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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 92.

Medusa: Dare To Be Truthful (1992)

Fake Documentary, Parodie, Satire On Media, comedy film

The film begins with the camera panning through pictures of Medusa's album covers and film posters eventually showing her lying in a bed while getting a massage and her hair done. She starts telling the viewers about how lonely she feels since her tour ended. The film then flashes back to when Medusa was rehearsing her Blonde Leading the Blonde Tour.

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Trembling Before G-d (2001)

Documentation, LGBTQ-related film, documentary film

Trembling Before G-d interviews and follows several gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews, many only seen in silhouette, and also interviews several rabbis and psychologists regarding their views on homosexuality in Orthodox Judaism. The film repeatedly returns to several characters: David is an observant Orthodox Jewish doctor from Los Angeles who has spent a decade trying to reconcile his homosexuality with Judaism. He has tried numerous forms of "treatment", from eating figs and praying to wearing a rubber band on his wrist to flick whenever he thinks of men, but to no avail.

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Whole (2003)

documentary film

The documentary examines the lives of several individuals who have body integrity identity disorder. They believe that they are supposed to have a sensory or physical disability, with some amputating a limb in order to achieve this. Some of the individuals are identified using their whole name, while others give only their first.

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Koko, le gorille qui parle (1978)

Documentation, documentary film

The film introduces Koko soon after she was brought from the San Francisco Zoo to Stanford University by Francine Patterson for a controversial experiment. She would be taught American Sign Language. Director Schroeder dove into the widely discussed debate about animal rights, and whether they should be treated as individuals.

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The Nomi Song (2004)

Documentation, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, documentary film, musical film

Visions of Light (1992)

Documentation, documentary film

The film includes interviews with many modern-day directors of photography and cinematographers, who illustrate via examples their best work and the scenes from films that influenced them to pursue their art. These subjects include Néstor Almendros, John Bailey, Conrad Hall, Michael Chapman, and László Kovács. Among the pioneers they pay homage are Gregg Toland, Billy Bitzer, James Wong Howe and John Alton.

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Cutie and the Boxer (2013)

Documentation, documentary film

The film is about the difficult 40-year relationship between Ushio and Noriko Shinohara, a Japanese-born husband and wife who are both artists who live in Brooklyn, New York. Ushio Shinohara is a small player in the contemporary art world, known for painting with a pair of paint-soaked boxing gloves and his oversized motorcycle sculptures made of cardboard. Their family has struggled financially for many years.

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Growing Up Coy (2016)

LGBTQ-related film, documentary film

The film follows Jeremy and Kathryn Mathis and their five children over several years in Colorado. One child, six-year-old Coy Mathis, is a young transgender girl who had come out as transgender in kindergarten. She was able to use the girls' bathroom freely until the first grade when the principal informed the parents that moving forward, Coy would only be able to use the boys bathroom or the nurse's bathroom.

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Passing Through (1977)

Documentation, Drama Documentary, Musical

The film tells the story of ex-con musician Eddie Warmack, who is trying to re-establish himself as a musician, hoping that an elder in the craft, Poppa Harris, could help him while he evades a predatory music industry controlled by white society. Warmack had received his sentence because he killed a gang member who was white. The person killed by Warmack had blinded another musician named Skeeter.

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