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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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Inheritance
Iranian-American filmmaker Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz intimately explores the contemporaneous events of Islamic Revolution and divorce that uprooted her family and embroiled them in the complicated process of diasporic identity formation in the U.S. Inside her mother’s home, Aggie follows the collected remnants of this journey to...Start your free trial to watch
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Iraq for Sale
Acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (WAL-MART: THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE, OUTFOXED and UNCOVERED) takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq. IRAQ FOR SALE uncovers the connections between private...Start your free trial to watch
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Isadora Duncan
This unsentimental portrait of the complex and charismatic "Mother of Modern Dance" traces the life and artistic development of San Francisco-born Isadora Duncan (1877-1927). Duncan raised dance from mere vaudeville entertainment to a legitimate art form, laying the foundation for today's modern dance. The first American...Start your free trial to watch
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A Jail in Columbia
A look inside La Modelo prison in Bogota, Colombia. Called a "model" prison by Colombian officials, the prison in reality is controlled more by the prisoners than the guards (with 5,000 prisoners for 2,400 spots, and not more than 150 security guards assigned to La Modelo). The prison is awash in violence...Start your free trial to watch
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The Jena 6
Jena, LA: in a small town in Louisiana, six families are fighting for their sons' lives. Two nooses are left as a warning to black students trying to integrate their playground, fights break out across town, a white man pulls a shotgun on black students, someone burns down most of their school, the DA puts six black students...Start your free trial to watch
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John Garfield
Mark Rappaport completed his concise portrait of the legendary John Garfield in 2002, comprised (like much of his filmed essays) from existing film footage of the actor. Exceptionally engaging, Rappaport's extraordinary short contains more insightful observations of its subject than many feature-length biographical...Start your free trial to watch
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Just Another Girl
With the single-minded attention to detail of a teenager preparing for the prom (or an actress preparing for an award) but augmented by the boisterous camaraderie of friends, a group of San Francisco men pluck, primp and transform themselves into women for a performance (or perhaps an evening on the town)....Start your free trial to watch
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Kids of Survival
KIDS OF SURVIVAL is an Emmy Award-winning feature-length documentary about three years of work and struggle inside the acclaimed South Bronx art/education group, Tim Rollins + K.O.S. For over a decade, artist-educator Tim Rollins, working with Puerto Rican and Dominican teenagers in the Bronx, has made...Start your free trial to watch
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King of Porn
The Washington-based porno collector and one-time Library of Congress official Ralph Whittington is filmed by Jeff Krulik showing off his vast homebound assembly of hoarded porno treasure before it is moved to the Museum of Modern Art. Whittington gives a guided tour of his collection and explains in detail how it is...Start your free trial to watch
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Kings of the Road
The fate of Portland's hockey team was in doubt in 1959. With only a handful of players returning, an uncompleted arena and the press denouncing the team as the worst team ever fielded in the league, all they could do was skate. KINGS OF THE ROAD tells the story of that team, the Portland Buckaroos and...Start your free trial to watch
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Kiri Wai: Inner Skin
KIRI WAI: INNER SKIN is the story of Bruce, a young European-American who undertakes a journey to the South Pacific. He is on an identity quest that began in his adolescence when Inia Taylor (Maori tattoo artist, sculptor and makeup artist for ONCE WERE WARRIORS) began a moko on Bruce's skin. Over the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Kitchen
Take an uncensored look into Michael's restaurant in Santa Monica, California, as you gain access to an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at one of the world's best eateries. You will meet all the players who together execute a delicate ballet of service, food preparation and wine over two very busy nights. If you can't...Start your free trial to watch
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Kites
KITES tells the inspiring story of Kabul’s budding young video producers. Through a clever combination of the students’ video and their mentor Jacek Szaranski’s artful camera work, we take a look at the use of video and high tech in a world more commonly associated with a backward and warmongering existence. A world where...Start your free trial to watch
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Kumaré
Kumaré is an enlightened guru from the East who builds a following of disciples in the West. But Kumaré is not real. He is an American filmmaker named Vikram Gandhi, who has transformed himself into Kumaré as the centerpiece of a social experiment designed to explore and test one of the world's most sacred taboos. Concealing...Start your free trial to watch
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The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
A charismatic figure immortalized in Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff," Florence Pancho Barnes was one of the most important women in 20th Century aviation. A tough and fearless pilot, Pancho raced Amelia Earhart, performed as a barnstormer and made a name for herself as Hollywood's first female stunt pilot in...Start your free trial to watch
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Let's All Hate Toronto
A billboard shouting the confrontational message “Toronto Sucks” sends documentary filmmaker Albert Nerenberg and self-professed “Mr. Toronto” Rob Spence out on a quixotic cross-country trip to find out why Canadians hate Toronto. A parody of boosterism and fact-finding missions in the mode of Michael...Start your free trial to watch
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Life After Tomorrow
LIFE AFTER TOMORROW reunites more than forty women who played orphans in the Broadway production of ANNIE and reveals the highs and lows of their experiences as child actresses in a cultural phenomenon. Once the curtain came down, many found it could be a hard-knock-life, fraught with out-of-control stage...Start your free trial to watch
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The Listening Project
What does the world think of The United States of America? This controversial question led to a global quest for four Americans, whose thought-provoking journey through fourteen countries is documented in THE LISTENING PROJECT. Emotional encounters with dozens of diverse and fascinating characters on all...Start your free trial to watch