documentary
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The three-hour A24 documentary, co-directed by comedian Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, earned $10.6 million in the United States and Canada, Exhibitor Relations said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
This documentary is made for IMAX-loving, secondhand adventure seekers.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026
The prosecutor also dismissed the idea that a documentary had caused the women to "re-invent" what actually happened.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
“Paging Hezbollah,” which might be the most useful and informative documentary yet produced about events in Israel and surrounding areas since Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
As they watched the documentary about the 32,000-year-old cave paintings in France’s Chauvet cave, interwoven with Herzog’s heavily accented existential musings, Travis couldn’t help but wonder what his father would say if he were there.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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In many adventure documentaries, the audience expects the main characters to confront the possibility they might die, but they’re the stars telling the story, so of course that won’t happen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
This year has been decent for film as a whole, but fantastic for documentaries, which have surpassed 2026’s mainstream narrative films in many ways.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
In 2019, competing documentaries about the disastrous Fyre Festival took different approaches to paying its disgraced organizer, Billy McFarland.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
While in the United States, the pair took on a variety of media ventures — including a podcast, a television series and documentaries — under their multimedia company Archewell Productions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Sometimes I think that letter is why documentaries need to exist—to show us the almost unbearable truth about ourselves.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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