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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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Kumaré
Kumaré is an enlightened guru from the East who builds a following of disciples in the West. But Kumaré is not real. He is an American filmmaker named Vikram Gandhi, who has transformed himself into Kumaré as the centerpiece of a social experiment designed to explore and test one of the world's most sacred taboos. Concealing...Start your free trial to watch
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The Last Fighters
THE LAST FIGHTERS accompanies the six last surviving Warsaw Ghetto uprising fighters, all over eighty years old, between 2003-2006. Kazik Rotem, Masha Futermilch–Gleitman, Pnina Greenspan and Aharon Carmi live in Israel. Brunk Spigel lives in Canada. Marek Edelman decided to remain in Poland. Their...Start your free trial to watch
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The Last Mogul
"If Hollywood was Mount Olympus," says movie industry lobbyist Jack Valenti in Barry Avrich's THE LAST MOGUL: THE LIFE & TIMES OF LEW WASSERMAN, "then Lew Wasserman was Zeus." Over sixty years as power-broker at MCA and head of Universal Studios, Wasserman rewrote the behind the scenes Hollywood rulebook. In this "highly...Start your free trial to watch
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Last Train Home
Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the world's largest human migration, an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future. Working over several...Start your free trial to watch
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Lawn Chairs and Living Rooms
This documentary follows singer-songwriter Brian Vander Ark, front man for the platinum-selling '90s band 'The Verve Pipe' as he embarks on his annual ambitious, intimate solo tour of the US. The filmmakers follow Brian as he travels throughout his home state of Michigan, playing backyard concerts for his...Start your free trial to watch
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LBJ
Most definitely an unauthorized biography, Cuban agit-prop filmmaker Santiago Alvarez scavenges imagery from LIFE magazine, cowboy movies and Playboy to lampoon Lyndon B. Johnson’s tyranny. The assassinations of John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert and Martin Luther King, Jr. are all laid at Johnson’s doorstep. Delivered with...Start your free trial to watch
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Lee: Beyond the Battles
Using contemporary on-location footage, re-enactors, photographic and portrait stills this PBS production gives the viewer a glimpse of Robert E. Lee the man. One historian has called him “the Marble Man” more an icon to the South than a flesh and blood man. This work gives us a look at his humanity....Start your free trial to watch
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The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
A charismatic figure immortalized in Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff," Florence Pancho Barnes was one of the most important women in 20th Century aviation. A tough and fearless pilot, Pancho raced Amelia Earhart, performed as a barnstormer and made a name for herself as Hollywood's first female stunt pilot in...Start your free trial to watch
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Legend of the Witches
The historical origins of witchcraft in moon-worship and the witches’ legend of creation; initiation rites undergone by the modern witches' divination by birds and animals; Christianity’s absorption of pagan rites; revenge killing; the Black Mass; Cecil Williamson's Museum of Witchcraft in Cornwall;...Start your free trial to watch
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A Lesson Not Learned
Once a Nazi, always a Nazi: that’s the lesson not learned in this animated Soviet propaganda short. A former SS captain gets a free pass from the Allies after the war. Military prison affords many comforts: he listens to his favorite Nazi anthems, hides "Mein Kampf" in a Bible and composes anti-Soviet...Start your free trial to watch
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Let's All Hate Toronto
A billboard shouting the confrontational message “Toronto Sucks” sends documentary filmmaker Albert Nerenberg and self-professed “Mr. Toronto” Rob Spence out on a quixotic cross-country trip to find out why Canadians hate Toronto. A parody of boosterism and fact-finding missions in the mode of Michael...Start your free trial to watch
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Libby, Montana
A small company town in northwestern Montana is beset by the worst case of a widespread toxic contaminant in U.S. history. Now, the U.S. government has determined that nearly one quarter of the residents have some form of asbestos-related lung abnormality. LIBBY, MONTANA is the story of the American dream gone horribly wrong.Start your free trial to watch
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Life After Tomorrow
LIFE AFTER TOMORROW reunites more than forty women who played orphans in the Broadway production of ANNIE and reveals the highs and lows of their experiences as child actresses in a cultural phenomenon. Once the curtain came down, many found it could be a hard-knock-life, fraught with out-of-control stage...Start your free trial to watch
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Life Squared
This project uses mixed reality convergence through which users can participate in some of the digital existing archive of Lynn Hershman Leeson, now housed in the Special Collections Library at Stanford University. Created in 2006, this project is one of the first artist archive projects in Second Life and has been exhibited...Start your free trial to watch
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Light Year
The heart of the film is a sun-drenched kitchen garden: towards the street in the west are dense lilac bushes; on the northern side, a half-timbered house; a raspberry thicket serves as a border to the southern neighbour and a lush honeysuckle grows on the fence to the parkland in the east. There are out-houses, a chicken...Start your free trial to watch
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Like It Is
The generation that went to pot is profiled in this kaleidoscope of 1960s drug culture! It's a cross between a serious documentary and drive-in exploitation with plenty of cool footage of San Francisco's love generation interspersed with scenes of randy flower children cavorting in the nude at the drop of an illicit smokeable!Start your free trial to watch
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Charles A. Lindbergh: Hero of the Air
On May 20-21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew alone non-stop from New York to Paris, in a single-engine plane without parachute or radio. With this feat, Lindbergh became perhaps the greatest hero of the decade. Fox Movietone's sound film record of Lindbergh's take-off was the first popular sensation of sound...Start your free trial to watch
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The Listening Project
What does the world think of The United States of America? This controversial question led to a global quest for four Americans, whose thought-provoking journey through fourteen countries is documented in THE LISTENING PROJECT. Emotional encounters with dozens of diverse and fascinating characters on all...Start your free trial to watch