documentary
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Citizenfour
The now infamous story of Edward Snowden's leaking of confidential NSA papers is covered from its beginning moments.
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Emptying the Skies
A documentary on saving the endangered songbirds of Europe is admirable and uninteresting.
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Sterlin Harjo On Native Hymns: They Take You to Another Place
Sterlin Harjo on his new documentary, 'This May Be the Last Time', an ode to the hymns Native...
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Orlando von Einsiedel: Africa’s Oldest National Park Needs Your Help
'Virunga' director Orlando von Einsiedel and two of the national park's directors on why Virunga needs your help.
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The E-Team On Investigating War Crimes: You Cannot Do This Job Without a Sense of Humor
Filmmakers Katy Chevigny and Ross Kauffman, and subjects Anya and Ole talk E-Team, the latest Netflix Original documentary...
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Judy Irving On Nature Filmmaking: It Forces Me to Focus On Who We Share the Planet With
Bay Area filmmaker Judy Irving has had a fascination with Pelicans for about as long as she can...
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Watchers of the Sky
Edet Belzberg provides a compelling and compassionate view of those who fight for the rights of humanity and...
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The Overnighters
The Overnighters feels like one of those rare, lightning in a bottle stories caught in a documentary. What are...
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Nadav Schirman, Mosab Hassan Yousef, Gonen Ben Yitzhak, and the Amazing Story of ‘The Green Prince’
A Palestinian and son of a Hamas leader, Mosab Hassan Yousef was raised deeply entrenched in the Middle...
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NYFF 2014: Last Hijack
Last Hijack is a hybrid of documentary and animation, set in the failed state of Somalia and told...
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This Ain’t No Mouse Music
The setting is an outdoor blues concert in Louisiana. Sitting in a chair in the middle of the...
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Arhoolie Records Founder Chris Strachwitz on ‘Hardcore’ Music, the Joy of Record Hunting
“If somebody wants to sing, sing god damn it!” Chris Strachwitz, founder of Arhoolie Records and purveyor and...
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Altman
Simplicity can be the most effective method sometimes, especially in the case of Ron Mann’s documentary Altman. Instead...
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20,000 Days on Earth
Nick Cave, a musician, songwriter, author, and sometime actor, whose music seems to polarize listeners into love or...
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TIFF 2014: The Look of Silence
After making The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer goes back to the same subject matter for his follow-up...