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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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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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A Box with a View
A BOX WITH A VIEW examines the influence of cable television on the culture and traditions of rice villages in the Kerala backwaters, located near the southern tip of India. There are twenty-five television channels (including many popular Western programs) which are viewed in the simple homes of rice...Start your free trial to watch
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Butterflies
Forget reality television. Broadcast yourself! With more than five billion videos viewed in a month and ten hours of footage uploaded every minute, YouTube was (at the time of the making of this documentary) the third most popular website in the world. BUTTERFLIES follows some of the flamboyant personalities who have made it...Start your free trial to watch
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Independents
Twenty-four respected creators unveil the secrets of the artistic mind by talking abut their favorite medium, the lowest of the low-brow arts: comic books. From cave paintings dating back 35,000 years to the comics of today, sequential images have been used to tell magically influential stories. In examining an art form that...Start your free trial to watch
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Outfoxed
OUTFOXED examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know.Start your free trial to watch
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Remembering Life
"I had the chance to sit with 15 of the best of these great photographers, hold their photographs in front of them and hear their most personal, analytical and profound reactions. The results are extremely valuable for photographers, but also deeply emotional for viewers who want to relive some of the...Start your free trial to watch
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Rush to War
In a post-9/11 world, director Robert Taicher searches for the rationale behind the war in Iraq, exploring the failed policies of several administrations in an expertly crafted full-length documentary. What he presents is a raw, provocative look into America's "War on Terror" and its effect on our society, our credibility and...Start your free trial to watch