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Explore documentary storytelling about people, events and ideas.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,597 films · Page 28.

The Atomic Cafe (1982)

Documentation, documentary film

The film covers the beginnings of the era of nuclear warfare, created from a broad range of archival material from the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s including newsreel clips, television news footage, U.S. government-produced films (includin…

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Kurt & Courtney (1998)

Biographical picture, Documentation, Musical, documentary film, rockumentary

The documentary begins as an investigation of the circumstances surrounding Cobain's death and the theories which sprung up afterwards. Cobain was legally declared to have committed suicide but has been alleged by some, to have been murder…

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Betting on Zero (2016)

Documentation, documentary film

The documentary follows billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman and several former Herbalife distributors after Ackman takes a billion-dollar short position in Herbalife, alleging it is a pyramid scheme destined to collapse. The film al…

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Twinsters (2015)

Documentation, documentary film

The film opens with Futerman explaining to the audience that she wants to share the crazy story that happened to her a few days previously. It introduces her family and explains that she received a friend request on Facebook from a strange…

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Tupac: Resurrection (2003)

Documentation, Musical, biographical film, music documentary film

Tupac details his childhood, from growing up with a mother addicted to crack to being taken care of by drug dealers on the streets, as well as the type of jobs he had to do to make money. He also talks about his love for poetry, his friend…

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The Green Prince (2014)

Documentation, documentary film

The film tells the story of Mosab, son of Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, who for ten years was a spy for Israel's Shin Bet. The documentary features largely interviews with Mosab Hassan Yousef and also with his operator Gonen Ben Yitzh…

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Supersonic (2016)

Documentation, Musical, documentary film

thumb|right|Liam Gallagher and Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs at the Berlin premiere of Supersonic in 2016 The film details the history of the rock band Oasis during their formative years in Manchester and the height of their success in the 1990s…

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Boy Interrupted (2009)

documentary film

Early childhood In his early childhood, Evan was very loving towards his family and other people. At school, he was always the model student, behaving very well and being helpful. When he was four years old, he started telling his mom that…

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Where's My Roy Cohn? (2019)

Biographical documentary

The film looks into New York lawyer Roy Cohn whose career ranged from Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel in the Second Red Scare to Former President Donald Trump's personal attorney. In 1951, Cohn is a 24-year-old legal assistant at t…

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My Winnipeg (2008)

Drama, Historie, documentary film

Although ostensibly a documentary, My Winnipeg contains a series of fictional episodes and an overall story trajectory concerning the author-narrator-character "Guy Maddin" and his desire to produce the film as a way to finally leave/escap…

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Absolute Proof (2021)

documentary film

In the documentary, Lindell hosts numerous cybersecurity experts and anonymous persons whose testimonies allegedly support his claim that Chinese and Iranian hackers hacked into voting machines in order to influence the results of the elec…

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Fat Head (2009)

documentary film

In Fat Head, Tom Naughton questions the claims and ideas expressed by Morgan Spurlock in the film Super Size Me, in which Spurlock exclusively ate McDonald's food for 30 days. Naughton, who examines the nutritional information in McDonald'…

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