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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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See No Evil
The daily life of three famous elderly apes who spend their days in sanctuaries; a movie-star, a scientist and a crippled are portrayed in SEE NO EVIL. We have watched them closely for many years. And they have been watching us... A poetic, sometimes bitter tale on the intriguing relationship...Watch Movie
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Bowling for Columbine
Winner of an Academy Award for Best Documentary, filmmaker Michael Moore's BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE takes a somewhat humorous and oft-times serious look at firearms abuse in the US. Traveling throughout the heartland of the country, Moore sets out to discover why Americans are so...Watch Movie
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Every Last Child
EVERY LAST CHILD is the dramatic story of five people impacted by the current polio crisis in Pakistan. Taking place on the front line of the fight against the disease, it is a story of sacrifice, fearless determination and sorrow in the face of mistrust, cynicism and...Watch Movie
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Vito
On June 27, 1969, a police raid on a Greenwich Village gay bar took a surprising turn when patrons decided it was time to fight back. As a riot erupted outside the Stonewall Inn, a new era in the Gay Rights Movement was born. Vito Russo, a 23-year-old film student, was among the crowd. Over the...Watch Movie
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Cartoon College
Focusing on the struggle of students in an upstart Cartoon College, this engrossing doc makes it clear that the plight to perfect an art form and apply it to the real world is a struggle that is universal. Featuring interviews with some of the comics world's biggest artists including Chris Ware...Watch Movie
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Common Mistakes
COMMON MISTAKES uses the four synonyms of the word mistake (fallacy, error, accident and blunder) to present a sample of widely held "truths" that have later proven to be misconceptions. The mistakes are illustrated with documentary before and after photographs, diagrams and video footage and...Watch Movie
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Unseen: The Lives of Looking
This revelatory documentary from artist Dryden Goodwin focuses on four individuals, each with a distinct relationship to looking: an international eye surgeon, a NASA planetary explorer, a leading human rights lawyer and the artist/filmmaker himself. Mixing Goodwin's closely...Watch Movie
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In the Game
Directed by Peabody award-winner Maria Finitzo and produced by Kartemquin Films, IN THE GAME is a moving, timely documentary that follows the story of the girls' soccer team at Kelly High School on Chicago's south side. Set in the predominantly Hispanic neighborhood of Brighton Park, Kelly High...Watch Movie
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On the Way to School
2014 Cesar winner for Best Documentary, ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL interweaves the stories of four children from around the world whose desire to learn and better their lives through education forces them to contend with arduous, often perilous journeys every day on their way to the...Watch Movie
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Follow My Voice
One record producer, the creators of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and top indie rock artists come together to create a tribute album benefiting the Hetrick-Martin Institute in New York City, home of the Harvey Milk High School (the first accredited high school in the country for LGBTQ youth)....Watch Movie
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One Peace at a Time
A film about a messed up world... and how we could fix it. Sprinkled with music from Bob Dylan, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson and Willie Nelson, ONE PEACE AT A TIME lyrically weaves a tapestry through twenty countries and is as magical as it is informative. Activist Turk Pipkin...Watch Movie
