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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 74.

The Animals Film (1981)

documentary film

The Animals Film presents a survey of the uses of animals in factory farming, as pets, for entertainment, in scientific and military research, hunting, etc. The film also profiles the international animal rights movement. The film incorpor…

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Up Syndrome (2000)

documentary film

Using donated digital tapes and a camera purchased with money earned from an eBay sale, indie filmmaker Duane Graves chronicles a year in the life of his charismatic childhood chum, Rene Moreno, who was born with Down syndrome. After gradu…

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April Showers (2009)

Biographical picture, Coming Of Age, Destiny, Drama, Drama Documentary, Social Drama, drama film

In the aftermath of a school shooting, several survivors have evacuated to the elementary school to wait for more survivors to arrive. A senior named Sean Ryan calls his friend Vicki at a coffee shop, who tells him that the shooter is Ben …

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Manakamana (2013)

documentary film

The film consists entirely of fixed long takes of groups of people (and once, five goats) inside a cable car as it goes up and down a Nepalese mountain. The first trip shows an old man and a young boy that sit next to each other without sa…

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Human Flow (2017)

Documentation, Political Documentary, Social Study, documentary film

Ghosts (2006)

drama film

Ai Qin is an illegal Chinese immigrant to the United Kingdom. She comes from Fuzhou, China, where there the only work is badly paid agricultural labour, and even this is in short supply. Ai Qin has a son but her husband is not seen (it is …

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Monrovia, Indiana (2018)

Documentation, documentary film

The film's official synopsis reads: "The film explores the conflicting stereotypes and illustrates how values like community service, duty, spiritual life, generosity and authenticity are formed, experienced and lived. The film gives a com…

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Chernobyl: The Final Warning (1991)

documentary film, drama film

Based on a true account of events, the plot interweaves the stories of a fireman at the nuclear power plant, his pregnant wife, the government officials whose policies helped and hindered rescue efforts and America's Dr. Robert Gale (Jon V…

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Catwalk (1995)

documentary film

The film centers on model Christy Turlington and fellow models Naomi Campbell, Yasmin Le Bon, Kate Moss, Helena Christensen, Gail Elliott and Carla Bruni as they travel between Milan, Paris, and New York City during Spring 1994 Fashion Wee…

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Becoming Warren Buffett (2017)

biographical film, documentary film

The documentary covers the life and career of Warren Buffett, who is widely regarded as one of the most successful and influential investors of the 20th century. Buffett is interviewed extensively on his upbringing, his early facility with…

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The Painter and the Thief (2020)

Documentation, documentary film

The documentary film follows Barbora Kysilkova, a talented hyperrealist artist, forming a friendship with Karl-Bertil Nordland, a man convicted of stealing her work from an Oslo art gallery, spanning a period of three years.

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