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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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Ballets Russes
Unearthing a treasure trove of archival footage, filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have fashioned a dazzling and entrancing ode to the revolutionary 20th-century dance troupes that performed under the Ballets Russes banner. BALLETS RUSSES maps the Diaghilev-era beginnings in turn-of-the-century Paris, when artists such...Start your free trial to watch
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The Battle of Britain
Originally released in 1943, THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN represents the fourth movie in Frank Capra's epic WHY WE FIGHT documentary series. This film traces the fate of the British during the dark days of the Blitz. It is a portrait of the desperate, but ultimately successful struggle to prevent a Nazi invasion...Start your free trial to watch
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The Battle of Midway
The stars and director of THE GRAPES OF WRATH re-united under very different circumstances two years later for this undeniably hyperbolic yet stirring portrait of U.S. Naval forces rallying to defeat Axis conquerors. "Tom Joad" (Henry Fonda) and "Ma Joad" (Jane Darwell) were among the voice actors...Start your free trial to watch
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The Battle of Russia
The fifth and longest film in Frank Capra's acclaimed WHY WE FIGHT WWII propaganda series, THE BATTLE OF RUSSIA portrays the bitter fighting on the Eastern Front 1941-1943. It also attempts to justify the new alliance among the democratic Allies and Soviet Russia. Here, the Nazi invasion of Russia is...Start your free trial to watch
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The Battle of San Pietro
Starting with an unusually romantic depiction of the region that became key to the Allies' capture of Italian territory from German forces, this was director/narrator John Huston's government-produced chronicle of the late 1943 battle. His film crew shot right alongside U.S. Army troops and (partly as a...Start your free trial to watch
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Be Like an Ant
Post-Vietnam, Paul bought a trailer for his family to live in. Annoyed by how bad living inside a mobile home during winter could be, he took matters into his own hands and started to build a house around the trailer. He never made any blueprints. As the house took shape, he would take a part of the trailer apart, carry it...Start your free trial to watch
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The Beaches of Agnès
A reflection on art, life and the movies, THE BEACHES OF AGNES is a magnificent film from the great Agnes Varda, director of CLEO FROM 5 TO 7, a richly cinematic self portrait that touches on everything from the feminist movement and the Black Panthers to the films of husband Jacques Demy (THE UMBRELLAS OF...Start your free trial to watch
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The Beast Within
Nobody wants them but everybody is watching: in living memory, animal fights have been as much looked down upon as they have been loved. THE BEAST WITHIN pursues the reasons for man's drive to have animals fight against each other. It picks up the trails of our martial instincts that lead into various...Start your free trial to watch
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Beat the Fascist Pirates
This animated "political poster" grants "no mercy for Hitler's bloodthirsty sharks," which are depicted prowling international waters to sneakily "bite" Allied ships from beneath. Calling for patriots to “"Smash the fascist rats relentlessly! In the air, on land and at sea," it's a striking piece of...Start your free trial to watch
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Before the Flood
A landmark documentary following the residents of the historic city of Fengjie as they clash with the officials forcing them to evacuate their homes to make way for the world’s largest dam. China’s Three Gorges Dam, the largest dam built on earth, has displaced millions of local residents whose towns and...Start your free trial to watch
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Before the Flood II
Yan Yu follows his groundbreaking documentary BEFORE THE FLOOD with this profile of the residents of Gongtan, a 1,700-year-old village soon to be demolished by a hydroelectric dam project. Gongtan, an historic village located on a tributary of the Yangtze, is about to be flooded by a dam project, forcing...Start your free trial to watch
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Before the Nickelodeon
Noted film historian Charles Musser (author of "The Emergence of Cinema") co-wrote and directed this definitive tribute to Edwin S. Porter, Thomas Edison’s mechanic and cameraman, who is now recognized as America’s first important filmmaker and a major contributor to the evolution of film structure. Porter...Start your free trial to watch
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The Bell Rang to an Empty Sky
THE BELL RANG TO AN EMPTY SKY has taken one of the many tragedies buried in American history which befell the American Indian and, through the voice of Dennis Banks, creates a tight and perceptive visual and aural telling and interpretation of events. The selection of images (the iconography and meaning,...Start your free trial to watch
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Belzec
The horrifically efficient Nazi death camp, Belzec, was in operation for less than one year, but witnessed the murder of at least 600,000 Jews. Once the Soviet counterattacks began, the S.S. eliminated all traces of the camp, and the name Belzec faded from the collective conscience. Conceived of by Executive Producer Claude...Start your free trial to watch
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The Best Pilot in the World
Uri Gil is a Guinness World Record holder. At 61, he’s the oldest active fighter pilot and he's waged battle in the skies for decades as he's pressed home Israel's military agenda. A passionate painter as well as a soldier, Uri talks with surprising candor about his values and life in the Air Force. We...Start your free trial to watch
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Bestiaire
Fascinating and beguiling, BESTIAIRE is filmmaker Denis Côté's mesmerizing meditation on the relationships between animals and people through the seasons at a Quebec safari park. This strikingly gorgeous work about the act of looking slyly blurs the line between observer and observed (the film opens with art students...Start your free trial to watch
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Better Living Through Circuitry
BETTER LIVING THROUGH CIRCUITRY is a rare insightful look at rave culture and the electronic dance community. A cross-section of the techno subculture is represented as ravers, DJs and musicians speak for themselves about their music and ideals. BETTER LIVING THROUGH CIRCUITRY presents such dynamic aspects...Start your free trial to watch