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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 54.

Casting By (2012)

Documentation, documentary film

The film is a celebration of the casting profession, highlighting its previously unsung role in film history while also serving as an elegy to the lost era of the New Hollywood. It focuses on casting pioneer Marion Dougherty, an iconoclast…

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Devil's Playground (2002)

Documentation, documentary film

According to Devil's Playground, at the age of 16, Amish youth are allowed to depart from many of the Amish rules. The young people sample life outside of the Amish community. Many drive cars, wear modern clothes and cut and style their ha…

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In the Realms of the Unreal (2005)

Documentation, documentary film

In the Realms of the Unreal is a documentary about the reclusive New York artist Henry Darger. Henry Darger was so reclusive that when he died his neighbors were surprised to find a 15,143 page manuscript along with hundreds of paintings d…

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The Thief Collector (2022)

documentary film

In 1985, Willem de Kooning’s oil painting Woman-Ochre vanished from the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson. The $160 million work of art remained missing until 2017, when it was found hanging in the former home of Jerry and Rita…

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Louisiana Story (1948)

Arranged Documentary, Drama, documentary film, drama film

A young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon live an idyllic existence playing in the bayous of Louisiana. His elderly father allows an oil company to drill for oil in the inlet that runs behind their house. An inland barge is towed into the inle…

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Breaking the Code (1996)

Biographical picture, documentary film, drama film

The story focuses on the life of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who helped decode the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. He also was one of the key contributors to the developme…

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The Speedway Murders (2023)

documentary film, true crime

The film follows four young friends who disappeared after their shift at the fast-food restaurant Burger Chef in Speedway, Indiana on November 17, 1978. Two days later, their bodies were found in Johnson County, over 20 miles away. The cas…

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Remembering Gene Wilder (2023)

Biographical documentary

With rare home videos and scenes from Wilder's films, the documentary looks at the life and career of actor, writer, and director, Gene Wilder. It includes interviews with former cast and crew members as well as personal memories from fami…

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Jungle Cat (1960)

Animal Documentary, animals documentary, documentary film

An amazing adventure to Brazil to discover the supreme ruler of the Amazon jungle: the jaguar. The film offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of a jaguar family in life-and-death struggles with a caiman, a peccary, a pirarucu, and an a…

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Miliband of Brothers (2010)

documentary film, documentary television film

The film charts the Miliband brothers' paths into politics interspersed with interviews from Tony Benn, Neil Kinnock and Oona King amongst friends and teachers, looking into how they both ended up with jobs in the cabinets of Tony Blair an…

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Cold Case Hammarskjöld (2019)

Investigative Documentary, documentary film

Mads Brügger teams up with Göran Björkdahl, who received from his father a metal plate believed to be a part from the Albertina, Hammarskjöld's Douglas DC-6B aircraft. They develop and investigate the theory that a Fouga CM.170 Magister op…

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