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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,598 films · Page 78.
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Kelly Slater, Shane Dorian, Rob Machado, and others take a freesurf trip to the coast of Sumatra, where they find themselves surfing beautiful waves, and lose the urgency they have come to live with being professionals. The film also inclu…
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Documentation, documentary film
The film begins with Mr. and Mrs. DeBolt traveling from their home in California to New York, where they will adopt their 19th child, a blind and physically disabled teen named "J.R." The adoption process for J.R., his integration into the…
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Nuts!, narrated by Gene Tognacci, documents the life and career of John R. Brinkley (1885-1942), a Milford, Kansas druggist-turned physician who purportedly discovered a cure for male impotence by implanting goat testicles into the scrotum…
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The film features CCTV footage from several of the jewel heists attributed to the Pink Panthers, who are credited with over 300 jewel thefts throughout the world. Interspersed throughout the documentary are interviews with various personas…
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Biographical documentary, Musical, biographical film, documentary film, musical film
Nothing Compares is the story of Sinéad O'Connor's phenomenal rise to worldwide fame and how her iconoclastic personality resulted in her exile from the pop mainstream. Focusing on her prophetic words and deeds from 1987–1993, the film ref…
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Biographical documentary, Essayfilm, biographical film, documentary film
The documentary follows Czech photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková through several decades of her life and career. Using her personal photographs, diaries, and narration, the film recounts her experiences in Czechoslovakia during the period of…
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The film chronicles the work of Gertrude Bell, an Englishwoman and archeologist, living in Arabia in the early 20th century. Her work helped to shape the Arab nation in the aftermath of World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, i…
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Documentation, crime film, documentary film
The film takes a look at the shooting of Jordan Davis, an African-American teenager who was shot by Michael Dunn on November 23, 2012, at a gas station in Jacksonville, Florida. The shooting was sparked by an argument between Dunn and Davi…
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LGBTQ-related film, documentary film
This documentary intimately follows the lives of six subjects for about five years starting in 1999. Through their experiences, the documentary explores gender, sexuality, race, and class. The aggressives are young, queer, masculine presen…
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Jamal and Enayatullah are Afghan refugees in a camp in Peshawar, Pakistan. They travel to Quetta, and thence to Taftan on the Iranian border. They pay people smugglers to assist them over the border; on their first attempt they are stopped…
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Event Documentary, documentary film
Documentation, Komödie, comedy film, documentary film
Part documentary, part narrative, part instructional format, the film aims to teach young inexperienced youth about all things involved with "getting down", while also pointing out some of the pitfalls associated with the party lifestyle.
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Documentation, documentary film, sport film
The documentary focuses on three different players who arrive in Cologne, Germany, to compete in an esports tournament for Dota 2, The International, which will award the winning team a prize of one million dollars. Singaporean team Scythe…
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The Parking Lot Movie follows a group of parking lot attendants who work at The Corner Parking Lot in Charlottesville, Virginia. They have to deal with drunken, rude, and cheap patrons, as well as vandals. The film centers on the experienc…
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It begins by explaining Frederick Law Olmsted's planning of the fair and the architecture by Daniel Burnham. It also details exhibits by many people, including George Westinghouse, Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. In addition to detailing t…
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documentary film, sport film
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The French war cameraman and First Indochina War veteran Piere Schoendoerffer (38), already famous for his celebrated masterpiece The 317th Platoon (1965), returned to Vietnam. The documentary follows a 33-man platoon led by 24 year old Li…
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