documentary
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The Act of Killing
You know the subject matter for your documentary is exceptional when you have both Werner Herzog and Error...
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A Band Called Death
“’Pure rock ‘n’ roll is what they don’t play on the radio.’ That’s what David always said.” More...
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The Out List (Frameline37 Review)
In The Out List—the newest entry in the forward-thinking HBO interview series that started with The Black List...
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Stories We Tell
“Every family has a story.” Canadian actor and director Sarah Polley (Away From Her, Take This Waltz) lost...
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Leviathan
Leviathan opens with a passage from the Bible, a fitting prelude to the immense scale of the 90...
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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Werner Herzog chops up and rearranges footage from a Russian television documentary about Bakhtia, a remote Siberian...
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2013 Oscar Nominated Shorts Spotlight: Documentary
This year's group of short documentary nominees may look like a harrowing bunch to sit through (topics include...
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Undefeated
The winner of last year’s Academy Award for Best Documentary, Undefeated, tells the story of Bill Courtney and...
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The Naked Zinester
Awesome, just – awesome. This short documentary, The Naked Zinester, explores the life and work of Aaron Tsuru...
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Only The Young
Filmmakers Elizabeth Mims and Jason Tippet observe the lives of two teenage skateboarders who must deal with the...
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The House I Live In
With the US’ recent election legalizing marijuana in Washington and Colorado, it appears that the American public’s perception...
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Girl Model
Nowadays Toddlers & Tiaras and the like are mega successful TV shows that glamorize rather than exploit the...
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How to Survive a Plague
Léa Pool’s documentary Pink Ribbons Inc. points out early on that the breast cancer awareness movement originally had...
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Room 237
It has been over 30 years since Stanley Kubrick blessed cinema with his Stephen King adaptation of The...
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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Arguably one of China’s most famous artists of today is Ai Weiwei, who is not only known for...