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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 96.

Bathtubs Over Broadway (2018)

Documentation, documentary film

Steve Young is a comedy writer working for the Late Show with David Letterman. In 1993, his assignment to scour comedy vinyl records for a late-night segment leads him to an industrial musical produced by General Electric. Over the next two decades, Steve collects rare and unreleased recordings of industrial musicals, traveling across the country to meet and trade with other record collectors.

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Kangaroo Valley (2022)

documentary film

In a lush valley in Australia, a young kangaroo joey, Mala, emerges from her mother Lowanna's pouch for the first time. Mala is reluctant to leave the pouch, in contrast to the joyful joey Buru, who loves to hop. King of the kangaroo mob is Bamir, the largest buck in the valley and Mala's father.

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Small Town Gay Bar (2006)

LGBTQ-related film, documentary film

The story of community in the Deep South that is forced to deal with the struggles of ignorance, hypocrisy and oppression, Malcolm Ingram's Small Town Gay Bar visits two Mississippi communities and bases those visits around two small gay bars: Rumors in Shannon, Mississippi, and Different Seasons/Crossroads in Meridian, Mississippi. Additionally the film visits Bay Minette, Alabama, to look at the brutal hate crime murder of Scotty Joe Weaver. The film focuses on a group of folks who are less concerned with the national debate over gay marriage than they are with the life risks they take being openly gay in small Southern towns.

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Waveriders (2008)

documentary film

Waveriders focuses on the Irish roots of surfing. The film covers the life of Irish-Hawaiian surfer George Freeth and his influence in popularizing surfing in California and his contributions to lifeguarding. It also follows Irish, British and American surfers Richie Fitzgerald, Gabe Davies, Kelly Slater and the Malloy Brothers.

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Squaring the Circle: The Story of Hipgnosis (2022)

Documentation, documentary film

The documentary follows the history of the Hipgnosis studio, from its beginnings in 1968. The studio was founded by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey "Po" Powell, who were associates of Pink Floyd and were commissioned to design the cover for the album A Saucerful of Secrets. The film describes the production of several classic album covers by Hipgnosis through the 1970s by artists including Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel, Paul McCartney and Wings, 10cc, and others; plus several more covers for Pink Floyd.

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Yo (Love is a Rebellious Bird) (2026)

Documentation, documentary film

After the death of her close friend Yo, filmmaker Anna Fitch spends ten years constructing a meticulous one-third-scale replica of Yo’s home—large enough for her to step inside. Within this handcrafted space, a puppet version of Yo “lives,” allowing Anna to revisit their unlikely, decades-long friendship that began when Yo was 73 and Anna 24. Blending intimate vérité footage from Yo’s final year with imaginative miniature sets and visual recreations of Yo’s life stories, the film explores how memory, art, and grief intertwine, and how creative reconstruction becomes a way to keep love and connection alive across time.

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Model (1981)

documentary film

Like all of Wiseman's films, Model has no narrator. The film opens with a cityscape of lower Manhattan, showing the World Trade Center. The film intercuts fashion sequences (runway shows, photo shoots, a pantyhose commercial), Manhattan street scenes (roller skaters, an ambulance, "pedestrians who often look livelier than the models"), and shots of mannequins in store windows.

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