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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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The House of Suh
One of Chicago's most famous murder cases surrounded sister and brother Catherine and Andrew Suh, first-generation Korean Americans, who conspired against, shot and killed Catherine's former boyfriend. Over a decade later, director Iris Shim revisits the case and opens a...Watch Movie
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Nostalgia For the Light
For his new film master director Patricio Guzmán, famed for his political documentaries travels ten thousand feet above sea level to the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert, where atop the mountains astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars. The sky...Watch Movie
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Behemoth
Beginning with a mining explosion in Mongolia and ending in a ghost city west of Beijing, political documentarian Zhao Liang's visionary new film BEHEMOTH details, in one breathtaking sequence after another, the social and ecological devastation behind an economic miracle that may yet prove...Watch Movie
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The Pain of Others
THE PAIN OF OTHERS is a found footage documentary about Morgellons, a mysterious illness whose sufferers say they have parasites under the skin, long colored fibers emerging from lesions, and a host of other bizarre symptoms which could be borrowed from a horror film. Tens of...Watch Movie
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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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The Bear
Set in 19th-century British Columbia, THE BEAR follows the story of a young cub and an adult grizzly as they join forces to survive the perils inherent in their mountain habitat. With each passing obstacle, the two bears further develop a friendship that can only make them stronger – but will it...Watch Movie
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Above and Below
This not-quite-documentary takes place far away and out of sight, on the margins and off the grid of American society. It tells the stories of April, Dave, Cindy, Rick and a man who calls himself 'The Godfather.' From a couple scraping by in the depths of the flood channels located beneath Sin...Watch Movie
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Art and Craft
Mark Landis has been called one of the most prolific art forgers in US history. His impressive body of work spans thirty years, covering a wide range of painting styles and periods that includes 15th Century Icons, Picasso, and even Walt Disney. And while the copies could fetch impressive sums on...Watch Movie
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Private Practices
In this groundbreaking cult documentary from 1985, director Kirby Dick weaves a fascinating study of the curious role of a sex surrogate. Maureen Sullivan and two of her clients agreed to have the entire progression of their therapy taped and what emerges is a disarming and...Watch Movie
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Tokyo Waka
TOKYO WAKA is as much a carefully-etched, lyrical portrait of Tokyo and its denizens as it is a full-fledged rendering of the surprisingly rich life of crows. A tofu seller, a homeless woman and a Buddhist priest contemplate mortality, the metabolism of their city and garbage, while around them...Watch Movie
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Telos: The Fantastic World of Eugene Tssui
TELOS chronicles the unorthodox life and revolutionary work of Eugene Tssui, an eccentric visionary and a maverick architect. He questions traditional building standards and put nature and the environment at the forefront of his designs long before "green" and "eco-friendly"...Watch Movie
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The Voyagers
In the summer of 1977, NASA sent Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 on an epic journey into interstellar space. Together and alone, they will travel until the end of the universe. Each spacecraft carries a golden record album, a massive compilation of images and sounds embodying the best of Planet Earth....Watch Movie
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Leviathan
One of the most critically-acclaimed documentaries in recent years, LEVIATHAN is a groundbreaking, immersive portrait of the contemporary commercial fishing industry. Filmed off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts (at one time the whaling capital of the world as well as Herman Melville's...Watch Movie
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Devil's Gate
The metaphysical undercurrents of a Southern California landscape scarred by fire are explored in DEVIL’S GATE. The film lyrically depicts the physical and mythological terrain of Devil's Gate Dam, located at the nexus of Pasadena's historical relationship with technology and the occult, and...Watch Movie
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Pot Country
Two people's relationships with the semi-legal crop that powers much of rural Northern California. Seen through the eyes of a fifth generation ex-logger and a back-to-the-land grandma who makes her living as a grower, POT COUNTRY is a story about survival and a community in flux. In many ways,...Watch Movie
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Painting the Way to the Moon
In the 1980s, Princeton mathematician Ed Belbruno worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory by day and made space-inspired paintings by night. In his free time, Ed became obsessed with figuring out a new way of space travel and over five years he toiled to find a solution....Watch Movie
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Into the Middle of Nowhere
INTO THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE celebrates the uniqueness of childhood and the nonexistence of limits to a child’s imagination. In an outdoor nursery in the woods, children create their own individually constructed worlds and can test out the boundaries of reality. The environment...Watch Movie
