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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 95.

Paper Clips (2004)

documentary film

Paper Clips takes place in the rural, blue-collar Tennessee community of Whitwell, where a middle-school class attempts to gauge the magnitude of World War II's Holocaust by collecting paper clips, each of which represents a human life lost in the Nazis' slaughter of Jews. The idea came in 1998 from three of the teachers at the school and was completed in their eighth grade classrooms. The students ultimately succeeded in collecting over 25 million paperclips.

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Daughter from Danang (2002)

Documentation, documentary film

Heidi Neville Bub was born on December 10, 1968, in Da Nang as Mai Thi Hiep. Her mother, Mai Thi Kim, already had three children and was estranged from her husband Do Huu Vinh, who had left her to fight with the Viet Cong. She was working at an American military base where she met Heidi's father, an American serviceman.

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When Jews Were Funny (2013)

Documentation, Komödie, documentary film

When Jews Were Funny is an exploration of Jewish-American comedy and its influence on modern American humour. The film looks at the conditions that resulted in the high proportion of Jewish comedians in the 1950s and 1960s. The context of comedy is then used to begin discussions of Jewish identity.

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All of Those Voices (2023)

Biographical documentary, Musical

The film is narrated by Tomlinson himself and paired with archival footage from the past. It also includes interviews with his family members. The film primarily covers the timeframe between the indefinite hiatus of One Direction and the completion of Louis Tomlinson World Tour and second album Faith in the Future.

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National Gallery (2014)

Documentation, documentary film

The film captures daily activity at the National Gallery in London, depicting both the guests' experience at the museum and behind-the-scenes employee operations. Like Wiseman's other films, the film uses only observational footage with no interviews, music, or voiceover narration.

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Sharkwater (2006)

Animal Documentary, nature documentary

Shark expert and environmentalist Rob Stewart tells of his love for sharks and how important these fish are for our ecosystem in breathtakingly beautiful images. He shows the illegal capture of sharks for the purpose of exploiting their fins and vividly describes the need to protect sharks, as they are otherwise threatened with extinction.

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