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documentary

[dok-yuh-men-tuh-ree, -tree] / ˌdɒk jəˈmɛn tə ri, -tri /


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Speaking in the documentary, Boyega said the killing of his friend had a profound effect on him.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Damilola's killing is now the subject of a BBC documentary called Damilola: The Untold Story.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Now a documentary movie perhaps threatens to pop their bubble by proxy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Alex Gibney’s four-hour documentary portrays the world’s richest man as a deeply flawed, unethical hyperbolist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Without definitive documentary evidence of particular sources we may never know if this research included tribal melodies he later passed off as his own.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

Elon Musk and Elizabeth Holmes are unwitting film fest stars as documentaries about problematic tech titans have dominated news coming out of prestigious film festivals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

George Fenton, another key Blue Planet composer who'd worked on other BBC nature documentaries, as well as classic films such as Gandhi and Groundhog Day, died this week at the age of 76.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 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

I recognized some of the Olympic fencers I’d seen in documentaries and videos we’d watched during practice.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad




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