documentary
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The first trial over his death was dramatically annulled last year after two-and-a-half months of hearings, following revelations that one of the judges took part in a clandestine documentary about the case.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Directed by Bob Saget and Neil Berkeley, this Netflix documentary offers an affectionate look at the performer, who died in 2024 and who pursued his true passion on canvas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
One NOS member put it more bluntly in a TV documentary five years later: "We were sticking two fingers up to normal, middle-class church ways of behaviour."
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
As she worked on what would eventually become the 1991 documentary “Hearts of Darkness,” Eleanor began to diarize events on the set.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
In January 2013, an American documentary filmmaker named Laura Poitras was at her desk in Berlin, Germany, when she got a mysterious email.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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If a lot of this sounds familiar, that’s because it all unfolded in the New York tabloids and has been widely reported in sports books, magazines and documentaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
She is currently the BBC's director of news documentaries and long form journalism.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Social media and shortform video have pushed everything from music to documentaries into a race to truncate their lengths and make everything bite-size, in order to bend to the current of algorithm-centric audiences.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026
The brothers took part in documentaries describing the events around her death.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
I should’ve done more than watch documentaries and video blogs about these places.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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