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Documentary
see all genres ›Nonfiction cinema has always existed largely outside the mainstream film industry. Perhaps the time and dedication often required to make an in-depth documentary on a difficult subject seldom shares much commonality with a purely commercial mindset.
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Genres / Independent / Documentary
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Doin' Time in Times Square
Described as the home video from hell, DOIN' TIME IN TIMES SQUARE documents the view and action outside director Charlie Ahearn's 43rd Street apartment window from 1981 to 1983. Charlie Ahearn, whose 1983 film WILD STYLE was a cult hip hop hit, was "blessed" with a generous view of the sleeze emporiums up...Start your free trial to watch
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Doldrums
“The New Jersey Turnpike and downtown New York in rain and shine. Trailer trucks, overpasses and industrial wastes become natural wonders. The stream of trucks is often gay but sometimes ominous. After a thunderstorm, the pike gives way to charming and sexy shoppers on 14th Street. Real sounds and wonderful color.” - Edmund...Start your free trial to watch
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Double Dare
DOUBLE DARE is a double-barreled, action-packed documentary about two Hollywood stuntwomen, Jeannie Epper and Zoe Bell. Jeannie, who refuses to retire at sixty-four, doubled for Wonder Woman in the 1970s. Zoe landed the coveted job of doubling for Xena at the age of eighteen. The film is a bittersweet look at two dedicated...Start your free trial to watch
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Edge Codes
While audiences often take little notice of the editing in a movie, fans and filmmakers know it is the editor who determines the pace and rhythm of a motion picture and that intelligent montage is essential to every great movie. But editing is more than just assembling shots in a certain order, it’s an art form enabling the...Start your free trial to watch
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Emmanuel Jal: War Child
“Left home at the age of seven, one year later I’m carryin’ an AK-47.” His electrifying music crackles with both pain and hope. For hip hop artist Emmanuel Jal, a former child soldier in Sudan’s brutal civil war, these lyrics are hardly empty posturing. They are the bitter reality of a young man who was...Start your free trial to watch
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Everyday Sunshine
From the shifting faultlines of Hollywood fantasies and the economic and racial tensions of Ronald Reagan's America, Fishbone rose to become one of the most original bands of the last twenty-five years. With a blistering combination of punk and funk they demolished the walls of genre and challenged the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Fantasticks
Eight times a week, from 1960 to 2002, the Sullivan Street Playhouse in New York City’s Greenwich Village played midwife to a musical theater ritual that attracted theatergoers from across the globe. That show was the legendary and beloved "Fantasticks" and for 42 years and 17,162 performances, a legion of performers,...Start your free trial to watch
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Fathers of the Sport
FATHERS OF THE SPORT is a feature documentary which uncovers the colorful and compelling history of legendary playground basketball. Produced by Providence Films and directed by Xavier “X” Mitchell, it will chronicle the history and lives of the many “legends” and unsung heroes who dominated playground...Start your free trial to watch
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Fierce Light
In these times of crisis, there is an electric charge in the air. A burgeoning renewal amongst both people who have focused their lives on the spiritual and those whose lives are centered around the struggle for change. Featuring Velcrow Ripper’s stunning cinematography, a compelling soundtrack and dramatic stories of...Start your free trial to watch
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The Five Cent War
In 1947, children launched an audacious chocolate bar revolt against candy manufacturers who raised the price of chocolate bars from five cents to eight cents. Though the dramatic uprising was sparked by only a few pennies, it caused a national sensation and drew fatal accusations of a communist conspiracy.Start your free trial to watch
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The Fourth World War
From the front-lines of conflicts in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine and Korea, THE FOURTH WORLD WAR is the story of men and women around the world who resist being annihilated in this war. While our airwaves are crowded with talk of war, narrated by generals and filmed from the noses of bombs,...Start your free trial to watch
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From Straight to Bizarre
In 1968 Frank Zappa set up the Bizarre and Straight labels. This film reviews the astonishing music that came out on Bizarre and Straight, and reveals the background, operations and the lives of the musicians, performers and management who made these labels the legendary reality they became. Includes rare...Start your free trial to watch
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From the Journals of Jean Seberg
An unmistakable master of the intersection between documentary and narrative, Mark Rappaport easily ranks among the great filmmakers of our time. As Jonathan Rosenbaum noted in the introduction to his Cineaste interview with the director from 1996, "Rappaport virtually invented a new form of film criticism...Start your free trial to watch
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Frosh
FROSH presents life on campus as it really happens: a true portrait of emerging sexualities (straight and gay), academic struggles, manic partying, and confrontations over religion, ethnicity, sexism and politics. This year-in-the-life documentary is set in a co-ed, multi-cultural freshman dorm at Stanford University, where...Start your free trial to watch
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Fuzz: The Sound that Revolutionized the World
Fuzz: the sound that changed the world. The fuzz box: that tiny little box between the electric guitar and the amp that revolutionized rock music. What on earth does it do? Filmmaker Clif Taylor explores this insane industry of noise making, a world populated by guitar slinging super heroes and garage...Start your free trial to watch
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The Gates
Albert Maysles and his brother David (who died in 1987), best known for such films as SALESMAN, GREY GARDENS and GIMME SHELTER, began filming THE GATES in 1979, when internationally acclaimed artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude began actively pushing their installation project forward with the New York City government. The...Start your free trial to watch
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The Gods of Times Square
THE GODS OF TIMES SQUARE was shot over a six year period that witnessed a radical transformation of Times Square. Gone now are the mom and pop stores, squeezed out by a real estate gold rush. Gone too are the colorful characters who made Times Square a "speaker's corner." Only the most strident of...Start your free trial to watch