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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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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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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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American Falls from Above, American Side
Niagara Falls was a frequently filmed subject. In May, it had been one of the first places to be visited by the Edison Manufacturing Company's new mobile camera but the films were not entirely satisfactory. With more experience and better technology, an Edison crew returned to film the falls in early...Start your free trial to watch
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American Mullet
What is a mullet? Simply a haircut, short in front and long in the back. People love to talk about the mullet but who is talking to the people with the mullet cut? We are. In asking people to talk about their mullets, we are asking them to talk about themselves and the people in this film are nothing short of amazing. If you...Start your free trial to watch
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American Values, American Wilderness
A diverse group of Americans, including a teenage daughter of Cambodian refugees, a children's book author, a cancer survivor, a Native American tribal chairman, inner city kids, and the late Christopher Reeve, among others, share their values for wilderness. Their experiences and hopes are interspersed...Start your free trial to watch
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The Answering Furrow
Georgic I: The annual produce first seen in spring. The furrowed earth ready for planting. The distribution, support and protection of young plants. The implements of the garden. Georgic II: The life of Virgil is recapitulated in summer, with a digression on the sacred. The sheep of Arcadia. The handling...Start your free trial to watch
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Asylum
In 1971, filmmaker Peter Robinson and a small crew entered a world of anarchic madness and healing compassion unlike any other. The resulting film, ASYLUM, records their seven week stay in radical psychiatrist R. D. Laing’s controversial Archway Community, a London row-house where the inmates literally run the asylum. Laing’s...Start your free trial to watch
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Bakhtiari Migration
BAKHTIARI MIGRATION documents (in visually splendid detail) the semi-annual journey, taking roughy five weeks and covering two-hundred torturous miles. Half a million people and millions of sheep and goats cross the rugged Zagros mountains in southern Iran twice yearly to move between summer and winter...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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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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Black Gold
BLACK GOLD asks us "to wake up and smell the coffee," to face the unjust conditions under which our favorite drink is produced and to decide what we can do about it. The film traces the tangled trail from the two billion cups of coffee consumed each day back to the coffee farmers who produce the beans. In particular, the film...Start your free trial to watch
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Blue Streak
An adroit expansion on the notion of a "blue" movie, Mark Rappaport's early short BLUE STREAK contrasts the rarified realm of classical composition with an unspoken assortment of words predisposed to human sexuality, all layered over footage of a room filled with naked women and men. At the intersection of high art and low...Start your free trial to watch
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Brave New West
An off-the-wall odyssey that tells the story of how one man's passion for the natural world fueled the creation of an extraordinary and unlikely institution in the American West. It also shows how the passion of youth is tempered and ripens with age into a balanced view of a natural world. Jim Stiles arrived in Utah in 1975,...Start your free trial to watch
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Brutes and Savages
Fascinated by forbidden rituals and ceremonies, world explorer Arthur Davis takes a crew with hidden cameras to Africa and South America to secretly record the beauty and horror of the law of the jungle. BRUTES AND SAVAGES is the filmed document of his death-defying adventures. Shocking, brutal and...Start your free trial to watch
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El Caballo
When early Spanish explorers accidentally released wild horses (Equus cabalus) to the continent in the early 1500s, they returned an American original. Although the remnants of the escaped Spanish horse are protected by the 1971 Free-Roaming Wild Horse and Burro Act, each year thousands are removed from public lands across...Start your free trial to watch
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Cape Breton
Filmmaker Keith Behrman offers a meditative look at Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Nova Scotia, part of Canada's National Parks Project. With zen-like music and narration from Tony Dekker, Old Man Luedecke and Daniela Gesundheit, the film cuts between an aged Buddhist monk and the primordial fern groves, birch forests...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
