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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,598 films · Page 42.
Documentation, biographical film, documentary film
The documentary opens with Pavarotti, an established star opera tenor, in the Amazon jungle insisting on seeing the stage where Enrico Caruso once performed to open a new theatre house. Pavarotti wants to sing on the stage where Caruso onc…
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Documentation, documentary film
Drama, Historie
The film is set during World War II and centres upon the letters written by Gandhi to Adolf Hitler, and around the relationship of Hitler with his long-time lover Eva Braun, whom he married in his final days in the Berlin bunker where they…
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Documentation, Event Documentary, documentary film
A poignant minute-by-minute account of the September 11th 2001 attacks in New York assembled from found footage.
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LGBTQ-related film, documentary film
Paul becomes a high achiever: a high school football hero, socially popular, named "best looking," and the class valedictorian. Paul however, since kindergarten, has felt that something was askew with the male gender that was assigned at b…
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Documentation, Drama, docudrama, documentary film, drama film
The film portrays the accounts of Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul (the 'Tipton Three'); three young British men from Tipton in the West Midlands, who are of Pakistani and Bangladeshi ancestry. It features both actors and portrayal…
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Adventure, Animalhorror, Arranged Documentary, Found Footage, found footage film
A group of explorers from the British Cryptozoological Society (and two television cameramen) goes on an expedition into the Congo in search of a cryptid—the so-called Mokele-mbembe—which is believed to be a Plesiosaur called Elasmosaurus.…
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documentary film
Nostalgia for the Light opens with a view of a telescope and images of the Moon. The narrator, Patricio Guzmán, describes how he came to love astronomy and begins to remember his childhood during which “only the present moment existed.” So…
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Documentation, documentary film
Sherpa focuses on Phurba Tashi, a Sherpa who has made 21 Mount Everest ascents and leads the team for New Zealander Russell Brice's expedition company, Himex. Tashi's wife and family in Khumjung do not want him to keep risking his life cli…
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nature documentary
A mother polar bear and her cub swim across the waters that was once the ice of the Arctic Tundra, as the film tells us the story of how she and her family survived during her youth. She had loved playing with her twin brother as they were…
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Biographical documentary, Musical, biographical film, documentary film
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice covers Ronstadt's life and career from childhood to the present day. Narrated by the singer (who otherwise appears on camera only briefly in present-day footage), she describes how she grew up in Tucso…
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Drama, Sci-Fi, pseudo-documentary, science fiction film
The world has been struck by a mysterious incident called the "Violent Unknown Event" or VUE, which has killed many people and left a great many survivors suffering from a common set of symptoms: mysterious ailments (some appearing to be m…
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Documentation, Komödie, documentary film
comedy drama, docudrama, documentary film
The plot of this docudrama depicts the attempts of Gilligan's Island producer Sherwood Schwartz to make Gilligan's Island a hit television series. It portrays the network's initial rejection of the series as well as the filming of the pilo…
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Adventure, Animal Documentary, Drama, documentary film
In the ruins of an ancient city in the jungles of Polonnaruwa in Sri Lanka, Maya is a toque macaque who was born at the bottom of the social order tree in her family. Even though she is a lowborn, the troop's alpha male, Raja, keeps a clos…
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documentary film
Animal Documentary, Komödie, comedy film, nature documentary
Documentation, biographical film, documentary film, drama film
documentary film
Cultural Film, Documentation, Essayfilm, documentary film
Documentation, Musical, documentary film
documentary film
Documentation, Drama, Historie, documentary film, drama film
Between 1890 and 1900 in northern Wisconsin, a series of bizarre events begin to occur amongst the local population (largely German, Swedish, and Norwegian immigrants) after the closure of several mines in the area; these events happened i…
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Concert film, Documentation, documentary film, musical film