film showcases the development of conflict between local residents of Portland, Oregon and the law enforcement agencies during the last half century. It also features interviews of victims of police brutality and those by family members of people killed during police action. Interviews by members of Portland's abolition movement have also been included in the documentary.

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Tradition Is a Temple (2013)

documentary film

Contemporary New Orleans jazz musicians discuss their childhood introductions to music in Baptist churches and through local traditions such as the second line (parades) and jazz funerals, and the role of Danny Barker (1909–1994) in keeping traditional New Orleans Jazz alive through the 1970s and '80s. Asking the artists point-blank, director Darren Hoffman explores the potential "death" of traditional jazz through modernization and marginalization, and its preservation through mentorship and the continuation of traditions that intrigue and inspire young people to play the music of previous generations.

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