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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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Cerro Pelado
Though lesser known than Leni Riefenstahl’s OLYMPIA or Kon Ichikawa’s TOKYO OLYMPIAD, Santiago Alvarez’s tribute to Cuba’s sporting triumphs is no less breathtaking. A ship of athletes training on the rough seas becomes a symbol of Castro’s Cuba, the games projected on the backdrop of political struggle: “This is the story of...Start your free trial to watch
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Cerveza Bud
“This filmic slice of life coalesces into an ethnographic view of a possible future: the city as a constantly bubbling, delirious playground where yesterday’s monuments are symbols to be triumphed over, and tomorrow never arrives. Perhaps this is why the ultimate effect is one of wistfulness, due also to the unexpected...Start your free trial to watch
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Chariots of the Gods
"Fifty million stars in our galaxy have the potential of supporting life forms capable of traveling to other planets," says world-renowned authority Erich von Daniken, whose film version of his best-selling book, CHARIOTS OF THE GODS, gives stunning visual proof that some form of life from outer space...Start your free trial to watch
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Charlotte Rampling: The Look
Legendary actress Charlotte Rampling is "the perfect confluence of brains and beauty" (Time Out New York) and THE LOOK is the entrancing documentary that brings you into intimate contact with both. Director Angelina Maccarone has Rampling engage in candid conversations with many of her closest friends,...Start your free trial to watch
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Chekhov for Children
CHEKHOV FOR CHILDREN tells the inspiring story of an ambitious undertaking: the 1979 staging on Broadway of "Uncle Vanya" by New York City 5th and 6th graders, directed by the celebrated writer Phillip Lopate. Using a wealth of never-before-screened student documentary videos and dramatic super 8mm films...Start your free trial to watch
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Chicago: The Real Roxie Hart
Flicker Alley founder Jeff Masino (with Silas Lesnick) crafted this short documentary about the real woman whose sensational murder of her lover in 1924 was recounted in numerous film adaptations, including CHICAGO from 1927 and the 2002 musical CHICAGO! The snappy reportage of Chicago Tribune reporter...Start your free trial to watch
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Children of God
CHILDREN OF GOD explores the life of the children who live beside the Baghmati River in Nepal on the sacred grounds of a Hindu temple in Katmandu, an area forgotten and ignored by the world, but considered the holiest and most sacred to the Nepalese people. The children are undeterred by the daily cries and wailing from the...Start your free trial to watch
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Children of the Prophet
CHILDREN OF THE PROPHET follows four different groups of people in today's Teheran. For non-orthodox youngsters, the Moharram is mainly an opportunity to meet members of the opposite sex. A middle-aged woman and her female friends put their energy into the preparation of an enormous feast. Young religious...Start your free trial to watch
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China in Flames
CHINA IN FLAMES rallies popular support for the Soviet Union’s alliance with China using an eclectic array of animation techniques and rhetorical strategies. Bold cut-out caricatures of greedy imperialists give way to an allegorical story about rice farmers done in the style of Chinese watercolors. A heroic depiction of a...Start your free trial to watch
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Chow Down
Root for Charles, John and Garnet as they try to buck the system of pills and procedures and outfox their heart disease and diabetes. When their doctors inform them that they can't get better, our intrepid trio tells the doctors to think again. With lighthearted animation, piercing expert interviews and a feisty attitude,...Start your free trial to watch
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Chris and Don: A Love Story
CHRIS AND DON: A LOVE STORY is the true-life story of the passionate three-decade relationship between British writer Christopher Isherwood (whose "Berlin Stories" was the basis for all incarnations of the much-beloved CABARET) and American portrait painter Don Bachardy, thirty years his junior. From...Start your free trial to watch
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Citizen Juling
How did a young idealist, Buddhist art teacher Juling from the far North, end up lying comatose in a pool of blood at a village kindergarten school in the deep Islamic South? Colorful human rights activist and senator Kraisak Choonhavan goes on the road to understand what happened and why. Definitely not a straight enquiry...Start your free trial to watch
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The City of Singapore
"These are excellent travelogs which come from the Pathé Studios and give clear impressions of the people and their habits of life in distant portions of the world. Like all the travel pictures Pathé sends out, this one is made and finished with consummate care. It is well worth the time and effort...Start your free trial to watch
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Clean Freak
A lighthearted personal essay on one man’s cleaning compulsion. Filmmaker Chris Hansen details his tidying neurosis with the help of his family and students. He details coping mechanisms (the fine art of stacking) as well as the psychological roots of his problem (a childhood mess in the kitchen). CLEAN FREAK tips towards...Start your free trial to watch
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Coals to Newcastle
Leeds, U.K. The birthplace of funk? Not quite, but the hometown of a rising funk-jazz phenomenon, the New Mastersounds. By offering the first Jazz degree in Europe, Leeds College of Music attracted scores of talented musicians to this Northern former industrial hub to master forms of music that had been...Start your free trial to watch
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The Collector
THE COLLECTOR explores the 46-year career of Allan Stone, the famed New York City gallery owner and art collector. Producer and director Olympia Stone reveals her father’s compulsive collecting genius while telling the parallel story of his lifelong journey through the art world from the 1950s to 2006. Viewers are taken on an...Start your free trial to watch
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College Boys Live
In a quiet Orlando, Florida suburb three young men struggle to escape the wreckage of their pasts and create new lives for themselves. Their new home is CollegeBoysLive.com, a voyeur webcam house rigged with 32 cameras, where their every move is watched by thousands of paying members. The site's creator...Start your free trial to watch