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Explore documentary storytelling about people, events and ideas.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,595 films · Page 3.

Stop Making Sense (1984)

Concert film, Documentation, Musical, concert film, music documentary film

Lead singer David Byrne walks on to a bare stage with a portable cassette tape player and an acoustic guitar. He introduces "Psycho Killer" by saying he wants to play a tape, but in reality a Roland TR-808 drum machine starts playing from …

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Blair Witch (2016)

Arranged Documentary, Found Footage, Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, found footage film, horror film

In 2014, James Donahue finds a video on YouTube containing an image of a woman he believes to be his sister Heather, who disappeared in 1994 near Burkittsville, Maryland, while investigating the legend of the Blair Witch. Wanting to find o…

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My Octopus Teacher (2020)

Animal Documentary, documentary film

In 2018, Craig Foster began free-diving in a cold underwater kelp forest at a remote location in False Bay, near Cape Town, South Africa. The location was near Simon's Town on the Cape Peninsula, which is exposed to the cold Benguela curre…

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Strange Harvest (2024)

Fake Documentary, Found Footage, Horror, horror film, mockumentary

Detectives Joe Kirby and Lexi Taylor recount their time working the case of "Mr. Shiny," an elusive serial killer who committed a string of murders over three decades in California's Inland Empire. The first victim, a young woman, is found…

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Brüno (2009)

Fake Documentary, Gross Out Film, comedy film

Gay Austrian fashion reporter Brüno Gehard is fired from his own television show, Funkyzeit mit Brüno, after disrupting a Milan Fashion Week catwalk, and his lover Diesel leaves him for another man. Accompanied by his assistant's assistant…

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Take Care of Maya (2023)

Documentation, documentary film

In early 2015, Jack and Beata Kowalski's 9-year-old daughter Maya begins experiencing breathing problems, skin lesions, lower limb dystonia, and debilitating chronic pain. After countless doctors appointments with no firm diagnosis, Dr. An…

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The Fourth Kind (2009)

Fake Documentary, Mysterie, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film

Chapman University hosts a televised interview with psychologist Dr. Abigail "Abbey" Tyler, who describes a series of events that occurred in Nome, Alaska, and culminated in an alleged alien abduction in October 2000. In a re-enactment of …

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Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

Arranged Documentary, Investigative Documentary, Political Documentary, documentary film

The documentary begins by suggesting that friends and political allies of George W. Bush at Fox News Channel tilted the election of 2000 by prematurely declaring Bush the winner. It then suggests that the handling of the voting controversy…

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Predators (2025)

Documentation, documentary film

The documentary film explores the rise and fall of the reality television program To Catch a Predator, which aired on NBC from 2004 to 2007 featuring interviews with some of the former decoys, clips and unseen raw footage from the series (…

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Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (2023)

Concert film, concert film, documentary film

The film is a "cinematic rendering" of the Eras Tour, the sixth headlining concert tour by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. Representing Swift's discography conceptually in 10 acts ("eras"), it depicts performances of most song…

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Blackfish (2013)

Documentation, documentary film

thumb|left|Dawn Brancheau at SeaWorld Orlando in 2006 The documentary concerns the captivity of Tilikum, an orca involved in the deaths of three people, and the consequences of keeping orcas in captivity. The coverage of Tilikum includes h…

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Tell Me Who I Am (2019)

Documentation, documentary film

The documentary is split into three parts. In the first part, the viewer follows Alex trying to solve the mystery of his past and trying to figure out who he is after losing his memory in a motorcycle accident at age 18 in 1982. His twin b…

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In Whose Name? (2025)

documentary film

In Whose Name? covers six years of the American rapper Kanye West's life, including his struggles with bipolar disorder, performances with the Sunday Service Choir, unsuccessful 2020 presidential campaign, the collapse of his marriage with…

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Quarantine (2008)

Arranged Documentary, Found Footage, Horror, disaster film, found footage film, horror film, science fiction film, zombie film

On the evening of March 11, 2008, news reporter Angela Vidal, and her cameraman, Scott Percival, are filming their report on the night shift at the Los Angeles Fire Department. Firefighters, Jake and George Fletcher, receive an emergency c…

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A Hard Day's Night (1964)

Fake Documentary, Musical, comedy film, musical film

The four Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr evade a horde of fans while boarding a train for London to film a televised variety show concert. En route, they meet Paul's trouble-making Irish grandfather, J…

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No Other Land (2024)

Documentation, documentary film

Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist, has been resisting the forced displacement of his people by Israel's military in Masafer Yatta, a region in the occupied West Bank, since he was a child. He records the gradual destruction of his h…

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The Social Dilemma (2020)

Documentation, documentary film, drama film

The Social Dilemma examines the impact of social media and technology platforms on users, focusing on persuasive design, data collection, and algorithmic prediction. The film argues that companies track and analyze users' online activity i…

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Ghostwatch (1992)

Fake Documentary, Horror, horror film, mockumentary

Ghostwatch is presented as a live broadcast, hosted by Michael Parkinson, in an attempt to present concrete evidence of paranormal phenomena. To achieve this, the programme launches an on-air investigation into a house in the fictional Fox…

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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)

Fake Documentary, Musical, Satire On Media, comedy film

Conner Friel, a musical prodigy, forms a pop rap group dubbed "The Style Boyz" with his childhood friends, Lawrence Dunn and Owen Bouchard. They almost instantly gain fame in the music industry and inspire many modern musicians, who extol …

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Krull (1983)

Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, Scientific Documentary, Space Opera, Sword And Sorcery, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, sword and sorcery film

The entity known as the Beast and his army of Slayers travel the galaxy in a mountain-like spaceship called the Black Fortress, intent on enslaving the planet Krull, as he has done to many other worlds. Ynyr recites the prophecy that was g…

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Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)

Fake Documentary, Horror, Psychological Thriller, found footage film, horror film

In August 2006, a "burglary" occurs at the home of Kristi and Daniel Rey, trashing their house and leaving only their infant son Hunter's bedroom untouched. The only thing stolen is a necklace that Kristi's sister, Katie, gave to her. Desp…

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