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Documentary
see all genres ›Truth is rarely stranger than fiction. Cinematic storytelling centered on actuality, facts and unrehearsed life events has offered a century’s worth of strange and illuminating fascination. Spanning newsreel, performance, travelogue, diary, propaganda, investigation and ethnography, documentaries are centered on that slippery state of "reality."
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About Jenny Holzer
An artist whose medium is language. For more than thirty years, Jenny Holzer’s name has stood for a conceptual art that questions our perceptions and the way we are influenced by media and politics. Holzer has made LED signs (typically identified with advertising) her trademark. These blinking, flickering...Start your free trial to watch
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Absolutely Safe
Last year nearly 400,000 women in the United States got breast implants. At a time when more women than ever are making this choice, fewer voices than ever seem to be asking, "Why?" And fewer still are asking, "Are they safe?" ABSOLUTELY SAFE takes an open-minded, personal approach to the controversy over breast implant...Start your free trial to watch
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Accelerated Under-Development
What is a filmmaker? It is this vague, perhaps vain question that Travis Wilkerson hoped to answer clearly when he went to Cuba to question Santiago Alvarez, a legend of militant cinema. Although he had seen none of his films, Wilkerson did an interview with the master that quickly became something of a...Start your free trial to watch
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Accordion Tribe
Five highly original musicians from different countries form the Accordion Tribe. Together they aim to reinforce the original power of the long disdained instrument. Stefan Schwietert‘s film follows the energetic soundscapes and their performers on a journey through Europe. An extraordinarily intensive documentary on the...Start your free trial to watch
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Across the Border
ACROSS THE BORDER is a collage of found footage and documentary images, radio Spanish/English tracks and commentary by Philippe Bourgois, a Stanford Anthropologist trapped in an offensive by the United States-backed Salvadoran Military forces. The film’s position against U.S. intervention in the third...Start your free trial to watch
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Act of God
Is being hit by lightning a random natural occurrence or a predestined event? Accidents, chance, fate and the elusive quest to make sense out of tragedy underpin director Jennifer Baichwal’s captivating new work, an elegant cinematic meditation on the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning. To explore these...Start your free trial to watch
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The Advocate for Fagdom
At turns a transgressive artist, the spiritual son of Kenneth Anger and John Waters or leader of the Queercore movement, one thing is certain: Bruce LaBruce makes small budget movies full of hardcore sex and political messages in which he happily crushes any gay attitude clichés, mocks dramatic set ups and...Start your free trial to watch
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Affluenza
AFFLUENZA is a groundbreaking film that diagnoses a serious social disease caused by consumerism, commercialism and rampant materialism that is having a devastating impact on our families, communities and the environment. We have more stuff, but less time, and our quality of life seems to be deteriorating. By using personal...Start your free trial to watch
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The After Party
In 1993, the film THE LAST PARTY was released. The documentary followed Robert Downey Jr.'s initiation in to the world of politics. In 2000 came the sequel, THE PARTY'S OVER, following Philip Seymour Hoffman on the campaign trail. The third film in the trilogy, THE AFTER PARTY, is a documentary about a journalist who is...Start your free trial to watch
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Against the Odds
Of the thousands of men and women imprisoned under inhuman conditions behind the wires of the German concentration camps some found the strength to fight back. They collected evidence about German crimes in the camps, sabotaged equipment they were forced to manufacture, prepared uprisings and even tried to...Start your free trial to watch
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aka Tommy Chong
At the height of the Bush administration, Tommy Chong of Cheech and Chong was charged with selling bongs over the internet and sentenced to nine months in federal prison. As part of the government's $12 million 'Operation Pipe Dreams' drug paraphernalia sting operation, Chong, a vocal opponent of Bush's handling of the War on...Start your free trial to watch
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Alfred Eisenstaedt: Photographer
This is the behind-the-scenes look at the character and the style of one of the most important photojournalists of the 20th century, the premier LIFE magazine photographer, Alfred Eisenstaedt. This film reveals a rare view of "Eisey" as he returns to Germany to photograph his homeland for his book,...Start your free trial to watch
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Alice Guy Films a "Phonoscène"
Alice Guy-Blanché frames the making of a “phonoscène” (a forerunner to sound film) as a kind of Russian nesting doll, with a well-lit scene taking place within the darkened activity of its mechanical reproduction. The camera stays in the shadows, slowly panning as the crew readies itself to film a courtly...Start your free trial to watch
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American
Bill Hicks was and still is an inspiration to millions. His timeless comedy tackled the contradictions of America and modern life head on. Like many who have a strong sense of their place in history and die too soon, Hicks left a large unseen legacy: his collection of video recordings and hundreds of photographs that became...Start your free trial to watch
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American Carny
Step right up and come on the inside, beyond the banners and into the morbid curiosity that is the American Sideshow. Join Carnival Maestro Todd Robbins and award-winning filmmaker Nick Basile on a journey into a world of circus freaks, fire eaters, human blockheads, contortionists, professional lunatics and much, much more.Start your free trial to watch
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American Crusaders
A harrowing exploration of the rapid rise of American religious fanaticism after 9/11. This film explores an emerging ultra Right Wing mass movement seeking dominion over all aspects of contemporary American society. The film weaves archival video, contemporary Christian Nationalist movement propaganda...Start your free trial to watch