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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,598 films · Page 65.
Animal Documentary, Documentation, Drama
The Plow That Broke the Plains begins with a written prologue appearing as words on the screen that gives a physical description of the Great Plains region as well as a brief history of the plains. Following the written prologue, a map sho…
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Biographical documentary, biographical film, documentary film
Ernest Cole exposes the horror of Apartheid through photographs, which resulted in him fleeing to the United States to avoid the then ongoing persecution of black media members in South Africa. Most of his work stayed unpublished until 201…
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Documentation, documentary film
Explores the decline of Black generational family farmers in the American south, exploring their joy and struggles, and significance of owning land.
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The film tells the story of Roy Halston Frowick, better known as Halston, and the fashion empire he built in the 70s and lost in the 80s. Framed by the fictional storyline of a researcher digging through archives to understand Halston's do…
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Documentation, documentary film
Documentation, documentary film
The film contains archival footage from the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession paired with "comedic send-ups" from Brand, conducted in the financial districts of London and New York. In one scene in the film, Brand attempts to confr…
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Documentation, documentary film
The film deals with several examples of the overarching theme of the Anthropocene Extinction, in that the spread of Homo sapiens has caused the greatest mass extinction since the KT event 66 million years ago, including climate change and …
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Documentation, documentary film
Documentation, Musical, documentary film
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Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim met at Harvard Medical School in the 1980s and were both drawn to medicine by a shared desire for social justice. Along with activist Ophelia Dahl, they decided to try and make quality healthcare available to t…
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In the film, academics, legislators, media analysts, and thought leaders including Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Yossi Klein Halevi, former MK Michal Cotler-Wunsh, and journalist Bari Weiss comment on the causes of antisemitism. Narrator Rawa…
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Documentation, Musical, documentary film, musical film, rockumentary
The film assembles TV clips, newsreel, pictures of late 1970s and modern Manchester, and interviews. The interviewees include the three surviving members of the band, as well as Tony Wilson, Peter Saville, Pete Shelley (of Buzzcocks), Gene…
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Documentation, documentary film
Generation Iron chronicles seven top bodybuilders as they train to compete in the 2012 Mr. Olympia.
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Biographical documentary, documentary film
The film focuses on biographer Robert Caro and his editor, the documentarian's father Robert Gottlieb, as they work methodically to complete the final, fifth volume of Caro's Lyndon Johnson biography. The pair, both in their late 80s, had …
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documentary film, dystopian film
Lucy is born on June 2, 2009 (the date the program aired; changed to January 1, 2009, in subsequent airings), in the suburbs of Miami, and is still alive in the year 2100. In 2015, negotiations on climate change action breaks down between …
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Ashleigh Ball, one of the lead voice actresses in Hasbro's My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, begins to notice that she is receiving fan mail for her work on the show, but is perplexed over the fact that most of it is coming from teenage…
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Documentation, documentary film
docudrama, documentary film
The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa is the second greatest volcanic eruption in recorded history (after the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, only 68 years earlier), erupting more than 18 cubic kilometres of tephra in less than 48 hours, and killi…
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The film documents the evolution of youth culture from the early twentieth century starting in 1904 until the end of WWII in 1945 when the concept of the "teenager" was developed. Youth culture and movements through four decades of evoluti…
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