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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 41.

A Band Called Death (2012)

Documentation, Musical, documentary film

A Band Called Death is the story of three musician brothers, born to a Baptist preacher and his wife in 1950s Detroit. In their teenage years, the three brothers (to five other siblings) emerge first as a budding rock/funk band, heavily in…

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A Night at the Garden (2017)

Documentation, documentary film

The film uses black and white footage from the 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden from Monday, February 20, 1939. It opens outside Madison Square Garden with shots of the New York City Police Department reining in anti-Nazi counter-p…

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2040 (2019)

Documentation, documentary film, environmental film

2040 follows Gameau's imagining of a future for his four-year-old daughter Velvet, where climate change has been solved. Described as “an exercise in fact-based dreaming” the film is structured as a letter to his daughter whereby Gameau tr…

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Federer: Twelve Final Days (2024)

Documentation, Sport, documentary film, sport film

On 14 September 2022, after a 24-year tennis career, Roger Federer films his retirement announcement video. The next day, the announcement is released to the public. Federer arrives in London for his final tournament, the Laver Cup, where …

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XXXY (2000)

documentary film, intersex film

thumb|Kristi Bruce, San Francisco, California, 2000|alt= Jim Ambrose (formerly Kristi Bruce) and Tiger Devore tell their stories. Jorge Daaboul, medical director of Pediatric Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism at Florida Hospital for Chi…

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Last Days Here (2011)

documentary film

Last Days Here follows Bobby Liebling, lead singer of Pentagram, an Alexandria, Virginia-based doom metal band founded in 1971 and active sporadically throughout the following four decades. At the film's outset, Liebling is in his 50s, liv…

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Pray Away (2021)

Documentation, LGBTQ-related film, documentary film

The film follows survivors and former leaders of conversion therapy, as some leaders grapple with their actions against others, while others come out.

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Off the Rails (2016)

documentary film

As a boy in Queens, New York, in the 1970s, Darius McCollum found sanctuary from school bullies in the subway. There he befriended transit workers who taught him to drive trains. By age 8, he memorized the entire subway system.

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A Brief History of Time (1992)

Scientific Documentary, biographical film, documentary film

A documentary film based on the life of scientist Steven Hawking. The film explores the intimate life of Steven Hawking through him, his friends and his family, as he goes through school, is diagnosed with a degenerative disease, and disco…

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Victim/Suspect (2023)

Documentation, documentary film, true crime

Rachel de Leon, a journalist at The Center for Investigative Reporting discovers a number of legal cases across the United States, where young women are charged by police for making false rape accusations, despite being truthful.

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Back in Time (2015)

Documentation, documentary film

The film includes footage of various cast and crew members of the Back to the Future film series, discussing the trilogy and its cultural impact. Among these interviewees are actors Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Donald F…

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