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Explore documentary storytelling about people, events and ideas.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,596 films · Page 7.

The Dying Rooms (1995)

documentary film, documentary television film

In the film, Blewett and others travel to mainland China to visit orphanages housing children abandoned due to the "one-child policy". The filmmakers stated that unwanted female and disabled children were left to die of neglect, allowing p…

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The Dyatlov Pass Incident (2013)

Horror, Mysterie, fantasy film, found footage film, horror film, pseudo-documentary, satanic film, thriller film

Russian-language news, Russia-24, discusses five Oregon college students' disappearance. The Russian government recovers video footage but refuses to release it to the public; however, hackers obtain and release the footage. The students w…

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The Decline Of Western Civilization (1981)

Documentation, Musical, music documentary film

Featuring concert footage of Los Angeles punk bands and interviews both with band members, the publishers of Slash fanzine, and with the punks who made up their audience, the film offers a look into a subculture that was largely ignored by…

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Louis Theroux: The Settlers (2025)

documentary film

In the documentary, Theroux interviews and observes both Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank and members of the Israeli settler movement. Theroux interviews Ari Abramowitz, an Israeli settler from Texas, United States, who tells …

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Kabul Express (2006)

Action, Komödie, Thriller

Indian journalists Suhel Khan and Jai Kapoor arrive in post-Taliban Afghanistan to document the condition of the country following the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. Based in Kabul and working for Star News, they begin their journey through the c…

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What Is A Woman? (2022)

Cultural Film, Social Study, documentary film

What Is a Woman? features Matt Walsh asking "What is a woman?" and related questions to a variety of people, with the goal of convincing them that their definition of womanhood is circular. It discusses topics such as puberty blockers, tra…

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Into the Abyss (2011)

Documentation, documentary film, drama film, prison film

On October 24, 2001, 50-year-old nurse Sandra Stotler was murdered in her house in a gated community outside of Conroe, Texas, and her body was dumped in a nearby lake. A few days later, Michael Perry and Jason Burkett, both 19 years old, …

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Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)

Documentation, documentary film

Kopple initially intended to make a film about Miners for Democracy and the attempt to unseat Tony Boyle as president of the UMWA. When miners at the Brookside Mine in Harlan County, Kentucky, went on strike against Duke Power Company in J…

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Tickled (2016)

Documentation, documentary film

David Farrier, a New Zealand television reporter whose beat focuses on "quirky and odd stories", encounters online videos depicting "competitive endurance tickling", an activity in which young athletic men are restrained and tickled by eac…

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Lorne (2026)

Documentation, documentary film

The film is about the Canadian film and television producer Lorne Michaels. It touches upon his early work on Canadian television in The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour, the early days of Saturday Night Live, his departure, the failure of The…

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Cutting Through Rocks (2025)

Documentation, documentary film

As the first elected councilwoman of her Iranian village, Sara Shahverdi aims to break long-held patriarchal traditions by training teenage girls to ride motorcycles and stopping child marriages. When accusations arise questioning Sara’s i…

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Wick Is Pain (2025)

Documentation, Making-Of Documentary

Wick Is Pain was filmed over a decade and shows the behind-the-scenes reality of creating John Wick and its subsequent franchise films. It explores how Keanu, David, and Chad met, to how they were introduced to the original screenplay by D…

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Bob Roberts (1992)

Fake Documentary, Political Satire, comedy film, drama film

Bob Roberts takes place in Pennsylvania in 1990. It depicts a fictitious senatorial race between a conservative Republican folk singer, Bob Roberts, and the incumbent Democrat, Brickley Paiste. The film is shot through the perspective of T…

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Amy (2015)

Documentation, Musical, biographical film, documentary film, drama film, musical film

The film narrative is focused on the life of singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, who was found dead on 23 July 2011 from alcohol poisoning, at the age of 27 at her home in Camden, North London. The film starts with a 1998 home movie depicting…

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American Movie (1999)

Documentation, documentary film

Mark Borchardt of Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, dreams of being a professional filmmaker. Currently, however, he delivers newspapers for a living, is deeply in debt, still lives with his parents, suffers from alcoholism, and is estranged fro…

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Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001)

Fake Documentary, Satire, association football film

With the film narrated by Martin Bashir in a documentary form, we are told that Norwich City manager Mike Bassett (Ricky Tomlinson) is victorious in the Mr Clutch Cup final at Wembley Stadium. The Canaries later take part in an open-top bu…

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13th (2016)

Documentation, Historie, Political Documentary, documentary film

The film begins with an audio clip of President Barack Obama stating that the US has 5 percent of the world's population, but 25 percent of the world's prisoners. There follow interviews with a number of activists, academics, political fig…

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