The Farm: Angola, USA (1998)
Documentation, documentary film, prison film
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The Secret Land (1948)
Documentation, documentary film
The film re-enacts scenes from several critical moments during the operation, such as shipboard damage control and Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd throwing items out of an airplane to lighten it to avoid crashing when one of its engines faile…
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TFW NO GF (2020)
art film, documentary film, independent film
TFW No GF follows five members of the incel and Frogtwitter subcultures. These five are: Viddy and Charels, two brothers. In the course of the film, they become the subject of national news attention due to a photo Charels posts of himself…
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I Am a Sex Addict (2005)
documentary film
Message to Love (1997)
documentary film, rock music, rockumentary
To Fly! (1976)
Drama Documentary
Graphic Sexual Horror (2009)
documentary film
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (2019)
documentary film
The film is divided into eight chapters, in which Herzog travels to Patagonia, the Black Mountains in Wales, and the Outback of Australia, where he meets Chatwin's friends and others who shed light on his life and art. 1. The Skin of the B…
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The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes (2022)
Biographical documentary
Anthony Summers, the author of the book Goddess (1985), explains he began researching Marilyn Monroe after he learned that the Los Angeles County District Attorney was reopening the case of her death. Summers subsequently spent three years…
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Banned from Television (1998)
The film opens with a montage of some of the clips that are used throughout the film. After this the film begins. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a man with a knife holds an innocent baby as hostage.
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The Day After Trinity (1981)
Biographical documentary, documentary film
The film tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), the theoretical physicist who led the effort to build the first atomic bomb, tested in July 1945 at Trinity site in New Mexico. It features interviews with several Manhattan Pr…
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Instrument (1999)
documentary film
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)
Documentation, documentary film
Fire at Sea (2016)
documentary film
A young boy, Samuele Pucillo, cuts a forked twig from a pine tree to make a slingshot. With his friend Mattias Cucina, he then enjoys carving eyes and mouth on some shovels of prickly pear and throwing stones with the slingshot, as if agai…
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Manhunt: The Search for Bin Laden (2013)
documentary film
The Sisterhood The first section of the documentary interviews a crew of female CIA analysts, known as the Band of Sisters, about their involvement in tracking down Osama bin Laden. They include Susan Hasler, Cindy Storer, Nada Bakos, Gina…
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1 (2013)
Documentation, Sport, documentary film, sport film
The film opens with the 1996 Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, where Martin Brundle survived a spectacular crash at turn 3. After receiving clearance from race doctor Sid Watkins, Brundle hopped into a spare car to drive in the restarted…
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The Hands of Che Guevara (2006)
documentary film
I Like Killing Flies (2004)
documentary film
Let the Fire Burn (2013)
documentary film
The MOVE organization was originally established as a "back-to-nature" movement that practiced "green" methods. In 1985, the Philadelphia Police Department decided to take action to evict the group from their row house at 6221 Osage Avenue…
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Gloriavale: New Zealand's Secret Cult (2022)
documentary film
The film documents and examines the Gloriavale Christian Community and the widespread abuse experienced there by many current and former members. The filmmakers follow the story of the Ready family, who were excommunicated from Gloriavale,…
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End Game (2018)
documentary film
The documentary begins with Dr. Pantilat, the palliative care doctor at the University of California, San Francisco, visiting terminally ill patients to speak with them about palliative care. The first patient he speaks about this with is …
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Fyre Fraud (2019)
Documentation, documentary film
The film was described in its press release as a "true-crime comedy bolstered by a cast of whistleblowers, victims, and insiders going beyond the spectacle to uncover the power of FOMO and an ecosystem of enablers, driven by profit and a l…
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The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017)
Biographical documentary, LGBTQ-related film, documentary film
The Hitler Gang (1944)
biographical film, documentary film, drama film, war film
In 1918 a young soldier called Adolf Hitler recovers from being gassed during World War I. At the behest of the German Army, he joins German nationalistic parties, espousing theories that Germany lost the war because they were stabbed in t…
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