documentary
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Internationally, however, the documentary doesn’t have permission for using them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
It’s why the film hasn’t been released in commercial theaters in Peru, even though Zegarra and Valencia have already dubbed the documentary into Quechua.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
And even if Avedon hadn’t been the charismatic figure we meet during the documentary, he orbited much the same world as the other people who needed no first names—Chaplin, Picasso, Kissinger, Warhol, Dylan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
I want to ask you about retelling your story for the Netflix documentary.
From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2026
The two of them were talking to filmmaker Lonny Shavelson, who was making a documentary film about nonbinary gender called Three to Infinity.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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“The Greatest” is the latest in a voluminous array of books, documentaries and films created over the years about the larger-than-life figure whose fame intersected sports, entertainment and political and religious lines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
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
In just shy of three weeks, “You Can See Everything” has taken a sledgehammer to this era of cobbled-together documentaries.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
Generally, yes — at least in documentaries that follow traditional journalistic standards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 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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