All Documentaries articles – Page 29
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ReviewsA Gray State: Tribeca Review
A highly-topical and resonant trip down the alt-right rabbit hole, produced by Werner Herzog
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Reviews'The Reagan Show': Tribeca Review
Dirs. Pacho Velez & Sierra Pettengill. US. 2017. 74 mins.There’s an otherworldliness to the video footage of Ronald Reagan’s presidency that makes The Reagan Show feel like an elaborately-constructed parable for the Trump era. Did this really happen? Was his presidency, in truth, a not-particularly elaborate, ...
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Reviews'A Suitable Girl': Tribeca Review
Dirs: Sarita Khurana, Smriti Mundhra. USA-India. 2017. 97 mins.The subject of Indian arranged marriages is a deceptively tricky one to dissect in a documentary, existing as it does at the point where Western cultural beliefs and Eastern traditions meet head to head. And while this triptych ...
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Reviews'The Death And Life Of Marsha P. Johnson': Review
A sobering documentary looks at how transgender people have been treated as second-class citizens, even in the LGBT movement
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Reviews'Shadowman': Tribeca Review
A documentary about the 1980s New york graffiti artist Richard Hambleton is intense and involving
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Reviews'Born In China': Review
Disneynature’s latest documentary tells a year in the life of China’s diverse wildlife
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Reviews'Walk With Me': Review
Benedict Cumberbatch narrates this unusual documentary about a spiritual retreat in France under the guidance of renowned Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh
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Reviews'The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin': Review
A nostalgia-tinged look at the writer of the beloved Tales of the City series
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Reviews'Bill Nye: Science Guy': SXSW Review
Bill Nye takes on climate change deniers and creationists in this affectionate documentary
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Reviews'I Am Another You': SXSW Review
‘Hooligan Sparrow’ director Nanfu Wang documents a trip across the United States with a Utah-born drifter
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Reviews'Dina': Review
Documentary about the hurdles facing an autistic couple which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance
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Reviews'Cries From Syria': Review
Comprehensive HBO doc on Syria takes an awards qualifying run in the US before hitting small screens there
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Reviews'The Farthest': Dublin Review
Emer Reynolds tracks the Voyager interstellar mission in a cathartic and moving documentary
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Reviews'Ghost Hunting': Berlin Review
Raed Andoni reconstructs his past abuse in an Israeli detention centre for the Berlinale’s prize-winning documentary
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Reviews'Chasing Coral': Review
Exciting and cinematic, Netflix-acquired doc Chasing Coral tracks the disappearance of this crucial ecosystem
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Reviews'Bones of Contention': Berlin Review
Documentary examines the legacy of the Spanish Civil War, and the mass graves which remain dotted across the country to this day
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Reviews'Almost Heaven': Berlin Review
Documentary set in one of China’s largest mortuaries where teenager Ying Ling learns her trade
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Reviews'California Dreams': Berlin Review
Five actors try for the big time in a documentary which tracks the real La La Land in Southern California
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Reviews'Untitled' (Michael Glawogger project): Berlin Review
Michael Glawogger’s last unfinished project is crafted into a poetic film by his longterm collaborator
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Reviews'For Ahkeem': Berlin Review
Documentary set in a bleak corner of St Louis, where a black high school student comes prematurely of age.