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Explore documentary storytelling about people, events and ideas.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,598 films · Page 38.

Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen (2020)

Documentation, LGBTQ-related film, documentary film, transgender film

The film follows an in-depth look at Hollywood's depiction of transgender people and the impact of their stories on transgender lives and American culture. It features many famous transgender people in the film industry such as, Laverne Co…

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6 Days to Air: The Making of South Park (2011)

Documentation, Making-Of Documentary, documentary film

The film opens as South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone leave New York City and the 2011 opening night of their Broadway production The Book of Mormon to return to Los Angeles to begin the fifteenth season of South Park. The docum…

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The Nightmare (2015)

documentary film

The documentary focuses on people suffering from sleep paralysis, a phenomenon where people find themselves temporarily unable to move, speak, or react to anything while they are falling asleep or awakening. Occasionally this paralysis wil…

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The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling (2018)

Biographical documentary, documentary film

The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling features "interviews from nearly four dozen friends, family and colleagues; four decades’ worth of television appearances; and a lifetime of personal journals, private letters and home audio and video foo…

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Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me (2022)

Documentation, biographical film, documentary film

The official synopsis as released by Apple TV+, "After years in the limelight, Selena Gomez achieves unimaginable stardom. But just as she reaches a new peak, an unexpected turn pulls her into darkness. This uniquely raw and intimate docum…

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African Cats (2011)

Documentation, documentary film, nature documentary

In the southern plains of the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, lives Mara, a six-month-old lion cub, with her mother Layla, who both belong to the River pride, led by Fang, an old male lion, named after his remaining fang after he ge…

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Into Eternity (2010)

Documentation, Scientific Documentary, documentary film

This film explores the question of preparing the site so that it is not disturbed for 100,000 years, even though no structure in human history has stayed standing for such a long period.

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Chain Reactions (2024)

documentary film

The film explored the impact and legacy of the 1974 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre through interviews with five artists, Patton Oswalt, Takashi Miike, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Stephen King, and Karyn Kusama. Chapter One: Patton Oswalt…

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Perri (1957)

Adventure, comedy film, documentary film, fantasy film

Trump Unauthorized (2005)

Biographical picture, Drama Documentary

Real estate developer Fred Trump is speaking with an associate on a telephone, while his son, Donald, is stacking building blocks on a window sill that overlooks the Manhattan skyline. As a young man, Donald goes against his father's advic…

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Islam: The Untold Story (2012)

documentary film

Islam: The Untold Story deals with the origins of the religion Islam. Travelling to Saudi Arabia, Holland visits Arabian Bedouins to hear their orthodox Islamic accounts of the religion's origins. Holland then talks to Seyyed Hossein Nasr,…

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