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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,596 films · Page 5.
Animal Documentary, documentary film
Filmmaker Werner Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger travel to Antarctica to meet the people who live and work there and to capture footage of the continent's unique locations. In his narration, Herzog explains that this film will …
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Satire On Media, Teen Comedy Film, action comedy film
Beavis and Butt-Head open the film with a special cameo, and an explanation of 3D technology. In a matter typical for the characters, they start arguing and quickly get into a slap-fight, with several of the moves especially animated to co…
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Crime, Documentation, Investigative Documentary, documentary film
The film presents a series of interviews about the investigation of the shooting of Dallas police officer Robert Wood and a re-enactment of the crime based on the testimony and recollections of Adams, Harris (the actual murderer), the judg…
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Event Documentary, War Film, documentary film
Overview The film is concerned chiefly with three topics: the Chełmno extermination camp, where mobile gas vans were first used by Germans to exterminate Jews; the death camps of Treblinka and Auschwitz-Birkenau; and the Warsaw Ghetto, wit…
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Biographical documentary
Drama Documentary, Political Drama, drama film
The film recreates the ambiance of the era and invokes the hopes inspired by Kennedy through the use of actual broadcast and newsfilm footage of the senator intercut with dramatic sequences involving mostly fictional characters. It uses an…
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Documentation, documentary film
In an interview with Tim Ferriss, Alex Honnold, the subject of the 2018 documentary film Free Solo, is asked who impresses him currently. Honnold mentions Marc-André Leclerc, a climber who is relatively unknown due to his elusive and low-p…
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Biographical documentary, documentary film
The film explores the life and career of Jeff Buckley, incorporating voice messages and previously unseen footage. It also features interviews with Buckley's mother Mary Guibert, as well as friends, ex-girlfriends and musicians such as Reb…
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Arranged Documentary, Drama, drama film
Brad Braden is the general manager of the world's largest railroad circus. The show's board of directors wants a short 10-week season rather than risking losing money in a postwar economy. Brad bargains to keep the circus on the road as lo…
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Documentation, documentary film
In July 2005 near the small rural town of Enumclaw, Washington, Kenneth Pinyan also known as "Mr. Hands" died from internal injuries sustained while engaging in a sexual act with a horse. The police investigation of the incident led to the…
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Concert film, Documentation, Fake Documentary, Musical, biographical film, concert film, experimental film, musical film
Described as "a semiotic experiment", the film combines elements of documentary with a spoof biopic of the band, and incorporates moments from Slanted! Enchanted! A Pavement Musical, a jukebox musical using Pavement's music.
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Arranged Documentary, biographical film, music documentary film
Travel documentary
In 2021, Will Ferrell received an email from his longtime friend and Saturday Night Live colleague Harper Steele in which she came out as transgender. Two years later, Steele and Ferrell meet with Steele's daughters at a restaurant before …
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documentary film, experimental film
Arranged Documentary, Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Steve Jobs is speaking with director Ridley Scott about the creation of the 1984 advertisement for Apple Computer, which introduced the first Macintosh. Jobs is trying to convey his idea that "We're creating a completely new consciousness.…
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Biographical picture, Documentation, biographical film, crime film, documentary film
Political Documentary
The film is a meditation on catastrophe, contextualized through the literary modes of religion and science fiction. It begins with a quotation, attributed to Blaise Pascal: "The collapse of the stellar universe will occur – like creation –…
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Documentation, documentary film
While investigating the furtive world of illegal doping in sports, Bryan Fogel, an American filmmaker and a high-level amateur cyclist, connects with Russian scientist Grigory Rodchenkov, the director of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory. …
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documentary film
Several 20- to 33-year-old young women are interviewed about their experiences as pornography performers. Several women, including Rachel Bernard, Tressa Silguero and Karly Stouffer are recruited by a 23-year-old pro-amateur porn agent Ril…
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Documentation, documentary film
In 1987, William Gates and Arthur Agee, two African-American teenagers, are recruited by a scout from St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois, a predominantly White high school with an outstanding basketball program. The team is le…
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Documentation, Komödie, Satire On Media, documentary film, independent film
Thierry Guetta is a French immigrant living in Los Angeles, who runs a successful upscale vintage clothing shop and obsessively films his life. While visiting France in 1999, Guetta discovers his cousin is famed street artist Invader. Fasc…
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Documentation, documentary film
Biographical documentary
Documentation, anti-war film, documentary film, historical film, war film