The Sunshine Makers (2015)
documentary film
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Jagged (2021)
Biographical documentary, documentary film
Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003)
Biographical documentary, documentary film
The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996)
documentary film
In Citizen Kane, Welles plays Charles Foster Kane, whose fictional life partially mirrors that of Hearst's, as well as Hearst's longtime rival, Joseph Pulitzer. However, Chicago inventor and utilities magnate Samuel Insull, Chicago Tribune…
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Agent of Happiness (2024)
Documentation, documentary film
The film follows Amber Kumar Gurung and Guna Raj Kuikel, two Bhutanese bureaucrats, in their travels through the small Himalayan kingdom as census workers, measuring people's happiness levels. They work for the Center for Gross National Ha…
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Lewis Capaldi: How I'm Feeling Now (2023)
Biographical documentary, Musical
The film explores Capaldi's musical career starting from his adolescence and his teen years, up to the release of his debut studio album, Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent, as well as his mental health struggles, Tourette's diagnosis…
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New World Order (2009)
documentary film
The film concentrates on the activities of Alex Jones, Jim Tucker, Jack McLamb, and Luke Rudkowski, with particular focus on their efforts to expose the highly secretive meetings of the Bilderberg Group, promote the 9/11 Truth Movement, an…
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Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005)
Arranged Documentary, Documentation, documentary film
The film features archival footage of Walmart CEO Lee Scott praising the corporation at a large employee convention, intercut with interviews designed to undercut Scott's statements. The documentary argues that Walmart underpays its worker…
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9/11: Inside the President's War Room (2021)
Documentation, documentary film
The documentary explores the hours immediately after the attacks from the angle of President George W. Bush, and those around him, and its release was timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the attacks.
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Edgeplay: A Film About the Runaways (2005)
documentary film
Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s) (2022)
Biographical documentary, documentary film
The Phantom (2021)
documentary film
Chicken Ranch (1983)
documentary film
The documentary begins without narration as a plane lands down in the remote part of the desert where Chicken Ranch is situated while a number from the Broadway musical based on the Texas situated Ranch is played. Before the documentary sc…
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Manufactured Landscapes (2006)
documentary film
My Dinner with Jimi (2003)
Drama, Musical, biographical film, rockumentary
The story focuses on the Turtles in the days leading up to and following the success of their single "Happy Together". Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman receive their draft cards and Frank Zappa tells them to seek advice from Herb Cohen, Zappa…
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Age 7 in America (1991)
documentary film
California Typewriter (2016)
Documentation, documentary film
The film explores the mythology attached to the typewriter, as various obsessives (including Tom Hanks, John Mayer, David McCullough and Sam Shepard) celebrate the physicality of the typewriter both as object and means of summoning the cre…
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We Were Here (2011)
Documentation, LGBTQ-related film, documentary film
The Great White Silence (1924)
Documentation, documentary film
The Last Lions (2011)
documentary film, nature documentary
The Killing Ground (1979)
documentary film
The film surveys several waste disposal sites in the United States. Love Canal, New York The documentary begins with the environmental disaster at Love Canal in Niagara Falls, New York. Governor of New York Hugh Carey provided $10 million …
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Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993)
documentary film
Obomsawin's film, Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, documents the boiling point of Indigenous land possession battles of the last 270 years. The conflict arises when the Quebec government announces to expand the golf course it had prev…
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Roving Mars (2005)
Documentation, documentary film
Genocide (1982)
Documentation, documentary film