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Explore documentary storytelling about people, events and ideas.

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Hospital (1970)

Documentation, documentary film

The film follows hospital staff and a variety of patients in an episodic manner. The film is highly observational, using no voice-over narration or interviews. No names are formally given, and the hospital is only mentioned once as "Metrop…

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Dolphin Reef (2018)

documentary film, nature documentary

In the reefs near a group of French Polynesian islands in the South Pacific, Echo is a young and playful bottlenose dolphin who isn't like the rest of his pod. He believes he's just not ready to grow up, but his mother, Kumu, tries teachin…

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The Elephant Queen (2018)

Animal Documentary, Arranged Documentary, documentary film

Athena, a 50-year-old mother elephant, is matriarch of a herd of adult females and male and female juveniles, which includes mother Mala, older daughter Milli, and newborn Mimi. The elephants live in a bucolic area referred to as The Kingd…

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This Is Cinerama (1952)

Documentation, documentary film

The film begins in black and white and the standard Academy ratio (also presented in mono sound) as travel writer and newscaster Lowell Thomas appears to discuss the evolution of film entertainment, from the earliest cave paintings designe…

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5B (2018)

Documentation, LGBTQ-related film, documentary film

5B is the inspirational story celebrating the nurses and caregivers of the first AIDS ward unit in the United States. It is told through first-person testimony of nurses and caregivers of Ward 5B in 1983 at San Francisco General Hospital, …

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Project Grizzly (1996)

documentary film

After a dangerous but victimless encounter with a giant grizzly bear during a camping trip in 1984, North Bay, Ontario resident Troy Hurtubise is inspired to research the species up close. A scrap-metal merchant, Hurtubise builds a space s…

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The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995)

documentary film

The Gate of Heavenly Peace is a three-hour documentary film about the 1989 protests at Tiananmen Square, which culminated in the violent government crackdown on June 4. The film uses archival footage and contemporary interviews with a wide…

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